ETTU Champions League 2015/16

ETTU Champions League 2015/16
Cup winners	AS Pontoise-Cergy TT (2nd title)
Beginning	20th August 2015
final	May 10 and 29, 2016
Teams	16
Games	48 + 14 play-off games
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The ETTU Champions League was held for the 18th time in the 2015/2016 season. The Russian club Gazprom Fakel Orenburg competed as the defending champion . A total of 16 teams from 7 countries took part (4 from France, 3 each from Germany and Poland, 2 each from Austria and Russia, 1 each from Sweden and the Czech Republic), which were divided into four groups drawn on July 13, 2015. There the 8 participants of the knockout round were played in league mode with home and return games, in which each match consisted of a home and return game. The winner for the second time was the French club AS Pontoise-Cergy TT , who beat the surprise finalist Eslövs AI from Sweden.

Preliminary round

Group A

space	team	Encounters	Games	Points
1	Gazprom Fakel Orenburg	6th	13: 8	10
2	1. FC Saarbrücken	6th	11:11	9
3	Vaillante Angers	6th	13:11	9
4th	SPG Walter Wels	6th	7:14	8th

date	Home team	Visiting team	Result
Aug 21, 2015	Gazprom Fakel Orenburg	SPG Walter Wels	1: 3
Aug 21, 2015	1. FC Saarbrücken	Vaillante Angers	2: 3
0Oct 9, 2015	Vaillante Angers	SPG Walter Wels	1: 3
0Oct 9, 2015	1. FC Saarbrücken	Gazprom Fakel Orenburg	0: 3
Oct 30, 2015	Gazprom Fakel Orenburg	Vaillante Angers	3: 2
Oct 30, 2015	SPG Walter Wels	1. FC Saarbrücken	0: 3
Nov 27, 2015	Vaillante Angers	1. FC Saarbrücken	1: 3
Nov 28, 2015	SPG Walter Wels	Gazprom Fakel Orenburg	0: 3
0Dec 4, 2015	Gazprom Fakel Orenburg	1. FC Saarbrücken	3-0
0Dec 5, 2015	SPG Walter Wels	Vaillante Angers	0: 3
Dec 18, 2015	Vaillante Angers	Gazprom Fakel Orenburg	3-0
Dec 18, 2015	1. FC Saarbrücken	SPG Walter Wels	3: 1

Group B

space	team	Encounters	Games	Points
1	Olympia Unia Grudziadz	6th	15:12	10
2	UMMC Verkhnaya Pyshma	6th	14:12	10
3	Weinviertel Lower Austria	6th	13:10	9
4th	GV Hennebont	6th	9:17	7th

date	Home team	Visiting team	Result
Aug 21, 2015	UMMC Verkhnaya Pyshma	GV Hennebont	3: 1
22 Aug 2015	Weinviertel Lower Austria	Olimpia Unia Grudziadz	3: 1
0Oct 9, 2015	Olimpia Unia Grudziadz	GV Hennebont	3: 2
Oct 10, 2015	Weinviertel Lower Austria	UMMC Verkhnaya Pyshma	3-0
Oct 30, 2015	Olimpia Unia Grudziadz	UMMC Verkhnaya Pyshma	2: 3
Oct 30, 2015	GV Hennebont	Weinviertel Lower Austria	3: 2
Nov 27, 2015	Olimpia Unia Grudziadz	Weinviertel Lower Austria	3-0
Nov 27, 2015	GV Hennebont	UMMC Verkhnaya Pyshma	1: 3
0Dec 4, 2015	UMMC Verkhnaya Pyshma	Weinviertel Lower Austria	3: 2
0Dec 6, 2015	GV Hennebont	Olimpia Unia Grudziadz	2: 3
Dec 18, 2015	UMMC Verkhnaya Pyshma	Olimpia Unia Grudziadz	2: 3
Dec 18, 2015	Weinviertel Lower Austria	GV Hennebont	3-0

Group C

space	team	Encounters	Games	Points
1	Eslövs AI	6th	15:10	10
2	AS Pontoise-Cergy TT	6th	16:10	10
3	Werder Bremen	6th	14:13	10
4th	KST Energa Manekin Toruń	6th	6:18	6th

date	Home team	Visiting team	Result
Aug 20, 2015	KST Energa Manekin Toruń	Eslövs AI	0: 3
Aug 21, 2015	Werder Bremen	AS Pontoise-Cergy TT	3: 2
0Oct 9, 2015	Eslövs AI	Werder Bremen	3: 1
0Oct 9, 2015	KST Energa Manekin Toruń	AS Pontoise-Cergy TT	1: 3
Oct 30, 2015	Werder Bremen	KST Energa Manekin Toruń	3: 2
Oct 31, 2015	AS Pontoise-Cergy TT	Eslövs AI	2: 3
Nov 26, 2015	AS Pontoise-Cergy TT	Werder Bremen	3: 1
Nov 27, 2015	Eslövs AI	KST Energa Manekin Toruń	3: 1
0Dec 4, 2015	Werder Bremen	Eslövs AI	3: 2
0Dec 5, 2015	AS Pontoise-Cergy TT	KST Energa Manekin Toruń	3: 1
Dec 18, 2015	Eslövs AI	AS Pontoise-Cergy TT	1: 3
Dec 18, 2015	KST Energa Manekin Toruń	Werder Bremen	1: 3

Group D

space	team	Encounters	Games	Points
1	Chartres ASTT	6th	18: 7	12
2	Borussia Düsseldorf	6th	14:12	10
3	STEN marketing HB Ostrov	6th	12:14	8th
4th	Bogoria Grodzisk	6th	7:18	6th

date	Home team	Visiting team	Result
Aug 21, 2015	Chartres ASTT	STEN marketing HB Ostrov	3: 1
Aug 21, 2015	Borussia Düsseldorf	Bogoria Grodzisk	3: 1
0Oct 9, 2015	Chartres ASTT	Borussia Düsseldorf	3: 2
Oct 11, 2015	STEN marketing HB Ostrov	Bogoria Grodzisk	3: 2
Oct 30, 2015	Bogoria Grodzisk	Chartres ASTT	2: 3
Oct 30, 2015	Borussia Düsseldorf	STEN marketing HB Ostrov	3: 1
Nov 27, 2015	STEN marketing HB Ostrov	Chartres ASTT	2: 3
Nov 27, 2015	Bogoria Grodzisk	Borussia Düsseldorf	2: 3
0Dec 4, 2015	Borussia Düsseldorf	Chartres ASTT	0: 3
0Dec 6, 2015	Bogoria Grodzisk	STEN marketing HB Ostrov	0: 3
Dec 18, 2015	Chartres ASTT	Bogoria Grodzisk	3-0
Dec 18, 2015	STEN marketing HB Ostrov	Borussia Düsseldorf	2: 3

Main round

In the final, Pontoise-Cergy narrowly prevailed against Eslöv's AI. After losing 1: 3 (5: 9 sets) in the first leg, Pontoise achieved a 3: 1 success (10: 5 sets) in the second leg, so that the title went to France with a set ratio of 15:14.

	Quarter finals							Semifinals							final
		Verkhnaya Pyshma	1	2	3
		Orenburg	3	3	6th
									Orenburg	1	3	4th
									Pontoise-Cergy	3	2	5
		Dusseldorf	2	1	3
		Pontoise-Cergy	3	3	6th
																Pontoise-Cergy	1	3	4 15
																Eslövs AI	3	1	4 14
		Saarbrücken	1	2	3
		Grudziadz	3	3	6th
									Grudziadz	3	1	4th
									Eslövs AI	2	3	5
		Eslövs AI	3	2	5
		Chartres	1	3	4th

Web links

• The ETTU Champions League on ETTU.org

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ttbl.de - Champions League groups drawn (accessed on July 13, 2015)