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EuroLeague Women
EuroLeague Women
Season	2015–16
Duration	14 October 2015 — 17 April 2016
Games played	125
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

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

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:

Head-to-head record.
Head-to-head point differential.
Point differential during the Regular Season.
Points scored during the regular season.
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	Transfer to EuroCup Women	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	Eliminated	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	Transfer to EuroCup Women	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	Eliminated	71 – 76	56 – 59	54 – 52	62 – 60	47 – 56	72 – 62	76 – 69	—

Updated to match(es) played on 10 February 2016. Source: ^{[citation needed]}

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
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

Report

ZVVZ USK Praha	72–78	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

Report

Fenerbahçe	68–74	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

Report

Fenerbahçe	73–69	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

Report

Nadezhda Orenburg	69–72	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

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
4	Sonja Petrović	ZVVZ USK Praha	13	205	15.8

Rebounds

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

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

References

^ "EuroLeague, EuroCup Women draw seedings announced". FIBA Europe. 3 July 2015.
^ "EuroLeague Women groups mostly determined even before draw". Archived from the original on 2015-07-02. Retrieved 2015-07-01.
^ "EuroLeague Women draw seedings changed, Perfumerias Avenida in qualifier against Brno". Archived from the original on 2015-07-06. Retrieved 2015-07-03.
^ BK Zabiny Brno withdraw from European competition

External links

[1] "EuroLeague, EuroCup Women draw seedings announced". FIBA Europe. 3 July 2015.

[2] "EuroLeague Women groups mostly determined even before draw". Archived from the original on 2015-07-02. Retrieved 2015-07-01.

[3] "EuroLeague Women draw seedings changed, Perfumerias Avenida in qualifier against Brno". Archived from the original on 2015-07-06. Retrieved 2015-07-03.

[4] BK Zabiny Brno withdraw from European competition

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2015–16 EuroLeague Women

Teams

Draw

Regular season

Group A

Group B

Quarter-finals

Final Four

Semifinals

Third place game

Final

Statistical leaders

Points

Rebounds

Assists

See also

References

External links