2024–25 WSE Champions League

2024–25 WSE Champions League
Tournament details
CityFinal four:
Matosinhos, Portugal
Dates1 November 2024 (2024-11-01) – 11 May 2025 (2025-05-11)
TeamsGroup stage: 12
Total: 22 (from 6 associations)
Final positions
ChampionsOC Barcelos (2nd title)
Runners-upFC Porto
2025–26 →

The 2024–25 WSE Champions League is the 60th season of Europe's premier club roller hockey tournament organized by World Skate Europe – Rink Hockey, and the third season under the WSE Champions League branding. Compared to the previous season, the qualifying tournament was reduced to a single group round, while the group stage of the tournament proper was reformulated to comprise two groups of six teams, with the top four teams advancing to the knockout stage. The winners of the quarter-finals will contest a final-four tournament, scheduled to be played in May 2025.

Sporting CP were the defending champions, having beaten UD Oliveirense 2–1 in an all-Portuguese 2023–24 final. They failed to qualify for the tournament proper, after finishing second in their qualifying round group.

Team allocation

Association ranking

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

For the 2024–25 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.[1]

Team distribution

The D'Hondt method was applied to the coefficient of each association to determine the number of teams entering in each round:

Group stage
(8 teams) 		FC Porto SL Benfica UD Oliveirense FC Barcelona
CE Noia HC Liceo GSH Trissino SCRA Saint-Omer
Qualifying round
(14 teams) 		Sporting CP OC Barcelos AD Valongo SC Tomar
Riba d'Ave HC Reus Deportiu CP Voltregà CP Calafell
Follonica Hockey Hockey Sarzana HC Dinan Quevert La Vendéenne
RHC Diessbach SK Germania Herringen

Schedule

Schedule for 2024–25 WSE Champions League[2]
Phase Round Draw date Date
Qualifying round Matchday 1 8 August 2024 1 November 2024
Matchday 2 2 November 2024
Matchday 3 3 November 2024
Group stage Matchday 1 21 November 2024
Matchday 2 28 November 2024
Matchday 3 5 December 2024
Matchday 4 12 December 2024
Matchday 5 9 January 2025
Matchday 6 16 January 2025
Matchday 7 30 January 2025
Matchday 8 6 February 2025
Matchday 9 20 February 2025
Matchday 10 27 February 2025
Quarter-finals First leg 27 March 2025
Second leg 10 April 2025
Final four Semi-finals 10 May 2025
Final 11 May 2025

Qualifying round

A total of 14 teams competed in the qualifying round to determine the last four teams entering the group stage. They were seeded into four pots, according to their ranking, and drawn into four groups of three or four teams, with the lowest-ranked team having first choice at hosting the group matches. Teams from the same national association were allowed to be drawn into the same group.[3]

Each team played once against the other teams in their group, for a total of three matches. The top-ranked team from each group advanced to the group stage, while the second and third placed teams were relegated to the 2024–25 WSE Cup (round of 16). The two fourth-placed teams were relegated to the 2024–25 WSE Trophy (quarter-finals).[3]

Group 1

Pos Team Pld W D L GF GA GD Pts Qualification REU VOL HER FOL
1 Reus Deportiu 3 3 0 0 13 3 +10 9 Advance to group stage — 4–1 5–0
2 CP Voltregà 3 2 0 1 14 7 +7 6 Relegation to WSE Cup 2–4 — 8–1
3 SK Germania Herringen (H) 3 1 0 2 5 9 −4 3 2–4 — 2–1
4 Follonica Hockey 3 0 0 3 2 15 −13 0 Relegation to WSE Trophy —
Source: World Skate Europe
(H) Hosts

Group 2

Pos Team Pld W D L GF GA GD Pts Qualification OCB SPO VEN
1 OC Barcelos 2 2 0 0 11 2 +9 6 Advance to group stage — 3–2
2 Sporting CP 2 1 0 1 10 6 +4 3 Relegation to WSE Cup — 8–3
3 La Vendéenne (H) 2 0 0 2 3 16 −13 0 0–8 —
Source: World Skate Europe
(H) Hosts

Group 3

Pos Team Pld W D L GF GA GD Pts Qualification VAL CAL RIB DIE
1 AD Valongo (H) 3 3 0 0 17 6 +11 9 Advance to group stage — 4–2 8–1
2 CP Calafell 3 2 0 1 15 12 +3 6 Relegation to WSE Cup 3–5 —
3 Riba d'Ave HC 3 1 0 2 10 11 −1 3 4–5 — 4–2
4 RHC Diessbach 3 0 0 3 6 19 −13 0 Relegation to WSE Trophy 3–7 —
Source: World Skate Europe
(H) Hosts

Group 4

Pos Team Pld W D L GF GA GD Pts Qualification DIN TOM SAR
1 HC Dinan Quevert (H) 2 2 0 0 9 5 +4 6 Advance to group stage — 6–3
2 SC Tomar 2 1 0 1 11 5 +6 3 Relegation to WSE Cup 2–3 —
3 Hockey Sarzana 2 0 0 2 5 15 −10 0 2–9 —
Source: World Skate Europe
(H) Hosts

Group stage

The group stage was contested by a total of 12 teams, comprising eight pre-qualified teams plus the four winners of the qualifying round. For draw purposes, the pre-qualified teams and the qualifying round winners were separated into two pots, with half of the teams being drawn into Group A and the other half into Group B.[3]

In each group, teams played against the other twice (home and away), for a total of ten matches. The four top-ranked teams from each group advanced to the knockout stage.[3]

Group A

Pos Team Pld W D L GF GA GD Pts Qualification OCB NOI FCP REU FCB STO
1 OC Barcelos 10 5 5 0 32 18 +14 20 Advance to quarter-finals — 2–2 1–1 2–1 4–4 5–2
2 CE Noia 10 5 2 3 32 26 +6 17 2–2 — 4–2 3–1 3–2 7–1
3 FC Porto 10 5 2 3 29 27 +2 17 1–4 4–3 — 3–2 6–2 4–1
4 Reus Deportiu 10 4 1 5 26 28 −2 13 0–4 2–4 5–2 — 5–4 4–3
5 FC Barcelona 10 3 4 3 37 32 +5 13 3–3 6–1 3–3 2–2 — 7–2
6 SCRA Saint-Omer 10 1 0 9 21 46 −25 3 2–5 4–3 2–3 1–4 3–4 —
Source: World Skate Europe

Group B

Pos Team Pld W D L GF GA GD Pts Qualification SLB OLI TRI LIC VAL DIN
1 SL Benfica 10 9 1 0 45 14 +31 28 Advance to quarter-finals — 3–1 7–5 5–1 5–0 6–2
2 UD Oliveirense 10 5 3 2 32 27 +5 18 1–5 — 1–1 4–2 4–3 6–2
3 GSH Trissino 10 5 2 3 39 34 +5 17 3–6 4–4 — 5–2 6–5 2–0
4 HC Liceo 10 4 3 3 26 25 +1 15 0–0 1–1 7–6 — 2–0 2–0
5 AD Valongo 10 1 1 8 23 38 −15 4 1–3 4–6 1–4 3–3 — 2–0
6 HC Dinan Quevert 10 1 0 9 13 40 −27 3 0–5 2–4 1–3 1–6 5–4 —
Source: World Skate Europe

Knockout stage

Quarter-finals

In the quarter-finals, each of the top four teams from one group play a home-and-away two-legged tie against one of the top four teams from the other group. The two best placed teams from each group host the second leg.[3]

Team 1 Agg.Tooltip Aggregate score Team 2 1st leg 2nd leg
HC Liceo 8–8 (p) OC Barcelos 4–6 4–2
GSH Trissino 5–6 CE Noia 1–2 4–4
Reus Deportiu 3–7 SL Benfica 1–2 2–5
FC Porto 5–2 UD Oliveirense 4–2 1–0
Matches
HC Liceo 4–6 OC Barcelos
Report
Referee: Ulderico Barbarisi, Massimiliano Carmazzi (Italy)
OC Barcelos 2–4 HC Liceo
Report
Penalties
1–0
Pavilhão Municipal de Barcelos, Barcelos
Referee: Joseph Silecchia, Simone Brambilla (Italy)

8–8 on aggregate after overtime; OC Barcelos won 1–0 on penalties.

GSH Trissino 1–2 CE Noia
Report
PalaDante, Trissino
Referee: Rui Leitão, Fernando Vasconcelos (Portugal)
CE Noia 4–4 GSH Trissino
Report
Pavelló Olimpic de l'Ateneu Agrícola, Sant Sadurni d'Anoia
Referee: Joaquim Pinto, Pedro Figueiredo (Portugal)

CE Noia won 6–5 on aggregate.

Reus Deportiu 1–2 SL Benfica
Report
Pavelló del Reus Deportiu, Reus
Referee: Franco Ferrari, Joseph Silecchia (Italy)
SL Benfica 5–2 Reus Deportiu
Report
Referee: Filippo Fronte, Marco Rondina (Italy)

SL Benfica won 7–3 on aggregate.

FC Porto 4–2 UD Oliveirense
Report
Referee: Ivan González, Miguel Diaz (Spain)
UD Oliveirense 0–1 FC Porto
Report
Pavilhão Dr. Salvador Machado, Oliveira de Azeméis
Referee: Ruben Fernández, Gabriel Villar (Spain)

FC Porto won 5–2 on aggregate.

Final-four

The semi-finals and final were contested as a final-four tournament,[3] which was played on 10 and 11 May 2025 at the Centro de Desportos e Congressos in Matosinhos, Portugal.

 
Semi-finalsFinal
 
      
 
10 May
 
 
 OC Barcelos 3
 
11 May
 
 CE Noia 1
 
 OC Barcelos (p) 1 (2)
 
10 May
 
 FC Porto 1 (0)
 
 SL Benfica 2
 
 
 FC Porto (a.e.t.) 3
 

Semi-finals

OC Barcelos 3–1 CE Noia
Report
Centro de Desportos e Congressos, Matosinhos
Referee: Filippo Fronte, Marco Rondina (Italy)
SL Benfica 2–3 (a.e.t.) FC Porto
Report
Centro de Desportos e Congressos, Matosinhos
Referee: Ruben Fernandez, Daniel Villar (Spain)

Final

OC Barcelos 1–1 FC Porto
Report
Penalties
2–0
Centro de Desportos e Congressos, Matosinhos
Referee: Ruben Fernandez, Daniel Villar (Spain)

References

  1. ^ "Men's Ranking and Quotas – 2024/25 season" (PDF). World Skate Europe. Retrieved 7 February 2025.
  2. ^ "Results of the Club's Competitions Draw". World Skate Europe. 8 August 2024. Retrieved 7 February 2025.
  3. ^ a b c d e f "WSE Champions League - Men — Rulebook" (PDF). World Skate Europe. Retrieved 7 February 2025.
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