Current season, competition or edition: 2024 FIBA Europe SuperCup Women | |
Sport | Basketball |
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Founded | 2009 |
No. of teams | 2 |
Country | FIBA Europe member associations |
Most recent champion(s) | Fenerbahçe (2nd title) |
Most titles | UMMC Ekaterinburg (4 titles) |
Official website | fiba.basketball |
The SuperCup Women (or Women SuperCup) is a super cup competition organized by FIBA Europe and contested between the winners of EuroLeague Women and EuroCup Women.
The first edition of the Cup took place on October 20, 2009, and was contested between Spartak Moscow Region and Galatasaray in Vidnoye. In 2015 the SuperCup Women was played in a Final Four format between the finalists of EuroLeague Women and EuroCup Women.
In 2023, Fenerbahçe became the first and only Turkish club to date, to win the title by crushing France's LDLC ASVEL Féminin on their own homeground with a dominating victory and a point differential of 57, a record in the competition's history. [1]
Spartak Moscow Region and Beretta-Famila played on October 16, 2008 during 2008–09 EuroLeague Women as an unofficial SuperCup game [2] [3] .
Club | Winners | Winning years | Runners-up | Runner-up years |
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UMMC Ekaterinburg | 4 | 2013, 2016, 2018, 2019 | 2 | 2015, 2021 |
Spartak Moscow Region | 2 | 2009, 2010 | ||
Fenerbahçe | 2 | 2023, 2024 | ||
Perfumerías Avenida | 1 | 2011 | ||
ZVVZ USK Praha | 1 | 2015 | ||
Dynamo Kursk | 1 | 2017 | ||
Valencia Basket | 1 | 2021 | ||
Tango Bourges Basket | 1 | 2022 | ||
Galatasaray | 2 | 2009, 2018 | ||
Athinaikos | 1 | 2010 | ||
Elitzur Ramla | 1 | 2011 | ||
Dynamo Moscow | 1 | 2013 | ||
ESB Villeneuve-d'Ascq | 1 | 2016 | ||
Yakın Doğu Üniversitesi | 1 | 2017 | ||
Nadezhda Orenburg | 1 | 2019 | ||
Sopron Basket | 1 | 2022 | ||
LDLC ASVEL Féminin | 1 | 2023 | ||
Beşiktaş | 1 | 2024 |
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