Triple Crown (European basketball)

In European professional club basketball, the Triple Crown refers to a club winning their country's top-tier level national domestic league, their county's primary national domestic cup, and the top-tier level European-wide continental competition, which is the EuroLeague, all in the same season. It is the highest accomplishment that a European professional basketball club can achieve during a season. To date, 13 European basketball clubs have won the European Basketball Triple Crown, on a total of 23 occasions.

All the European Basketball Triple Crowns achieved

• In the 2000–01 season, there were two first-tier level European-wide champions: Maccabi Tel Aviv, that won FIBA's SuproLeague and Kinder Bologna, that won EuroLeague Basketball Company's EuroLeague.
• Å arÅ«nas Jasikevičius is the only player in the history of European basketball to have won the European Triple Crown with his teams 4 times. The teams that won the Triple Crown in which Jasikevičius played are: FC Barcelona in 2002–03, Maccabi Elite Tel Aviv in 2003–04, and 2004–05, and Panathinaikos in 2008–09. Jasikevicius also won the Triple Crown with Fenerbahçe as a coach in the 2024–25 season, becoming the only person in history to achieve this title both as a player and as a coach.
• Željko Obradović is the only head coach to have won the European Triple Crown three times: in 1991–92 with Partizan, and in 2006–07 and 2008–09 with Panathinaikos.

Achievements by club

Achievements by national league

"Small European Basketball Triple Crown"

Second-tiers

In addition, five European professional basketball clubs have won their top-tier level national domestic league, their top-tier level national domestic cup, and one of the 2nd-tier level European-wide competitions (FIBA European Cup Winner's Cup / FIBA European Cup / EuroCup / FIBA Champions League) in the same season – the so-called, "Small European Triple Crown".

Third and fourth-tiers

Seven pro European basketball clubs, on eight different occasions, have won their top-tier level national domestic league, their top-tier level national domestic cup, and one of the 3rd-tier level European-wide competitions (FIBA Korać Cup / FIBA EuroChallenge), or one of the 4th-tier level European-wide competitions (Original FIBA Europe Cup / Second FIBA Europe Cup), in the same season.

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