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2015–16 LEN Champions League

The 2015–16 LEN Champions League was the 53rd edition of LEN's premier competition for men's water polo clubs. It ran from 4 September 2015 to 4 June 2016, and was contested by 27 teams from 13 countries. The Final Six (quarterfinals, semifinals, final, and third place game) took place on 2, 3 & 4 June in Budapest.

Overview

Team allocation

8 teams are directly qualified for the preliminary round.

Round and draw dates

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

Qualifying rounds

Qualification I

Twelve teams took part in the Qualification round I. They were drawn into three groups of four teams, whose played on 4–6 September 2015. Top 3 teams of each group advance to qualification round II.[2]

Group A

Tournament was played in Herceg Novi, Montenegro.

Source: [citation needed]

Group B

Tournament was played in Valletta, Malta.

Source: [citation needed]

Group C

Tournament was played in Tbilisi, Georgia.

Source: [citation needed]

Qualification II

Sixteen teams took part in the Qualification round II. Nine teams from first round and seven teams with wild cards. These clubs formed four groups of four and had round robin tournaments at four host cities on 18–20 October. Top 2 of these groups advance to play-off (qualification round 3).[3]

Group D

Tournament was played in Athens, Greece.

Source: [citation needed]

Group E

Tournament was played in Hannover, Germany.

Source: [citation needed]

Group F

Tournament was played in Rijeka, Croatia.

Source: [citation needed]

Group G

Tournament was played in Busto Arsizio, Italy.

Source: [citation needed]

Qualification III

Eight teams took 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:

The first legs were played on 3 October, and the second legs were played on 17 October 2015.[4]

Preliminary round

2015–16 LEN Champions League is located in Europe
Barceloneta
Eger
Eger
Olympiacos
Spandau
Primorje
Jadran HN
Pro Recco
Partizan
Jug
Jug
Galatasaray
OSC
OSC
Szolnok
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Location of teams of the 2015–16 LEN Champions League group stage.
Red: Group A; Blue: Group B.

Main article: 2015–16 LEN Champions League preliminary round

The regular season was played between 28 October 2015 and 18 May 2016. If teams are level on record at the end of the preliminary round, tiebreakers are applied in the following order:

  1. Head-to-head record.
  2. Head-to-head point differential.
  3. Point differential during the Regular Season.
  4. Points scored during the regular season.
  5. 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 were 28 October, 11 November, 28 November, 16 December 2015, 3 February, 10 February, 30 March, 16 April, 30 April, and 18 May 2016. The top three teams advanced to the final six.

The Final Six (quarterfinals, semifinals, third place game and final) were played in Budapest, Hungary from 2 to 4 June 2016.[5]

Group A

Source: LEN

Group B

Source: LEN

Final Six

Hajós Alfréd Nemzeti Sportuszoda, Budapest, Hungary

Final standings

Awards

[6]

See also

References

  1. ^ "LEN Club Competition Programme Season 2015/2016" (PDF). LEN.[permanent dead link]
  2. ^ "LEN Champions League − Draw, Qualification round I". LEN. Archived from the original on 2015-09-29. Retrieved 2015-08-08.
  3. ^ "LEN Champions League − Draw, Qualification round II". LEN. Archived from the original on 2015-10-07. Retrieved 2015-09-20.
  4. ^ "LEN Champions League − Draw, Qualification round III". LEN. Archived from the original on 2015-10-07. Retrieved 2019-04-22.
  5. ^ "LEN Champions League − Draw, Prelimininary Round". LEN. Archived from the original on 2015-09-23. Retrieved 2015-09-22.
  6. ^ "Jug Dubrovnik stuns everyone, FINAL6 – LEN.eu | Ligue Européenne de Natation". Retrieved 2022-03-08.
  7. ^ Curcic, Ivan (2023-06-05). "LEN Champions League "Team of the Tournament"". Total Waterpolo. Retrieved 2023-06-05.

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