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Media Information 2015 VELUX EHF FINAL4 LANXESS arena, Cologne Saturday 30 May 2015 Semi-final 1 15:15 FC Barcelona vs KS Vive Tauron Kielce : Semi-final 2 18:00 THW Kiel vs MKB-MVM Veszprem : Sunday 31 May 2015 3/4 Placement match 15:15 vs : Final 18:00 vs : Title sponsor Premium sponsors Regional Premium sponsor Partners VELUX EHF CHAMPIONS LEAGUE SPONSORS Table of contents Map of participating clubs 4 Media contacts - EHF/M, clubs contacts 5 Facts & figures after quarter-finals 6 Semi-final 1 preview: FC Barcelona vs KS Vive Tauron Kielce 8 FC Barcelona team pages 10 KS Vive Tauron Kielce team pages 15 Semi-final 2 preview: THW Kiel vs MKB-MVM Veszprem 20 THW Kiel team pages 21 MKB-MVM Veszprem team pages 27 Sunday’s schedule 32 Important regulations - what follows if a match ends in a draw 32 Potential head-to-head stats in the EC competitions 33 Top scorers after quarter-finals 34 Top scorers of the VELUX EHF FINAL4 35 Past winners - clubs 36 Past winners - individuals 37 EHF Champions League history 1993-2015 38 All-time EHF Champions League club standings 40 2014/15 Seeding list 41 2014/15 Playing system diagram - stages and dates 42 2015/16 Playing system diagram - stages and dates 43 VELUX EHF FINAL4 Trophy - A piece of art 45 ehfTV.com relaunches 46 List of TV stations covering the 2015 VELUX EHF FINAL4 47 Fan vote for All-star team 48 Players’ awards of the previous seasons 48 3 VELUX EHF CHAMPIONS LEAGUE SG Flensburg- THW Kiel, Orlen Wisla Alingsas HK, Handewitt, GER GER Plock, POL Season 2014/15 SWE Haslum HK, ZAGREB NOR RUKOMETNI KLUB PRVO PLINARSKO DRUŠTVO KS Vive Tauron Teams qualified for the VELUX EHF FINAL4 Kielce, POL Eliminated teams HC Brest Meshkov, BLR Aalborg Handbold, DEN KIF Kolding Kobenhavn, DEN Chekhovski Medvedi, RUS Targos VELUX EHF FINAL4 HC Bevo, NED Host City Cologne, GER Tatran Presov, SVK Hubo Initia Hasselt, BEL 4 HC Motor Zaporozhye, UKR Dunkerque HB G. Littoral, FRA MKB-MVM Rhein-Neckar Veszprem, HUN Löwen, GER bevo hc PSG Handball, MOL-Pick FRA Szeged, HUN Montpellier HB, HCM Constanta, FRA ROU Futebol Clube HC Vojvodina do Porto, POR Novi Sad, SRB Naturhouse Besiktas La Rioja, ESP MOGAZ HT, TUR Alpla F.C. Barcelona, HC Hard, AUT Junior Fasano HC Vardar ESP I TA MKD Kadetten HC Metalurg, Schaffhausen, SUI HC PPD RK Celje Pivo. MKD Lasko, SLO Zagreb,CRO EHF/M Media contacts Media matters TV and Radio JJ Rowland Miguel Mateo Marcellan Media and Communications Media Manager European Handball Federation EHF Marketing GmbH +49 160 173 0849 +49 160 170 9920 [email protected] [email protected] Twitter:@ehfmedia Clubs – Media contacts FC Barcelona (ESP) Vive Tauron Kielce (POL) Gustau Galvache Sebastian Kozubek +34 618522789 +48 505031244 [email protected] [email protected] THW Kiel (GER) MKB-MVM Veszprém KC (HUN) Christian Robohm Zsolt Sevinger +49 1635306300 +36 305024547 [email protected] [email protected] Media information Media portal Online information All media representatives are invited to register for the EHF media ehfCL.com portal on http://members.ehf.eu ehfTV.com Regulations of the VELUX EHF Champions League The European Handball Federation’s media portal is a one-stop-shop Twitter:@ehfmedia , @ehfcl for media representatives offering all the EHF’s media news such Facebook: ehf.champions.league as press releases, event flash quotes directly after matches, press conference highlights, draw reactions and downloads of all relevant information including, but not limited to, media guides and event Official name logos. Furthermore photographs that are free for editorial use will be available for download. The official name of the competition is: VELUX EHF Champions League. The full name of the competition should always be used. For major events such as the EHF EURO or the VELUX EHF FINAL4 match prep kits including historical information and head-to-head Please note: If the season is required, it has to be positioned after statistics will also be made available. “Champions League” e.g. Women’s EHF Champions League 2013/14. The wording “Champions League” should be written with a capital If you haven’t registered yet, please send an email to letter at the beginning of each word, i.e. Champions League. The [email protected] remaining letters should be in lower case. The word Champions does and we will provide you with the log-in details. not have an apostrophe after the ‘s’. 5 Facts & figures Spaniards galore at the 2015 VELUX EHF FINAL4 156 matches since the start of the qualification have been played in 2 players have scored more than 100 goals so far: Mikkel Hansen the VELUX EHF Champions League so far and the last four in Cologne (PSG/103) and Momir Ilc (Veszprem/101). But only Ilic can add more on 30/31 May will decide which team will succeed last season’s goals to his tally, as PSG and Hansen were eliminated by Veszprem in champions SG Flensburg-Handewitt. the quarter-finals. Here are the most important facts and figures of the 2014/15 season 2 former EHF Champions League winners, amounting to ten titles, of the competition, prior to the VELUX EHF FINAL4 in Cologne. have made it to Cologne: FC Barcelona (1996-2000, 2005, 2011) and THW Kiel (2007, 2010, 2012). 0 teams have defended their title since the implementation of the VELUX EHF FINAL4 in Cologne in the 2009/10 season. Flensburg were 2 straight times the defending VELUX EHF Champions league the latest champions to fall after facing Kiel in the Last 16. champions have been eliminated in the Last 16: Hamburg (2014 by Vardar) and Flensburg (2015 by Kiel). 0 times THW Kiel has lost a match against a Spanish team at any VELUX EHF FINAL4 event or against a team coached by a Spaniard. All 2 teams won both legs of the quarter-finals – Barcelona and Kielce. three opposing team coaches in Cologne are Spanish 3 Spanish coaches are involved in the 2015 VELUX EHF Champions 1 – for the first time since the implementation of the VELUX EHF League FINAL4: Xavi Pascual (Barcelona), Talant Dujshebaev (Kielce) FINAL4, all four winners of the group phase have gone all the way to and Carlos Ortega (Veszprem). The only non-Spaniard is Alfred Cologne. Gislason (Iceland, Kiel). In the quarter-finals five Spanish coaches were involved (including Juan Carlos Pastor/Szeged and Raul Gonzalez/ 1 coach arrives in Cologne with his second club, for the first time. Vardar) in the Last 16 it was even seven (including Manuel Cadenas/ Before Talant Dujshebaev led Kielce to the LANXESS arena, he was in Plock and Jesus Javier Gonzales Fernandez/La Rioja). Cologne as the coach of Ciudad Real/Atletico Madrid in 2010, 2011 and 2012. 3 of the four 2015 VELUX EHF FINAL4 participants had been part of the 2014 event: Barcelona, Kiel and Veszprem. 1 coach has won the EHF Champions League with two different clubs so far: Alfred Gislason (2002 with SC Magdeburg, 2010 and 2012 with 3 players part of the 2015 VELUX EHF FINAL4 hold non-European Kiel). If Kielce take the trophy in 2015, Talant Dujshebaev would be passports: Wael Jallouz (Barcelona/Tunisia), Danijel Saric (Barcelona/ the second. Qatar) and Imam Jamali (Veszprem/Iran). 1 man has won the EHF Champions League as a player (1994 with 4 nations are only represented by the 21 previous winners of the Santander) and as a coach (2006, 2008, 2009 with Ciudad Real): again competition: Spain (13 titles, including all from 1994 to 2001), Talant Dujshebaev. Carlos Ortega (six times Champions League winner Germany (6 titles, including four from five in Cologne), France with FC Barcelona) can join the elite club if he leads Veszprem to the (Montpellier) and Slovenia (Celje). title. 4 former or current IHF World Handball Players of the Year will be 1 player can win the VELUX EHF Champions League title for the on court in Cologne: Nikola Karabatic (Barcelona, 2007 and 2014), second time in a row, Steffen Weinhold. He took the trophy last year Slawomir Szmal (Kielce, 2009), Filip Jicha (Kiel, 2010), Domagoj with SG Flensburg-Handewitt before moving to THW Kiel. Not a single Duvnjak (Kiel, 2013). In addition, Kielce coach Talant Dujshebaev was player since 2009 won the VELUX EHF Champions league twice in a awarded twice in 1994 and 1996. row. 4 different nations are (for the first time since the premiere in 2010) 1 Spanish player minimum will become VELUX EHF Champions League represented by the four VELUX EHF FINAL4 participants: Spain, winner 2015 – as every team counts on at least one Spanish player: Germany, Poland and Hungary. Seven nations had been represented Barcelona (13), Veszprem (3), Kielce (1) and Kiel (1). In three of four by the eight quarter-finalists, including two Hungarian teams. teams at least one German and Croat are involved. 5 former top scorers of the EHF Champions League are on court in 1 Icelandic coach has been involved in all six VELUX EHF FINAL4 so far: Cologne: Filip Jicha (2008/09 – 99 goals for Kiel, 2009/10 – 119 goals Besides Alfred Gislason (now five times with Kiel), Dagur Sigurdsson for Kiel), Siarhei Rutenka (2003/04 – 103 goals for Celje, 2004/05 – was there with Füchse Berlin in 2012 and Gudmundur Gudmundsson 85 goals for Celje), Kiril Lazarov (2005/06 – 85 goals for Veszprem, with Rhein Neckar Löwen in 2011. 2007/08 – 96 goals for Veszprem), Nikola Karabatic (2006/07 – 89 goals for Kiel) and Momir Ilic (2013/14 – 103 goals for Veszprem) 1 team turned a defeat in the first quarter-final leg into a ticket to Cologne – Kiel against Szeged.