Media Information DELO WOMEN's EHF Champions League Season 2019/20 Main Round Update
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powered by Media Information DELO WOMEN'S EHF Champions League Season 2019/20 Main round update 1 Title sponsor Regional premium sponsor Partners Table of contents Table of contents Foreword 6 Media contacts 7 DELO WOMEN’S EHF Champions League 2019/20 Map of participating clubs 8 Playing system diagrams - stages and dates 10 How to follow and cover the matches 12 Important regulations 13 Facts and figures before the main round 14 Top scorers 2019/20 after the group matches 16 GROUP 1 Preview 17 Head-to-heads of group 1 teams 18 Metz Handball 19 Vipers Kristiansand 25 Rostov-Don 31 Team Esbjerg 37 CSM Bucuresti 43 FTC-Rail Cargo Hungaria 49 GROUP 2 Preview 55 Head-to-heads of group 2 teams 56 Györi Audi ETO KC 58 Brest Bretagne Handball 64 Buducnost 70 RK Krim Mercator 76 IK Sävehof 82 SCM Ramnicu Valcea 88 4 Table of contents What follows after the main round? 95 Budapest to welcome four best teams again 95 Facts and figures of the DELO WOMEN’S EHF FINAL4 96 All-time club standings 98 All-time stats 99 5 Foreword Foreword EHF President Dear handball friends, Welcome to the main round of the DELO WOMEN’S EHF Champions League 2019/20. Less than six weeks after Netherland’s triumph at the World Championships 2019 in Japan, Europe’s elite women’s handball club competition returns to the spotlight. From 25 January to 8 March, the six weekends of the main round will determine which eight teams progress to the quarter-finals. I would like to take this opportunity to welcome 12 sides from nine countries to the third phase of the competition and congratulate them on making it this far. Before we start analysing the two main round groups and their participants, I would like to reflect on the tournament in Japan last month, which underlined the prominent position of the EHF Champions League in women’s handball. No fewer than 89 players from the European top flight took part in the event and all but one main round team had at least one player who took the court during the tournament. As many as 16 players return to the Champions League race decorated with a medal – five Dutch champions, three Spanish silver medallists and eight Russian bronze medallists. The dominance of the premier club competition in Japan was also underlined by the All-star team which featured four Champions League players – Buducnost’s right wing Jovanka Radicevic, Esbjerg’s centre back Estavana Polman – who was named the tournament’s MVP – Rostov’s right back Anna Vyakhireva and her club teammate Lois Abbingh, who finished as the tournament’s top scorer with 71 goals. We will all be eager to find out how the recently awarded medallists and All-star team members can build on their international success in the national team competition with their clubs. Their morale boost can prove to be a decisive factor for their sides in what will probably become the closest and most thrilling main round stage of the EHF Champions League yet. While all 12 participants still have a fair chance of reaching the quarter-finals, there are at least eight teams who have what it takes to reach the season’s finale in Budapest – the DELO WOMEN’S EHF FINAL4. Two teams have yet to lose a point this season and both are sitting joint top of group 2. Both defending champions Györi Audi ETO KC together with Brest Bretagne Handball boast a perfect record of eight points. Metz Handball, who also enter the main round undefeated, lead group 1, one point ahead of Vipers Kristiansand and Rostov. However, none of the group leaders can take the ticket to Budapest for granted as a clutch of formidable contenders are also eyeing a trip to the Hungarian capital in May. There promises to be plenty of excitement as we reach the climax of this season’s main round and I look forward to witnessing Europe’s best teams going head-to-head in the race to reach the DELO WOMEN’S EHF FINAL4. Sporting wishes, Michael Wiederer, EHF President January 2020 6 Media contacts EHF/M media contacts Media matters TV and Radio Vlado Brindzak Miguel Mateo Marcellan Media and Communications Head of TV & Media European Handball Federation EHF Marketing GmbH +43 1 80 151 161 +43 1 80 151 224 [email protected] [email protected] Clubs media contacts GROUP 1 GROUP 2 Metz Handball (FRA) Vipers Kristiansand (NOR) Györi Audi ETO KC (HUN) IK Sävehof (SWE) Sebastein Chevant Morten Løvø Tamas Szabo Frederik Sahlin +33 161 328 152 +47 98 81 33 94 +36 20 505 63 07 +46 701 477370 communication@metz-hand- [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] ball.fr Rostov-Don (RUS) FTC-Rail Cargo Hungaria (HUN) RK Krim Mercator (SLO) Buducnost (MNE) Andrey Demyanov Adam Schleinig Gašper Lončarič Milos Pavicevic +7 988 541 30 76 +36 704 454 902 +386 51 630 877 +382 682 226 66 [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] CSM Bucuresti (ROU) Team Esbjerg (DEN) SCM Ramnicu Valcea (ROU) Brest Bretagne Handball (FRA) Ioana Patachi Per Kristiansen Cristian Pestrea Nicolas Roué +40 748 050 301 +45 22 833135 +40742343284 +33 6 62 32 50 91 [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] nicolas.roue@ brest-bretagnehandball.fr 7 SEASON 2019/20 IK Sävehof Group matches teams SWE Qualification teams Vipers Kristiansand, NOR Team Esbjerg, DEN DHK Banik Most, CZE SG BBM Bietigheim, GER Brest Bretagne HB, FRA Metz Handball, FRA Rocasa Gran Canaria, ESP RK Krim Mercator, SLO HC Podravka Vegeta, CRO MKS Perła Lublin, POL Györi Audi ETO KC, HUN DELO WOMEN‘S EHF FINAL4 Budapest, HUN Rostov-Don RUS SCM Rm Valcea, ROU CSM Bucuresti ROU Kastamonu GSK, TUR FTC-Rail Cargo Hungaria, HUN ZORK Jagodina Buducnost SRB MNE Qualification ournament Main Round T Group Matches Quarter-finals EHF FINAL4 1 4 1 4 winner First 3 Semi-finals Group A Group B First 4 winners FINAL 3 2 WINNER 3rd place match Group I Group II Group C Group D Home matches 3 3 1 Total matches 6 6 2 Season 2019/20 Qualification tournament Group matches Main round Quarter-finals EHF FINAL4 06.-08.09.2019 Round 1 - 04.-06.10.2019 Round 1 - 24.-26.01.2020 1st leg 09.-10.05.2020 Round 2 - 11.-13.10.2019 Round 2 - 31.01.-02.02.2020 03.-05.04.2020 Round 3 - 18.-20.10.2019 Round 3 - 07.-09.02.2020 Round 4 - 01.-03.11.2019 Round 4 - 21.-23.02.2020 2nd leg Round 5 - 08.-10.11.2019 Round 5 - 28.02.-01.03.2020 10.-12.04.2020 Round 6 - 15.-17.11.2019 Round 6 - 06.-08.03.2020 DELO WOMEN'S EHF CHAMPIONS LEAGUE 2019/20 Qualifica�on Tournament Group Matches Main Round Quarter-finals FINAL4 1 tournament 4 groups with 4 teams 2 groups with 6 teams 8 teams 4 teams 04.-06.10.2019 (1) 24.-26.01.2020 (1) 09./10.05.2020 06.-08.09.2019 11.-13.10.2019 (2) 31.01-02.02.2020 (2) 03.-05.04.2020 tournament tournaments 18.-20.10.2019 (3) 07.-09.02.2020 (3) first leg played in semi-finals 01.-03.11.2019 (4) 21.-23.02.2020 (4) played in semi- and finals 08.-10.11.2019 (5) 28.02-01.03.2020 (5) 10.-12.04.2020 finals and finals NATION in one venue 15.-17.11.2019 (6) 06.-08.03.2020 (6) second leg DRAWS: 26 June 2019 in Vienna/AUT 27 June 2019 in Vienna/AUT no draw no draw 14 April 2020 1 HUN 1 Györi Audi ETO KC s l d 2 RUS 1 Rostov-Don a n un fi o - 3 ROU 1 SCM Rm Valcea up r R o e e r t n h r 4 FRA 1 Metz Handball i g t a a f h u 5 MNE 1 Buducnost c o M Q a e e m e 6 DEN 1 Team Esbjerg u a u g m e g a t 7 NOR 1 Vipers Kris�ansand o a e r e d f L f L e 8 SLO 1 RK Krim Mercator s c o s m n a a s n l 9 GER 1 SG BBM Bie�gheim r io e p io t e p p h 10 SWE 1 IK Sävehof d t m nn e m i 4 a c a 11 CRO 1 RK Podravka Vegeta h a W h l C nd C p 4 F 12 POL 1 MKS Perla Lublin a F d H d r H E r 13 HUN 2 FTC-Rail Cargo Hungaria 3 E 3 S ' , S 14 ROU 2 CSM Bucures� ' nd N N a E nd E 15 FRA 2 Brest Bretagne HB 2 , nd t t s 2 f n 16 ESP 1 Rocasa Gran Canaria on 1 , o e WOM � t r WOM s m e e 17 TUR 1 Kastamonu GSK ca O a 1 h O fi L t n nn L li r E i 18 SRB 1 ZORK Jagodina a E D u W ou D t 19 CZE 1 DHK Banik Most Q 1 group with 4 teams 4th placed teams of CL Group 4th placed team of CL Qualification Tournament goes Matches go to EHF Cup Group to EHF Cup Rd 2, 2nd and 3rd placed team of CL Phase Qualification Tornament goes to EHF Cup Rd 3 status: 24.06.2019 11 How to follow and cover the matches How to follow and cover matches ehfTV.com match, a completed match report will also be available Handball fans across Europe will not miss a single online with details such as goalscorers and number of match in the new season of both elite European club spectators.