Eurocup Women

from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
EuroCup Women
Full name FIBA EuroCup for Women
Association FIBA Europe
First edition 2002/03 / 1971/72
Teams 32
Title holder TurkeyTurkey Galatasaray Istanbul
Record winner 5 times / Spartak St. Petersburg 3 times Dynamo Moscow (EC only) Soviet UnionSoviet UnionRussiaRussia 
RussiaRussia 
Website http://www.fibaeurope.com/eurocupwomen/Template: Infobox basketball competition / maintenance / website

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
1971/72 Soviet Union 1955Soviet Union Spartak Leningrad Yugoslavia Socialist Federal RepublicYugoslavia ŽKK Voždovac Belgrade 84 : 63 61: 86
1972/73 Soviet Union 1955Soviet Union Spartak Leningrad CzechoslovakiaCzechoslovakia Slavia Prague 55: 64 76 : 37
1973/74 Soviet Union 1955Soviet Union Spartak Leningrad ItalyItaly ASD Geas 68 : 58 65 : 57
1974/75 Soviet Union 1955Soviet Union Spartak Leningrad Bulgaria 1971Bulgaria Levski Sofia 59: 64 79 : 54
1975/76 CzechoslovakiaCzechoslovakia USK Slavia Prague Yugoslavia Socialist Federal RepublicYugoslavia ŽKK Zrinjevac Zagreb 68 : 51 78 : 73
1976/77 Soviet Union 1955Soviet Union Spartak Moscow (basketball) Bulgaria 1971Bulgaria Miner SC Pernik ItalyItaly Rome 97 : 54
1977/78 Bulgaria 1971Bulgaria Levski Sofia CzechoslovakiaCzechoslovakia BK Slovan Bratislava Bulgaria 1971Bulgaria Haskovo 50 : 49
1978/79 Bulgaria 1971Bulgaria Levski Sofia Bulgaria 1971Bulgaria Maritza Plovdiv Bulgaria 1971Bulgaria Yambol 70 : 69
1979/80 Yugoslavia Socialist Federal RepublicYugoslavia ŽKK Zrinjevac Zagreb Bulgaria 1971Bulgaria Maritza Plovdiv Bulgaria 1971Bulgaria Pernik 82 : 74
1980/81 Soviet UnionSoviet Union Spartak Moscow Yugoslavia Socialist Federal RepublicYugoslavia ŽKK Zrinjevac Zagreb ItalyItaly Rome 95 : 63
1981/82 Soviet UnionSoviet Union Spartak Moscow CzechoslovakiaCzechoslovakia Královopolská Brno AustriaAustria Linz 89 : 68
1982/83 HungaryHungary Budapest SE Soviet UnionSoviet Union Spartak Moscow ItalyItaly Mestre 83 : 81
1983/84 ItalyItaly SS Bata Rome HungaryHungary Budapest SE HungaryHungary Budapest 69 : 59
1984/85 Soviet UnionSoviet Union CSKA Moscow ItalyItaly Virtus Viterbo ItalyItaly Viterbo 76 : 64
1985/86 Soviet UnionSoviet Union Dynamo Novosibirsk HungaryHungary Budapest SE SpainSpain Barcelona 81 : 58
1986/87 Soviet UnionSoviet Union Daugava Riga ItalyItaly Deborah Milan FranceFrance Wittenheim 87 : 80
1987/88 Soviet UnionSoviet Union Dynamo Kiev ItalyItaly Deborah Milan GreeceGreece Athens 100 : 83
1988/89 Soviet UnionSoviet Union CSKA Moscow ItalyItaly Deborah Milan ItalyItaly Florence 69 : 59
1989/90 ItalyItaly Primizie Parma Yugoslavia Socialist Federal RepublicYugoslavia ŽKK Jedinstvo Tuzla 79 : 54 77 : 71
1990/91 ItalyItaly Deborah Gemeaz Milan ItalyItaly Como Jersey 94 : 76 69 : 58
1991/92 ItalyItaly Vicenza Estel ItalyItaly Libertas Trogylos Priolo 67: 78 76 : 69
1992/93 ItalyItaly Lavezzini Parma PolandPoland Olimpia poses 91 : 62 71 : 70
1993/94 ItalyItaly Ahena Cesena ItalyItaly Lavezzini Parma 78 : 65 68 : 66
1994/95 FranceFrance CJM Bourges ItalyItaly Lavezzini Parma 56 : 47 53: 56
1995/96 FranceFrance Tarbes Gespe Bigorre ItalyItaly SS Basket Alcamo 63: 81 82 : 63
1996/97 RussiaRussia CSKA Moscow ItalyItaly Lavezzini Parma 72 : 54 59: 71
1997/98 HungaryHungary Gysev Ringa Sopron FranceFrance ASPTT Aix-en-Provence 70 : 65 70: 72
1998/99 SpainSpain Caja Rural Canarias IsraelIsrael Laughing Ramat Hasharon 79 : 72 64 : 54
1999/2000 ItalyItaly Lavezzini Parma SpainSpain Caja Rural Canarias 64 : 60 56: 63
2000/01 ItalyItaly Familia Schio TurkeyTurkey Adana Botaş Spor Kulübü 73: 75 87 : 70
2001/02 ItalyItaly PF Familia Schio FranceFrance Tarbes Gespe Bigorre 69: 73 77 : 74
Renamed to EuroCup Women
2002/03 FranceFrance Aix-en-Provence BB SpainSpain Caja Rural Canarias RussiaRussia Samara 80 : 71
2003/04 RussiaRussia Baltiyskaya Zvezda St. Petersburg HungaryHungary Szolnoki MÁV SE TurkeyTurkey Istanbul 68 : 64
2004/05 ItalyItaly Phard Naples TurkeyTurkey Fenerbahçe Istanbul ItalyItaly Naples 53 : 45
2005/06 RussiaRussia Spartak Moskovskaya Oblast FranceFrance Aix-en-Provence BB 65: 80 72 : 66
2006/07 RussiaRussia Dynamo Moscow ItalyItaly CA Faenza 61: 74 76 : 56
2007/08 ItalyItaly Beretta-Familia Schio RussiaRussia BK Dynamo Lyubertsy 87 : 67 69: 78
2008/09 TurkeyTurkey Galatasaray Istanbul ItalyItaly Taranto Cras 67 : 55 82 : 61 a.d.
2009/10 GreeceGreece Athinaikos Vyronas RussiaRussia Nadezhda Orenburg 57: 65 53: 57
2010/11 IsraelIsrael Elitzur Ramla FranceFrance ASPTT Arras 61:61 53: 61
2011/12 RussiaRussia Dynamo Kursk TurkeyTurkey TED Kayseri Kaski SK 69 : 55 75 : 52
2012/13 RussiaRussia Dynamo Moscow TurkeyTurkey TED Kayseri Kaski SK 66 : 61 74 : 70
2013/14 RussiaRussia Dynamo Moscow RussiaRussia Dynamo Kursk 97 : 65 85 : 61
2014/15 FranceFrance ESB Villeneuve-d'Ascq BelgiumBelgium Castor's Braine 64: 68 53: 73
2015/16 FranceFrance CJM Tango Bourges FranceFrance ESB Villeneuve-d'Ascq 40: 51 54 : 53
2016/17 TurkeyTurkey Yakın Dogu Universitesi TurkeyTurkey Abdullah Gül Üniversitesi 73 : 69 63 : 58
2017/18 TurkeyTurkey Galatasaray Istanbul ItalyItaly 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