The 2021–22 LEN Champions League was the 59th edition of LEN's premier competition for men's water polo clubs.
Teams +Preliminary round Spandau 04 CN Marseille Steaua București Waspo 98 Hannover Dinamo Tbilisi Zodiac CNA Barceloneta Novi Beograd Olympiacos Radnički Kragujevac FTC Telekom Jug AO Dubrovnik Pro Recco
+Qualification round II Mladost Zagreb Szolnok VSC CN Barcelona CN Noisy-le-Sec AN Brescia Crvena zvezda NC Vouliagmeni CSM Oradea
+Qualification round I Jadran Herceg Novi OSC Budapest Sintez Kazan Primorac Kotor RN Savona CN Terrassa Jadran Split EVK Žaibas Enka Istanbul Montpellier AZS Warsaw Apollon Smyrnis Vitória Sport Clube
Schedule The schedule of the competition is as follows. PhaseRound1st leg2nd legQualifying roundsQualification round I24–26 September 2021Qualification round II8–10 October 2021Qualification round III16 October 202120 October 2021Preliminary roundRound 126/27 October 2021Round 29/10 November 2021Round 319/20 November 2021Round 430 November/1 December 2021Round 514/15 December 2021Round 621/22 December 2021Round 711/12 January 2022Round 825/26 January 2022Round 98/9 February 2022Round 1022/23 February 2022Round 1129/30 March 2022Round 128/9 April 2022Round 1319/20 April 2022Round 1410/11 May 2022Final 8Quarterfinals2 June 2022Semifinals3 June 2022Final4 June 2022
Qualifying rounds
Qualification round I The draw took place in Šibenik during the women's LEN European Junior Water Polo Championship. 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.
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.
Preliminary round
The draw for the 2021–22 LEN Champions League preliminary round took place in Ostia, Italy. 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.
Group A
Group B
Final 8
2021–22 LEN Champions LeagueChampionsPro Recco10th title 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 coach Sandro Sukno
Awards Season MVPTop Scorer Finals MVP Francesco Di Fulvio (Pro Recco) Gergő Zalánki 42 goals (Pro Recco) Giacomo Cannella (Pro Recco) Total 7 of the Season LW Francesco Di Fulvio (Pro Recco)CFDuško 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
References
Notes
External links , len.microplustiming.com