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 edit

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

Teams edit

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
  ZVVZ USK Praha (Abd-1st)[1]   VBW Arka Gdynia (Abd-1st)[2]
  LDLC ASVEL Féminin (Abd)[3]   UMMC Ekaterinburg (Abd-1st)
  Tango Bourges Basket (Abd)   Dynamo Kursk (Abd-2nd)
  Basket Landes (Abd)   Nadezhda Orenburg (Abd-3rd)
  Sopron Basket (Abd-1st)[4]   Perfumerías Avenida (Abd)
  Famila Schio (Abd)[5]   Fenerbahçe (Abd)[6]
  TTT Riga (Abd-1st)[7]   Galatasaray (Abd)
Qualifying round
  Aluinvent DVTK Miskolc (Abd-2st)   Spar Girona (Abd)
  ACS Sepsi SIC (Abd)   İzmit Belediyespor (Abd)

Referees edit

Round and draw dates edit

Schedule edit

Phase Round Round date
Qualifying round 28 October 2020
Regular season Matchday 1 1 December 2020
Matchday 2 2–3 December 2020
Matchday 3 4 December 2020
Matchday 4 19 January 2021
Matchday 5 21 January 2021
Matchday 6 22 January 2021
Quarterfinals First leg 17 March 2021
Second leg 19 March 2021
Final Four Semifinals 16 April 2021
Final 18 April 2021

Draw edit

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
  UMMC Ekaterinburg
  Dynamo Kursk
  Sopron Basket
  ZVVZ USK Praha
  Fenerbahçe
  Tango Bourges Basket
  Famila Schio
  Nadezhda Orenburg
Seed 5 Seed 6 Seed 7 Seed 8
  Perfumerías Avenida
  TTT Riga
  Galatasaray
  LDLC ASVEL Féminin
  Basket Landes
  VBW Arka Gdynia
Qualifier 1
Qualifier 2

Qualifying round edit

Team 1  Score  Team 2
Aluinvent DVTK Miskolc   68–85   İzmit Belediyespor
Spar Girona   76–54   ACS Sepsi SIC

Regular season edit

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 edit

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

Group B edit

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

Group C edit

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

Group D edit

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

Quarterfinals edit

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

First leg edit

17 March 2021 Dynamo Kursk   67–80   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   74–91   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   66–94   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   66–74   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 edit

19 March 2021 Fenerbahçe   61–71
(152–145 agg.)
  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   94–59
(174–126 agg.)
  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   71–65
(145–131 agg.)
  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   62–75
(156–141 agg.)
  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 edit

Bracket edit

 
SemifinalsFinal
 
      
 
16 April
 
 
  Perfumerías Avenida72
 
18 April
 
  Sopron Basket61
 
  Perfumerías Avenida68
 
16 April
 
  UMMC Ekaterinburg78
 
  Fenerbahçe84
 
 
  UMMC Ekaterinburg88
 
Third place
 
 
18 April
 
 
  Sopron Basket58
 
 
  Fenerbahçe64

Semifinals edit

16 April 2021 Fenerbahçe   84–88   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   72–61   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 edit

18 April 2021 Sopron Basket   58–64   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 edit

18 April 2021 Perfumerías Avenida   68–78   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 edit

EuroLeague MVP edit

EuroLeague Final Four MVP edit

All-EuroLeague Teams edit

First Team Second Team
  Courtney Vandersloot   UMMC Ekaterinburg   Marine Johannès   LDLC ASVEL Féminin
  Alina Iagupova   Fenerbahçe   Alba Torrens   UMMC Ekaterinburg
  Gabby Williams   Sopron Basket   Breanna Stewart   UMMC Ekaterinburg
  Katie Lou Samuelson   Perfumerías Avenida   Jelena Brooks   Sopron Basket
  Emma Meesseman   UMMC Ekaterinburg   Satou Sabally   Fenerbahçe

Defensive Player of the Year edit

Young Player of the Year edit

Coach of the Year edit

Gameday MVP edit

Regular season
Gameday Player Team EFF Ref.
1   Satou Sabally   Fenerbahçe 33 [13]
2   Marine Johannès   LDLC ASVEL Féminin 33 [14]
3   Sandrine Gruda   Beretta Famila Schio 37 [15]
4   María Araújo   Spar Girona 30 [16]
5   Katie Lou Samuelson   Perfumerías Avenida 28 [17]
6   Natalie Achonwa   Beretta Famila Schio 36 [18]
Quarterfinals
Game Player Team EFF Ref.
1   Alina Iagupova   Fenerbahçe 39 [19]
2   Mercedes Russell   Galatasaray 40 [20]

See also edit

References edit

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  2. ^ "EBLK season is over; Arka Gdynia declared champions". eurobasket.com. 12 March 2020. Retrieved 25 August 2020.
  3. ^ "FFBB announce the cancellation of LFB season". eurobasket.com. 10 April 2020. Retrieved 25 August 2020.
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  5. ^ "FIP cancel the reminder of the season in A1 and A2". eurobasket.com. 3 April 2020. Retrieved 25 August 2020.
  6. ^ "Leagues are cancelled". eurobasket.com. 11 May 2020. Retrieved 25 August 2020.
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  8. ^ "Seedings revealed for EuroLeague Women and EuroCup Women draws". FIBA. 14 August 2020. Retrieved 25 August 2020.
  9. ^ "EuroLeague Women Regular Season groups confirmed for 2020-21 campaign". FIBA. 17 August 2020. Retrieved 25 August 2020.
  10. ^ "FIBA Europe Board approves format changes for EuroLeague Women season 2020-21". FIBA. 17 September 2020. Retrieved 24 September 2020.
  11. ^ "Winners of EuroLeague Women Awards announced". FIBA. 13 April 2021. Retrieved 15 April 2021.
  12. ^ "Final Four MVP Stewart: This is something I will never forget". FIBA. 18 April 2021. Retrieved 19 April 2021.
  13. ^ "Sabally seals Top Performer status with spectacular debut". FIBA. 2 December 2020. Retrieved 4 December 2020.
  14. ^ "Stunning 38-point career high catapults Johannes to Top Performer honor". FIBA. 4 December 2020. Retrieved 4 December 2020.
  15. ^ "Gruda crowned Top Performer on Gameday 3". FIBA. 5 December 2020. Retrieved 6 December 2020.
  16. ^ "Araujo collects Top Performer accolade for Gameday 4". FIBA. 20 January 2021. Retrieved 21 January 2021.
  17. ^ "Double celebration for Samuelson as she seals Top Performer status". FIBA. 21 January 2021. Retrieved 22 January 2021.
  18. ^ "Achonwa claims Gameday 6 Top Performer award". FIBA. 26 January 2021. Retrieved 26 January 2021.
  19. ^ "Sensational Iagupova seals Top Performer honors for Quarter-Finals Game 1". FIBA. 18 March 2021. Retrieved 19 March 2021.
  20. ^ "Galatasaray star Russell signs off with Top Performer crown". FIBA. 20 March 2021. Retrieved 20 March 2021.

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