The 2014–15 CEV Women's Challenge Cup was the 35th edition of the European

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volleyball club tournament, the former "CEV Cup".

Format

The tournament was played on a knockout format, originally a total of 51 teams were to participate, due to withdraws a total of 49 teams participated. Initially 35 teams were allocated vacancies to enter the competition at the 'Qualification phase', with another 14 teams (after 2 teams withdraw) joining from the

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entering the competition at the 'Main phase' stage (as per 'Round composition' below). On 12 June 2014, a drawing of lots in

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, determined the team's pairing for each match. Each team played a home and an away match with result points awarded for each leg (3 points for 3–0 or 3–1 wins, 2 points for 3–2 win, 1 point for 2–3 loss). After two legs, the team with the most result points advanced to the next round. In case the teams were tied after two legs, a was played immediately at the completion of the second leg. The Golden Set winner is the team that first obtains 15 points, provided that the points difference between the two teams is at least 2 points (thus, the Golden Set is similar to a tiebreak set in a normal match). ;Round composition * 1st Round: 6 teams * 2nd Round: 1st Round winners (3 teams) + 29 teams * 16th Final: 2nd Round winners (16 teams) + 14 teams from

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* 8th Final onwards: winners

Participating teams

*A total of 49 teams participated, 35 were allocated direct places and 14 joined from the

entering at the 'Main phase'. :1.Team qualified via

entering the 16th Final.

Qualification phase

1st round

*1st leg (Team #1 home) 25–26 October 2014 *2nd leg (Team #2 home) 1–2 November 2014

2nd round

*1st leg (Team #1 home) 11–13 November 2014 *2nd leg (Team #2 home) 25–27 November 2014

Main phase

In this stage of the competition, the sixteen qualified teams of the Qualification phase were joined by the losing teams from the

2014–15 Women's CEV Cup The 2014–15 Women's CEV Cup was the 43rd edition of the European CEV Cup The CEV Cup is the second tier official competition for men's Volleyball clubs of Europe. The competition takes place every year. Until 2000, it was the CEV Cup Winner ...

. From the 16 teams expected to join from the CEV Cup, 14 teams entered the competition, after the withdraw of 2 teams. That meant two teams received a 16th Final bye.

16th Final

*1st leg (Team #1 home) 9–11 December 2014 *2nd leg (Team #2 home) 16–18 December 2014

8th Final

*1st leg (Team #1 home) 13–15 January 2015 *2nd leg (Team #2 home) 20–22 January 2015

4th Final

*1st leg (Team #1 home) 3–5 March 2015 *2nd leg (Team #2 home) 10–12 March 2015

Final phase

Semi-finals

*1st leg (Team #1 home) 25 March 2015 *2nd leg (Team #2 home) 29 March 2015

Finals

*1st leg (Team #1 home) 8 April 2015 *2nd leg (Team #2 home) 12 April 2015

Awards

References

External links

CEV Women's Challenge Cup 14-15
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CEV Women's Challenge Cup The CEV Women's Challenge Cup, formerly (from 1980 to 2007) known as CEV Women's Cup is the third official competition for women's volleyball clubs of Europe and takes place every year. It is organized by the Confédération Européenne de Volle ...