The EuroCup Women is the second-caliber professional basketball

Basketball

Basketball is a team sport in which two teams of five players try to score points by throwing or "shooting" a ball through the top of a basketball hoop while following a set of rules...

 league with teams from Europe

Europe

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an clubs from national leagues joined in FIBA Europe

FIBA Europe

FIBA Europe is a zone within the International Basketball Federation which includes all 49 national European basketball federations.-Division A:-Division B: -Division C:...

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It succeeds the Ronchetti Cup

Ronchetti Cup

The Ronchetti Cup was an annual basketball European club competition held by FIBA between the years 1972 and 2002...

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System of competition

As for the EuroLeague Women

EuroLeague Women

The EuroLeague Women is the highest professional basketball league in Europe for women’s clubs.Unlike Euroleague for men, the competition is entirely organized by FIBA Europe.-Between 2004-2011:...

, the EuroCup had a Final Four to appoint the winner from 2003 (year of creation) to 2005. In 2006, this system is abandoned and we go back to the former format of the Ronchetti Cup

Ronchetti Cup

The Ronchetti Cup was an annual basketball European club competition held by FIBA between the years 1972 and 2002...

, that is to say a final in a home and away game.

EuroCup winners

Year	Place (Final Four)	Winner	Runner-Up	1st game	2nd game
2003	Samara Samara, Russia Samara , is the sixth largest city in Russia. It is situated in the southeastern part of European Russia at the confluence of the Volga and Samara Rivers. Samara is the administrative center of Samara Oblast. Population: . The metropolitan area of Samara-Tolyatti-Syzran within Samara Oblast...	Pays d'Aix-en-Provence	Las Palmas de Gran Canaria	80–71	-
2004	İstanbul Istanbul Istanbul , historically known as Byzantium and Constantinople , is the largest city of Turkey. Istanbul metropolitan province had 13.26 million people living in it as of December, 2010, which is 18% of Turkey's population and the 3rd largest metropolitan area in Europe after London and...	Baltiyskaya Zvezda Saint Petersburg	Szolnoki MÁV Coop	68–64	-
2005	Naples Naples Naples is a city in Southern Italy, situated on the country's west coast by the Gulf of Naples. Lying between two notable volcanic regions, Mount Vesuvius and the Phlegraean Fields, it is the capital of the region of Campania and of the province of Naples...	Phard Napoli	Fenerbahçe İstanbul Fenerbahçe Istanbul Fenerbahçe Women's Basketball is the women's basketball department of Fenerbahçe S.K., a major sports club based in Istanbul, Turkey.Fenerbahçe play their matches in the 1.500-seated Caferağa Sport Hall...	53–45	-
2006	–	WBC Spartak Moscow	Pays d'Aix-en-Provence	80–*65	*72–66
2007	–	Dynamo Moscow	CA Faenza	74–*61	*76–56
2008	–	Beretta Famila Schio	BC Moscow	87*–67	78–*69
2009	–	Galatasaray İstanbul Galatasaray Women's Basketball Team Galatasaray Medical Park is the women's basketball section of Galatasaray S.K., a major sports club in Istanbul, Turkey. The club is sponsored by Medical Park....	Cras Basket Taranto	55–*67	*82–61
2010	–	Athinaikos Sony Athinaikos Athens Sony Athinaikos Athens is the women's professional basketball team of Athens-based multi-sports club Athinaikos, founded in 1917. The team currently participates in the EuroCup, that it won in 2010.-Roster:...	Nadezhda Orenburg	65–*57	53–*57
2011	–	Elitzur Ramla Elitzur Ramla (women's basketball) -History:In March 2011, Elitzur Ramla won the EuroCup Women, after a 61-53 triumph against ASPTT Arras from France. It is considered the best team in the history of Israeli women's basketball...	ASPTT Arras ASPTT Arras ASPTT Arras is a women's basketball team from France. The team is based in the city of Arras.- Staff :2010-2011 roster...	*61-61	*53-61

* precedes the score of the team playing at home.

External links

EuroCup at FIBA Europe