2014–15 LEN Euro Cup

2014–15 LEN Euro Cup
LeagueLEN Euro Cup
SportWater Polo
Duration30 October 2014 to 11 April 2015
Number of teams24
Finals championsItaly Posillipo (1st title)
  Runners-upItaly Acquachiara
Euro Cup seasons
← 2013–14

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
Croatia Mornar Italy Savona Russia Dinamo Astrachan Germany Waspo Hannover (CL Q2)
France Sète Italy Acquachiara Russia Kinef Kirishi Georgia (country) Ligamus Tbilisi (CL Q1)
France Olympic Nice Malta Valletta Serbia Vojvodina France Montpellier (CL Q1)
Germany Esslingen Montenegro Primorac Kotor Russia Sintez Kazan (CL Q2)
Germany White Sharks Netherlands Utrecht Montenegro Jadran Herceg Novi (CL Q2)
Greece Vouliagmeni Romania Steaua București Italy 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
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
Russia Sintez Kazan 5 4 0 1 67 45 +22 12
Italy Acquachiara 5 3 1 1 74 47 +27 10
Greece Vouliagmeni 5 3 1 1 52 38 +14 10
Montenegro Jadran Herceg Novi 5 2 2 1 58 38 +20 8
Netherlands Utrecht 5 1 0 4 37 62 −25 3
Germany 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 D L GF GA GD Pts
Croatia Mornar 4 4 0 0 64 27 +37 12
Romania Steaua București 4 3 0 1 44 30 +14 9
France Montpellier 4 2 0 2 46 30 +16 6
Montenegro Primorac Kotor 4 1 0 3 30 47 −17 3
Malta Valletta 4 0 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
France Olympic Nice 4 3 1 0 46 27 +19 10
Italy Posillipo 4 3 1 0 48 34 +14 10
Russia Kinef Kirishi 4 2 0 2 48 33 +15 6
France Sète 4 0 1 3 32 52 −20 1
Germany 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
Germany Waspo Hannover 4 3 1 0 47 24 +23 10
Italy Savona 4 3 1 0 42 31 +11 10
Russia Dinamo Astrachan 4 1 1 2 32 34 −2 4
Serbia Vojvodina 4 1 1 2 22 35 −13 4
Georgia (country) Ligamus Tbilisi 4 0 0 4 30 49 −19 0
Source: [citation needed]

Knockout stage

Bracket

Quarter-finals Semi-finals Final
            
Romania Steaua București 9 9 18
Germany Waspo Hannover 7 9 16
Romania Steaua București 6 5 11
Italy Posillipo 8 8 16
Russia Sintez Kazan 9 7 16
Italy Posillipo 6 12 18
Italy Posillipo 6 11 17
Italy Acquachiara 6 10 16
Italy Acquachiara 13 10 23
France Olympic Nice 7 10 17
Italy Acquachiara 15 7 22
Croatia Mornar 11 7 18
Croatia Mornar 10 4 14
Italy 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 Russia Sintez Kazan Italy Acquachiara
B Croatia Mornar Romania Steaua București
C France Olympic Nice Italy Posillipo
D Germany Waspo Hannover Italy 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 Russia 16–18 Italy Posillipo 9–6 7–12
Mornar Croatia 14–13 Italy Savona 10–5 4–8
Steaua București Romania 18–16 Germany Waspo Hannover 9–7 9–9
Acquachiara Italy 23–17 France Olympic Nice 13–7 10–10

Semi-finals

The draw was held on 10 January 2015 in Belgrade, Serbia. The first legs were played on 11 February, and the second legs were played on 4 March 2015.

Team 1 Agg.Tooltip Aggregate score Team 2 1st leg 2nd leg
Steaua București Romania 11–16 Italy Posillipo 6–8 5–8
Acquachiara Italy 22–18 Croatia Mornar 15–11 7–7

Finals

The first leg were played on 28 March, and the second leg were played on 11 April 2015.

Team 1 Agg.Tooltip Aggregate score Team 2 1st leg 2nd leg
Posillipo Italy 17–16 Italy Acquachiara 6–6 11–10


2015–16 LEN Euro Cup
Champions
Italy
Posillipo
1st Cup

See also

References

  1. ^ "LEN Club Competition Programme Season 2014/2015" (PDF).[permanent dead link‍]