The 2025–26 European Aquatics Champions League main round is played between 14 October and 11 December 2025 to determine the eight teams advancing to the Quarter-finals round of the 2025–26 European Aquatics Champions League.
Format The 16 teams were place into four groups of four. In each group, teams will play against each other home-and-away in a round-robin format. The top two teams in each group advanced to the Quarter-finals round.
Teams are ranked according to points (3 points for a win, 2 points for a penalty shootout win, 1 point for a penalty shootout loss, 0 points for a loss), and if tied on points, the following tiebreaking criteria are applied, in the order given, to determine the rankings:
Points in head-to-head matches among tied teams; Goal difference in head-to-head matches among tied teams; Goals scored in head-to-head matches among tied teams; Goal difference in all group matches; Goals scored in all group matches.
Draw
The draw was on 28 July 2025 in Zagreb, Croatia. The seeding was based on the men's club rankings. The only restriction was that clubs from the same country could not be drawn against each other. The six teams from the qualifiers were not known at the time of the draw and could not be drawn into the same group.https://europeanaquatics.org/champions-league-and-euro-cup-water-polo-draws-set-for-monday/https://europeanaquatics.org/dramatic-clashes-await-after-champions-league-and-euro-cup-draws/
Key to coloursGroup winners and runners-up advance to Quarter-finals round
+Pot 1TeamRankingPoints FTC-Telekom140,502.5 Pro Recco336,000432,985 Olympiacos SF Piraeus530,137.5 | +Pot 2TeamRankingPoints CN Marseille626,877.5 Jadran Split821,285 Radnički Kragujevac1412,240 CSM Oradea1511,627.5
+Pot 3TeamRankingPoints Waspo'98 Hannover2110,282.5 Jadran m:tel Herceg Novi229,442.5 Primorac Kotor258,835 Vasas SC1213,515
+Pot 4TeamRankingPoints HAVK Mladost Zagreb239,435 Novi Beograd237,935 KEIO CN Sabadell1019,127.5 AN Brescia721,942.5
Groups
Group A
Group B
Group C
Group D
Notes
See also 2025–26 European Aquatics Champions League 2025–26 European Aquatics Euro Cup 2025–26 European Aquatics Conference Cup 2025–26 European Aquatics Challenger Cup 2025 European Aquatics Super Cup 2025–26 European Aquatics Women's Champions League 2025–26 European Aquatics Women's Euro Cup 2025–26 European Aquatics Women's Conference Cup 2025–26 European Aquatics Women's Challenger Cup 2025 European Aquatics Women's Super Cup
References Preview reports ReferenceMatchday 1Matchday 2Matchday 3Matchday 4Matchday 5Matchday 6 Matchday reports ReferenceMatchday 1Matchday 1Matchday 2Matchday 2Matchday 3Matchday 3Matchday 4Matchday 4Matchday 5Matchday 5Matchday 6
External links
Official website