2023–24 LEN Champions League Quarter-finals round

The 2023–24 LEN Champions League Quarter-finals round is played between 8 March and 15 May 2024 to determine the four teams advancing to the Final four of the 2023–24 LEN Champions League.

Format

The eight group winners and eight group runners-up were drawn into two groups, with each one containing two group winners and two group runners-up. In each group, teams will play against each other home-and-away in a round-robin format. The top two teams in each group advanced to the Final four.

Teams are ranked according to points (3 points for a win, 2 points for a penalty shootout win, 1 point for a penalty shootout loss, 0 points for a loss), and if tied on points, the following tiebreaking criteria are applied, in the order given, to determine the rankings:

Points in head-to-head matches among tied teams;
Goal difference in head-to-head matches among tied teams;
Goals scored in head-to-head matches among tied teams;
Goal difference in all group matches;
Goals scored in all group matches.

Draw

The draw took place in Barcelona on 15 December 2023. The seeded and unseeded clubs consist of the teams that finished first and second in the previous round respectively. The only restriction was that clubs from the same group in the Main round could not be drawn against each other.^[1]

Key to colours
Group winners and runners-up advance to Final four

Seeded
Team
Novi Beograd
Pro Recco
FTC-Telekom
Zodiac Atlètic-Barceloneta

Unseeded
Team
AN Brescia
Olympiacos Piraeus
Jadran Split
CN Marseille

Groups

Group A

Pos	Team	Pld	W	PSW	PSL	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification	PRO	NOV	MAR	JAD
1	Pro Recco	6	5	1	0	0	88	58	+30	17	Final four	—	15–7	15–8	18–9
2	Novi Beograd	6	4	0	1	1	78	74	+4	13	Final four	14–15^[a]	—	13–10	15–11
3	CN Marseille	6	2	0	0	4	72	76	−4	6		10–12	13–14	—	17–10
4	Jadran Split	6	0	0	0	6	62	92	−30	0		10–13	10–15	12–14	—

Source: LEN Champions League

^ Match ended 10–10, Pro Recco won 5–4 on penalties

8 March 2024 18:30	Report	Pro Recco	15–8	CN Marseille	Recco, Italy Referees: Boris Margeta (SLO), Christos Kourtidis (GRE)
		Score by quarters: 5–2, 2–1, 5–1, 3–4
		Cannella, Younger 3	Goals	Crousillat, Vukičević 2

8 March 2024 19:45	Report	Novi Beograd	15–11	Jadran Split	Belgrade, Serbia Referees: David Gomez (ESP), Gyorgy Kun (HUN)
		Score by quarters: 5–1, 3–1, 3–5, 4–4
		Granados 6	Goals	Harkov 3

19 March 2024 18:00	Report	Jadran Split	10–13	Pro Recco	Split, Croatia Referees: Adrian Tiberiu Alexandrescu (ROU), Radoslaw Koryzna (POL)
		Score by quarters: 1–3, 1–3, 3–2, 5–5
		Fatović 3	Goals	Ivović 4

19 March 2024 18:00	Report	CN Marseille	13–14	Novi Beograd	Marseille, France Referees: Frank Ohme (GER), Nikolaos Boudramis (GRE)
		Score by quarters: 3–4, 4–1, 4–5, 2–4
		Crousillat 4	Goals	Granados 6

2 April 2024 19:00	Report	Jadran Split	12–14	CN Marseille	Split, Croatia Referees: Georgios Stavridis (GRE), Gyorgy Kun (HUN)
		Score by quarters: 3–4, 3–2, 1–3, 5–5
		Kragić 3	Goals	Prlainović 5

2 April 2024 19:45	Report	Novi Beograd	14–15	Pro Recco	Belgrade, Serbia Referees: Xavier F. Buch (ESP), Michiel Zwart (NED)
		Score by quarters: 1–1, 1–6, 3–2, 5–1 PSO: 4–5
		Skoumpakis 3	Goals	Cannella 3

24 April 2024 19:00	Report	Jadran Split	10–15	Novi Beograd	Split, Croatia Referees: Tamas Kovacs-Csatlos (HUN), Pau Segurana (ESP)
		Score by quarters: 3–4, 4–5, 1–5, 2–1
		Fatović, Kragić 2	Goals	Jakšić 4

24 April 2024 20:00	Report	CN Marseille	10–12	Pro Recco	Marseille, France Referees: Georgios Stavridis (GRE), Jaume Teixido (ESP)
		Score by quarters: 1–2, 2–1, 4–4, 3–5
		Crousillat 4	Goals	Hallock 3

4 May 2024 18:00	Report	Pro Recco	18–9	Jadran Split	Recco, Italy Referees: Veselin Miskovic (MNE), Spyridon Achladiotis (GRE)
		Score by quarters: 2–2, 6–3, 6–1, 4–3
		Condemi 4	Goals	Butić 3

4 May 2024 19:45	Report	Novi Beograd	13–10	CN Marseille	Belgrade, Serbia Referees: Tamas Kovacs-Csatlos (HUN), Xavier Buch (ESP)
		Score by quarters: 3–2, 3–3, 4–3, 3–2
		Granados 5	Goals	Crousillat 3

15 May 2024 19:00	Report	Pro Recco	15–7	Novi Beograd	Recco, Italy Referees: Frank Ohme (GER), Gad Shimon Schwartz (ISR)
		Score by quarters: 3–2, 5–2, 4–1, 3–2
		Cannella 5	Goals	Granados 3

15 May 2024 20:00	Report	CN Marseille	17–10	Jadran Split	Marseille, France Referees: Boris Margeta (SLO), Konstantinos Vasileiou (GRE)
		Score by quarters: 5–2, 5–3, 3–3, 4–2
		three players	Goals	Kragić 4

Group B

Pos	Team	Pld	W	PSW	PSL	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification	FTC	OLY	BAR	BRE
1	FTC-Telekom	6	5	0	0	1	62	55	+7	15	Final four	—	11–9	13–11	9–8
2	Olympiacos Piraeus	6	4	1	0	1	78	68	+10	14	Final four	10–8	—	10–7	17–12
3	Zodiac Atlètic-Barceloneta	6	2	0	1	3	68	65	+3	7		8–10	18–19^[a]	—	12–8
4	AN Brescia	6	0	0	0	6	54	74	−20	0		9–11	12–13	5–12	—

Source: LEN Champions League

^ Match ended 13–13, Olympiacos Piraeus won 6–5 on penalties

9 March 2024 12:30	Report	Zodiac Atlètic-Barceloneta	12–8	AN Brescia	Barcelona, Spain Referees: Nenad Peris (CRO), Frank Ohme (GER)
		Score by quarters: 3–1, 4–3, 1–1, 4–3
		Perrone 3	Goals	three players 2

9 March 2024 20:30	Report	FTC-Telekom	11–9	Olympiacos Piraeus	Budapest, Hungary Referees: Vojin Putniković (SRB), Sebastien Dervieux (FRA)
		Score by quarters: 3–2, 2–2, 2–0, 4–5
		Argyropoulos 4	Goals	Genidounias 4

20 March 2024 19:30	Report	Olympiacos Piraeus	10–7	Zodiac Atlètic-Barceloneta	Piraeus, Greece Referees: Boris Margeta (SLO), Michiel Zwart (NED)
		Score by quarters: 4–2, 2–0, 2–2, 2–3
		Genidounias 5	Goals	Munárriz 3

20 March 2024 20:00	Report	AN Brescia	9–11	FTC-Telekom	Brescia, Italy Referees: Andrej Franulovic (CRO), Julien Bourges (FRA)
		Score by quarters: 3–3, 1–1, 1–2, 4–5
		Irving 4	Goals	three players 2

3 April 2024 19:30	Report	Zodiac Atlètic-Barceloneta	8–10	FTC-Telekom	Barcelona, Spain Referees: Nenad Peris (CRO), Frank Ohme (GER)
		Score by quarters: 1–1, 2–3, 3–2, 2–4
		Munárriz 3	Goals	Gergő 3

3 April 2024 20:00	Report	AN Brescia	12–13	Olympiacos Piraeus	Brescia, Italy
		Score by quarters: 4–4, 3–4, 3–4, 2–1
		Irving 4	Goals	Vámos 3

23 April 2024 17:00	Report	Olympiacos Piraeus	10–8	FTC-Telekom	Piraeus, Greece Referees: Peris Nenad (CRO), Julien Bourges (FRA)
		Score by quarters: 1–1, 4–1, 3–3, 2–3
		Gkilas 3	Goals	Mandić 2

23 April 2024 20:00	Report	AN Brescia	5–12	Zodiac Atlètic-Barceloneta	Brescia, Italy Referees: Andrej Franulovic (CRO), Ivan Rakovic (SRB)
		Score by quarters: 2–3, 1–4, 0–2, 2–3
		Gianazza 2	Goals	Munárriz 4

3 May 2024 18:30	Report	Zodiac Atlètic-Barceloneta	18–19	Olympiacos Piraeus	Barcelona, Spain Referees: Sebastien Dervieux (FRA), Vojin Putniković (SRB)
		Score by quarters: 3–3, 2–1, 4–2, 3–5 PSO: 5–6
		three players 3	Goals	Genidounias 5

3 May 2024 20:00	Report	FTC-Telekom	9–8	AN Brescia	Budapest, Hungary Referees: Adrian Tiberiu Alexandrescu (ROU), Frank Ohme (GER)
		Score by quarters: 2–1, 2–2, 3–2, 2–3
		Mandić 3	Goals	three players 2

14 May 2024 18:30	Report	Olympiacos Piraeus	17–12	AN Brescia	Piraeus, Greece Referees: Peris Nenad (CRO), Veselin Miskovic (MNE)
		Score by quarters: 6–5, 5–3, 4–3, 2–1
		three players 3	Goals	Irving 4

14 May 2024 20:00	Report	FTC-Telekom	13–11	Zodiac Atlètic-Barceloneta	Budapest, Hungary Referees: Andrej Franulovic (CRO), Julien Bourges (FRA)
		Score by quarters: 3–3, 5–1, 1–3, 4–4
		Vendel 4	Goals	Pavillard, Sanahuja 3

References

^ Curcic, Ivan (December 15, 2023). "Novi Beograd - winner of Champions League draw?".

External links

[2] Match ended 10–10, Pro Recco won 5–4 on penalties

[3] Match ended 13–13, Olympiacos Piraeus won 6–5 on penalties

[1] Curcic, Ivan (December 15, 2023). "Novi Beograd - winner of Champions League draw?".

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