Sports season
2017–18 LEN Champions League League LEN Champions League Sport Water Polo Number of teams 16 (Preliminary round) Champions Olympiacos (2nd title) Runners-up Pro Recco
The 2017–18 LEN Champions League was the 55th edition of LEN 's premier competition for men's water polo clubs.
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]
Phase
Round
First leg
Second leg
Qualifying rounds
Qualification round I
14–17 September 2017
Qualification round II
28 September–1 October 2017
Qualification round III
14 October 2017
18 October 2017
Preliminary round
Matchday 1
25 October 2017
Matchday 2
8 November 2017
Matchday 3
29 November 2017
Matchday 4
9 December 2017
Matchday 5
20 December 2017
Matchday 6
13 January 2018
Matchday 7
24 January 2018
Matchday 8
7 February 2018
Matchday 9
28 February 2018
Matchday 10
14 March 2018
Matchday 11
31 March 2018
Matchday 12
18 April 2018
Matchday 13
28 April 2018
Matchday 14
9 May 2018
Final Eight
Quarterfinals
7 June 2018
Semifinals
8 June 2018
Final
9 June 2018
Qualifying rounds [ ]
Qualification round I [ ]
Group A [ ]
Pos
Team
Pld
W
D
L
GF
GA
GD
Pts
Qualification
OSC
SIN
TER
1
Orvosegyetem SC
4
4
0
0
73
16
+57
12
Round II
—
10–6
30–2
2
Sintez Kazan
4
3
0
1
58
21
+37
9
—
21–5
3
CN Terrassa
4
2
0
2
46
27
+19
6
5–11
4–6
—
4
4
1
0
3
21
62
−41
3
3–22
3–14
—
5
(H)
4
0
0
4
16
88
−72
0
2–25
7–23
5–10
—
Group B [ ]
Pos
Team
Pld
W
D
L
GF
GA
GD
Pts
Qualification
JAD
NAP
ESK
1
Jadran Carine
3
3
0
0
42
16
+26
9
Round II
—
18–7
7–6
17–3
2
CC Napoli
3
2
0
1
33
34
−1
6
—
9–8
17–8
3
(H)
3
1
0
2
28
23
+5
3
—
4
Enka SK
3
0
0
3
18
48
−30
0
7–14
—
Group C [ ]
Pos
Team
Pld
W
D
L
GF
GA
GD
Pts
Qualification
MOR
GLY
GAL
1
Mornar
3
3
0
0
31
16
+15
9
Round II
—
7–5
2
ANC Glyfada
3
2
0
1
35
21
+14
6
9–10
—
8–6
3
Galatasaray
3
1
0
2
24
22
+2
3
—
4
(H)
3
0
0
3
14
45
−31
0
2–14
5–18
7–13
—
Qualification round II [ ]
Group E [ ]
Group F [ ]
Pos
Team
Pld
W
D
L
GF
GA
GD
Pts
Qualification
MAR
OSC
NAP
GLY
1
CN Marseille
3
2
1
0
27
16
+11
7
Round III
—
13–10
2
Orvosegyetem SC (H)
3
2
0
1
36
19
+17
6
7–8
—
19–7
3
CC Napoli
3
1
1
1
34
22
+12
4
11–11
7–11
—
4
ANC Glyfada
3
0
0
3
14
54
−40
0
8–11
—
Group G [ ]
Pos
Team
Pld
W
D
L
GF
GA
GD
Pts
Qualification
BRE
SAB
MOR
1
AN Brescia
3
3
0
0
46
22
+24
9
Round III
—
23–2
2
CN Sabadell (H)
3
2
0
1
33
23
+10
6
12–13
—
8–3
13–7
3
Mornar
3
1
0
2
22
25
−3
3
8–10
—
4
3
0
0
3
16
47
−31
0
7–11
—
Group H [ ]
Source:
LEN (H) Host
Notes:
^ a b Crvena zvezda 10–8 Sintez Kazan
^ a b NC Vouliagmeni 8–5 CSM Digi Oradea
Qualification round III [ ]
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 Eight
Home team win
Draw
Away team win
Group A [ ]
Group B [ ]
Final Eight [ ]
7–9 June 2018—Genoa , Italy
5th–8th place bracket
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 [ ]
See also [ ]
References [ ]
External links [ ]
European Cup Champions League Euroleague Champions League