With the second round of qualifying games for FIBA’s Women’s EuroBasket 2025 competition about to begin, the 2024-25 EuroLeague Women season is currently on a brief hiatus. During what is known as the “national team break,” many clubs across Europe will get the next couple of weeks off as their players compete for their respective national teams in these qualifiers.
Given the small break in the action, let’s run through what’s happened in group play thus far and what (and who) to watch for when the games resume in late November.
Mersin, Fenerbahçe and Valencia are advancing to the second round
Among the changes to the competition system for the 2024-25 EuroLeague Women season was the introduction of a second phase to group play, at which point the field narrows to the top-ranked clubs from the first phase. The goal of this change was to “raise the stakes” of games throughout the season, ideally by eliminating weaker clubs from the competition earlier on and diversifying the number of possible matchups between the stronger ones.
Though there are still two weeks remaining in the first phase of group play, several clubs have already qualified for the next round:
- Group B: ÇBK Mersin and Žabiny Brno
- Group C: Fenerbahçe Opet and Casademont Zaragoza
