The 2023–24 WSE Champions League is the 59th season of Europe's premier club roller hockey tournament organized by World Skate Europe – Rink Hockey, and the second season under the WSE Champions League branding. Compared to the previous season, the knockout stage quarter-finals will be contested as two-legged fixtures followed by a final-four tournament, scheduled to be played on 11 and 12 May 2024.
FC Porto were the defending champions, having beaten AD Valongo 5–1 in an all-Portuguese 2022–23 final. They were eliminated in the semi-finals by domestic rivals Sporting CP, who went on to beat another Portuguese side in the final (UD Oliveirense, 2–1) and win their fourth title in the competition. This was the second consecutive all-Portuguese final, which was assured after four Portuguese teams – OC Barcelos, UD Oliveirense, FC Porto, and Sporting CP – secured qualification for the final four tournament.
Team allocation Association ranking
For the 2023–24 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.
The D'Hondt method was applied to the coefficient of each association to determine the number of teams entering in each round:
1st qualifying round SC Tomar Igualada Lleida Follonica Hockey Sarzana Grosseto Valdagno CS Noisy US Coutras La Vendéenne SC Thunerstern SK Germania Herringen ESG Walsum King's Lynn RHC2nd qualifying round FC Porto UD Oliveirense AD Valongo Reus Deportiu CE Noia CF Calafell Forte dei Marmi RHC DiessbachGroup stage Benfica Sporting Barcelos Barcelona Liceo Coruña GSH Trissino Amatori Lodi SCRA Saint-Omer
Schedule +Schedule for 2023–24 WSE Champions LeaguePhaseRoundDraw dateDateQualifying roundsFirst qualifying round11 August 202313–15 October 2023Second qualifying round16 October 202317–19 November 2023Group stageMatchday 16 November 202330 November 2023Matchday 214 December 2023Matchday 311 January 2024Matchday 425 January 2024Matchday 58 February 2024Matchday 629 February 2024Quarter-finalsFirst legNo draw(pre-defined)14 March 2024Second leg11 April 2024Final fourSemi-finals11 May 2024Final12 May 2024
Qualifying rounds First qualifying round Group A Follonica flight got cancelled and they failed to attend the competition; they were awarded defeats by 0–10 in both matches.https://hoqueipt.com/artigo/6981-follonica-sem-voo-para-a-champions
Group B
Group C
Group D
Second qualifying round Group A
Group B
Group C
Group D
Group stage Group A
Group B
Group C
Group D
Knockout stage Quarter-finals In the quarter-finals, each group stage winner plays against a runner-up from another group over two legs in a home-and-away basis. The group winners play away the first leg on 14 March and host the second leg on 11 April 2024.
Sporting CP won 8–6 on aggregate.
FC Porto won 13–5 on aggregate.
OC Barcelos won 9–3 on aggregate.
UD Oliveirense won 12–9 on aggregate.
Final-four The semi-finals and final were contested as a final-four tournament, which was played on 11 and 12 May 2024 at the Super Bock Arena in Porto, Portugal.
Semi-finals
Final
References
External links (official website)