This season 24 teams begin where in the first phase are framed in three groups of eight teams. After a league of 14 days will qualify the top five of each group and the best sixth team for the TOP16
In 1999, the Cup Winners’ Cup final was held in Zaragoza, where in a match just a few points behind, Valencia, always in tow, could not beat Benetton Treviso (64-60)
In 1995, Baskonia were again defeated, as they had been a year earlier, in the Cup Winners’ Cup final in Istanbul. This time the Basques were defeated against Benetton Treviso, who led by Naumoski and Woolridge won by (94-86). Kenny Green’s great game was of little use
Only CSKA Moscow could not be in the regular league in the qualifiers. The rest did not fail to his appointment to assault the most open European Cup title in recent years
