2015–16 EuroLeague Women

The 2015–16 EuroLeague Women season is the 20th edition of EuroLeague Women under its current name.

EuroLeague Women
Competition details
Season 2015–16
Teams 16 (Regular Season)
Games played 125
Dates 14 October 2015 — 17 April 2016
Final positions
Champions UMMC Ekaterinburg
Runners-up Nadezhda Orenburg
Third place Fenerbahçe
Fourth place ZVVZ USK Praha
Awards
Finals MVP Diana Taurasi

Teams

Teams and seedings were unveiled by FIBA Europe on 3 July 2015.[1]

Regular season
UMMC Ekaterinburg (1st) AGÜ Spor (2nd) ZVVZ USK Praha (1st) Good Angels Košice (1st)
Nadezhda Orenburg (2nd) Fenerbahçe (3rd) Wisła Can-Pack Kraków (1st) Famila Schio (1st)
Dynamo Kursk (3rd) Tango Bourges Basket (1st) Uniqa Sopron (1st) Mithra Castors Braine (1st)
Galatasaray Odeabank (1st) Villeneuve-d'Ascq (2nd) Spar CityLift Girona (1st)
Qualification round
CB Avenida (2nd) BK Zabiny Brno (2nd)

Draw

17 teams registered for EuroLeague Women 2015–16,[2] resulting in 15 direct qualifiers, and one preliminary round to be played between BK Brno and CB Avenida.[3] However, on August 6, BK Brno announced its withdrawal from European competitions due to financial reasons, automatically qualifying Perfumerías Avenida to the Regular Season[4]

SeedRegular Season
1 UMMC Ekaterinburg Fenerbahçe
2 Galatasaray ZVVZ USK Praha
3 Tango Bourges Basket Dynamo Kursk
4 Good Angels Košice Nadezhda Orenburg
5 AGÜ Spor Famila Schio
6 Wisła Can-Pack Kraków Villeneuve-d'Ascq
7 Uniqa Sopron Mithra Castors Braine
8 Spar CityLift GironaQR Winner

Regular season

Location of teams of the 2015–16 Euroleague Women regular season.
Green: Group A; Red: Group B.

Regular season will start on October 14 and will finish on February 10, 2016.

The four top teams of each group will qualify to the quarterfinals.

If teams are level on record at the end of the Regular Season, tiebreakers are applied in the following order:

  1. Head-to-head record.
  2. Head-to-head point differential.
  3. Point differential during the Regular Season.
  4. Points scored during the regular season.
  5. Sum of quotients of points scored and points allowed in each Regular Season game.

Group A

Pos Team Pld W L PF PA PD Pts Qualification FEN FAM KUR GAL KOŠ VIL AVE SOP
1 Fenerbahçe 14 12 2 927 834 +93 26 Advance to quarterfinals 60 – 66 66 – 56 57 – 56 62 – 45 77 – 54 64 – 59 86 – 69
2 Famila Schio 14 10 4 1022 892 +130 24 62 – 64 79 – 72 64 – 70 89 – 63 75 – 57 88 – 70 97 – 61
3 Dynamo Kursk 14 10 4 1012 855 +157 24 72 – 40 63 – 58 75 – 60 70 – 49 66 – 49 77 – 64 98 – 63
4 Galatasaray Odeabank 14 9 5 889 829 +60 23 60 – 71 58 – 75 62 – 55 69 – 57 59 – 35 61 – 59 81 – 56
5 Good Angels Košice 14 5 9 869 893 24 19 Transfer to EuroCup Women 58 – 67 56 – 69 53 – 64 54 – 49 55 – 60 66 – 47 81 – 53
6 Villeneuve-d'Ascq 14 5 9 842 920 78 19 55 – 69 70 – 73 78 – 70 62 – 66 48 – 78 78 – 66 78 – 44
7 Perfumerías Avenida 14 4 10 902 945 43 18 Eliminated 70 – 75 63 – 52 66 – 72 49 – 62 76 – 68 72 – 49 74 – 60
8 Uniqa Sopron 14 1 13 844 1139 295 15 52 – 69 65 – 75 68 – 102 60 – 76 70 – 86 50 – 69 73 – 67
Updated to match(es) played on 10 February 2016. Source: FibaEurope.com

Group B

Pos Team Pld W L PF PA PD Pts Qualification EKA NAD USK WIS BOU AGÜ BRA GIR
1 UMMC Ekaterinburg 14 12 2 1050 854 +196 26 Advance to quarterfinals 74 – 84 76 – 73 89 – 48 69 – 63 93 – 48 75 – 70 80 – 61
2 Nadezhda Orenburg 14 9 5 907 844 +63 23 54 – 64 58 – 54 67 – 70 66 – 58 68 – 61 63 – 70 65 – 41
3 ZVVZ USK Praha 14 8 6 937 826 +111 22 52 – 69 67 – 59 64 – 40 63 – 49 68 – 72 75 – 58 68 – 43
4 Wisła Can-Pack Kraków 14 7 7 824 945 121 21 52 – 88 54 – 51 57 – 78 66 – 64 67 – 66 69 – 76 54 – 46
5 Tango Bourges Basket 14 6 8 842 841 +1 20 Transfer to EuroCup Women 58 – 65 61 – 71 65 – 75 63 – 45 63 – 57 57 – 52 68 – 47
6 AGÜ Spor 14 5 9 902 958 56 19 68 – 54 67 – 75 77 – 75 66 – 68 55 – 62 60 – 56 79 – 69
7 Mithra Castors Braine 14 5 9 868 946 78 19 Eliminated 52 – 78 47 – 67 49 – 73 65 – 74 63 – 55 68 – 64 73 – 60
8 Spar CityLift Girona 14 4 10 805 921 116 18 71 – 76 56 – 59 54 – 52 62 – 60 47 – 56 72 – 62 76 – 69
Updated to match(es) played on 10 February 2016. Source:

Quarter-finals

Quarter-finals will be played on March 8, 11 and 16, 2016.

Team #1 Agg. Team #2 1st 2nd 3rd
Fenerbahçe 2–0 Wisła Can-Pack Kraków79–7079–63
Famila Schio 0–2 ZVVZ USK Praha56–6853–86
UMMC Ekaterinburg 2–1 Galatasaray Odeabank72–5657–6686–66
Nadezhda Orenburg 2–0 Dynamo Kursk78–6873–70

Final Four

The Final Four will be played on April 15 and 17, 2016.

 
Semi-finals
15 April
Final
17 April
 
      
 
 
 
 
Fenerbahçe 68
 
 
 
Nadezhda Orenburg 74
 
Nadezhda Orenburg 69
 
 
 
UMMC Ekaterinburg 72
 
ZVVZ USK Praha 72
 
 
UMMC Ekaterinburg 78
 
Third place
 
 
 
 
 
Fenerbahçe 73
 
 
ZVVZ USK Praha 69

All times are local (UTC+3).

Semifinals

15 April 2016
17:00
ZVVZ USK Praha 7278 UMMC Ekaterinburg
Scoring by quarter: 13–14, 9–19, 12–13, 38–32
Pts: Petrović, Šteinberga 21
Rebs: Šteinberga 10
Asts: Palau 8
Pts: Taurasi 21
Rebs: Lyttle, Meesseman 9
Asts: three players 3
Fenerbahce Ulker Arena, Istanbul
Attendance: 500
Referees:
Anne Panther (GER)
Manuel Mazzoni (ITA)
Georgios Poursanidis (GRE)

15 April 2016
20:00
Fenerbahçe 6874 Nadezhda Orenburg
Scoring by quarter: 16–18, 12–18, 12–17, 28–21
Pts: Lavender 24
Rebs: Lavender 11
Asts: Vardarlı 6
Pts: Bonner 20
Rebs: Bonner 8
Asts: Cruz 4
Fenerbahce Ulker Arena, Istanbul
Attendance: 4,252
Referees:
Dragan Neskovic (SRB)
Andris Aunkrogers (LAT)
Milan Nedović (SLO)

Third place game

17 April 2016
14:00
Fenerbahçe 7369 ZVVZ USK Praha
Scoring by quarter: 18–24, 19–10, 12–16, 24–19
Pts: Quigley 22
Rebs: Hollingsworth 8
Asts: three players 3
Pts: Vaughn 17
Rebs: Petrović 10
Asts: Palau 6
Fenerbahce Ulker Arena, Istanbul
Attendance: 2,678
Referees:
Dragan Neskovic (SRB)
Anne Panther (GER)
Andrada Monika Csender (ROU)

Final

17 April 2016
17:00
Nadezhda Orenburg 6972 UMMC Ekaterinburg
Scoring by quarter: 19–17, 21–16, 16–15, 13–24
Pts: Bonner 26
Rebs: Robinson 10
Asts: Cruz 5
Pts: Taurasi 22
Rebs: Lyttle 12
Asts: Toliver 5
Fenerbahce Ulker Arena, Istanbul
Attendance: 1,264
Referees:
Manuel Mazzoni (ITA)
Georgios Poursanidis (GRE)
Milan Nedović (SLO)


2015–16 EuroLeague Women Champions

UMMC Ekaterinburg
Third title

Statistical leaders

Points

RkNameTeamGamesPointsPPG
1 Diana Taurasi UMMC Ekaterinburg1939720.9
2 Nneka Ogwumike Dynamo Kursk1628317.7
3 DeWanna Bonner Nadezhda Orenburg1831317.4
4 Lara Sanders AGÜ Spor1320515.8
Sonja Petrović ZVVZ USK Praha1320515.8

Rebounds

RkNameTeamGamesReboundsRPG
1 Crystal Langhorne Good Angels Košice1415110.8
2 DeWanna Bonner Nadezhda Orenburg181699.4
3 Lara Sanders AGÜ Spor131189.1
4 Nneka Ogwumike Dynamo Kursk161428.9
5 Kia Vaughn ZVVZ USK Praha181598.8

Assists

RkNameTeamGamesAssistsAPG
1 Laia Palau ZVVZ USK Praha181287.1
2 Marjorie Carpréaux Mithra Castors Braine14755.4
3 Silvia Domínguez Perfumerías Avenida14735.2
4 Chelsea Gray Spar CityLift Girona10525.2
5 Işıl Alben Galatasaray OdeaBank17875.1

See also

References

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