Sports season
The 1967–68 FIBA European Cup Winners' Cup was the second edition of FIBA 's 2nd-tier level European-wide professional club basketball competition, contested between national domestic cup champions, running from November 1967, to 4 April 1968. 22 teams took part in the competition, three more than in the inaugural edition .
AEK defeated 1966 FIBA European Champions Cup runner-up Slavia VŠ Praha , in the final, which for the first time was held as a single match, to become the competition's first Greek League champion. They previously defeated defending champion, Ignis Varese , in the semifinals.[ 1]
In the final between AEK and Slavia VŠ Praha, which took place in Pangrati , Athens , at Panathenaic Stadium , the seated attendance was 100,000, and the standing attendance, in and around the arena, was 50,000 (for a total of 150,000).[ 2]
Participants
First round
Second round
Automatically qualified to the quarter-finals
Quarterfinals
Semifinals
Finals
April 4, Panathenaic "Kalimarmaro" Stadium , Athens
1967–68 FIBA European Cup Winners' Cup Champions
AEK 1st title
References
External links
†Moschos died of cancer in 1966, but he was inducted into the AEK Hall of Fame in 2008, and added to the 1968 championship team as an honorary member.
FIBA European Cup Winners' Cup FIBA European Cup FIBA EuroCup FIBA Saporta Cup