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.
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:EuroLeague Women and EuroCup Women draw seedings announced
Seed Regular Season1 UMMC Ekaterinburg Fenerbahçe 2 ZVVZ USK Praha Nadezhda Orenburg3 Dynamo Kursk Tango Bourges Basket4 Villeneuve-d'Ascq Wisła Can-Pack Kraków5 Famila Schio CB Avenida6 Uniqa Sopron BLMA7 Mersin BŞB CCC Polkowice8 UNI Győr Hatay BŞB
Regular season
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
Group B
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.
Final four Host Final Four – Yekaterinburg, Russia.Ekaterinburg to host EuroLeague Women Final Four
All times are local (UTC+5).
Semifinals
Third place game
Final
2016–17 EuroLeague Women Champions Dynamo KurskFirst title
Statistical leaders Points Rk Name Team Games Points PPG1 Yvonne Turner Uniqa Sopron1324418.82 Diana Taurasi UMMC Ekaterinburg1526917.93 Angel McCoughtry Dynamo Kursk1831117.34 Sonja Petrović ZVVZ USK Praha1931416.55 Gintarė Petronytė Mersin BŞB1422616.1
Rebounds Rk Name Team Games Rebounds RPG1 Nneka Ogwumike Dynamo Kursk1717410.22 Amanda Zahui Nadezhda Orenburg161499.33 Marija Režan CCC Polkowice141188.44 Clarissa dos Santos Tango Bourges Basket131078.25 Elizabeth Williams Nadezhda Orenburg171347.9
Assists Rk Name Team Games Assists APG1 Laia Palau ZVVZ USK Praha191497.82 Nilay Kartaltepe Mersin BŞB14825.93 Birsel Vardarlı Fenerbahçe191115.84 Miljana Bojović Tango Bourges Basket16905.65 Anna Cruz Dynamo Kursk17945.5
See also 2016–17 EuroCup Women
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