Champions League Men: Roskilde and Lille upsets

Roskilde beat Nîmes/Montpellier and Lille beat holders Saarbrücken in ETTU Champions League Men

Last season's two finalists both lost their first legs, as Amir Hossein Hodaei won the deciding match against Saarbrücken and Darko Jorgic came from two games down on his Suchedniów debut.

By Eleven Team14 November 2026, 00:30

Key matches

Last 16, first legETTU Champions League Men

Roskilde BTK 61DEN

Alliance Nîmes/MontpellierFRA

Final result

Jens Lundqvist SWE 3–1 Rémi Betelu FRA 11–95–1111–811–7

Anders Eriksson SWE 3–1 Grégoire Jean FRA 3–1111–611–611–9

Tobias Rasmussen DEN 3–0 Felipe Doti Arado BRA 11–911–611–9

More results

Last 16, first leg Lille Métropole TT FRA 3–2 1. FC Saarbrücken GER

Last 16, first leg TTC Sokah Hoboken BEL 3–2 Real Club Cajasur Priego ESP

Last 16, first leg KS Dojlidy Białystok POL 0–3 KS Orlicz Suchedniów POL

Last 16, first leg HB Ostrov CZE 0–3 GV Hennebont FRA

Last 16, first leg SF SKK El Niño Praha CZE 1–3 KS Dekorglass Działdowo POL

Roskilde beat last season's runners-up Alliance Nîmes/Montpellier 3-0 and Lille Métropole beat the holders, 1. FC Saarbrücken, 3-2 on a night of upsets in the ETTU Champions League Men last 16 on Friday.

Both results came in the first legs, so neither tie is over, but the two clubs who met in last season's final now go into the return matches behind. Nîmes/Montpellier, the fourth seeds, travelled to Denmark without Félix and Alexis Lebrun, and Saarbrücken, the top seeds, lost despite two wins from Patrick Franziska.

Roskilde sweep the finalists

Jens Lundqvist, the experienced Swede, opened with a 3-1 win over Rémi Betelu in front of about 500 spectators in Roskilde. Anders Eriksson lost the first game 11-3 to Grégoire Jean and then won the next three, and Tobias Rasmussen finished the tie by beating Felipe Doti Arado 11-9, 11-6, 11-9.

Allan Bentsen, the Roskilde coach, said the absence of the Lebrun brothers had given his side a chance. "But to win 3-0 was simply amazing," he said. "All my players performed at an exceptionally high level."

Hodaei wins it for Lille

Lille needed the fifth match to beat Saarbrücken. Romain Brard put them ahead by beating Alvaro Robles 3-1, and Fabio Rakotoarimanana restored the lead with a 3-0 win over Albert Vilardell after Franziska had beaten Amir Hossein Hodaei in straight games.

Franziska then beat Brard 11-9, 11-8, 11-6 to level at 2-2. Franziska has been in the form of his career, reaching the finals of WTT Champions Montpellier and WTT Champions Frankfurt in consecutive weeks, but Hodaei settled the tie by beating Robles 11-4, 12-10, 11-9.

Hoboken and Brossier hold on

TTC Sokah Hoboken, who came through Stage 1 in Lille without losing a match, beat the eighth seeds, Real Club Cajasur Priego, 3-2. Quentin Robinot beat Carlos Machado in straight games and Olav Kosolosky beat Diogo Chen 3-0, but Japan's Machi Asuka won both his singles, against Benjamin Brossier and Robinot, to take the tie to a decider. Brossier beat Machado 12-10, 11-9, 11-5 to win it.

Jorgic comes back on his debut

Darko Jorgic, playing his first Champions League match for KS Orlicz Suchedniów since moving from Saarbrücken, came from two games down to beat Amirezza Abbasi Monjezi as the sixth seeds won 3-0 at KS Dojlidy Białystok in an all-Polish tie. Robert Gardos had opened with a straight-games win over Aleksandr Khanin, and Deni Kozul beat Piotr Chodorski 3-1.

Jorgic was quick to say the tie was not finished. "We still need to win two matches in the return leg at home," he said.

Hennebont and Działdowo win away

GV Hennebont won 3-0 at HB Ostrov, ending the Czech club's unbeaten run in the competition. Lev Katsman beat Vladislav Ursu 3-1, Simon Gauzy lost the first game 15-13 to Pavel Sirucek before winning the next three, and Alan Kurmangaliyev completed the win by taking the third game against Tomas Tregler 18-16.

"I've known Pavel Sirucek for 20 years, and I know how good a player he is. I expected a very close and difficult match," Gauzy said. "The end of the second game was crucial, but I knew the match was far from over."

KS Dekorglass Działdowo won 3-1 at SF SKK El Niño Praha, who had also won all three of their Stage 1 ties. David Reitspies gave the home side the lead by beating Matteo Mutti in five games, but Manush Shah beat Tomas Konecny, Mateusz Sakowicz beat Yevhen Pryshchepa in straight games and Shah came from a game down to beat Reitspies 3-1 in the fourth match.

Results

Roskilde BTK 61 3-0 Alliance Nîmes/Montpellier
Lille Métropole TT 3-2 1. FC Saarbrücken
TTC Sokah Hoboken 3-2 Real Club Cajasur Priego
KS Dojlidy Białystok 0-3 KS Orlicz Suchedniów
HB Ostrov 0-3 GV Hennebont
SF SKK El Niño Praha 1-3 KS Dekorglass Działdowo
Played on Thursday: AS Pontoise-Cergy 1-3 Borussia Düsseldorf

What's next

The last first leg is on Saturday, when KS Bogoria Grodzisk Mazowiecki play ASD TT Santa Tecla Nulvi at 5pm local time (4pm UK time). The return legs are next month, and Borussia Düsseldorf, who won 3-1 at Pontoise-Cergy on Thursday with two wins from Dang Qiu, host the return on 18 December. Read our report on that match.