2015–16 LEN Euro Cup

2015−16 LEN Euro Cup
LeagueLEN Euro Cup
SportWater Polo
Duration30 September 2015 to 30 April 2016
Number of teams17
Finals championsItaly AN Brescia (4th title)
  Runners-upRussia Sintez Kazan
Euro Cup seasons

The 2015–16 LEN Euro Cup was the second tier of European competition in water polo. It ran from 30 September 2015 to 30 April 2016.

Overview

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Team allocation

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Qualification round I
Croatia Jadran Split Croatia Mornar France SNS Strasbourg France Olympic Nice
Hungary Ferencváros Hungary Szeged Italy Acquachiara Italy Canottieri Napoli
Russia Sintez Kazan Russia Kinef Kirishi Germany SSV Esslingen Montenegro Primorac Kotor
Netherlands GZC Donk
Quarter-finals
Germany Waspo Hannover (CL Q3) Romania Digi Oradea (CL Q3) France CN Marseille (CL Q3) Italy AN Brescia (CL Q3)

Round and draw dates

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The schedule of the competition was as follows.[1]

Phase Round First leg Second leg
Qualifying Qualification round I 30 September–4 October 2015
Qualification round II 16−18 October 2015
Knockout stage Quarter-finals 11 November 2015 16 December 2015
Semi-finals 3 February 2016 10 February 2016
Final 16 April 2016 30 April 2016

Qualifying rounds

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Qualification round I

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Thirteen teams took part in the first qualifying round. They were drawn into one group of six and one group of seven teams, who played on 30 September−4 October 2015. The top four teams of each group advanced to the next round.[2]

Key to colours in group tables
Top four advance to next round

Group A

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Tournament played in Budapest, Hungary.

Team Pld W D L GF GA GD Pts FTC SZE ACH JAD STRA ESS PRI
Hungary Ferencváros 6 5 1 0 84 53 +31 16 11–10 9–9 11–8 14–12 22–10 17–4
Hungary Szeged 6 5 0 1 84 49 +35 15 10–11 10–5 14–9 13–10 23–11 14–3
Italy Acquachiara 6 4 1 1 65 44 +21 13 9–9 5–10 11–4 10–8 15–7 15–6
Croatia Jadran Split 6 3 0 3 58 60 −2 9 8–11 9–14 4–11 13–9 15–9 9–6
France SNS Strasbourg 6 2 0 4 67 66 +1 6 12–14 10–13 8–10 9–13 14–6 14–10
Germany SSV Esslingen 6 1 0 5 56 98 −42 3 10–22 11–23 7–15 9–15 6–14 13–9
Montenegro Primorac Kotor 6 0 0 6 38 82 −44 0 4–17 3–14 6–15 6–9 10–14 9–13
Source: [citation needed]

Group B

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Tournament played in Split, Croatia.

Team Pld W D L GF GA GD Pts MOR SIN CCN KIN OLN GZC
Croatia Mornar 5 4 0 1 68 49 +19 12 11–9 15–8 10–15 10–7 22–10
Russia Sintez Kazan 5 4 0 1 60 35 +25 12 9–11 13–9 10–9 10–5 18–1
Italy Canottieri Napoli 5 3 0 2 55 49 +6 9 8–15 9–13 10–8 12–5 16–8
Russia Kinef Kirishi 5 3 0 2 62 47 +15 9 15–10 9–10 8–10 14–9 16–8
France Olympic Nice 5 1 0 4 38 52 −14 3 7–10 5–10 5–12 9–14 12–6
Netherlands GZC Donk 5 0 0 5 33 84 −51 0 10–22 1–18 8–16 8–16 6–12
Source: [citation needed]

Qualification round II

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Eight teams took part in the second qualifying round. They were drawn into two groups of four teams, which played on 16−18 October 2015. The top two teams of each group advanced to the quarterfinals.[3]

Key to colours in group tables
Top two advance to next round

Group C

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Tournament was played in Naples, Italy.

Team Pld W D L GF GA GD Pts KIN SIN FTC ACH
Russia Kinef Kirishi 3 1 2 0 27 25 +2 5 9–9 8–8 10–8
Russia Sintez Kazan 3 1 1 1 29 23 +6 4 9–9 8–6 12–8
Hungary Ferencváros 3 1 1 1 21 22 −1 4 8–8 6–8 7–6
Italy Acquachiara 3 0 0 3 22 29 −7 0 8–10 8–12 6–7
Source: [citation needed]

Group D

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Tournament was played in Split, Croatia.

Team Pld W D L GF GA GD Pts MOR SZE CCN JAD
Croatia Mornar 3 2 1 0 30 28 +2 7 12–11 7–7 11–10
Hungary Szeged 3 2 0 1 43 33 +10 6 11–12 18–12 14–9
Italy Canottieri Napoli 3 0 2 1 27 33 −6 2 7–7 12–18 8–8
Croatia Jadran Split 3 0 1 2 27 33 −6 1 10–11 9–14 8–8
Source: [citation needed]

Knockout stage

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Bracket

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Quarter-finals Semi-finals Final
            
Croatia Mornar 14 9 23
Romania CSM Digi Oradea 9 13 22
Croatia Mornar 9 7 16
Russia Sintez Kazan 7 12 19
France CN Marseille 8 10 18
Russia Sintez Kazan 9 11 20
Russia Sintez Kazan 4 6 10
Italy AN Brescia 11 12 23
Russia Kinef Kirishi 5 6 11
Italy AN Brescia 11 15 26
Italy AN Brescia 9 15 24
Hungary Szeged 8 10 18
Hungary Szeged 9 8 17
Germany Waspo Hannover 3 13 16

Quarter-finals

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Key to colours
Seeded in quarter finals draw
Unseeded in quarter finals draw
CL losers of QR3 EC first two of QR2
Germany Waspo Hannover Russia Sintez Kazan
Romania Digi Oradea Croatia Mornar
France CN Marseille Russia Kinef Kirishi
Italy AN Brescia Hungary Szeged

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 association could not be drawn against each other.

The first legs were played on 11 November, and the second legs were played on 16 December 2015.

Team 1 Agg.Tooltip Aggregate score Team 2 1st leg 2nd leg
Kinef Kirishi Russia 11–26 Italy AN Brescia 5–11 6–15
Mornar Croatia 23–22 Romania Digi Oradea 14–9 9–13
CN Marseille France 18–20 Russia Sintez Kazan 8–9 10–11
Szeged Hungary 17–16 Germany Waspo Hannover 9–3 8–13

Semi-finals

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The first legs were played on 3 February, and the second legs were played on 10 February 2016.

Team 1 Agg.Tooltip Aggregate score Team 2 1st leg 2nd leg
AN Brescia Italy 24–18 Hungary Szeged 9–8 15–10
Mornar Croatia 16–19 Russia Sintez Kazan 9–7 7–12

Final

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The first leg were played on 16 April, and the second leg were played on 30 April 2016.

Team 1 Agg.Tooltip Aggregate score Team 2 1st leg 2nd leg
Sintez Kazan Russia 10–23 Italy AN Brescia 4–11 6–12


2015–16 LEN Euro Cup
Champions
Italy
AN Brescia
4th Cup

See also

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References

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  1. ^ "LEN Club Competition Programme Season 2015/2016" (PDF). LEN.[permanent dead link]
  2. ^ "LEN Euro Cup − Draw, Qualification round I". LEN. Archived from the original on 2015-09-23. Retrieved 2015-09-22.
  3. ^ "LEN Euro Cup − Draw, Qualification round II". LEN. Archived from the original on 2015-09-23. Retrieved 2015-09-22.