Korac Cup
The
Korać Cup was an annual
basketball club competition held by
FIBA between the years 1972 and 2002. It was the third competition in
European basketball, after the European Champions Cup (later renamed
Euroleague) and the Cup Winners Cup (later renamed
Saporta Cup).
It was named after the legendary Yugoslavian player
Radivoj Korać, who was killed in 1969 in a car accident near Sarajevo. In the season 2001-2002, the last the competition was held, the competition had two knockout qualifying rounds, then a group stage which consisted of eight groups of four teams each. The two top teams from each group qualified for the playoffs. The final was played in two legs. The winners were
SLUC Nancy and the runners-up were
Lokomotiv Rostov-on-Don*Coach
Bogdan Tanjevic made it to 5 Korac Cup finals with four different clubs, and lost all of them. In 1978 his
Bosna team lost to
Partizan 110-117 in overtime. Then in 1986 he made it to the very end again with
Juve Caserta, only to lose to
Virtus Rome in a two legged final. Finally, in the '90s, Tanjevic made 3 more finals, this time consecutively: with
Pallacanestro Trieste in 1994 (lost to
PAOK), and with
Olimpia Milano in 1995 and 1996 (lost to
ALBA and
Efes Pilsen, respectively).
