2014–15 CEV Women's Champions League

2014–15 CEV Women's Champions League
2014–15 CEV Women's Champions League
League	CEV Women's Champions League
Sport	Volleyball
Duration	November 11, 2014 – April 5, 2015
Finals
Champions	Eczacıbaşı VitrA
Finals MVP	Jordan Larson
CEV Women's Champions League seasons
	← 2013–14 2015–16 →

The CEV Champions League is the highest level of European club volleyball in the 2014–15 season and the 56th edition. It ran from November 2014 until April 2015.

Eczacıbaşı VitrA won the title for the first time by defeating Yamamay Busto Arsizio 3–0 in the final.

Teams

The number of participants on the basis of ranking list for European Cup Competitions:^[1]

Rank	Country	Number of teams	Teams
1	Turkey	3	VakıfBank Istanbul (1) Fenerbahçe Grundig Istanbul (2) Eczacıbaşı VitrA Istanbul (3)
2	Russia	3	Dinamo Kazan Dinamo Moscow Omichka Omsk Region
3	Italy	2	Nordmeccanica Piacenza Unendo Yamamay Busto Arsizio
4	Azerbaijan	2	Rabita Baku (1) Azeryol Baku (2)
5	France	2	RC Cannes Nantes VB
6	Poland	2	Chemik Police Impel Wrocław
7	Germany	1	Dresdner SC
8	Switzerland	1	Voléro Zürich
9	Romania	1	Ştiinţa Bacău
10	Serbia	1	Partizan Vizura Beograd
11	Czech Republic	1	Agel Prostějov
12	Austria	0¹	–
13	Belgium	0¹	–
16	Finland	0+1	LP Salo ^(W/C)

1.^ Clubs from Austria and Belgium do not meet the listing requirements and/or refusing.

League round

20 teams were drawn to 5 pools of 4 teams each.
The 1st and 2nd and the two bests 3rd ranked qualified for the Playoff 12
The organizer of the Final Four were determined after the end of the League Round and qualified directly for the Final Four.
The team of the organizer of the Final Four was replaced by the third best 3rd ranked team with the best score.

The remaining third-placed teams as well 2 four-placed teams with the best score will move to the Challenge Round of the CEV Cup.

The remaining teams will be eliminated.

In the League Round, the placing of the teams is determined by the number of matches won.^[2]

In case of a tie in the number of matches won by two or more teams, they will be ranked on the basis of the following criteria:

match points;
set quotient (the number of total sets won divided by the number of total sets lost);
points quotient (the number of total points scored divided by the number of total points lost);
results of head-to-head matches between the teams in question.

Pool A

Pos	Team	Pld	W	L	Pts	SW	SL	SR	SPW	SPL	SPR
1	Chemik Police	6	4	2	13	16	9	1.778	543	506	1.073
2	Dinamo Kazan	6	3	3	9	13	11	1.182	529	497	1.064
3	Agel Prostějov	6	3	3	7	10	14	0.714	488	543	0.899
4	Rabita Baku	6	2	4	7	10	15	0.667	523	537	0.974

Source: ^{[citation needed]}

Date	Time		Score		Set 1	Set 2	Set 3	Set 4	Set 5	Total	Report
12 Nov	18:00	Chemik Police	3–0	Rabita Baku	25–22	25–19	25–18			75–59	Report
13 Nov	19:00	Dinamo Kazan	3–0	Agel Prostějov	25–21	25–15	26–24			76–60	Report
26 Nov	17:00	Rabita Baku	3–2	Dinamo Kazan	22–25	23–25	28–26	25–21	15–9	113–106	Report
26 Nov	17:30	Agel Prostějov	0–3	Chemik Police	23–25	22–25	19–25			64–75	Report
10 Dec	17:30	Dinamo Kazan	3–2	Chemik Police	25–13	20–25	26–24	23–25	15–10	109–97	Report
10 Dec	19:00	Agel Prostějov	3–2	Rabita Baku	25–19	23–25	27–25	17–25	15–13	107–107	Report
14 Jan	18:00	Chemik Police	3–1	Dinamo Kazan	16–25	25–14	25–19	25–22		91–80	Report
15 Jan	17:00	Rabita Baku	3–1	Agel Prostějov	25–21	25–12	23–25	25–15		98–73	Report
20 Jan	18:00	Chemik Police	2–3	Agel Prostějov	25–11	20–25	25–17	22–25	12–15	104–93	Report
22 Jan	19:00	Dinamo Kazan	3–0	Rabita Baku	25–21	25–10	25–14			75–45	Report
28 Jan	17:00	Rabita Baku	2–3	Chemik Police	25–27	25–18	16–25	25–16	10–15	101–101	Report
28 Jan	17:30	Agel Prostějov	3–1	Dinamo Kazan	25–19	25–22	16–25	25–17		91–83	Report

Pool B

Pos	Team	Pld	W	L	Pts	SW	SL	SR	SPW	SPL	SPR
1	Fenerbahçe Grundig Istanbul	6	6	0	18	18	1	18.000	470	323	1.455
2	Azeryol Baku	6	4	2	11	13	8	1.625	476	437	1.089
3	Nantes VB	6	1	5	4	6	15	0.400	402	477	0.843
4	Ştiinţa Bacău	6	1	5	3	3	16	0.188	346	457	0.757

Source: ^{[citation needed]}

Date	Time		Score		Set 1	Set 2	Set 3	Set 4	Set 5	Total	Report
12 Nov	18:00	Azeryol Baku	3–2	Nantes VB	25–17	18–25	18–25	25–16	20–18	106–101	Report
13 Nov	18:00	Ştiinţa Bacău	0–3	Fenerbahçe Istanbul	13–25	16–25	21–25			50–75	Report
26 Nov	19:00	Fenerbahçe Istanbul	3–1	Azeryol Baku	25–21	25–20	19–25	25–16		94–82	Report
26 Nov	20:00	Nantes VB	3–0	Ştiinţa Bacău	25–18	27–25	25–10			77–53	Report
9 Dec	20:00	Nantes VB	0–3	Fenerbahçe Istanbul	15–25	19–25	15–25			49–75	Report
10 Dec	18:00	Azeryol Baku	3–0	Ştiinţa Bacău	27–25	25–10	25–23			77–58	Report
14 Jan	17:00	Fenerbahçe Istanbul	3–0	Nantes VB	25–15	25–14	25–14			75–43	Report
14 Jan	17:00	Ştiinţa Bacău	0–3	Azeryol Baku	22–25	14–25	18–25			54–75	Report
21 Jan	17:00	Ştiinţa Bacău	3–1	Nantes VB	25–20	25–14	16–25	25–19		91–78	Report
21 Jan	18:00	Azeryol Baku	0–3	Fenerbahçe Istanbul	20–25	15–25	24–26			59–76	Report
28 Jan	19:00	Fenerbahçe Istanbul	3–0	Ştiinţa Bacău	25–16	25–11	25–13			75–40	Report
28 Jan	20:00	Nantes VB	0–3	Azeryol Baku	12–25	25–27	17–25			54–77	Report

Pool C

Pos	Team	Pld	W	L	Pts	SW	SL	SR	SPW	SPL	SPR
1	Dinamo Moscow	6	5	1	15	17	8	2.125	569	515	1.105
2	Yamamay Busto Arsizio	6	4	2	12	15	8	1.875	518	465	1.114
3	Dresdner SC	6	3	3	7	9	14	0.643	485	506	0.958
4	LP Salo	6	0	6	2	7	18	0.389	494	580	0.852

Source: ^{[citation needed]}

Date	Time		Score		Set 1	Set 2	Set 3	Set 4	Set 5	Total	Report
12 Nov	19:30	Dresdner SC	3–2	Dinamo Moscow	22–25	23–25	25–19	25–20	18–16	113–105	Report
12 Nov	20:30	Yamamay Busto Arsizio	3–0	LP Salo	25–19	25–20	25–12			75–51	Report
26 Nov	19:00	Dinamo Moscow	3–1	Yamamay Busto Arsizio	22–25	25–21	25–15	25–19		97–80	Report
27 Nov	18:30	LP Salo	2–3	Dresdner SC	25–20	18–25	22–25	25–23	11–15	101–108	Report
9 Dec	18:30	LP Salo	1–3	Dinamo Moscow	25–23	16–25	22–25	16–25		79–98	Report
10 Dec	20:30	Yamamay Busto Arsizio	3–0	Dresdner SC	25–15	25–16	25–20			75–51	Report
13 Jan	19:00	Dinamo Moscow	3–1	LP Salo	25–16	18–25	25–21	25–20		93–82	Report
14 Jan	19:30	Dresdner SC	0–3	Yamamay Busto Arsizio	21–25	18–25	20–25			59–75	Report
21 Jan	19:30	Dresdner SC	3–1	LP Salo	23–25	25–21	25–12	25–17		98–75	Report
21 Jan	20:30	Yamamay Busto Arsizio	2–3	Dinamo Moscow	22–25	25–16	20–25	25–20	13–15	105–101	Report
28 Jan	18:30	LP Salo	2–3	Yamamay Busto Arsizio	26–28	25–18	25–19	14–25	16–18	106–108	Report
28 Jan	19:00	Dinamo Moscow	3–0	Dresdner SC	25–17	25–21	25–18			75–56	Report

Pool D

Pos	Team	Pld	W	L	Pts	SW	SL	SR	SPW	SPL	SPR
1	Eczacıbaşı VitrA Istanbul	6	5	1	15	15	6	2.500	508	435	1.168
2	Voléro Zürich	6	5	1	14	16	6	2.667	518	445	1.164
3	Omichka Omsk Region	6	2	4	7	9	13	0.692	465	504	0.923
4	Impel Wrocław	6	0	6	0	3	18	0.167	414	521	0.795

Source: ^{[citation needed]}

Date	Time		Score		Set 1	Set 2	Set 3	Set 4	Set 5	Total	Report
12 Nov	17:00	Eczacıbaşı VitrA Istanbul	3–0	Omichka Omsk Region	25–18	25–18	25–23			75–59	Report
13 Nov	20:00	Voléro Zürich	3–0	Impel Wrocław	25–19	25–9	25–20			75–48	Report
25 Nov	19:00	Impel Wrocław	0–3	Eczacıbaşı VitrA Istanbul	29–31	16–25	21–25			66–81	Report
27 Nov	19:00	Omichka Omsk Region	2–3	Voléro Zürich	22–25	22–25	26–24	25–21	11–15	106–110	Report
9 Dec	19:00	Impel Wrocław	0–3	Omichka Omsk Region	20–25	24–26	18–25			62–76	Report
11 Dec	20:00	Voléro Zürich	1–3	Eczacıbaşı VitrA Istanbul	25–20	23–25	16–25	25–27		89–97	Report
13 Jan	17:00	Eczacıbaşı VitrA Istanbul	0–3	Voléro Zürich	23–25	22–25	16–25			61–75	Report
14 Jan	19:00	Omichka Omsk Region	3–1	Impel Wrocław	25–14	25–23	24–26	25–21		99–84	Report
22 Jan	17:00	Eczacıbaşı VitrA Istanbul	3–1	Impel Wrocław	25–19	21–25	25–10	25–16		96–70	Report
22 Jan	20:00	Voléro Zürich	3–0	Omichka Omsk Region	25–15	25–17	25–17			75–49	Report
28 Jan	19:00	Omichka Omsk Region	1–3	Eczacıbaşı VitrA Istanbul	16–25	25–23	16–25	19–25		76–98	Report
28 Jan	19:00	Impel Wrocław	1–3	Voléro Zürich	22–25	25–19	22–25	15–25		84–94	Report

Pool E

Pos	Team	Pld	W	L	Pts	SW	SL	SR	SPW	SPL	SPR
1	VakıfBank Istanbul	6	5	1	14	16	5	3.200	509	368	1.383
2	RC Cannes	6	4	2	9	13	10	1.300	493	467	1.056
3	Nordmeccanica Piacenza	6	3	3	11	12	13	0.923	508	558	0.910
4	Partizan Vizura Beograd	6	0	6	2	5	18	0.278	419	536	0.782

Source: ^{[citation needed]}

Date	Time		Score		Set 1	Set 2	Set 3	Set 4	Set 5	Total	Report
12 Nov	20:30	RC Cannes	3–2	Nordmeccanica Piacenza	16–25	25–21	15–25	25–23	15–12	96–106	Report
13 Nov	20:30	VakıfBank Istanbul	3–0	Partizan Vizura Beograd	25–18	25–10	25–19			75–47	Report
25 Nov	19:00	Partizan Vizura Beograd	2–3	RC Cannes	22–25	25–18	25–19	20–25	12–15	104–102	Report
26 Nov	20:30	Nordmeccanica Piacenza	0–3	VakıfBank Istanbul	12–25	14–25	18–25			44–75	Report
9 Dec	19:00	Partizan Vizura Beograd	0–3	Nordmeccanica Piacenza	15–25	16–25	20–25			51–75	Report
11 Dec	20:30	VakıfBank Istanbul	1–3	RC Cannes	23–25	25–23	24–26	25–27		97–101	Report
13 Jan	20:30	RC Cannes	0–3	VakıfBank Istanbul	11–25	22–25	12–25			45–75	Report
14 Jan	20:30	Nordmeccanica Piacenza	3–1	Partizan Vizura Beograd	22–25	25–16	25–22	25–18		97–81	Report
21 Jan	20:30	VakıfBank Istanbul	3–2	Nordmeccanica Piacenza	19–25	22–25	25–14	25–13	21–19	112–96	Report
21 Jan	20:30	RC Cannes	3–2	Partizan Vizura Beograd	23–25	25–13	25–22	21–25	18–16	112–101	Report
28 Jan	19:00	Partizan Vizura Beograd	0–3	VakıfBank Istanbul	13–25	11–25	11–25			35–75	Report
28 Jan	20:30	Nordmeccanica Piacenza	3–0	RC Cannes	25–16	25–18	25–18			75–52	Report

Playoffs

The playoffs will consist of two rounds: Playoff 12 and Playoff 6. Each round is played in two legs. These will be played between 10 February and 12 March 2015.^[3]

If the teams are tied after two legs, a "Golden Set" is played. The winner is the team that first obtains 15 points, provided that the points difference between the two teams is at least 2 points (thus, the Golden Set is similar to a tiebreak set in a normal match).

At each leg, points are awarded to the teams in the same manner as in the Group Round (3 for 3:0 or 3:1, 2 for 3:2 etc.). So, if team A defeat team B in the first leg 3:0 and lose in the second leg 1:3, team A does not advance to the next round (as it would have been expected on the basis of analogy with football competitions), but the two teams are tied with 3 points each, and a Golden Set is played.

The three teams that win in Playoff 6 round advance to the Final Four along with the organizer of the Final Four. Germany's Dresdner SC will replace in the Playoffs 12 the organizer of the Final Four tournament as the lucky loser.

Pool	Winners	Runners-up	Third place
A	Chemik Police (F4 Hosts)	Dinamo Kazan	Agel Prostějov
B	Fenerbahçe Grundig Istanbul	Azeryol Baku	–
C	Dinamo Moscow	Yamamay Busto Arsizio	Dresdner SC
D	Eczacıbaşı VitrA Istanbul	Voléro Zürich	–
E	VakıfBank Istanbul	RC Cannes	Nordmeccanica Piacenza

Playoff 12

Team 1	Agg.Tooltip Aggregate score	Team 2	1st leg	2nd leg
Dinamo Kazan	1–5	VakıfBank Istanbul	2–3	0–3
Dresdner SC	2–4	Fenerbahçe Grundig Istanbul	0–3	3–2
RC Cannes	1–5	Voléro Zürich	2–3	1–3
Agel Prostějov	0–6	Eczacıbaşı VitrA Istanbul	1–3	0–3
Azeryol Baku	2–4	Yamamay Busto Arsizio	1–3	3–2
Nordmeccanica Piacenza	0–6	Dinamo Moscow	0–3	0–3

First leg

Date	Time		Score		Set 1	Set 2	Set 3	Set 4	Set 5	Total	Report
10 Feb	18:00	Agel Prostějov	1–3	Eczacıbaşı VitrA Istanbul	25–18	15–25	14–25	21–25		75–93	Report
10 Feb	19:00	Dinamo Kazan	2–3	VakıfBank Istanbul	26–24	21–25	20–25	27–25	7–15	101–114	Report
11 Feb	18:00	Azeryol Baku	1–3	Yamamay Busto Arsizio	24–26	21–25	25–19	14–25		84–95	Report
11 Feb	19:30	Dresdner SC	0–3	Fenerbahçe Istanbul	23–25	15–25	15–25			53–75	Report
11 Feb	20:00	RC Cannes	2–3	Voléro Zürich	25–21	9–25	25–16	17–25	5–15	81–102	Report
11 Feb	20:30	Nordmeccanica Piacenza	0–3	Dinamo Moscow	27–29	18–25	23–25			68–79	Report

Second leg

Date	Time		Score		Set 1	Set 2	Set 3	Set 4	Set 5	Total	Report
18 Feb	16:30	Eczacıbaşı VitrA Istanbul	3–0	Agel Prostějov	25–14	25–14	25–19			75–47	Report
18 Feb	19:30	Fenerbahçe Istanbul	2–3	Dresdner SC	26–24	24–26	19–25	25–18	13–15	107–108	Report
18 Feb	20:30	Yamamay Busto Arsizio	2–3	Azeryol Baku	14–25	26–24	20–25	25–18	10–15	95–107	Report
19 Feb	18:30	Dinamo Moscow	3–0	Nordmeccanica Piacenza	25–20	25–16	25–15			75–51	Report
19 Feb	19:30	VakıfBank Istanbul	3–0	Dinamo Kazan	25–22	25–21	25–14			75–57	Report
19 Feb	20:00	Voléro Zürich	3–1	RC Cannes	25–14	25–20	25–27	27–25		102–86	Report

Playoff 6

Team 1	Agg.Tooltip Aggregate score	Team 2	1st leg	2nd leg
VakıfBank Istanbul	4–2	Fenerbahçe Grundig Istanbul	3–1	2–3
Eczacıbaşı VitrA Istanbul	¹3–3	Voléro Zürich	3–0	1–3
Yamamay Busto Arsizio	6–0	Dinamo Moscow	3–0	3–0

¹Eczacıbaşı VitrA Istanbul won the golden set 15–12

First leg

Date	Time		Score		Set 1	Set 2	Set 3	Set 4	Total	Report
5 Mar	17:30	Eczacıbaşı VitrA	3–0	Voléro Zürich	25–21	25–19	25–22		75–62	Report
5 Mar	20:30	VakıfBank Istanbul	3–1	Fenerbahçe Istanbul	25–23	28–26	19–25	25–16	97–90	Report
5 Mar	20:30	Yamamay Busto Arsizio	3–0	Dinamo Moscow	25–14	25–22	25–18		75–54	Report

Second leg

Date	Time		Score		Set 1	Set 2	Set 3	Set 4	Set 5	Total	Report
12 Mar	18:30	Fenerbahçe Istanbul	3–2	VakıfBank Istanbul	25–20	25–20	21–25	15–25	15–12	101–102	Report
12 Mar	18:30	Dinamo Moscow	0–3	Yamamay Busto Arsizio	23–25	19–25	26–28			68–78	Report
12 Mar	20:00	Voléro Zürich	3–1	Eczacıbaşı VitrA Istanbul	25–23	24–26	29–27	25–19		103–95	Report

Final four

Organizer: Chemik Police
Venue: Azoty Arena, Szczecin, Poland
All times are Central European Summer Time (UTC+02:00).
In case that two teams from the same country qualify to the semifinals, they will have to play each other.

Semifinals		Final

4 April

Chemik Police	0
		5 April
Yamamay Busto Arsizio	3
		Yamamay Busto Arsizio	0
4 April
		Eczacıbaşı VitrA Istanbul	3
VakıfBank Istanbul	1

Eczacıbaşı VitrA Istanbul	3
		3rd place match

		5 April

		Chemik Police	0

		VakıfBank Istanbul	3

Semifinals

Date	Time		Score		Set 1	Set 2	Set 3	Set 4	Set 5	Total	Report
4 Apr	15:00	Chemik Police	0–3	Yamamay Busto Arsizio	21–25	25–27	21–25			67–77	Report
4 Apr	18:00	VakıfBank Istanbul	1–3	Eczacıbaşı VitrA	22–25	25–16	22–25	22–25		91–91	Report