2015–16 LEN Euro Cup

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

2015−16 LEN Euro Cup
League	LEN Euro Cup
Sport	Water Polo
Duration	30 September 2015 to 30 April 2016
Number of teams	17
Finals champions	AN Brescia (4th title)
Runners-up	Sintez Kazan

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: ^{[citation needed]}

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: ^{[citation needed]}

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: ^{[citation needed]}

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: ^{[citation needed]}

Knockout stage

Bracket

	Quarter-finals						Semi-finals						Final
	Mornar	14	9	23
	CSM Digi Oradea	9	13	22
							Mornar	9	7	16
							Sintez Kazan	7	12	19
	CN Marseille	8	10	18
	Sintez Kazan	9	11	20
													Sintez Kazan	4	6	10
													AN Brescia	11	12	23
	Kinef Kirishi	5	6	11
	AN Brescia	11	15	26
							AN Brescia	9	15	24
							Szeged	8	10	18
	Szeged	9	8	17
	Waspo Hannover	3	13	16

Quarter-finals

Key to colours
Seeded in quarter finals draw
Unseeded in quarter finals draw

CL losers 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.Tooltip Aggregate score	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.Tooltip Aggregate score	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.Tooltip Aggregate score	Team 2	1st leg	2nd leg
Sintez Kazan	10–23	AN Brescia	4–11	6–12

2015–16 LEN Euro Cup Champions
AN Brescia 4th Cup

See also

• 2015–16 LEN Champions League

References

1. "LEN Club Competition Programme Season 2015/2016" (PDF). LEN.^{[permanent dead link‍]}
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.