2020–21 LEN Champions League

LEN decided to play the 10 match-days of the 2020–21 LEN Champions League preliminary round in bubble format in three rounds, using two venues at each occasion. The ten match-days will be played in three rounds at two venues each time. Teams of the same group will contest three match-days, one time four, where the participants will be isolated for the entire duration of event because of the COVID-19 pandemic.

The draw for the group phase took place in Rome on 19 October 2020.

Group A

Pos	Team v t e	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification		REC	JUG	OLY	CNM	S04	CCO
1	Pro Recco	10	10	0	0	127	68	+59	30	Final 8		—	18–3	13–6	11–9	19–6	10–3
2	Jug CO Dubrovnik	10	6	1	3	102	106	−4	19			11–12	—	11–11	11–10	12–10	8–6
3	Olympiacos	10	4	2	4	89	92	−3	14			8–14	8–9	—	11–7	8–8	6–4
4	CN Marseille	10	4	1	5	93	94	−1	13			8–10	15–13	9–8	—	8–5	10–11
5	Spandau 04	10	1	3	6	79	104	−25	6			7–10	7–13	9–13	7–7	—	12–6
6	Ortigia Siracusa	10	1	1	8	69	95	−26	4			7–10	9–11	8–10	7–10	8–8	—

Group B

Pos	Team v t e	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification		FTC	BAR	BRE	HAN	DTB	JHN
1	FTC Telekom	10	8	0	2	113	73	+40	24	Final 8		—	11–10	7–10	13–9	15–11	12–5
2	Zodiac CNA Barceloneta	10	8	0	2	119	81	+38	24			7–8	—	10–9	12–8	17–5	13–11
3	AN Brescia	10	7	0	3	117	80	+37	21			9–6	6–8	—	19–11	14–6	6–7
4	Waspo 98 Hannover	10	3	0	7	89	122	−33	9			6–19	8–16	10–18	—	10–3	9–4
5	Dinamo Tbilisi	10	2	0	8	74	121	−47	6			4–11	6–14	9–15	6–7	—	11–8
6	Jadran Herceg Novi	10	2	0	8	74	109	−35	6			2–11	9–12	6–11	12–11	10–13	—

Final 8

3–5 June 2021, Belgrade, Serbia.^[3][4]

Belgrade

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Location of the 2020–21 LEN Champions League Final 8

Qualified teams

Group	Winners	Runners-up	Third	Fourth
A	Pro Recco	Jug AO Dubrovnik	Olympiacos	CN Marseille
B	FTC Telekom	Zodiac CNAB	AN Brescia	Waspo 98 Hannover

Bracket

	Quarterfinals				Semifinals				Final
	3 June
	Pro Recco	16
					4 June
	Waspo 98 Hannover	9
					Pro Recco	12
	3 June
					Zodiac CNAB	10
	Olympiacos	9
					Pro Recco	9
	3 June
					FTC Telekom	6
	FTC Telekom	14
					4 June
	CN Marseille	6
					FTC Telekom	14
	3 June
						AN Brescia		12			Third place game
	Jug AO Dubrovnik	10
						5 June
	AN Brescia	12
						Zodiac CNAB	7
									AN Brescia	13

5th–8th place bracket

	Olympiacos		8
	Waspo 98 Hannover	11
			4 June
		Jug AO Dubrovnik			16
			CN Marseille	13
				Jug AO Dubrovnik	16
		Olympiacos					13
	CN Marseille	12

All times are local (UTC+2).

Quarterfinals

3 June 2021 13:00	Report	Pro Recco	16–9	Waspo 98 Hannover	Sports Centre April 11th, Belgrade Referees: Kun Schwartz
		Score by quarters: 5–2, 4–3, 1–2, 6–2
		Ivović 5	Goals	Brguljan 3

3 June 2021 15:30	Report	FTC Telekom	14–6	CN Marseille	Sports Centre April 11th, Belgrade Referees: Alexandrescu Voevodin
		Score by quarters: 3–0, 4–1, 3–3, 4–2
		Fountoulis 4	Goals	Vukičević 2

3 June 2021 18:00	Report	Jug AO Dubrovnik	10–12	AN Brescia	Sports Centre April 11th, Belgrade Referees: Stavridis Zwart
		Score by quarters: 2–3, 3–3, 3–3, 2–3
		Fatović 4	Goals	Alesiani 3

3 June 2021 20:30	Report	Zodiac CNA Barceloneta	22–9	Olympiacos	Sports Centre April 11th, Belgrade Referees: Margeta Putniković
		Score by quarters: 6–0, 7–2, 6–3, 3–4
		three players 4	Goals	Genidounias 3

5th–8th place semifinals

4 June 2021 13:00	Report	Waspo 98 Hannover	10–8	Olympiacos	Sports Centre April 11th, Belgrade Referees: Putniković Ivanovski
		Score by quarters: 2–1, 4–2, 3–3, 1–2
		Radović 6	Goals	Genidounias 3

4 June 2021 15:30	Report	CN Marseille	13–16	Jug AO Dubrovnik	Sports Centre April 11th, Belgrade Referees: Zwart Kun
		Score by quarters: 1–1, 4–6, 5–5, 3–4
		Crousillat 4	Goals	Papanastasiou 5

Semifinals

4 June 2021 18:00	Report	Pro Recco	12–10	Zodiac CNA Barceloneta	Sports Centre April 11th, Belgrade Referees: Alexandrescu Stavridis
		Score by quarters: 2–4, 4–3, 4–1, 2–2
		Mandić 4	Goals	Perrone 3

4 June 2021 20:30	Report	FTC Telekom	14–12	AN Brescia	Sports Centre April 11th, Belgrade Referees: Martega Voevodin
		Score by quarters: 4–0, 4–6, 3–5, 3–1
		Vámos, Varga 4	Goals	Joković, Vlachopoulos 3

Seventh place game

5 June 2021 13:00	Report	Olympiacos	13–12	CN Marseille	Sports Centre April 11th, Belgrade Referees: Schwartz Ivanovski
		Score by quarters: 5–2, 2–4, 4–4, 2–2
		Chrysospathis, Genidounias 3	Goals	three players 2

Fifth place game

5 June 2021 15:30	Report	Waspo 98 Hannover	11–16	Jug AO Dubrovnik	Sports Centre April 11th, Belgrade Referees: Stavridis Kun
		Score by quarters: 2–3, 1–6, 4–5, 4–2
		Macan, Nagaev 3	Goals	Merkulov 5

Third place game

5 June 2021 18:00	Report	Zodiac CNA Barceloneta	7–13	AN Brescia	Sports Centre April 11th, Belgrade Referees: Zwart Putniković
		Score by quarters: 1–3, 2–6, 2–2, 2–2
		Granados 3	Goals	Vlachopoulos 4

Final

5 June 2021 20:30	Report	Pro Recco	9–6	FTC Telekom	Sports Centre April 11th, Belgrade Referees: Margeta Alexandrescu
		Score by quarters: 3–2, 2–3, 2–0, 2–1
		Mandić 3	Goals	Constantin-Bicari, Vigvari 2

2020–21 LEN Champions League Champions
Pro Recco 9th title

Final ranking

	Team
	Pro Recco
	FTC Telekom Budapest
	AN Brescia
4	Zodiac CNA Barceloneta
5	Jug AO Dubrovnik
6	Waspo 98 Hannover
7	Olympiacos
8	CN Marseille

Awards

Season MVP	Top Scorer	Final Eight MVP	Final Eight Best Goalkeeper
Dušan Mandić (Pro Recco)	Angelos Vlachopoulos[5] (AN Brescia) 31 goals	Dusan Mandic[6] (Pro Recco)	Marko Bijac (Pro Recco)

Total 7 of the Season
[7]	LW	Dénes Varga (Ferecvaros)	CF	Ben Hallock (Pro Recco)	RW	Gergő Zalánki (Ferecvaros)
	LD	Angelos Vlachopoulos (AN Brescia)	CB	Nikola Jakšić (Ferecvaros)	RD	Dušan Mandić (Pro Recco)
	GK	Marko Bijač (Pro Recco)

See also

• 2020–21 LEN Euro Cup

References

Notes

External links

• Official website, len.microplustiming.com