1961–62 FIBA Women's European Champions Cup

The 1961–62 Women's Basketball European Cup^[1] was the fourth edition of the competition. Daugava Riga won its third trophy in a row, beating SKA Leningrad in the final. It was the first time the final was played by two teams from the same championship; Daugava and SKA were respectively the champion and runner-up of the 1961 Soviet Championship.^[2] This was unparalleled throughout the European Cup era.^[3]

Austria, Hungary, Israel and Turkey took part in the competition for the first time. In addition Yugoslavia returned after a one-year absence. For the first time two African teams played the competition, as in addition to Morocco's Sportif Casablancais Portugal was represented by Benfica de Lubango from Portuguese Angola. Due to the increase in the number of contestants, the defending champion entered the competition in the quarter-finals instead of the semi-finals.

As the competition reached 16 teams the two qualifying rounds from the previous season were merged into a Round of 16. However, since Daugava Riga received a bye 15 teams were left to play seven ties, so a triangular was arranged between Benfica de Lubango, Medina La Coruña and Sportif Casablancais in La Coruña.^[4]

Round of 16

Team #1	Agg.	Team #2	1st leg	2nd leg
Daugava Riga	Bye	—	—	—
Chemie Leipzig	84 – 127	Rapid București	51–66	33–61
Slovan Orbis Prague	119 – 99	Meteor Budapest	59–43	60–56
TV Augsburg 1847	112 – 86	Nibelungen Wien	61–44	51–42
Medina La Coruña Sportif Casablancais Medina La Coruña	32 – 30 54 – 37 41 – 25	Benfica de Lubango Benfica de Lubango Sportif Casablancais	—	—
Radnički Beograd	151 – 37	USK Ankara	79–21	72–16
Slavia Sofia	129 – 44	Hapoel Tel Aviv	84–34	45–10
SKA Leningrad	132 – 128	Academicki Warsaw	62–56	70–72

Quarter-finals

Team #1	Agg.	Team #2	1st leg	2nd leg
Daugava Riga	112 – 89	Rapid București	51–26	61–63
Slovan Orbis Prague	170 – 76	TV Augsburg 1847	86–33	84–43
Radnički Beograd	138 – 54	Medina La Coruña	81–35	57–19
Slavia Sofia	107 – 121	SKA Leningrad	61–63	46–58

Semi-finals

Team #1	Agg.	Team #2	1st leg	2nd leg
Daugava Riga	124 – 98	Slovan Orbis Prague	72–44	52–54
Radnički Beograd	101 – 129	SKA Leningrad	52–69	49–60

Final

Team #1	Agg.	Team #2	1st leg	2nd leg
Daugava Riga	103 – 82	SKA Leningrad	55–38	48–44

References

1. 1961–62 FIBA Women's European Champions Cup
2. List of Top 3 placed teams in Womenbasketball.ru
3. List of finals in FIBA Europe's website
4. Results in Todor66.com