Triple Crown (basketball)
The Triple Crown is a term in European professional club basketball that refers to a club winning their country's top-tier level national domestic league, primary national domestic cup, and the top-tier level European-wide continental competition (EuroLeague) in the same season. It is the highest accomplishment that a European basketball club can achieve during a season. Only 12 European basketball clubs have achieved the Triple Crown, on 22 different occasions.
All the Triple Crowns achieved
Achievements by club
Triple Crown | Club | Seasons |
6 | Maccabi Tel Aviv | 1976–77, 1980–81, 2000–01, 2003–04, 2004–05, 2013–14 |
3 | Real Madrid | 1964–65, 1973–74, 2014–15 |
2 | Varese | 1969–70, 1972–73 |
Split | 1989–90, 1990–91 |
Panathinaikos | 2006–07, 2008–09 |
1 | Cibona | 1984–85 |
Olimpia Milano | 1986–87 |
Partizan | 1991–92 |
Olympiacos | 1996–97 |
Virtus Bologna | 2000–01 |
FC Barcelona | 2002–03 |
CSKA Moscow | 2005–06 |
Achievements by national league
"Small Triple Crown"
Second-tiers
In addition, five European basketball clubs have won their top-tier level national domestic league, their top-tier level national domestic cup, and the 2nd-tier level European-wide competition (FIBA European Cup Winner's Cup / FIBA European Cup, or EuroCup) in the same season – the so-called, "Small Triple Crown".
Third and fourth-tiers
Seven clubs, on eight different occasions, have won their top-tier level national domestic league, their top-tier level national domestic cup, and the 3rd-tier level European-wide competition (FIBA Korać Cup or FIBA EuroChallenge), or the 4th-tier level FIBA EuroCup Challenge / FIBA Europe Cup, in the same season.