2018–19 Rink Hockey Euroleague
The Pavilhão João Rocha in Lisbon hosted the Final Four.
Tournament details
Dates20 October 2018 – 20 May 2019
Teams16 (from 6 associations)
Final positions
ChampionsPortugal Sporting CP (2nd title)
Runners-upPortugal Porto

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.

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

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 Portugal 19.903 4 9.9526.6344.976
2 Spain Spain 19.472 4 9.7366.4914.868
3 Italy Italy 15.588 3 7.7945.1963.897
4 France France 9.292 2 4.6463.0972.323
5 Germany Germany 6.000 1 3.0002.0001.500
6 Switzerland Switzerland 5.958 1 2.9791.9861.490
7 England 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.

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 Spain Barcelona 6 5 0 1 35 16 +19 15 Advance to quarterfinals — 7–6 9–2 7–2
2 Portugal Oliveirense 6 3 0 3 26 25 +1 9 4–2 — 6–5 6–4
3 Italy Follonica 6 3 0 3 17 26 −9 9 0–4 3–2 — 4–3
4 France Quévert 6 1 0 5 17 28 −11 3 2–6 4–2 2–3 —

Group B

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

Group C

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

Group D

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

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

Quarter-finals

Team 1 Agg.Tooltip Aggregate score Team 2 1st leg 2nd leg
Noia Spain 3–11 Spain Barcelona 3–4 0–7
Amatori Lodi Italy 5–13 Portugal Sporting CP 3–5 2–8
Forte dei Marmi Italy 3–8 Portugal Porto 1–5 2–3
Oliveirense Portugal 3–6 Portugal 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 Spain1–1 (a.e.t.)Portugal Porto
Matias Pascual 4' Report Gonçalo Alves 29'
Penalties
João Rodrigues soccer ball with red X
Pablo Álvarez soccer ball with red X
Ignacio Alabart soccer ball with red X
Marc Gual soccer ball with red X
Pau Bargalló soccer ball with red X		 0–1 soccer ball with red X Gonçalo Alves
soccer ball with red X Poka
soccer ball with red X Reinaldo Garcia
soccer ball with check mark Hélder Nunes
soccer ball with red X Telmo Pinto
Referee: Luca Molli (Italy), Claudio Ferraro (Italy)
Sporting CP Portugal5–4Portugal 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 Portugal2–5Portugal 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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