2018–19 Rink Hockey Euroleague

2018–19 Rink Hockey Euroleague

The Pavilhão João Rocha in Lisbon hosted the Final Four.
Tournament details
Dates	20 October 2018 – 20 May 2019
Teams	16 (from 6 associations)
Final positions
Champions	Sporting CP (2nd title)
Runners-up	Porto
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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.

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	9.952	6.634	4.976
2	Spain	19.472	4	9.736	6.491	4.868
3	Italy	15.588	3	7.794	5.196	3.897
4	France	9.292	2	4.646	3.097	2.323
5	Germany	6.000	1	3.000	2.000	1.500
6	Switzerland	5.958	1	2.979	1.986	1.490
7	England	3.000	1	1.500	1.000	0.750

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)

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

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.

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.

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	—

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	—

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	—

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	—

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.

	Quarter-finals						Semi-finals						Final
	Noia	3	0	3
	Barcelona	4	7	11
							Barcelona			1 (0)
							Porto (pen.)			1 (1)
	Forte dei Marmi	1	2	3
	Porto	5	3	8
													Porto			2
													Sporting CP			5
	Amatori Lodi	3	2	5
	Sporting CP	5	8	13
							Sporting CP			5
							Benfica			4
	Oliveirense	2	1	3
	Benfica	3	3	6

Team 1	Agg.Tooltip Aggregate score	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

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).

11 May 2019

12:00

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

Pavilhão João Rocha, Lisbon

Referee: Luca Molli (Italy), Claudio Ferraro (Italy)

11 May 2019

18:00

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'

Pavilhão João Rocha, Lisbon

Referee: Ivan González (Spain), Miguel Diaz (Spain)

12 May 2019

18:00

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'

Pavilhão João Rocha, Lisbon

Referee: Alessandro Eccelsi (Italy), Joseph Silecchia (Italy)

• 2018–19 World Skate Europe Cup
• 2018 CERH Continental Cup
• 2018–19 CERH Women's European Cup
• World Skate Europe - all competitions

• Comité Européen de Rink-Hockey (official website)