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2015–16 CEV Champions League

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Sport
  
Volleyball

Finals MVP
  
Wilfredo León (KZN)

Dates
  
3 Nov 2015 – 17 Apr 2016

Finals champion
  
VC Zenit-Kazan

Runners-up
  
Trentino Diatec

Champion
  
VC Zenit-Kazan

Location
  
Europe

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2014–15 CEV Champions League

The 2015–16 CEV Champions League was the highest level of European club volleyball in the season and the 57th edition.

Contents

Participating teams

The number of participants on the basis of ranking list for European Cup Competitions:

W/C = Wild Card

League round

28 teams have been drawn to 7 pools of 4 teams each.

In each pool, the competition is organised on the basis of a double round-robin system. Each team will thus play 6 matches: twice against each opponent.

In the League Round, the placing of the teams is determined by the number of matches won.

In case of a tie in the number of matches won by two or more teams, they will be ranked on the basis of the following criteria:

  • match points;
  • set quotient (the number of total sets won divided by the number of total sets lost);
  • points quotient (the number of total points scored divided by the number of total points lost);
  • results of head-to-head matches between the teams in question.
  • Match points are awarded as follows:

  • 3 points for a 3:0 or 3:1 victory;
  • 2 points for a 3:2 victory;
  • 1 point for a 2:3 defeat;
  • 0 points for a 1:3 or 0:3 defeat.
  • 12 teams will qualify for the Playoff 12:

  • the winner of each pool, and
  • 5 second-ranked teams with the best score.
  • After the end of the League Round, the organizer of the Final Four will be determined. That team will qualify directly for the Final Four. It will be replaced in Playoff 12 by the next best second-ranked team.

    The remaining second-ranked team as well 3 third-ranked teams with the best score will move to the Challenge Round of the CEV Cup.

    The remaining third-ranked and all fourth-ranked teams will be eliminated.

    Playoffs

    The playoffs will consist of two rounds: Playoff 12 and Playoff 6. Each round is played in two legs.

    If the teams are tied after two legs, a "Golden Set" is played. The winner is the team that first obtains 15 points, provided that the points difference between the two teams is at least 2 points (thus, the Golden Set is similar to a tiebreak set in a normal match).

    At each leg, points are awarded to the teams in the same manner as in the Group Round (3 for 3:0 or 3:1, 2 for 3:2 etc.). So, if team A defeat team B in the first leg 3:0 and lose in the second leg 1:3, team A does not advance to the next round (as it would have been expected on the basis of analogy with football competitions), but the two teams are tied with 3 points each, and a Golden Set is played.

    The three teams that win in Playoff 6 round advance to the Final Four along with the organizer of the Final Four.

    Pools composition

    The drawing of lots was held in Vienna, Austria on 2 July 2015. The 28 participated teams of the competition were divided by 4 pots based on the latest European Cups Ranking List and their National Rankings. Exception, the teams which received wild cards had to be in the 4th pot.

    League round

  • All times are local.
  • Pool A

  • * The match considered as a forfeit by Belogorie Belgorod. The team did not participate the match due to conflict between Russia and Turkey.
  • Pool B

  • * The match was rescheduled due to Paris attacks.
  • ** The match considered as a forfeit by Dinamo Moscow. The team did not participate the match due to conflict between Russia and Turkey.
  • Pool G

  • * Tomis Constanţa withdrew from the tournament after leg 4 due to financial problem. The last 2 matches considered as forfeits.
  • Ranking of second and third placed teams

    The first 7 teams are 2nd placed teams. The other teams are 3rd placed teams.

    Playoffs

  • All times are local.
  • Playoff 6

    1 Cucine Lube Civitanova won the golden set 17–15.

    Final four

  • Organizer: Asseco Resovia Rzeszów
  • Venue: Kraków, Poland
  • All times are Central European Summer Time (UTC+02:00).
  • In case that two teams from the same country qualify to the semifinals, they will have to play each other.
  • References

    2015–16 CEV Champions League Wikipedia