2020–21 EuroLeague

Turkish Airlines EuroLeague¹
Turkish Airlines EuroLeague1
Season	2020–21
Duration	1 October 2020 – 9 April 2021; (Regular season); 20 April 2021 – 4 May 2021 (Playoffs); 28 May 2021 – 30 May 2021 (Final Four)
Teams	18
Regular season
Top seed	Barcelona
Season MVP	Vasilije Micić
Finals
Champions	Anadolu Efes
Runners-up	Barcelona
Third place	AX Armani Exchange Milan
Fourth place	CSKA Moscow
Final Four MVP	Vasilije Micić
Statistical leaders
Points
Points	Alexey Shved
Rebounds	Edy Tavares
Assists	Alexey Shved
Index Rating	Mike James
Records
Biggest home win	Barcelona 97–55 Fenerbahçe; (12 November 2020)
Biggest away win	ALBA Berlin 67–103 Barcelona; (5 November 2020)
Highest scoring	Zenit Saint Petersburg 112–83 Panathinaikos ; (12 April 2021)
Winning streak	12 games; CSKA Moscow
Losing streak	14 games; Khimki
	← 2019–20 2021–22 → All statistics correct as of 31 May 2021. 1 Sponsored league name, referring to Turkish Airlines.

The 2020–21 EuroLeague was the 21st season of the modern era of the EuroLeague and the 11th under the title sponsorship of Turkish Airlines. Including the competition's previous incarnation as the FIBA Europe Champions Cup, this was the 64th season of the premier basketball competition for European men's clubs. The season started 1 October 2020.

Season2020–21

Duration1 October 2020 – 9 April 2021
(Regular season)
20 April 2021 – 4 May 2021 (Playoffs)
28 May 2021 – 30 May 2021 (Final Four)

Teams18

Top seed

Barcelona

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As the season was the first to be played after the previous season was abandoned due to travel restrictions caused by the COVID-19 pandemic, the EuroLeague board ruled that the 18 teams from the previous season would stay in the league.^[1] Anadolu Efes won the championship after defeating Barcelona in the championship game.

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	Teams entering in this round	Teams advancing from previous round
Regular season (18 teams)	11 licensed clubs with a long-term licence 7 associated clubs with an annual licence
Playoffs (8 teams)		8 highest-placed teams from the regular season
Final Four (4 teams)		4 series winners from the playoffs

Barcelona	Olympiacos	Anadolu Efes	Žalgiris
Baskonia	Panathinaikos	Fenerbahçe	CSKA Moscow^TH
Real Madrid	Maccabi Tel Aviv	Olimpia Milano

ALBA Berlin (EL)	Khimki Moscow (EL)	Valencia Basket (EL)	Crvena Zvezda (EL)
Bayern Munich (EL)	Zenit Saint Petersburg (EL)	ASVEL (EL)

Team	Home city	Arena	Capacity
ALBA Berlin	Berlin	Mercedes-Benz Arena	14,500^[2]
Anadolu Efes	Istanbul	Sinan Erdem Dome	16,000^[3]
AX Armani Exchange Milan	Milan	Mediolanum Forum	12,700^[4]
Barcelona	Barcelona	Palau Blaugrana	7,585^[5]
Bayern Munich	Munich	Audi Dome	6,500^[6]
Crvena zvezda mts	Belgrade	Aleksandar Nikolić Hall	8,000^[7]
CSKA Moscow	Moscow	Megasport Arena	13,344^[8]
Fenerbahçe Beko	Istanbul	Ülker Sports and Event Hall	13,059^[9]
Khimki	Khimki	Mytishchi Arena	7,280
LDLC ASVEL	Villeurbanne	Astroballe	5,556^[10]
Maccabi Playtika Tel Aviv	Tel Aviv	Menora Mivtachim Arena	10,383^[11]
Olympiacos	Piraeus	Peace and Friendship Stadium	11,640^[12]
Panathinaikos OPAP	Athens	O.A.K.A.	18,989^[13]
Real Madrid	Madrid	WiZink Center	13,109^[14]
TD Systems Baskonia	Vitoria-Gasteiz	Buesa Arena	15,504^[15]
Valencia Basket	Valencia	La Fonteta	8,500^[16]
Žalgiris	Kaunas	Žalgirio Arena	15,415^[17]
Zenit Saint Petersburg	Saint Petersburg	Sibur Arena	7,120^[18]

Team	Head coach	Captain	Kit manufacturer	Shirt sponsor
ALBA Berlin	Aíto García Reneses	Niels Giffey	Adidas	ALBA SE
Anadolu Efes	Ergin Ataman	Doğuş Balbay	Bilcee	Anadolu Efes
A\|X Armani Exchange Milan	Ettore Messina	Andrea Cinciarini	Armani	Armani Exchange
Barcelona	Šarūnas Jasikevičius	Pierre Oriola	Nike	Assistència Sanitària
Bayern Munich	Andrea Trinchieri	Nihad Đedović	Adidas	BayWa
Crvena zvezda mts	Dejan Radonjić	Branko Lazić	Adidas	mts
CSKA Moscow	Dimitrios Itoudis	Nikita Kurbanov	Nike	Rostelecom
Fenerbahçe Beko	Igor Kokoškov	Melih Mahmutoğlu	Nike	Beko
Khimki	Andrey Maltsev	Sergei Monia	Adidas	Khimki Group
LDLC ASVEL	T. J. Parker	Charles Lombahe-Kahudi	Adidas	LDLC
Maccabi Playtika Tel Aviv	Ioannis Sfairopoulos	John DiBartolomeo	Nike	Playtika
Olympiacos	Georgios Bartzokas	Vassilis Spanoulis	GSA Sport	bwin
Panathinaikos OPAP	Oded Kattash	Ioannis Papapetrou	Adidas	Pame Stoixima
Real Madrid	Pablo Laso	Felipe Reyes	Adidas	Palladium Hotel Group
TD Systems Baskonia	Duško Ivanović	Luca Vildoza	Kelme	Teduinsa
Valencia Basket	Jaume Ponsarnau	Bojan Dubljević	Luanvi	Cultura del Esfuerzo¹
Žalgiris	Martin Schiller	Paulius Jankūnas	ŽalgirisShop
Zenit Saint Petersburg	Xavi Pascual	Mateusz Ponitka	Nike	Nipigas

Team	Outgoing manager	Manner of departure	Date of vacancy	Position in table	Replaced with	Date of appointment
Panathinaikos OPAP	Rick Pitino	Mutual consent	20 March 2020^[19]	Pre-season	Georgios Vovoras	17 June 2020^[20]
ASVEL	Zvezdan Mitrović	Sacked	21 May 2020^[21]		T. J. Parker	17 June 2020^[22]
Crvena zvezda mts	Dragan Šakota	Mutual consent	8 June 2020^[23]		Saša Obradović	10 June 2020^[24]
Fenerbahçe Beko	Željko Obradović	Mutual consent	23 June 2020^[25]		Igor Kokoškov	4 July 2020^[26]
Barcelona	Svetislav Pešić	Mutual consent	1 July 2020^[27]		Šarūnas Jasikevičius	2 July 2020^[28]
Žalgiris	Šarūnas Jasikevičius	Mutual consent	2 July 2020^[28]		Martin Schiller	14 July 2020^[29]
Bayern Munich	Oliver Kostić	Mutual consent	15 July 2020		Andrea Trinchieri	15 July 2020^[30]
Crvena zvezda mts	Saša Obradović	Mutual consent	24 December 2020^[31]	17th (5–11)	Dejan Radonjić	25 December 2020^[32]
Panathinaikos OPAP	Georgios Vovoras	Mutual consent	4 January 2021^[33]	16th (5-11)	Kostas Charalampidis (interim)	4 January 2021^[33]
Panathinaikos OPAP	Kostas Charalampidis	End of caretaker spell	14 January 2021^[34]	15th (6-12)	Oded Kattash	14 January 2021^[34]
Khimki	Rimas Kurtinaitis	Sacked	15 January 2021^[35]	18th (2-18)	Andrey Maltsev (interim)	15 January 2021^[35]

Pos	Team v t e	Pld	W	L	PF	PA	PD	Qualification
1	Barcelona	34	24	10	2706	2469	+237	Qualification to playoffs
2	CSKA Moscow	34	24	10	2817	2662	+155
3	Anadolu Efes	34	22	12	2838	2604	+234
4	A\|X Armani Exchange Milan	34	21	13	2720	2599	+121
5	Bayern Munich	34	21	13	2633	2599	+34
6	Real Madrid	34	20	14	2667	2593	+74
7	Fenerbahçe Beko	34	20	14	2661	2679	−18
8	Zenit Saint Petersburg	34	20	14	2670	2547	+123
9	Valencia Basket	34	19	15	2762	2743	+19
10	TD Systems Baskonia	34	18	16	2742	2619	+123
11	Žalgiris	34	17	17	2630	2645	−15
12	Olympiacos	34	16	18	2628	2674	−46
13	Maccabi Tel Aviv	34	14	20	2608	2642	−34
14	LDLC ASVEL	34	13	21	2590	2714	−124
15	ALBA Berlin	34	12	22	2652	2790	−138
16	Panathinaikos OPAP	34	11	23	2656	2782	−126
17	Crvena zvezda mts	34	10	24	2499	2684	−185
18	Khimki	34	4	30	2616	3050	−434

Home \ Away	BER	EFS	AXM	FCB	BAY	CZV	CSK	FNB	KHI	ASV	MTA	OLY	PAO	RMB	BAS	VBC	ZAL	ZEN
ALBA Berlin	—	72–93	70–84	67–103	72–90	81–58	68–71	89–63	100–80	76–75	73–85	80–84	74–65	63–72	95–91	86–90	71–74	66–73
Anadolu Efes	84–76	—	69–72	86–79	71–74	86–72	100–70	71–80	99–60	72–68	91–89	76–53	85–65	65–73	59–77	99–83	89–62	69–73
AX Armani Exchange Milan	75–55	98–75	—	56–72	75–51	79–87	87–91	92–100	84–74	87–73	87–68	90–79	77–80	78–70	79–84	95–80	98–92	82–76
Barcelona	80–67	86–88	87–71	—	72–82	76–65	76–66	97–55	87–74	69–76	67–68	88–96	97–89	79–72	71–57	89–72	86–62	85–81
Bayern Munich	101–95	80–79	79–81	90–77	—	74–59	81–89	68–77	80–77	76–62	72–70	74–68	76–71	76–81	77–66	90–79	71–70	82–80
Crvena zvezda mts	84–90	64–75	72–93	60–72	76–78	—	86–84	71–73	92–81	78–81	76–64	79–81	74–71	67–73	90–73	76–73	69–75	75–76
CSKA Moscow	88–93	100–65	76–84	75–88	66–69	87–72	—	83–89	97–72	88–70	76–72	80–61	93–86	74–73	89–86	84–75	83–73	83–65
Fenerbahçe Beko	89–84	74–106	71–79	73–82	71–75	77–63	77–78	—	83–71	81–59	82–75	84–77	100–74	67–93	96–76	86–90	84–61	92–84
Khimki	81–100	77–105	93–102	75–87	93–95	83–77	87–96	76–107	—	87–85	87–89	88–105	76–78	78–77	67–89	68–77	70–84	70–91
LDLC ASVEL	89–95	80–102	78–69	80–68	87–79	68–89	78–87	86–90	90–84	—	84–81	93–101	97–73	71–74	83–77	90–77	74–83	53–66
Maccabi Playtika Tel Aviv	80–73	66–90	85–86	99–94	82–85	81–76	80–84	65–75	92–62	67–74	—	87–89	89–81	86–84	91–82	84–72	85–57	72–78
Olympiacos	75–71	79–84	86–75	74–76	84–82	94–79	74–75	71–76	82–75	63–69	85–82	—	77–88	82–86	76–90	85–96	67–68	75–61
Panathinaikos OPAP	92–69	77–80	86–83	77–85	83–76	82–86	83–89	82–68	94–78	88–71	81–63	71–78	—	93–97	82–97	91–72	69–81	77–89
Real Madrid	91–62	83–108	76–80	76–81	100–82	77–79	89–96	94–74	94–85	91–84	79–63	72–63	76–66	—	64–84	77–93	70–58	79–72
TD Systems Baskonia	77–84	101–111	86–69	71–72	78–71	87–67	95–93	86–68	77–60	86–88	63–67	91–66	93–72	76–63	—	71–70	81–68	70–77¹
Valencia Basket	92–100	76–74	86–81	66–71	83–76	91–71	105–103	66–52	88–82	65–63	82–80	79–88	95–83	89–78	86–81	—	78–79	72–85²
Žalgiris	96–86	89–73	64–69	62–73	74–73	75–62	78–87	99–62	102–75	85–75	81–88	81–79	93–78	90–93	92–73	82–94	—	75–83
Zenit Saint Petersburg	87–71	85–78	79–70	74–70	79–75	98–69	74–86	65–73	83–88	87–53	86–69	66–75	112–83	71–75	75–79	62–91	77–65	—

Team 1	Series	Team 2	Game 1	Game 2	Game 3	Game 4	Game 5
Barcelona	3–2	Zenit Saint Petersburg	74–76	81–78 (OT)	78–70	61–74	79–53
CSKA Moscow	3–0	Fenerbahçe Beko	92–76	78–67	85–68	—	—
Anadolu Efes	3–2	Real Madrid	90–63	91–68	76–80	76–82	88–83
A\|X Armani Exchange Milan	3–2	Bayern Munich	79–78	80–69	79–85	82–85	92–89

Semifinals		Championship game

28 May

Barcelona	84
		30 May
A\|X Armani Exchange Milan	82
		Barcelona	81
28 May
		Anadolu Efes	86
CSKA Moscow	86

Anadolu Efes	89
		Third place game

		30 May

		A\|X Armani Exchange Milan	83

		CSKA Moscow	73

Pos	Team	Games	Presence	Total	Average
1	Žalgiris	17	3	10,381	3,460
2	CSKA Moscow	19	19	64,970	3,419
3	Zenit Saint Petersburg	19	17	47,168	2,775
4	Maccabi Playtika Tel Aviv	17	6	10,600	1,767
5	LDLC ASVEL	17	1	970	970
6	AX Armani Exchange Milan	20	2	1,617	809
7	Khimki	17	10	7,849	785
8	ALBA Berlin	17	1	599	599
9	TD Systems Baskonia	17	2	1,000	500
10	Valencia Basket	17	3	1,179	393
11	Fenerbahçe Beko	18	12	3,210	268
12	Crvena zvezda mts	17	1	183	183
13	Olympiacos	17	0	0	n/a
13	Panathinaikos OPAP	17	0	0	n/a
15	Bayern Munich	19	0	0	n/a
15	Real Madrid	19	0	0	n/a
17	Anadolu Efes	20	0	0	n/a
17	Barcelona	20	0	0	n/a

Pos.	Round	Game	Home team	Visitor	Attendance
1	Playoffs	3	Zenit Saint Petersburg	Barcelona	5,187
2	Regular Season	5	Žalgiris	Valencia Basket	5,131
3	Playoffs	2	CSKA Moscow	Fenerbahçe Beko	5,128
4	Regular Season	4	Žalgiris	Anadolu Efes	5,011
5	Playoffs	4	Zenit Saint Petersburg	Barcelona	4,626
6	Regular Season	23	CSKA Moscow	Bayern Munich	4,516
7	Regular Season	31	CSKA Moscow	Crvena zvezda mts	4,402
8	Regular Season	29	CSKA Moscow	AX Armani Exchange Milan	4,297
9	Regular Season	21	CSKA Moscow	Fenerbahçe Beko	4,277
10	Regular Season	32	Zenit Saint Petersburg	CSKA Moscow	4,152

Pos.	First Team		Second Team
G	Kevin Pangos	Zenit Saint Petersburg	Shane Larkin	Anadolu Efes
G	Vasilije Micić	Anadolu Efes	Nando De Colo	Fenerbahçe
F	Vladimir Lučić	Bayern Munich	Will Clyburn	CSKA Moscow
F	Nikola Mirotić	Barcelona	Shavon Shields	A\|X Armani Exchange Milan
C	Edy Tavares	Real Madrid	Brandon Davies	Barcelona

Round	Player	Team	PIR	Ref.
1	Pierriá Henry	TD Systems Baskonia	32	^[51]
2	Jordan Loyd	Crvena zvezda mts	34	^[52]
3–4	Vladimir Lučić	Bayern Munich	29	^[53]
5	Nemanja Nedović	Panathinaikos OPAP	28	^[54]
6	Nikola Mirotić	Barcelona	27	^[55]
6	Marius Grigonis	Žalgiris	27	^[55]
7	Rodrigue Beaubois	Anadolu Efes	36	^[56]
8	Vladimir Lučić (2)	Bayern Munich	35	^[57]
9–10	Mike James	CSKA Moscow	32	^[58]
11	Luke Sikma	ALBA Berlin	32	^[59]
12	Edy Tavares	Real Madrid	29	^[60]
13	Mike James (2)	CSKA Moscow	51	^[61]
14–15	Edy Tavares (2)	Real Madrid	36	^[62]
16	Shane Larkin	Anadolu Efes	37	^[63]
17	Wade Baldwin	Bayern Munich	41	^[64]
18	Joffrey Lauvergne	Žalgiris	38	^[65]
19–20	Nemanja Nedović (2)	Panathinaikos OPAP	33	^[66]
21	Dinos Mitoglou	Panathinaikos OPAP	42	^[67]
22–23	Nick Weiler-Babb	Bayern Munich	38	^[68]
24	Vasilije Micić	Anadolu Efes	30	^[69]
24	Jalen Reynolds	Bayern Munich	30	^[69]
25	Shane Larkin (2)	Anadolu Efes	32	^[70]
26	Vasilije Micić (2)	Anadolu Efes	44	^[71]
27–28	Marcus Eriksson	ALBA Berlin	41	^[72]
29	Kevin Punter	A\|X Armani Exchange Milan	28	^[73]
29	Peyton Siva	ALBA Berlin	28	^[73]
30	Sasha Vezenkov	Olympiacos	41	^[74]
31	Vasilije Micić (3)	Anadolu Efes	30	^[75]
32–33	Jordan Mickey	Khimki	36	^[76]
32–33	Achille Polonara	TD Systems Baskonia	36	^[76]
34	Sasha Vezenkov (2)	Olympiacos	31	^[77]

Round	Player	Team	PIR	Ref.
1–2	Kevin Pangos	Zenit Saint Petersburg	33	^[78]
1–2	Brandon Davies	Barcelona	33	^[78]
3–4	Will Clyburn	CSKA Moscow	38	^[79]
5	Shavon Shields	A\|X Armani Exchange Milan	41	^[80]

Rank	Name	Team	Games	Blocks	BPG
1.	Edy Tavares	Real Madrid	36	63	1.75
2.	Giorgos Papagiannis	Panathinaikos	32	51	1.59
3.	Jordan Mickey	Khimki	28	43	1.54

Category	Player	Team	Games	Average
Steals	Pierriá Henry	TD Systems Baskonia	34	1.74
Turnovers	Alexey Shved	Khimki	23	4.26
Fouls drawn	Nando de Colo	Fenerbahçe Beko	32	5.31
Minutes	Alexey Shved	Khimki	23	32:32
FT %	Kyle Kuric	Barcelona	39	96.08%
2-Point %	Octavius Ellis	Olympiacos	33	72.64%
3-Point %	Kyle Kuric	Barcelona	39	56.20%

Month	Round	Player	Team	Ref.
2020
October	1–6	Marius Grigonis	Žalgiris	^[81]
November	7–11	Mike James	CSKA Moscow	^[82]
December	12–17	Nikola Milutinov	CSKA Moscow	^[83]
2021
January	18–23	Jan Veselý	Fenerbahçe Beko	^[84]
February	24–26	Nikola Kalinić	Valencia Basket	^[85]
March	27–33	Nikola Mirotić	Barcelona	^[86]
April	34–PO5	Will Clyburn	CSKA Moscow	^[87]

Rank	Name	Team	Games	Rating	PIR
1.	Mike James	CSKA Moscow	27	532	19.70
2.	Alexey Shved	Khimki	23	450	19.57
3.	Nikola Mirotić	Barcelona	33	644	19.52

Rank	Name	Team	Games	Points	PPG
1.	Alexey Shved	Khimki	23	455	19.78
2.	Mike James	CSKA Moscow	27	522	19.33
3.	Jordan Loyd	Crvena zvezda mts	29	502	17.31

Rank	Name	Team	Games	Rebounds	RPG
1.	Edy Tavares	Real Madrid	36	289	8.03
2.	Achille Polonara	TD Systems Baskonia	33	218	6.61
3.	Nikola Mirotić	Barcelona	33	196	5.94

Rank	Name	Team	Games	Assists	APG
1.	Alexey Shved	Khimki	23	178	7.74
2.	Pierriá Henry	TD Systems Baskonia	34	248	7.29
3.	Kevin Pangos	Zenit Saint Petersburg	39	260	6.67

Category	Player	Team	Statistic	Opponent
Rating	Mike James	CSKA Moscow	51	Khimki (Dec 11, 2020)
Points	Nemanja Nedović	Panathinaikos OPAP	39	Maccabi Playtika Tel Aviv (Dec 22, 2020)
Rebounds	Nikola Milutinov	CSKA Moscow	19	A\|X Armani Exchange Milan (Dec 30, 2020)
Assists	Nick Calathes	Barcelona	15	Khimki (Jan 12, 2021)
Steals	Howard Sant-Roos	Panathinaikos OPAP	7	Crvena zvezda mts (Mar 19, 2021)
Steals	Mateusz Ponitka	Zenit Saint Petersburg	7	Panathinaikos OPAP (Apr 12, 2021)
Blocks	Kevarrius Hayes	LDLC ASVEL	6	Anadolu Efes (Dec 8, 2020)

Category	Team	Average
Rating	Anadolu Efes	98.51
Points	Anadolu Efes	84.22
Points Allowed	Barcelona	73.68
Rebounds	CSKA Moscow	35.33
Assists	Valencia Basket	20.44
Steals	TD Systems Baskonia	8.29
Blocks	Khimki	3.26
Turnovers	ALBA Berlin	14.79
FT %	Žalgiris	83.96%
2-Point %	Valencia Basket	58.04%
3-Point %	Žalgiris	42.14%

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