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TURKISH AIRLINES EUROLEAGUE
THIRD PLACE GAME APPEARANCES (1988-present)

7.- CSKA Moscow (1996, 2004, 2010, 2013, 2015, 2017, 2021)

5.- Real Madrid (1993, 1996, 2011, 2017, 2019)
FC Barcelona (2009, 2012, 2014, 2022, 2023)
Olympiacos Piraeus (1999, 2009, 2022, 2024, 2025)

4.- Baskonia Vitoria-Gasteiz (2006, 2007, 2008, 2016)
Panathinaikos Athens (1994, 1995, 2005, 2025)

3.- Montepaschi Siena (2003, 2008, 2011)
Aris Thessaloniki (1988, 1989, 1990)
Partizan Belgrade (1988, 1998, 2010)
Fenerbahce Istanbul (2015, 2019, 2024)

2.- Benetton Treviso (1998, 2002**)
Anadolu Efes Istanbul (2000, 2001*)
Maccabi Tel Aviv (1991, 2002**)
Limoges (1990, 1995)
AX Armani Exchange Milan (1992, 2021)

1.- Scavolini Pesaro (1991), Estudiantes (1992),
PAOK Thessaloniki (1993), Olimpija Ljubjana (1997),
ASVEL Villeurbanne (1997), Fortitudo Bologna (1999),
Unicaja Malaga (2007), Lokomotiv Kuban Krasnodar (2016),
Zalgiris Kaunas (2018), AS Monaco (2023)

* European basketball had two top-level competitions in 2000-01. Kinder Bologna won the Euroleague title in a five-game playoff series against Tau Ceramica. AEK Athens and Fortitudo Bologna also reached the semifinals. Maccabi Tel Aviv won the SuproLeague in a Final Four that also featured Panathinaikos, the other finalist, CSKA Moscow and Efes Pilsen.

** There was no Third Place Game in the 2002 EuroLeague Final Four. We added the semifinals losers, Benetton and Maccabi, however.

Euroleague Basketball (EB) is a global leader in the sports and entertainment business, devoted to running the top European competitions of professional basketball clubs under a unique and innovative organizational model. Owned and administered by some of the most successful and historic clubs in the world, EB manages the continent’s two premier men’s basketball competitions, the Turkish Airlines EuroLeague and the BKT EuroCup, as well as the sport’s premier under-18 showcase, the EB Adidas Next Generation Tournament.

The EB competitions bring the elite of European basketball to all five continents and to the entire sports community through the OTT platform EuroLeague TV. EB also organizes a series of community and educational activities, led by the One Team program, in alignment with the United Nations Agenda 2030 Sustainable Development Goals. On the academic side, the EB Sports Business MBA trains future professionals in sports management.