2015–16 CERH European League

The 2015–16 CERH European League is the 51st season of Europe's premier club roller hockey tournament organised by CERH, and the 19th season since it was renamed from European Champion Clubs' Cup to CERH Champions League/European League.

2015–16 CERH European League
Tournament details
Dates24 October 2015 – 15 May 2016
Teams16 (from 6 associations)
Final positions
Champions Benfica (2nd title)
Runners-up Oliveirense
Tournament statistics
Matches played59
Goals scored528 (8.95 per match)
Top scorer(s) Pedro Gil (21 goals)[1]

Barcelona were the defending champions, but they were eliminated in semi-finals by the eventual winners Benfica, who became European champions for a second time.

Teams

League positions of the previous season shown in parentheses (TH: Title holders, CW: Cup winners, LSF: Losing semi-finalists, LQF: Losing quarter-finalists). Bold means seeded teams.

Group stage
BarcelonaTH (1st) Benfica (1st) Forte dei Marmi (1st) Dinan Quévert (1st)
Liceo La Coruña (2nd) Porto (2nd) Viareggio (2nd) Mérignac (2nd)
Vic (CW) Oliveirense (3rd) Breganze (LSF) Iserlohn (1st)
Vendrell (3rd) Valongo (4th) Bassano (LQF) Basel (1st)

Round dates

The schedule of the competition is as follows (draw held at CERH headquarters in Lisbon, Portugal, on 6 September 2015).

Phase Round First leg Second leg
Group stage Matchday 1 24 October 2015
Matchday 2 7 November 2015
Matchday 3 28 November 2015
Matchday 4 12 December 2015
Matchday 5 16 January 2016
Matchday 6 6 February 2016
Knockout phase Quarter-finals 5 March 2016 2 April 2016
Semi-finals 14 May 2016
Final 15 May 2016

Group stage

The draw for the group stage was held on 6 September 2015, 11:00, in Luso, Portugal. The 16 teams were allocated into four pots, with the title holders Barcelona being automatically placed in pot 1. Liceo La Coruña, Benfica and Forte dei Marmi were the other three seeded teams.[2] The remaining teams were then drawn into four groups of four, with the restriction that teams from the same association could not be drawn into the same group. In each group, teams play against each other in a home-and-away round-robin format, with the top two teams advancing to the knockout stage.[3]

Group A
Pos Team Pld W D L GF GA GD Pts Qualification POR BAR BRE ISE
1 Porto 6 6 0 0 46 8 +38 18 Advanced to knockout phase — 1–0 13–4 21–1
2 Barcelona 6 4 0 2 34 12 +22 12 1–2 — 5–2 7–2
3 Breganze 6 1 1 4 24 34 −10 4 1–2 4–6 — 7–2
4 Iserlohn 6 0 1 5 13 63 −50 1 1–7 1–15 6–6 —
Source: CERH

Group B
Pos Team Pld W D L GF GA GD Pts Qualification BEN VIC BAS MER
1 Benfica 6 5 0 1 41 18 +23 15 Advanced to knockout phase — 5–1 9–6 8–0
2 Vic 6 5 0 1 36 17 +19 15 7–6 — 8–0 9–0
3 Bassano 6 1 0 5 24 43 −19 3 2–8 5–8 — 7–5
4 Mérignac 6 1 0 5 13 36 −23 3 2–5 1–3 5–4 —
Source: CERH

Group C
Pos Team Pld W D L GF GA GD Pts Qualification FOR VEN VAL QUE
1 Forte dei Marmi 6 4 2 0 39 24 +15 14 Advanced to knockout phase — 6–2 8–7 9–1
2 Vendrell 6 3 1 2 27 24 +3 10 6–6 — 5–1 8–4
3 Valongo 6 2 1 3 26 27 −1 7 5–5 5–3 — 5–1
4 Dinan Quévert 6 1 0 5 16 33 −17 3 3–5 2–3 5–3 —
Source: CERH

Group D
Pos Team Pld W D L GF GA GD Pts Qualification LIC OLI VIA BAS
1 Liceo La Coruña 6 5 0 1 37 15 +22 15 Advanced to knockout phase — 5–3 7–2 13–1
2 Oliveirense 6 5 0 1 35 22 +13 15 4–2 — 5–3 10–5
3 Viareggio 6 2 0 4 26 32 −6 6 2–5 5–7 — 8–4
4 Basel 6 0 0 6 19 48 −29 0 3–5 2–6 4–6 —
Source: CERH

Knockout phase

The knockout phase comprises a quarter-final round and the final four tournament. In the quarter-finals, group stage winners play against group stage runners-up, the latter hosting the first of two legs. The winners qualify for the final four, which will take place at the ground of one of the four finalists.[3]

Quarter-finals

The first-leg matches were played on 5 March, and the second-leg matches were played on 2 April 2016.[3]

Team 1 Agg. Team 2 1st leg 2nd leg
Oliveirense 8–6 Porto 4–3 4–3
Vendrell 8–10 Benfica 3–5 5–5
Vic 7–8 Forte dei Marmi 2–1 5–7
Barcelona 8–2 Liceo La Coruña 6–0 2–2

Final four

The final four tournament took place on 14 and 15 May 2016.[3] It was hosted by Benfica at the Pavilhão Fidelidade in Lisbon, Portugal.[4]

 
Semi-finalsFinal
 
      
 
14 May 2016 – Lisbon
 
 
 Oliveirense3
 
15 May 2016 – Lisbon
 
 Forte dei Marmi2
 
 Oliveirense 3
 
14 May 2016 – Lisbon
 
 Benfica 5
 
 Benfica (pen.)1 (2)
 
 
 Barcelona1 (1)
 


All times listed below are local time (UTC+01:00).

Semi-finals
Benfica 1–1 (a.e.t.) Barcelona
Marc Torra  47' Report Pablo Álvarez  34'
Penalties
João Rodrigues
Jordi Adroher
Marc Torra
Carlos Nicolía 		2–1 Xavier Barroso
Matías Pascual
Xavi Costa
Sergi Panadero
Lucas Ordóñez
Referee: Alessandro Da Prato, Alessandro Eccelsi (Italy)
Oliveirense 3–2 Forte dei Marmi
Ricardo Barreiros  12', 20', 43' Report Pedro Gil  16', 26'
Referee: Óscar Valverde, Francisco Garcia (Spain)

Final
Oliveirense 3–5 Benfica
João Souto  16', 19'
Ricardo Oliveira  18'		 Report Diogo Rafael  14', 17'
Jordi Adroher  33', 46'
Carlos Nicolía  38'
Referee: Arnauld Esoli, Xavier Bleuzen (France)
2015–16 CERH European League winners

Benfica
2nd title

See also

References
  1. "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2016-11-14. Retrieved 2016-11-14.CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
  2. "Rink Hockey Eurocups: all the teams regularly signed up". cerh.eu. CERH. Retrieved 24 August 2015.
  3. "CERS/CERH Media Guide 2015–2016" (PDF). CERH. Retrieved 6 February 2016.
  4. "SL Benfica will organize the Final Four of the Euroleague in Lisbon". CERH.eu. 12 April 2016.
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