2011–12 LEN Champions League

Water polo sports season

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Sports season

2011–12 LEN Champions League
League	LEN Champions League
Sport	Water Polo
Duration	6 September 2011 to 12 May 2012
Number of teams	16 (preliminary round) 26 (total)
Final Four
Finals champions	Italy Pro Recco (7th title)
Runners-up	Croatia Primorje
Finals MVP	Hungary Denes Varga (Primorje Rijeka)
Champions League seasons
← 2010–11 2012–13 →

The 2011–12 LEN Champions League is the 49th edition of the Europe men's premier water polo competition. This also would become the first season with the new name of the LEN Champions League with the former name being called the Euroleague which had been the name of the competition since 2003.

29 teams competed in the edition with three quarters of those playing in qualifying as they joined the eight teams in the group stage. From there, the top two teams of each group qualified to the knockout stage with the final four round being played in Oradea. In the final, Pro Recco from Italy took out their seventh title defeating Croatian club, VK Primorje 11–8. Third place was fellow Croatian club HAVK Mladost who defeated Vasas SC from Hungary in the bronze medal playoff.

Group stage

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Key to colors in group tables
To progress to the Quarterfinal Round
To be eliminated

Group A

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Pos	Team	Pld	W	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts
1	Croatia VK Primorje EB Rijeka	6	5	1	61	46	+15	15
2	Montenegro VK Budva M:Tel	6	3	3	46	55	−9	9
3	Greece Olympiacos Piraeus	6	2	4	50	48	+2	6
4	Greece Vouliagmeni NC	6	2	4	54	62	−8	6

Source: ^{[citation needed ]}

Matchday One 22/23 Oct 2011
VK Primorje EB	12–8	Budva M:tel
Olympiacos Piraeus	9–8	Vouliagmeni NC
Matchday Two 9 Nov 2011
Vouliagmeni NC	8–10	VK Primorje EB
Budva M:tel	8–5	Olympiacos Piraeus
Matchday Three 26/27 Nov 2011
Olympiacos Piraeus	9–12	VK Primorje EB
Budva M:tel	8–9	Vouliagmeni NC
Matchday Four 14 Dec 2011
VK Primorje EB	6–5	Olympiacos Piraeus
Vouliagmeni NC	10–11	Budva M:tel
Matchday Five 8 Feb 2012
Olympiacos Piraeus	11–2	Budva M:tel
VK Primorje EB	13–7	Vouliagmeni NC
Matchday Six 25/26 Feb 2012
Vouliagmeni NC	12–11	Olympiacos Piraeus
Budva M:tel	11–10	VK Primorje EB

Group B

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Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts
1	Croatia VK Jug CO Dubrovnik	6	6	0	0	62	41	+21	18
2	Croatia HAVK Mladost Zagreb	6	4	0	2	59	45	+14	12
3	Germany Spandau 04 Berlin	6	1	1	4	38	59	−21	4
4	Serbia VK Vojvodina Novi Sad	6	0	1	5	46	60	−14	1

Source: ^{[citation needed ]}

Matchday One 22/23 Oct 2011
Spandau 04	8–9	VK Jug CO
HAVK Mladost	14–9	VK Vojvodina Novi Sad
Matchday Two 9 Nov 2011
VK Vojvodina Novi Sad	6–6	Spandau 04
VK Jug CO	10–8	HAVK Mladost
Matchday Three 26/27 Nov 2011
HAVK Mladost	11–6	Spandau 04
VK Jug CO	9–6	VK Vojvodina Novi Sad
Matchday Four 14 Dec 2011
Spandau 04	3–9	HAVK Mladost
VK Vojvodina Novi Sad	7–11	VK Jug CO
Matchday Five 8 Feb 2012
HAVK Mladost	6–7	VK Jug CO
Spandau 04	9–8	VK Vojvodina Novi Sad
Matchday Six 25/26 Feb 2012
VK Vojvodina Novi Sad	10–11	HAVK Mladost
VK Jug CO	16–6	Spandau 04

Group C

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Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts
1	Hungary Szeged Beton VE	6	4	1	1	55	52	+3	13
2	Hungary TEVA Vasas Uniqa	6	3	2	1	60	54	+6	11
3	Serbia VK Partizan Raiffeisen	6	2	1	3	52	51	+1	7
4	Hungary ZF-Eger	6	1	0	5	44	54	−10	3

Source: ^{[citation needed ]}

Matchday One 22/23 Oct 2011
VK Partizan Raiffeisen	8–9	Szeged Beton VE
ZF-Eger	5–8	TEVA-Vasas Uniqa
Matchday Two 9 Nov 2011
TEVA-Vasas Uniqa	10–10	VK Partizan Raiffeisen
Szeged Beton VE	6–3	ZF-Eger
Matchday Three 26/27 Nov 2011
VK Partizan Raiffeisen	9 – 6	ZF-Eger
TEVA-Vasas Uniqa	12 –9	Szeged Beton VE
Matchday Four 14 Dec 2011
ZF-Eger	12–8	VK Partizan Raiffeisen
Szeged Beton VE	12–12	TEVA-Vasas Uniqa
Matchday Five 8 Feb 2012
VK Partizan Raiffeisen	9–5	TEVA-Vasas Uniqa
ZF-Eger	9–10	Szeged Beton VE
Matchday Six 25/26 Feb 2012
Szeged Beton VE	9–8	VK Partizan Raiffeisen
TEVA-Vasas Uniqa	13–9	ZF-Eger

Group D

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Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts
1	Italy Ferla Pro Recco	6	6	0	0	83	40	+43	18
2	Montenegro VK Jadran Herceg Novi	6	3	1	2	67	62	+5	10
3	Russia Spartak Volgograd	6	2	1	3	61	74	−13	7
4	France CN Marseille	6	0	0	6	50	72	−22	0

Source: ^{[citation needed ]}

Matchday One 22/23 Oct 2011
Ferla Pro Recco	13–5	Spartak Volgograd
VK Jadran HN	13–7	CN Marseille
Matchday Two 9 Nov 2011
CN Marseille	4–13	Ferla Pro Recco
Spartak Volgograd	11–11	VK Jadran HN
Matchday Three 26/27 Nov 2011
Ferla Pro Recco	10–8	VK Jadran HN
CN Marseille	12–13	Spartak Volgograd
Matchday Four 14 Dec 2011
VK Jadran HN	9–14	Ferla Pro Recco
Spartak Volgograd	15–10	CN Marseille
Matchday Five 8 Feb 2012
Ferla Pro Recco	15–7	CN Marseille
VK Jadran HN	13–10	Spartak Volgograd
Matchday Six 25/26 Feb 2012
Spartak Volgograd	7–18	Ferla Pro Recco
CN Marseille	10–13	VK Jadran HN

Quarterfinal round

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Team 1	Agg. Tooltip Aggregate score	Team 2	1st leg	2nd leg
VK Primorje EB Rijeka Croatia	23–22	Montenegro VK Jadran Herceg Novi	12–11	11–11
VK Budva M:Tel Montenegro	11–32	Italy Ferla Pro Recco	5–13	6–19
HAVK Mladost Zagreb Croatia	18–13	Hungary Szeged Beton VE	8–6	10–7
VK Jug CO Dubrovnik Croatia	21–24	Hungary TEVA Vasas Uniqa	12–8	9–16

Final Four (Oradea)

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Semifinals
11 May 2012 Final
12 May 2012

Italy Pro Recco 12

Hungary Vasas 5

Italy Pro Recco 11

Croatia Primorje 8

Croatia HAVK Mladost 6

Croatia Primorje 10

Third place

Hungary Vasas 7

Croatia HAVK Mladost 11

Semi-finals

11 May
18:00 [ Report] Pro Recco Italy 12–5 Hungary Vasas Bazinul "Ion Alexandrescu", Oradea
Referees:
Alexandrescu, Borrell

Score by quarters: 4–1, 2–0, 4–2, 2–2

five players 2 Goals five players 1

11 May
20:00 [ Report] HAVK Mladost Croatia 6–10 Croatia Primorje Bazinul "Ion Alexandrescu", Oradea
Referees:
Margeta, Brguljan

Score by quarters: 1–2, 2–2, 2–3, 3–4

six players 1 Goals Dé. Varga, Jelača, Dá. Varga 2

Third place

12 May 2012
18:00 [ Report] Vasas Hungary 7–11 Croatia HAVK Mladost Bazinul "Ion Alexandrescu", Oradea
Referees:
Margeta, Alexandrescu

Score by quarters: 1–1, 3–5, 1–2, 2–3

Katonás, Vámos 2 Goals four players 2

Final

12 May 2012
20:00 [ Report] Pro Recco Italy 11–8 Croatia Primorje Bazinul "Ion Alexandrescu", Oradea
Referees:
Borrell, Brguljan

Score by quarters: 4–1, 2–3, 3–3, 2–1

Ivović 3 Goals Dé. Varga, Šetka, García 2

2011–12 Champions League Champions
Italy Pro Recco 7th title

Stefano Tempesti, Damir Burić, Norbert Madaras, Sandro Sukno, Tamás Kásás, Maurizio Felugo, Filip Filipović, Felipe Perrone, Duško Pijetlović, Boris Zloković, Aleksandar Ivović, Guillermo Molina, Andrija Prlainović

Head coach

Giuseppe Porzio

Final standings

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Team
	Italy Pro Recco
	Croatia Primorje
	Croatia HAVK Mladost
Hungary Vasas

Awards

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Final four MVP
Hungary Denes Varga (Primorje Rijeka)

References

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