EuroBasket 1973

XVIII Campeonato Europeo de Baloncesto
Tournament details
City	Spain
Dates	27 September – 6 October
Teams	12
Venue(s)	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)

The 1973 FIBA European Championship, commonly called FIBA EuroBasket 1973, was the eighteenth FIBA EuroBasket regional basketball championship, held by FIBA Europe.

Venues

Barcelona	Badalona
Palacio de los Deportes Capacity 8 000	Pabellón de Ausias March Capacity 5 000

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

Pos.	Team	Matches	Wins	Losses	Results	Points	Diff.
1.	Yugoslavia	5	5	0	378:333	10	+45
2.	Spain	5	4	1	392:353	8	+29
3.	Italy	5	3	2	335:325	6	+10
4.	Bulgaria	5	2	3	367:372	4	−5
5.	Greece	5	1	4	335:377	2	−42
6.	France	5	0	5	345:392	0	−47

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
Yugoslavia 1st title

Final standings

1.  Yugoslavia
2.  Spain
3.  Soviet Union
4.  Czechoslovakia
5.  Italy
6.  Bulgaria
7.  Israel
8.  Turkey
9.  Romania
10.  France
11.  Greece
12.  Poland

Awards

1973 FIBA EuroBasket Championship MVP: Wayne Brabender ( Spain)

All-Tournament Team[1]
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)

References