Media Guide Women’S EHF Champions League Season 2015/16 Quarter-Finals Table of Contents
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Media Guide Women’s EHF Champions League Season 2015/16 Quarter-finals Table of contents Map of participating clubs 4 Foreword 5 Women’s EHF Champions League Information 6 Media contacts - EHF/M, clubs contacts 7 2014/15 Seeding list 8 2014/15 Playing system diagram - stages and dates 9 Road to the Women’s EHF FINAL4 10 Women’s EHF FINAL4 stays in Budapest until 2016 11 Important regulations - ranking of teams 12 Facts & Figures 13 CSM Bucuresti vs Rostov-Don 14 HCM Baia Mare vs Buducnost 23 HC Vardar vs Larvik 32 FTC Rail Cargo Hungaria vs Györi Audi ETO KC 41 Extended women’s coverage on ehfTV 51 Top scorers after Main Round 52 Past winners 53 2 Thinkonepassion can reach countries.many The UNIQA Group is one of the leading insurance groups in its core markets of Austria and Central and Eastern Europe with over 40 companies in 19 countries and more than 9.3 million customers. www.uniqagroup.com 140917_UNQ_Handball_A4.indd 1 9/18/14 14:29 PM Györi Audi WOMEN‘S EHF CHAMPIONS LEAGUE IK Sävehof, ETO KC, HUN SWE Season 2015/16 Glassverket, Teams eliminated in qualification NOR Teams eliminated in Group Matches Larvik HK, NOR Teams eliminated in Main Round BNTU BelAZ Minsk Reg., BLR Quarter-final teams Team Esbjerg, DEN FC Midtjylland, MKS Selgros DEN Lublin, POL SERCODAK Dalfsen, NED 4 Thüringer HC, Rostov-Don, GER RUS Fleury Loiret HCM Baia Mare, Handball, FRA ROU WOMEN‘S EHF FINAL4 Host City Budapest, HUN Hypo Niederösterreich, AUT CSM Bucharest, ROU RK Krim Mercator, SLO Ankara Yenimahalle BSK, TUR HC Podravka Vegeta, CRO FTC-Rail Cargo Hungaria, HUN Buducnost, HC Vardar, WHC Radnicki MNE MKD Kragujevac, SRB Foreword Dear media representative, As we count down to the 2016 WOMEN’S EHF FINAL4 in Budapest on 7/8 May 2016, the next exciting phase of the WOMEN’S EHF Champions League is upon us. There are 92 matches behind us and what remains is a great interfusion of contenders with eight teams from six countries: Hungary, Romania, FYR Macedonia, Montenegro, Norway and Russia. The only hurdle standing between the teams and their ticket to Budapest is the quarter-final. It is with great pleasure that we welcome two newcomers who made it all the way to the quarter-finals in their maiden season among the Europe’s elite. What makes the debut of Rostov-Don even more impressive is the fact that the Russian champions are the only unbeaten team in the competition. They lock horns with fellow novices CSM Bucuresti and no matter what the final aggregate score will be, we can already now welcome one newcomer at the season’s ending tournament in the Hungarian capital. The second Romanian team HCM Baia Mare turned out to be the most positive surprise of the main round despite their poor performance in the group matches earlier this season. For the second straight year Baia Mare qualified to the top eight despite starting the main round with zero points. But their prospects of further gains in this season are not guaranteed as they have to deal with the defending champions Buducnost. Both Larvik and Vardar were part of the last year’s edition of the WOMEN’S EHF FINAL4, but only one of these rivals will have the privilege of descending upon the Papp Laszlo Budapest Sportarena as they face each other in another merciless quarter-final clash. After missing a Hungarian team at the 2015 tournament we can look forward to welcoming a home team again. But who will wear the bragging rights of being the chosen one to represent Hungarian women’s handball on home court? Will it be Györ or their arch rivals from Ferencvaros, who shockingly stunned the 2013 and 2014 winners in the final of the domestic league last season? With any constellation of the final four teams we dare say that handball fans, both in the arena and in front of the TV screen, are bound to witness the most exciting WOMEN’S EHF FINAL4 ever. With the teams paired off, the first leg begins in Bucharest on 31 March and the four finalists will be known on Sunday 10 April. We wish all the teams the best of luck in their upcoming quests and to all fans in the arenas many exciting moments. Sporting wishes. Jean Brihault EHF President 5 EHF Champions League information New ways to follow the Women’s EHF Champions League Team line-ups and match reports can be viewed by clicking on a particular match on the eurohandball.com or ehfCL.com websites. The live stream on ehfTV.com is not the only way fans can follow the The online system is also under further development with the action. ultimate aim being to provide live scores and statistics from EHF competitions and to be available on the EHF website. The EHF Live Ticker tracks the scores of all matches. Every goal, missed shot and yellow card will be documented and live statistics Accreditation for Main Round made available online for the first time at this stage of Europe’s elite club competition. The written media and photographer’s accreditation procedure in the Main Round is entirely in the responsibility of the participating clubs. EHF Live launched TV and Radio accreditations are subjects to approval by EHF The EHF’s social media channels provide a very different view of both Marketing GmbH – please contact Miguel Mateo Marcellán. men’s and women’s premier continental competition. Online information As well as the coverage on the EHF Champions League Facebook page and Instagram reserved typically for the final weekends of major ehfCL.com competitions, on two new channels. ehfTV.com Regulations of the Women’s EHF Champions League This season fans can follow the @EHF_Live Twitter account to keep up Twitter:@ehfmedia , @ehfcl to date with all aspects of the event and add EHF_Live on Snapchat Facebook: ehf.champions.league for a behind the scenes look. Online match reports Official name From the opening matches of the season, the complete team line-up The official name of the competition is: Women’s EHF Champions is available online at eurohandball.com and available to download League. The full name of the competition should always be used. as a PDF document. The change has been made possible thanks to the introduction of a new online solution, which sees the EHF match Please note: If the season is required, it has to be positioned after delegate complete the final team line-up immediately after the “Champions League” e.g. Women’s EHF Champions League 2013/14. technical meeting. This development means that team line-ups are The wording “Champions League” should be written with a capital available for commentators and reporters hours before each match letter at the beginning of each word, i.e. Champions League. The throws-off. remaining letters should be in lower case. The word Champions does not have an apostrophe after the ‘s’. A further change means that a short time after each match, a completed match report is also available online with details such as goal scorers and number of spectators. 6 EHF/M Media contacts Media matters TV and Radio Vlado Brindzak Miguel Mateo Marcellan Media and Communications Media Manager European Handball Federation EHF Marketing GmbH +43 1 80 151 161 +43 1 80 151 224 [email protected] [email protected] Main Round Clubs – Media contacts CSM Bucuresti Rostov-Don Constantin Caliman Maksim Shchennikov +40 721 800304 +7 918 5207625 [email protected] [email protected] HCM Baia Mare Buducnost Ramona Ioana Pop Milos Pavicevic +40744839987 +382 682 226 66 [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] HC Vardar Larvik HK Ivana Stojanovska Per Christian Andersen +389 71 247 218 +47 479 38800 [email protected] [email protected] FTC Rail Cargo Hungaria Györi Audi ETO KC Andrea Pordán Andrea Szilagyi +36 20 365 8263 +36 70 394 95 96 [email protected] [email protected] 7 WOMEN'S EHF CHAMPIONS LEAGUE 2015/16 Qualification Tournaments Group Matches Main Round Quarterfinals FINAL4 Tournaments 4 groups with 4 teams 12 teams 8 teams 4 teams 16.-18.10.2015 (1) 08.-10.01.2016 (1) 12./13.09.2015 23.-25.10.2015 (2) 15.-17.01.2016 (2) 01.-03.04.2016 07./08.05.2016 tournaments 30.10.-01.11.2015 (3) 05.-07.02.2016 (3) first leg tournament played in semi finals 06.-08.11.2015 (4) 12.-14.02.2016 (4) and finals 13.-15.11.2015 (5) 19.-21.02.2016 (5) 08.-10.04.2016 NATION in one venue 20.-22.11.2015 (6) 26.-28.02.2016 (6) second leg in Budapest DRAWS: 26 June 2015 in Vienna/AUT 26 June 2015 in Vienna/AUT no draw no draw 12.04.2016 1 HUN 1 FTC-Rail Cargo Hungaria 2 MNE 1 Buducnost 3 NOR 1 Larvik HK 4 DEN 1 FC Midtjylland 5 MKD 1 HC Vardar 6 SLO 1 RK Krim Mercator 7 ROU 1 CSM Bucuresti 8 GER 1 Thüringer HC 9 RUS 1 Rostov-Don 10 SWE 1 IK Sävehof 11 AUT 1 Hypo Niederösterreich 12 CRO 1 HC Podravka Vegeta 13 FRA 1 Fleury Loiret Handball 14 POL 1 MKS Selgros Lublin 15 HUN 2 Györi Audi ETO KC 16 DEN 2 Team Esbjerg 17 NOR 2 Glassverket 18 ROU 2 HCM Baia Mare the of team placed 4th and 3rd 2nd, 1st, 1st, 2nd and 3rd placed team from each group group each from team placed 3rd and 2nd 1st, 19 BLR 1 HC BNTU-BelAZ Minsk Round Main League Champions EHF WOMEN'S 20 NED 1 Sercodak Dalfsen Qualification Qualification 21 SRB 1 WHC Radnicki Kragujevac tournaments Winners of the 2 4 Winners of WOMEN'S EHF Champions League Quarterfinals League Champions EHF WOMEN'S of Winners 4 22 TUR 1 Ankara Yenimahalle BSK 2 groups with 4 teams 4th placed teams of CL Qualification Tournaments go to Cup Winners' Cup Rd 2, 2nd and 3rd placed teams of CL Qualification Tornaments go to Cup Winners' Cup Rd 3 status: 23.06.2015 Women’s EHF Champions League 2015/16 playing system Qualication Group Matches Main Round Quarter-nals FINAL4 Semi-nals 4 vs.