For the past three days, the European club scene was under the spotlight as Stage 1 of the ETTU Champions League took place in Novi Sad. The 2025/2026 season kick-off brought together 32 clubs in both the Men’s and Women’s Events.
In the Men’s Event, eight clubs, winners and runners-up from four groups, qualified for the Round of 16, where the top eight seeds will join them in the knockout stage. The clubs that did not qualify will move on to Stage 2 of the Europe Cup.
In the Women’s Event, four clubs—winners and runners-up from two groups, advanced to Stage 2, where they will be joined by the top eight seeds to form four new groups of three clubs each. Those who failed to qualify will also proceed to Stage 2 of the Europe Cup.
All four group winners iof the Men’s groups, France’s Alliance Nîmes/Montpellier, Germany’s Post SV Mühlhausen 1951 e.V. and ASC Grünwettersbach, and Belgium’s TTC Sokah Hoboken, finished the opening stage undefeated.
In the Women’s Event, STK Novi Sad concluded the tournament at the top of the group despite a defeat in the last round against Poland’s PGE Fibrain Ku AZS Politechnika Rzeszów. France’s representatives Saint-Denis TT 93 lived up to expectations, winning their group with three straight victories.
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QUALIFIED FOR THE ROUND OF 16 MEN
Group winners
- Post SV Mühlhausen 1951 e.V. (Ovidiu IONESCU, Steffen MENGEL, Kay STUMPER, Cheng-Ting LAO, Erik SHREYER)
- ASC Grünwettersbach (Tiago APOLONIA, Hiroto SHINOZUKA, Ricardo WALTER, Tobias HIPPLER, Damian FLORO)
- Alliance Nîmes/Montpellier (Alexis LEBRUN, Gregoire JEAN, Manav THAKAR)
- TTC Sokah Hoboken (Gabrielius CAMARA, Remi BETELU, Benjamin BROSSIER)
Group runner ups
- Dojlidy Białystok (Piotr CHODORSKI, Patryk CHOJNOWSKI, Piotr MICHALSKI)
- Real Club Cajasur Priego TM (Hampus SODERLUND, Carlos MACHADO, Alejandro CALVO)
- SKST Havirov (Gustavo GOMEZ, Michal BLINKA, Stepan BRHEL, Jan SKALDA)
- SF SKK El Nino Praha (David REITSPIES, Tomas KONECNY, Yevhen PRYSHCHEPA, Filip KAUCKY, Petr KAUCKY)
QUALIFIED FOR STAGE 2 WOMEN
Group winners
- STK Novi Sad (Aneta MAKSUTI, Valeria KOTCYR, Valeria SHCHERBATYKH, Reka BEZEG, Irina SLAUTINA)
- Saint-Denis TT 93 (Jie LI, Hana ARAPOVIOC, Agathe AVEZOU)
Group runner ups
- MIRÓ Ganxets Costa Durada (Olga VOROBEVA, Andrea TODOROVIC and Elvira Fiona RAD)
- PGE Fibrain Ku AZS Politechnika Rzeszow (Zuzanna WIELGOS, Yerin KIM, Ilona SZTWIERTNIA, Fen LI)
