2021–22 LEN Champions League explained

The 2021–22 LEN Champions League was the 59th edition of LEN's premier competition for men's water polo clubs.

Teams

Preliminary round

width=25%	Spandau 04	width=25%	CN Marseille	width=25%	Steaua București
width=25%	Waspo 98 Hannover	width=25%	Dinamo Tbilisi	width=25%	Zodiac CNA Barceloneta
width=25%	Novi Beograd	width=25%	Olympiacos
width=25%	Radnički Kragujevac	width=25%	FTC Telekom
width=25%	Jug AO Dubrovnik	width=25%	Pro Recco

Qualification round II

width=25%	Mladost Zagreb	width=25%	Szolnok VSC	width=25%	CN Barcelona
width=25%	CN Noisy-le-Sec	width=25%	AN Brescia	width=25%	Crvena zvezda
width=25%	NC Vouliagmeni	width=25%	CSM Oradea

Qualification round I

width=25%	Jadran Herceg Novi	width=25%	OSC Budapest	width=25%	Sintez Kazan
width=25%	Primorac Kotor	width=25%	RN Savona	width=25%	CN Terrassa
width=25%	Jadran Split	width=25%	EVK Žaibas	width=25%	Enka Istanbul
width=25%	Montpellier	width=25%	AZS Warsaw
width=25%	Apollon Smyrnis	width=25%	Vitória Sport Clube

Schedule

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

Phase	Round	1st leg	2nd leg
Qualifying rounds	Qualification round I	24–26 September 2021
	Qualification round II	8–10 October 2021
	Qualification round III	16 October 2021	20 October 2021
Preliminary round	Round 1	26/27 October 2021
	Round 2	9/10 November 2021
	Round 3	19/20 November 2021
	Round 4	30 November/1 December 2021
	Round 5	14/15 December 2021
	Round 6	21/22 December 2021
	Round 7	11/12 January 2022
	Round 8	25/26 January 2022
	Round 9	8/9 February 2022
	Round 10	22/23 February 2022
	Round 11	29/30 March 2022
	Round 12	8/9 April 2022
	Round 13	19/20 April 2022
	Round 14	10/11 May 2022
Final 8	Quarterfinals	2 June 2022
	Semifinals	3 June 2022
	Final	4 June 2022

Qualifying rounds

Qualification round I

The draw took place in Šibenik during the women's LEN European Junior Water Polo Championship.^[2] The top four ranked sides will advance from both groups.

Group A

• 23–26 September 2021, Savona, Italy.

Group B

• 22–26 September 2021, Podgorica, Montenegro.

Qualification round II

The top two ranked sides from each group advance.^{[3] [4]}

Group C

• 8–10 October 2021, Szolnok, Hungary.

Group D

• 8–10 October 2021, Zagreb, Croatia.

Group E

• 8–10 October 2021, Paris, France.

Group F

• 8–10 October 2021, Split, Croatia.

Qualification round III

The winners in the third round will continue in the preliminary round. The losers in the third round will be transferred in the Euro Cup quarter-finals.^[5] |}

Preliminary round

See main article: 2021–22 LEN Champions League preliminary round.

The draw for the 2021–22 LEN Champions League preliminary round took place in Ostia, Italy.^[6] The upcoming season is planned with the usual pre-pandemic round-robin format with 14 rounds contested on a home-and-away basis. The top three teams in group A and the top four teams in group B will advance to the Final 8. Also, Novi Beograd will participate in the Final 8 as the host of tournament. The matchdays will be from 26 October 2021 to 15 June 2022.^[7]

Group B

Final 8

See main article: 2021–22 LEN Champions League Final Eight.

Marco Del Lungo, Francesco Di Fulvio, Luka Loncar, Gergő Zalánki, Aaron Younger, Alessandro Velotto, Nicholas Presciutti, Gonzalo Echenique, Aleksandar Ivović, Benjamin Thomas, Matteo Aicardi, Stefano Luongo, Tommaso Negri

Head coachSandro Sukno

Awards

Total 7 of the Season
[8]	LW	Francesco Di Fulvio (Pro Recco)	CF	Duško Pijetlović(Novi Beograd)	RW	Gergő Zalánki(Pro Recco)
	LD	Álvaro Granados (Novi Beograd)	CB	Aleksandar Ivović (Pro Recco)	RD	Dušan Mandić (Novi Beograd)
	GK	Marco Del Lungo (Pro Recco)

See also

• 2021–22 LEN Euro Cup

External links

• , len.microplustiming.com

Notes and References

1. Web site: LEN club competition programme season 2021–2022. LEN.com.
2. Web site: Champions League, Euro Cup – Qualification Round 1. LEN.com.
3. Web site: Water Polo Champions League – Qualification Round II. LEN.com.
4. Web site: Champions League, Qualification Round II. LEN.com.
5. Web site: Water Polo Champions League – Qualification Round III, Draw . LEN.com.
6. Web site: Champions League 2021-2022 Draw Main Round. LEN.com. 2021-09-05. 2021-10-08. https://web.archive.org/web/20211008124133/http://www.len.eu/?p=18403. dead.
7. Web site: LEN Champions League preliminary round calendar season 2021-2022. LEN.com.
8. Web site: Curcic . Ivan . 2023-06-05 . LEN Champions League "Team of the Tournament" . 2023-06-05 . Total Waterpolo . en-US.