2014–15 LEN Champions League

The 2014–15 LEN Champions League was the 52nd edition of LEN's premier competition for men's water polo clubs. It ran 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) took 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-BarcelonetaTH Olympiacos Brescia Galatasaray Qualification round II Primorje Szolnok Crvena Zvezda İstanbul YİK Duisburg Pro ReccoQualification 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.

PhaseRoundFirst legSecond legQualifyingQualification round I26–28 September 2014Qualification round II17–19 October 2014Qualification round III (Play-off round)29 October 201412 November 2014Preliminary roundMatchday 129 November 2014Matchday 217 December 2014Matchday 314 January 2015Matchday 428 January 2015Matchday 511 February 2015Matchday 64 March 2015Matchday 725 March 2015Matchday 88 April 2015Matchday 918 April 2015Matchday 102 May 2015Final 6(Barcelona)Quarter-finals28 May 2015 at Piscines PicornellSemi-finals29 May 2015 at Piscines PicornellFinal30 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 colors in group tablesProgress to the Round II

Group A CN Marseille has the right to organize the tournament.

Group B Jadran Herceg Novi has the right to organize the tournament.

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 colors in group tablesProgress to the Round III

Group C Waspo Hannover has the right to organize the tournament.

Group D Orvosegyetem SC has the right to organize the tournament.

Group E HAVK Mladost has the right to organize the tournament.

Group F Radnički Kragujevac has the right to organize the tournament.

Qualification round III 29 October 2014 1st match 12 November 2014 2nd match Key to colorsSeeded in qualification round III drawUnseeded in qualification round III draw GroupWinnersRunners-upC Pro Recco Crvena ZvezdaD Orvosegyetem OradeaE Primorje MladostF 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.

Preliminary round

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

Group B

Final Six (Barcelona) Piscines Bernat Picornell, Barcelona, Spain

Quarter-finals

5th place

Semi-finals

Third place

Final

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 PastorinoHead coachIgor Milanović

Final standings

Team Pro Recco Primorje Atlètic-Barceloneta Jug Dubrovnik Eger Szolnok

Awards Player of the Season Top ScorerPlayer of the Final Six Sandro Sukno (Primorje Rijeka) Sandro Sukno(Primorje Rijeka) 34 goals Felipe Perrone(CN Atlètic-Barceloneta)

See also 2014–15 LEN Euro Cup

References

External links LEN Champions League (official website)