2018–19 Rink Hockey Euroleague

The 2018–19 Rink Hockey Euroleague is 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 Euroleague.

2018–19 Rink Hockey Euroleague
Tournament details
Dates20 October 2018 – 20 May 2019
Teams16
Final positions
Champions Sporting CP (2nd title)
Runners-up Porto

The defending champions Barcelona were eliminated by Porto in the semi-finals. In the final, Sporting CP beat Porto 5–2 to win their second trophy in the competition, while Porto lost their 10th consecutive final and 12th overall.

Team allocation

Association ranking
Main article: Roller hockey rankings

For the 2018–19 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 2017–18 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 19.903 4 9.9526.6344.976
2 Spain 19.472 4 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 1 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
Sporting CP (1st) BarcelonaTH (1st) Amatori Lodi (1st) Quévert (1st)
Benfica (2nd) Liceo (2nd) Forte dei Marmi (2nd) Saint-Omer (2nd)
Porto (3rd) Reus (3rd) Follonica (CW) Germania Herringen (1st)
Oliveirense (4th) Noia (4th) Monza (8th) 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.

Group stage

The 16 teams were allocated into four pots, with the title holders, Reus Deportiu, being placed as seeded team in the Group A automatically. The other 3 seeded teams, Porto, Barcelona and Amatori Lodi, 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.

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 PF PA PD Pts Qualification BAR OLI FOL QUE
1 Barcelona 6 5 0 1 35 16 +19 15 Advance to quarterfinals — 7–6 9–2 7–2
2 Oliveirense 6 3 0 3 26 25 +1 9 4–2 — 6–5 6–4
3 Follonica 6 3 0 3 17 26 −9 9 0–4 3–2 — 4–3
4 Quévert 6 1 0 5 17 28 −11 3 2–6 4–2 2–3 —
Source: World Skate Europe

Group B
Pos Team Pld W D L PF PA PD Pts Qualification SPO FOR LIC GER
1 Sporting CP 6 5 1 0 27 8 +19 16 Advance to quarterfinals — 2–1 6–4 10–2
2 Forte dei Marmi 6 3 1 2 22 11 +11 10 0–0 — 5–2 6–0
3 Liceo 6 3 0 3 24 24 0 9 1–4 6–3 — 8–4
4 Germania Herringen 6 0 0 6 9 39 −30 0 0–5 1–7 2–3 —
Source: World Skate Europe

Group C
Pos Team Pld W D L PF PA PD Pts Qualification POR LOD REU SOM
1 Porto 6 4 2 0 29 15 +14 14 Advance to quarterfinals — 8–3 6–3 6–2
2 Amatori Lodi 6 3 1 2 20 18 +2 10 1–1 — 3–1 7–1
3 Reus Deportiu 6 3 0 3 19 20 −1 9 2–4 6–3 — 5–3
4 Saint-Omer 6 0 1 5 12 27 −15 1 4–4 1–3 1–2 —
Source: World Skate Europe

Group D
Pos Team Pld W D L PF PA PD Pts Qualification BEN NOI MON MNX
1 Benfica 6 5 1 0 32 11 +21 16 Advance to quarterfinals — 4–4 3–1 10–2
2 Noia 6 3 1 2 24 12 +12 10 1–2 — 7–2 6–0
3 Monza 6 3 0 3 15 18 −3 9 0–5 4–0 — 6–2
4 Montreux 6 0 0 6 8 38 −30 0 3–8 0–6 1–2 —
Source: World Skate Europe

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
 
                
 
 
 
 
 Noia303
 
 
 
 Barcelona47 11
 
 Barcelona1 (0)
 
 
 
 Porto (pen.)1 (1)
 
 Forte dei Marmi12 3
 
 
 
 Porto53 8
 
 Porto2
 
 
 
 Sporting CP5
 
 Amatori Lodi325
 
 
 
 Sporting CP58 13
 
 Sporting CP5
 
 
 
 Benfica4
 
 Oliveirense213
 
 
 Benfica33 6
 

Quarter-finals
Team 1 Agg. Team 2 1st leg 2nd leg
Noia 3–11 Barcelona 3–4 0–7
Amatori Lodi 5–13 Sporting CP 3–5 2–8
Forte dei Marmi 3–8 Porto 1–5 2–3
Oliveirense 3–6 Benfica 2–3 1–3

Final four

The final four tournament is taking place at Pavilhão João Rocha in Lisbon, Portugal, on 11–12 May 2019. The home ground of Sporting CP, one of the teams qualified for the final four, was selected as the host venue on 18 April. It is the first time that the Euroleague final four is played in this venue, and the second time it is hosted in Lisbon, after the 2016 edition was played at Benfica's Pavilhão Fidelidade.[3]

All times are local time (WEST or UTC+02:00).

Semi-finals
Barcelona 1–1 (a.e.t.) Porto
Matias Pascual  4' Report Gonçalo Alves  29'
Penalties
João Rodrigues
Pablo Álvarez
Ignacio Alabart
Marc Gual
Pau Bargalló 		0–1 Gonçalo Alves
Poka
Reinaldo Garcia
Hélder Nunes
Telmo Pinto
Referee: Luca Molli (Italy), Claudio Ferraro (Italy)
Sporting CP 5–4 Benfica
  • Pedro Gil  8'
  • Matias Platero  16', 23'
  • Henrique Magalhães  41'
  • Gonzalo Romero  49'
 Report
  • Diogo Rafael  16', 43'
  • Carlos Nicolía  44'
  • Lucas Ordoñez  47'
Referee: Ivan González (Spain), Miguel Diaz (Spain)

Final
Porto 2–5 Sporting CP
  • Nalo García  7'
  • Gonçalo Alves  39'
 Report
  • Antonio Pérez  6'
  • Vitor Hugo  9'
  • Ferran Font  11'
  • Gonzalo Romero  23'
  • Ferran Font  41'
Referee: Alessandro Eccelsi (Italy), Joseph Silecchia (Italy)

See also

References
  1. "Club inscription shares by Federation" (PDF). CERS. 9 July 2018. Archived from the original (PDF) on 18 September 2018. Retrieved 14 July 2018.
  2. "Revised European competitions calendar 2017/18". CERS. 4 July 2017. Retrieved 8 July 2017.
  3. "Lisbon (Portugal) will host the 54th edition of Euroleague Final Four | Euroleague". World Skate Europe Rink-Hockey. Retrieved 11 May 2019.
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