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The 2014–15
LEN Champions League The European Aquatics Champions League is the top-tier European professional water polo club competition with teams from up to 18 countries. It is organized by the Ligue Européenne de Natation. The competition started in 1963 as European Cup. A ...
was the 52nd edition of LEN's premier competition for men's
water polo Water polo is a competitive sport, competitive team sport played in water between two teams of seven players each. The game consists of four quarters in which the teams attempt to score goals by throwing the water polo ball, ball into the oppo ...
clubs. It ran from 26 September 2014 to 30 May 2015, and it is contested by 26 teams from 13 countries. The Final Six (quarterfinals, semifinals, final, and third place game) took place on May 28 and May 30 in Barcelona.


Overview


Team allocation

8 teams are directly qualified for the preliminary round.


Round and draw dates

The schedule of the competition is as follows.


Qualifying rounds


Qualification round I

*26-28 September Twelve teams will take part in the Qualification round I. They will be drawn into two groups of six teams, whose played on 26–28 September 2014. Top 5 teams of each group advance to qualification round II. Teams finishing 6th continue in 2014–15 LEN Euro Cup qualification.


Group A

CN Marseille has the right to organize the tournament.


Group B

Jadran Herceg Novi has the right to organize the tournament.


Qualification round II

* 17–19 October Sixteen teams will take part in the Qualification round II. These clubs will form four groups of four and will have round robin tournaments at four host cities on 17–19 October. Top 2 of these groups advance to play-off (qualification round 3), Teams finishing 3rd, 4th continue in 2014–15 LEN Euro Cup qualification.


Group C

Waspo Hannover has the right to organize the tournament.


Group D

Orvosegyetem SC has the right to organize the tournament.


Group E

HAVK Mladost Hrvatski akademski vaterpolo klub Mladost () or simply HAVK Mladost is a professional water polo club based in Zagreb, Croatia. The club was formed in 1946 and it is part of the Mladost sports society. As of the 2021–22 season, it competes in ...
has the right to organize the tournament.


Group F

Radnički Kragujevac has the right to organize the tournament.


Qualification round III

*29 October 2014 1st match *12 November 2014 2nd match Eight teams will take 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: *In the draw for the Qualification round III, 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 could not be drawn against each other. The first legs were played on 29 October, and the second legs were played on 12 November 2014.


Preliminary round

The regular season was played between 29 November 2014 and 2 May 2015. If teams are level on record at the end of the preliminary round, tiebreakers are applied in the following order: # Head-to-head record. # Head-to-head point differential. # Point differential during the Regular Season. # Points scored during the regular season. # 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 29 November, 17 December 2014, 14 January, 28 January, 11 February, 4 March, 25 March, 8 April, 18 April, and 2 May 2015. The top three teams advanced to the final six. The Final Six (quarterfinals, semifinals, third place game and final) will be played in Barcelona, Spain from 28 to 30 May 2015.


Group A


Group B


Final Six (

Barcelona Barcelona ( ; ; ) is a city on the northeastern coast of Spain. It is the capital and largest city of the autonomous community of Catalonia, as well as the second-most populous municipality of Spain. With a population of 1.6 million within c ...
)

Piscines Bernat Picornell Piscines Bernat Picornell () is a swimming venue situated in the Anella Olímpica, Olympic Ring in Montjuïc, Barcelona. The venue consists of three swimming pools: a 50m indoor pool, a 50m outdoor pool, and a pool for diving. It hosted the Swimm ...
, Barcelona, Spain Quarter-finals ---- 5th place Semi-finals ---- Third place Final


Final standings


Awards


See also

* 2014–15 LEN Euro Cup


References


External links


LEN Champions League
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