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2010–11 LEN Women's Champions' Cup

Water polo tournament

Summary

Water polo tournament

The 2010–11 LEN Women's Champions' Cup was the 24th edition of the highest-level competition in women's European club water polo. It involved the champions and other top teams from European national leagues and ran from December 2010 to April 2011. The Final Four (semifinals, final, and third place game) took place in Sabadell, Spain.

Final Four host CN Sabadell became the first Spanish team to win the competition beating Orizzonte Catania in the final. Olympiacos CFP and Kinef Kirishi also reached the final Four, with Olympiacos ranking third, while defending champion Vouliagmeni OC was defeated by Orizzonte in the quarter-finals.

Federation team allocation

Each national federation can enter up to two teams into the Women's Champions' Cup.

  • Seeded Federations are the federations who placed a team in the final Four of the previous' year's competition. In 2009/10, these countries were: Greece (2), Italy, and Russia
  • All other federations are unseeded

Federations do not have to enter their top two teams into the Champions' Cup. If they do not think their clubs can be competitive, they can enter teams into the second-tier LEN Cup.

Format and Changes

The original format for the Champions' Cup was to have four phases:

  • A qualification round of 4 groups of any size played as a Round-robin tournament at the site of a host team
  • A preliminary round of 4 groups of 4 played as a Round-robin tournament at the site of a host team
  • A quarterfinal round played as a Two-legged tie
  • The Final Four played as a Knockout tournament at a pre-selected site

However, there were only 13 entries, so the qualification round was cancelled, and the preliminary round will be played with 3 groups of 3 and 1 group of 4.

Distribution

Teams entering in this roundTeams advancing from previous round
Preliminary Round
Knockout Phase(8 teams)

Teams

There were 13 entries from 7 countries. Each of the draw pots were organised according to the previous year's results: Bold indicates countries that entered teams

Pot 44th placed in preliminary roundFrance, Great Britain (2), Switzerland

Note: The Netherlands only entered one team, so the two available places in Pot 3 were taken by a second German team and a French team elevated from Pot 4.

DrawGroup AGroup BGroup CGroup D
Pot 1ITA Orizzonte CataniaRUS Kinef KirishiGRE Olympiacos CFPGREVouliagmeni OC
Pot 2ESP CN SabadellESP CE MediterraniRUS Shturm RuzaITA Fiorentina WP
Pot 3GER Blau-Weiss BochumGER Bayer UerdingenFRA Olympic NiceNED Polar Bears Ede
Pot 4FRA ASPTT Nancy

Round and Draw Dates

Tournament PhaseDraw DateTournamentKnockout PhaseDraw Date1st Leg2nd LegFinal FourDraw DateRound Date
Preliminary Round6 August 2010Ends 5 December 2010
Quarterfinals12–13 February 201119–20 March 2011
Semifinals22 April 2011
Final23 April 2011

Tournament Phase

First qualifying round

Key to colours in group tables
Progress to the Quarterfinal Round

Group A

TeamPLWDLFAPts
1.ESP Sabadell22002620
2.ITA Orizzonte Catania (host)21013025
3.GER Blau-Weiss Bochum20021829
Orizzonte Catania17–11Blau-Weiss Bochum

Group B

TeamPLWDLFAPts
1.RUS Kinef Kirishi (host)22004216
2.GER Bayer Uerdingen21013033
3.ESP Mediterrani20021740
Kinef Kirishi20–6Mediterrani

Group C

TeamPLWDLFAPts
1.GRE Olympiacos22002515
2.RUS Shturm Ruza21012619
3.FRA Olympic Nice (host)20021128
Shturm Ruza15–7Olympic Nice

Group D

TeamPLWDLFAPts
1.GRE Vouliagmeni33004317
2.NED Polar Bears Ede32013130
3.ITA Fiorentina (host)31022428
4.FRA Nancy30031942
Polar Bears Ede14–7Nancy

Quarter-finals

Team #1Agg.Team #2L #1L #2
Sabadell Spain22–19Russia Shturm Ruza16–86–11
Polar Bears Ede Netherlands18–26Russia Kinef Kirishi9–119–15
Vouliagmeni Greece21–23Italy Orizzonte Catania13–118–12
Bayer Uerdingen Germany14–35Greece Olympiacos8–186–17

Final four

  • Piscina Can Llong, Sabadell

|22 April|ESP Sabadell|15|RUS Kinef Kirishi|13 |22 April|ITA Orizzonte Catania|14|GRE Olympiacos|13 |23 April|ESP Sabadell|13|ITA Orizzonte Catania|8 |23 April|RUS Kinef Kirishi|12|GRE Olympiacos|14

2011 LEN Women's Champions' Cup Champions
CN Sabadell
First title

References

References

  1. [http://www.marca.com/2011/04/23/mas_deportes/otros_deportes/1303561560.html Sabadell becomes the European champion]. [[Marca (newspaper). Marca]]
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