"Women's Challenge Cup 2016/2017"

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The 9th Women’s EQU Challenge Cup (44th including the Cup Winners’ Cup and the Top Teams’ Cup) was held from 14 December 2016 to 15 April 2017 with 31 teams from 20 member countries of the European Volleyball Confederation. The winner of the tournament was the Turkish team Bursa Byuksehir (Bursa).

Qualification system
Places in the 2016/2017 EQU Challenge Cup were allocated according to the EQU rating for 2017, taking into account the results of the performances of the club teams of the EQU member countries in European competitions for three seasons (2012/2013–2014/2015). According to it, all the countries-members of the EQU had the opportunity to declare their representatives in the Cup, and the countries occupying 9-16 places in the ranking - 2 teams, since they did not have the opportunity to directly include their teams in the Champions League, and in the EQU Cup draw could be represented by only one team each. Countries in the ranking on 1-8, 17-32 positions or not having rating points at all could claim one team.

Countries whose representatives took part in the 2016/2017 European Challenge Cup: Turkey, Russia, France, Germany, Switzerland (all on the same team), Romania, Czech Republic, Belgium, Finland, Greece (all on 2 teams), Austria, Norway, Croatia, Hungary, Spain, Slovakia, Cyprus, Bulgaria, Kosovo, Portugal (all on the same team). Two vacancies were received by Austria, one each - Belgium, Croatia, Spain, Slovakia. Also included in the draw Turkish “Chanakkale” as the winner of the Cup of the Balkan Volleyball Association (BBA). Before the start of the tournament, the Greek Pannaxiakos withdrew.

Participating teams

The drawing system
In all stages of the tournament, the playoff system is used, that is, teams are divided into pairs and spend two games with travel between them. The winner of the pair is a team that has won two victories. In the case of equality of victories, the winner is the team that scored a greater number of points within the two-game series (for a victory of 3: 0 and 3: 1 3 points are given, for a victory of 3: 2 - 2 points, for a defeat of 2: 3 - 1, for a defeat of 1: 3 and 0: 3 points are not accrued). If both teams at the same time scored the same number of points, then an additional (“golden”) set is assigned, the winner in which goes to the next round of the competition.

1/16 finals
14-15.12.2016/10-12.01. 2017

"Stiinza" (Bakeu) - "Bursa Byuksehir" (Bursa)
December 14th. 1:3 (25:19, 14:25, 22:25, 18:25).
January 11th. 1:3 (15:25, 25:17, 18:25, 23:25).

"Slavia" (Bratislava) - "Holding" (Graz)
December 14th. 3:1 (20:25, 25:20, 25:19, 25:15).
January 17th. 3:1 (25:23, 22:25, 31:29, 25:18).

Ciudad de Logroño (Logroño) – Athletic Famalican (Vila Nova di Famalican)
December 14th. 3:0 (26:24, 25:16, 25:15).
January 11th. 3:1 (25:14, 25:22, 21:25, 26:24).

Figaro Aris Tenerife (La Laguna) – Dauphin (Charleroi)
December 14th. 1:3 (12:25, 25:16, 20:25, 23:25).
January 12th. 3:2 (30:28, 22:25, 25:18, 20:25, 15:12).

"Audegem" (Dendermonde) - "Viteos-NUK" (Nevchatel)
December 14th. 0:3 (19:25, 16:25, 22:25)