European Aquatics Women's Challenger Cup

European Aquatics Women's Challenger Cup
Current season, competition or edition:
Current sports event 2024–25 European Aquatics Women's Challenger Cup
SportWater polo
Founded2023
PresidentPatrice Coste
CountryEuropean Aquatics members
ContinentEurope
Most recent
champion(s)		Turkey Izmir BBG (2nd title)
Most titlesTurkey Izmir BBG (2 titles)
Level on pyramid3rd Tier
4th Tier from 2025
Official website[1]

The European Aquatics Women's Challenger Cup, formerly the LEN Women's Challenger Cup is a water polo club competition organised by the Ligue Européenne de Natation (LEN). It acts as the third tier, below the LEN Women's Champions League and the LEN Women's Euro Cup. Its first season will commence in 2023–24.[1][2]

From 2024, after LEN was renamed to European Aquatics, the new name is the 'European Aquatics Women's Challenger Cup.

History

The Women's Challenger Cup was first mentioned on the 7 February by Stavroula Kozompoli.[3] The LEN Women's Challenger Cup was officially created by LEN in on the 2 June 2023. In a similar fashion to the men's Tournament, the competition was inaugurated with the goal of creating more chances for smaller Water Polo nations to improve.

A year before the women's counterpart started, LEN formally announced they would create a Men's LEN Challenger Cup, starting in the 2022–23 season.

From 2025, after the introduction of the Conference Cup, the Challenger Cup will become the fourth tier tournament in European club water polo.[4][5][6]

Winners

Challenger Cup

Year Final Semi-finalists
Champion Score Second place Third place Score Fourth place
2023–24
Details 		Turkey
Izmir BB GSK 		10–9 Serbia
VK Crvena Zvezda 		Croatia
ŽAVK Mladost 		14–13 Portugal
Benfica
2024–25
Details 		Turkey
Izmir BB GSK 		9–8 Turkey
Galatasaray 		Croatia
ŽAVK Mladost 		15–9 Serbia
VK Vojvodina


Editions

See also

Men

Women

References

  1. ^ "Big changes in European water polo club competitions - LEN - European Aquatics". www.len.eu. June 2, 2023.
  2. ^ Spencer-Boyce, James (June 2, 2023). "Changes to European competitions reinforced in Belgrade".
  3. ^ "Women's water polo enjoying "record" growth in Europe". www.len.eu. February 7, 2023.
  4. ^ "New European water polo competition set to boost quality and club development - European Aquatics®". April 2, 2025.
  5. ^ Curcic, Ivan (April 2, 2025). "EA launches Conference Cup and reduces number of teams in Champions League and Euro Cup qualifications".
  6. ^ https://europeanaquatics.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/04/WATER-POLO-CLUB-COMPETITIONS-REGULATIONS-SEASON-2025-2026.pdf
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