# 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.

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

## Referees

| Referees of the 2020–21 season |
| Christoph Rohacky Alakbar Hasanov Lizaveta Famina Tom Dehondt Martin Van Hoye Haris Bijedić Mila Čavara Ivan Miličević Arnaud Kom Njilo Franko Gracin Alfred Jovović Nikola Perlić Jelena Tomić Maria Ignatiou Jan Baloun Veronika Vávrová Andrada Monika Csender Rune Ressel Larsen Mart Uuehendrik Amel Dahra Alexandre Maret | James Kerry Dominique Anastasios Kardaris Stylianos Simeonidis Nikolaos Somos Nikolaos Tziopanos Tamás Földházi Cecília Tóth Silvia Marziali Alessandro Perciavalle Juozas Barkauskas Marc Mouton Bernard Vassallo Dumitru Stasiev Nataša Dragojević Ognjen Jokić Alija Ferevski Aleksandar Milojević Zoran Mitrovski Nikola Bejat Gizella Viola Györgyi Paulina Gajdosz | Łukasz Jankowski José Pedroso Sonia Teixeira Alin Faur Bogdan Podar Alexandra Stan Elena Chernova Sergey Mikhaylov Semen Ovinov Ivana Ivanović Jasmina Juras Nemanja Ninković Jelena Smiljanić Pavel Fuska Peter Ženiš Marko Vučkovič Esperanza Mendoza Holgado Alberto Sánchez Sixto Ali Şakacı Özge Şentürk Vladyslav Isachenko | Notes 1. ^ Every BCL official is eligible to referee the EuroLeague Women. |

## Round and draw dates
### Schedule

| Phase | Round | Round date |
| Qualifying round | | 28 October 2020 |
| Regular season | Matchday 1 | 1 December 2020 |
| Regular season | Matchday 2 | 2–3 December 2020 |
| Regular season | Matchday 3 | 4 December 2020 |
| Regular season | Matchday 4 | 19 January 2021 |
| Regular season | Matchday 5 | 21 January 2021 |
| Regular season | Matchday 6 | 22 January 2021 |
| Quarterfinals | First leg | 17 March 2021 |
| Quarterfinals | Second leg | 19 March 2021 |
| Final Four | Semifinals | 16 April 2021 |
| Final Four | Final | 18 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.
The format of the competition was changed on 17 September 2020.
| 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

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:
* Head-to-head record
* Head-to-head point differential
* Head-to-head points scored
* Point differential for the entire regular season
* 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 | Quarterfinals | 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 | Quarterfinals | 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 | Quarterfinals | 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 | Quarterfinals | 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 |

### Second leg
## Final Four
### Bracket

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

### Final
## Awards
### EuroLeague MVP

* Alina Iagupova ( Fenerbahçe)

### EuroLeague Final Four MVP

* Breanna Stewart ( (UMMC Ekaterinburg)

### All-EuroLeague Teams

| First Team | First Team | Second 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 |
| 1 | Satou Sabally | Fenerbahçe | 33 |
| 2 | Marine Johannès | LDLC ASVEL Féminin | 33 |
| 3 | Sandrine Gruda | Beretta Famila Schio | 37 |
| 4 | María Araújo | Spar Girona | 30 |
| 5 | Katie Lou Samuelson | Perfumerías Avenida | 28 |
| 6 | Natalie Achonwa | Beretta Famila Schio | 36 |

#### Quarterfinals

| Game | Player | Team | EFF | Ref. |
| 1 | Alina Iagupova | Fenerbahçe | 39 | |
| 2 | Mercedes Russell | Galatasaray | 40 | |