2019–20 LEN Champions League

2019–20 LEN Champions League
League	LEN Champions League
Sport	Water Polo
Duration	August 30, 2019–June 7, 2020
Number of teams	16 (Preliminary round)
Final Eight

The 2019–20 LEN Champions League is the 57th edition of LEN's premier competition for men's water polo clubs.

Teams

Preliminary round

Jug Dubrovnik	Spandau 04	FTC Budapest
Mladost Zagreb	Waspo 98 Hannover	Pro Recco
CN Marseille	Olympiacos	Jadran Herceg Novi
Dinamo Tbilisi	Szolnok	CNA Barceloneta

Qualification round II

Jadran Split	OSC Potsdam	AN Brescia
Strasbourg	NC Vouliagmeni	CN Terrassa
Locomotive Tbilisi	OSC Budapest

Qualification round I

Banja Luka	Steaua Bucharest	Crvena zvezda
Paix d’Aix Natation	Dynamo Moscow	CN Barcelona
Apollon Smyrni	Sintez Kazan	Galatasaray
Oradea	Šabac	Enka

Schedule

The schedule of the competition is as follows.

Phase	Round	1st leg	2nd leg
Qualifying rounds	Qualification round I	30 August–1 September 2019
	Qualification round II	13–15 September 2019
	Qualification round III	21 September 2019	25 September 2019
Preliminary round	Round 1	8/9 October 2019
	Round 2	18/19 October 2019
	Round 3	29/30 October 2019
	Round 4	8/9 November 2019
	Round 5	19/20 November 2019
	Round 6	3/4 December 2019
	Round 7	13/14 December 2019
	Round 8	4/5 February 2020
	Round 9	21/22 February 2020
	Round 10	3/4 March 2020
	Round 11	13/14 March 2020
	Round 12	21/22 April 2020
	Round 13	8/9 May 2020
	Round 14	19/20 May 2020
Final 8	Quarterfinals	5 June 2020
	Semifinals	6 June 2020
	Final	7 June 2020

Qualifying rounds

Qualification round I

Group A

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification		CZB	ŠAB	DYN	ORA	APO	GSK
1	Crvena zvezda	5	5	0	0	54	35	+19	15	Round II		—	—	12–10	7–6	11–7	13–2
2	Šabac (H)	5	4	0	1	53	42	+11	12			10–11	—	9–8	10–8	10–9	14–6
3	Dynamo Moscow	5	3	0	2	54	50	+4	9			—	—	—	—	16–15	11–6
4	Oradea	5	2	0	3	42	37	+5	6			—	—	8–9	—	7–6	—
5	Apollon Smyrni	5	1	0	4	54	52	+2	3			—	—	—	—	—	17–8
6	Galatasaray	6	0	0	6	27	68	−41	0			—	—	—	5–13	—	—

Source: LEN
(H) Hosts

Group B

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification		CNB	SIN	AIX	STE	ESK	BAN
1	CN Barcelona (H)	5	4	0	1	73	39	+34	12	Round II		—	—	—	—	—	—
2	Sintez Kazan	5	4	0	1	92	43	+49	12			9–11	—	—	—	—	39–1
3	Pays d’Aix Natation	5	3	0	2	78	38	+40	9			11–12	10–12	—	8–4	11–8	38–2
4	Steaua Bucharest	5	3	0	2	64	40	+24	9			8–7	9–17	—	—	12–7	31–1
5	Enka	5	1	0	4	57	54	+3	3			9–14	12–15	—	—	—	—
6	Banja Luka	5	0	0	5	8	158	−150	0			2–29	—	—	—	2–21	—

Source: LEN
(H) Hosts

Qualification round II

Group A

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification		BRE	ORA	CNB	LTB
1	AN Brescia	3	3	0	0	46	11	+35	9	Round III		—	—	12–6	—
2	Oradea (H)	3	2	0	1	38	30	+8	6			4–16	—	9–8	25–6
3	CN Barcelona	3	1	0	2	39	27	+12	3			—	—	—	25–6
4	Locomotive Tbilisi	3	0	0	3	13	68	−55	0			1–18	—	—	—

Source: LEN
(H) Hosts

Group B

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification		OSC	SIN	DYN	POT
1	OSC Budapest (H)	3	3	0	0	54	17	+37	9	Round III		—	14–6	—	26–4
2	Sintez Kazan	3	2	0	1	42	33	+9	6			—	—	—	—
3	Dynamo Moscow	3	1	0	2	35	37	−2	3			7–14	11–14	—	—
4	OSC Potsdam	3	0	0	3	21	65	−44	0			—	8–22	9–17	—

Source: LEN
(H) Hosts

Group C

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification		CNT	STR	STE	ŠAB
1	CN Terrassa (H)	3	3	0	0	39	20	+19	9	Round III		—	13–6	12–9	12–5
2	Strasbourg	3	2	0	1	27	29	−2	6			—	—	9–7	—
3	Steaua Bucharest	3	1	0	2	33	34	−1	3			—	—	—	17–13
4	Šabac	3	0	0	3	27	41	−14	0			—	9–12	—	—

Source: LEN
(H) Hosts

Group D

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification		JST	NCV	AIX	CZB
1	Jadran Split	3	3	0	0	40	27	+13	9	Round III		—	—	16–9	—
2	NC Vouliagmeni	3	2	0	1	30	23	+7	6			9–10	—	—	—
3	Pays d’Aix Natation	3	1	0	2	32	37	−5	3			—	10–13	—	—
4	Crvena zvezda (H)	3	0	0	3	20	35	−15	0			9–14	3–8	8–13	—

Source: LEN
(H) Hosts

Qualification round III

Team 1	Agg.Tooltip Aggregate score	Team 2	1st leg	2nd leg
Jadran Split	29–12	Strasbourg	13–5	16–7
AN Brescia	20–22	Sintez Kazan	13–12	7–10
CN Terrassa	16–12	Oradea	10–7	6–5
OSC Budapest	18–9	NC Vouliagmeni	11–3	7–6

Preliminary round

Jug

Mladost

Barceloneta

Spandau 04

Hannover

Olympiacos

FTC

Szolnok

Pro Recco

Marseille

Jadran HN

Dinamo

Jadran ST

Kazan

Terrassa

OSC

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Location of teams of the 2019–20 LEN Champions League preliminary round.

The draw for the 2019–20 LEN Champions League preliminary round has been conducted in Barcelona. In the regular season, teams will play against each other home-and-away in a round-robin format. The top four teams in both groups will advance to the Final 8. The matchdays will be from 8 October 2019 to 20 May 2020. Teams are ranked according to points (3 points for a win, 1 point for a draw, 0 points for a loss), and if tied on points, the following tiebreaking criteria are applied, in the order given, to determine the rankings:

• Points in head-to-head matches among tied teams;
• Goal difference in head-to-head matches among tied teams;
• Goals scored in head-to-head matches among tied teams;
• Goal difference in all group matches;
• Goals scored in all group matches.

Key to colors

Advance to the Final 8

Home team win

Draw

Away team win

Group A

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification		OLY	JUG	SZO	BAR	S04	JST	SIN	JHN
1	Olympiacos	2	2	0	0	27	16	+11	6	Final 8		—	9 Dec	10 Apr	21 Feb	19 Nov	19 May	10–8	29 Oct
2	Jug Dubrovnik	2	2	0	0	27	20	+7	6			4 Feb	—	3 Dec	15–13	29 Oct	10 Apr	19 Nov	19 May
3	Szolnok	2	2	0	0	27	22	+5	6			8 Nov	21 Feb	—	21 Apr	4 Feb	19 Nov	13–10	8 May
4	CNA Barceloneta	2	1	0	1	24	23	+1	3			3 Dec	8 May	29 Oct	—	19 May	4 Feb	10 Apr	3 Mar
5	Spandau 04	2	0	1	1	20	23	−3	1			3 Mar	21 Apr	13 Dec	8–11	—	8 May	21 Feb	8 Nov
6	Jadran Split	2	0	1	1	20	29	−9	1			8–17	8 Nov	3 Mar	13 Dec	12–12	—	21 Apr	3 Dec
7	Sintez Kazan	2	0	0	2	18	23	−5	0			8 May	3 Mar	19 May	8 Nov	3 Dec	29 Oct	—	4 Feb
8	Jadran Herceg Novi	2	0	0	2	19	26	−7	0			21 Apr	7–12	12–14	19 Nov	10 Apr	21 Feb	13 Dec	—

Updated to match(es) played on 18 October 2019. Source: LEN

Group B

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification		REC	OSC	FTC	MLA	CNT	CNM	HAN	DTB
1	Pro Recco	2	2	0	0	28	14	+14	6	Final 8		—	22 Feb	20 Nov	22 Apr	15–5	20 May	11 Apr	14 Dec
2	OSC Budapest	2	2	0	0	32	20	+12	6			4 Dec	—	14 Dec	13–10	4 Mar	9 Nov	19–10	22 Apr
3	FTC Budapest	2	2	0	0	28	19	+9	6			4 Mar	5 Feb	—	4 Dec	30 Oct	13–7	15–12	11 Apr
4	Mladost Zagreb	2	1	0	1	31	24	+7	3			30 Oct	20 May	22 Feb	—	11 Apr	9 Dec	20 Nov	21–11
5	CN Terrassa	2	1	0	1	14	20	−6	3			9 May	20 Nov	22 Apr	9 Nov	—	22 Feb	5 Feb	9–5
6	CN Marseille	2	0	0	2	16	26	−10	0			9–13	11 Apr	9 May	5 Feb	4 Dec	—	30 Oct	20 Nov
7	Waspo 98 Hannover	2	0	0	2	22	34	−12	0			9 Nov	9 May	20 May	4 Mar	14 Dec	22 Apr	—	22 Feb
8	Dinamo Tbilisi	2	0	0	2	16	30	−14	0			5 Feb	30 Oct	9 Nov	9 May	20 May	4 Mar	4 Dec	—

Updated to match(es) played on 19 October 2019. Source: LEN

Final 8

5–7 June 2020

Qualified teams

Group	Winners	Runners-up	Third	Fourth
A
B

Bracket

	Quarterfinals				Semifinals				Final
	5 June
					6 June
	5 June
									7 June
	5 June
					6 June
	5 June
									Third place game
									7 June

5th–8th place bracket

	5th–8th place semifinals				Fifth place game
	6 June
					7 June
	6 June
					Seventh place game
					7 June

Final ranking

	Team
4
5
6
7
8

See also

• 2019–20 LEN Euro Cup