VELUX EHF CHAMPIONS LEAGUE 2016/17 - Quarter-finals Update Foreword 4 Media contacts 5 Map of participating clubs 6 Playing system diagrams - stages and dates 8 Road to the VELUX EHF FINAL4 10 Facts and figures before the quarter-finals 12 Important regulations 14 Quarter-finals previews THW Kiel vs FC Barcelona Lassa 16 SG Flensburg-Handewitt vs HC Vardar 31 MOL-Pick Szeged vs Paris Saint-Germain Handball 45 Telekom Veszprem vs Montpellier HB 59 2016/17 Top scorers before quarter-finals 72 All-time stats VELUX EHF Champions League 73 EHF Media & Communications 21/04/17 Vlado Brindzak +43 1 80 151 161
[email protected] Contributors: Björn Pazen, Peter Bruun, Nemanja Savic, Bence Martha, Kevin Domas, Amina Idrizi, Laia Coll. All stats by Roy Knoppert. Dear media representatives, It gives me great pleasure to welcome you all to the quarter-finals of the VELUX EHF Champions League. The competition is rapidly approaching its conclusion, with one last knock-out round to play before we know which teams will be competing for the title at the VELUX EHF FINAL4 in Cologne on 3 and 4 June 2017. As winners of their respective groups Spain’s FC Barcelona Lassa and FYR Mace- donia’s HC Vardar skipped the Last 16 and qualified directly for the quarter-finals. A further six teams qualified via the Last 16 round including: Paris Saint-Germain Handball and Montpellier HB from France; THW Kiel and SG Flensburg-Handewitt from Germany and Telekom Veszprém and MOL-Pick Szeged from Hungary. From the throw-off of the competition back in September, these sides have shown an abundance of skills and willpower as they made their way along the road to Co- logne.