2018–19 Rink Hockey Euroleague

2018–19 Rink Hockey Euroleague
Tournament details
Dates 20 October 2018 – 20 May 2019
Teams 16

The 2018–19 Rink Hockey Euroleague will be the 54th season of Europe's premier club roller hockey tournament organised by World Skate Europe-Rink Hockey Committee, and the 22nd season since it was renamed from European Champion Clubs' Cup to the EuroLeague.

Barcelona will be the defending champions.

Team allocation

Federation ranking

For the 2018–19 CERH European League, the associations are allocated places according to their Federation points, which takes into account their performance in European competitions from the 2014–15 to the 2017–18 seasons. Points are calculated by dividing the total of points accumulated by the number of participating teams.

Participation in the European League is reserved to that federations that have an effective capacity to organize annually their own national championships.[1] They all will have at least one place. For allocating the other nine places, the D'Hondt method is used with the coefficient of each federation.

In case of resigns, priority will be given according to the order established by the D'Hondt method.

Rank Association Coeff. Teams D'Hondt points
1  Portugal 19.903 4 9.9526.6344.976
2  Spain 19.472 9.7366.4914.868
3  Italy 15.588 3 7.7945.1963.897
4  France 9.292 2 4.6463.0972.323
5  Germany 6.000 1 3.0002.0001.500
6   Switzerland 5.958 2.9791.9861.490
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
Portugal Sporting CP (1st) Spain BarcelonaTH (1st) Italy Amatori Lodi (1st) France Quévert (1st)
Portugal Benfica (2nd) Spain Liceo (2nd) Italy Forte dei Marmi (2nd) France Saint-Omer (2nd)
Portugal Porto (3rd) Spain Reus (3rd) Italy Follonica (CW) Germany Germania Herringen (1st)
Portugal Oliveirense (4th) Spain Noia (4th) Italy Monza (8th) Switzerland Montreux (1st)

Round dates

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

Phase Round First leg Second leg
Group stage Matchday 1 20 October 2018
Matchday 2 17 November 2018
Matchday 3 1 December 2018
Matchday 4 19 January 2019
Matchday 5 16 February 2019
Matchday 6 9 March 2019
Knockout phase Quarter-finals 23 March 2019 6 April 2019
Semi-finals 11 May 2019
Final 12 May 2019

Draw

The 16 teams were allocated into four pots, with the title holders, Reus Deportiu, 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.

See also

References

  1. ↑ "Club inscription shares by Federation" (PDF). CERS. 9 July 2018. Retrieved 14 July 2018.
  2. ↑ "Revised European competitions calendar 2017/18". CERS. 4 July 2017. Retrieved 8 July 2017.
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