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 IsachenkoNotes 1. Every BCL official is eligible to referee the EuroLeague Women.
Round and draw dates Schedule Phase Round Round date Qualifying round 28 October 2020Regular season Matchday 1 1 December 2020 Matchday 2 2–3 December 2020 Matchday 3 4 December 2020 Matchday 4 19 January 2021 Matchday 5 21 January 2021 Matchday 6 22 January 2021Quarterfinals First leg 17 March 2021 Second leg 19 March 2021Final Four Semifinals 16 April 2021 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 1Seed 2Seed 3Seed 4 UMMC Ekaterinburg Dynamo Kursk Sopron Basket ZVVZ USK Praha Fenerbahçe Tango Bourges Basket Famila Schio Nadezhda Orenburg Seed 5Seed 6Seed 7Seed 8 Perfumerías Avenida TTT Riga Galatasaray LDLC ASVEL Féminin Basket Landes VBW Arka GdyniaQualifier 1Qualifier 2
Qualifying round
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
Group B
Group C
Group D
Quarterfinals
First leg
Second leg
Final Four
Bracket
Semifinals
Third place game
Final
Awards EuroLeague MVP Alina Iagupova ( Fenerbahçe)
EuroLeague Final Four MVP Breanna Stewart ( (UMMC Ekaterinburg)
All-EuroLeague Teams First TeamSecond 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 GamedayPlayerTeamEFF 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 GamePlayerTeamEFF 1 Alina Iagupova Fenerbahçe 39 2 Mercedes Russell Galatasaray 40
See also 2020–21 EuroCup Women
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