2014–15 LEN Euro Cup

2014–15 LEN Euro Cup
League	LEN Euro Cup
Sport	Water Polo
Duration	30 October 2014 to 11 April 2015
Number of teams	24
Finals champions	Posillipo (1st title)
Runners-up	Acquachiara

The 2014–15 LEN Euro Cup was the second tier of European competition in water polo. It ran from 30 October 2014 to 11 April 2015, and it was contested by twenty one teams from twelve countries.

Overview

Team allocation

• CL: Transferred from the Champions League
  • Q2: Third and fourth-placed teams from the QR2
  • Q1: Sixth-placed teams from the QR1

Qualification round II
Mornar	Savona	Dinamo Astrachan	Waspo Hannover (CL Q2)
Sète	Acquachiara	Kinef Kirishi	Ligamus Tbilisi (CL Q1)
Olympic Nice	Valletta	Vojvodina	Montpellier (CL Q1)
Esslingen	Primorac Kotor	Sintez Kazan (CL Q2)
White Sharks	Utrecht	Jadran Herceg Novi (CL Q2)
Vouliagmeni	Steaua București	Posillipo (CL Q2)

Round and draw dates

The schedule of the competition is as follows.

Phase	Round	First leg	Second leg
Qualifying	Qualification round I	10–12 October 2014
	Qualification round II	30 October–2 November 2014
Knockout stage	Quarter-finals	29 November 2014	17 December 2014
	Semi-finals	11 February 2015	4 March 2015
	Final	28 March 2015	11 April 2015

Qualifying rounds

Qualification round I

• 10–12 October

Qualification round II

• 30 October-2 November

Twelve teams will take part in the quarter-finals. They will be drawn into five groups of five or six teams, whose played on 30 October–2 November 2014. Group winners and runners-up teams of each group advance to quarter finals.

Key to colors in group tables
Group winners and runners-up advance to quarter finals

Group A

Vouliagmeni has the right to organize the tournament.

Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts
Sintez Kazan	5	4	0	1	67	45	+22	12
Acquachiara	5	3	1	1	74	47	+27	10
Vouliagmeni	5	3	1	1	52	38	+14	10
Jadran Herceg Novi	5	2	2	1	58	38	+20	8
Utrecht	5	1	0	4	37	62	−25	3
Esslingen	5	0	0	5	36	94	−58	0

Source:

Group B

Valletta has the right to organize the tournament.

Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts
Mornar	4	4	0	0	64	27	+37	12
Steaua București	4	3	0	1	44	30	+14	9
Montpellier	4	2	0	2	46	30	+16	6
Primorac Kotor	4	1	0	3	30	47	−17	3
Valletta	4	0	0	4	24	74	−50	0

Source:

Group C

Olympic Nice has the right to organize the tournament.

Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts
Olympic Nice	4	3	1	0	46	27	+19	10
Posillipo	4	3	1	0	48	34	+14	10
Kinef Kirishi	4	2	0	2	48	33	+15	6
Sète	4	0	1	3	32	52	−20	1
White Sharks	4	0	1	3	33	61	−28	1

Source:

Group D

Savona has the right to organize the tournament.

Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts
Waspo Hannover	4	3	1	0	47	24	+23	10
Savona	4	3	1	0	42	31	+11	10
Dinamo Astrachan	4	1	1	2	32	34	−2	4
Vojvodina	4	1	1	2	22	35	−13	4
Ligamus Tbilisi	4	0	0	4	30	49	−19	0

Source:

Knockout stage

Bracket

	Quarter-finals						Semi-finals						Final
	Steaua București	9	9	18
	Waspo Hannover	7	9	16
							Steaua București	6	5	11
							Posillipo	8	8	16
	Sintez Kazan	9	7	16
	Posillipo	6	12	18
													Posillipo	6	11	17
													Acquachiara	6	10	16
	Acquachiara	13	10	23
	Olympic Nice	7	10	17
							Acquachiara	15	7	22
							Mornar	11	7	18
	Mornar	10	4	14
	Savona	5	8	13

Quarter-finals

• 29 November 2014 1st match
• 17 December 2014 2nd match

Key to colors
Seeded in quarter finals draw
Unseeded in quarter finals draw

Group	Winners	Runners-up
A	Sintez Kazan	Acquachiara
B	Mornar	Steaua București
C	Olympic Nice	Posillipo
D	Waspo Hannover	Savona

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 quarter-finals, 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 or the same association could not be drawn against each other.

The first legs were played on 29 November, and the second legs were played on 17 December 2014.

Team 1	Agg.Tooltip Aggregate score	Team 2	1st leg	2nd leg
Sintez Kazan	16–18	Posillipo	9–6	7–12
Mornar	14–13	Savona	10–5	4–8
Steaua București	18–16	Waspo Hannover	9–7	9–9
Acquachiara	23–17	Olympic Nice	13–7	10–10

Semi-finals

The draw was held on 10 January 2015 in Belgrade, Serbia. The first legs were played on 11 February, and the second legs were played on 4 March 2015.

Team 1	Agg.Tooltip Aggregate score	Team 2	1st leg	2nd leg
Steaua București	11–16	Posillipo	6–8	5–8
Acquachiara	22–18	Mornar	15–11	7–7

Finals

The first leg were played on 28 March, and the second leg were played on 11 April 2015.

Team 1	Agg.Tooltip Aggregate score	Team 2	1st leg	2nd leg
Posillipo	17–16	Acquachiara	6–6	11–10

2015–16 LEN Euro Cup Champions
Posillipo 1st Cup

See also

• 2014–15 LEN Champions League

External links

• LEN Euro Cup (official website)