2018–19 LEN Euro League Women

The 2018–19 LEN Euro League Women was the 32nd edition of the major European tournament for women's water polo clubs. It ran from 24 January to 20 April 2019.^[1][2]

2018–19 LEN Euro League Women
League	LEN Euro League Women
Sport	Water Polo
Duration	24 January – 20 April 2019
Number of games	48
Number of teams	19 (from 9 countries)
Season champions	CN Sabadell (5th title)
Runners-up	Olympiacos

The Final 4 was contested in Sabadell, Spain, on 19 and 20 April. The home team became European champion for the fifth time, defeating Greece's Olympiacos in the final match.^[3][4][5]

Overview

Calendar

The calendar of the competition was announced on 25 May 2018.^[1]

Phase	Round	First leg	Second leg
Preliminary round	Qualification Round I ‡	23–25 November 2018
	Qualification Round II	24–27 January 2019
Knockout stage	Quarterfinals	23 February 2019	9/12 March 2019
	Final 4	19–20 April 2019

‡: Not contested

Participating teams

Preliminary round
ŽAVK Mladost	Olympiacos	Orizzonte Catania	Dynamo Uralochka	CN Mataró
Lille UC	BVSC	Plebiscito Padova	Kinef Kirishi	CN Sabadell
Ethnikos	Dunaújváros	Rapallo	Ugra Khanty-Mansiysk	CN Sant Andreu
NC Vouliagmeni	UVSE	ZVL-1886	Olympia Košice

Preliminary round

The draw of the pools for the preliminary round was held in Kirishi, Russia, before the 2018 Super Cup, on 9 october 2018.^[6]

Pools composition

Group A	Group B	Group C	Group D
BVSC	CN Sabadell	CN Mataró	Dynamo Uralochka
CN Sant Andreu (H)	Dunaújváros	Olympiacos	Ethnikos (H)
Kinef Kirishi	NC Vouliagmeni	Plebiscito Padova (H)	Lille UC
ŽAVK Mladost	Olympia Košice (H)	Ugra Khanty-Mansiysk	Orizzonte Catania
ZVL-1886	Rapallo		UVSE

Group A

Venue: Piscina Pere Serrat, Barcelona, Spain.^[7]

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	Kinef Kirishi	4	4	0	0	76	24	+52	12	Quarterfinals
2	CN Sant Andreu	4	3	0	1	46	32	+14	9
3	BVSC	4	1	1	2	51	33	+18	4
4	ZVL-1886	4	1	1	2	33	44	−11	4
5	ŽAVK Mladost	4	0	0	4	21	94	−73	0

Source: LEN

Date	Time†		Score
24 Jan	18:30	Sant Andreu	8–7	BVSC	Report
24 Jan	20:30	Kinef	30–6	Mladost	Report
25 Jan	10:00	Kinef	20–5	ZVL	Report
25 Jan	12:00	Mladost	5–28	BVSC	Report
25 Jan	18:30	Sant Andreu	12–3	ZVL	Report
25 Jan	20:30	BVSC	7–11	Kinef	Report
26 Jan	18:30	Sant Andreu	6–15	Kinef	Report
26 Jan	20:30	ZVL	16–3	Mladost	Report
27 Jan	10:30	BVSC	9–9	ZVL	Report
27 Jan	12:30	Sant Andreu	20–7	Mladost	Report

Group B

Venue: Mestská Krytá Plaváreň, Košice, Slovakia.^[8]

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	CN Sabadell	4	4	0	0	66	27	+39	12	Quarterfinals
2	NC Vouliagmeni	4	3	0	1	50	29	+21	9
3	Dunaújváros	4	2	0	2	49	36	+13	6
4	Rapallo	4	1	0	3	43	45	−2	3
5	Olympia Košice	4	0	0	4	13	74	−61	0

Source: LEN

Date	Time†		Score
24 Jan	18:00	Dunaújváros	9–8	Rapallo	Report
24 Jan	19:30	Sabadell	24–4	Košice	Report
25 Jan	10:00	Rapallo	9–17	Sabadell	Report
25 Jan	11:30	Dunaújváros	11–13	Vouliagmeni	Report
25 Jan	18:00	Sabadell	13–7	Dunaújváros	Report
25 Jan	19:30	Vouliagmeni	17–1	Košice	Report
26 Jan	18:00	Vouliagmeni	7–12	Sabadell	Report
26 Jan	19:30	Košice	6–21	Rapallo	Report
27 Jan	10:00	Rapallo	5–13	Vouliagmeni	Report
27 Jan	11:30	Košice	2–22	Dunaújváros	Report

Group C

Venue: Centro Sportivo del Plebiscito, Padua, Italy.^[9]

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	Olympiacos	3	2	1	0	41	20	+21	7	Quarterfinals
2	Plebiscito Padova	3	2	1	0	35	21	+14	7
3	CN Mataró	3	1	0	2	22	27	−5	3
4	Ugra Khanty-Mansiysk	3	0	0	3	15	45	−30	0

Source: LEN

Date	Time†		Score
25 Jan	18:00	Plebiscito	15–5	Ugra KM	Report
25 Jan	20:00	Mataró	5–12	Olympiacos	Report
26 Jan	17:00	Olympiacos	20–6	Ugra KM	Report
26 Jan	19:00	Plebiscito	11–7	Mataró	Report
27 Jan	10:00	Ugra KM	4–10	Mataró	Report
27 Jan	12:00	Olympiacos	9–9	Plebiscito	Report

Group D

Venue: Petros Kapagerov National Swimming Hall, Piraeus, Greece.^[10]

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	UVSE	4	4	0	0	49	31	+18	12	Quarterfinals
2	Orizzonte Catania	4	3	0	1	51	25	+26	9
3	Dynamo Uralochka	4	2	0	2	46	43	+3	6
4	Ethnikos	4	1	0	3	40	50	−10	3
5	Lille UC	4	0	0	4	22	59	−37	0

Source: LEN

Date	Time‡		Score
24 Jan	17:30	Ethnikos	14–5	Lille	Report
24 Jan	19:15	Uralochka	6–15	Orizzonte	Report
25 Jan	10:00	Orizzonte	6–9	UVSE	Report
25 Jan	11:45	Lille	7–14	Uralochka	Report
25 Jan	18:15	Uralochka	9–11	UVSE	Report
25 Jan	20:00	Ethnikos	5–15	Orizzonte	Report
26 Jan	18:00	Ethnikos	10–17	Uralochka	Report
26 Jan	19:45	UVSE	16–5	Lille	Report
27 Jan	10:00	Lille	5–15	Orizzonte	Report
27 Jan	11:45	Ethnikos	11–13	UVSE	Report

^† All times are local

Knockout stage

Quarterfinals

The draw took place at LEN headquarters in Nyon, Switzerland, on 29 January 2019.^[11]

Team 1	Agg.Tooltip Aggregate score	Team 2	1st leg	2nd leg
Kinef Kirishi	18–19	NC Vouliagmeni	11–10	7–9
Orizzonte Catania	20–23	CN Sabadell	9–12	11–11
UVSE	13–14	Plebiscito Padova	6–6	7–8
CN Sant Andreu	13–26	Olympiacos	7–16	6–10

First leg

23 Feb 2019 13:00 (UTC+3)	Report	Kinef Kirishi	11–10	NC Vouliagmeni	Neftyanik Sports Complex (Kirishi) Referees: Putniković (SRB), Petik (HUN)
		Score by quarters: 3–5, 2–1, 4–4, 2–0
		4: Simanovich 3: Zubkova	Goals	4: Charalampidi 3: Jordan

23 Feb 2019 16:45 (UTC+1)	Report	CN Sant Andreu	7–16	Olympiacos	Piscina Pere Serrat (Barcelona) Referees: Colombo (ITA), Marjay (HUN)
		Score by quarters: 2–3, 0–4, 4–4, 1–5
		2: Sleeking 1: five players	Goals	4: Asimaki 3: Avramidou

23 Feb 2019 18:00 (UTC+1)	Report	Orizzonte Catania	9–12	CN Sabadell	Piscina di Nesima (Catania) Referees: Markopoulou (GRE), Matache (ROU)
		Score by quarters: 2–3, 1–3, 2–3, 4–3
		4: Marletta 2: Bianconi	Goals	3: Ortiz 2: García, Neushul, Leitón

23 Feb 2019 20:00 (UTC+1)	Report	UVSE	6–6	Plebiscito Padova	Alfréd Hajós National Swimming Stadium (Budapest) Referees: Achladiotis (GRE), Mišković (MNE)
		Score by quarters: 2–1, 2–1, 0–3, 2–1
		2: Keszthelyi, Faragó	Goals	2 :Queirolo

Second leg

9 Mar 2019 16:45 (UTC+2)	Report	Olympiacos	10–6	CN Sant Andreu	Petros Kapagerov National Swimming Hall (Piraeus) Referees: Várkonyi (HUN), Goncharenko (UKR)
		Score by quarters: 4–2, 2–1, 2–1, 2–2
		2: Eggens, Eleftheriadou 1: six players	Goals	2: Jackovich 1: four players

9 Mar 2019 18:00 (UTC+1)	Report	Plebiscito Padova	8–7	UVSE	Centro Sportivo del Plebiscito (Padua) Referees: Dreval (RUS), Raković (SRB)
		Score by quarters: 2–5, 2–1, 2–1, 2–0
		3: Barzon 2: Grab	Goals	3: Keszthelyi 1: four players

9 Mar 2019 20:00 (UTC+2)	Report	NC Vouliagmeni	9–7	Kinef Kirishi	Halandri Municipal Swimming Center (Chalandri) Referees: Peris (CRO), Mauss (GER)
		Score by quarters: 3–1, 2–3, 3–2, 1–1
		3: Xenaki 2: Elliniadi	Goals	2: Zubkova, Prokofyeva, Simanovich

12 Mar 2019 19:00 (UTC+1)	Report	CN Sabadell	11–11	Orizzonte Catania	Centre Can Llong (Sabadell) Referees: Debreceni (HUN), Boudramis (GRE)
		Score by quarters: 3–3, 2–1, 4–2, 2–5
		3: Ortiz, Forca 2: Neushul	Goals	6: Garibotti 2: Aiello

Final Four

The allocation of the final 4 in Sabadell and the draw of the semifinals were announced by LEN on 13 March 2019. The Spanish team hosted the finals for the second time (the first one was the 2016 edition).^[12][13]

Semifinals

19 Apr 2019 11:30 (UTC+1)	Report	NC Vouliagmeni	7–8	Olympiacos	Centre Can Llong (Sabadell) Referees: Mauss (GER), Margeta (SLO)
		Score by quarters: 2–2, 2–2, 2–3, 1–1
		3: Chydirioti 2: Charalampidi	Goals	4: Avramidou 1: four players

19 Apr 2019 13:15 (UTC+1)	Report	Plebiscito Padova	5–8	CN Sabadell	Centre Can Llong (Sabadell) Referees: Várkonyi (HUN), Naumov (RUS)
		Score by quarters: 1–1, 2–4, 1–3, 1–0
		3: Barzon	Goals	3: Steffens 2: Forca

Finals

3rd place

20 Apr 2019 11:30 (UTC+1)	Report	Plebiscito Padova	7–8	NC Vouliagmeni	Centre Can Llong (Sabadell) Referees: Várkonyi (HUN), Margeta (SLO)
		Score by quarters: 1–2, 2–4, 2–0, 2–2
		3: Barzon 1: four players	Goals	2: Chydirioti, Jordan

1st place

20 Apr 2019 13:15 (UTC+1)	Report	CN Sabadell	13–11	Olympiacos	Centre Can Llong (Sabadell) Attendance: 1000[5] Referees: Mauss (GER), Naumov (RUS)
		Score by quarters: 2–3, 4–3, 2–3, 5–2
		4: Neushul 3: Ortiz	Goals	4: Buckling 2: Plevritou, Tsoukala

2018–19 LEN Euro League Women Champions
CN Sabadell 5th title

Final standings

	Team
	CN Sabadell
	Olympiacos
	NC Vouliagmeni
4	Plebiscito Padova

See also

• 2018–19 LEN Champions League
• 2018–19 Women's LEN Trophy