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The 1989-90 Men's European Basketball Teams Championship was held for the third consecutive year in three phases. The pre-primary (two rounds), the qualifying phase of the group (octade) and the final phase of the final-for.

This time, as the headquarters of the final phase was designated by FIBA the closed Prince Felipe of the Spanish city of Zaragoza, for the three-day 17-19 April 1990.

The title of European champion (for the second consecutive year) was won by Yugoslav Yugoslavia (now Split).

Pre-primary phase
Round one:
Comondore Helder (Netherlands)-Stiener Bairoit (West Germany) 99-75 and 79-97, Partizani Tirana-Maes Pils Mechelen Belgium 68-89 and 64-113, Streitel Kiev-Tsepel Budapest (Hungary) 131-98 and 97-94, Ejajibashi (Turkey)-Lech Posnan (Poland) 61-100 and 85-79, Braknell (England)-Keflavik (Island) 144-105 and 106-91, Benfika Lisbon-Philips Olympia Milan 99-112 and 73-92, Helsinki-Pygi (Switzerland) 87-90 and 90-104, Tabby (Sweden)-Bank Chigel (Prievinja) (Tsechoslovakia) 87-71-95, Keran (Ky)

Round two:
Comontore-Maes Piles 99-70 and 70-84, Stroitel-Leh Poznan (at great surprise) 104-88 and 84-101, Braknell-Phillips 95-115 and 103–127, Pygi-Limoz 95-115 and 102-127, Banik-Barcelona 74-85 and 71-93, Balkan-Arris Thessaloniki 91-107 and 88-119, Closternoiburg-Macabi Tel-Aviv 84-103 and 62-86, Livingston-Yugoplasta 74-97 and 65-122.

Group score

The first four teams of the ranking qualified for Zaragoza's final four.

Zaragoza's Final Four
Of the teams qualified, only Mars had managed to give the "present" for the third consecutive year.

His opponent in the semi-final Barcelona was particularly fashioned and favourite for winning the title, as he played on Spanish soil, which also made the Greek team's play difficult. On the other hand, the holder of the Yugoslav trophy would have fewer problems against Limoz who was clearly inferior.

Detailed results:

Semi-finals
Barcelona (Aito Reneses)-Ares (Yiannis Ioannidis) 104-83 (half 45-36)

Barcelona: Andrés Jiménez 13, Costa 6 (2), Ruith, Ignacio Solothabal 6 (2), Yopis, Crespo 6 (2), Odin James Norris 12 (14 p.), Wood 14, K. Martinez 2, Juan Antonio San Epiphanio 24 (1), Ferran Martinez 21.

Aris: Vassilis Liheridis 2, Panagiotis Giannakis 15 (2), Nikos Galis 26, Michael Jones 21 (2), Michalis Romanidis, Tsirakidis, Nikos Filippou, Manthos Katsoulis, George Doxakis, Baltatzis, Stojan Vrankovic 13 (9r.)

Yugoslava (Bozidar Malikovic)-Lemoz (Misel Gomez) 101-88 (n. 51-44)

Yugoslav: Sretenovic 7 (1), Perasovic 24 (2), Pavicevic, Tony Cookots 16 (2), Sobin 4, Tomic, Naumovski, Tabak 2, Doos