1996–97 Olympiacos B.C. season

In the 1996–97 season Olympiacos became the 8th club in the history of European Basketball and also the 1st club in the history of Greek basketball that made the Triple Crown achievement having won the Greek Basketball Cup, the FIBA EuroLeague and the Greek Basket League.

The roster

• Efthimis Bakatsias 4.
• Giorgos Sigalas 5.
• Dimitrios Papanikolaou 7.
• Nasos Galakteros 8.
• Franko Nakić 9.
• Panagiotis Fasoulas 10.
• Milan Tomić 11.
• Dragan Tarlać 12.
• Chris Welp 13.
• Aleksey Savrasenko 14.
• David Rivers 15. (Final Four MVP)
• Vassilis Soulis
• Anatoly Zourpenko

• Coach: Dušan Ivković

Greek Cup

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2nd round

Team 1	Score	Team 2
Peiraikos	59–88	Olympiacos

Top 16

Team 1	Score	Team 2
Aris	47–58	Olympiacos

Quarterfinals

Team 1	Score	Team 2
Nikas Peristeri	58–78	Olympiacos

Semifinals

April 12, O.A.C.A. Olympic Indoor Hall, Athens

Team 1	Score	Team 2
Olympiacos	63–61	AEK

Final

April 13, O.A.C.A. Olympic Indoor Hall, Athens

Team 1	Score	Team 2
Olympiacos	80–78	Apollon Patras Dexim

FIBA EuroLeague

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1st round

Day 1, 19/09/1996 Team 1  Score  Team 2 Olympiacos 64–67 Alba Berlin Day 2, 26/09/1996 Team 1  Score  Team 2 Olympiacos 96–80 Teamsystem Bologna Day 3, 03/10/1996 Team 1  Score  Team 2 Spirou 72–79 Olympiacos Day 4, 10/10/1996 Team 1  Score  Team 2 Olympiacos 62–61 Cibona Day 5, 17/10/1996 Team 1  Score  Team 2 Olympiacos 110–78 Estudiantes Argentaria

Day 6, 06/11/1996 Team 1  Score  Team 2 Alba Berlin 62–61 Olympiacos Day 7, 13/11/1996 Team 1  Score  Team 2 Teamsystem Bologna 81–72 Olympiacos Day 8, 21/11/1996 Team 1  Score  Team 2 Olympiacos 87–60 Spirou Day 9, 05/12/1996 Team 1  Score  Team 2 Cibona 63–61 Olympiacos Day 10, 12/12/1996 Team 1  Score  Team 2 Estudiantes Argentaria 87–78 Olympiacos

	Team	Pld	W	L	PF	PA	Diff
1.	Teamsystem Bologna	10	7	3	773	742	+31
2.	Estudiantes Argentaria	10	6	4	798	821	-23
3.	Cibona	10	6	4	713	679	+34
4.	Alba Berlin	10	6	4	755	723	+22
5.	Olympiacos	10	5	5	770	711	+59
6.	Spirou	10	0	10	699	832	-133

2nd round

Day 1, 09/01/1997 Team 1  Score  Team 2 Olympiacos 82–51 CSKA Moscow Day 2, 16/01/1997 Team 1  Score  Team 2 Stefanel Milano 73–71 Olympiacos Day 3, 13/01/1997 Team 1  Score  Team 2 Olympiacos 69–60 Maccabi Tel Aviv

Day 4, 06/02/1997 Team 1  Score  Team 2 CSKA Moscow 70–79 Olympiacos Day 5, 13/11/1996 Team 1  Score  Team 2 Olympiacos 87–84 Stefanel Milano Day 6, 21/11/1996 Team 1  Score  Team 2 Maccabi Tel Aviv 82–78 Olympiacos

	Team	Pld	W	L	PF	PA	Diff
1.	Stefanel Milano	16	11	5	1234	1175	+59
2.	Alba Berlin	16	10	6	1193	1167	+26
3.	Olympiacos	16	9	7	1236	1131	+105
4.	Maccabi Tel Aviv	16	9	7	1209	1173	+32
5.	CSKA Moscow	16	8	8	1178	1175	+3
6.	Spirou	16	1	15	1123	1297	-174

Top 16

Team 1	Agg.Tooltip Aggregate score	Team 2	1st leg	2nd leg	3rd leg
Partizan	1–2	Olympiacos	71–81	61–60	69–74

Quarterfinals

Team 1	Agg.Tooltip Aggregate score	Team 2	1st leg	2nd leg	3rd leg
Panathinaikos	0–2	Olympiacos	49–69	57–65

Final Four

Semifinals

April 22, Palaeur, Rome

Team 1	Score	Team 2
Olympiacos	74–65	Smelt Olimpija

Final

April 24, Palaeur, Rome

Team 1	Score	Team 2
Olympiacos	73–58	Banca Catalana FC Barcelona

1996–97 FIBA EuroLeague Champions
Olympiacos 1st Title

Greek League

References

1. "Τελικοί" (in Greek). Archived from the original on 2016-03-14. Retrieved 2017-07-08.
2. http://www.fibaeurope.com/cid_KNce8jInH7Qj1EsyH5rjn2.compID_,Uz02qBnJiADOq5VntEf53.season_1997.html 1996–97 FIBA EuroLeague
3. http://www.linguasport.com/baloncesto/internacional/clubes/c1/C1_97.htm 1996–97 FIBA EuroLeague
4. http://www.eurobasket.com/FIBA_Euroleague/1996-1997.asp Eurobasket.com 1996–97 FIBA EuroLeague