1997–98 LEN Champions League

1997-98 LEN Champions League
League LEN Champions League
Sport Water Polo
Duration 1997 to
5 June 1998
Number of teams 8 (Preliminary Round)
Final Four
Finals champions Italy Posillipo (2nd title)
  Runners-up Italy Pescara

The 1997–98 LEN Champions League is the ongoing 35th edition of LEN's premier competition for men's water polo clubs. It is scheduled to run from 1997 to 6 June 1998, and it is contested by 16 teams. The Final Four (semifinals, final, and third place game) will take place on June 5 and June 6 in Zagreb.

Preliminary Round

Location of teams of the 1997–98 LEN Champions League group stage.
Blue Group; Red Group.
Key to colours in group tables
Group winners and runners-up advanced to Final four

Blue Group

Team Pld W D L GF GA GD Pts
Croatia HAVK Mladost 6 4 0 2 46 40 +6 8
Russia Spartak Volgograd 6 3 1 2 37 42 −5 7
Federal Republic of Yugoslavia Bečej 6 3 0 3 51 44 +7 6
Hungary BVSC 6 1 1 4 46 54 −8 3

Red Group

Team Pld W D L GF GA GD Pts
Italy Posillipo 6 5 1 0 58 45 +13 11
Italy Pescara 6 4 1 1 67 45 +22 9
France Olympic Nice 6 1 0 5 46 68 −22 2
Greece Vouliagmeni 6 1 0 5 43 56 −13 2

Final Four (Zagreb)

Semifinals
5 June 1998
Final
6 June 1998
 Croatia HAVK Mladost  2  
 Italy Pescara  4  
 
     Italy Pescara  6
   Italy Posillipo  8
Third place
 Italy Posillipo  11  Croatia HAVK Mladost  11
 Russia Spartak Volgograd  5    Russia Spartak Volgograd  9

Final standings

Team
Italy Posillipo
Italy Pescara
Croatia HAVK Mladost
Russia Spartak Volgograd

1997-98 Champions League
Champions

Italy Posillipo
2nd Title
Milan Tadić, Marcello De Georgio, Tamás Kásás, Giuseppe Porzio, Francesco Postiglione, Gergely Kiss, Fabio Galasso, Francesco Porzio, Luca Giustolisi, Paolo Zizza, Dušan Popović, Gianfranco Salvati, Fulvio Di Martire, Carlo Silipo, Fabio Bencivenga, Antracite Lignano
Head Coach
Paolo De Crescenzo

See also

External links

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