Eurocup Women
EuroCup Women | |
Full name | FIBA EuroCup for Women |
Association | FIBA Europe |
First edition | 2002/03 / 1971/72 |
Teams | 32 |
Title holder | Galatasaray Istanbul |
Record winner | 5 times / Spartak St. Petersburg 3 times Dynamo Moscow (EC only)
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Website | http://www.fibaeurope.com/eurocupwomen/ |
The Eurocup Women (officially: FIBA EuroCup Women ) is the English- language name for the second European club competition in women's basketball , which, like the Euroleague Women, is organized by the internationally recognized continental association FIBA Europe . The competition was officially set up in 2002, but replaced the (Liliana) Ronchetti Cup , which was originally launched in 1971 and whose immediate successor is this competition. While the national champions from the strongest European nations and, in the case of Russia and Turkey and individual changing nations, take part in the Euroleague , other teams from the strongest nations take part in the EuroCup Women in addition to the champions from medium-level nations.
mode
The current mode of the EuroCup 2015/16 was divided into a group phase as a round-robin tournament with a round trip with eight groups of four teams each, of which the first two of the group qualify for the round of 16 of the best 16 teams. From there, the participants in the following rounds are determined in the knockout system based on a cumulative result of the first and second leg. Otherwise, if each game is extended until a winning team is determined, then in the knockout system this is only done in the second leg, provided that the cumulative result of the first and second leg is a draw.
history
Ronchetti Cup (until 2002)
The previous competition of the EuroCup Women originally started in 1971 as a club competition for the winners of the national cup competitions as the European Cup Winners' Cup . From his fourth staging several teams from one nation could participate, comparable to the Korać Cup in the men's or football the former UEFA Cup . Since the men's competition, which was introduced a few years earlier, was named after the late Radivoje Korać , this model was taken up in 1974 when the competition was redesigned and the cup competition was now named after the Italian basketball player Liliana Ronchetti, who died in February 1974 . The former national player Ronchetti had only ended her long active career in 1973 at the age of 46, before she died less than a year later of complications from cancer.
Like the higher-ranking cup competition for the national champions as well as the national team competitions, the Ronchetti Cup was initially dominated by the women from the former Soviet Union . The first four events, as well as the first as the Ronchetti Cup, were won by the Spartak Saint Petersburg team. By the end of the Soviet Union in 1991, teams from that country had won 13 out of 20 titles in this competition. In between, Levski Sofia defended his title against Maritza Plovdiv in a purely Bulgarian final in 1979 . After an Italian team won with Bata Rome for the first time in 1984 , Italian club teams were able to win five more consecutive titles from 1990, three of them in a purely Italian final, and finally also the last three titles in the competition that ended in 2002, and thus eight of the 13 from 1990 finished events as title winners, with only two finals taking place in this period without Italian participation. Teams from officially German-speaking countries in Europe never reached the final of this competition, unlike the national championship trophy, in which the then German serial champions DJK Agon 08 Düsseldorf and Barmer TV Wuppertal reached the finals several times and also won in the case of the Wuppertal women in 1996. While the Ronchetti Cup was decided with a single final between 1977 and 1989, the winners between the two best teams in the competition were otherwise in a final from a return leg. The follow-up competition took up this again from its fourth edition in 2005/06.
EuroCup Women (since 2002)
In the subsequent EuroCup, too, the Russian clubs were the most successful nation. In the second edition of the EuroCup, Spartak St. Petersburg won again, who followed their four titles in the previous competition with one in the follow-up competition. Two years later, in 2006, another team, Spartak Moscow , won the previous competition three times, and then won the Euroleague four times in a row. Another Moscow team therefore had to "defend" the following title with ŽBK Dynamo Moscow . Dynamo later became the record winners in the younger era of the competition since 2002 with two more title wins, when they won the competition in 2013 and 2014 after winning the title from Dynamo Kursk in 2012. These two teams held a purely national final for the first time in 2014, as well as a final between teams that originally belonged to the Dynamo organization . The following two EuroCups were won again by French clubs, with CJM Tango Bourges defeating defending champion ESB Villeneuve-d'Ascq in a purely French final in 2016 .
After sponsor Gold-Zack Werke withdrew in 2002 in Wuppertal, the champions and the best teams from Germany , Austria and occasionally also from Switzerland took part in the EuroCup. In 2010 the Saarlouis Royals reached the semi-finals, which were lost to Nadezhda Orenburg .
List of winners
- Team in italics had home rights first: the game result always from the perspective of the home team
season | Title winners | Final losers | Game 1 place * |
Game 2 |
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1971/72 | Spartak Leningrad | ŽKK Voždovac Belgrade | 84 : 63 | 61: 86 |
1972/73 | Spartak Leningrad | Slavia Prague | 55: 64 | 76 : 37 |
1973/74 | Spartak Leningrad | ASD Geas | 68 : 58 | 65 : 57 |
1974/75 | Spartak Leningrad | Levski Sofia | 59: 64 | 79 : 54 |
1975/76 | USK Slavia Prague | ŽKK Zrinjevac Zagreb | 68 : 51 | 78 : 73 |
1976/77 | Spartak Moscow (basketball) | Miner SC Pernik | Rome | 97 : 54 |
1977/78 | Levski Sofia | BK Slovan Bratislava | Haskovo | 50 : 49 |
1978/79 | Levski Sofia | Maritza Plovdiv | Yambol | 70 : 69 |
1979/80 | ŽKK Zrinjevac Zagreb | Maritza Plovdiv | Pernik | 82 : 74 |
1980/81 | Spartak Moscow | ŽKK Zrinjevac Zagreb | Rome | 95 : 63 |
1981/82 | Spartak Moscow | Královopolská Brno | Linz | 89 : 68 |
1982/83 | Budapest SE | Spartak Moscow | Mestre | 83 : 81 |
1983/84 | SS Bata Rome | Budapest SE | Budapest | 69 : 59 |
1984/85 | CSKA Moscow | Virtus Viterbo | Viterbo | 76 : 64 |
1985/86 | Dynamo Novosibirsk | Budapest SE | Barcelona | 81 : 58 |
1986/87 | Daugava Riga | Deborah Milan | Wittenheim | 87 : 80 |
1987/88 | Dynamo Kiev | Deborah Milan | Athens | 100 : 83 |
1988/89 | CSKA Moscow | Deborah Milan | Florence | 69 : 59 |
1989/90 | Primizie Parma | ŽKK Jedinstvo Tuzla | 79 : 54 | 77 : 71 |
1990/91 | Deborah Gemeaz Milan | Como Jersey | 94 : 76 | 69 : 58 |
1991/92 | Vicenza Estel | Libertas Trogylos Priolo | 67: 78 | 76 : 69 |
1992/93 | Lavezzini Parma | Olimpia poses | 91 : 62 | 71 : 70 |
1993/94 | Ahena Cesena | Lavezzini Parma | 78 : 65 | 68 : 66 |
1994/95 | CJM Bourges | Lavezzini Parma | 56 : 47 | 53: 56 |
1995/96 | Tarbes Gespe Bigorre | SS Basket Alcamo | 63: 81 | 82 : 63 |
1996/97 | CSKA Moscow | Lavezzini Parma | 72 : 54 | 59: 71 |
1997/98 | Gysev Ringa Sopron | ASPTT Aix-en-Provence | 70 : 65 | 70: 72 |
1998/99 | Caja Rural Canarias | Laughing Ramat Hasharon | 79 : 72 | 64 : 54 |
1999/2000 | Lavezzini Parma | Caja Rural Canarias | 64 : 60 | 56: 63 |
2000/01 | Familia Schio | Adana Botaş Spor Kulübü | 73: 75 | 87 : 70 |
2001/02 | PF Familia Schio | Tarbes Gespe Bigorre | 69: 73 | 77 : 74 |
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2002/03 | Aix-en-Provence BB | Caja Rural Canarias | Samara | 80 : 71 |
2003/04 | Baltiyskaya Zvezda St. Petersburg | Szolnoki MÁV SE | Istanbul | 68 : 64 |
2004/05 | Phard Naples | Fenerbahçe Istanbul | Naples | 53 : 45 |
2005/06 | Spartak Moskovskaya Oblast | Aix-en-Provence BB | 65: 80 | 72 : 66 |
2006/07 | Dynamo Moscow | CA Faenza | 61: 74 | 76 : 56 |
2007/08 | Beretta-Familia Schio | BK Dynamo Lyubertsy | 87 : 67 | 69: 78 |
2008/09 | Galatasaray Istanbul | Taranto Cras | 67 : 55 | 82 : 61 a.d. |
2009/10 | Athinaikos Vyronas | Nadezhda Orenburg | 57: 65 | 53: 57 |
2010/11 | Elitzur Ramla | ASPTT Arras | 61:61 | 53: 61 |
2011/12 | Dynamo Kursk | TED Kayseri Kaski SK | 69 : 55 | 75 : 52 |
2012/13 | Dynamo Moscow | TED Kayseri Kaski SK | 66 : 61 | 74 : 70 |
2013/14 | Dynamo Moscow | Dynamo Kursk | 97 : 65 | 85 : 61 |
2014/15 | ESB Villeneuve-d'Ascq | Castor's Braine | 64: 68 | 53: 73 |
2015/16 | CJM Tango Bourges | ESB Villeneuve-d'Ascq | 40: 51 | 54 : 53 |
2016/17 | Yakın Dogu Universitesi | Abdullah Gül Üniversitesi | 73 : 69 | 63 : 58 |
2017/18 | Galatasaray Istanbul | Reyer Venezia | 90 : 68 | 72 : 65 |
* If only one final game has taken place, the venue is indicated in this column. Otherwise, the respective home and return legs usually took place at the teams' usual home venues.
Web links
- EuroCup Women - Homepage on the website of FIBA Europe ( English )
- History | Ronchetti Cup - overview of the previous competition at FIBA Europe