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2015–16 EuroLeague Women

EuroLeague Women
Season	2015–16
Duration	14 October 2015 — 17 April 2016
Number of games	125
Number of teams	16 (Regular Season)
Finals
Champions	UMMC Ekaterinburg
Runners-up	Nadezhda Orenburg
Third place	Fenerbahçe
Fourth place	ZVVZ USK Praha
Finals MVP	Diana Taurasi
← 2014–15 2016–17 →

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

Teams[edit]

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[edit]

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]

Seed	Regular 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 Girona	QR Winner

Regular season[edit]

AVE

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[edit]

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	—

Group B[edit]

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	—

Quarter-finals[edit]

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 Kraków	79–70	79–63
Famila Schio	0–2	ZVVZ USK Praha	56–68	53–86
UMMC Ekaterinburg	2–1	Galatasaray Odeabank	72–56	57–66	86–66
Nadezhda Orenburg	2–0	Dynamo Kursk	78–68	73–70

Final Four[edit]

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[edit]

ZVVZ USK Praha	72–78	UMMC Ekaterinburg
Scoring by quarter: 13–14, 9–19, 12–13, 38–32
Pts: Petrović, Šteinberga21 Rebs: Šteinberga10 Asts: Palau8		Pts: Taurasi21 Rebs: Lyttle, Meesseman9 Asts: three players3

Fenerbahçe	68–74	Nadezhda Orenburg
Scoring by quarter: 16–18, 12–18, 12–17, 28–21
Pts: Lavender24 Rebs: Lavender11 Asts: Vardarlı6		Pts: Bonner20 Rebs: Bonner8 Asts: Cruz4

Third place game[edit]

Fenerbahçe	73–69	ZVVZ USK Praha
Scoring by quarter: 18–24, 19–10, 12–16, 24–19
Pts: Quigley22 Rebs: Hollingsworth8 Asts: three players3		Pts: Vaughn17 Rebs: Petrović10 Asts: Palau6

Final[edit]

Nadezhda Orenburg	69–72	UMMC Ekaterinburg
Scoring by quarter: 19–17, 21–16, 16–15, 13–24
Pts: Bonner26 Rebs: Robinson10 Asts: Cruz5		Pts: Taurasi22 Rebs: Lyttle12 Asts: Toliver5

2015–16 EuroLeague Women Champions
UMMC Ekaterinburg Third title

Statistical leaders[edit]

Points[edit]

Rk	Name	Team	Games	Points	PPG
1	Diana Taurasi	UMMC Ekaterinburg	19	397	20.9
2	Nneka Ogwumike	Dynamo Kursk	16	283	17.7
3	DeWanna Bonner	Nadezhda Orenburg	18	313	17.4
4	Lara Sanders	AGÜ Spor	13	205	15.8
	Sonja Petrović	ZVVZ USK Praha	13	205	15.8

Rebounds[edit]

Rk	Name	Team	Games	Rebounds	RPG
1	Crystal Langhorne	Good Angels Košice	14	151	10.8
2	DeWanna Bonner	Nadezhda Orenburg	18	169	9.4
3	Lara Sanders	AGÜ Spor	13	118	9.1
4	Nneka Ogwumike	Dynamo Kursk	16	142	8.9
5	Kia Vaughn	ZVVZ USK Praha	18	159	8.8

Assists[edit]

Rk	Name	Team	Games	Assists	APG
1	Laia Palau	ZVVZ USK Praha	18	128	7.1
2	Marjorie Carpréaux	Mithra Castors Braine	14	75	5.4
3	Silvia Domínguez	Perfumerías Avenida	14	73	5.2
4	Chelsea Gray	Spar CityLift Girona	10	52	5.2
5	Işıl Alben	Galatasaray OdeaBank	17	87	5.1

See also[edit]

• 2015–16 EuroCup Women

References[edit]

External links[edit]

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