The 14th edition of the EBL Champions’ Cup will be held at the Horwood House Hotel in Milton Keynes, England, from 12th to 14th November 2015. The National Team Champions (teams which won the main national Open Team Championship in 2014-2015) of top ten countries in the 2014 European Open Teams Championship held in Opatija are invited to participate in the EBL Champions’ Cup, plus the defending Champion (Allegra – Lavazza, Italy) and the Host Team (England).
Following the withdrawal of Israel Monaco and Germany, Netherlands Turkey and Romania have been invited to participate.
Update: Following the withdrawal of Poland, Italy has been invited to participate
Therefore, the 12 participating teams come from Bulgaria, Denmark, England (2 teams), Italy (2) France, Netherlands, Turkey, Norway, Romania, and Sweden.
Team Rosters
ITALY Allegra -Lavazza Defending Champions: Alejandro Bianchedi, Denis Bilde, Norberto Bocchi, Massimiliano Di Franco, Giorgio Duboin, Agustin Madala
ENGLAND Host Team: Simon Gillis (pc), Boye Brogeland, Tom Hanlon, Espen Lindqvist, Zia Mahmood, Erik Saelensminde
BULGARIA Radkov: Roumen Trendafilov (pc), Vladislav Isporski, Tenyu Tenev, Todor Tiholov
DENMARK Pharmaservice: Hans Christian Graversen (pc), Henrik Caspersen, Poul Clemmensen, Emil Jepsen, Jens Kofoed, Lars Tofte
ENGLAND Allfrey Allfrey: Alexander Allfrey (pc), Mike Bell, Tony Forrester, David Gold, Andrew Robson, David Bakhshi
FRANCE Soulet: Philippe Soulet (pc), Michel Lebel, Erick Mauberquez, Christophe Oursel, Bernard Payen, Thierry de Sainte Marie
NETHERLANDS BC’t Onstein: Louk Verhees (pc), Berend van den Bos, Joris van Lankveld, Ricco van Prooijen, Richard Ritmeijer, Magdalena Ticha
NORWAY Heimdal BK: Erik Berg (pc), Geir Helgemo, Olav Arve Høyem, Aksel Hornslien, Lars Arthur Johansen, Børre Lund
POLAND Ruch SA AZS Politechnika Wroclaw: Stanislaw Golebiowski (pc), Piotr Gawrys, Michal Klukowski, Michal Kwiecien, Wlodzimierz Starkowski, Piotr Zatorski
ITALY Angelini: Alfredo Versace, Lorenzo Lauria, Leonardo Cima, Valerio Giubilo, Antonio Sementa, Mustafa Cem Tokay.
ROMANIA Top Bridge Bucharest: Marius Briciu (pc), Ionut Coldea, Filip Florin, Ovidiu Ghigheci, Bogdan Marina, Iulian Rotaru
SWEDEN Uppsalabridgen Skalman: Krister Ahlesved (pc), Tommy Bergdahl, Jonas Petersson, Niklas Warne
TURKEY Cayyolu Bridge Club: Sedat Dinc(npc), Suleyman Kolata, Ismail Kandemir, Tayfun Ozbey, Levent Ozgul, Ali Ucar, Nafiz Zorlu, Tolga Ergen (coach)
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