Water polo sports season
Sports season
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]
Qualifying rounds
Qualification round I
Group A
Source: LEN
(H) Hosts
Group B
Source: LEN
(H) Hosts
Group C
Source: LEN
(H) Hosts
Qualification round II
Group E
Source: LEN
(H) Hosts
Group F
Source: LEN
(H) Hosts
Group G
Source: LEN
(H) Hosts
Group H
Source: LEN
(H) Hosts
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.
Group A
Source: LEN
Group B
Source: LEN
Final Eight
7–9 June 2018—Genoa, Italy
- 5th–8th place bracket
Final standings
Awards
[3]
See also
References
- ^ "LEN Club Competition Programme Season 2017–2018" (PDF). LEN.com.
- ^ "Preliminary round draw". LEN.com.
- ^ "Ο ένας καλύτερος από τον άλλον!". gavros.gr (in Greek). Retrieved 2022-03-08.
- ^ Curcic, Ivan (2023-06-05). "LEN Champions League "Team of the Tournament"". Total Waterpolo. Retrieved 2023-06-05.
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