2020–21 EuroLeague Women

The 2020–21 EuroLeague Women was the 63rd edition of the European women's club basketball championship organized by FIBA, and the 25th edition since being rebranded as the EuroLeague Women.

EuroLeague Women
Season2020–21
DatesQualifying:
28 October 2020
Competition proper:
1 December 2020 – 18 April 2021
Number of teamsCompetition proper: 16
Total: 18
Regular season
Season MVPUkraine Alina Iagupova
(Fenerbahçe Öznur Kablo)
Finals
ChampionsRussia UMMC Ekaterinburg
(6th title)
  Runners-upSpain Perfumerías Avenida
Third placeTurkey Fenerbahçe
Fourth placeHungary Sopron Basket
Final Four MVPUnited States Breanna Stewart
(UMMC Ekaterinburg)

Team allocation

A total of 18 teams from 10 countries participated in the 2020–21 EuroLeague Women.

Teams

League positions of the previous season shown in parentheses:

  • Abd-: League positions of abandoned season due to the COVID-19 pandemic as determined by the leagues
Regular season
Czech Republic ZVVZ USK Praha (Abd-1st)[1] Poland VBW Arka Gdynia (Abd-1st)[2]
France LDLC ASVEL Féminin (Abd)[3] Russia UMMC Ekaterinburg (Abd-1st)
France Tango Bourges Basket (Abd) Russia Dynamo Kursk (Abd-2nd)
France Basket Landes (Abd) Russia Nadezhda Orenburg (Abd-3rd)
Hungary Sopron Basket (Abd-1st)[4] Spain Perfumerías Avenida (Abd)
Italy Famila Schio (Abd)[5] Turkey Fenerbahçe (Abd)[6]
Latvia TTT Riga (Abd-1st)[7] Turkey Galatasaray (Abd)
Qualifying round
Hungary Aluinvent DVTK Miskolc (Abd-2st) Spain Spar Girona (Abd)
Romania ACS Sepsi SIC (Abd) Turkey İzmit Belediyespor (Abd)

Referees

Round and draw dates

Schedule
PhaseRoundRound date
Qualifying round28 October 2020
Regular seasonMatchday 11 December 2020
Matchday 22–3 December 2020
Matchday 34 December 2020
Matchday 419 January 2021
Matchday 521 January 2021
Matchday 622 January 2021
QuarterfinalsFirst leg17 March 2021
Second leg19 March 2021
Final FourSemifinals16 April 2021
Final18 April 2021

Draw

The draw was held on 17 August 2020 in Munich, Germany. The 16 teams were drawn into two groups of eight. For the draw, the teams were seeded into eight seeds.[8][9]

The format of the competition was changed on 17 September 2020.[10]

Seed 1 Seed 2 Seed 3 Seed 4
Russia UMMC Ekaterinburg
Russia Dynamo Kursk		 Hungary Sopron Basket
Czech Republic ZVVZ USK Praha		 Turkey Fenerbahçe
France Tango Bourges Basket		 Italy Famila Schio
Russia Nadezhda Orenburg
Seed 5 Seed 6 Seed 7 Seed 8
Spain Perfumerías Avenida
Latvia TTT Riga		 Turkey Galatasaray
France LDLC ASVEL Féminin		 France Basket Landes
Poland VBW Arka Gdynia		 Qualifier 1
Qualifier 2

Qualifying round
Team 1  Score  Team 2
Aluinvent DVTK Miskolc Hungary 68–85 Turkey İzmit Belediyespor
Spar Girona Spain 76–54 Romania ACS Sepsi SIC

Regular season
Location of teams of the 2020–21 Euroleague Women regular season.
Red: Group A; Green: Group B; Blue: Group C; Yellow: Group D.

The two 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. Head-to-head points scored
  4. Point differential for the entire regular season
  5. Points scored for the entire regular season

Group A
Pos Team Pld W L PF PA PD Pts Qualification AVE KUR NAD IZM
1 Spain Perfumerías Avenida 6 6 0 530 376 +154 12 Quarterfinals 79–70 93–38 98–72
2 Russia Dynamo Kursk 6 3 3 453 414 +39 9 74–89 74–77 84–46
3 Russia Nadezhda Orenburg 6 3 3 379 441 −62 9 42–70 62–86 80–40
4 Turkey İzmit Belediyespor 6 0 6 377 508 −131 6 80–101 61–65 78–80
Source: FIBA

Group B
Pos Team Pld W L PF PA PD Pts Qualification FEN ASV USK GDY
1 Turkey Fenerbahçe 6 5 1 481 416 +65 11 Quarterfinals 70–84 77–70 88–57
2 France LDLC ASVEL Féminin 6 4 2 481 424 +57 10 65–67 85–74 89–57
3 Czech Republic ZVVZ USK Praha 6 3 3 459 483 −24 9 70–99 80–79 80–67
4 Poland VBW Arka Gdynia 6 0 6 403 501 −98 6 70–80 76–79 76–85
Source: FIBA

Group C
Pos Team Pld W L PF PA PD Pts Qualification EKA GIR FAM TTT
1 Russia UMMC Ekaterinburg 6 6 0 445 298 +147 12 Quarterfinals 90–83 83–61 104–71
2 Spain Spar Girona 6 3 3 389 383 +6 9 67–94 85–81 82–52
3 Italy Beretta Famila Schio 6 3 3 431 456 −25 9 58–74 77–74 76–72
4 Latvia TTT Riga 6 0 6 383 511 −128 6 41–90 79–81 68–78
Source: FIBA

Group D
Pos Team Pld W L PF PA PD Pts Qualification SOP GAL BOU LAN
1 Hungary Sopron Basket 6 6 0 437 364 +73 12 Quarterfinals 69–66 74–67 84–54
2 Turkey Galatasaray 6 3 3 446 413 +33 9 58–70 75–65 89–63
3 France Tango Bourges Basket 6 2 4 437 430 +7 8 60–70 87–80 92–62
4 France Basket Landes 6 1 5 366 479 −113 7 59–70 59–78 69–66
Source: FIBA

Quarterfinals
Team 1 Agg.Tooltip Aggregate score Team 2 1st leg 2nd leg
Spar Girona Spain 131–145 Spain Perfumerías Avenida 66–74 65–71
Galatasaray Turkey 145–152 Turkey Fenerbahçe 74–91 71–61
Dynamo Kursk Russia 126–174 Russia UMMC Ekaterinburg 67–80 59–94
LDLC ASVEL Féminin France 141–156 Hungary Sopron Basket 66–94 75–62

First leg
17 March 2021 Dynamo Kursk Russia 67–80 Russia UMMC Ekaterinburg Sopron
15:00 (UTC+1) Scoring by quarter: 15–35, 21–17, 16–18, 15–10
Pts: Frolkina 18
Rebs: Musina 8
Asts: Ogunbowale 5		 Boxscore Pts: Griner 28
Rebs: Stewart 12
Asts: Meesseman 6		 Arena: Aréna Sopron
Referees: Özlem Yalman (TUR), Josip Jurčević (CRO), Veronika Vávrová (CZE)
17 March 2021 Galatasaray Turkey 74–91 Turkey Fenerbahçe Salamanca
17:00 (UTC+1) Scoring by quarter: 15–19, 26–25, 12–20, 21–27
Pts: Prince 20
Rebs: Šteinberga 12
Asts: three players 3		 Boxscore Pts: Iagupova 32
Rebs: Stokes 8
Asts: Iagupova 7		 Arena: Pabellón Municipal Würzburg
Referees: Gizella Viola Gyorgyi (NOR), Thomas Bissuel (FRA), José Pedroso (POR)
17 March 2021 LDLC ASVEL Féminin France 66–94 Hungary Sopron Basket Sopron
18:00 (UTC+1) Scoring by quarter: 20–20, 12–25, 14–23, 20–26
Pts: Crvendakić, Plouffe 14
Rebs: Ciak 6
Asts: Crvendakić 3		 Boxscore Pts: Williams 24
Rebs: Krajišnik 7
Asts: Fegyverneky, January 6		 Arena: Aréna Sopron
Referees: Marko Vučkovič (SLO), Vladimir Jevtović (SRB), Jan Baloun (CZE)
17 March 2021 Spar Girona Spain 66–74 Spain Perfumerías Avenida Salamanca
20:00 (UTC+1) Scoring by quarter: 12–20, 15–19, 14–16, 25–19
Pts: Reisingerová 16
Rebs: Reisingerová 6
Asts: Palau 3		 Boxscore Pts: Milić 13
Rebs: Hof 10
Asts: three players 3		 Arena: Pabellón Municipal Würzburg
Referees: Sonia Teixeira (POR), Valerio Grigioni (ITA), Rune Ressel Larsen (DEN)

Second leg
19 March 2021 Fenerbahçe Turkey 61–71
(152–145 agg.)		 Turkey Galatasaray Salamanca
16:00 (UTC+1) Scoring by quarter: 27–21, 16–20, 14–9, 4–21
Pts: Iagupova 18
Rebs: Stokes 13
Asts: Iagupova 4		 Boxscore Pts: Russell 24
Rebs: Russell 14
Asts: Bilgiç 5		 Arena: Pabellón Municipal Würzburg
Referees: Sonia Teixeira (POR), Valerio Grigioni (ITA), Amel Dahra (FRA)
19 March 2021 UMMC Ekaterinburg Russia 94–59
(174–126 agg.)		 Russia Dynamo Kursk Sopron
17:00 (UTC+1) Scoring by quarter: 32–9, 23–19, 21–20, 18–11
Pts: Stewart, Vadeeva 16
Rebs: Jones 12
Asts: Torrens 4		 Boxscore Pts: Ogunbowale 14
Rebs: Lisec 5
Asts: Frolkina 3		 Arena: Aréna Sopron
Referees: Marko Vučkovič (SLO), Vladimir Jevtović (SRB), Ali Şakacı (TUR)
19 March 2021 Perfumerías Avenida Spain 71–65
(145–131 agg.)		 Spain Spar Girona Salamanca
19:00 (UTC+1) Scoring by quarter: 18–15, 14–19, 22–18, 17–13
Pts: Hayes 16
Rebs: Hof 5
Asts: Hayes 3		 Boxscore Pts: Eldebrink 16
Rebs: Araújo 6
Asts: Gray, Palau 3		 Arena: Pabellón Municipal Würzburg
Referees: Gizella Viola Györgyi (NOR), Thomas Bissuel (FRA), Nikola Perlić (CRO)
19 March 2021 Sopron Basket Hungary 62–75
(156–141 agg.)		 France LDLC ASVEL Féminin Sopron
20:05 (UTC+1) Scoring by quarter: 14–19, 21–30, 15–14, 12–12
Pts: Walker 14
Rebs: Brooks 12
Asts: Williams 4		 Boxscore Pts: Johannès 16
Rebs: Plouffe 8
Asts: Crvendakić, Johannès 4		 Arena: Aréna Sopron
Referees: Özlem Yalman (TUR), Josip Jurčević (CRO), Blaž Zupančič (SLO)

Final Four

Bracket
 
SemifinalsFinal
 
      
 
16 April
 
 
Spain Perfumerías Avenida72
 
18 April
 
Hungary Sopron Basket61
 
Spain Perfumerías Avenida68
 
16 April
 
Russia UMMC Ekaterinburg78
 
Turkey Fenerbahçe84
 
 
Russia UMMC Ekaterinburg88
 
Third place
 
 
18 April
 
 
Hungary Sopron Basket58
 
 
Turkey Fenerbahçe64

Semifinals
16 April 2021 Fenerbahçe Turkey 84–88 Russia UMMC Ekaterinburg Istanbul
16:00 (UTC+3) Scoring by quarter: 21–22, 27–33, 13–13, 23–20
Pts: Iagupova 26
Rebs: Stokes 7
Asts: Iagupova 8		 Boxscore Pts: Quigley 27
Rebs: Griner, Stewart 8
Asts: Vandersloot 6		 Arena: Volkswagen Arena
Referees: Carsten Straube (GER), Beniamino Manuel Attard (ITA), Gatis Saliņš (LAT)
16 April 2021 Perfumerías Avenida Spain 72–61 Hungary Sopron Basket Istanbul
21:00 (UTC+3) Scoring by quarter: 16–10, 14–22, 20–10, 22–19
Pts: Hayes 25
Rebs: Kar. Samuelson 6
Asts: Domínguez 7		 Boxscore Pts: January 15
Rebs: Krajišnik 11
Asts: January 4		 Arena: Volkswagen Arena
Referees: Jasmina Juras (SRB), Ventsislav Velikov (BUL), Martin Vulić (CRO)

Third place game
18 April 2021 Sopron Basket Hungary 58–64 Turkey Fenerbahçe Istanbul
15:00 (UTC+3) Scoring by quarter: 9–22, 22–14, 15–11, 12–17
Pts: Brooks 21
Rebs: Krajišnik 17
Asts: Fegyverneky 7		 Boxscore Pts: McBride 15
Rebs: McBride 10
Asts: Çakır, Iagupova 4		 Arena: Volkswagen Arena
Referees: Andrada Csender (ROU), Ventsislav Velikov (BUL), Amel Dahra (FRA)

Final
18 April 2021 Perfumerías Avenida Spain 68–78 Russia UMMC Ekaterinburg Istanbul
19:00 (UTC+3) Scoring by quarter: 21–16, 9–23, 23–20, 15–19
Pts: Hayes 29
Rebs: Kat. Samuelson 6
Asts: Rodríguez 5		 Boxscore Pts: Meesseman 19
Rebs: Jones 11
Asts: Vandersloot 12		 Arena: Volkswagen Arena
Referees: Özlem Yalman (TUR), Jasmina Juras (SRB), Martin Vulić (CRO)

Awards

EuroLeague MVP

EuroLeague Final Four MVP

All-EuroLeague Teams
First Team Second Team
Hungary Courtney Vandersloot Russia UMMC Ekaterinburg France Marine Johannès France LDLC ASVEL Féminin
Ukraine Alina Iagupova Turkey Fenerbahçe Spain Alba Torrens Russia UMMC Ekaterinburg
France Gabby Williams Hungary Sopron Basket United States Breanna Stewart Russia UMMC Ekaterinburg
United States Katie Lou Samuelson Spain Perfumerías Avenida Serbia Jelena Brooks Hungary Sopron Basket
Belgium Emma Meesseman Russia UMMC Ekaterinburg Germany Satou Sabally Turkey Fenerbahçe

Defensive Player of the Year

Young Player of the Year

Coach of the Year

Gameday MVP
Regular season
Gameday Player Team EFF Ref.
1Germany Satou SaballyTurkey Fenerbahçe33[13]
2France Marine JohannèsFrance LDLC ASVEL Féminin33[14]
3France Sandrine GrudaItaly Beretta Famila Schio37[15]
4Spain María AraújoSpain Spar Girona30[16]
5United States Katie Lou SamuelsonSpain Perfumerías Avenida28[17]
6Canada Natalie AchonwaItaly Beretta Famila Schio36[18]
Quarterfinals
Game Player Team EFF Ref.
1Ukraine Alina IagupovaTurkey Fenerbahçe39[19]
2United States Mercedes RussellTurkey Galatasaray40[20]

See also

References
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