2023–24 WSE Champions League
The 2023–24 WSE Champions League is the 59th season of Europe's premier club roller hockey tournament organized by World Skate Europe – Rink Hockey, and the second season under the WSE Champions League branding. Compared to the previous season, the knockout stage quarter-finals will be contested as two-legged fixtures followed by a final-four tournament, scheduled to be played on 11 and 12 May 2024. FC Porto were the defending champions, having beaten AD Valongo 5–1 in an all-Portuguese 2022–23 final. They were eliminated in the semi-finals by domestic rivals Sporting CP, who went on to beat another Portuguese side in the final (UD Oliveirense, 2–1) and win their fourth title in the competition. This was the second consecutive all-Portuguese final, which was assured after four Portuguese teams – OC Barcelos, UD Oliveirense, FC Porto, and Sporting CP – secured qualification for the final four tournament. Team allocationAssociation rankingFor the 2023–24 WSE Champions League, 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 2018–19 and the 2022–23 seasons (except for the 2019–20 season, which was discarded due to being interrupted). The coefficient is calculated by dividing the total of points accumulated by the number of participating teams. The D'Hondt method was applied to the coefficient of each association to determine the number of teams entering in each round:
Schedule
Qualifying roundsFirst qualifying roundGroup AFollonica flight got cancelled and they failed to attend the competition; they were awarded defeats by 0–10 in both matches.[5]
Group B
Group C
Group D
Second qualifying roundGroup A
Group B
Group C
Group D
Group stageGroup A
Source: World Skate Europe
Group B
Source: World Skate Europe
Group C
Source: World Skate Europe
Group D
Source: World Skate Europe
Knockout stageQuarter-finalsIn the quarter-finals, each group stage winner plays against a runner-up from another group over two legs in a home-and-away basis.[6] The group winners play away the first leg on 14 March and host the second leg on 11 April 2024.
Referee: Filippo Fronte, Marco Rondina (Italy)
Referee: Franco Ferrari, Claudio Ferraro (Italy) Sporting CP won 8–6 on aggregate.
PalaCastelotti, Lodi Referee: Sergi Mayor, Alvaro de la Hera Jaudenes (Spain)
Referee: Ruben Fernandez, Daniel Villar (Spain) FC Porto won 13–5 on aggregate.
Pavilhão Municipal de Barcelos, Barcelos Referee: Ruben Fernandez, Daniel Villar (Spain)
Referee: Miguel Diaz, Jonathan Sanchez (Spain) OC Barcelos won 9–3 on aggregate.
PalaDante, Trissino Referee: Ivan Gonzalez, Oriol Perez (Spain)
Pavilhão Dr. Salvador Machado, Oliveira de Azeméis Referee: Sergi Mayor, David Cantos (Spain) UD Oliveirense won 12–9 on aggregate. Final-fourThe semi-finals and final were contested as a final-four tournament, which was played on 11 and 12 May 2024 at the Super Bock Arena in Porto, Portugal.
Semi-finals
Referee: Miguel Diaz, Jonathan Sánchez (Spain)
Referee: Marco Rondina, Francesco Stallone (Italy) Final
Referee: Ruben Fernandez, Daniel Villar (Spain) References
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