2020–21 EuroLeague Women

EuroLeague Women
Season	2020–21
Dates	Qualifying: 28 October 2020 Competition proper: 1 December 2020 – 18 April 2021
Number of teams	Competition proper: 16 Total: 18
Regular season
Season MVP	Alina Iagupova (Fenerbahçe Öznur Kablo)
Finals
Champions	UMMC Ekaterinburg (6th title)
Runners-up	Perfumerías Avenida
Third place	Fenerbahçe
Fourth place	Sopron Basket
Final Four MVP	Breanna Stewart (UMMC Ekaterinburg)
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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.

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
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

Round and draw dates

Schedule

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
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

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

Regular season

Dynamo Kursk

İzmit Belediyespor

USK Praha

Fenerbahçe

Nadezhda Orenburg

Avenida

LDLC ASVEL

Arka Gdynia

UMMC Ekaterinburg

Girona

Sopron Basket

Bourges Basket

Schio

TTT Riga

Galatasaray

Basket Landes

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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	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

Group B

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

Group C

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

Group D

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

Quarterfinals

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

Dynamo Kursk v UMMC Ekaterinburg

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)

Galatasaray v Fenerbahçe

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)

LDLC ASVEL Féminin v Sopron Basket

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)

Spar Girona v Perfumerías Avenida

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

Fenerbahçe v Galatasaray

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)

UMMC Ekaterinburg v Dynamo Kursk

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)

Perfumerías Avenida v Spar Girona

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)

Sopron Basket v LDLC ASVEL Féminin

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

Bracket

	Semifinals				Final
	16 April
	Perfumerías Avenida	72
					18 April
	Sopron Basket	61
					Perfumerías Avenida	68
	16 April
					UMMC Ekaterinburg	78
	Fenerbahçe	84
	UMMC Ekaterinburg	88
					Third place
					18 April
					Sopron Basket	58
					Fenerbahçe	64

Semifinals

Fenerbahçe v UMMC Ekaterinburg

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)

Perfumerías Avenida v Sopron Basket

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

Sopron Basket v Fenerbahçe

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

Perfumerías Avenida v UMMC Ekaterinburg

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

EuroLeague MVP

• Alina Iagupova ( Fenerbahçe)^[11]

EuroLeague Final Four MVP

• Breanna Stewart ( (UMMC Ekaterinburg)^[12]

All-EuroLeague Teams

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

• Gabby Williams ( Sopron Basket)

Young Player of the Year

• Iliana Rupert ( Tango Bourges Basket)

Coach of the Year

• Roberto Íñiguez ( Perfumerías Avenida)

Gameday MVP

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

• 2020–21 EuroCup Women

References

External links

• Official website