The 2018 EuroLeague Final Four was the concluding EuroLeague Final Four tournament of the 2017âÂÂ18 EuroLeague season, the 61st season of Europe's premier club basketball tournament, and the 18th season since it was organised by Euroleague Basketball. It was the 31st Final Four of the modern EuroLeague Final Four era (1988âÂÂpresent), and the 33rd time overall that the competition had concluded with a final four format. The Final Four was played at the à  tark Arena in Belgrade, Serbia, on 18 and 20 May 2018.
On 26 October 2016 Euroleague Basketball announced that the Final Four would be held in the à  tark Arena in Belgrade. It is designed as a universal hall for sports, cultural events and other programs. It was the first time the EuroLeague Final Four was hosted in Belgrade, or in the country of Serbia. The Arena's total floor area is 48,000 square metres. For sports, it has a regular seating capacity for fans of 18,386, and also has 70 luxury boxes, which include a total of 860 seats. The arena's cost was estimated at â¬70 million. à  tark Arena is a member of the European Arenas Association (EAA).
CSKA Moscow finished the regular season as the number one seed, after having a 24âÂÂ6 record. In the quarter-finals, the team played another Russian side in Khimki. CSKA won the series 3âÂÂ1 over Khimki, after a controversial 88âÂÂ89 win in Game 4. In the United League season, CSKA was in second place while battling for the first seed.
Fenerbahçe finished second in the regular season and defeated Kirolbet Baskonia in the quarter-finals. Fenerbahçe reached the Final Four for a fourth straight year. Head coach à ½eljko Obradoviàhad the opportunity to win his tenth EuroLeague title, a record for most titles by a coach.
Madrid battled injuries during the regular season, as Sergio Llull, Ognjen Kuzmiàand Rudy Fernández missed most of the games. As a five-seed, the team beat Panathinaikos in a controversial quarterfinal series, 1âÂÂ3. The star player for Madrid during the season was Luka DonÃÂiÃÂ, who led the league in Performance Index Rating (PIR), and was later a top-three pick in the 2018 NBA draft. DonÃÂiÃÂ's games during the Final Four were televised in the United States, by NBA TV.
In the 2017âÂÂ18 ACB season, Real Madrid was the number one seed.
In the regular season, à ½algiris qualified as the sixth seed. à ½algiris won the series over favored Olympiacos, 3âÂÂ1. For EuroLeague Legend à  arà «nas JasikeviÃÂius, this was his first visit to the Final Four as a head coach and also for the club since 1999. In its domestic LKL season, the club dominated as well, as it was in a secure first seed.
Russian champions CSKA Moscow returned to the Final Four to make it their seventh consecutive semi-final appearance. CSKA guard Sergio RodrÃÂguez would play the semi-final against his former club, which he won the EuroLeague title with in 2015, as well as the EuroLeague MVP award in 2014.
Real Madrid would play its fourth Final Four in five years. The match would be a re-match of the 2017 third-place game. During the regular season, both teams won their respective games at home, with this game being considered a Real Madrid home game.
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Defending champions Fenerbahçe DoÃÂuà  returned to the Final Four to make it their third straight appearance. Led by head coach à ½eljko ObradoviÃÂ, the all-time record holder for most EuroLeague championships won by a head coach, it defeated Kirolbet Baskonia 1âÂÂ3 in the quarter-finals, to clinch a semi-final spot.
à ½algiris Kaunas qualified for its first Final Four in 20 years, as the last time the team participated was in 1999, where it claimed the championship as well. The club beat Olympiacos 3âÂÂ1 in the play-offs, despite not having home court advantage.
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