MEDIA GUIDE Women’S EHF Champions League 2018/19 Group Matches & Main Round OFFICIAL PROGRAMME WOMEN’S EHF Champions League 2018/2019
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MEDIA GUIDE Women’s EHF Champions League 2018/19 Group Matches & Main Round OFFICIAL PROGRAMME WOMEN’S EHF Champions League 2018/2019 Regional premium sponsor Partners 1 2 ULTIMATE Completely controlled bounce. Extreme durability. Optimal roundness. Perfect grip and soft feel. Official match ball of the WOMEN’S EHF Champions League. select-sport.com Table of contents Table of contents Foreword 6 Media contacts 7 Women’s EHF Champions league 2018/19 Map of participating clubs 8 Playing system diagrams - stages and dates 10 How to follow and cover the matches 12 Important regulations 13 TV stations to broadcast matches all over the world 14 Budapest to host the Women’s EHF FINAL4 again 16 Women’s EHF FINAL4 facts and figures 16 Qualification Tournament 1 18 Qualification Tournament 2 19 Facts and figures 20 GROUP A Preview 24 Head-to-heads in the EC 25 Buducnost 26 Metz Handball 32 Odense HC 38 Larvik HK 44 GROUP B Preview 50 Group B head-to-heads 51 Rostov-Don 52 Kobenhavn Handball 58 IK Sävehof 64 Brest Bretagne Handball 70 4 Table of contents GROUP C Preview 76 Group C head-to-heads 77 Györi Audi ETO KC 78 Thüringer HC 84 RK Krim Mercator 90 HC Podravka Vegeta 96 GROUP D Preview 102 Group D head-to-heads 103 CSM Bucuresti 104 Vipers Kristiansand 110 FTC-Rail Cargo Hungaria 116 SG BBM Bietigheim 122 What follows after the group matches - main round & quarter-finals 129 HISTORY 2017/18 Top scorers 134 All-Star Team 135 All-time clubs standings 137 All-time stats 138 Past winners 140 Timeline - 25 years 142 History of the EHF Champions League 144 5 Foreword Foreword Dear handball friends, Welcome to a new season of the Women’s EHF Champions League and to the latest edition of the competition’s media guide. With extensive background information, key contacts and historical statistics in addition to team and player profiles, this is your essential guide to the 2018/19 group matches and the main round. Further updates will also be published throughout the season and will be available for download via the EHF Media Portal. Just months after Györi Audi ETO KC clinched their fourth EHF Champions League title in another thrilling final match against HC Vardar, we are ready to witness the start of another season of top-class club handball. As we enter the 26th season of the competition, We would like to welcome the 16 teams from 11 nations that have made it to the group matches phase and congratulate them on joining the elite of European handball. Five countries – Denmark, France, Germany, Hungary and Norway – are represented by two teams each in the competition. We have just one new team in the competition, Denmark’s Odense HC, while three other sides – Sweden’s IK Sävehof, Croatia’s Podravka Vegeta and Kobenhavn Handball from Denmark – are returning to the European top-flight after a break. The defending champions, Györi Audi ETO KC, will start in Group C alongside the German champions Thüringer HC and two other former EHF Champions League winners RK Krim Mercator and Podravka, the Croatian side having reached the group matches via the qualification tournaments. The second qualifier, SG BBM Bietigheim, is in Group D together with 2016 winners CSM Bucuresti, brand new Norwegian champions Vipers Kristiansand and FTC-Rail Cargo Hungaria. Ambros Martin, who steered Györ to four EHF Champions League titles in the last six seasons, will begin a new era on the Rostov bench in Group B; their opponents will be Kobenhavn, Sävehof and Brest. The French side has big ambitions this season having signed several new players including the charismatic Swede, Bella Gullden. In Group A, the 2012 and 2015 winners Buducnost will lock horns with Metz, Odense and Larvik, where the most open race for the main round berths can be expected. The Women’s EHF Champions League has seen strong growth in TV and media interest and the development of the Women’s EHF FINAL4 has been hugely successful. This progress will continue in the months ahead so be sure to follow the competition’s official website ehfCL.com and social media channels throughout the season for all the latest news. We pride ourselves at the EHF and EHF Marketing on our positive and cooperative relationship with our colleagues from the press and media and we are sure that this will continue to develop in the future. Should you require any information, help or assistance during the course of the season, please do not hesitate to get in contact with us at the EHF Office in Vienna, and we will be more than happy to assist you with any questions you might have. We look forward to working with you during the 2018/19 season! EHF Media & Communications Team 6 Media contacts 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] Clubs media contacts GROUP A GROUP B Buducnost (MNE) Metz Handball (FRA) Rostov-Don (RUS) Kobenhavn Handball (DEN) Milos Pavicevic Estelle Vogein Andrey Demyanov Janni Møller Thomsen +382 682 226 66 +33 608 258 725 +79897198555 +45 223 55 225 [email protected] estelle.gauvin [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] @metz-handball.fr Odense HC (DEN) Larvik HK (NOR) IK Sävehof (SWE) Brest Bretagne Handball (FRA) Maria V. Eilertsen Petter Belsvik Hanna Fogelström Nicolas Roué +4520637130 +47 41291330 +46 704284786 +33 6 62 32 50 91 [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] nicolas.roue@ brest-bretagnehandball.fr GROUP C GROUP D Győri Audi ETO KC (HUN) Thüringer HC (GER) CSM Bucuresti (ROU) Vipers Kristiansand (NOR) Tamas Szabo Bernd Hohnstein Ioana Patachi Terje Marcussen +36 20 505 63 07 +49 179 4649 389 +40 748 050 301 +47 905 818 15 [email protected] [email protected] ioana.patachi@ [email protected] csmbucuresti.ro RK Krim Mercator (SLO) HC Podravka Vegeta (CRO) FTC-Rail Cargo Hungaria (HUN) SG BBM Bietigheim (GER) Gašper Lončarič Bozica Palcic Adam Schleinig Jens Zimmermann +386 51 630 877 +385 988 31 463 +36 704 454 902 +49 172 740 36 72 [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] 7 SEASON 2018/19 IK Sävehof SWE Larvik HK, Group matches teams NOR Eliminated in the qualification Vipers Kristiansand, NOR København Håndbold, DEN Odense HC, DEN Thüringer HC GER SG BBM Bietigheim, GER Brest Bretagne Handball, FRA Metz Handball, FRA Super Amara Bera Bera, ESP HC Podravka RK Krim Vegeta, CRO Mercator, SLO Jomi Salerno I TA MKS Perła Lublin, POL Györi Audi ETO KC, HUN WOMEN‘S EHF FINAL4 Budapest, HUN Rostov-Don RUS CSM Bucuresti ROU SCM Craiova ROU FTC-Rail Cargo Hungaria, HUN Muratpaşa BSK, TUR Buducnost ZORK Jagodina MNE SRB WOMEN'S EHF CHAMPIONS LEAGUE 2018/19 Qualification Tournaments Group Matches Main Round Quarter-finals FINAL4 2 tournaments 4 groups with 4 teams 2 groups with 6 teams 8 teams 4 teams 05.-07.10.2018 (1) 25.-27.01.2019 (1) 11./12.05.2019 07.-09.09.2018 12.-14.10.2018 (2) 01.-03.02.2019 (2) 05.-07.04.2019 tournament tournaments 19.-21.10.2018 (3) 08.-10.02.2019 (3) first leg played in semi-finals 02.-04.11.2018 (4) 22.-24.02.2019 (4) played in semi- and finals 09.-11.11.2018 (5) 01.-03.03.2019 (5) 12.-14.04.2019 finals and finals NATION in one venue 16.-18.11.2018 (6) 08.-10.03.2019 (6) second leg DRAWS: 27 June 2018 in Vienna/AUT 29 June 2018 in Vienna/AUT no draw no draw 16 April 2019 1 HUN 1 Györi Audi ETO KC 2 ROU 1 CSM Bucuresti 3 MNE 1 Buducnost 4 RUS 1 Rostov-Don 5 FRA 1 Metz Handball 6 DEN 1 Kobenhavn Handball 7 NOR 1 Vipers Kristiansand 8 GER 1 Thüringer HC 9 SLO 1 RK Krim Mercator 10 SWE 1 IK Sävehof 11 HUN 2 FTC-Rail Cargo Hungaria 12 DEN 2 Odense HC 13 FRA 2 Brest Bretange HB 14 NOR 2 Larvik HK 15 ROU 2 SCM Craiova 16 GER 2 SG BBM Bietigheim 17 POL 1 MKS Perla Lublin 18 CRO 1 HC Podravka Vegeta 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 ITA 1 Jomi Salerno Round Main League Champions EHF WOMEN'S Qualification Qualification 20 TUR 1 Muratpasa BSK tournaments 21 ESP 1 Super Amara Bera Bera Winners of the 2 4 Winners of WOMEN'S EHF Champions League Quarter-finals League Champions EHF WOMEN'S of Winners 4 22 SRB 1 ZORK Jagodina 2 groups with 4 teams 4th placed teams of CL Group 4th placed teams of CL Qualification Tournaments go Matches go to EHF Cup Group to EHF Cup Rd 2, 2nd and 3rd placed teams of CL Phase Qualification Tornaments go to EHF Cup Rd 3 status: 19.06.2018 11 How to follow and cover the matches How to follow and cover the matches ehfTV.com after each match, a completed match report will also Handball fans across Europe will not miss a single be available online with details such as goalscorers match in the new season of both elite European club and number of spectators. competitions.