Adriatic Water Polo League

Adriatic Water Polo League

Sport	Water polo
Founded	2008
No. of teams	17
Country	Croatia  Serbia  Montenegro
Continent	LEN (Europe)
Most recent champion(s)	Jug (2nd title) (2015–16)
Most titles	Primorje (3 titles)

The Adriatic Water Polo League, commonly known as the Adriatic League, is a regional professional water polo league that originally featured clubs from Croatia, Montenegro and Slovenia. In later years, the league also consisted clubs from Italy and Serbia.

History

Adriatic Water Polo League was created in 2008 and consisted clubs from Croatia, Montenegro and Slovenia. Members of the inaugural season were Jug, Mladost, Primorje, POŠK, Jadran Split, Medveščak Zagreb, Šibenik, Mornar, Jadran, Primorac, Budva, and Koper. First champions were Jug. In the next season, Cattaro joined the league and Final Four was introduced into the league. Italian water polo club Pro Recco requested to join the Adriatic League, their request was granted so they joined Adriatic League in the 2011–12 season and immediately became champions, but they left the league after that season. Serbian clubs (Partizan, Crvena Zvezda, Radnički and Vojvodina) joined the league in the 2014–15 season.

Current teams

Teams for the 2015–16 season

• Jadran Split
• Jug
• Medveščak Zagreb
• Mladost
• Mornar
• POŠK
• Primorje
• Solaris
• Crvena Zvezda
• Nais
• Partizan
• Radnički Kragujevac
• Vojvodina
• Budva
• Cattaro
• Jadran
• Primorac Kotor

Title holders

2008–09 Jug 2009–10 Jadran 2010–11 Jadran 2011–12 Pro Recco 2012–13 Primorje 2013–14 Primorje 2014–15 Primorje 2015–16 Jug

Finals

Season	Champions	Runners-up	Result	1st of Regular Season
2008–09	Jug	Jadran	^1
2009–10	Jadran	Jug	11–8	Jug
2010–11	Jadran	Jug	9–7	Jadran
2011–12	Pro Recco	Primorje	15–4	Pro Recco
2012–13	Primorje	Jug	9–8	Primorje
2013–14	Primorje	Jug	8–7	Primorje
2014–15	Primorje	Jug	15–9	Primorje
2015–16	Jug	Primorje	9–5	Jug

¹ In the 2008–09 season, Adriatic League was played in round-robin tournament

Records and statistics

Performance by clubs

Club	Winners	Runners-up	Years won	Years runners-up
Primorje	3	2	2012–13, 2013–14, 2014–15	2011–12, 2015–16
Jadran	2	1	2009–10, 2010–11	2008–09
Jug	2	5	2008–09, 2015–16	2009–10, 2010–11, 2012–13, 2013–14, 2014–15
Pro Recco	1	0	2011–12

By country

Club / Nation	Won	Runner-up	Finals
Croatia	5	7	12
Montenegro	2	1	3
Italy	1	0	1