2016–17 LEN Champions League

2016-17 LEN Champions League
League	LEN Champions League
Sport	Water Polo
Duration	30 September 2016 to 27 May 2017
Number of teams	12 (Preliminary Round) 31 (total)
Final Six

The 2016–17 LEN Champions League is the ongoing 54th edition of LEN's premier competition for men's water polo clubs. It is scheduled to run from 30 September 2016 to 27 June 2017.

Team allocation

8 teams are directly qualified for the Preliminary Round.

Preliminary Round
Jug^TH	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

Round and draw dates

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	Quarter-finals	25 May 2017
	Semi-finals	26 May 2017
	Final	27 May 2017

Qualifying rounds

Qualification I

Fifteen teams will take part in the Qualification round I. They will be 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]

Group A

Tournament was played in Oradea, Romania.

Pos	Team	Pld	W	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification	ORA	MOR	UTR	GAL
1	Oradea (H)	3	3	0	35	18	+17	9	Round II	—	10–6	11–5	14–7
2	Mornar	3	2	1	32	23	+9	6	Round II	—	—	—	13–7
3	Utrecht	3	1	2	20	31	−11	3		—	6–13	—	—
4	Galatasaray	3	0	3	21	36	−15	0		—	—	7–9	—

Source: LEN
(H) Host.

Group B

Tournament was played in Budapest, Hungary.

Pos	Team	Pld	W	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification	ORV	WAS	BAR
1	Orvosegyetem (H)	2	2	0	32	17	+15	6	Round II	—	12–11	20–6
2	Waspo 98 Hannover	2	1	1	30	17	+13	3	Round II	—	—	—
3	Barendrecht	2	0	2	11	39	−28	0		—	5–19	—

Source: LEN
(H) Host.

Group C

Tournament was played in Porto, Portugal.

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification	VER	SIN	ENK	POR
1	Verona	3	2	1	0	59	17	+42	7	Round II	—	10–10	—	—
2	Sintez Kazan	3	2	1	0	44	15	+29	7	Round II	—	—	14–3	—
3	Enkaspor	3	1	0	2	17	41	−24	3		6–21	—	—	—
4	Portuense (H)	3	0	0	3	9	56	−47	0		1–28	2–20	6–8	—

Source: LEN
(H) Host.

Group D

Tournament was played in Valletta, Malta.

Pos	Team	Pld	W	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification	JAD	STE	VAL	ARK
1	Jadran	3	3	0	57	11	+46	9	Round II	—	9–7	—	23–3
2	Steaua București	3	2	1	43	18	+25	6	Round II	—	—	19–6	—
3	Valletta (H)	3	1	2	19	46	−27	3		1–25	—	—	—
4	Arkonia Szczecin	3	0	3	8	52	−44	0		—	3–17	2–12	—

Source: LEN
(H) Host.

Qualification II

Sixteen teams will take part in the Qualification round II. Eight teams from first round and eight teams with wild cards. They will be 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]

Group E

Tournament was played in Eger, Hungary.

Pos	Team	Pld	W	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification	VER	EGE	MAR	MOR
1	Verona	3	3	0	45	24	+21	9	Round III	—	—	18–9	17–6
2	Eger (H)	3	2	1	42	23	+19	6	Round III	9–10	—	18–5	15–8
3	Marseille	3	1	2	27	47	−20	3		—	—	—	13–11
4	Mornar	3	0	3	25	45	−20	0		—	—	—	—

Source: LEN
(H) Host.

Group F

Tournament was played in Brescia, Italy.

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification	BRE	ORV	SIN	CZB
1	Brescia (H)	3	2	1	0	35	27	+8	7	Round III	—	11–11	15–11	9–5
2	Orvosegyetem	3	1	2	0	30	29	+1	5	Round III	—	—	11–11	—
3	Sintez Kazan	3	1	1	1	33	30	+3	4		—	—	—	11–4
4	Crvena zvezda	3	0	0	3	16	28	−12	0		—	7–8	—	—

Source: LEN
(H) Host.

Group G

Tournament was played in Herceg Novi, Montenegro.

Pos	Team	Pld	W	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification	WAS	JAD	VOU	DUI
1	Waspo 98 Hannover	3	2	1	26	22	+4	6^{[lower-alpha 1]}	Round III	—	—	—	8–5
2	Jadran (H)	3	2	1	27	18	+9	6^{[lower-alpha 1]}	Round III	6–8	—	9–6	12–4
3	Vouliagmeni	3	2	1	32	28	+4	6^{[lower-alpha 1]}		11–10	—	—	—
4	Duisburg	3	0	3	18	35	−17	0		—	—	9–15	—

Source: LEN
(H) Host.
Notes:

1 2 3 Waspo Hannover 18–17, Jadran 15–14, Vouliagmeni 17–19

Group H

Tournament was played in Rijeka, Croatia.

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification	PRI	ORA	SAB	STE
1	Primorje (H)	3	2	0	1	24	28	−4	6^{[lower-alpha 1]}	Round III	—	9–7	5–12	10–9
2	Oradea	3	2	0	1	29	25	+4	6^{[lower-alpha 1]}	Round III	—	—	—	—
3	Sabadell	3	1	1	1	28	25	+3	4		—	6–10	—	—
4	Steaua București	3	0	1	2	29	32	−3	1		—	10–12	10–10	—

Source: LEN
(H) Host.
Notes:

1 2 Primorje–Oradea 9–7

Qualification III

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. Teams from the same group could not be drawn against each other.^[4]

Key to colours
Seeded in qualification round III draw
Unseeded in qualification round III draw

Group	Winners	Runners-up
E	Verona	Eger
F	Brescia	Orvosegyetem
G	Waspo 98 Hannover	Jadran
H	Primorje	Oradea

1st leg: 26 October 2016
2nd leg: 9 November 2016

Team 1	Agg.	Team 2	1st leg	2nd leg
Waspo 98 Hannover	23–18	Oradea	12–7	11–11
Brescia	22–16	Jadran	14–5	8–11
Primorje	11–23	Eger	6–12	5–11
Orvosegyetem	21–19	Verona	10–6	11–13

Preliminary Round

Waspo'98

Location of teams of the 2016–17 LEN Champions League group stage.

Red: Group A;

Blue: Group B.

The regular season will be 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:

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 will be 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) will be played in Budapest, Hungary from 25 to 27 May 2017.

Group A

Pos	Team	Pld	W	L	PF	PA	PD	Pts	Qualification	OLY	SPA	SZO	ORV	NIC	BRE
1	Olympiacos	1	1	0	8	4	+4	3	Semifinals	—	1 Mar	5 Apr	8 Feb	21 Dec	8–4
2	Spandau 04	1	1	0	8	6	+2	3	Quarterfinals	18 Jan	—	18 Feb	21 Dec	26 Apr	5 Apr
3	Szolnok	1	1	0	9	8	+1	3	Quarterfinals	10 Dec	8 Feb	—	26 Apr	18 Jan	22 Mar
4	Orvosegyetem	1	0	1	8	9	−1	0		18 Feb	22 Mar	8–9	—	5 Apr	18 Jan
5	Olympic Nice	1	0	1	6	8	−2	0		22 Mar	6–8	1 Mar	10 Dec	—	8 Feb
6	Brescia	1	0	1	4	8	−4	0		26 Apr	10 Dec	21 Dec	1 Mar	18 Feb	—

Updated to match(es) played on 30 November 2016. Source: LEN

Group B

Pos	Team	Pld	W	L	PF	PA	PD	Pts	Qualification	PRO	BAR	JUG	EGE	PAR	WAS
1	Pro Recco	1	1	0	18	8	+10	3	Semifinals	—	18 Jan	5 Apr	22 Mar	18 Feb	18–8
2	Atlètic-Barceloneta	1	1	0	12	5	+7	3	Quarterfinals	1 Mar	—	21 Dec	8 Feb	12–5	5 Apr
3	Jug	1	1	0	10	6	+4	3	Quarterfinals	10 Dec	22 Mar	—	10–6	1 Mar	8 Feb
4	Eger	1	0	1	6	10	−4	0		21 Dec	18 Feb	26 Apr	—	5 Apr	18 Jan
5	Partizan	1	0	1	5	12	−7	0		8 Feb	26 Apr	18 Jan	10 Dec	—	22 Mar
6	Waspo 98 Hannover	1	0	1	8	18	−10	0		26 Apr	10 Dec	18 Feb	1 Mar	21 Dec	—

Updated to match(es) played on 30 November 2016. Source: LEN

Final Six

Hajós Alfréd Nemzeti Sportuszoda, Budapest, Hungary

Quarterfinals
25 May 2017

Semifinals
26 May 2017

Final
27 May 2017

5th place

Third place

References

↑ "LEN Club Competition Programme Season 2016/2017" (PDF). LEN.
↑ "LEN Champions League − Draw, Qualification round I". LEN.
↑ "LEN Champions League − Draw, Qualification round II" (PDF). LEN.
↑ "LEN Champions League − Draw, Qualification round III". LEN.

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2016–17 LEN Champions League

Team allocation

Round and draw dates

Qualifying rounds

Qualification I

Group A

Group B

Group C

Group D

Qualification II

Group E

Group F

Group G

Group H

Qualification III

Preliminary Round

Group A

Group B

Final Six

See also

References

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