| 2016–17 LEN Champions League | |
| League: | LEN Champions League |
| Sport: | Water Polo |
| Duration: | 30 September 2016 to 27 May 2017 |
| No Of Teams: | 12 (preliminary round) 31 (total) |
| Mvp: |  Felipe Perrone (Jug Dubrovnik) |
| Top Scorer: | Felipe Perrone 42 goals (Jug Dubrovnik) |
| Playoffs: | Final Six |
| Finals Champ: |  Szolnok (1st title) |
| Finals Runner-Up: | Jug |
| Finals Mvp: |  Andrija Prlainovic (Szolnok) |
| Seasonslist: | LEN Champions League |
| Seasonslistnames: | Champions League |
| Prevseason Link: | 2015–16 LEN Champions League |
| Prevseason Year: | 2015–16 |
| Nextseason Link: | 2017–18 LEN Champions League |
| Nextseason Year: | 2017–18 |
The 2016–17 LEN Champions League was the 54th edition of LEN's premier competition for men's water polo clubs. It ran from 30 September 2016 to 27 May 2017.
See also: 2016–17 LEN Champions League squads. 8 teams are directly qualified for the preliminary round.
| Preliminary round | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| JugTH | Spandau 04 | Szolnok | Partizan |
| Atlètic-Barceloneta | Olympiacos |  Pro Recco |  Olympic Nice |
| Qualification round II | |||
| Primorje | Duisburg | Eger | Crvena zvezda |
| Sabadell | Vouliagmeni | Brescia | Marseille |
| Qualification round I | |||
| Mornar |  Sintez Kazan |  Jadran | Waspo 98 Hannover |
| Verona | Orvosegyetem | Portuense |  Valletta |
| Utrecht |  Oradea |  Galatasaray |  Arkonia Szczecin |
| Barendrecht | Steaua București | Enkaspor | |
The schedule of the competition is as follows.[1]
| Phase | Round | First leg | Second leg | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Qualifying | Qualification round I | 30 September–2 October 2016 | ||
| Qualification round II | 14–16 October 2016 | |||
| Qualification round III (play-off round) | 26 October 2016 | 9 November 2016 | ||
| Preliminary round | Matchday 1 | 30 November 2016 | ||
| Matchday 2 | 10 December 2016 | |||
| Matchday 3 | 21 December 2016 | |||
| Matchday 4 | 18 January 2017 | |||
| Matchday 5 | 8 February 2017 | |||
| Matchday 6 | 18 February 2017 | |||
| Matchday 7 | 1 March 2017 | |||
| Matchday 8 | 22 March 2017 | |||
| Matchday 9 | 5 April 2017 | |||
| Matchday 10 | 26 April 2017 | |||
| Final 6< | -- (Budapest) --> | Quarter-finals | 25 May 2017 | |
| Semi-finals | 26 May 2017 | |||
| Final | 27 May 2017 | |||
Fifteen teams take part in the Qualification round I. They were drawn into three groups of four teams and one group of three teams, whose played on 30 September−2 October 2016. Top 2 teams of each group advance to qualification round II.[2]
Tournament was played in Oradea, Romania.
Tournament was played in Budapest, Hungary.
Tournament was played in Porto, Portugal.
Tournament was played in Valletta, Malta.
Sixteen teams take part in the Qualification round II. Eight teams from first round and eight teams with wild cards. They were drawn into four groups of four teams, whose played on 14−16 October 2016. Top 2 teams of each group advance to qualification round III.[3]
Tournament was played in Eger, Hungary.
Tournament was played in Brescia, Italy.
Tournament was played in Herceg Novi, Montenegro.
Tournament was played in Rijeka, Croatia.
Eight teams 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:
| Key to colors | |
|---|---|
| Seeded in qualification round III draw | |
| Unseeded in qualification round III draw |
| Group | width=175 | Winners | width=175 | Runners-up |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| E | Verona | Eger | ||
| F | Brescia | Orvosegyetem | ||
| G | Waspo 98 Hannover | Jadran | ||
| H | Primorje | Oradea |
|}
The regular season was played between 30 November 2016 and 26 April 2017. 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 30 November, 10 December, 21 December 2016 and 18 January, 8 February, 18 February, 1 March, 22 March, 5 April, 26 April 2017. The top three teams advanced to the final six.
The Final Six (quarterfinals, semifinals, third place game and final) were played in Budapest, Hungary from 25 to 27 May 2017.
Danube Arena, Budapest, Hungary
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| Viktor Nagy, Márton Vámos, Živko Gocić, Tamás Mezei, Aaron Younger, Dénes Varga, Milan Aleksić, Andrija Prlainović, Ugo Crousillat, Gábor Kis, David Jansik, Peter Kotlar, Patrik Bagi, Zlotan Hangay, Istvan Kardos, Zsombor Szeghalmi, Tamas Bodoroczki, Kristof Szatmari, Bence Fulop, | |
| Head coach | |
| Sándor Cseh |
| width=25 | width=220 | Team | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Szolnok | |||
| Jug | |||
| Pro Recco | |||
| Eger | |||
| Brescia | |||
| Olympiacos |
| Total 7 of the Season | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| [6] | LW | Andrija Prlainović (Szolnok) | CF | Luka Lončar(Jug) | RW | Márton Vámos(Szolnok) |
| LD | Felipe Perrone (Jug) | CB | Aleksandar Ivović (Pro Recco) | RD | Filip Filipović (Pro Recco) | |
| GK | Marko Bijač (Jug) | |||||