2014–15 LEN Champions League


The 2014–15 LEN Champions League is the 52nd edition of LEN's premier competition for men's water polo clubs. It ran from 26 September 2014 to 30 May 2015, and it is contested by 26 teams from 13 countries. The Final Six 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

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.
Key to colors in group tables
Progress to the Round II

Group A

has the right to organize the tournament.

Group B

has the right to organize the tournament.

Qualification round II

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, Teams finishing 3rd, 4th continue in 2014–15 LEN Euro Cup qualification.
Key to colors in group tables
Progress to the Round III

Group C

has the right to organize the tournament.

Group D

has the right to organize the tournament.

Group E

has the right to organize the tournament.

Group F

has the right to organize the tournament.

Qualification round III

Key to colors
Seeded in qualification round III draw
Unseeded in qualification round III draw

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:
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:
  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 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] will be played in Barcelona, Spain from 28 to 30 May 2015.
Top three places in each group advance to Final Six

Group A

Group B

Final Six ([Barcelona])

, Barcelona, Spain
Quarter-finals
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5th place
Semi-finals
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Third place
Final

Final standings

Team
Pro Recco
Primorje
Atlètic-Barceloneta
Jug Dubrovnik
Eger
Szolnok