LEN Women's Champions' Cup (Water Polo) 2010–11

The LEN Women's Champions' Cup 2010/11 is the highest-level competition in women's European club water polo. It involves the champions and other top teams from European national leagues and runs from December 2010 to April 2011. The Final Four (semifinals, final, and third place game) will take place at a neutral site to be determined.

1 Federation team allocation
2 Format and Changes
- 2.1 Distribution
- 2.2 Teams
3 Round and Draw Dates
4 Tournament Phase
- 4.1 First Qualifying Round

Federation team allocation

Each national federation can enter up to two teams into the Women's Champions' Cup.

Seeded Federations are the federations who placed a team in the Final Four of the previous' year's competition. In 2009/10, these countries were: Greece (2), Italy, and Russia
All other federations are unseeded

Federations do not have to enter their top two teams into the Champions' Cup. If they do not think their clubs can be competitive, they can enter teams into the second-tier LEN Cup.

Format and Changes

The original format for the Champions' Cup was to have four phases:

A qualification round of 4 groups of any size played as a Round-robin tournament at the site of a host team
A preliminary round of 4 groups of 4 played as a Round-robin tournament at the site of a host team
A quarterfinal round played as a Two-legged tie
The Final Four played as a Knockout tournament at a pre-selected site

However, there were only 13 entries, so the qualification round was cancelled, and the preliminary round will be played with 3 groups of 3 and 1 group of 4.

Distribution

	Teams entering in this round	Teams advancing from previous round
Preliminary Round	1 or 2 teams from each federation
Knockout Phase (8 teams)		4 tournament winners from the Preliminary Round 4 tournament runner-up from the Preliminary Round

Teams

There were 13 entries from 7 countries. Each of the draw pots were organised according to the previous year's results:
Bold indicates countries that entered teams

Pot 1	Final Four qualifiers	Greece (2), Italy, Russia
Pot 2	Losing quarterfinalists	Italy, Russia, Spain (2)
Pot 3	3rd placed in preliminary round	Germany, Hungary, Netherlands (2)
Pot 4	4th placed in prelimary round	France, Great Britain (2), Switzerland

Note: The Netherlands only entered one team, so the two available places in Pot 3 were taken by a second German team and a French team elevated from Pot 4.

Draw	Group A	Group B	Group C	Group D
Pot 1	GS Orizzonte Catania	Kinef Kirishi	Olympiacos Piraeus	Vouliagmeni NC
Pot 2	CN Sabadell	CN Mediterrani Barcelona	Shturm 2002 Chehov	Fiorentina Waterpolo
Pot 3	Blau Weiss Bochum	SW Bayer Uerdingen	Olympic Nice Natation	Polar Bears Ede
Pot 4				ASPTT Nancy

Round and Draw Dates

Tournament Phase	Draw Date	Tournament
Preliminary Round	6 August 2010	Ends 5 December 2010
Knockout Phase	Draw Date	1st Leg	2nd Leg
Quarterfinals		12–13 February 2011	19–20 March 2011
Final Four	Draw Date	Round Date
Semifinals		22 April 2011
Final		23 April 2011

Tournament Phase

First Qualifying Round

Key to colours in group tables
Progress to the Quarterfinal Round

Group A

Tournament Host: GS Orizzonte Catania

	Team	PL	W	D	L	F	A	Pts
1.	GS Orizzonte Catania	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
2.	CN Sabadell	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
3.	Blau Weiss Bochum	0	0	0	0	0	0	0

Group B

Tournament Host: Kinef Kirishi

	Team	PL	W	D	L	F	A	Pts
1.	Kinef Kirishi	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
2.	CN Mediterrani Barcelona	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
3.	SW Bayer Uerdingen	0	0	0	0	0	0	0

Group C

Tournament Host: Olympic Nice Natation

	Team	PL	W	D	L	F	A	Pts
1.	Olympiacos Piraeus	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
2.	Shturm 2002 Chehov	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
3.	Olympic Nice Natation	0	0	0	0	0	0	0

Group D

Tournament Host: Fiorentina Waterpolo

	Team	PL	W	D	L	F	A	Pts
1.	Vouliagmeni NC	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
2.	Fiorentina Waterpolo	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
3.	Polar Bears Ede	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
4.	ASPTT Nancy	0	0	0	0	0	0	0