EuroBasket 1987

EuroBasket 1987

Tournament details
Host country	Greece
City	Piraeus
Dates	3–14 June
Teams	12
Venue(s)	1 (in 1 host city)
Final positions
Champions	Greece (1st title)
Runners-up	Soviet Union
Third place	Yugoslavia
Fourth place	Spain
Tournament statistics
Games played	46
MVP	Nikos Galis
Top scorer	Nikos Galis (37.0 points per game)
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The 1987 FIBA European Championship, commonly called FIBA EuroBasket 1987, was the 25th FIBA EuroBasket regional basketball championship, held by FIBA Europe. It was held in Greece between 3 and 14 June 1987. Twelve national teams entered the event under the auspices of FIBA Europe, the sport's regional governing body. The Peace and Friendship Stadium, located in the Neo Faliron in Piraeus, Attica,^[1][2][3] was the hosting venue of the tournament. The host, Greece, won its first FIBA European title by defeating the defending champions and heavily favored Soviet Union, with a 103–101 score in a gripping final decided in overtime. Greece's Nikos Galis was voted the tournament's MVP.^[4]

All games were played at the Peace and Friendship Stadium in Piraeus, Attica.

Piraeus

Peace and Friendship Stadium Capacity: 17,000 Opened in 1983

A total of twelve teams qualified for the tournament. To the top seven teams from the previous tournament, four more teams were granted berths via a qualifying tournament. Greece qualified as hosts of the tournament.

• Hosts:
  •  Greece
• Top seven teams from Eurobasket 1985:
  •  Czechoslovakia
  •  France
  •  Italy
  •  Soviet Union
  •  Spain
  •  West Germany
  •  Yugoslavia
• Top four teams from the qualifying stage:
  •  Israel
  •  Netherlands
  •  Poland
  •  Romania

• The teams were split in two groups of six teams each. The top four teams from each group advance to the quarterfinals. The winners in the knockout semifinals advance to the Final, and the losers figure in a third-place playoff.
• The losers from the quarterfinals stage compete in a separate bracket to define places 5th through 8th in the final standings.
• The fifth and sixth teams from each group competed in another bracket to define places 9th through 12th in the final standings.

Qualified for the semifinals

Times given below are in Eastern European Summer Time (UTC+3).

Team	Pld	W	L	PF	PA	PD	Pts
Soviet Union	5	5	0	501	399	+102	10
Yugoslavia	5	3	2	473	421	+52	8
Spain	5	3	2	497	455	+42	8
Greece	5	3	2	430	399	+31	8
France	5	1	4	395	471	−76	6
Romania	5	0	5	410	561	−151	5

Team	Pld	W	L	PF	PA	PD	Pts
Italy	5	5	0	467	379	+88	10
West Germany	5	3	2	428	447	−19	8
Poland	5	3	2	432	434	−2	8
Czechoslovakia	5	2	3	436	437	−1	7
Netherlands	5	1	4	380	430	−50	6
Israel	5	1	4	422	438	−16	6

	Quarter-finals				Semi-finals				Final
	9 June – 19:30
	Soviet Union	110
					12 June – 19:30
	Czechoslovakia	91
					Soviet Union	113
	9 June – 21:30
					Spain	96
	Spain	107
									14 June – 20:00
	West Germany	77
									Soviet Union	101
	10 June – 19:30
									Greece	103
	Italy	78
					12 June – 21:30
	Greece	90
					Greece	81
	10 June – 21:30
					Yugoslavia	77			Third place
	Poland	81
									13 June – 21:30
	Yugoslavia	128
									Spain	87
									Yugoslavia	98

	Classification round				Fifth place
	11 June – 19:30
	Czechoslovakia	91
					14 June – 18:00
	West Germany	93
					West Germany	84
	11 June – 21:30
					Italy	87
	Italy	93
	Poland	75
					Seventh place
					13 June – 19:30
					Czechoslovakia	92
					Poland	96

	Classification round				Ninth place
	9 June – 17:30
	France	96
					13 June – 17:30
	Israel	93
					France	94
	10 June – 17:30
					Netherlands	80
	Romania	87
	Netherlands	88
					Eleventh place
					11 June – 17:30
					Israel	97
					Romania	87

1987 FIBA EuroBasket champions
Greece 1st title

1987 FIBA EuroBasket MVP: Nikos Galis ( Greece)

All-Tournament Team[5]
Šarūnas Marčiulionis
Nikos Galis (MVP)
Alexander Volkov
Andrés Jiménez
Panagiotis Fasoulas

Qualified for the 1988 European Olympic Qualifying Tournament

Rank	Team	Record
	Greece	6–2
	Soviet Union	7–1
	Yugoslavia	5–3
4	Spain	4–4
5	Italy	7–1
6	West Germany	4–4
7	Poland	4–4
8	Czechoslovakia	2–6
9	France	3–4
10	Netherlands	2–5
11	Israel	2–5
12	Romania	0–7

			4th
Greece Nikos Galis Nikos Stavropoulos Panagiotis Giannakis Argiris Kambouris Nikos Linardos Panagiotis Karatzas Michalis Romanidis Nikos Filippou Liveris Andritsos Panagiotis Fasoulas Memos Ioannou Fanis Christodoulou	Soviet Union Alexander Volkov Heino Enden Sergei Tarakanov Valdemaras Chomičius Sergei Babenko Valeri Tikhonenko Valdis Valters Vladimir Tkachenko Šarūnas Marčiulionis Sergejus Jovaiša Viktor Pankrashkin Valery Goborov	Yugoslavia Dražen Petrović Aleksandar Petrović Aleksandar Đorđević Toni Kukoč Žarko Paspalj Goran Grbović Zoran Radović Stojko Vranković Ratko Radovanović Vlade Divac Dino Rađa Danko Cvjetićanin	Spain Jordi Villacampa Francisco Zapata Cándido Sibilio Josep María Margall Andrés Jiménez Fernando Romay José Antonio Montero Fernando Arcega Ignacio Solozábal Ferrán Martínez José Ángel Arcega Juan Antonio San Epifanio

• 1987 European Championship for Men archive.FIBA.com