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2014–15 LEN Euro Cup
2014–15 LEN Euro Cup
League	LEN Euro Cup
Sport	Water Polo
Duration	30 October 2014 to 11 April 2015
Number of teams	24
Finals champions	Posillipo (1st title)
Runners-up	Acquachiara
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The 2014–15 LEN Euro Cup was the second tier of European competition in water polo. It ran from 30 October 2014 to 11 April 2015, and it was contested by twenty one teams from twelve countries.

Overview

Team allocation

CL: Transferred from the Champions League
- Q2: Third and fourth-placed teams from the QR2
- Q1: Sixth-placed teams from the QR1

Qualification round II
Mornar	Savona	Dinamo Astrachan	Waspo Hannover (CL Q2)
Sète	Acquachiara	Kinef Kirishi	Ligamus Tbilisi (CL Q1)
Olympic Nice	Valletta	Vojvodina	Montpellier (CL Q1)
Esslingen	Primorac Kotor	Sintez Kazan (CL Q2)
White Sharks	Utrecht	Jadran Herceg Novi (CL Q2)
Vouliagmeni	Steaua București	Posillipo (CL Q2)

Round and draw dates

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

Phase	Round	First leg	Second leg
Qualifying	Qualification round I	10–12 October 2014
Qualifying	Qualification round II	30 October–2 November 2014
Knockout stage	Quarter-finals	29 November 2014	17 December 2014
	Semi-finals	11 February 2015	4 March 2015
	Final	28 March 2015	11 April 2015

Qualifying rounds

Qualification round I

10–12 October

Qualification round II

30 October-2 November

Twelve teams will take part in the quarter-finals. They will be drawn into five groups of five or six teams, whose played on 30 October–2 November 2014. Group winners and runners-up teams of each group advance to quarter finals.

Key to colors in group tables
Group winners and runners-up advance to quarter finals

Group A

Vouliagmeni has the right to organize the tournament.

Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts
Sintez Kazan	5	4	0	1	67	45	+22	12
Acquachiara	5	3	1	1	74	47	+27	10
Vouliagmeni	5	3	1	1	52	38	+14	10
Jadran Herceg Novi	5	2	2	1	58	38	+20	8
Utrecht	5	1	0	4	37	62	−25	3
Esslingen	5	0	0	5	36	94	−58	0

Source: ^{[citation needed]}

Group B

Valletta has the right to organize the tournament.

Team	Pld	W	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts
Mornar	4	4	0	64	27	+37	12
Steaua București	4	3	1	44	30	+14	9
Montpellier	4	2	2	46	30	+16	6
Primorac Kotor	4	1	3	30	47	−17	3
Valletta	4	0	4	24	74	−50	0

Source: ^{[citation needed]}

Group C

Olympic Nice has the right to organize the tournament.

Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts
Olympic Nice	4	3	1	0	46	27	+19	10
Posillipo	4	3	1	0	48	34	+14	10
Kinef Kirishi	4	2	0	2	48	33	+15	6
Sète	4	0	1	3	32	52	−20	1
White Sharks	4	0	1	3	33	61	−28	1

Source: ^{[citation needed]}

Group D

Savona has the right to organize the tournament.

Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts
Waspo Hannover	4	3	1	0	47	24	+23	10
Savona	4	3	1	0	42	31	+11	10
Dinamo Astrachan	4	1	1	2	32	34	−2	4
Vojvodina	4	1	1	2	22	35	−13	4
Ligamus Tbilisi	4	0	0	4	30	49	−19	0

Source: ^{[citation needed]}

Knockout stage

Bracket

Quarter-finals				Semi-finals				Final

Steaua București	9	9	18

Waspo Hannover	7	9	16
				Steaua București	6	5	11

				Posillipo	8	8	16
Sintez Kazan	9	7	16

Posillipo	6	12	18
								Posillipo	6	11	17

								Acquachiara	6	10	16
Acquachiara	13	10	23

Olympic Nice	7	10	17
				Acquachiara	15	7	22

				Mornar	11	7	18
Mornar	10	4	14

Savona	5	8	13

Quarter-finals

29 November 2014 1st match
17 December 2014 2nd match

Key to colors
Seeded in quarter finals draw
Unseeded in quarter finals draw

Group	Winners	Runners-up
A	Sintez Kazan	Acquachiara
B	Mornar	Steaua București
C	Olympic Nice	Posillipo
D	Waspo Hannover	Savona

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 quarter-finals, the four group winners were seeded, and the four group runners-up were unseeded. The seeded teams were drawn against the unseeded teams, with the seeded teams hosting the second leg. Teams from the same group or the same association could not be drawn against each other.

The first legs were played on 29 November, and the second legs were played on 17 December 2014.

Team 1	Agg.Tooltip Aggregate score	Team 2	1st leg	2nd leg
Sintez Kazan	16–18	Posillipo	9–6	7–12
Mornar	14–13	Savona	10–5	4–8
Steaua București	18–16	Waspo Hannover	9–7	9–9
Acquachiara	23–17	Olympic Nice	13–7	10–10