2014–15 LEN Champions League | |
League: | LEN Champions League |
Sport: | Water Polo |
Duration: | 26 September 2014 to 30 May 2015 |
No Of Teams: | 12 (preliminary round) 26 (total) |
Mvp: | Sandro Sukno (Primorje Rijeka) |
Top Scorer: | Sandro Sukno 34 goals (Primorje Rijeka) |
Playoffs: | Final Six |
Playoffs Link: | 2014–15 LEN Champions League#Final Six (Barcelona) |
Finals Champ: | Pro Recco (8th title) |
Finals Mvp: | Felipe Perrone (CN Atlètic-Barceloneta) |
Seasonslist: | LEN Champions League |
Seasonslistnames: | Champions League |
Prevseason Link: | 2013–14 LEN Champions League |
Prevseason Year: | 2013–14 |
Nextseason Link: | 2015–16 LEN Champions League |
Nextseason Year: | 2015−16 |
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.
See also: 2014–15 LEN Champions League squads.
8 teams are directly qualified for the preliminary round.
Preliminary round | |||
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Jug | Spandau 04 | Eger | Partizan |
Atlètic-BarcelonetaTH | 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 |
The schedule of the competition is as follows.[1]
Phase | Round | First leg | Second leg |
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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 |
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.
CN Marseille has the right to organize the tournament.
Jadran Herceg Novi has the right to organize the tournament.
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.
Waspo Hannover has the right to organize the tournament.
Orvosegyetem SC has the right to organize the tournament.
HAVK Mladost has the right to organize the tournament.
Radnički Kragujevac has the right to organize the tournament.
Key to colors | |
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Seeded in qualification round III draw | |
Unseeded in qualification round III draw |
Group | width=175 | Winners | width=175 | Runners-up |
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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:
The first legs were played on 29 October, and the second legs were played on 12 November 2014.
See main article: 2014–15 LEN Champions League 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:
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.
Top three places in each group advance to Final Six |
Piscines Bernat Picornell, Barcelona, Spain
Quarter-finals----
5th place
Semi-finals----
Third place
Final
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Pro Recco | |||
Primorje | |||
Atlètic-Barceloneta | |||
Jug Dubrovnik | |||
Eger | |||
Szolnok |