2025–26 EuroLeague Women

EuroLeague Women
The Pabellón Príncipe Felipe in Zaragoza will host the final six.
Season2025–26
DatesQualifying:
17–24 September 2025
Regular season:
8 October 2025 – 4 February 2026
Play Ins:
18 February – 3 March 2026
Final Six:
15–19 April 2026
TeamsCompetition proper: 16
Total: 21 (from 11 countries)
Records
Biggest home winGalatasaray 104–54 Sopron Basket
(26 November 2025)
Biggest away winOlympiacos 47–99 Fenerbahçe
(26 November 2025)
Highest scoringFenerbahçe 113–65 DVTK
(29 October 2025)
Winning streak7 games
Fenerbahçe
Losing streak6 games
VBW Gdynia
Sopron Basket
Highest attendance9,106
Casademont Zaragoza 88–58 ÇBK Mersin
(26 November 2025)
Lowest attendance200
officially three matches
2026–27 →
All statistics correct as of 10 December 2025.

The 2025–26 EuroLeague Women is the 68th edition of the premier European women's club basketball championship organized by FIBA, and the 29th edition since being rebranded from the FIBA Women's European Champions Cup to the EuroLeague Women. The season began on 18 September 2025 and will end on 19 April 2026 with the Final Six.

This will be the second straight season under the new format.

The winners of the EuroLeague Women automatically qualify for next season's edition and also qualify for the 2026 SuperCup.

ZVVZ USK Praha are the defending champions, having won their second title last season.

Format

  • Regular season (First round)

After the qualifiers, 16 teams will be split into 4 groups of four, where the top three from each group advances to the second round. The fourth place teams drop down to the EuroCup Women knockout stage. The advancing teams' records from the first round are carried over into the next round.

  • Regular season (Second round)

The 12 remaining teams form 2 groups of six and will play the teams they have not played in the first round. In both groups, the top 2 will play the Semi-Final play-ins while 3rd and 4th play the Quarter-Final play-ins. The teams who finish fifth and sixth are eliminated.

  • Play ins

The play ins will decide who makes the final six and where each team will start in the final six. The top 2 play the Semi-Final play-ins and the third and fourth teams play the Quarter-Final play-ins. Unlike last season, the play ins are played as a best of three series, rather than a home and away aggregate format. The higher-seeded teams play the second leg at home.[1]

The winners of the Semi-Final play-ins will automatically progress to the semifinals of the final six, while the victors of the Quarter-Final play-ins will reach the quarterfinals of the final six. The losers of the Quarter-Final play-ins are eliminated.

  • Final Six

The final six is held in a centralised venue and decide the champion. The losers of the Semi-Final play-ins plus the winners of the Quarter-Final play-ins contest the quarterfinals. The two winners move on to the semifinals to play the teams who automatically qualify for this round. Whoever triumphs in the semifinals reach the final while the losers play the third place match.[2]

Rankings

The results were based on the results of the past three seasons.[3]

  • Associations 1–4 can have three teams qualify.
  • Associations 5–8 each have two teams qualify.
  • Associations 9–10 each have one team qualify directly into the regular season.
  • Associations below the top 10 can have one team qualify for the qualification round.[4]

If a club who qualified for the regular season doesn't take the place, it will be given to another club who entered.

Teams

The labels in the parentheses show how each team qualified for the place of its starting round:

  • TH EL: EuroLeague Women title holders
  • TH EC: EuroCup Women title holders
  • 1st, 2nd, 3rd etc.: League position of the previous season
  • RS: Regular season winners
  • CW: Cup winners
  • CR: Cup runners-up

Also, S means that the team in the qualifying round was seeded.

The teams were announced on 6 July 2025, with a total of 21 clubs registering for the competition.[6][7] Starting this season, the host team of the Final Six are allowed to enter the qualifiers if they had they not qualified on merit (however, this spot wasn't taken as Casademont Zaragoza qualified via their domestic league).[1] Another rule change is that the EuroLeague Women title holders can take part regardless of their domestic league result.

Regular season
Fenerbahçe Opet (1st) ÇIMSA CBK Mersin (2nd)
Basket Landes (1st) Flammes Carolo Basket (4th, CW)
Valencia Basket (1st) Spar Girona (3rd, RS)
Beretta Famila Schio (1st) ZVVZ USK Praha TH EL (1st)
Sopron Basket (1st) VBW Gdynia (1st)
Olympiacos SFP (1st)
Qualifying round
Galatasaray Cagdas Faktoring S (3rd) Tango Bourges Basket S (5th, RS)
Casademont Zaragoza S (2nd) Umana Reyer Venezia S (2nd)
DVTK HUN-Therm S (2nd) Žabiny Brno (2nd)
AZS UMCS Lublin (5th) ACS Sepsi SIC (1st)
Kibirkštis-TOKS (1st) KKZ Crvena zvezda (1st)

Name changes

The following teams' names were changed during the season.

Original name New name Matchday
Kibirkštis Kibirkštis-TOKS First leg of qualifiers

Round and draw dates

Schedule

Phase Draw date Round Round date[8]
Qualification round 28 July 2025 First Leg 17 September 2025
Second Leg 24 September 2025
Regular season
(First Round)
Matchday 1 8 October 2025
Matchday 2 15 October 2025
Matchday 3 22 October 2025
Matchday 4 29 October 2025
Matchday 5 4 November 2025
Matchday 6 26 November 2025
Regular season
(Second Round)
Matchday 7 10 December 2025
Matchday 8 17 December 2025
Matchday 9 14 January 2026
Matchday 10 21 January 2026
Matchday 11 28 January 2026
Matchday 12 4 February 2026
Play Ins Game 1 18 February 2026
Game 2 25 February 2026
Game 3 3 March 2026
Final Six Quarterfinals 15 April 2026
Semifinals 17 April 2026
Final 19 April 2026

Draw

The seeding was announced on 16 July 2025.[9] The draw took place in Munich, Germany, on 23 July 2025.[10] Only a maximum of one club from the same country can be in the same regular season group.

Seed 1 Seed 2 Seed 3 Seed 4
Fenerbahçe Opet
ZVVZ USK Praha
ÇİMSA ÇBK Mersin
Beretta Famila Schio
Valencia Basket
Spar Girona
Basket Landes
Sopron Basket
Olympiacos SFP
VBW Gdynia
Flammes Carolo Basket
Qualifier 1[a]
Qualifier 2[b]
Qualifier 3[c]
Qualifier 4[d]
Qualifier 5[e]
  1. ^ The eventual team in this slot was Casademont Zaragoza.
  2. ^ The eventual team in this slot was Umana Reyer Venezia.
  3. ^ The eventual team in this slot was Galatasaray Çağdaş Faktoring.
  4. ^ The eventual team in this slot was DVTK HUN-Therm.
  5. ^ The eventual team in this slot was Tango Bourges Basket.

Qualification round

The draw for the qualification round was conducted on 23 July 2025. The winners advance to the regular season, while the losers drop down to the EuroCup regular season.

Team 1 Agg.Tooltip Aggregate score Team 2 1st leg 2nd leg
Casademont Zaragoza 142–140 Žabiny Brno 60–81 82–59
Umana Reyer Venezia 149–134 KKZ Crvena zvezda 79–71 70–63
Galatasaray Cagdas Faktoring 164–94 ACS Sepsi SIC 81–48 86–46
DVTK HUN-Therm 144–129 AZS UMCS Lublin 67–70 77–59
Tango Bourges Basket 153–134 Kibirkštis-TOKS 64–75 89–59

Regular season

Location of teams of the 2025–26 Euroleague Women regular season.
Red: Group A; Green: Group B; Yellow: Group C; Blue: Group D.

If teams are level on record at the end of the regular season, tiebreakers are applied in the following order:


  1. Head-to-head record
  2. Head-to-head point differential
  3. Head-to-head points scored
  4. Point differential for the entire regular season
  5. Points scored for the entire regular season


Overall, eight countries are present in the regular season, with no difference with the countries taking part. Flammes Carolo Basket make their return for the first time since 2019–20. Galatasaray Cagdas Factoring and Gdynia VBW return for the first time since 2021–22, Sopron Basket and Spar Girona come back after three years.

First round

Group A

Pos Team Pld W L PF PA PD Pts Qualification GIR TAN PRA ARK
1 Spar Girona 6 5 1 489 387 +102 11 Second round 92–62 83–78 86–53
2 Tango Bourges Basket 6 4 2 421 394 +27 10 69–63 57–77 83–62
3 ZVVZ USK Praha 6 3 3 457 411 +46 9 60–75 43–78 102–67
4 VBW Gdynia 6 0 6 355 530 −175 6 EuroCup Women 65–90 57–72 51–97
Source: EuroLeague Women
Rules for classification: 1) Points; 2) Points difference; 3) Points scored.

Group B

Pos Team Pld W L PF PA PD Pts Qualification GAL SCH FLA SOP
1 Galatasaray Cagdas Faktoring 6 6 0 471 378 +93 12 Second round 73–70 77–73 104–54
2 Beretta Famila Schio 6 4 2 452 415 +37 10 61–72 74–57 82–65
3 Flammes Carolo Basket 6 2 4 419 410 +9 8 56–62 79–81 72–62
4 Sopron Basket 6 0 6 368 507 −139 6 EuroCup Women 64–83 69–84 54–82
Source: EuroLeague Women
Rules for classification: 1) Points; 2) Points difference; 3) Points scored.

Group C

Pos Team Pld W L PF PA PD Pts Qualification FEN VAL DVTK OLY
1 Fenerbahçe Opet 6 6 0 541 364 +177 12 Second round 71–49 113–65 94–73
2 Valencia Basket 6 4 2 497 399 +98 10 72–75 OT 81–58 99–57
3 DVTK HUN-Therm 6 1 5 389 514 −125 7[a] 58–89 64–99 87–63
4 Olympiacos SFP 6 1 5 383 533 −150 7[a] EuroCup Women 47–99 74–97 69–57
Source: EuroLeague Women
Rules for classification: 1) Points; 2) Points difference; 3) Points scored.
Notes:
  1. ^ a b DVTK HUN-Therm 144–132 Olympiacos SFP

Group D

Pos Team Pld W L PF PA PD Pts Qualification LAN REY CAS MER
1 Basket Landes 6 4 2 390 374 +16 10 Second round 63–57 70–73 66–55
2 Umana Reyer Venezia 6 4 2 407 405 +2 10 57–56 68–61 72–62
3 Casademont Zaragoza 6 3 3 444 417 +27 9 63–65 80–84 88–58
4 ÇIMSA CBK Mersin 6 1 5 399 444 −45 7 EuroCup Women 69–70 83–69 72–79
Source: EuroLeague Women
Rules for classification: 1) Points; 2) Points difference; 3) Points scored.

Second round

Group E

Pos Team Pld W L PF PA PD Pts Qualification GIR GAL SCH TAN PRA FLA
1 Spar Girona 8 7 1 653 527 +126 15 Semifinal play in 81–72 92–62 83–78
2 Galatasaray Cagdas Faktoring 8 7 1 606 504 +102 15 73–70 80–62 77–73
3 Beretta Famila Schio 8 5 3 623 574 +49 13 Quarterfinal play in 61–72 99–78 74–57
4 Tango Bourges Basket 8 5 3 568 531 +37 13 69–63 57–77 85–57
5 ZVVZ USK Praha 8 4 4 599 565 +34 12 60–75 64–55 43–78
6 Flammes Carolo Basket 8 2 6 544 578 −34 10 68–83 56–62 79–81
Updated to match(es) played on 17 December 2025. Source: EuroLeague Women
Rules for classification: 1) Points; 2) Points difference; 3) Points scored.

Group F

Pos Team Pld W L PF PA PD Pts Qualification FEN LAN REY VAL CAS DVTK
1 Fenerbahçe Opet 8 8 0 732 476 +256 16 Semifinal play in 96–48 71–49 113–65
2 Basket Landes 8 5 3 524 510 +14 13[a] 63–57 57–66 70–73
3 Umana Reyer Venezia 8 5 3 538 582 −44 13[a] Quarterfinal play in 57–56 68–61 83–81
4 Valencia Basket 8 5 3 626 526 +100 13[a] 72–75 OT 63–70 81–58
5 Casademont Zaragoza 8 4 4 578 575 +3 12 64–95 63–65 80–84
6 DVTK HUN-Therm 8 1 7 540 674 −134 9 58–89 70–77 64–99
Updated to match(es) played on 18 December 2025. Source: EuroLeague Women
Rules for classification: 1) Points; 2) Points difference; 3) Points scored.
Notes:
  1. ^ a b c Basket Landes 119–114 Umana Reyer Venezia, Basket Landes 57–66 Valencia Basket

Play ins

Semifinal play ins

Team 1 Series Team 2 Game 1 Game 2 Game 3
E1 F2
E2 F1

Quarterfinal play ins

Team 1 Series Team 2 Game 1 Game 2 Game 3
E3 F4
E4 F3


Final six

On 2 December 2024, the Pabellón Príncipe Felipe in Zaragoza was announced as the host of the final six for the next three years.[11]


2025–26 EuroLeague Women Champions

Team
title

Awards

EuroLeague MVP

Player Team Ref.

EuroLeague Final Four MVP

Player Team Ref.

All-EuroLeague Teams

First Team
Player Team
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Second Team
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Defensive Player of the Year

Player Team Ref.

Young Player of the Year

Player Team Ref.

Coach of the Year

Player Team Ref.

Best Play of the Season

Player Team Ref.

Club Excellence Award

Player Team Ref.

MVP of the Month

Month Player Team Ref.
October Iliana Rupert Fenerbahçe Opet [12]
November Julie Allemand Fenerbahçe Opet [13]
December
January
February

Team of the Month

Round PG SG SF PF C Ref.
October Julie Allemand
( Fenerbahçe Opet)
Klara Holm
( Spar Girona)
Kamiah Smalls
( Galatasaray Çağdaş Faktoring)
Iliana Rupert
( Fenerbahçe Opet)
Kayla Alexander
( Valencia Basket)
[14]
November Julie Allemand
( Fenerbahçe Opet)
Alix Duchet
( Tango Bourges Basket)
Dorka Juhász
( Galatasaray Çağdaş Faktoring)
Kayla Alexander
( Valencia Basket)
Jessica Shepard
( Beretta Famila Schio)
[15]
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MVP of the Round

First Round
Round PG SG SF PF C Ref.
1 Klara Holm
( Spar Girona)
Hind Ben Abdelkader
( Valencia Basket)
Eleanna Christinaki
( Olympiacos SFP)
Helena Pueyo
( Casademont Zaragoza)
Kayla Alexander
( Valencia Basket)
[16]
2 Tima Pouye
( Tango Bourges Basket)
Zala Friškovec
( Sopron Basket)
Eleanna Christinaki
( Olympiacos SFP)
Joyner Holmes
( Umana Reyer Venezia)
Iliana Rupert
( Fenerbahçe Opet)
[17]
3 Kaitlyn Chen
( ZVVZ USK Praha)
Kennedy Burke
( ÇIMSA CBK Mersin)
Valériane Ayayi
( ZVVZ USK Praha)
Dorka Juhász
( Galatasaray Çağdaş Faktoring)
Kayla Alexander
( Valencia Basket)
[18]
4 Julie Allemand
( Fenerbahçe Opet)
Justė Jocytė
( Spar Girona)
Iliana Rupert
( Fenerbahçe Opet)
Julie Vanloo
( ÇIMSA CBK Mersin)
Awak Kuier
( Galatasaray Çağdaş Faktoring)
[19]
5 Julie Allemand
( Fenerbahçe Opet)
Alix Duchet
( Tango Bourges Basket)
Kathryn Westbeld
( DVTK HUN-Therm)
Laeticia Amihere
( Spar Girona)
Jessica Shepard
( Beretta Famila Schio)
[20]
6 Alix Duchet
( Tango Bourges Basket)
Julie Allemand
( Fenerbahçe Opet)
Emma Meesseman
( Fenerbahçe Opet)
Jessica Shepard
( Beretta Famila Schio)
Kayla Alexander
( Valencia Basket)
[21]
Second Round
Round PG SG SF PF C Ref.
7 Carla Leite
( Casademont Zaragoza)
Tima Pouye
( Tango Bourges Basket)
Mariam Coulibaly
( Spar Girona)
Laeticia Amihere
( Spar Girona)
Iliana Rupert
( Fenerbahçe Opet)
[22]
8 Justė Jocytė
( Spar Girona)
Maria Conde
( Beretta Famila Schio)
Valériane Ayayi
( ZVVZ USK Praha)
Jessica Shepard
( Beretta Famila Schio)
Mariam Coulibaly
( Spar Girona)
[23]
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Notes

See also

References

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