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1980–81 FIBA Korać Cup

sports season

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionFeb 13, 2025
Entity authorityQ3691727 ↗
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The 1980–81 FIBA Korać Cup was the tenth edition of FIBA's Korać Cup basketball competition. The Spanish Joventut Freixenet defeated the Italian Carrera Venezia in the final on March 19, 1981 in Barcelona, Spain. This was the first edition of the competition to feature a champion team outside of Italy or Yugoslavia.

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The public source identifies “1980–81 FIBA Korać Cup” as sports season. This brief keeps that definition visible, then builds a research path around FIBA, Korać and sports.

Editorial reviewA practical starting point whose main value is the path it opens into stronger specialist and primary sources. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1980, 1981—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its value is orientation rather than verdict, with FIBA, Korać and sports providing the first useful test.
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Vocabulary and entity names are the principal evidence signals here, because they determine the precision of every later search. The source revision retrieved here is dated Feb 13, 2025. The linked authority identifier is Q3691727. None of the 0 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 1980 and 1981.

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This entry incorporates text from “1980–81 FIBA Korać Cup” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.