European Champions League (table tennis)

The Champions League in table tennis is - like in football - the top European league for club teams.

  • 3.1 Men's Final
  • 3.2 Women Final

Gentlemen

Introduction

The Champions League is the follow-up event of the European Champions' Cup ( ECCC - European Club Cup of Champions ), which took place from 1960 to 2001. The introduction was decided by ETTU Congress in 1998 during the European Championships in Eindhoven. The name first European Club League ( ECL) was chosen a few months later, the ETTU changed the name to the European Champions League.

Eight teams were divided into two groups of four. Here they played in the league system ( mode " FFA " ), a return game. The group winners were qualified the final, which was played in the best-of -three mode. A team competition was conducted in the Modified Swaythling Cup system whereby a maximum of seven games coming into being.

The competition was first played in the men in the 1998/1999 season. In this first season the clubs could - usually a maximum of two per country - apply to the ETTU to participate. One exception was in the first season for Germany when the ETTU allowed in addition to the clubs Borussia Dusseldorf and TTF Liebherr Ochsenhausen still the winner of the ETTU Cup TTC Grenzau. At the end of the first season, the lowest-ranked of the three teams were relegated, this was border adjustment. In subsequent seasons, the participants of the final, were eligible to participate directly, the remaining teams must qualify through the to 2000/ 01 discharged European Champions Cup. The participants in the final of the European Cup were ascended entitled to the last of the two groups of four dismounted.

In order to shorten the playing time of the match was switched to the WM system in 1999, whereby a maximum of five games come about. In 2000, the competition was expanded to ten teams that competed in two groups of five.

Changes in 2005/2006

From the 2005/2006 season, the Champions League has been increased to a total of up to 16 teams, which are divided into four groups of four. Maximum of four clubs from the top national league may participate per association. All participants in the semi-finals qualify for the next game series, unless they descend from the top domestic league championship. Used for the qualification was also the sum of world ranking points, the player of a club.

This qualification system led to the situation that in 2005 the German champion Müller Würzburg Hofbräuhaus was not allowed to start, which led to a lack of understanding even with sponsors. Therefore, the qualification rules were subsequently amended: If all four teams reach the semi-finals of an association and a fifth club of this Association national champion, is then eliminated from the club, which is placed at the worst in the national championship.

Ladies

For the ladies, the Champions League was introduced in 2005 /2006. It replaced the played out since 1963 Europe Champions Cup from seamless. Because of financial reasons for the season 2010/11, less than six teams wanted to participate, the competition for women was canceled.

Winner

Men Finale

Women's final

Sources and References

  • Manfred Schillings: Club League starts, magazine DTS, 1998/5 p.7
  • Manfred Schillings: An era begins, magazine DTS, 1998/8 p.45
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