Ekaterinburg and Schio will be rivals for Spar Girona if they win a place in the Euroleague

Spar Girona need to beat Sepsi in the previous phase to play in the Euroleague for the second consecutive season. The qualifier is scheduled for September 23 and 30, with the return to Fontajau, but yesterday FIBA ​​already drew the groups from both the top continental competition and the Eurocup. If Uni is able to beat the Romanian team, it will be integrated into Group B of the Euroleague, where they will find rivals of the potential of Russian Ekaterinburg, traditionally the most powerful team in women’s basketball, the Schio, the Landes or the Galatasaray. The other rivals would be Sopron, TT Riga and Bourges.

While the difficulty is obvious, on paper perhaps Group A is even more powerful, with Kursk, Prague, Fenerbahçe, Orenburg, Perfumerías Avenida, Asvel Lyon, Arka Gydnia and the winner of the preliminaries between the Hungarian Miskolc and the Turkish Izmit. Uni, who were second in the Women’s League when the competition ended last year in a hurry due to the state of alarm decreed by the health crisis, must win a place in the Euroleague in a preliminary, which that doesn’t happen to him on the Avenue, because he was the leader of the tournament.

The continental draws were held yesterday in Munich, at the FIBA ​​headquarters. Girona also knew what their possible rivals would be in the event that Sepsi deprived them of playing in the Euroleague. In this case, Eric Surís’ team would automatically move to the second European competition, the Eurocup, where they would have as travel companions Cadí La Seu, French Villeneuve and the winner of the preliminary round between the Belgian Namur and the Luxembourg Grengewald in Group G.

The Euroleague debut would be on October 14 in Fontajau against Galatasaray, according to the schedule made public by the International Federation. The group stage will last until February 24, and Uni would close it at home against Sopron. In any case, FIBA ​​has not yet made a final decision on when it will start the European tournaments and wait until September. If the health crisis recommends it, the calendar could be recomposed and tournaments started in January 2021, waiting for the pandemic to come under control. Uni, no matter what happens in Europe, will make their debut this season in an official match on September 6 against Cadí in the final of the Catalan League at the Palau Blaugrana.