FIBA European Champions Cup

The FIBA European Champions Cup, is a European professional basketball club competition. The league is widely recognised as the top-tier league in Europe. It is the most prestigious tournaments in the European basketball, played by the national league champions of FIBA Europe national associations.

History
The formation of the FIBA European Champions Cup was formed on the back of the European Cup format that happened in football. At the 1957 EuroBasket tournament in Bulgaria, the formation of the Champions Cup was born. Unlike the football equivalent, the tournament was broken up into regions for the first edition in 1958. Though this would be the only edition to have a regional format with Real Madrid taking the first trophy.

The next four editions saw champions from the eastern side of Europe taking out the title with Rīgas ASK making the top four in the first five editions of the tournament and along the way took out two titles.