The draw for the table tennis Champions League and Europe Cup was, of course, also of Greek interest, as for another year the blue and white colors are represented both on a collective and an individual level. First, the women’s team of Panathinaikos, after being eliminated a few days ago in the groups of stage 1 of the Champions League, continues its European course in stage 2 of the Europe Cup.
He was in Spain last week for the top European competition, in Spain he will also compete for the second class Cup of the “old continent”. It was drawn in the third group with rivals Spain’s Museo de la Almendra Francisco Morales and Romania’s Constanta.
LZ Linds Frosberg of Malamatenia Papadimitriou has advanced to the same event. They are in the first group and will go to Portugal in October to face the local Mirandela and the Czech Republic Ostrov.
In the men’s Champions League, the four groups remained to be completed with teams that would qualify from stage 1. The Polish Bogoria Grodzisk of Panagiotis Gionis, in addition to the leading German team Neu Ulm, will also have the Czech Republic Ostrov in the second group.
ETTU in its report also gave information on the procedure: “In the Men’s Champions League the winners of the four groups of stage 1 qualified to join the top eight seeders. The second phase will consist of home and away matches (two rounds). The four runners-up of the second stage will be relegated to the quarter-finals of the European Cup.
The four third-placed teams from stage 2 will complete this year’s European presence. The four winners from stage 2 will enter the final stage, which will include semi-finals and a final and will be held in a Final 4 format. Saarbrucken, Germany will host this year’s F4 tournament.
In the Men’s and Women’s Europe Cup the four groups in stage 2 will be played in a single round robin format over two to three days and at one location for each group.
Teams finishing second, third or fourth in their groups, with the exception of those already relegated from the Champions League to the Europe Cup, will be relegated to the Europe Trophy.
The four winners and four runners-up from stage 2 will advance to the third round of the Europe Cup.
Stage 3 will consist of home and away matches (double round). The winners of the stage 3 matches will advance to the quarter-finals and compete against the teams relegated from the Champions League (runners-up of stage 2 of the competition). The quarter-finals, semi-finals and finals in the European Cup will also be played as home and away matches (double leg).
Panathinaikos will claim qualification in Linares, Spain. For the third group, it has opponents Museo de la Almedra Francisco Morales from the host country and Constanta from Romania and, according to the announcement of the Cup, stage 2 will take place between October 17 and 22.
Within the same dates, LZ Linz Frösberg of Papadimitriou is to compete for the first group. In Portugal, she will find against her the local Mirandela and the Czech HB Ostroff.
In the Men’s Champions League, Panagiotis Gionis’ Bogoria knew that they lead Neu Ulm in the second group and now they have also learned the team from the third seeding row, HB Ostroff.
According to the announcement of the event, the new groups must have started between October 10-15.
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