2019–20 Rink Hockey Euroleague

The 2019–20 Rink Hockey Euroleague is the 55th season of Europe's premier club roller hockey tournament organised by World Skate Europe-Rink Hockey Committee, and the 23rd season since it was renamed from European Champion Clubs' Cup to Euroleague.

2019–20 Rink Hockey Euroleague
Tournament details
Dates19 October 2019 – 17 May 2020
Teams16

Sporting CP were the defending champions, but they were eliminated in the group stage.

Team allocation

Association ranking

For the 2019–20 Rink Hockey Euroleague, the associations were allocated places according to their coefficient, which takes into account the performance of each association's representative teams in European competitions between the 2014–15 and the 2018–19 seasons. The coefficient is calculated by dividing the total of points accumulated by the number of participating teams.

Participation is reserved to teams from associations that have an effective capacity to organise annually their own national championships.[1] They will all have at least one team entering the competition. To allocate the other nine places, the D'Hondt method was applied to the coefficient of each association. In case of withdrawals, priority would be given according to the order established by the D'Hondt method.

Rank Association Coefficient Teams D'Hondt points
1 Portugal 21.667 4 10.8337.2225.417
2 Spain 18.500 4 9.2506.1674.625
3 Italy 16.235 3 8.1185.4124.059
4 France 8.560 2 4.2802.8532.140
5 Switzerland 5.727 1 2.8641.9091.432
6 Germany 4.909 1 2.4551.6361.227
7 England 3.000 1 1.5001.0000.750

Teams

League positions of the previous season shown in parentheses (TH: Title holders). As English champions King's Lynn resigned to its place, that was occupied by a fourth Italian team following the allocation criteria.

Group stage
Sporting CPTH (3rd) Barcelona (1st) Forte dei Marmi (1st) Quévert (1st)
Porto (1st) Liceo (2nd) Amatori Lodi (1st reg) Saint-Omer (2nd)
Oliveirense (2nd) Reus (3rd) Sarzana (7th) Biasca (1st)
Benfica (4th) Noia (4th) Monza (9th) Germania Herringen (1st)

Round dates

The schedule of the competition is as follows.[2]

Phase Round First leg Second leg
Group stage Matchday 1 19 October 2019
Matchday 2 16 November 2019
Matchday 3 14 December 2019
Matchday 4 18 January 2020
Matchday 5 15 February 2020
Matchday 6 14 March 2020
Knockout phase Quarter-finals 28 March 2020 18 April 2020
Semi-finals 16 May 2020
Final 17 May 2020

Draw

The 16 teams were allocated into four pots, with the title holders, Sporting CP, being placed directly as head-team of the Group A. The other three seeded teams will be from the three top ranked federations according to these priorities:

  1. National champions of those leagues.
  2. Highest ranked teams.

In each group, teams played against each other home-and-away in a home-and-away round-robin format.

Group stage

The 16 teams were allocated into four pots, with the title holders, Sporting CP, being placed as seeded team in the Group A automatically. The other 3 seeded teams, Porto, Barcelona and Forte dei Marmi, were automatically placed in groups B, C and D, respectively. The rest of the teams were drawn into four groups of four, with the restriction that teams from the same association could not be drawn against each other.[3]

In each group, teams played against each other home-and-away in a home-and-away round-robin format.

A total of six national associations were represented in the group stage.

Group A
Pos Team Pld W D L GF GA GD Pts Qualification LOD REU SCP QUE
1 Amatori Lodi (Q) 5 4 0 1 21 11 +10 12 Advance to quarterfinals — 3–2 5–1 5–4
2 Reus Deportiu (Q) 5 3 1 1 17 11 +6 10 — 3–3 6–2
3 Sporting CP (E) 5 2 1 2 12 14 −2 7 4–2 2–3 —
4 Dinan Quévert (E) 5 0 0 5 8 22 −14 0 0–6 1–3 1–2 —
Updated to match(es) played on 15 February 2020. Source: World Skate Europe
(E) Eliminated; (Q) Qualified to the phase indicated.

Group B
Pos Team Pld W D L GF GA GD Pts Qualification POR NOI MON BIA
1 Porto (Q) 5 4 0 1 33 12 +21 12 Advance to quarterfinals — 4–2 10–1
2 Noia 5 3 1 1 26 14 +12 10 6–4 — 10–0[lower-alpha 1]
3 Monza 5 2 1 2 17 22 −5 7 2–3 3–3 — 6–4
4 Biasca (E) 5 0 0 5 10 38 −28 0 1–12 3–5 2–5 —
Updated to match(es) played on 15 February 2020. Source: World Skate Europe
(E) Eliminated; (Q) Qualified to the phase indicated.
  1. Biasca did not attend to the match.

Group C
Pos Team Pld W D L GF GA GD Pts Qualification BAR BEN SAR GER
1 Barcelona (Q) 5 4 1 0 33 10 +23 13 Advance to quarterfinals — 5–5 7–1
2 Benfica (Q) 5 3 1 1 32 14 +18 10 2–4 — 14–0
3 Sarzana (E) 5 1 1 3 15 32 −17 4 0–10 2–7 — 9–5
4 Germania Herringen (E) 5 0 1 4 13 37 −24 1 2–7 3–4 3–3 —
Updated to match(es) played on 15 February 2020. Source: World Skate Europe
(E) Eliminated; (Q) Qualified to the phase indicated.

Group D
Pos Team Pld W D L GF GA GD Pts Qualification OLI LIC FOR SOM
1 Oliveirense (Q) 5 4 0 1 19 8 +11 12 Advance to quarterfinals — 7–2 3–0
2 Liceo (Q) 5 4 0 1 19 11 +8 12 1–4 — 2–1 5–2
3 Forte dei Marmi (E) 5 1 1 3 11 20 −9 4 1–0 2–6 —
4 Saint-Omer (E) 5 0 1 4 13 23 −10 1 4–5 2–5 5–5 —
Updated to match(es) played on 15 February 2020. Source: World Skate Europe
(E) Eliminated; (Q) Qualified to the phase indicated.

Knockout phase

The knockout phase comprises a quarter-final round and a final four tournament with two semi-finals and a final. In the quarter-finals, group stage winners play against group stage runners-up (other than the one from their own group), the latter hosting the first of two legs. The winners qualify for the final four tournament, which will take place at the ground of one of the four finalists.

Bracket
 
Quarter-finalsSemi-finalsFinal
 
                
 
28 March–18 April 2020
 
 
Runners-up Group D000
 
16 May 2020
 
Winners Group A00 0
 
 0
 
28 March–18 April 2020
 
 0
 
Runners-up Group A000
 
17 May 2020
 
Winners Group D00 0
 
 0
 
28 March–18 April 2020
 
 0
 
Runners-up Group C000
 
16 May 2020
 
Winners Group B00 0
 
 0
 
28 March–18 April 2020
 
 0
 
Runners-up Group B000
 
 
Winners Group C00 0
 

See also

References
  1. "2019/20 Euroleague quotas by Federation" (PDF). World Skate Europe. 25 June 2019. Retrieved 8 July 2019.
  2. "European competitions calendar 2019/20 season" (PDF). World Skate Europe. 7 May 2019. Retrieved 30 June 2019.
  3. "Official Eurocups draw". World Skate Europe. 7 September 2019.
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