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EuroLeague Women
EuroLeague Women
Season	2016–17
Duration	26 October 2016 – 16 April 2017
Games played	126
Teams	16 (Regular Season)
Finals
Champions	Dynamo Kursk
Runners-up	Fenerbahçe
Third place	UMMC Ekaterinburg
Fourth place	ZVVZ USK Praha
Final Four MVP	Angel McCoughtry; (Dynamo Kursk)
	← 2015–16 2017–18 →

The 2016–17 EuroLeague Women season is the 21st edition of EuroLeague Women under its current name. The season started on 26 October 2016.

Teams

Teams were confirmed by FIBA Europe on 22 June 2016.^[2]

Regular season
UMMC Ekaterinburg (1st)	Hatay BŞB (2nd)	Villeneuve-d'Ascq (3rd)	Wisła Can-Pack Kraków (1st)
Nadezhda Orenburg (2nd)	Mersin BŞB (3rd)	ZVVZ USK Praha (1st)	CB Avenida (1st)
Dynamo Kursk (3rd)	BLMA (1st)	Uniqa Sopron (1st)	Famila Schio (1st)
Fenerbahçe (1st)	Tango Bourges Basket (2nd)	UNI Győr (2nd)
Qualification round
CB Conquero (3rd)	CCC Polkowice (4th)

Draw

17 teams registered for EuroLeague Women 2016–17, resulting in 15 direct qualifiers, and one preliminary round to be played between CB Conquero and CCC Polkowice. Following the withdrawal of Spanish club CB Conquero, CCC Polkowice promoted to the regular season.
16 EuroLeague Women teams will be drawn directly into two Regular Season groups of eight teams each. The clubs have been seeded based on the ranking of their performance in European club competitions in the last three seasons:^[3]

Seed	Regular Season
1	UMMC Ekaterinburg	Fenerbahçe
2	ZVVZ USK Praha	Nadezhda Orenburg
3	Dynamo Kursk	Tango Bourges Basket
4	Villeneuve-d'Ascq	Wisła Can-Pack Kraków
5	Famila Schio	CB Avenida
6	Uniqa Sopron	BLMA
7	Mersin BŞB	CCC Polkowice
8	UNI Győr	Hatay BŞB

Regular season

Location of teams of the 2016–17 Euroleague Women regular season.

Green: Group A;

Red: Group B.

Regular season will start on October 26, 2016 and will finish on February 22, 2017.

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	KUR	FEN	USK	FAM	BLM	WIS	MER	UNI
1	Dynamo Kursk	14	14	0	1096	856	+240	28	Advance to quarterfinals	—	86–79	69–66	70–64	65–43	96–59	73–67	90–55
2	Fenerbahçe	14	11	3	1010	916	+94	25		69–72	—	75–71	77–64	69–63	71–60	75–52	66–53
3	ZVVZ USK Praha	14	9	5	1023	902	+121	23		49–73	63–71	—	74–73	61–59	84–63	96–47	83–56
4	Famila Schio	14	7	7	1012	929	+83	21		75–79	73–75	71–63	—	70–53	80–54	71–64	77–65
5	BLMA	14	7	7	869	917	−48	21	Transfer to EuroCup Women	50–88	58–56	55–58	69–66	—	74–68	76–63	69–50
6	Wisła Can-Pack Kraków	14	5	9	950	1009	−59	19	Transfer to EuroCup Women	61–67	64–72	70–90	75–76	77–61	—	59–56	66–47
7	Mersin BŞB	14	2	12	906	1044	−138	16	Eliminated	70–84	73–89	69–75	65–61	68–74	74–83	—	65–74
8	UNI Győr	14	1	13	783	1076	−293	15	Eliminated	49–84	64–66	51–90	46–91	58–65	61–91	54–73	—

Source: FIBA.com

Group B

Pos	Team	Pld	W	L	PF	PA	PD	Pts	Qualification	EKA	NAD	AVE	BOU	HAT	VIL	SOP	POL
1	UMMC Ekaterinburg	14	13	1	1190	900	+290	27	Advance to quarterfinals	—	88–81	74–68	81–66	103–40	91–69	82–61	94–57
2	Nadezhda Orenburg	14	10	4	934	881	+53	24		59–88	—	65–62	69–61	63–54	58–48	65–57	50–60
3	Perfumerías Avenida	14	7	7	999	938	+61	21		83–72	49–64	—	63–50	92–62	79–70	84–67	81–60
4	Tango Bourges Basket	14	7	7	909	928	−19	21		63–97	58–60	69–63	—	68–55	63–42	80–59	65–60
5	Hatay BŞB	14	7	7	912	1005	−93	21	Transfer to EuroCup Women	64–73	58–70	68–64	69–51	—	76–81	74–66	58–54
6	Villeneuve-d'Ascq	14	6	8	969	1004	−35	20	Transfer to EuroCup Women	69–88	83–71	69–68	74–81	71–72	—	78–63	75–55
7	Uniqa Sopron	14	4	10	975	1087	−112	18	Eliminated	56–82	69–89	77–68	77–69	95–98	62–72	—	76–64
8	CCC Polkowice	14	2	12	863	1008	−145	16	Eliminated	64–77	46–70	71–75	59–65	54–64	77–68	82–90	—

Source: FIBA.com

Quarter-finals

In the quarter-finals, teams playing against each other had to win two games to win the series. Thus, if one team win two games, before all three games have been played, the game that remain is omitted.

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Team 1	Agg.Tooltip Aggregate score	Team 2	1st leg	2nd leg	3rd leg
Dynamo Kursk	2–0	Tango Bourges Basket	76–71	104–92	–
Fenerbahçe	2–1	Perfumerías Avenida	78–68	66–76	87–80
UMMC Ekaterinburg	2–0	Famila Schio	92–47	102–67	–
Nadezhda Orenburg	1–2	ZVVZ USK Praha	80–57	55–64	57–70

Final four

Host Final Four – Yekaterinburg, Russia.^[4]

Semifinals April 14		Final April 16



Dynamo Kursk	87

ZVVZ USK Praha	80
		Dynamo Kursk	77

		Fenerbahçe	63
Fenerbahçe	70

UMMC Ekaterinburg	61
		Third place



		ZVVZ USK Praha	63

		UMMC Ekaterinburg	68

All times are local (UTC+5).

Semifinals

14 April 2017
19:00

Report

Fenerbahçe	70–61	UMMC Ekaterinburg
Scoring by quarter: 10–14, 18–19, 21–13, 21–15
Pts: Lavender 21 Rebs: Parker 15 Asts: Vardarlı 7		Pts: Taurasi 26 Rebs: Griner 7 Asts: four players 2

DIVS Sport Hall, Yekaterinburg
Attendance: 5,000
Referees:
Jasmina Juras (SRB)
Michele Rossi (ITA)
Marko Vučković (SLO)

14 April 2017
21:30

Report

Dynamo Kursk	87–80 (OT)	ZVVZ USK Praha
Scoring by quarter: 24–26, 22–18, 14–17, 17–16, Overtime: 10–3
Pts: McCoughtry 28 Rebs: Vidmer 11 Asts: McCoughtry 5		Pts: Dupree 39 Rebs: Dupree 13 Asts: Palau 13

DIVS Sport Hall, Yekaterinburg
Attendance: 2,500
Referees:
Fabiana Martinescu-Badalan (ROM)
Janusz Calik (POL)
Artūras Šukys (LTU)

Third place game

16 April 2017
16:30

Report

ZVVZ USK Praha	63–68	UMMC Ekaterinburg
Scoring by quarter: 17–18, 20–14, 14–18, 12–18
Pts: Petrović 19 Rebs: three players 7 Asts: Palau 8		Pts: Toliver 18 Rebs: Meesseman 12 Asts: Barič 5

DIVS Sport Hall, Yekaterinburg
Attendance: 3,500
Referees:
Michele Rossi (ITA)
Artūras Šukys (LTU)
Vasiliki Tsaroucha (GRE)

Final

16 April 2017
19:00

Report

Dynamo Kursk	77–63	Fenerbahçe
Scoring by quarter: 17–18, 27–16, 18–21, 15–8
Pts: McCoughtry 20 Rebs: Ogwumike 10 Asts: Prince 7		Pts: Quigley 19 Rebs: Lavender 9 Asts: Quigley 3

DIVS Sport Hall, Yekaterinburg
Attendance: 3,500
Referees:
Jasmina Juras (SRB)
Fabiana Martinescu-Badalan (ROM)
Marko Vučković (SLO)

2016–17 EuroLeague Women Champions
Dynamo Kursk First title

Statistical leaders

Points

Rk	Name	Team	Games	Points	PPG
1	Yvonne Turner	Uniqa Sopron	13	244	18.8
2	Diana Taurasi	UMMC Ekaterinburg	15	269	17.9
3	Angel McCoughtry	Dynamo Kursk	18	311	17.3
4	Sonja Petrović	ZVVZ USK Praha	19	314	16.5
5	Gintarė Petronytė	Mersin BŞB	14	226	16.1

Rebounds

Rk	Name	Team	Games	Rebounds	RPG
1	Nneka Ogwumike	Dynamo Kursk	17	174	10.2
2	Amanda Zahui	Nadezhda Orenburg	16	149	9.3
3	Marija Režan	CCC Polkowice	14	118	8.4
4	Clarissa dos Santos	Tango Bourges Basket	13	107	8.2
5	Elizabeth Williams	Nadezhda Orenburg	17	134	7.9

Assists

Rk	Name	Team	Games	Assists	APG
1	Laia Palau	ZVVZ USK Praha	19	149	7.8
2	Nilay Kartaltepe	Mersin BŞB	14	82	5.9
3	Birsel Vardarlı	Fenerbahçe	19	111	5.8
4	Miljana Bojović	Tango Bourges Basket	16	90	5.6
5	Anna Cruz	Dynamo Kursk	17	94	5.5