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(Top) 1 Venues 2 Qualification 3 Squads 4 Format 5 Preliminary round 5.1 Group A 5.2 Group B 5.3 Group C 5.4 Group D 6 Second round 6.1 Group E 6.2 Group F 7 Knockout stage 7.1 Championship bracket 7.1.1 Quarterfinals 7.1.2 Semifinals 7.1.3 Third place 7.1.4 Final 7.2 5th to 8th place 7.3 9th to 12th place 7.4 13th to 16th place 8 Statistical leaders 8.1 Individual Tournament Highs 8.2 Individual Game Highs 8.3 Team Tournament Highs 8.4 Team Game highs 9 Awards 10 Final standings 11 References 12 External links

EuroBasket 1997

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EuroBasket 1997
Tournament details

Host country	Spain
Dates	24 June – 6 July
Teams	16
Venue(s)	3 (in 3 host cities)
Final positions
Champions	Yugoslavia (2nd title)
Runners-up	Italy
Third place	Russia
Fourth place	Greece
Tournament statistics
MVP	Aleksandar Đorđević
Top scorer	Oded Kattash (22.0 points per game)
← 1995 1999 →

The 1997 FIBA European Championship, commonly called FIBA EuroBasket 1997, was the 30th FIBA EuroBasket regional basketball championship held by FIBA Europe, which also served as Europe qualifier for the 1998 FIBA World Championship, giving a berth to the top four (or five, depending on Greece reaching one of the top four places) teams in the final standings. It was held in Spain between 24 June and 6 July 1997. Sixteen national teams entered the event under the auspices of FIBA Europe, the sport's regional governing body. The cities of Badalona, Barcelona and Girona hosted the tournament. Serbia won its second FIBA European title (seventh FIBA European title under the name of Yugoslavia), by defeating Italy with a 61–49 score in the final. Serbia's Saša Đorđević was voted the tournament's MVP.

Venues[edit]

Location	City	Arena	Capacity	Status	Round
Badalona	Badalona	Palau Municipal d'Esports de Badalona	12,760	Opened in 1991	Groups C, D and F Thirteenth-to-sixteenth-place playoffs
Barcelona	Barcelona	Palau Sant Jordi	17,000	Opened in 1990	Knockout stage and Final Fifth-to-eighth-place playoffs Ninth-to-twelfth-place playoffs
Girona	Girona	Palau Girona-Fontajau	5,049	Opened in 1993	Groups A, B and E

Qualification[edit]

Competition	Date	Vacancies	Qualified
Host nation	–	1	Spain
Champions from EuroBasket 1995	21 June – 2 July 1995	1	Yugoslavia
Qualified through Qualifying Round	22 May 1996 – 28 February 1999	14	Bosnia and Herzegovina Croatia France Germany Greece Israel Italy Latvia Lithuania Poland Russia Slovenia Turkey Ukraine

Squads[edit]

Format[edit]

The teams were split in four groups of four teams each where they played a round robin. The top three teams from each group advance to the second stage.
In the second stage, two groups of six teams were formed and played a round robin. The results between teams that faced during the preliminary round are carried over. The top four teams from each group in the second stage advance to the knockout quarterfinals to compete for the Championship. The winners in the semifinals compete for the European Championship, while the losers from the semifinals play a consolation game for the third place.
The losers in the quarterfinals compete in a separate bracket to define 5th through 8th place in the final standings.
The four teams eliminated in the second stage compete in another bracket to define 9th through 12th place in the final standings.
The four teams eliminated in the preliminary round compete in another bracket to define 13th through 16th place in the final standings.

Preliminary round[edit]

	Qualified for the second round

Times given below are in Central European Summer Time (UTC+2).

Group A[edit]


Team	Pld	W	L	PF	PA	PD	Pts
Greece	3	3	0	226	200	+26	6
Russia	3	2	1	224	185	+39	5
Turkey	3	1	2	178	223	−45	4
Bosnia and Herzegovina	3	0	3	193	213	−20	3

25 June
16:00

Bosnia and Herzegovina	55–65	Russia
Scoring by half: 21–37, 34–28
Pts: Marković20 Rebs: Bukva6 Asts: Bećiragić4		Pts: Karasev22 Rebs: Karasev 6 Asts: Karasev, Nosov3

Greece	74–52	Turkey
Scoring by half: 39–23, 35–29
Pts: Oikonomou16 Rebs: Papanikolaou7 Asts: Christodoulou6		Pts: Ene, Sarıca14 Rebs: Türkcan6 Asts: Tunçeri2

Turkey	70–62	Bosnia and Herzegovina
Scoring by half: 29–26, 41–36
Pts: Sarıca17 Rebs: Türkcan7 Asts: Ene5		Pts: Firić, Marković17 Rebs: Bukva6 Asts: Bećiragić7

Russia	72–74	Greece
Scoring by half: 33–43, 39–31
Pts: Kudelin21 Rebs: Kisurin9 Asts: Karasev5		Pts: Oikonomou, Rentzias16 Rebs: Rentzias 5 Asts: Koronios5