2018–19 LEN Champions League

2018–19 LEN Champions League
League	LEN Champions League
Sport	Water Polo
Number of teams	16 (preliminary round)
Season MVP	Filip Filipović (Pro Recco)
Top scorer	Konstantinos Genidounias 42 goals (Olympiacos)
Final eight
Champions	FTC Telekom Budapest (1st title)
Runners-up	Olympiacos
Finals MVP	Denes Varga (Ferencváros)

The 2018–19 LEN Champions League was the 56th 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).

Preliminary Round
HAVK Mladost	Waspo 98 Hannover	Pro Recco	Dynamo Moscow
Jug Dubrovnik	ZF Eger	Olympiacos TH	Crvena zvezda
Spandau 04	Szolnoki Dozsa	Steaua București BA	CNA Barceloneta
Qualification round II
Jadran Split	NC Vouliagmeni	CSM Digi Oradea	OSC Potsdam
FTC Telekom Budapest	AN Brescia	Sintez Kazan	CN Sabadell
Qualification round I
Pays D’Aix Natation	BPM Sport Management	Enka SK	Valletta
Strasbourg	Corona Sportul Studențesc	AZC Alphen	WP Club Tbilisi
Jadran Carine	CN Terrassa	Dynamo Lviv

Phases and rounds dates

The schedule of the competition is as follows.

Phase	Round	First leg	Second leg
Qualifying rounds	Qualification round I	13–16 September 2018
	Qualification round II	28–30 September 2018
	Qualification round III	6 October 2018	10 October 2018
Preliminary round	Matchday 1	17 October 2018
	Matchday 2	3 November 2018
	Matchday 3	21 November 2018
	Matchday 4	5 December 2018
	Matchday 5	19 December 2018
	Matchday 6	9 January 2019
	Matchday 7	23 January 2019
	Matchday 8	6 February 2019
	Matchday 9	27 February 2019
	Matchday 10	16 March 2019
	Matchday 11	27 March 2019
	Matchday 12	13 April 2019
	Matchday 13	24 April 2019
	Matchday 14	15 May 2019
Final Eight	Quarterfinals	6 June 2019
	Semifinals	7 June 2019
	Final	8 June 2019

Qualifying rounds

Qualification round I

Group A

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification		BPM	AIX	BRA	ENK	LVI	TBI
1	BPM Sport Management	5	5	0	0	72	28	+44	15	Round II		—	13–8		12–2	22–8	14–3
2	Pays D’Aix Natation	5	4	0	1	61	38	+23	12				—			15–9
3	Corona Sportul Studențesc (H)	5	3	0	2	45	40	+5	9			7–11	7–12	—	10–6	9–4	12–7
4	Enka SK	5	2	0	3	32	48	−16	6				5–11		—	9–8	10–7
5	Dynamo Lviv	5	1	0	4	39	61	−22	3							—
6	WP Club Tbilisi	5	0	0	5	27	61	−34	0				4–15			6–10	—

Source: LEN
(H) Hosts

Group B

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification		JAD	STR	TER	ALP	VAL
1	Jadran Carine	4	4	0	0	63	24	+39	12	Round II		—		10–8
2	Strasbourg (H)	4	3	0	1	43	30	+13	9			5–11	—	10–8	12–6	16–5
3	CN Terrassa	4	2	0	2	47	32	+15	6					—	12–9
4	AZC Alphen	4	1	0	3	30	47	−17	3			6–17			—	9–6
5	Valletta	4	0	0	4	19	69	−50	0			5–25		3–19		—

Source: LEN
(H) Hosts

Qualification round II

Group C

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification		JAD	VOU	SIN	BRA
1	Jadran Carine (H)	3	3	0	0	41	18	+23	9	Round III		—	8–7	18–6	15–5
2	NC Vouliagmeni	3	2	0	1	26	19	+7	6				—		9–3
3	Sintez Kazan	3	1	0	2	27	36	−9	3				8–10	—
4	Corona Sportul Studențesc	3	0	0	3	16	37	−21	0					8–13	—

Source: LEN
(H) Hosts

Group D

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification		VER	TER	SAB	POT
1	BPM Sport Management	3	2	1	0	42	28	+14	7	Round III		—	13–13		17–11
2	CN Terrassa	3	1	2	0	36	26	+10	5				—
3	CN Sabadell (H)	3	1	1	1	29	27	+2	4			4–12	7–7	—	18–8
4	OSC Potsdam	3	0	0	3	25	51	−26	0				6–16		—

Source: LEN
(H) Hosts

Group E

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification		BRE	STR	ORA	ENK
1	AN Brescia	3	3	0	0	43	16	+27	9	Round III		—			12–3
2	Strasbourg	3	2	0	1	24	26	−2	6			5–16	—
3	CSM Digi Oradea (H)	3	0	1	2	21	31	−10	1			8–15	6–9	—	7–7
4	Enka SK	3	0	1	2	14	29	−15	1				4–10		—

Source: LEN
(H) Hosts

Group F

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification		FTC	SPL	AIX	ALP
1	FTC Telekom Budapest	3	3	0	0	41	18	+23	9	Round III		—	17–7		14–7
2	Jadran Split	3	2	0	1	37	35	+2	6				—
3	Pays D’Aix Natation (H)	3	1	0	2	32	29	+3	3			4–10	11–12	—	17–7
4	AZC Alphen	3	0	0	3	21	49	−28	0				7–18		—

Source: LEN
(H) Hosts

Qualification round III

Team 1	Agg.Tooltip Aggregate score	Team 2	1st leg	2nd leg
FTC Telekom Budapest	22–11	NC Vouliagmeni	10–4	12–7
Jadran Split	17–15	Jadran Carine	11–9	6–6
AN Brescia	16–13	CN Terrassa	8–4	8–9
Strasbourg	10–26	BPM Sport Management	4–10	6–16

Preliminary round

Pro Recco

D. Moscow

Barceloneta

FTC

Crvena zvezda

Brescia

S. București

Eger

Mladost

Jadran

Verona

Spandau 04

Szolnok

Hannover

Jug

Olympiacos

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Location of teams of the 2018–19 LEN Champions League group stage.
Red: Group A; Blue: Group B.

The draw for the group stage was held on 5 September 2018 in Barcelona. 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 and third placed teams advance to the Final 8. They are joined by the host of the tournament and the fourth placed team from a group other than one the host plays in. The matchdays are 17 October, 3 and 21 November, 5 and 19 December 2018, 9 and 23 January, 6 and 27 February, 16 and 27 March, 13 and 24 April, 15 May 2019.

A total of 9 national associations are represented in the group stage.

Key to colors

Advance to the Final Eight

Home team win

Draw

Away team win

Group A

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification		PRO	BAR	BRE	FTC	MOS	EGR	BUC	CRV
1	Pro Recco	14	14	0	0	197	91	+106	42	Final 8		—	8–3	12–6	9–6	11–6	17–7	19–7	21–6
2	CNA Barceloneta	14	10	1	3	154	120	+34	31			11–15	—	8–8	8–5	13–9	12–7	11–8	14–3
3	AN Brescia	14	9	2	3	133	107	+26	29			8–9	14–8	—	10–5	10–8	11–6	13–9	7–2
4	FTC Telekom Budapest	14	8	1	5	146	117	+29	25			7–13	8–9	8–8	—	13–6	16–9	12–4	17–9
5	Dynamo Moscow	14	6	0	8	153	145	+8	18			5–14	12–13	10–6	11–13	—	15–13	16–4	14–4
6	ZF Eger	14	5	0	9	144	179	−35	15			7–16	10–16	8–11	9–12	12–10	—	13–9	17–11
7	Steaua București BA	14	2	0	12	109	168	−59	6			8–16	10–14	5–8	6–9	11–14	11–13	—	8–3
8	Crvena zvezda	14	0	0	14	87	196	−109	0			4–17	3–14	9–13	6–15	8–17	12–13	7–9	—

Source: LEN

Group B

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification		JUG	OLY	VER	SZO	SPL	HAN	ZAG	SPA
1	Jug Dubrovnik	14	10	2	2	152	110	+42	32	Final 8		—	10–6	9–8	8–7	6–7	18–7	14–11	14–9
2	Olympiacos	14	9	3	2	149	98	+51	30			10–10	—	11–5	11–10	13–7	17–7	13–8	11–4
3	BPM Sport Management	14	8	3	3	125	115	+10	27			11–11	7–6	—	7–5	9–8	12–7	12–9	8–6
4	Szolnoki Dozsa	14	6	4	4	135	122	+13	22			10–7	9–9	6–6	—	10–9	10–10	11–8	14–6
5	Jadran Split	14	6	0	8	137	140	−3	18			6–13	3–8	12–9	15–10	—	15–10	10–12	14–8
6	Waspo 98 Hannover	14	3	3	8	130	169	−39	12	Final 8		7–14	9–9	10–11	9–13	9–8	—	14–9	11–7
7	HAVK Mladost Zagreb	14	3	2	9	129	161	−32	11			5–11	6–14	7–7	8–11	11–12	11–11	—	9–7
8	Spandau 04	14	2	1	11	114	156	−42	7			6–7	3–11	8–13	9–9	12–11	15–9	14–15	—

Source: LEN
Notes:

Final eight

6–8 June 2018—Hannover, Germany

Hannover

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Location of the 2018–19 LEN Champions League Final 8

Qualified teams

Group	Winners	Runners-up	Third	Fourth	Host
A	Pro Recco	CNA Barceloneta	AN Brescia	FTC Telekom Budapest
B	Jug Dubrovnik	Olympiacos	BPM Sport Management		Waspo 98 Hannover

Bracket

	Quarterfinals				Semifinals				Final
	6 June
	Pro Recco	14
					7 June
	Waspo 98 Hannover	10
					Pro Recco	11
	6 June
					Olympiacos	12
	Olympiacos	8
									8 June
	AN Brescia	7
									Olympiacos	10 (3)
	6 June
									FTC Telekom	10 (4)
	Jug Dubrovnik	9
					7 June
	FTC Telekom	10
					FTC Telekom	9
	6 June
					CNA Barceloneta	7			Third place game
	CNA Barceloneta	12
									8 June
	BPM Sport Management	7
									Pro Recco	8
									CNA Barceloneta	7

5th–8th place bracket

	5th–8th place semifinals				Fifth place game
	7 June
	Waspo 98 Hannover	8
					8 June
	AN Brescia	11
					AN Brescia	12
	7 June
					Jug Dubrovnik	13
	Jug Dubrovnik	11
	BPM Sport Management	8
					Seventh place game
					8 June
					Waspo 98 Hannover	8
					BPM Sport Management	10

Quarterfinals

6 June 2019 16:00	Report	Jug Dubrovnik	9–10	FTC Telekom Budapest	Hannover Referees: Adrian Alexandrescu Sergey Naumov
		Score by quarters: 3–5, 2–3, 1–2, 3–0
		Fatović 4	Goals	three players 2

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6 June 2019 17:30	Report	CNA Barceloneta	12–7	BPM Sport Management	Hannover Referees: Levan Berishvili Sebastien Dervieux
		Score by quarters: 2–1, 4–1, 3-3, 3–2
		Granados, Perrone 3	Goals	Mirarchi 4

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6 June 2019 19:00	Report	Pro Recco	14–10	Waspo 98 Hannover	Hannover Referees: Stanko Ivanovski Michiel Zwart
		Score by quarters: 2–2, 4–3, 4–2, 4–3
		Mandić 3	Goals	Radović 4

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6 June 2019 20:30	Report	Olympiacos	8–7	AN Brescia	Hannover Referees: Boris Margeta Ivan Raković
		Score by quarters: 2–1, 4–2, 0–1, 2–3
		Mourikis 2	Goals	Presciutti 3

5th–8th place semifinals

7 June 2019 15:00	Report	Waspo 98 Hannover	8–11	AN Brescia	Hannover Referees: Sebastian Dervieux Stanko Ivanovski
		Score by quarters: 1–1, 1–2, 3-3, 3–5
		Brguljan 4	Goals	Rizzo, Muslim 3

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7 June 2019 16:30	Report	Jug Dubrovnik	11–8	BPM Sport Management	Hannover Referees: Levan Berishvili Michiel Zwart
		Score by quarters: 0–1, 5–3, 1–1, 5–3
		Fatović, Benić 4	Goals	Alesiani 3

Semifinals

7 June 2019 19:00	SF3	Pro Recco	11–12	Olympiacos	Hannover Referees: Boris Margeta Sergey Naumov
		Score by quarters: 3–5, 3–3, 2–3, 3–1
		Ivović 3	Goals	Fountoulis 3

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7 June 2019 20:30	SF4	FTC Telekom Budapest	9–7	CNA Barceloneta	Hannover Referees: Adrian Alexandrescu Ivan Raković
		Score by quarters: 2-2, 1-1, 2–3, 4–1
		Varga 3	Goals	Granados 3

Seventh place game

8 June 2019 15:00	Waspo 98 Hannover	8–10	BPM Sport Management	Hannover Referees: Stanko Ivanovski Michiel Zwart
	Score by quarters: 2–1, 1–5, 2-2, 3–2
	Brguljan 3	Goals	Fondelli 4

Fifth place game

8 June 2019 16:00	AN Brescia	12–13	Jug Dubrovnik	Hannover Referees: Levan Berishvili Sergey Naumov
	Score by quarters: 3–4, 4-4, 2-2, 3-3
	Gallo 4	Goals	Fatović 5

Third place game

8 June 2019 19:00	Report	Pro Recco	8–7	CNA Barceloneta	Hannover Referees: Ivan Raković Sebastian Dervieux
		Score by quarters: 3-3, 2–3, 1-1, 2–0
		Filipović 3	Goals	Munarriz 5

Final

8 June 2019 20:30	Report	Olympiacos	13–14	FTC Telekom Budapest	Hannover Referees: Boris Margeta Adrian Alexandrescu
		Score by quarters: 1–3, 4–5, 2-2, 3–0  PSO: 3–4
		Genidounias 5	Goals	Mitrović 3

2018–19 LEN Champions League Champions
FTC Telekom Budapest 1st title

Andras Gardonyi, Tamás Sedlmayer, Mark Kallay, Zoltan Pohl, Márton Vámos, Tamás Mezei, Slobodan Nikić, Nikola Jakšić, Aaron Younger, Dénes Varga, Szilárd Jansik, Soma Vogel, Stefan Mitrović, Norbert Madaras

Head coach

Zsolt Varga

Final standings

	Team
	FTC Telekom Budapest
	Olympiacos
	Pro Recco
4	CNA Barceloneta
5	AN Brescia
6	Jug Dubrovnik
7	BPM Sport Management
8	Waspo 98 Hannover

Awards

Season MVP	Top Scorer	Player of the Final Eight	Goalkeeper of the Final Eight
Filip Filipović (Pro Recco)	Konstantinos Genidounias (Olympiacos) 42 goals	Denes Varga (Ferencváros)	Soma Vogel (Ferencváros)

Total 7 of the Season
	LW	Dénes Varga (Ferecvaros)	CF	Josip Vrlić (Barceloneta)	RW	Márton Vámos (Ferecvaros)
	LD	Konstantinos Genidounias (Olympiacos)	CB	Andro Bušlje (Olympiacos)	RD	Filip Filipović (Pro Recco)
	GK	Soma Vogel (Ferecvaros)

See also

• 2018–19 LEN Euro Cup