The Ronchetti Cup was an annual basketball

Basketball

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 Europe

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an club competition held by FIBA between the years 1972 and 2002. It was the second competition in European basketball, after the European Cup For Women’s Champions Clubs (later renamed EuroLeague Women

EuroLeague Women

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).
It was replaced in 2003 by the EuroCup Women

EuroCup Women

The EuroCup Women is the second-caliber professional basketball league with teams from European clubs from national leagues joined in FIBA Europe.It succeeds the Ronchetti Cup.- System of competition :...

 which is the absolute equivalent.

Liliana Ronchetti and European basketball

Liliana Ronchetti

Liliana Ronchetti

Liliana Ronchetti was an Italian basketball player. On club level, she played for Società Ginnastica Comense , Bernocchi Legnano , Autonomi Torino...

started playing basketball in Como

Como

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, Italy

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 at the age of 20 and then she got a wonderful career in Palermo

Palermo

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 until she got 45. Ronchetti, or Lily as she was called by her team mates, won 4 consecutive national titles with Como in the 1950s and played 83 games for the Italian

Italy

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 national team.

One year after she quit basketball Lily died of cancer. Her name has persisted through the European Cup Liliana Ronchetti (renamed in 1996 more simply Ronchetti Cup). This competition was created by FIBA in 1974 as the second European competition for women’s clubs.

Ronchetti winners

Year	Place (for a single game)	Winner	Runner-Up	1st game	2nd game
1972	-	Spartak Leningrad	Voždovac Belgrade	84-63	86-61
1973	-	Spartak Leningrad	Slavia VŠ Praha	64-55	76-37
1974	-	Spartak Leningrad	GAES Sesto San Giovanni	68-58	57-65
1975	-	Spartak Leningrad	BC Levski Sofia BC Levski Sofia BC Levski Sofia is a Bulgarian professional basketball club based in the capital Sofia and part of the Levski Sofia sports club.Founded in 1923, Levski has won 31 domestic trophies including 17 NBL titles and 14 Bulgarian Cups...	64-59	79-54
1976	-	Slavia VŠ Praha	Industromontaza Zagreb	68-51	73-78
1977	Rome Rome Rome is the capital of Italy and the country's largest and most populated city and comune, with over 2.7 million residents in . The city is located in the central-western portion of the Italian Peninsula, on the Tiber River within the Lazio region of Italy.Rome's history spans two and a half...	Spartak Moscow	Mineur Pernik	97-54
1978	Haskovo Haskovo Haskovo , is a city, an administrative centre of the homonymous Haskovo Province in southern Bulgaria, not far from the borders with Greece and Turkey. As of February 2011, it has a population of 74,843 inhabitants....	BC Levski Sofia BC Levski Sofia BC Levski Sofia is a Bulgarian professional basketball club based in the capital Sofia and part of the Levski Sofia sports club.Founded in 1923, Levski has won 31 domestic trophies including 17 NBL titles and 14 Bulgarian Cups...	Slovan ChZJK Bratislava	50-49
1979	Yambol Yambol Yambol is a city in southeastern Bulgaria, an administrative centre of Yambol Province. It lies on both banks of the Tundzha river in the historical region of Thrace. As of February 2011, the town has a population of 72,843 inhabitants. It is occasionally spelt 'Jambol'.The administrative centres...	BC Levski Sofia BC Levski Sofia BC Levski Sofia is a Bulgarian professional basketball club based in the capital Sofia and part of the Levski Sofia sports club.Founded in 1923, Levski has won 31 domestic trophies including 17 NBL titles and 14 Bulgarian Cups...	DFS Maritza Plovdiv	70-69
1980	Pernik Pernik Pernik is a city in western Bulgaria with a population of 81,052 . It is the main city of Pernik Province and lies on both banks of the Struma River in the Pernik Valley between the Viskyar, Vitosha and Golo Bardo mountains.Originally the site of a Thracian fortress founded in the 4th century BC,...	KK Monting Zagreb	DFS Maritza Plovdiv	82-76
1981	Rome Rome Rome is the capital of Italy and the country's largest and most populated city and comune, with over 2.7 million residents in . The city is located in the central-western portion of the Italian Peninsula, on the Tiber River within the Lazio region of Italy.Rome's history spans two and a half...	Spartak Moscow	KK Monting Zagreb	95-63
1982	Linz Linz Linz is the third-largest city of Austria and capital of the state of Upper Austria . It is located in the north centre of Austria, approximately south of the Czech border, on both sides of the river Danube. The population of the city is , and that of the Greater Linz conurbation is about...	Spartak Moscow	Kralovopolska Brno	89-68
1983	Mestre Mestre Mestre is a city part of the comune of Venice, in Veneto, northern Italy.The city is connected to Venice by a large rail and road bridge, called Ponte della Libertà ....	BSE Budapest	Spartak Moscow	83-81 (2 OT)
1984	Budapest Budapest Budapest is the capital of Hungary. As the largest city of Hungary, it is the country's principal political, cultural, commercial, industrial, and transportation centre. In 2011, Budapest had 1,733,685 inhabitants, down from its 1989 peak of 2,113,645 due to suburbanization. The Budapest Commuter...	SS Bata Rome	BSE Budapest	69-59
1985	Viterbe Viterbe Viterbe may refer to:* Viterbo, a comune in the Lazio region of central Italy,* Viterbe, a commune of the Tarn département, in France...	CSKA Moscow	SISV Bata Viterbo	76-64
1986	Barcelona Barcelona Barcelona is the second largest city in Spain after Madrid, and the capital of Catalonia, with a population of 1,621,537 within its administrative limits on a land area of...	Dynamo Novosibirsk	BSE Budapest	81-58
1987	Wittenheim Wittenheim Wittenheim is a commune in the Haut-Rhin department in Alsace in north-eastern France. It is one of the northern suburbs of the city of Mulhouse, and forms part of the Mulhouse Alsace Agglomération, the inter-communal local government body for the Mulhouse conurbation.. The commune contains two...	TTT Riga TTT Riga TTT Rīga is the name of a professional women's basketball club based in Riga, Latvia. "TTT" means Tram and Trolley Trust.-History:TTT women's basketball team was founded in 1958. The team was to arrive by tram and trolley under the auspices of a trust. The first TTT Riga game was played on November...	B.F. Deborah Milan	87-80
1988	Athens Athens Athens , is the capital and largest city of Greece. Athens dominates the Attica region and is one of the world's oldest cities, as its recorded history spans around 3,400 years. Classical Athens was a powerful city-state...	Dynamo Kiev	B.F. Deborah Milan	100-83
1989	Florence Florence Florence is the capital city of the Italian region of Tuscany and of the province of Florence. It is the most populous city in Tuscany, with approximately 370,000 inhabitants, expanding to over 1.5 million in the metropolitan area....	CSKA Moscow	B.F. Deborah Milan	92-86
1990	-	Parma Primizie	Jedinstvo Aida Tuzla	79-54	71-77
1991	-	Gemeaz-Cusin Milan	Como Jersey	94-76	58-69
1992	-	Vicenza Estel Vicenza	Trogylos Priolo	78-67	76-69
1993	-	Lavezzini Basket Parma	TS Olimpia Poznan	91-62	71-70
1994	-	Ahena Cesena	Lavezzini Basket Parma	78-65	66-68
1995	-	CJM Bourges Basket	Lavezzini Basket Parma	56-47	56-53
1996	-	Tarbes GB Tarbes Gespe Bigorre Tarbes Gespe Bigorre is a French basketball club, taking part to the professional French league for women, the LFB, and to European Cups ....	Sport Club Alcamo	81-63	82-63
1997	-	CSKA Moscow	Lavezzini Basket Parma	72-54	71-59
1998	-	Gysev Ringa Sopron	ASPTT Aix-en-Provence	70-65	72-70
1999	-	Caja Rural Las Palmas	A.S. Ramat-Hasharon	72-79	64-54
2000	-	Lavezzini Basket Parma	Caja Rural Las Palmas	64-60	63-56
2001	-	Famila Schio	Botaş Spor Botaş Spor Botaş Spor is a women's basketball club based in Adana, Turkey, founded in 1984.-Achievements:*Turkish Women's Basketball League**Winners : 2000-01, 2002-03**Runners-up : 1992-93, 1995-96, 1996-97*Turkish Cup...	75-73	87-70
2002	-	Famila Schio	Tarbes GB Tarbes Gespe Bigorre Tarbes Gespe Bigorre is a French basketball club, taking part to the professional French league for women, the LFB, and to European Cups ....	73-69	77-74

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