Women's EHF Cup 2015/16 Media Information
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Women’s EHF Cup 2015/16 Media Information Final: TuS Metzingen vs Dunaujvarosi Kohaz Kezilabda Akademia Media information Dear Media Representative, Women’s EHF Cup Welcome to the final of the Women’s EHF last season in the old format. Before the Media Contacts 2016/17 season the Cup Winners’s Cup will merge with the Women’s EHF Cup into one competition - the new Women’s EHF Cup. Just like in the men’s version of the EHF Cup, the EHF Media and Communications new competition will also include the group phase preceded by qualification rounds and Vlado Brindzak followed by quarter-finals. The semi-finals and the final will be played either in a home [email protected] and away games format or in a final tournament in one venue, if there will be an attractive +43 1 80 151 161 concept presented to the EHF. Twitter: @EHF In the following media information you will find the essential facts you will require for the Online final two games and the participating teams. 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Important regulations Scoring of the matches in the final If, after completion of the two matches, both clubs have won the • If the scores are equal after the first round of penalty same number of points (no extra time will be played), the teams’ throws, it shall be continued until a decision is reached. In the standings shall be determined by the following criteria: second round, the other team shall start. Again five players shall be named who are eligible to play (the players named before a) goal difference may be named once again). b) higher number of plus goals scored in away match • In the second round, a decision is reached when a goal c) penalty throws difference arises after both teams have taken one throw each. • Eligible players are players entered in the match report that Rules for execution of penalty throws have not been disqualified or suspended at the time of the final • Prior to the penalty throws, each team shall name five whistle. players eligible to play at the end of the match by handing the • Serious infractions committed during penalty throws shall referees a list of numbers. These players shall then take one be sanctioned by disqualification. If a thrower is disqualified throw each, alternating with their opponents. Each team is free or suffers an injury, an eligible substitute player shall be to determine the sequence in which throwers will take their supplementary named. throws. • While the throws are being taken, only the player taking the • The goalkeepers may be freely selected from the match throw, the current goalkeeper and the referees may enter the report and exchanged in accordance with the Rules of the Game. respective half of the playing court. Goalkeepers may take throws and throwers may perform as • If the number of eligible players falls below five, players may goalkeepers. be named to take a second throw in the same round. • The referees shall choose the goal at which throws are taken. The team taking the first penalty throw shall be Find all the regulations here determined by the referees by drawing lots. The team winning the draw may choose whether it wishes to throw first or last. 2 TuS Metzingen (GER) vs Dunaujvarosi Kohasz KA (HUN) 1st leg: Sat 30 April, 20:00 hrs* LIVE ON EHFTV.COM Referees: Javier Alvarez, Yon Bustamante (ESP) EHF Delegate: Helmut Wille (AUT) 2nd leg: Fri 6 May, 18:00 hrs* LIVE ON EHFTV.COM Referees: Viktorija Kijauskaite, Ausra Zaliene (LTU) EHF Delegate: Marco Trespidi (ITA) EHF Representative: Lidija Bojic-Cacic * all times local Preview The first European cup season has been a bit of an adventure for TuS Metzingen’s ‘Pink Ladies’. The German team, who have only played in the Playing hall Playing hall Bundesliga for four years, made it all the way Veszprém Arena Paul Horn Arena to the EHF Cup Final in their first attempt in the Külso Kadartai ut Europastraße 50 competition. 8200 Veszprém, Hungary 72072 Tübingen, Germany Capacity: 5,020 Capacity: 2.408 The situation is different for their Hungarian adversaries. Dunaujvaros have a long and proud history in European handball behind them, which Past achievements: Past achievements: includes their so-far greatest achievement: winning Champions League: 1998/99 winners, - no previous participation in the EC the Women’s EHF Champions League in the 2003/04, 2004/05 semi-finalists 1998/99 season. The Champions League victory EHF Cup: 1997/98 winners, 2002/03 German league: - (bronze 2015) came the year after they won the EHF Cup for the finalists first and only time so far, in 1998. Cup Winners’ Cup: 1994/95 winners Champions Trophy: 1998/99 winners There is no doubt that Dunaujvaros and their experienced head coach Zdravko Zovko will be keen Hungarian league: 5 titles (1998, 1999, on winning their first European title in 17 years 2001, 203, 2004) when they enter Paul Horn Arena in Tübingen for Hungarian cup: 5 titles (1998, 1999, the first leg on Saturday night. 2000, 2002, 2004) Domestic league For Metzingen, it will not only be about winning Domestic league their first European title ever, but also about their German Bundesliga chance to become the first German women’s Hungarian league team to win a European cup tournament since Last 3 games Buxtehude won the Challenge Cup in the 2009/10 Last 3 games 27.04. @ Bietigheim L27:32 season. 24.04. vs Vac (5-8 place) W27:25 23.04. vs Thüringer HC L30:31 16.04. @ DVSC Korvex (QF) L23:28 16.04. @ BVB Dortmund W34:24 “We still have the fate of winning two trophies in 13.04. vs DVSC Korvex (QF) W29:24 Next game our own hands,” said Metzingen manager Ferenc Next game 11.05. vs Füchse Berlin Rott, referring to the fact that the team have the 11.05. @ Vac (5-8 place, 2nd leg) chance to become German champions for the first Standings time in history as well. Final standings after Main Round 1. Thüringer HC 23 700:563 37 1. Györ 22 719:457 41 2. Metzingen 24 763:645 37 However, Metzingen will be handicapped in both 2. Ferencvaros 22 703:507 41 3. Leipzig 23 693:590 37 legs of the final as line player Julia Behnke is 3. Dunaujvaros 22 621:556 31 ... sidelined for the season with a torn ligament in her ... 14. Rosengarten 23 547:710 6 left knee. 17. Budaors 22 477:714 4 3 Historic encounters in the EC TuS Metzingen vs Dunaujvarosi Kohasz Kezilabda Akademia 0-0-0 (0:0) 0:0 No previous encounters TuS Metzingen vs Hungarian clubs 0-0-0 No previous encounters Dunaujvarosi Kohasz Kezilabda Akademia vs German clubs 3-2-3 Season Opponent Home Away Competition 1994/95 TV Giessen Lützellinden 26:18 23:25 Cup Winners’ Cup - Final 2003/04 DJK/MJC Trier 30:22 24:24 EHF Champions League – Group A 2005/06 1. FC Nürnberg 29:30 25:20 EHF Champions League – Qualification Round 2 2008/09 VfL Oldenburg 31:31 27:29 EHF Cup – Last 32 All European Cup Finals Dunaujvarosi Kohasz Kezilabda Akademia: 1994/95 Cup Winners’ Cup 29.04.1995/14.30 TV Giessen-Lützellinden GER vs Dunaferr SE HUN 25:23 (15:10) 06.05.1995/19.00 Dunaferr SE HUN vs TV Giessen-Lützellinden GER 26:18 (13:9) Aggregate score: 43:49 1997/98 EHF Cup 09.05.1998/15.00 Banska Bystrica (1,200) HC SCP Banska Bystrica SVK vs Dunaferr SE HUN 22:26 (11:12) 16.05.1998/16.30 Dunaujvaros (2,000) Dunaferr SE HUN vs HC SCP Banska Bystrica SVK 34:27 (16:9) Aggregate score: 49:60 1998/99 EHF Champions League 09.05.1999/18.00 Dunaujvaros (4,000) Dunaferr SE HUN vs Krim Electa Ljubljana SLO 25:23 (16:11) 16.05.1999/18.30 Ljubljana (3,000) Krim Electa Ljubljana SLO vs Dunaferr SE HUN 26:26 (12:11) Aggregate score: 51:49 1998/99 ECh for Club Teams 26.09.1999/18.30 Viborg Baekkelaget SK NOR vs Dunaferr SE HUN 27:28 AET (12:13, 24:24) 2002/03 EHF Cup 10.05.2003/16.15 Dunaujvaros (4,500) Dunaferr SE HUN vs Slagelse FH DEN 27:22 (11:11) 17.05.2003/20.00 Farum (2700) Dunaferr SE HUN vs Slagelse FH DEN 27:20 (12:11) Aggregate score: 47:49 4 Last Ten Games in the European Cup competitions: TuS Metzingen: current run - won eight 14.11.2015 Metzingen GER vs ZRK Naisa Nis SRB W 38:29 15.11.2015 Metzingen GER vs ZRK Naisa Nis SRB W 50:21 09.01.2016 Tübingen GER vs IUVENTA Michalovce SVK W 30:26 16.01.2016 Michalovce SVK @ IUVENTA Michalovce SVK W 22:26 19.02.2016 Tübingen GER vs HC Leipzig GER W 25:24 28.02.2016 Dessau GER @ HC Leipzig GER W 25:27 03.04.2016 Brașov ROU vs ASC Corona 2010 Brasov ROU W 22:26 09.04.2016 Tübingen GER vs ASC Corona 2010 Brasov ROU W 30:23 have played just eight games so far Last Ten Games in the European Cup competitions: Dunaujvarosi Kohasz KA: current run - lost one 08.02.2015 Rostov-na-Donu RUS @ Rostov-Don RUS L 28:19 14.02.2015 Dunaújváros HUN vs Rostov-Don RUS L 28:29 14.11.2015 Dunaújváros HUN vs Indeco Conversano ITA W 37:25 21.11.2015 Conversano ITA @ Indeco Conversano ITA W 24:31 10.01.2016 Dunaújváros HUN vs Siófok KC HUN W 24:19 16.01.2016 Siófok HUN @ Siófok KC HUN L 28:23 26.02.2016 Dunaújváros HUN vs Astrakhanochka RUS L 23:26 28.02.2016 Dunaújváros HUN vs Astrakhanochka RUS W 25:20 03.04.2016 Randers DEN @ Randers HK W 27:29 10.04.2016 Dunaújváros HUN vs Randers HK L 23:25 5 TuS Metzingen (GER) Team roster No.