TheEuroLeague Final Four is thefinal four format championship ofthe European-wide top-tier levelEuroLeague professional clubbasketball competition. TheEuroleague Basketball Company used the final four format for the first time in2002, following the2001 FIBA SuproLeague Final Four, which was the last final four held byFIBA Europe. In the original FIBA Europe competition, as seen below, the final four was used for the first time at the1966 FIBA European Champions Cup Final Four. The final four format was used again the next year, with the1967 FIBA European Champions Cup Final Four, but was then abandoned.
The final four finally returned as the format of choice, for the first time during its modern era, with the1988 FIBA European Champions Cup Final Four. It is known as theTurkish Airlines EuroLeague Final Four for name sponsorship reasons.Panathinaikos has been the most successful team at the EuroLeague Final Four, since the modern final four era began in the1987–88 season, winning the title 7 times (1996,2000,2002,2007,2009,2011,2024).Fenerbahçe are the most recent winners, having clinched their second Final Four title in2025.[1]
The EuroLeague Final Four is broadcast onTV in up to 213 countries and territories.[2]
The first time theEuroLeague used aFinal Four format to decide its league champion, was at the conclusion of the1965–66 and1966–67 seasons, when it held the1966 FIBA European Champions Cup Final Four, and the1967 FIBA European Champions Cup Final Four. Those first two final fours were won bySimmenthal Milano (1966) andReal Madrid (1967).FIBA Europe did not use the final four format again until the1987–88 season, when it held the1988 FIBA European Champions Cup Final Four, which was also won byTracer Milano.
The EuroLeague Final Four has been held every year since, withFIBA Europe organizing it until 2001, and theEuroleague Basketball Company organizing it since 2002.
There were two separate competitions during the 2000–01 season. TheSuproLeague, which was organized byFIBA, and theEuroLeague, which was organized byEuroleague Basketball Company. Euroleague Basketball Company's EuroLeague competition, in itsinaugural year, used a playoff format, with the two professional teams fromBologna (Virtus andFortitudo),AEK, andTAU reaching the tournament's semifinals. Virtus was the winner of the2001 Euroleague Finals.
* The 2000–01 season was a transition year, with the best European teams split into two different major leagues, theSuproLeague 2000–01, held byFIBA, and theEuroleague 2000–01, held byEuroleague Basketball. That season's Euroleague Basketball tournament, the Euroleague 2000–01 season, did not end with a Final Four tournament. Instead, it ended with a 5-game playoff series. The EuroLeague now officially recognizes both the 2001 FIBA SuproLeague, and the 2001 Euroleague, in its statistics.
| Club | 1st (Champion) | 2nd (Finalist) | 3rd | 4th | Total |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
 Real Madrid | 11 | 10 | 2 | 7 | 30 |
 CSKA Moscow | 8 | 6 | 8 | 8 | 30 |
 Panathinaikos | 7 | 1 | 3 | 2 | 13 |
 Maccabi Tel Aviv | 6 | 9 | 1 | 4 | 20 |
| Olympiacos | 3 | 6 | 3 | 2 | 14 |
 Split[a] | 3 | – | – | – | 3 |
| FC Barcelona | 2 | 5 | 4 | 6 | 17 |
 Fenerbahçe | 2 | 2 | – | 3 | 7 |
 Virtus Bologna[b] | 2 | 2 | – | – | 4 |
| Anadolu Efes | 2 | 1 | 2 | – | 5 |
| Olimpia Milano[c] | 2 | 1 | 2 | – | 5 |
| Joventut Badalona | 1 | 1 | – | – | 2 |
 Partizan | 1 | – | 1 | 2 | 4 |
 Limoges CSP | 1 | – | 1 | 1 | 3 |
 Žalgiris | 1 | – | 1 | – | 2 |
| Treviso[d] | – | 2 | 2 | – | 4 |
| Baskonia[e] | – | 2 | 1 | 3 | 6 |
| AS Monaco | – | 1 | 1 | – | 2 |
| AEK | – | 1 | – | 1 | 2 |
| Fortitudo Bologna[f] | – | 1 | – | 1 | 2 |
 Slavia VŠ Praha | – | 1 | 1 | – | 2 |
| Mens Sana 1871[g] | – | – | 3 | 1 | 4 |
 Olimpija | – | – | 1 | 1 | 2 |
| Aris | – | – | 1 | 2 | 3 |
| PAOK | – | – | 1 | – | 1 |
| Málaga[h] | – | – | 1 | – | 1 |
| Lokomotiv Kuban | – | – | 1 | – | 1 |
| Victoria Libertas[i] | – | – | – | 1 | 1 |
| Estudiantes | – | – | – | 1 | 1 |
| ASVEL | – | – | – | 1 | 1 |
| Total | 40 | 40 | 39 | 39 | 158 |
| Nation (Domestic League) | 1st | 2nd | 3rd | 4th | Total |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Greece (GBL) | 10 | 8 | 8 | 7 | 33 |
| Spain (LEB /ACB) | 7 | 11 | 7 | 14 | 40 |
| Israel (ISBL) | 4 | 6 | 1 | 1 | 12 |
| Russia (RSL /PBL /VTB) | 4 | 3 | 7 | 6 | 20 |
| Turkey (BSL) | 4 | 3 | 2 | 3 | 12 |
| SFR Yugoslavia (FFBL) | 4 | – | 2 | 1 | 7 |
| Italy (LBA) | 3 | 6 | 7 | 3 | 19 |
| France (Pro A) | 1 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 6 |
| Lithuania (LKL) | 1 | – | 1 | – | 2 |
| Czechoslovakia (CSBL) | – | 1 | – | 1 | 2 |
 Soviet Union (PBL) | – | – | 1 | – | 1 |
| Slovenia (SKL) | – | – | 1 | – | 1 |
| Serbia (ABA/KLS) | – | – | – | 1 | 1 |
| Total | 37 | 37 | 37 | 37 | 148 |
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