The 2015–16 CEV Women's Champions League was the 57th edition of the

CEV Women's Champions League The Women's CEV Champions League, formerly known as CEV Champions Cup (from 1960 to 2000), is the top official competition for women's volleyball clubs of Europe and takes place every year. It is organized by the Confédération Européenne de V ...

, the highest level of European club volleyball.

Teams

The number of participants on the basis of ranking list for European Cup Competitions:

Format

League round

24 teams were drawn to 6 pools of 4 teams each.
The ''1st and 2nd'' qualified for the ''Playoff 12''
The organizer of the ''Final Four'' were determined after the end of the League Round and qualified directly for the Final Four.
The team of the organizer of the ''Final Four'' was replaced by the best 3rd ranked team with the best score. The next 4 third-placed teams will move to the Challenge Round of the

CEV Cup The CEV Cup is the second tier official competition for men's Volleyball clubs of Europe. The competition takes place every year. Until 2000, it was the CEV Cup Winners' Cup. In 2000 it was renamed CEV Top Teams Cup and in 2007 it was renamed CE ...

. The remaining teams will be eliminated. In the League Round, the placing of the teams is determined by the number of matches won. In case of a tie in the number of matches won by two or more teams, they will be ranked on the basis of the following criteria: *match points; *set quotient (the number of total sets won divided by the number of total sets lost); *points quotient (the number of total points scored divided by the number of total points lost); *results of head-to-head matches between the teams in question.

Playoff round

The playoffs will consist of two rounds: Playoff 12 and Playoff 6. Each round is played in two legs. If the teams are tied after two legs, a "Golden Set" is played. The winner is the team that first obtains 15 points, provided that the points difference between the two teams is at least 2 points (thus, the Golden Set is similar to a tiebreak set in a normal match). At each leg, points are awarded to the teams in the same manner as in the Group Round (3 for 3:0 or 3:1, 2 for 3:2 etc.). So, if team A defeat team B in the first leg 3:0 and lose in the second leg 1:3, team A does not advance to the next round (as it would have been expected on the basis of analogy with football competitions), but the two teams are tied with 3 points each, and a Golden Set is played. The three teams that win in Playoff 6 round advance to the Final Four along with the organizer of the Final Four.

Pools composition

The drawing of lots was held in

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on 2 July 2015. The 24 participated teams of the competition were divided by 4 pots based on the latest European Cups Ranking List and their National Rankings. Exception, the teams which received wild cards had to be in the 4th pot.

Squads

League round

*All times are local.

Pool A

Pool B

Pool C

Pool D

Pool E

Pool F

Ranking of third-placed teams

Playoffs

*All times are local.

Playoff 12

First leg

Second leg

Playoff 6

First leg

Second leg

Final four

*Organizer: Pomì Casalmaggiore *Venue:

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*All times are

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( UTC+02:00). *In case that two teams from the same country qualify for the semifinals, they will have to play each other.

Semifinals

3rd place match

Final

Final standing

Awards

*Most Valuable Player :

Francesca Piccinini Francesca Piccinini (born 10 January 1979 in Massa) is an Italian volleyball player who has represented Italy four times (2000, 2004, 2008 and 2012) at the Summer Olympics. She was a member of the Women's National Team that won the gold medal at ...

( Pomì Casalmaggiore) *Best Setter : Carli Lloyd ( Pomì Casalmaggiore) *Best Outside Spikers :

Kim Yeon-Koung Kim Yeon-Koung (, ; born 26 February 1988) is a South Korean professional volleyball player and a former member of the FIVB Athletes' Commission. She is an outside hitter and the former captain of the South Korean National Team. She announc ...

( Fenerbahçe Grundig Istanbul) : Kimberly Hill ( VakıfBank Istanbul) *Best Middle Blockers :

Eda Erdem Dündar Eda Erdem Dündar (, born Eda Erdem; 22 June 1987) is a Turkish professional volleyball player. She currently plays for both Fenerbahçe SK and the national team and is the captain of both teams. Career Eda Erdem has been playing for Fenerb ...

( Fenerbahçe Grundig Istanbul) :

Jovana Stevanović Jovana Stevanović (born 30 June 1992) is a Serbian professional volleyball Volleyball is a team sport in which two teams of six players are separated by a net. Each team tries to score points by grounding a ball on the other team's cou ...

( Pomì Casalmaggiore) *Best Opposite Spiker :

Margareta Kozuch Margareta "Maggie" Kozuch ( pl, Małgorzata Kożuch; born 30 October 1986) is a German female volleyball player who played for Atom Trefl Sopot, and previously played as a wing-spiker for TuS Berne Hamburg, CVMJ Hamburg, TV Fischbek (who chang ...

( Pomì Casalmaggiore) *Best Libero : Gizem Örge ( VakıfBank Istanbul)

References

External links

Official website
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