2001–02 Euroleague
The 2001–02 Euroleague was the second season of the professional basketball competition for elite clubs throughout Europe, organised by Euroleague Basketball Company, and it was the 45th season of the premier competition for European men's clubs overall. The season started on October 10, 2001, and ended on May 5, 2002.
The Final Four was hosted in the PalaMalaguti in Bologna, Italy. A number of 32 teams competed for the championship, which was won by Panathinaikos. Mirsad Türkcan was named Regular season MVP, while Dejan Bodiroga was awarded EuroLeague Top 16 MVP and EuroLeague Final Four MVP.
Competition system
- 41 teams in total with the qualification rounds, and 32 teams at the first group stage, playing in a tournament system. The competition culminated in a Final Four.
Team allocation
Distribution
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| Top 16 |
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| Final Four |
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Teams
The labels in the parentheses show how each team qualified for the place of its starting round- 1st, 2nd, etc.: League position after Playoffs
- WC: Wild card
Qualifying rounds
First qualifying round
Second qualifying round
Third qualifying round
Regular season
The first phase was a regular season, in which the competing teams were drawn into four groups, each containing eight teams. Each team played every other team in its group at home and away, resulting in 14 games for each team in the first stage. The top 4 teams in each group advanced to the next round, The Top 16. The complete list of tiebreakers is provided in the lead-in to the Regular Season results.If one or more clubs were level on won-lost record, tiebreakers were applied in the following order:
- Head-to-head record in matches between the tied clubs
- Overall point difference in games between the tied clubs
- Overall point difference in all group matches
- Points scored in all group matches
- Sum of quotients of points scored and points allowed in each group match
Group A
Group B
Group C
Group D
Top 16
The remaining 16 teams were placed into four groups of four teams each. Each team played every other team in its group twice, once at home and once away. The top teams of each of the four groups advanced to the Final Four.Group E
Group F
Group G
Group H
Final Four
| 2001–02 Euroleague Champions |
 Panathinaikos 3rd Title |
Awards
Top Scorer
Regular Season MVP
Top 16 MVP
Final Four MVP
Finals Top Scorer
All-Euroleague First Team
All-Euroleague Second Team
Round MVP
Regular season
Top 16
| Week | Player | Team | |
| 1 |  Ruslan Avleev | Ural Great | 42 |
| 2 |  Alphonso Ford |  Olympiacos | 29 |
| 3 |  Memo Okur | Efes Pilsen | 36 |
| 4 |  Matjaž Smodiš |  Kinder Bologna | 38 |
| 5 | Marcus Brown | Efes Pilsen | 41 |
| 6 | Mirsad Türkcan | CSKA Moscow | 34 |