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Media Information VELUX EHF Champions League Season 2016/17 Qualification Tournaments Group 1 - Presov, SVK Group 2 - Bregenz, AUT 3-4 September 2016 Table of contents Map of participating clubs 4 Foreword - Jean Brihault, EHF President 5 Media contacts 6 Playing system diagram - stages and dates 7 Seeding list 8 Important regulations 9 GROUP 1 Facts, preview and head-to-head stats 10 RK Gorenje Velenje 11 Tatran Presov 14 Red Boys Differdange 17 Cocks 20 GROUP 2 Facts, preview and head-to-head stats 24 ABC/UMinho 25 Bregenz Handball 28 Achilles Bocholt 31 Maccabi CASTRO Tel Aviv 34 Past winners 38 2015/16 Top scorers 39 All-time clubs standings 40 2 OFFICIAL EHF CHAMPIONS LEAGUE MATCH BALL New SELECT Ultimate. Completely controlled bounce. Extreme durability. Optimal roundness. Perfect grip and soft feel. select-sport.com VELUX EHF CHAMPIONS LEAGUE SG Flensburg- Cocks THW Kiel IFK Kristianstad Handewitt GER FIN GER Orlen Wisla SWE Season 2016/17 Plock, POL Elverum HH NOR Groups A&B teams Bjerringbro- Silkeborg, DEN HC Meshkov Brest Groups C&D teams BLR TTH Qualification teams Holstebro, DEN KS Vive Tauron Kielce POL VELUX EHF FINAL4 Host City Cologne, GER Chekhovskie Medvedi RUS Achilles Bocholt, BEL Tatran Presov Red Boys SVK Differdange, LUX Rhein-Neckar Löwen HC MotorZaporozhye GER UKR Paris Saint-Germain Handball, FRA Telekom Veszprém, HUN HBC Nantes FRA MOL-PickSzeged HUN Montpellier Handball, FRA Dinamo ABC/UMinho Bucuresti, ROU POR Besiktas Bregenz Gorenje MOGAZ HT, TUR Naturhouse Handball, AUT Velenje, SLO La Rioja ESP HC Vardar RUKOMETNI KLUB PRVO PLINARSKO DRUŠTVO ZAGREB MKD FC Barcelona Kadetten RK Celje Pivovarna HC PPD HC Metalurg Maccabi CASTRO Lassa ESP Schaffhausen SUI Lasko, SLO Zagreb, CRO MKD Tel Aviv, ISR Foreword Dear media representatives, Welcome to the qualification of the VELUX EHF Champions League 2016/17. Your long wait for VELUX EHF Champions League handball is over and I welcome you on board for a new season and the beginning of another exciting story. It is impossible to tell whether this season will end in a similar fashion to the last, when Julen Aguinagalde’s penalty, after an unbelievable rally by the Polish champions, secured a maiden trophy for Kielce in the final’s shootout against Veszprem. Still, the tradition of Europe’s premier club competition, which enters its 24th season under the EHF umbrella, guarantees a new plot, new surprises and a conclusion which is bound to be breath-taking in its own right. However, there is a long way to the final destination in Cologne’s majestic LANXESS arena and out of the eight teams listed for the first round of elimination only two group winners will be honoured to turn their 2016/17 season into a proper Champions League adventure. In the qualification tournaments we welcome a broad variety of clubs from the group phase regulars and teams which are vying for their return to the continental top flight to the absolute newcomers. The Group 1 semi-final pairings in Presov, Slovakia will see encounters featuring two teams with a reasonable EHF Champions League history against two teams with either none or very old records in the top flight. The tournament’s organisers Tatran Presov take on Red Boys Differdange, whose last match in the elite competition dates back 17 years ago and in addition Luxembourgish side is yet to gain their premiere point as they lost all six matches in the past. The perennial Slovenian runners-up Gorenje Velenje have been pitted against Cocks, the Finnish club and reigning winners of the Baltic league who are set to enter the highest stage of the European Cup hierarchy for the first time. In Group 2, the most heralded team on the starting grid comes from Portugal, ABC/UMinho from Braga, who reached the first final of the EHF Champions League in the 1993/94 season. They will try to rekindle that former glory in Bregenz and although they are clear favourites in the semi-final against Maccabi CASTRO Tel Aviv, the tournament hosts will be eager to ruin their dream should they meet in the final. Of course they first have to cope with another ambitious newcomer in the form of Belgium’s Achilles Bocholt in the semi-final. We pride ourselves on our positive and cooperative relationship with the press and media and I am sure this will continue and develop in the future. Should you require any information, help or assistance during the course of the season, your first point of contact is the EHF Media and Communications Department based in our office in Vienna. They will be more than happy to assist you with any questions you might have. We look forward to working with you in the upcoming season! Jean Brihault EHF President 5 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 Twitter:@ehf [email protected] [email protected] Qualification Clubs – Media contacts GROUP 1 GROUP 2 RK Gorenje Velenje ABC/UMinho Tanija Rednak Luis Teles +386 38986440 +351 935 979970 [email protected] [email protected] Tatran Presov Bregenz Handball Branko Benko Christoph Makovec +421 911 620435 +43 5574 83312 [email protected] [email protected] Red Boys Differdange Achilles Bocholt John Scheuren Jan Evens +352 621 237941 +32 475 556724 [email protected] [email protected] Cocks Maccabi CASTRO Tel Aviv Jari Viita Avigdor Resch +358 500 480744 [email protected] [email protected] 6 Group Phase Last 16 Quarter-nals Groups A B (draw) (no draw) (no draw) Season 2016/17 A1 B1 M1 K1 vs A2 M6 vs A1 playing system A2 B2 M2 K2 vs B2 M5 vs B1 A3 B3 M3 B6 vs A3 M4 vs M1 A4 B4 M4 A6 vs B3 M3 vs M2 Semi-nals (draw) A5 B5 M5 B5 vs A4 vs A6 B6 M6 A5 vs B4 vs A7 B7 A8 B8 3rd place match vs Group Phase Group Phase Groups C D (draw) KO Matches (no draw) 7 Final C1 D1 K1 C2 vs D1 vs C2 D2 K2 D2 vs C1 C3 D3 Qualication Tournaments (draw) C4 D4 C5 D5 C6 D6 Season 2016/17 playing schedule Qualication Tournaments Group Phase Last 16 Quarter-nals FINAL4 03./04.09.2016 21.-25.09.2016 30.11.-4.12.2016 first leg first leg 03./04.06.2017 28.9.-2.10.2016 08.-12.2.2017 22.-26.03.2017 19.-23.04.2017 05.-09.10.16 15. Group A & B only 12.-16.10.16 22.-26.2.17 Group A & B only 19.-23.10.2016 01.-05.03.17 Group A & B and second leg second leg 09.-13.11.2016 KO Group C & D 29.03.-02.04.2017 26.-30.04.2017 16.-20.11.2016 07.-12.03.17 Group A & B and 23.-27.11.2016 KO Group C & D VELUX EHF CHAMPIONS LEAGUE 2016/17 Qualification Tournaments Group Phase Last 16 Quarterfinals FINAL4 21.-25.09.2016 (1); 28.9.-2.10.2016 (2); 03./04.09.2016 05.-09.10.16 (3); 12.-16.10.16 (4) 22.-26.03.2017 19.-23.04.2017 03./04.06.2017 tournaments 19.-23.10.2016 (5); 09.-13.11.2016 (6) first leg first leg tournament 16.-20.11.2016 (7); 23.-27.11.2016 (8) played in semi finals and finals 30.11.-4.12.2016 (9); 08.-12.2.2017 (10) 29.03.-02.04.2017 26.-30.04.2017 played in 15.-19.2.17 (11-A/B); 22.-26.2.17 (12-A/B) second leg second leg semi finals and finals 01.-05.03.17 (13); 08.-12.03.17 (14) DRAWS: 29 June 2016 in Vienna/AUT 01 July 2016 in Glostrup/DEN no draw no draw 02.05.2017 Group A and B (16 teams) 12 teams 8 teams 4 teams 2 groups with 8 teams 1 HUN 1 Telekom Veszprem 2 GER 1 Rhein-Neckar Löwen 3 ESP 1 F.C. Barcelona Lassa 4 POL 1 KS Vive Tauron Kielce 5 FRA 1 Paris Saint-Germain Handball 6 MKD 1 HC Vardar 7 CRO 1 HC PPD Zagreb 8 DEN 1 Bjerringbro-Silkeborg 9 BLR 1 HC Meshkov Brest 10 POL 2 Orlen Wisla Plock 11 HUN 2 MOL-Pick Szeged 12 GER 2 SG Flensburg Handewitt 13 SLO 1 Celje Pivovarna Lasko 14 SUI 1 Kadetten Schaffhausen 15 SWE 1 IFK Kristianstad 16 GER 3 THW Kiel Group C and D (12 teams) 2 groups with 6 teams 17 ESP 2 Naturhouse La Rioja 18 FRA 2 HBC Nantes 19 MKD 2 HC Metalurg 20 DEN 2 Team Tvis Holstebro 21 UKR 1 HC Motor Zaporozhye 22 RUS 1 Chekhovskie Medvedi 23 TUR 1 Besiktas Mogaz HT 24 FRA 3 Montpellier Handball KO matches from Group C D and qualify for the Last 16 25 ROU 1 Dinamo Bucuresti 16 Last League Champions EHF VELUX of Winners 6 26 NOR 1 Elverum Handball Quarterfinals League Champions EHF VELUX of Winners 4 27 SLO 2 RK Gorenje Velenje 1st placed team of qualify B Groupand A directly for the Quarterfinals; 28 POR 1 ABC/UMinho 2nd, 3rd, 4th, 5th 6th and placed team of as well B Groupand A as winners of 29 SVK 1 Tatran Presov 30 AUT 1 Bregenz Handball 31 LUX 1 Red Boys Differdange 32 BEL 1 Achilles Bocholt Qualification Qualification 33 FIN 1 Cocks tournaments Winners of the 2 34 ISR 1 Maccabi Castro Tel-Aviv 2 groups with 4 teams 4th placed teams of CL Qualification Tournaments go to the 1st and 2nd placed team of CL Group Phase Group C EHF Cup Qualification Rd 2, 2nd and 3rd placed teams of CL and D play Group KO matches.