1998–99 EuroLeague Women

Last updated March 03, 2019

The 1998–99 Euroleague Women was the third edition of the Euroleague era of FIBA's premier international competition for European women's basketball clubs. It ran between 23 September 1998 and 8 April 1999.

The International Basketball Federation, more commonly known as FIBA, from its French name Fédération internationale de basket-ball, is an association of national organizations which governs the sport of basketball worldwide. Originally known as the Fédération internationale de basket-ball amateur, in 1989 it dropped the word amateur from its name but retained the acronym; the "BA" now represents the first two letters of basketball.

Basketball is a team sport in which two teams, most commonly of five players each, opposing one another on a rectangular court, compete with the primary objective of shooting a basketball through the defender's hoop while preventing the opposing team from shooting through their own hoop. A field goal is worth two points, unless made from behind the three-point line, when it is worth three. After a foul, timed play stops and the player fouled or designated to shoot a technical foul is given one or more one-point free throws. The team with the most points at the end of the game wins, but if regulation play expires with the score tied, an additional period of play (overtime) is mandated.

MBK Ruzomberok won its first title beating former champion Pool Comense in the final, becoming the first (and only to date) Slovak team to win the competition. Galatasaray and BTV Wuppertal also reached the Final Four, which took place in Brno, while defending champion CJM Bourges was knocked out by Ruzomberok in the quarterfinals.^[1]

Associazione Sportiva Dilettantistica Ginnastica Comense 1872 is an Italian multisports club from Como with athletics, basketball, fencing and gymnastics sections. It is best known for its women's basketball team, also known as Pool Comense 1872.

Slovakia, officially the Slovak Republic, is a landlocked country in Central Europe. It is bordered by Poland to the north, Ukraine to the east, Hungary to the south, Austria to the west, and the Czech Republic to the northwest. Slovakia's territory spans about 49,000 square kilometres (19,000 sq mi) and is mostly mountainous. The population is over 5.4 million and consists mostly of Slovaks. The capital and largest city is Bratislava, and the second largest city is Košice. The official language is Slovak.

Brno is the second largest city in the Czech Republic by population and area, the largest Moravian city, and the historical capital city of the Margraviate of Moravia. Brno is the administrative center of the South Moravian Region in which it forms a separate district. The city lies at the confluence of the Svitava and Svratka rivers and has about 400,000 inhabitants; its greater metropolitan area is home to more than 800,000 people while its larger urban zone had a population of about 730,000 in 2004.

Group stage

Group A

#	Team	Pld	W	L	PF	PA
1	Ruzomberok	14	10	4	1104	928
2	Wuppertal	14	10	4	1063	985
3	Hemofarm	14	10	4	1078	980
4	Pool Comense	14	9	5	1066	966
5	Valenciennes	14	8	6	1048	1020
6	Pécs	14	5	9	1004	1000
7	Panathinaikos	14	4	10	96	1131
8	Elitzur Ramla	14	0	14	873	1188

Group B

#	Team	Pld	W	L	PF	PA
1	Brno	14	12	2	1043	798
2	Galatasaray	14	11	3	928	873
3	Dynamo Moscow	14	11	3	1084	945
4	Bourges	14	8	6	913	814
5	Schio	14	5	9	898	932
6	Ježica	14	4	10	884	1040
7	Lotos Gdynia	14	3	11	850	1003
8	Wildcats	14	2	12	911	1106

Quarter-finals

Team #1	Agg.	Team #2	1st	2nd	3rd
Ruzomberok	2–1	Bourges	44–65	51–42	65–58
Wuppertal	2–1	Dynamo Moscow	73–80	73–63	67–58
Brno	0–2	Pool Comense	52–74	65–70
Galatasaray	2–1	Hemofarm	76–61	78–85	73–68

Final four

Brno, Czech Republic

Semi-finals			Final

6 April
Ruzomberok	54
Galatasaray	47

			8 April
			Ruzomberok	63
			Pool Comense	48


			Third place
6 April		8 April
Wuppertal	53	Galatasaray	62
Pool Comense	70		Wuppertal	53

Individual statistics

Points

Rank	Name	Team	PPG
1.	Sandra Brondello	Wuppertal	19.5
2.	Eleni Trialoni	Panathinaikos	19.4
3.	Andrea Stinson	Galatasaray	18.7
3.	Isabelle Fijalkowski	Pool Comense	18.7
5.	Victoria Savin	Elitzur Ramla	18.4

Rebounds

Rank	Name	Team	PPG
1.	Marlies Askamp	Wuppertal	12.3
2.	Kamila Vodicková	Brno	11.3
3.	Malgorzata Dydek	Lotos Gdynia	9.5
3.	Olga Pfeifer	Wildcats	9.4
5.	Natalia Svisceva	Ruzomberok	8.6

Assists

Rank	Name	Team	PPG
1.	Ana Belén Álvaro	Valenciennes	4.8
2.	Elena Ksendzhik	Dynamo Moscow	4.1
3.	Yannick Souvré	Bourges	3.5
4.	Shawna Molcak	Wildcats	2.9
4.	Iveta Bieliková	Ruzomberok	2.9

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References

↑ Results in FIBA Europe's website

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