2014–15 LEN Champions League

2014-15 LEN Champions League
League	LEN Champions League
Sport	Water Polo
Duration	26 September 2014 to 30 May 2015
Number of teams	12 (Preliminary Round) 26 (total)
Final Six
Finals champions	Pro Recco (8th title)
Runners-up	Primorje

The 2014–15 LEN Champions League is the ongoing 52nd edition of LEN's premier competition for men's water polo clubs. It is scheduled to run from 26 September 2014 to 30 May 2015, and it is contested by 26 teams from 13 countries. The Final Six (quarterfinals, semifinals, final, and third place game) will take place on May 28 and May 30 in Barcelona.

Overview

Team allocation

8 teams are directly qualified for the Preliminary Round.

Preliminary Round
Jug	Spandau 04	Eger	Partizan
Atlètic-Barceloneta^TH	Olympiacos	Brescia	Galatasaray
Qualification round II
Primorje	Szolnok	Crvena Zvezda	İstanbul YİK
Duisburg	Pro Recco
Qualification round I
Mladost	Ligamus Tbilisi	Posillipo	Spartak Volgograd
Montpellier	Waspo 98 Hannover	Jadran	Sintez Kazan
Marseille	Orvosegyetem	Oradea	Radnički Kragujevac

Round and draw dates

The schedule of the competition is as follows.^[1]

Phase	Round	First leg	Second leg
Qualifying	Qualification round I	26–28 September 2014
	Qualification round II	17–19 October 2014
	Qualification round III (Play-off round)	29 October 2014	12 November 2014
Preliminary Round	Matchday 1	29 November 2014
	Matchday 2	17 December 2014
	Matchday 3	14 January 2015
	Matchday 4	28 January 2015
	Matchday 5	11 February 2015
	Matchday 6	4 March 2015
	Matchday 7	25 March 2015
	Matchday 8	8 April 2015
	Matchday 9	18 April 2015
	Matchday 10	2 May 2015
Final 6 (Barcelona)	Quarter-finals	28 May 2015 at Piscines Picornell
	Semi-finals	29 May 2015 at Piscines Picornell
	Final	30 May 2015 at Piscines Picornell

Qualifying rounds

Qualification round I

• 26-28 September

Twelve teams will take part in the Qualification round I. They will be drawn into two groups of six teams, whose played on 26–28 September 2014. Top 5 teams of each group advance to qualification round II. Teams finishing 6th continue in 2014–15 LEN Euro Cup qualification.

Key to colours in group tables
Progress to the Round II

Group A

CN Marseille has the right to organize the tournament.

Team Pld W D L GF GA GD Pts Orvosegyetem 5 4 1 0 61 29 +32 13 Spartak Volgograd 5 4 1 0 68 46 +22 13 Radnički Kragujevac 5 3 0 2 47 37 +10 9 Marseille 5 2 0 3 55 51 +4 6 Posillipo 5 1 0 4 40 51 −11 3 Ligamus Tbilisi 5 0 0 5 28 85 −57 0 Group B Jadran Herceg Novi has the right to organize the tournament. Team Pld W D L GF GA GD Pts Mladost 5 5 0 0 57 35 +22 15 Sintez Kazan 5 4 0 1 53 43 +10 12 Jadran 5 2 1 2 40 40 0 7 Waspo 98 Hannover 5 1 1 3 46 56 −10 4 Oradea 5 0 3 2 36 44 −8 3 Montpellier 5 0 1 4 40 54 −14 1 Qualification round II 17-19 October Sixteen teams will take part in the Qualification round II. These clubs will form four groups of four and will have round robin tournaments at four host cities on 17-19 October. Top 2 of these groups advance to play-off (qualification round 3), Teams finishing 3rd, 4th continue in 2014–15 LEN Euro Cup qualification. Key to colours in group tables Progress to the Round III Group C Waspo Hannover has the right to organize the tournament. Team Pld W D L GF GA GD Pts Pro Recco 3 3 0 0 45 19 +26 9 Crvena Zvezda 3 1 0 2 30 32 −2 3 Spartak Volgograd 3 1 0 2 26 38 −12 3 Waspo Hannover 3 1 0 2 26 38 −12 3 Group D Orvosegyetem SC has the right to organize the tournament. Team Pld W D L GF GA GD Pts Orvosegyetem 3 3 0 0 36 27 +9 9 Oradea 3 2 0 1 36 32 +4 6 Sintez Kazan 3 1 0 2 38 37 +1 3 Duisburg 3 0 0 3 29 43 −14 0 Group E HAVK Mladost has the right to organize the tournament. Team Pld W D L GF GA GD Pts Primorje 3 3 0 0 35 18 +17 9 Mladost 3 1 1 1 24 24 0 4 Jadran 3 1 1 1 20 24 −4 4 Marseille 3 0 0 3 24 37 −13 0 Group F Radnički Kragujevac has the right to organize the tournament. Team Pld W D L GF GA GD Pts Radnički Kragujevac 3 3 0 0 39 18 +21 9 Szolnok 3 2 0 1 41 27 +14 6 Posillipo 3 1 0 2 23 29 −6 3 İstanbul YİK 3 0 0 3 20 49 −29 0 Qualification round III 29 October 2014 1st match 12 November 2014 2nd match Key to colours Seeded in qualification round III draw Unseeded in qualification round III draw Group Winners Runners-up C Pro Recco Crvena Zvezda D Orvosegyetem Oradea E Primorje Mladost F Radnički Kragujevac Szolnok Eight teams will take part in the Qualification round III. These teams played against each other over two legs on a home-and-away basis. The mechanism of the draws for each round was as follow: In the draw for the Qualification round III, the four group winners were seeded, and the four group runners-up were unseeded. The seeded teams were drawn against the unseeded teams, with the seeded teams hosting the second leg. Teams from the same group could not be drawn against each other. The first legs were played on 29 October, and the second legs were played on 12 November 2014. Team 1 Agg. Team 2 1st leg 2nd leg Orvosegyetem 20–22 Szolnok 11–11 9–11 Pro Recco 22–14 Mladost 13–9 9–5 Crvena Zvezda 19–29 Primorje 11–14 8–15 Radnički Kragujevac 22–18 Oradea 13–8 9–10 Preliminary Round Barceloneta Brescia Olympiacos Eger Radnički Pro Recco Partizan Jug Spandau Galatasaray Szolnok Primorje Location of teams of the 2014–15 LEN Champions League group stage. Red: Group A; Blue: Group B. 29 November 2014 --> 2 May 2015 The regular season was played between 29 November 2014 and 2 May 2015. If teams are level on record at the end of the Preliminary Round, tiebreakers are applied in the following order: Head-to-head record. Head-to-head point differential. Point differential during the Regular Season. Points scored during the regular season. Sum of quotients of points scored and points allowed in each Regular Season match. In each group, teams played against each other home-and-away in a round-robin format. The matchdays were 29 November, 17 December 2014, 14 January, 28 January, 11 February, 4 March, 25 March, 8 April, 18 April, and 2 May 2015. The top three teams advanced to the final six. The Final Six (quarterfinals, semifinals, third place game and final) will be played in Barcelona, Spain from 28 to 30 May 2015. Key to colors      Top three places in each group advance to Final Six Group A Team Pld W D L GF GA GD Pts Pro Recco 10 10 0 0 129 68 +61 30 Eger 10 5 1 4 82 79 +3 16 Olympiacos 10 4 1 5 90 95 −5 13 Atlètic-Barceloneta (H) 10 3 2 5 75 103 −28 11 Radnički Kragujevac 10 3 0 7 81 105 −24 9 Brescia 10 2 2 6 71 78 −7 8 (H) Host Final Six   BAR BRE EGE OLY RAD REC Atlètic-Barceloneta – 7–7 7–7 12–8 9–7 7–15 Brescia 12–4 – 3−7 9–9 9–6 5–6 Eger 11–6 10–5 – 10–9 7–6 4–12 Olympiacos 7–9 8–6 8−6 – 13–7 8–12 Radnički Kragujevac 12−7 13−10 12–11 7–8 – 5–12 Pro Recco 17−7 8–5 11–9 17–12 19–6 – Group B Team Pld W D L GF GA GD Pts Primorje 10 8 0 2 114 74 +40 24 Szolnok 10 8 0 2 122 90 +32 24 Jug 10 7 1 2 94 73 +21 22 Partizan 10 3 0 7 76 100 −24 9 Spandau 04 10 2 0 8 70 109 −39 6 Galatasaray 10 1 1 8 93 123 −30 4   GAL JUG PAR PRI SPA SZO Galatasaray – 12–12 11–14 4–10 11–8 12–17 Jug 11−5 – 13–6 9–6 12–6 11–9 Partizan 10–7 3–5 – 7–11 8–6 7–13 Primorje 16–11 10–5 14−8 – 11−5 9–7 Spandau 04 10−9 8–9 8–6 5–15 – 7–17 Szolnok 15–11 8−7 12–7 13–12 11–7 – Final Six (Barcelona) Piscines Bernat Picornell, Barcelona, Spain   Quarterfinals 28 May 2015 Semifinals 29 May 2015 Final 30 May 2015                             B1   Primorje 10   A2   Eger 8   B3   Jug Dubrovnik 9   B3   Jug Dubrovnik 10     B1   Primorje 7   A1   Pro Recco 8 A1   Pro Recco 12 A3   Atlètic-Barceloneta (pen) 10   A3   Atlètic-Barceloneta 11   B2   Szolnok 9   5th place Third place A2   Eger 8 A3   Jug Dubrovnik 12 B2   Szolnok 7 B3   Atlètic-Barceloneta 14 Quarter-finals 28 May 18:00 Report Eger 8–10 Jug Dubrovnik Piscines Bernat Picornell, Barcelona Referees: Alexandrescu, Naumov Score by quarters: 1–2, 2–2, 2–3, 3–3 Szívós, Vapenski 2 Goals Bušlje 3 28 May 19:30 Report Atlètic-Barceloneta 10–9 Szolnok Piscines Bernat Picornell, Barcelona Referees: Margeta, Schwartz Score by quarters: 2–1, 2–1, 2–1, 0–3  OT: pen. 4–3 six players 1 Goals Madaras 3 5th place 29 May 16:30 Report Eger 8–7 Szolnok Piscines Bernat Picornell, Barcelona Referees: Naumov, Schwartz Score by quarters: 3–1, 1–3, 3–2, 1–1 three players 2 Goals Dé. Varga 4 Semi-finals 29 May 18:00 Report Jug Dubrovnik 9–10 Primorje Piscines Bernat Picornell, Barcelona Referees: Margeta, Alexandrescu Score by quarters: 2–2, 3–2, 2–4, 2–2 Janović 3 Goals Sukno 4 29 May 19:30 Report Atlètic-Barceloneta 11–12 Pro Recco Piscines Bernat Picornell, Barcelona Referees: Koryzna, Stavridis Score by quarters: 3–2, 4–3, 3–5, 1–2 Perrone 4 Goals Filipović 5 Third place 30 May 18:00 Report Jug Dubrovnik 12–14 Atlètic-Barceloneta Piscines Bernat Picornell, Barcelona Referees: Naumov, Alexandrescu Score by quarters: 5–3, 3–5, 1–3, 3–3 Obradović 4 Goals Perrone 4 Final 30 May 19:30 Report Primorje 7–8 Pro Recco Piscines Bernat Picornell, Barcelona Referees: Margeta, Stavridis Score by quarters: 3–1, 0–2, 2–4, 2–1 Sukno 3 Goals three players 2 2014-15 Champions League Champions Pro Recco 8th Title Stefano Tempesti, Andrija Prlainović, Maro Joković, Pietro Figlioli, Alex Giorgetti, Duško Pijetlović, Massimo Giacoppo, Matteo Aicardi, Francesco Di Fulvio, Filip Filipović, Aleksandar Ivović, Niccolò Gitto, Giacomo Pastorino Head Coach Igor Milanović Final standings Team Pro Recco Primorje Atlètic-Barceloneta Jug Dubrovnik Eger Szolnok See also 2014–15 LEN Euro Cup References "LEN Club Competition Programme Season 2014/2015" (PDF). External links LEN Champions League (official website)