EuroBasket 1973
International basketball event
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The 1973 FIBA European Championship, commonly called FIBA EuroBasket 1973, was the eighteenth FIBA EuroBasket regional basketball championship, held by FIBA Europe.
| XVIII Campeonato Europeo de Baloncesto | |
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| Tournament details | |
| Host country | Spain |
| City | Barcelona and Badalona |
| Dates | 27 September – 6 October |
| Teams | 12 |
| Venues | 2 (in 2 host cities) |
| Final positions | |
| Champions |  Yugoslavia (1st title) |
| Runners-up |  Spain |
| Third place |  Soviet Union |
| Fourth place |  Czechoslovakia |
| Tournament statistics | |
| MVP | Wayne Brabender |
| Top scorer |  Atanas Golomeev(22.3 points per game) |
Venues
| Barcelona | Badalona |
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| Palacio de los Deportes Capacity 8 000 |
Pabellón de Ausias March Capacity 5 000 |
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Group stage
Group A – Badalona
 Poland | Soviet Union | 83–104 |
| Czechoslovakia |  Israel | 92–89 |
 Turkey |  Romania | 69–84 |
| Czechoslovakia | Soviet Union | 55–77 |
| Israel | Romania | 85–80 |
| Poland | Turkey | 64–65 |
| Soviet Union | Turkey | 79–53 |
| Czechoslovakia | Romania | 70–61 |
| Israel | Poland | 98–84 |
| Czechoslovakia | Turkey | 66–64 |
| Soviet Union | Israel | 101–78 |
| Romania | Poland | 60–66 |
| Romania | Soviet Union | 84–98 |
| Czechoslovakia | Poland | 81–79 |
| Turkey | Israel | 94–93 |
| Pos. | Team | Matches | Wins | Losses | Results | Points | Diff. |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1. | Soviet Union | 5 | 5 | 0 | 459:353 | 10 | +106 |
| 2. | Czechoslovakia | 5 | 4 | 1 | 364:370 | 8 | −6 |
| 3. | Turkey | 5 | 2 | 3 | 345:386 | 4 | −41 |
| 4. | Israel | 5 | 2 | 3 | 443:451 | 4 | −8 |
| 5. | Poland | 5 | 1 | 4 | 376:408 | 2 | −32 |
| 6. | Romania | 5 | 1 | 4 | 369:388 | 2 | −19 |
Group B – Barcelona
| Bulgaria |  France | 89–70 |
| Spain | Yugoslavia | 59–65 |
 Greece |  Italy | 54–59 |
| Greece | Yugoslavia | 68–84 |
| Spain | Bulgaria | 85–69 |
| Italy | France | 71–63 |
| Greece | France | 67–62 |
| Yugoslavia | Bulgaria | 76–65 |
| Italy | Spain | 65–77 |
| Greece | Bulgaria | 72–86 |
| France | Spain | 80–85 |
| Yugoslavia | Italy | 73–71 |
| Bulgaria | Italy | 58–69 |
| Greece | Spain | 74–86 |
| France | Yugoslavia | 70–80 |
Knockout stage
| Semi-finals | Final | |||||
| Soviet Union | 76 | |||||
| Spain | 80 | |||||
| Spain | 67 | |||||
| Yugoslavia | 78 | |||||
| Yugoslavia | 96 | |||||
| Czechoslovakia | 71 | |||||
| Third place | ||||||
| Soviet Union | 90 | |||||
| Czechoslovakia | 58 | |||||
5th to 8th place
| Classification round | Fifth place | |||||
| Turkey | 67 | |||||
| Bulgaria | 76 | |||||
| Bulgaria | 71 | |||||
| Italy | 80 | |||||
| Italy | 94 | |||||
| Israel | 73 | |||||
| Seventh place | ||||||
| Turkey | 78 | |||||
| Israel | 96 | |||||
9th to 12th place
| Classification round | Ninth place | |||||
| Poland | 62 | |||||
| France | 67 | |||||
| France | 69 | |||||
| Romania | 72 | |||||
| Greece | 78 | |||||
| Romania | 89 | |||||
| Eleventh place | ||||||
| Poland | 64 | |||||
| Greece | 65 | |||||
| 1973 FIBA EuroBasket champions |
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 Yugoslavia 1st title |
Final standings
Awards
| 1973 FIBA EuroBasket Championship MVP: Wayne Brabender ( Spain) |
| All-Tournament Team[1] |
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| Sergei Belov |
| Francisco "Nino" Buscato |
| Wayne Brabender (MVP) |
| Krešimir Ćosić |
| Atanas Golomeev |
Team rosters
1. Yugoslavia: Krešimir Ćosić, Dražen Dalipagić, Dragan Kićanović, Zoran Slavnić, Nikola Plećaš, Željko Jerkov, Vinko Jelovac, Damir Šolman, Rato Tvrdić, Milun Marović, Žarko Knežević, Dragi Ivković (Coach: Mirko Novosel)
2. Spain: Clifford Luyk, Wayne Brabender, Francisco "Nino" Buscato, Vicente Ramos, Rafael Rullan, Manuel Flores, Luis Miguel Santillana, Carmelo Cabrera, Gonzalo Sagi-Vela, Jose Luis Sagi-Vela, Miguel Angel Estrada, Enrique Margall (Coach: Antonio Díaz-Miguel)
3. Soviet Union: Sergei Belov, Modestas Paulauskas, Anatoly Myshkin, Ivan Edeshko, Zurab Sakandelidze, Sergei Kovalenko, Valeri Miloserdov, Evgeni Kovalenko, Aleksander Boloshev, Yuri Pavlov, Jaak Salumets, Nikolai Djachenko (Coach: Vladimir Kondrashin)
4. Czechoslovakia: Jiří Zídek Sr., Kamil Brabenec, Zdenek Kos, Jiří Zedníček, Jan Bobrovsky, Jiri Pospisil, Petr Novicky, Jan Blažek, Josef Klima, Vojtech Petr, Jiri Balastik, Gustav Hraska (Coach: Vladimir Heger)