We’re three weeks into group play in EuroLeague Women, meaning that each competing club has played every other club in their respective groups once. Per FIBA’s official EuroLeague competition system—freshly updated for the 2024-25 season—they’ll now do it again in round robin fashion, repeating their previous matchups on different home courts, before before the first round of group play officially ends and the qualifying clubs advance to the second round.
Though there are three more weeks to go, we already have a good idea of which clubs are going to be advancing. Reigning EuroLeague Women champions Fenerbahçe Opet and ÇBK Mersin (both based in Turkey) were heavily favored entering the 2024-25 season, and they’re the only two clubs in the competition that still have undefeated records in group play. They also occupy the top two positions in FIBA’s latest EuroLeague Women power rankings.
Fenerbahçe’s and Mersin’s pursuits of group play perfection are just two of many EuroLeague Women storylines to follow this week. Since every game will be a rematch from Week 1, we’ll get to see plenty of adjustments made, particularly from the clubs who lost their opening-week matchups. There are also a handful of players, such as Brionna Jones (ZVVZ USK Praha),…
