After a successful first round of fixtures in Becej in September, the Danube League returns this weekend to the South-East of Hungary and to the town of Szentes. The League, which was created in 2018, was designed to fill the void of a regional women’s competition in Europe, and is doing a good job in giving some of Europe’s most exciting up and coming teams an opportunity at playing in a continental competition.
The hosts, Szentes, are a hugely historic club – with the women’s team winning the Hungarian National Championship on Seven occasions (as recently as 2014), and won the LEN Euro League in 1993. Nowadays, Szentes is more modest in its aspirations, but there is no doubt it is a fantastic club that consistently produces top players. The Women’s team sit 5th in the OB I, and have a Hungarian Cup semi-final to look forward to next week.
Round 2 Preview:
Szentes sit top of the table with five wins from their opening five games. Red Star Belgrade are second on 10pts, but have played a game less than Szentes and would go only two points behind Szentes if they win their opening game of the weekend against fellow-Serbians, Vojvodina.
WPA Bucharesti and ZAVK Mladost are both on 9pts, but the Croatians have a game in hand. If they can defeat their Croatian counterparts, Jadran Split in the first game of the weekend, they will go third.
Olympia Kosice, who participated in the Euro League qualifiers last month, are not attending this weekend, but the Universiade Team of Great Britain return and will be looking for their first win of the competition as they face Tas2000 on Saturday morning.
Round 2 Fixtures:
10 December, 2021
08:00 – Mladost Zagreb vs Jadran Split
11:00 – Szentes vs WPA Bucharest
11:00 – Vojvodina vs VKD Tas2000
15:00 – Great Britain vs WPA Bucharest
16:30 – Vojvodina vs Red Star Belgrade
18:00 – Mladost Zagreb vs Szentes
11 December, 2021
08:00 – VKD Tas2000 vs Great Britain
09:30 – Red Star Belgrade vs Mladost Zagreb
13:45 – Mladost Zagreb vs WPA Bucharest
16:30 – Jadran Split vs VKD Tas2000
18:00 – Red Star Belgrade vs Szentes
19:30 – Vojvodina vs Great Britain
12 December, 2021
08:00 – Jadran Split vs Great Britain
09:30 – VKD Tas2000 vs Mladost Zagreb
11:00 – WPA Bucharest vs Red Star Belgrade
12:30 – Jadran Split vs Vojvodina
Standings
- Szentes – 5 – 15pts
- Red Star Belgrade – 4 – 10pts
- WPA Bucuresti – 5 – 9pts
- ZAVK Mladost – 4 – 9pts
- VK Vojvodina – 4 – 6pts
- VK Jadran Split – 4 – 3pts
- Olympia Kosice – 3 – 3pts
- Great Britain – 4 – 1pts
- VKD Taš2000 – 4 – 0pts
Round 1 Results:
Szentes 21-8 Olympia Kosice (6-1, 5-2, 7-3, 3-2)
ZAVK Mladost 5-7 Jadran Split (1-3, 0-0, 2-2, 2-3)
WPA Bucharest 21- 5 Tas2000 (5-0, 5-2, 4-0, 7-3)
VK Vojvodina 13-6 Great Britain (3-1, 5-2, 2-1, 2-2)
Szentes 12-8 Jadran Split (2-0, 1-3, 4-3, 5-2)
WPA Bucharest 9-4 Great Britain (2-0, 1-1, 3-1, 3-2)
Red Star Belgrade 15-2 Tas2000 (4-0, 4-0, 3-0, 4-2)
Great Britain 10-15 ZAVK Mladost (2-5, 3-5, 2-2, 3-3)
Red Star Belgrade 16-11 Olympia Kosice (5-1, 1-2, 2-2, 8-3)
ZAVK Mladost 11-8 VK Vojvodina (2-0, 2-3, 3-2, 4-3)
Great Britain 4-17 Szentes (2-5, 1-4, 1-3, 0-5)
Red Star Belgrade 13-9 Jadran Split (4-0, 2-4, 3-2, 4-3)
Jadran Split 11- 14 WPA Bucharest (2-4, 3-3, 4-3, 2-4)
Tas2000 4-29 Szentes (1-6, 1-7, 1-9, 1-7)
VK Vojvodina15-14 WPA Bucharest (5-4, 2-3, 4-4, 4-3)
Red Star Belgrade 10-10 Great Britain (4-1, 2-2, 1-3, 3-5)
Olympia Kosice 18-9 Tas2000 (3-3, 6-2, 5-0, 4-4)
Szentes 17-10 VK Vojvodina (2-3, 7-4, 6-3, 2-0)
WPA Bucharest 13-14 ZAVK Mladost (1-4, 2-2, 4-5, 6-3)
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