2015–16 EuroLeague Women

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

The 2015–16 EuroLeague Women season is the 25th edition of EuroLeague Women under its current name.

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]

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

AVE

FAM

GIR

VIL

FEN

GAL

KOŠ

KUR

SOP

AGÜ

WIS

EKA

NAD

BOU

USK

BRA

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 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

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
					Third place
	ZVVZ USK Praha	72		Fenerbahçe	73
	UMMC Ekaterinburg	78			ZVVZ USK Praha	69

2015–16 EuroLeague Women Champions
UMMC Ekaterinburg Third title

Statistical leaders

Points

Rk	Name	Team	Games	Points	PPG
1	Diana Taurasi	UMMC Ekaterinburg	14	298	21.3
2	Nneka Ogwumike	Dynamo Kursk	14	248	17.7
3	Sonja Petrović	ZVVZ USK Praha	9	152	16.9
4	DeWanna Bonner	Nadezhda Orenburg	14	232	16.6
5	Lynetta Kizer	Galatasaray Odeabank	9	144	16.0

Rebounds

Rk	Name	Team	Games	Points	RPG
1	Crystal Langhorne	Good Angels Košice	14	151	10.8
2	DeWanna Bonner	Nadezhda Orenburg	14	136	9.7
3	Kia Vaughn	ZVVZ USK Praha	14	128	9.1
4	Lara Sanders	AGÜ Spor	13	118	9.1
5	Nneka Ogwumike	Dynamo Kursk	14	121	8.6

Assists

Rk	Name	Team	Games	Assists	APG
1	Laia Palau	ZVVZ USK Praha	14	99	7.1
2	Marjorie Carpréaux	Mithra Castors Braine	14	75	5.4
3	Silvia Domínguez	Perfumerías Avenida	14	73	5.2
4	Birsel Vardarlı	Fenerbahçe	14	72	5.1
5	Işıl Alben	Galatasaray OdeaBank	14	69	4.9

See also

• 2015–16 EuroCup Women

References

1. "EuroLeague, EuroCup Women draw seedings announced". FIBA Europe. 3 July 2015.
2. EuroLeague Women groups mostly determined even before draw
3. EuroLeague Women draw seedings changed, Perfumerias Avenida in qualifier against Brno
4. BK Zabiny Brno withdraw from European competition

External links

• Official website