2017–18 CERH European League
| Tournament details | |
|---|---|
| Dates | 4 November 2017 – 13 May 2018 |
| Teams | 16 (from 6 associations) |
| Tournament statistics | |
| Matches played | 7 |
| Goals scored | 70 (10 per match) |
| Top scorer(s) |
 Miguel Rocha(4 goals) |
The 2017–18 CERH European League is the 53rd season of Europe's premier club roller hockey tournament organised by CERH, and the 21st season since it was renamed from European Champion Clubs' Cup to the CERH Champions League/European League.
Reus Deportiu are the defending champions.
There are not any format changes in the competition system but, as new, the CERH introduced possession clocks as in basketball. Each possession would have a maximumm of 45 seconds.
For the 2017–18 CERH European League, the associations are allocated places according to their Federation points, which takes into account their performance in European competitions during from the 2013–14 season to the 2015–16 one. Points are calculated by dividing the total of points accumulated by the number of participating teams.
Participation in the European League is reserved to that federations that have an effective capacity to organize annually their own national championships. They all will have at least one place. For allocating the other nine places, the D'Hondt method is used with the coefficient of each federation.
In case of resigns, priority will be given according to the order established by the D'Hondt method.
League positions of the previous season shown in parentheses (TH: Title holders). As English champions King's Lynn resigned to its place, following the allocation criteria, Italian Follonica occupied its vacant berth.
Participant teams were confirmed on 19 September 2017.
The schedule of the competition is as follows.
The 16 teams were allocated into four pots, with the title holders, Reus Deportiu, being placed directly as head-team of the Group A. The other three seeded teams will be from the three top ranked federations according to these priorities:
In each group, teams played against each other home-and-away in a home-and-away round-robin format.
The group stage will be drawn on 23 September 2017 in Lisbon.
Below are the participating teams (with their points at the CERS ranking). Title holders and the champions of the three top leagues in the ranking were assigned to pot 1, while the rest of the pots were established by nationalities.
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