Pro Recco and Ferencvaros will meet in Sunday’s Black Sea Cup final after both won all three of their group games. The last place in the medal games was settled on Saturday evening, when Waspo Hannover beat hosts A-Polo Sport Management 11:10 with a goal from Andrija Basic 1:56 from the end.
Novi Beograd’s Vasilije Martinovic was the other big story of the two days. He scored 7 goals against CN Marseille on Friday and 11 against Dinamo Tbilisi on Saturday, and leads the tournament with 24.
Day two: Friday, 16 October
Novi Beograd 18:10 CN Marseille
Novi Beograd bounced back from their opening defeat against Ferencvaros. Marseille drew level four times in the first quarter before a Martinovic penalty made it 6:5, and Zoran Bajic’s side then won the second quarter 4:1 and led 15:8 after three quarters.
Martinovic finished with 7 goals from 11 shots, two of them penalties, and Kristijan Sulc scored three from three shots. Milan Glusac made 12 saves. Ugo Crousillat scored three for Marseille, Thomas Vernoux and Adam Nagy added two each, and Nic Porter made 6 saves.
Bourbon Kashiwazaki 6:24 Waspo Hannover
Waspo Hannover finally started their tournament after their travel delays and made up for lost time against Bourbon Kashiwazaki. Aleksandar Radovic’s side led 8:0 after the first quarter and 16:2 at half time.
Lukas Kuppers scored 4 goals from 5 shots, Lazar Vukicevic had 3 goals and 5 assists, and Antonio Buha scored three from three shots. Kaito Tanaka scored three for Kashiwazaki, and goalkeeper Yusuke Ogura made 14 saves.
Ferencvaros 23:11 Dinamo Tbilisi
Ferencvaros scored the first seven goals and led 11:2 at half time. Gergo Fekete scored 6 goals from 8 shots and Stylianos Argyropoulos added four, while Akos Nagy had four assists. Ten different players scored for Balazs Nyeki’s side.
Giorgi Magrakvelidze scored four for the Georgian side and Artsiom Dzikhtsiarenka three. Goalkeeper Giorgi Gvetadze made 13 saves.
A-Polo Sport Management 8:11 Pro Recco
The closest game of the day came last. The hosts drew level four times, the last at 7:7, and were only 8:9 behind after Dusan Vasic scored eight seconds before the end of the third quarter. Recco kept A-Polo scoreless in the fourth. Francesco Condemi converted a penalty for 8:10 with 4:21 left, and Gergo Zalanki sealed the win 24 seconds from time.
Max Irving scored three for Sandro Sukno’s side, Alvaro Granados and Zalanki two each, and Nicholas Presciutti had three assists. Dmitrii Alekseev scored three for A-Polo, and goalkeeper Igor Chirkov made 14 saves.
Day three: Saturday, 17 October
A-Polo Sport Management 34:10 Bourbon Kashiwazaki
A-Polo opened Saturday with the biggest score of the tournament so far. The hosts led 16:4 at half time, and Filip Gardasevic scored 9 goals from 9 shots and added four assists. Dmitrii Alekseev scored five from five shots, Andria Bitadze four, and Dragoljub Rogac had five assists.
Sora Ikeda scored three for Kashiwazaki, and Ogura made 9 saves.
Pro Recco 17:7 Waspo Hannover
Recco won Group A with a comfortable win over Waspo. They led 5:1 after the first quarter and 15:5 late in the third. Max Irving scored 4 goals from 4 shots, Matteo Iocchi Gratta three from three, and Zalanki had three assists. Marko Bijac made 9 saves.
Andrija Basic scored three for Waspo and Lukas Kuppers two.
Dinamo Tbilisi 4:17 Novi Beograd
Martinovic scored 11 of Novi Beograd’s 17 goals, from 20 shots, including five with an extra player and two penalties. He scored all four of his team’s goals in the third quarter. Viktor Urosevic had five assists, and Vladimir Misovic made 12 saves.
Magrakvelidze scored twice for Dinamo, and Gvetadze made 9 saves.
Ferencvaros 13:11 CN Marseille
Marseille gave Ferencvaros their closest game of the tournament. Marc Larumbe scored the only goal of the first quarter, and after Ferencvaros led 10:6 late in the third, the French side came back to 11:10 through Ugo Crousillat with 3:24 left and to 12:11 through Thomas Vernoux with 1:45 to play. Vendel Vigvari settled it with 38 seconds left, his third goal from three shots.
Argyropoulos, Csongor Lugosi and Marton Vamos scored two each for Ferencvaros. Adam Nagy scored three for Marseille. Soma Vogel and Petar Tesanovic made 9 saves each.
A-Polo Sport Management 10:11 Waspo Hannover
The postponed opening round game closed the group stage and decided second place in Group A. Waspo led 1:4 early in the second quarter, but A-Polo came back to lead 8:7 after three quarters. Vuk Draskovic and Matija Sladovic put the hosts 10:9 ahead with 3:09 left, Jovan Vujovic equalised with an extra player at 2:36, and Basic scored the winner with 1:56 left. A-Polo called a timeout with four seconds remaining but could not find an equaliser.
Basic finished with 5 goals from 6 shots and Vujovic with four. Draskovic scored three for A-Polo, and Chirkov made 13 saves.
Final day preview
Recco and Ferencvaros meet in the final at 15:00 CEST in a rematch of the 2024 Champions League final. Recco have scored 54 goals and conceded 20 in their three games, with Granados scoring 19. Ferencvaros have a 56:36 goal record, led by Argyropoulos with 9 goals and Vigvari with 7.
Ferencvaros have won three of the last five official meetings. They beat Recco 12:11 in the 2024 Champions League final in Malta, their first win over the Italian club, and 15:14 in the European Super Cup in Budapest on 8 October 2025. Recco won 13:9 in Budapest in the Champions League on 4 March 2026, but Ferencvaros won the most recent meeting 16:14 on 21 April 2026. Recco also won 8:4 in the 2023 Champions League Final Eight quarter final.
The winner takes home €60,000, the runner up €40,000 and the third placed team €30,000.
Waspo Hannover and Novi Beograd play for bronze at 13:00 CEST. The teams met twice in the 2024/25 Champions League and Novi Beograd won both, 10:8 in Belgrade on 29 October 2024 and 12:9 in Hannover in December 2024. Waspo will also have to deal with Martinovic, the top scorer of the tournament.
Hosts A-Polo face CN Marseille for fifth place, and the day opens with Bourbon Kashiwazaki against Dinamo Tbilisi for seventh place.
Sunday schedule (CEST)
09:00 Bourbon Kashiwazaki vs Dinamo Tbilisi (7th place)
11:00 A-Polo Sport Management vs CN Marseille (5th place)
13:00 Waspo Hannover vs Novi Beograd (bronze medal game)
15:00 Pro Recco vs Ferencvaros (final)
All results and statistics are live on our Black Sea Cup 2026 page.
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