2015–16 LEN Euro Cup

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

2015−16 LEN Euro Cup
LeagueLEN Euro Cup
SportWater Polo
Duration30 September 2015 to 30 April 2016
Season champions AN Brescia

Overview

Team allocation
Qualification round I
Jadran Split Mornar SNS Strasbourg Olympic Nice
Ferencváros Szeged Acquachiara Canottieri Napoli
Sintez Kazan Kinef Kirishi SSV Esslingen Primorac Kotor
GZC Donk
Quarter-finals
Waspo Hannover (CL Q3) Digi Oradea (CL Q3) CN Marseille (CL Q3) AN Brescia (CL Q3)

Round and draw dates

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

Qualification round I

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

Tournament played in Budapest, Hungary.

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

Group B

Tournament played in Split, Croatia.

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

Qualification round II

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

Tournament was played in Naples, Italy.

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

Group D

Tournament was played in Split, Croatia.

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

Knockout stage

Quarter Finals
Key to colours
Seeded in quarter finals draw
Unseeded in quarter finals draw
CL lossers of QR3 EC first two of QR2
Waspo Hannover Sintez Kazan
Digi Oradea Mornar
CN Marseille Kinef Kirishi
AN Brescia 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. Team 2 1st leg 2nd leg
Kinef Kirishi 11–26 AN Brescia 5–11 6–15
Mornar 23–22 Digi Oradea 14–9 9–13
CN Marseille 18–20 Sintez Kazan 8–9 10–11
Szeged 17–16 Waspo Hannover 9–3 8–13

Semi Finals

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

Team 1 Agg. Team 2 1st leg 2nd leg
AN Brescia 24–18 Szeged 9–8 15–10
Mornar 16–19 Sintez Kazan 9–7 7–12

Final

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

Team 1 Agg. Team 2 1st leg 2nd leg
Sintez Kazan 10–23 AN Brescia 4–11 6–12

See also

References
  1. "LEN Club Competition Programme Season 2015/2016" (PDF). LEN.
  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.
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