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1996–97 EuroLeague Women

The 1997 Euroleague Women was the inaugural edition of the competition, a refoundation of the FIBA Women's European Champions Cup, FIBA Europe's premier competition for women's basketball clubs. Running from 2 October 1996 to 10 April 1997, the competition was turned from a European Cup for all national champion clubs to a 16-team semi-closed championship, with champions from lower-seeded national leagues playing instead the second tier Ronchetti Cup; in addition to thirteen national champions the French, German and Italian runners-up were also granted a spot. Other than suppressing the two qualifying rounds, the competition system was the same as that of the 1996 European Cup.

Bourges Basket defeated defending champion BTV Wuppertal to become the first French team to win the competition since the European Cup's foundation in 1959. The Final Four, which took place in Larissa, was contested by the same four teams as the previous edition's, with Ružomberok beating Pool Comense for the bronze.

Preliminary round

Group A

#	Team	Pld	W	L	PF	PA
1	ESP Pool Getafe	14	13	1	1183	952
2	FRA Valenciennes Olympic	14	11	3	1108	992
3	SVK Ružomberok	14	11	3	1093	955
4	TUR Galatasaray	14	7	7	945	963
5	HUN Pécs	14	5	9	976	1076
6	GER Wildcats Aschaffenburg	14	4	10	979	1017
7	ITA Ahena	14	3	11	885	1063
8	CRO Croatia Zagreb	14	2	12	939	1090

Group B

#	Team	Pld	W	L	PF	PA
1	FRA Bourges	14	11	3	1035	855
2	CZE Brno	14	10	4	1155	1119
3	ITA Pool Comense	14	10	4	1161	1069
4	GER Wuppertal	14	9	5	1053	957
5	GRE Sporting Athens	14	7	7	1059	1010
6	SVN Ježica	14	3	11	919	1052
7	ISR Elitzur Ramla	14	3	11	963	1062
8	UKR Dynamo Kyiv	14	3	11	868	1059

Quarter-finals

Team #1	Agg.	Team #2	1st	2nd	3rd
Pool Getafe Spain	0–2	Germany Wuppertal	78–89	66–89
Valencienns Olympic FRA	1–2	ITA Pool Comense	82–74	55–108	68–81
Bourges FRA	2–0	TUR Galatasaray	83–33	72–68
Brno CZE	0–2	SVK Ružomberok	59–87	57–63

Final four

Larissa, Greece

References

[http://www.fibaeurope.com/cid_086xifmFIlQMh4,zBYog00.html List of finals, 1959-91] in [[FIBA Europe]]'s website
[http://www.fibaeurope.com/cid_KNce8jInH7Qj1EsyH5rjn2.season_1997.compID_jr6ZiXqeGhMBtfq1yxqV83.html Results] in FIBA Europe's website

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