2017–18_LEN_Champions_League

2017–18 LEN Champions League

2017–18 LEN Champions League

Sports season


The 2017–18 LEN Champions League was the 55th edition of LEN's premier competition for men's water polo clubs.

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Overview

Team allocation

12 teams are directly qualified for the preliminary round (TH: Champions League title holders).

Phases and rounds dates

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

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Qualifying rounds

Qualification round I

Group A

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(H) Hosts

Group B

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Group C

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Qualification round II

Group E

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Group F

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(H) Hosts

Group G

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(H) Hosts

Group H

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(H) Hosts
Notes:
  1. Crvena zvezda 10–8 Sintez Kazan
  2. NC Vouliagmeni 8–5 CSM Digi Oradea

Qualification round III

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Preliminary round

Location of teams of the 2017–18 LEN Champions League group stage.
Red: Group A; Blue: Group B.

The draw for the group stage was held on 29 August 2017 in Budapest.[2] The 16 teams were drawn into two groups of eight.

In each group, teams play against each other home-and-away in a round-robin format. The group winners, runners-ups, third and fourth placed teams advance to the Final 8. The matchdays are 25 October, 8 and 29 November, 9 and 20 December 2017, 13 and 24 January, 7 and 28 February, 14 and 31 March, 18 and 28 April, 9 May 2018.

A total of 11 national associations are represented in the group stage.

Key to colors
Advance to the Final EightHome team winDrawAway team win

Group A

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Group B

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Final Eight

7–9 June 2018—Genoa, Italy

 
QuarterfinalsSemifinalsFinal
 
          
 
7 June
 
 
Greece Olympiacos6
 
8 June
 
Germany Spandau 045
 
Greece Olympiacos6
 
7 June
 
Spain CNA Barceloneta4
 
Hungary ZF Eger4
 
9 June
 
Spain CNA Barceloneta9
 
Greece Olympiacos9
 
7 June
 
Italy Pro Recco7
 
Italy Pro Recco (PSO)12
 
8 June
 
Italy AN Brescia10
 
Italy Pro Recco9
 
7 June
 
Croatia Jug CO8 Third place game
 
Croatia Jug CO9
 
9 June
 
Hungary Szolnoki VSC8
 
Spain CNA Barceloneta14
 
 
Croatia Jug CO8
 
5th–8th place bracket
 
5th–8th place semifinalsFifth place game
 
      
 
8 June
 
 
Germany Spandau 046
 
9 June
 
Hungary ZF Eger10
 
Hungary ZF Eger6
 
8 June
 
Hungary Szolnoki VSC10
 
Italy AN Brescia7
 
 
Hungary Szolnoki VSC8
 
Seventh place game
 
 
9 June
 
 
Germany Spandau 0410
 
 
Italy AN Brescia14


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Josip Pavić, Emmanouil Mylonakis, Evangelos Delakas, Konstantinos Genidounias, Ioannis Fountoulis, Dimitrios Nikolaidis, Georgios Dervisis, Andro Bušlje, Konstantinos Mourikis, Alexandros Gounas, Stylianos Argyropoulos, Paulo Obradović, Stefanos Galanopoulos, Emmanouil Prekas
Head coach
Thodoris Vlachos

Final standings

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Awards

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[3]

See also


References

  1. "LEN Club Competition Programme Season 2017–2018" (PDF). LEN.com.
  2. "Ο ένας καλύτερος από τον άλλον!". gavros.gr (in Greek). Retrieved 2022-03-08.

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