# 2015–16 EuroLeague Women

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.
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, resulting in 15 direct qualifiers, and one preliminary round to be played between BK Brno and CB Avenida. However, on August 6, BK Brno announced its withdrawal from European competitions due to financial reasons, automatically qualifying Perfumerías Avenida to the Regular Season
| Seed | Regular Season | 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

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 | Advance to quarterfinals | 62 – 64 | — | 79 – 72 | 64 – 70 | 89 – 63 | 75 – 57 | 88 – 70 | 97 – 61 |
| 3 | Dynamo Kursk | 14 | 10 | 4 | 1012 | 855 | +157 | 24 | Advance to quarterfinals | 72 – 40 | 63 – 58 | — | 75 – 60 | 70 – 49 | 66 – 49 | 77 – 64 | 98 – 63 |
| 4 | Galatasaray Odeabank | 14 | 9 | 5 | 889 | 829 | +60 | 23 | Advance to quarterfinals | 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 | — |

### 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 | Advance to quarterfinals | 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 | Advance to quarterfinals | 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 | Advance to quarterfinals | 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 | — |

## 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 | Semi-finals 15 April | Final 17 April | Final 17 April |
| Fenerbahçe | 68 |
| Nadezhda Orenburg | 74 | | |
| Nadezhda Orenburg | 74 | Nadezhda Orenburg | 69 |
| | | UMMC Ekaterinburg | 72 |
| ZVVZ USK Praha | 72 | UMMC Ekaterinburg | 72 |
| UMMC Ekaterinburg | 78 | | |
| UMMC Ekaterinburg | 78 | Third place | 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 |