2020–21 Rink Hockey Euroleague

2020–21 Rink Hockey Euroleague
Tournament details
Host countryPortugal
CityLuso
Dates9 April 2021 (2021-04-09)–
16 May 2021 (2021-05-16)
Teams9 (from 2 associations)
Venue(s)1 (in 1 host city)
Final positions
ChampionsPortugal Sporting CP (3rd title)
Runners-upPortugal Porto
Tournament statistics
Matches played12
Goals scored101 (8.42 per match)
Attendance0 (0 per match)
Top scorer(s)Spain Pol Manrubia
Spain Marc Torra
Spain Toni Pérez
(5 goals)
Best player(s)Gonzalo Romero
Best goalkeeperÂngelo Girão

The 2020–21 Rink Hockey Euroleague was the 56th season of Europe's premier club roller hockey tournament organised by World Skate Europe – Rink Hockey, and the 24th season since it was renamed from European Champion Clubs' Cup to Euroleague.

The defending champions Sporting CP defeated Porto in the final to claim their second consecutive title and third overall.

Team allocation

Association ranking

Main article: Roller hockey rankings § World Skate Europe league ranking

Due to the cancelation of the tournament's last edition, the 2019–20 season was discarded and associations were allocated places according to the same coefficient as in the 2018–19 season, taking in account the performance of each association's representative teams in European competitions between the 2015–16 and the 2018–19 seasons.

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, for a maximum of four teams. 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 Portugal 21.667 4 10.833 7.222 5.417
2 Spain Spain 18.500 4 9.250 6.167 4.625
3 Italy Italy 16.235 3 8.118 5.412 4.059
4 France France 8.560 2 4.280 2.853 2.140
5 Switzerland Switzerland 5.727 1 2.864 1.909 1.432
6 Germany Germany 4.909 1 2.455 1.636 1.227
7 England England 3.000 1 1.500 1.000 0.750

Teams

The labels in the parentheses show how each team qualified for the place of its starting round:

  • TH: Euroleague title holders
  • 1st, 2nd, 3rd, 4th, etc.: League positions of the previous season
  • Abd-: League positions of abandoned season due to the COVID-19 pandemic in Europe as determined by the national association
  • Dis-: The previous season was discarded due to the COVID-19 pandemic in Europe and the 2018–19 season positions were used for qualification
Qualified teams for 2020–21 Rink Hockey Euroleague
Entry round Teams
QP Portugal Sporting (Dis-3rd)TH [Note POR] Portugal Porto (Dis-1st)[Note POR] Portugal Oliveirense (Dis-2nd)[Note POR] Portugal Benfica (Dis-4th)[Note POR]
Spain Barcelona (Abd-1st)[Note ESP] Spain Liceo (Abd-2nd)[Note ESP] Spain Noia (Abd-3rd)[Note ESP] Spain Reus (Abd-4th)[Note ESP]
Portugal Barcelos (Dis-5th)[Note POR]

Originally, as stated by World Skate Europe – Rink Hockey (WSE–RH), thirteen teams registered to play the tournament.[2] Missing three teams to complete the regular field of sixteen, WSE–RH sent a request to three teams qualified for the World Skate Europe Cup to join the competition. The teams joining the field of sixteen were Barcelos, from Portugal, Coutras, from France, and Genève, from Switzerland. The original 2020–21 Rink Hockey Euroleague tournament field was as follows:

Original qualified teams for 2020–21 Rink Hockey Euroleague
Entry round Teams
GS Portugal Sporting (Dis-3rd)TH [Note POR] Portugal Porto (Dis-1st)[Note POR] Portugal Oliveirense (Dis-2nd)[Note POR] Portugal Benfica (Dis-4th)[Note POR]
Spain Barcelona (Abd-1st)[Note ESP] Spain Liceo (Abd-2nd)[Note ESP] Spain Noia (Abd-3rd)[Note ESP] Spain Reus (Abd-4th)[Note ESP]
Italy Bassano (Abd-12th) France Saint-Omer (Abd-1st) France La Vendéenne (Abd-2nd) Switzerland Diessbach (Abd-2nd)
Germany Germania Herringen (Abd-1st) Portugal Barcelos (Abd-5th)[Note POR] France Coutras (Abd-4th) Switzerland Genève (Abd-1st)

Notes

  1. ^
    Spain (ESP): The 2019–20 OK Liga was abandoned due to the COVID-19 pandemic in Spain. The league positions at the time of the abandonment were used to determine the champion and the teams selected to play in the 2020–21 WS Europe Cup.
  2. ^
    Portugal (POR): The 2019–20 Portuguese Roller Hockey First Division was abandoned due to the COVID-19 pandemic in Portugal. The season was discarded, with no title awarded nor relegations. The previous season league positions were used to determine the teams selected to play in the 2020–21 Rink Hockey Euroleague.

Effects of the COVID-19 pandemic

On 18 October 2020, the World Skate Europe-Rink Hockey Committee decided to postpone most matchday 1 matches due to travel restrictions imposed by the COVID-19 pandemic in Europe.[3] Later that month, on 29 October, it was announced that all WSERHC international competitions would be suspended until the end of the year.[4]

On 17 January 2021, an updated list of clubs interested in participating under new conditions was published, with all but the nine Portuguese and Spanish clubs giving up on the competition.[5] A new format for the 9 teams was established, consisting of two stages. The first stage, the qualifying stage, consists of three groups of three teams, each one playing one match against the other two teams in the same group at a centralized location. The second stage, the final four, consists of single-legged semi-finals and final with the teams finishing first in each qualifying stage group as well as the best runner up, also played at a centralized location.[6]

Round and draw dates

The schedule of the competition was as follows.

Schedule for 2020–21 Rink Hockey Euroleague
Phase Round Draw date Date
Qualifying phase Matchday 1 27 February 2021 9 April 2021
Matchday 2 10 April 2021
Matchday 3 11 April 2021
Final four Semi-finals 15 May 2021
Final 16 May 2021

The original schedule of the competition, as planned before the pandemic, was as follows.[7]

Original schedule for 2020–21 Rink Hockey Euroleague
Phase Round Draw date Date
Group stage Matchday 1 12 September 2020 7 November 2020
Matchday 2 21 November 2020
Matchday 3 12 December 2020
Matchday 4 16 January 2021
Matchday 5 30 January 2021
Matchday 6 13 February 2021
Knockout phase Quarter-finals TBD 20 March 2021
Semi-finals 17 April 2021
Final 15 May 2021

Qualifying phase

Tiebreakers

Teams were ranked according to points (3 points for a win, 1 point for a draw, 0 points for a loss). If two or more teams were tied on points, the following tiebreaking criteria were applied, in the order given, to determine the rankings:[8]

  1. Points in head-to-head matches among the tied teams;
  2. Goal difference in all group matches;
  3. Goal ratio, resulting from dividing the total number of goals scored by the total number of goals conceded;
  4. Team fouls;
  5. Blue cards;
  6. Red cards.

Group A

Pos Team Pld W D L GF GA GD Pts Qualification POR OCB NOI
1 Portugal Porto 2 1 1 0 10 7 +3 4 Advance to final four — — 7–4
2 Portugal Barcelos 2 0 2 0 8 8 0 2 3–3 — —
3 Spain Noia 2 0 1 1 9 12 −3 1 — 5–5 —
Source: wseurope-rinkhockey.org
Rules for classification: Tiebreakers

Group B

Pos Team Pld W D L GF GA GD Pts Qualification OLI SPO REU
1 Portugal Oliveirense 2 1 1 0 11 7 +4 4 Advance to final four — 6–6 —
2 Portugal Sporting 2 1 1 0 11 9 +2 4 — — 5–3
3 Spain Reus 2 0 0 2 4 10 −6 0 1–5 — —
Source: wseurope-rinkhockey.org
Rules for classification: Tiebreakers

Group C

Pos Team Pld W D L GF GA GD Pts Qualification BEN FCB LIC
1 Portugal Benfica 2 2 0 0 13 4 +9 6 Advance to final four — 6–2 —
2 Spain Barcelona 2 0 1 1 4 8 −4 1 — — 2–2
3 Spain Liceo 2 0 1 1 4 9 −5 1 2–7 — —
Source: wseurope-rinkhockey.org
Rules for classification: Tiebreakers

Ranking of second-placed teams

Pos Grp Team Pld W D L GF GA GD Pts Qualification
1 B Portugal Sporting 2 1 1 0 11 9 +2 4 Advance to final four
2 A Portugal Barcelos 2 0 2 0 8 8 0 2
3 C Spain Barcelona 2 0 1 1 4 8 −4 1
Source: wseurope-rinkhockey.org
Rules for classification: 1) Points; 2) Goal difference; 3) Goal ratio; 4) Team fouls; 5) Blue cards; 6) Red cards; 7) 2018–19 Euroleague Ranking.

Final four

All times are local, WEST (UTC+1).

Bracket

 
Semi-finalsFinal
 
      
 
15 May 2021
 
 
Portugal Porto6
 
16 May 2021
 
Portugal Oliveirense4
 
Portugal Porto3
 
15 May 2021
 
Portugal Sporting (a.e.t.)4
 
Portugal Benfica5 (1)
 
 
Portugal Sporting (pen.)5 (2)
 

Semi-finals

Porto Portugal6–4Portugal Oliveirense
Report
Attendance: 0
Referee: Sergi Mayor, Iván González (Spain)
Benfica Portugal5–5 (a.e.t.)Portugal Sporting
Report
Penalties
1–2
Attendance: 0
Referee: Franco Ferrari, Filippo Fronte (Italy)

Final

Porto Portugal3–4 (a.e.t.)Portugal Sporting
Report
Attendance: 0
Referee: Sergi Mayor, Iván González (Spain)

See also

References

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  3. ^ "12 matches postponed in the European Clubs Competitions | WSEurope-RinkHockey". Retrieved 2021-03-24.
  4. ^ "European Clubs Competitions are suspended until 31st December 2020 | WSEurope-RinkHockey". Retrieved 2021-03-24.
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