Orenburg again top seed of MECL

The best 16 European clubs will compete in 2014/15 Men’s European Champions League and the draw will be held in Vienna on June 27th. Top seed will be again Russian champion Fakel Gazproma Orenburg the actual MECL runner-up and two times winner (2012 201

The best 16 European clubs will compete in 2014/15 Men’s European Champions League and the draw will be held in Vienna on June 27th. Top seed will be again Russian champion Fakel Gazproma Orenburg the actual MECL runner-up and two times winner (2012 2013). Recently crowned champion French AS Pontoise Cergy starts as no. 6 seed while most successful club ever Borussia Dusseldorf (10 titles in total) will be no. 2 as in last two years.

Many clubs continue with the same line-ups. Orenburg is happy to keep together current individual European champion Dimitrij OVTCHAROV (world’s no. 4) three times single ECH gold medalist Vladimir SAMSONOV and former Euro Top 12 winner Alexey SMIRNOV. The same trio as in last season will have also Chartres (GAO Ning Robert GARDOS and Par GERELL) Pontoise (Marcos FREITAS WANG Jian Jun and Kristian KARLSSON) Hennebont (Kalinikos KREANGA Dimitrij PROKOPCOV and CHEN Chien-An) UMMC (Jun MIZUTANI Joao MONTEIRO and Alexander SHIBAEV).

Werder Bremen made one big change (Bastian STEGER from Saarbrucken instead of CHIANG Chih Yuan) former UMMC good defender HOU Yingchao is Niederosterreich`s newcomer Kenji MATSUDAIRA joined Angers Vaillante bronze medalist from 2013 ECH Panagiotis GIONIS (ex Angers) will replace Patrick BAUM on no. 2 of Borussia Adrien MATTENET is coming back to MECL as Saarbrucken player…

Danish Roskilde is coming back to the main club’s competition with well known trio: Michael MAZE Allan BENTSEN and Finn TUGWELL. Korean OH Sangeun will try to repeat his great plays which he had in the past in Bogoria`s jersey when he managed to beat even Timo BOLL in his best shape.

The 2014/2015 MECL participants are:
1
.Fakel Gazproma Orenburg (Russia 7499 points)
2 Borussia Dusseldorf (Germany 7277)
3 UMMC (Russia 7110)
4 Chartres ASTT (France 6980)
5 Saarbrucken (Germany 6716)
6 AS Pontoise Cergy (France 6610)
7 Hennebont (France 6557)
8 Werder Bremen (Germany 6545)
9 Bogoria Mazowiecki (Poland 6292)
10 Angers Vaillante (France 6205)
11 Olimpia Unia Grudziadz (Poland 6130)
11 Weinviertel Niederosterreich (Austria 6130)
13 Roskilde Bordtennis (Denmark 5874)
14 Eslovs Al Bordtennis (Sweden 5806)
15 STEN marketing HB Ostrov (Czech Republic 5713)
16 Walter Wels (Austria 5618).

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