2016–17 LEN Champions League

2016–17 LEN Champions League
2016–17 LEN Champions League
League	Andrija Prlainovic (Szolnok)
Champions League seasons
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The 2016–17

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clubs. It ran from 30 September 2016 to 27 May 2017.

Team allocation

See also: 2016–17 LEN Champions League squads

8 teams are directly qualified for the preliminary round.

Preliminary round

Jug^TH Spandau 04 Szolnok Partizan

Atlètic-Barceloneta
Olympiacos
Pro Recco
Olympic Nice

Qualification round II

Primorje Duisburg Eger
Crvena zvezda

Sabadell Vouliagmeni Brescia Marseille

Qualification round I

Mornar Sintez Kazan Jadran Waspo 98 Hannover

Verona Orvosegyetem Portuense Valletta

Utrecht
Oradea

Galatasaray
Arkonia Szczecin

Barendrecht Steaua București
Enkaspor

Round and draw dates

The schedule of the competition is as follows.^[1]

Phase Round First leg Second leg

Qualifying Qualification round I 30 September–2 October 2016

Qualification round II 14–16 October 2016

Qualification round III
(play-off round) 26 October 2016 9 November 2016

Preliminary round Matchday 1 30 November 2016

Matchday 2 10 December 2016

Matchday 3 21 December 2016

Matchday 4 18 January 2017

Matchday 5 8 February 2017

Matchday 6 18 February 2017

Matchday 7 1 March 2017

Matchday 8 22 March 2017

Matchday 9 5 April 2017

Matchday 10 26 April 2017

Final 6 Quarter-finals 25 May 2017

Semi-finals 26 May 2017

Final 27 May 2017

Qualifying rounds

Qualification I

Fifteen teams take part in the Qualification round I. They were drawn into three groups of four teams and one group of three teams, whose played on 30 September−2 October 2016. Top 2 teams of each group advance to qualification round II.^[2]

Group A

Tournament was played in Oradea, Romania.

Pos Team Pld W D L GF GA GD Pts Qualification
ORA
MOR UTR
GAL

1
Oradea
(H) 3 3 0 0 35 18 +17 9 Round II — 10–6 11–5 14–7

2 Mornar 3 2 0 1 32 23 +9 6 — — — 13–7

3 Utrecht 3 1 0 2 20 31 −11 3 — 6–13 — —

4
Galatasaray
3 0 0 3 21 36 −15 0 — — 7–9 —
Source: LEN
(H) Hosts

Group B

Tournament was played in Budapest, Hungary.

Pos Team Pld W D L GF GA GD Pts Qualification ORV WAS BAR

1 Orvosegyetem (H) 2 2 0 0 32 17 +15 6 Round II — 12–11 20–6

2 Waspo 98 Hannover 2 1 0 1 30 17 +13 3 — — —

3 Barendrecht 2 0 0 2 11 39 −28 0 — 5–19 —
Source: LEN
(H) Hosts

Group C

Tournament was played in Porto, Portugal.

Pos Team Pld W D L GF GA GD Pts Qualification VER SIN
ENK
POR

1 Verona 3 2 1 0 59 17 +42 7 Round II — 10–10 — —

2 Sintez Kazan 3 2 1 0 44 15 +29 7 — — 14–3 —

3
Enkaspor
3 1 0 2 17 41 −24 3 6–21 — — —

4 Portuense (H) 3 0 0 3 9 56 −47 0 1–28 2–20 6–8 —
Source: LEN
(H) Hosts

Group D

Tournament was played in Valletta, Malta.

Pos Team Pld W D L GF GA GD Pts Qualification JAD STE VAL ARK

1 Jadran 3 3 0 0 57 11 +46 9 Round II — 9–7 — 23–3

2 Steaua București 3 2 0 1 43 18 +25 6 — — 19–6 —

3 Valletta (H) 3 1 0 2 19 46 −27 3 1–25 — — —

4 Arkonia Szczecin 3 0 0 3 8 52 −44 0 — 3–17 2–12 —
Source: LEN
(H) Hosts

Qualification II

Sixteen teams take part in the Qualification round II. Eight teams from first round and eight teams with wild cards. They were drawn into four groups of four teams, whose played on 14−16 October 2016. Top 2 teams of each group advance to qualification round III.^[3]

Group E

Tournament was played in Eger, Hungary.

Pos Team Pld W D L GF GA GD Pts Qualification VER EGE MAR MOR

1 Verona 3 3 0 0 45 24 +21 9 Round III — — 18–9 17–6

2 Eger (H) 3 2 0 1 42 23 +19 6 9–10 — 18–5 15–8

3 Marseille 3 1 0 2 27 47 −20 3 — — — 13–11

4 Mornar 3 0 0 3 25 45 −20 0 — — — —
Source: LEN
(H) Hosts

Group F

Tournament was played in Brescia, Italy.

Pos Team Pld W D L GF GA GD Pts Qualification BRE ORV SIN CZB

1 Brescia (H) 3 2 1 0 35 27 +8 7 Round III — 11–11 15–11 9–5

2 Orvosegyetem 3 1 2 0 30 29 +1 5 — — 11–11 —

3 Sintez Kazan 3 1 1 1 33 30 +3 4 — — — 11–4

4 Crvena zvezda 3 0 0 3 16 28 −12 0 — 7–8 — —
Source: LEN
(H) Hosts

Group G

Tournament was played in Herceg Novi, Montenegro.

Pos Team Pld W D L GF GA GD Pts Qualification WAS JAD VOU DUI

1 Waspo 98 Hannover 3 2 0 1 26 22 +4 6^[a] Round III — — — 8–5

2 Jadran (H) 3 2 0 1 27 18 +9 6^[a] 6–8 — 9–6 12–4

3 Vouliagmeni 3 2 0 1 32 28 +4 6^[a] 11–10 — — —

4 Duisburg 3 0 0 3 18 35 −17 0 — — 9–15 —
Source: LEN
(H) Hosts
Notes:

^ ^a ^b ^c Waspo Hannover 18–17, Jadran 15–14, Vouliagmeni 17–19

Group H

Tournament was played in Rijeka, Croatia.

Pos Team Pld W D L GF GA GD Pts Qualification PRI ORA SAB STE

1 Primorje (H) 3 2 0 1 24 28 −4 6^[a] Round III — 9–7 5–12 10–9

2 Oradea 3 2 0 1 29 25 +4 6^[a] — — — —

3 Sabadell 3 1 1 1 28 25 +3 4 — 6–10 — —

4 Steaua București 3 0 1 2 29 32 −3 1 — 10–12 10–10 —
Source: LEN
(H) Hosts
Notes:

^ ^a ^b Primorje–Oradea 9–7

Qualification III

Eight teams 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:

In the draw for the Qualification round III, the four group winners were seeded, and the four group runners-up were unseeded. The seeded teams were drawn against the unseeded teams. Teams from the same group could not be drawn against each other.^[4]

Key to colors

Seeded in qualification round III draw

Unseeded in qualification round III draw

Group Winners Runners-up

E Verona Eger

F Brescia Orvosegyetem

G Waspo 98 Hannover Jadran

H Primorje Oradea

1st leg: 26 October 2016

2nd leg: 9 November 2016

Team 1
Agg.
Tooltip Aggregate score Team 2 1st leg 2nd leg

Waspo 98 Hannover 23–18 Oradea 12–7 11–11

Brescia 22–16 Jadran 14–5 8–11

Primorje 11–23 Eger 6–12 5–11

Orvosegyetem 21–19 Verona 10–6 11–13

Preliminary round

Olympic Nice
Spandau 04
Pro Recco
Partizan
Jug
Szolnok
Brescia
OSC
Waspo 98
Eger
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Location of teams of the 2016–17 LEN Champions League group stage.
Red: Group A;
Blue: Group B.

[table_hth_WAS0.5342218706078-4] Waspo Hannover 18–17, Jadran 15–14, Vouliagmeni 17–19

[table_hth_PRI0.26024974382494-5] Primorje–Oradea 9–7

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Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	PF	PA	PD	Pts	Qualification	SZO	OLY	BRE	ORV	SPA	NIC
1	Szolnok	10	9	1	0	101	62	+39	28	Semifinals	—	5–5	8–4	10–8	12–7	17–4
2	Olympiacos	10	7	1	2	90	63	+27	22	Quarterfinals	4–6	—	8–4	7–4	10–8	15–2
3	Brescia	10	5	2	3	91	78	+13	17	Quarterfinals	9–10	13–10	—	6–6	9–6	13–4
4	Orvosegyetem	10	3	3	4	79	74	+5	12		8–9	7–8	7–7	—	5–5	11–9
5	Spandau 04	10	2	1	7	75	95	−20	7		8–12	6–11	10–14	6–10	—	11–6
6	Olympic Nice	10	0	0	10	60	124	−64	0		5–12	8–12	9–12	7–13	6–8	—

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	PF	PA	PD	Pts	Qualification	PRO	EGE	JUG	BAR	PAR	WAS
1	Pro Recco	10	10	0	0	116	63	+53	30	Semifinals	—	9–4	9–5	8–6	12–7	18–8
2	Eger	10	6	0	4	78	84	−6	18	Quarterfinals	7–11	—	6–5	10–9	8–4	10–7
3	Jug	10	5	2	3	115	92	+23	17	Quarterfinals	8–11	10–6	—	11–10	21–9	15–15
4	Atlètic-Barceloneta	10	4	2	4	89	81	+8	14		6–11	10–6	7–7	—	12–5	12–10
5	Partizan	10	1	1	8	76	124	−48	4		5–17	8–9	9–16	4–8	—	13–9
6	Waspo 98 Hannover	10	0	3	7	98	128	−30	3		7–10	11–12	10–17	9–9	12–12	—

25 May 2017 19:00	Report	Olympiacos	8–11	Jug	Danube Arena, Budapest Referees: Xavier Buch Sergey Naumov
		Score by quarters: 1–3, 1–4, 5–3, 1–1
		Genidounias 4	Goals	four players 2

25 May 2017 20:30	Report	Eger	6–4	Brescia	Danube Arena, Budapest Referees: Vojin Putnikovic Matan Schwartz
		Score by quarters: 2–2, 1–1, 1–1, 2–0
		Hárai 3	Goals	Nora 2

26 May 2017 17:30	Report	Olympiacos	5–8	Brescia	Danube Arena, Budapest Referees: Sergey Naumov Matan Schwartz
		Score by quarters: 2–2, 0–3, 1–1, 2–2
		Fountoulis 2	Goals	three players 2

2016–17 LEN Champions League

Team allocation

Round and draw dates

Qualifying rounds

Qualification I

Group A

Group B

Group C

Group D

Qualification II

Group E

Group F

Group G

Group H

Qualification III

Preliminary round

Group A

Group B

Final Six

Quarterfinals

5th place

Semifinals

Third place

Final

Final standings

Awards

See also

References

External links

27 May 2017 16:45	Report	Jug	5–10	Szolnok	Danube Arena, Budapest Referees: Adrian Tiberiu Alexandrescu Boris Margeta
		Score by quarters: 2–1, 2–5, 1–2, 0–2
		Marković 2	Goals	Aleksić, Prlainović 3