Los Blancos bring their own pedigree to the Final Four, both the club and its players. Here are some of the Final Four facts about Real Madrid.
Final Four team facts: Real Madrid
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- Real Madrid has the chance to win its 12th EuroLeague championship. It leads the all-time standings with 11 titles, but only three of them have come in the last 35 years. Real has won the competition in 1964, 1965, 1967, 1968, 1974, 1978, 1980, 1995, 2015, 2018 and 2023.
- Real has a chance to win back-to-back EuroLeague titles for the first time since 1968. It won back-to-back titles twice before, in 1964-1965 and 1967-1968.
- Real is making its 13th Final Four appearance since the format was adopted in 1988. Real previously reached the Final Four in 1993, 1995, 1996, 2011, 2013, 2014, 2015, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2022 and 2023.
- Real seeks its 21st EuroLeague Championship Game appearance. It leads the all-time list. Maccabi Tel Aviv has been to 14 EuroLeague and one SuproLeague title game. CSKA Moscow has reached the EuroLeague Championship Game 14 times.
- Real has the chance to lift its 18th continental trophy. In addition to its 11 EuroLeague championships, it has won four Saporta Cups, one Korac Cup and one ULEB Cup (now known as the BKT EuroCup).
- Rudy Fernandez belongs to a select group of players to have won both the EuroLeague and the EuroCup. Fernandez won the EuroCup with DKV Joventut Badalona in 2008 and three EuroLeague crowns with Real (2015, 2018, 2023). The list includes two other Spanish players: Felipe Reyes and Ricky Rubio, and also features stars Nando De Colo, Nick Calathes and Romain Sato.
- Fernandez, Sergio Rodriguez and Sergio Llull belong to a group of 26 players who have won the EuroLeague, EuroBasket and Basketball World Cup. Llull, Rodriguez and Fernandez are three of the six players on the list not hailing from the former Soviet Union or former Yugoslavia; Reyes, Rubio and Juan Carlos Navarro are the others. The list includes also all-time greats such as Arvydas Sabonis, Drazen Petrovic and Toni Kukoc.
- Fernandez headlines the short list of players to have won a World Cup, EuroBasket, EuroLeague and EuroCup. He is joined only by Dejan Tomasevic, Rubio and Reyes.
- Llull is at his 10th Final Four. He was previously there with Real in 2011, 2013, 2014, 2015, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2022 and 2023. That ties him with Panathinaikos guard Kostas Sloukas who is also in his 10th Final Four. Victor Khryapa leads the list with 12 Final Four appearances. Llull is now the Spanish player with the most Final Four appearances.
- Fernandez and Rodriguez are each at their ninth Final Four. Fernandez already played the Final Four with Real in 2013, 2014, 2015, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2022 and 2023. Rodriguez was with Real in 2011, 2013, 2014, 2015 and 2023, with CSKA in 2018 and 2019, and with Milan in 2021.
- Llull and Rodriguez are the only former two EuroLeague MVPs present at the Final Four. Llull earned that honor in the 2016-17 season. Rodriguez was the 2013-14 EuroLeague MVP.
- Llull is the fifth-best scorer in EuroLeague history. He has amassed 3,936 points in 405 EuroLeague career games. Llull ranks sixth in assists (1,390).
- Fernandez ranks third all-time in steals. He has collected 364 in 347 games. Calathes leads the standings with 446 steals.
- Walter Tavares is the all-time leader in blocks. He has 420 blocked shots in 234 games.
- Fabien Causeur is the only French player to have reached the Final Four with two different foreign teams. Causeur made it to the Final Four with Baskonia Vitoria-Gasteiz in 2016 and with Real Madrid in 2018, 2019, 2022 and 2023.
- Fernandez, Rodriguez and Llull were all with the team in 2015, when Real won its first EuroLeague title in 20 years.
- Llull is second on the Final Four's career scoring list, but first this century. Llull has 198 points. Nikos Galis leads the list with 231 points.
- Rodriguez and Llull rank first and second in assists, respectively, in Final Four history. Rodriguez is the all-time leader with 70 assists. Llull is right behind with 67.
- Tavares is the only Final Four MVP award winner present at the Final Four. He was chosen as Final Four MVP last season.
- If he gets the award again, Tavares will be the fifth player to win back-to-back Final Four MVP awards, after Kukoc (1990, 1991), Dejan Bodiroga (2002, 2003), Vassilis Spanoulis (2012, 2013) and Vasilije Micic (2021, 2022).
- Rodriguez is the only Spanish-born player to win the EuroLeague with a non-Spanish team (CSKA, 2019). He is also the only Spanish player to win the EuroLeague with different teams.
- Rodriguez ranks seventh in scoring (3,753), second in assists (1,868), third in three-point shots made (606) and ninth in PIR (4,075) in EuroLeague history.
- Fernandez ranks second in steals in Final Four history. He has collected 23. J.R. Holden is first overall with 24 steals.
- Fernandez, Rodriguez and Llull can win their fourth EuroLeague title. Only 12 players have won four or more continental crowns since European competitions started in 1958. Dino Meneghin leads the list with seven championships.
- Tavares is the only player from Cape Verde to have won the EuroLeague.
- Tavares ranks sixth all-time in two-point shooting percentage (67.6%, 878 of 1,298). Donta Hall is the all-time leader (75.1% 2FG) followed by Moustapha Fall of Olympiacos Piraeus (72.7%).
- Alberto Abalde and Eli Ndiaye are Adidas Next Generation Tournament MVPs who also won the EuroLeague title. Abalde was the ANGT MVP in 2013 with Joventut Badalona. Ndiaye was chosen as the 2022 ANGT MVP with Real. Both won the EuroLeague with Real in 2023. Luka Doncic is the only other player to get both – he was the ANGT MVP in 2015 and won the EuroLeague in 2018 with Real.
- Gabriel Deck and Facu Campazzo are two of just six Argentineans who have won the EuroLeague. The list also features Hugo Sconochini (Virtus 1998, 2001), Manu Ginobili (Virtus 2001), Pepe Sanchez (Panathinaikos 2002) and Andres Nocioni (Real 2015).