Table of contents
Foreword 5
Media contacts - EHF/M, Media contacts 6
Playing system diagram - stages and dates 7
Regulations – rankings of the Group Phase 8
CL information - new playing system from 2013/14 9 ehfTV-com relaunches - all matches live 10
Qualification – Three newcomers, six former champions 12
Group Matches overview - expert opinion – Grit Jurack 13
Group A - teams, expert opinion – Ausra Fridrikas 15
Gyõri Audi ETO KC 16
Thüringer HC 20
Hypo Niederösterreich 24
HCM Baia Mare 28 head-to-head stats 31
Group B - teams, expert opinion – Maja Savić 32
Budućnost 33
FC Midtjylland 37
MKS Lublin 41
FTC Rail Cargo Hungária 45 head-to-head stats 49
Group C - teams, expert opinion – Nataliya Derepasko 50
RK Krim Mercator 51
Metz Handball 55
Sävehof IK 59
HC Leipzig 63 head-to-head stats 67
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Group D - teams, expert opinion – Marit Breivik 68
Larvik HK 69
Balonmano Bera Bera 73
HC Podravka Vegeta 76
WHC Vardar SCBT 80 head-to-head stats 83
Four bidders for Women‘s EHF FINAL4 in 2014 84
History CL 85
Past winners 87
Past top scorers 88
2012/13 top scorers 89
All-time standings 90
Appendix 1 - Results of the Qualification
Appendix 2 - Schedule of the Group Matches
4 Foreword
Dear Media Representative,
Welcome to Group Matches of the WOMEN’S EHF Champions League 2013/14
Welcome to the thrilling next phase of the Women’s EHF Champions League. In September 2013, we saw the conclusion of the Qualification Phase, which in turn completed the line-up of the Group Matches. The four teams each claimed the final fourth place in each group.
In October and through November, the six rounds of the Group Matches in this top competition will be played out in venues across Europe. I take this opportunity to congratulate the clubs teams from Germany, Hungary, FYR Macedonia and Romania which successfully completed the qualification phase. They will now join the remaining 12 teams drawn across Group A to D.
The Group Matches phase is set to be highly entertaining as three teams will enter the arena as Champions League newcomers and six teams will return as former champions. This season, there are five club teams that boast 15 or more seasons in the Champions League. But we all know this game very well; the only thing that will matter is the result at the end of the second period.
As the Group Matches throw off, it would be hard not to think about the next step. The teams have a lot to play for. A ticket to the Main Round will bring eight teams closer to their dream of gold; however, for the eight teams that are ranked third and fourth on 17 November 2013, their campaign will end at this point. Skill, determination or luck...it is now up to the players.
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.
I therefore hope you consider this media guide a useful and enriching resource for your work in the upcoming weeks and months.
Should you require any further 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 coming season!
Jean Brihault EHF President
5 EHF/M Media contacts
Media matters TV and Radio
Vlado Brindzak Akos Moczan Media and Communications Media Manager European Handball Federation EHF Marketing GmbH +43 1 80 151 161 +43 1 80 151 226 [email protected] [email protected]
Clubs – Media contacts
Group A Group B Group C Group D
Gyõri Audi ETO KC Budućnost RK Krim Mercator Larvik HK Andrea Szilágyi Savo Laković Gašper Lončarič Tor Odvar Moen +36 70 394 9596 +382 67 600 055 +386 51 630 877 +47 479 38 803 [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] [email protected]
Thüringer HC FC Midtjylland Metz Handball Balonmano Bera Bera Bernd Hohnstein Nilsan Apputhurai Aurelien Klein Jabier Otermin +49 179 4649 389 +45 22 98 64 77 +33 673 829 413 +34 669 796 556 [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] [email protected]
HYPO NÖ MKS Lublin Sävehof IK HC Podravka Vegeta Márk Hegedűs Michał Pomorski Rüdiger Osterloh Ljerka Vresk +43 664 60 164 600 +48 513 20 26 38 +46 736 84 57 55 +385 98 325 075 [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] [email protected]
HCM Baia Mare FTC Rail Cargo Hungária HC Leipzig WHC Vardar SCBT Ramona Ioana Pop Andrea Pordán Kay-Sven Hähner Davor Stojanoski +40744839987 +36 20 365 8263 +49 172 1399882 +389 753 659 12 [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] [email protected]
6 1 2 vs. Final rst leg rst 03. / 04.05.2014 second leg 10. / 11.05.2014 Final 1 2 1 1 vs. vs. 2 2 Semi-nals Semi-nals rst leg rst 05. - 06.04.2014 second leg 12. - 13.04.2014 3 6 Main Round 01./02.02.2014 08./09.02.2014 15./16.02.2014 01./02.03.2014 08./09.03.2014 15./16.03.2014 Main Round Season 2013/14 playing dates playing Season 2013/14 Group Matches Group Group Matches Group Home matches Home matches matches Total 3 6 05./06.10.2013 12./13.10.2013 19./20.10.2013 02./03.11.2013 09./10.11.2013 16./17.11.2013 Women’s EHF Champions League 2013/14 playing system playing EHF League Champions 2013/14 Women’s Qualication Round 2 Round Qualication 4 tournaments Qualication Round 2 Round Qualication 4 tournaments 14/15.09.2013 vs. Qualication 1 Round rst leg rst 24/25.08.2013 second leg 31.08/01.09.2013 Qualication 1 Round
7 Important regulations Scoring of the matches and ranking
General Group Matches
All matches of the Women’s EHF Champions League shall be played in If two or more teams have scored the same number of points, the 2 x 30 minutes with a half-time break of 10 minutes. The EHF reserves ranking will be determined as follows: the right to extend the half-time break in special circumstances to 15 minutes. During the Group Matches: a) higher goal difference in all matches; The matches shall be scored as follows: b) higher number of plus goals in all matches; a) win = 2 points b) draw = 1 point After completion of the Group Matches if two teams have scored c) loss = 0 points the same number of points: a) number of points in matches of the two teams directly involved; Teams’ rankings are obtained by adding up the number of points won. b) goal difference in matches of the two teams directly involved; c) higher number of goals scored in the away match of the two teams directly involved; d) goal difference in all matches of the group; e) higher number of plus goals in all matches of the group;
After completion of the Group Matches if three or more teams have scored the same number of points: a) number of points in matches of all teams directly involved; b) goal difference in matches of all teams directly involved; c) higher number of plus goals in matches of all teams directly involved; d) goal difference in all matches of the group; e) higher number of plus goals in all matches of the group;
If the ranking of one of these teams is determined, the criteria are consecutively followed until the ranking of all teams is determined.
If no ranking can be determined, a decision shall be obtained by drawing lots. Lots shall be drawn by the EHF, if possible in the presence of a responsible of each club.
8 EHF Champions League information
Team line-ups and match reports Women’s EHF Champions League new playing format from 2014/15 Already with the start of the previous season, an improvement to the media services offered by the EHF has come. In an initiative to further develop and strengthen women’s handball, the EHF has decided to update the playing system from the start From the opening matches of the season, the complete team line- of the 2014/15 season and to create a Women’s EHF FINAL4. The up has been available online at eurohandball.com and available to showcase handball event, comprising the four semi-finalists of the download as a PDF document. The change has been made possible Women’s EHF Champions League for a new final tournament over two thanks to the introduction of a new online solution, which sees the days, is looking to emulate the huge success of the VELUX EHF FINAL4 EHF match delegate complete the final team line-up immediately which attracts 20,000 handball fans each year at the end of May. after the technical meeting. This development means that team line- ups are available for commentators and reporters hours before each The Women’s EHF FINAL4 is scheduled to place at the end of the match throws-off. 2014/15 season. However, if bidding organisations can meet the high demands of such an event, the first Women’s EHF FINAL4 may already A further change means that a short time after each match, a take place at the end of the 2013/14 season. Bids from organisations completed match report will also be available online with details such in Ljubljana and Budapest have been made to host the event for the as goal scorers and number of spectators. first time in 2013.
Team line-ups and match reports can be viewed by clicking on a Product development particular match on the eurohandball.com or ehfCL.com websites. The creation of the Women’s EHF FINAL4 is one of a number of The online system is also under further development with the changes of the Women’s EHF Champions League’s playing format ultimate aim being to provide live scores and statistics from EHF for the 2014/15 season, which were confirmed by the EHF Executive competitions and available on the EHF website. Committee at its meeting in Montenegro in September 2013.
The changes devised by the EHF Competitions Commission and Accreditation for GroupPhase agreed by the Women’s Marketing Club Board will seek to make the competition more attractive not just to players and teams but also The written media and photographer’s accreditation procedure in to fans, television stations and potential partners and sponsors. As the Group Matches is entirely in the responsibility of the participating well as structural changes there will also be developments in the clubs. TV and Radio accreditations are subjects to approval by EHF standards around the competition such as playing arenas and the Marketing GmbH – please contact Ákos Móczán. presentation of the Women’s EHF Champions League product. Online information Additional round to be introduced ehfCL.com The new playing system will see the reduction of the number of ehfTV.com qualification rounds from two to one and the creation of a new Main Regulations of the Women’s EHF Champions League Round following the Group Phase, which will remain in the same Twitter: @ehfmedia, @ehfcl format of four groups with four teams each. Facebook: ehf.champions.league From the Group Phase, three teams from each group will qualify for the new Main Round and the fourth ranked team will play in the Official name Last 16 of the EHF Cup Winners’ Cup. Following the new Main Round quarter-finals will be played on a knock-out home and away basis The official name of the competition is: Women’s EHF Champions with the four winners qualifying for the Women’s EHF FINAL4. League. The full name of the competition should always be used.
Please note: If the season is required, it has to be positioned after “Champions League” e.g. Women’s EHF Champions League 2013/14. The wording “Champions League” should be written with a capital letter at the beginning of each word, i.e. Champions League. The remaining letters should be in lower case. The word Champions does not have an apostrophe after the ‘s’.
9 ehf TV.com
All matches of new season live ehfTV.com relaunches ahead of new season
Handball fans across Europe will not miss a single match in the Handball’s leading live streaming platform – ehfTV.com – has been new season of both elite European club competitions. All matches given a new look just as the new club season throws off around Europe. starting from Group Phase of the VELUX EHF Champions League and Group Matches of the Women´s EHF Champions League will be The redesigned platform developed by multi-media partner, LAOLA1, broadcast live on ehfTV.com and the videos of all matches will be will continue to offer live and on-demand streaming throughout the also on demand. Furthermore, like in the past season fully produced season from the EHF’s leading club competitions including the VELUX highlights magazine - “Rewind - the handball show” will feature EHF Champions League and the Women’s EHF Champions League. stories and highlights from all Men´s top matches will be played out on Monday 7:00 / 8:00 GMT after each playing round. New features for viewers include a new ‘swipe’ navigation system and a complete re-development of the video player to offer all the important The complete coverage of all matches means that only during the statistics, video information and related videos alongside the video group stage of both competitions handball fans will be spoilt by 120 screen. men´s and 78 women´s matches. Together with men´s knock-out stage, respectively women´s Main Round and knock-out stage this is Every single match in both the VELUX EHF Champions League and supposed to create this season more than 226 hours of live handball Women’s EHF Champions League as well as video clips and news and on ehfTV.com. ‘REWIND – The Handball Show’ will be available for fans worldwide to watch online
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Qualification review Three newcomers and six former champions
Fourteen nations are represented in the Group Matches of the One former champion out – six still in the race Women’s EHF Champions League. That is the fact after the last three out of the 16 participants were found on Sunday, 15 September, Russia, who had two teams in the Champions League last season – when the last three qualification groups were finalised. Zvezda Zvenigorod (who even reached the main round) and Dinamo The new season will see big premieres of three newcomers - Volgograd – will not be represented this year, as Rostov-Don failed to Balonmano Bera Bera, HCM Baia Mare and WHC Vardar Skopje. qualify, while Denmark only has one team in the tournament for the first time in many years.
Hungary and Germany with a double representation National champions FC Midtjylland will be the only Danish team in the group stage, as the Champions League winners from 2006, 2009 and Only two countries are represented by more than one team. Hungary 2010, Viborg HK did not make it from the qualification tournament in has the same two teams in the competition as last year. Baia Mare, neither did Team Tvis Holstebro as they both had to bow out at the hands of the Romanian hosts. While reigning champions Győri Audi ETO KC had qualified directly for the group stage, FTC Rail Cargo Hungária followed them, as they won Romania’s representation has also been reduced from two teams to the all-Hungarian final in Qualification Group 2 31:24 against Érd. one, compared to last year. HCM Baia Mare can look forward to their first Champions League adventure in the club’s history. Germany is the other country to have two teams in the competition, just like they had last year. While Thüringer HC were also in the Group While Viborg will not get the chance to win their fourth Champions Matches last season, Buxtehude will be replaced this season by HC League title, four other teams, who have all lifted the trophy before, Leipzig who won Qualification Group 1 in Trondheim at the expense are still in the race. of two Norwegian teams Tertnes Bergen, Byåsen and Belarus’ Minsk. Along with defending title holders Győr, former Champions France, FYR Macedonia, Spain and Poland are back after not having League winners Budućnost, Krim, Podravka, Larvik HK and Hypo been represented last season. Niederösterreich are all to be found in this season‘s tournament
French champions Metz Handball returned to the group stage, while the Macedonian capital Skopje is also represented again, but not by Kometal, like for many years in the past. Instead, there is a new kid on the block – WHC Vardar SCBT, who are debutants in the CL. The Macedonian powerhouse won Qualification Group 4 in style eliminating Jomi Salerno in the semi-final and Fleury Loiret in the final. Finally, another Champions League debutant, Balonmano Bera Bera is ready to defend the Spanish colors, while Polish champions MKS Lublin are celebrating their comeback to the Champions League for the first time in ten years.
12 Group Matches overview
Group A Group B
Group C Group D
Expert’s view Grit Jurack
“In my opinion goalkeepers are the main key for success. If you have, for example, Katrine Lunde-Haraldsen in your team, it is much easier to raise a trophy. She is the bonus factor in the strong team of defending champions Győr – and not only because of her Győr are my clear favourites for defending the title.
Just look at Larvik with their experienced duo Lene Rantala and Cecilie Leganger or the two German keepers Clara Woltering from Podgorica and Sabine Englert from Midtjylland – all of them guarantee stability for the defence sides and provide their teams with the security and easiness you need.
Group A Győr will not let a single point slip out of their hands, as they have even strengthened their squad with Katarina Bulatović. Hypo and Thüringer HC will fight for the second position. Hypo is like a jamboree bag, you never know what’s inside and what to expect from this ‘Brazilian national team’. Without their key She holds almost all possible player Nadja Nadgornaja it will be tough for Thüringer HC, but they have widened and bolstered their records in German women’s squad. Baia Mare is a serious competitor, as proved by eliminating my former club Viborg and Holstebro in handball, but last year the qualification. But I think their squad is not wide enough to endanger their opponents. career of Grit Jurack, who had played for Danish side Viborg Group B HK since 2004, has come to a Another clear favourite for winning the group: FTC. They have a well-balanced and well-rehearsed team, sudden end. Due to a shoulder which was improved by German Laura Steinbach. They were a powerhouse in Hungary, now I estimate injury, the three-time Women’s them as a European powerhouse. My former long-term teammate Bojana Popović definitely knows about EHF Champions League winner handball. At Podgorica they can beat every opponent by ten goals, but on a bad day they also can lose by had to resign from handball at ten goals. But due to their home strength they should clearly make it to the Main Round. the age of 34. In 306 matches for the national team she scored I expect Midtjylland and Lublin to stand no chance in the fight for the next stage. The FCM squad is too 1,579 goals. small to withstand the pressure of playing simultanously in the Champions League and the strong Danish league. Lublin are the clear underdogs – but they might be the ones to tip the scale if they beat one of the Five times Jurack was voted main contenders on home court and then to decide the final ranking. German female handball player of the year, and in 2009 she Group C was nominated for the World The first and the fourth position are all but set in my opinion. Krim will rank on top clearly, and Sävehof Handball Player of the year have no chance. My former club Leipzig and Metz will fight for the remaining berth in the Main Round. It award. In 2006 Jurack was the will be interesting to see, how Leipzig can cope with the pregnancy of their top goalkeeper Katja Schülke, first German ever to win the but I expect an open race – with Leipzig having better chances to proceed compared with Thüringer HC in EHF Champions League – and Group A. in 2009 (when she was also EHF Champions League top scorer) Group D and 2010 the right back lifted Without giving all they can and even with the possibility to rest and save some power, Larvik and Vardar the major trophy of European will make it to the Main Round. But I eagerly want to see how those totally different mentalities and club handball again. nationalities will fit in the Vardar team. Especially, when the world championship is over those players who participated in Serbia, will return home with totally different emotions, some won, some lost, some will be happy, some disappointed – in no other team of the Champions League those things might be more decisive than at Vardar. Regarding the third position I expect Bera Bera to be stronger than the completely rejuvenated team of Podravka.”
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Group A preview
Expert’s view Ausra Fridrikas
Ausra Fridrikas is the most successful player in the history of the Women’s EHF Champions League. The Soviet born back court ace won the trophy six times, four times with Hypo Niederösterreich (1994, 1995, 1998, 2000) and twice with Danish side Slagelse (2004, 2005).
In 1999 she was voted World Handball Player of the year. Fridrikas was world champion with the Soviet team in 1990 and after playing for Lithuania she changed her citizenship to Austrian – winning two bronze medals at the EHF EURO 1996 and at the World Championship 1999, when she was also awarded Most Valuable Player of the tournament. On club side she additionally became IHF Cup winner in 1988 with Egle Vilnius, 1993 Champions’ Cup winner with Hypo and EHF Cup winner with Slagelse. Today Fridrikas, who ended her career in 2007, is coaching the Austrian women’s youth national team.
“In my opinion – and I am surely not the only one – Győr are the clear favourite in this group. As the defending champions they have the skills and knowledge to go very far again. They have experience, fighting spirit and the individual class to top this group clearly.
The three remaining teams – Hypo NÖ, Thüringer HC and HCM Baia Mare - will have a close fight for the second spot for the Main Round on an equal level. The daily form, the number of injuries and the ways how to prepare on their opponents will bring the decision, which team will follow Győr to the next stage.
Unfortunately for my former team of Hypo I do not rate their chances very high to make it to the Main Round. I am not convinced by this team, as I don’t know the style they want to play. They have a lot of strong Brazilian players, but in overall they are not stronger than Thüringer HC or Baia Mare. But maybe the Group Matches will show that I was completely wrong.
Thüringer HC have strong players from the technical point of view, especially their intelligent playmaker Kerstin Wohlbold. But the problem for the German champions is the power. I have recognised that they lack power in the crucial stages of the match, which might be an advantage for their opponents.
Never underestimate Romanian teams – this is also valid for Baia Mare. They have tall girls with highly strong individual skills in their squad. And everybody knows how the frenetic spectators push Romanian teams to their limit on home ground. So maybe the debutant will be the “lucky winner” in the fight for the second spot below Győr.”
15 Győri Audi ETO KC
For nearly a decade they were the hunters, now Győri Audi ETO KC are the hunted for the first time. After breaking their final’s spell in the 2013 edition against Larvik HK and winning the Champions League for the first time, Győr are again one major favourites for winning the competition.
Only two players left the successful team - Jovanka Radičević and Andrea Lekić, both to Vardar Skopje, but on the other hand Győr made one of the most remarkable transfers of the summer: 2012 Champions League winner Katarina Bulatović (Montenegro) arrived at Győr from Romanian side Oltchim Vâlcea – and fully strengthened the squad of coach Ambros Martin as a successor to Lekić.
The rest remained the same – including top star Anita Görbicz, who hopes to recover from a broken finger occurred in a test match, to be fit for the first match of the season.
“The last season was the best in our lives. We won everything possible. This year will be a bit different, because now we are the team that everybody wants to beat.
“We learned how to win last year, and we want to use this knowledge during this season. I really hope that we could manage to repeat our performance, but the road is very long until that, the most important thing is always the next game,” admits the team captain Anita Görbicz. Playing hall Magvassy Mihály Sporthalle A brand new hall is being built next to the current Magvassy Hall, which will have a capacity of Kiskut Liget 5,000 spectators and should be one of the venues of the Women’s EHF EURO 2014. 9028 Győr Hungary Capacity: 2,768
Club Address: Qualification for the Women’s EHF Past achievements Győri Audi ETO KC Champions League 2013/14 season: Kiskutliget Hungarian champions Women’s EHF Champions League 92027 Győr Participations (including 2013/14 Hungary season): 11 Newcomers (including former club): Winners: 2012/13 Media contact: Katarina Bulatović (Oltchim Vâlcea) Runners-up: 2008/09, 2011/12 Andrea Szilágyi Bernadett Bognár-Bodi (Dunaújváros) Semi-finals: 2006/07, 2007/08, 2009/10, +36 70 394 9596 2010/11 [email protected] Left the club (including new club): Group Matches: 2000/01, 2005/06 Jovanka Radičević (Vardar Skopje) Qualification: 2004/05 Online information: Andrea Lekić (Vardar Skopje) Website: www.gyorietokc.hu Other Facebook: Győri-Audi-ETO-KC Cup Winners Cup: Runners-up 2005/06, Semi-finals 2002/03 EHF Cup: Runners-up 1998/99, 2001/02, 2003/04, 2004/05
Kit colours Hungarian league: 10 titles (1957, 1959, Light 2005, 2006, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011, Player shirt: white 2012, 2013) Player short: green Hungarian cup: 9 titles Goalkeeper shirt: white/red Dark Player shirt: green/black Player short: green/black Goalkeeper shirt: blue, black
16 Győri Audi ETO KC
Club records – Women’s EHF Champions League
Biggest win 35:20 (16:9) v Randers HK DEN (h), 05.11.2011 Biggest defeat 39:28 (20:12) v Spartak Kiev UKR (a), 17.02.2001 Longest winning run 13 matches (13.10.2012 – 06.04.2013) Longest unbeaten run 13 matches (13.10.2012 – 06.04.2013) Longest losing run 3 matches (11.02.2001 – 07.01.2006) Longest run without win 4 matches (28.01.2001 – 07.01.2006) 4 matches (20.03.2011 – 02.10.2011) Most goals 40 v HC Podravka Vegeta CRO 33:40W (a), 13.01.2008 Most goals opponent 39 v Spartak Kiev UKR 39:28L (a), 17.02.2001 Most goals both teams 73 v HC Podravka Vegeta CRO 33:40W (a), 13.01.2008 Fewest goals 18 v Larvik NOR 18:24L (h), 20.03.2011 Fewest goals opponent 14 v SD Itxako ESP 14:20W (a), 14.11.2009 Fewest goals both teams 34 v SD Itxako ESP 14:20W (a), 14.11.2009
Women’s EHF Champions League record
MP W T L GF GA GD PTS Stage Reached 2000/01 Győri Graboplast ETO HUN 6 1 2 3 156:168 -12 4 4th Gr. D 2005/06 Győri ETO Kezilabda Club HUN 6 3 0 3 154:169 -15 6 3rd Gr. D 2006/07 Győri Audi ETO KC HUN 10 6 0 4 291:267 +24 12 1/2-finals 2007/08 Győri Audi ETO HUN 14 11 0 3 415:366 +49 22 1/2-finals 2008/09 Győri Audi ETO KC HUN 16 11 1 4 454:415 +39 23 Runner-up 2009/10 Győri AUDI ETO KC HUN 14 8 2 4 355:337 +18 18 1/2-finals 2010/11 Győri AUDI ETO KC HUN 14 10 1 3 387:334 +53 21 1/2-finals 2011/12 Győri AUDI ETO KC HUN 16 10 1 5 472:422 +50 21 Runner-up 2012/13 Győri Audi ETO KC HUN 16 15 0 1 435:346 +89 30 Winner Total 112 75 7 30 3119:2824 +295 157
17 Győri Audi ETO KC Team roster
No. First Name Surname Nat. Position Date of Birth Height
18 Eduarda Idalina Amorim BRA Left Back 23 Sep 1986 186 31 Agnes Boczko-Hornyak HUN Right Back 2 Sep 1982 180 22 Bernadett Bognar-Bodi HUN Right Wing 9 Mar 1986 175 32 Katarina Bulatovic MNE Right Back 15 Nov 1984 186 13 Anita Görbicz HUN Centre Back 13 May 1983 173 1 Katrine Lunde Haraldsen NOR Goalkeeper 30 Mar 1980 181 12 Orsolya Herr HUN Goalkeeper 23 Nov 1984 176 8 Dora Hornyak HUN Left Back 24 Jan 1992 181 11 Dorina Korsos HUN Left Wing 3 Sep 1995 168 14 Aniko Kovacsics HUN Centre Back 29 Aug 1991 171 5 Heidi Loke NOR Line Player 12 Dec 1982 177 22 Adrienn Orban HUN Right Wing 1 Oct 1986 168 19 Viktoria Redei-Soos HUN Right Back 26 Jul 1985 181 25 Szederke Sirian HUN Line Player 1 Jun 1994 172 24 Ivett Szepesi HUN Left Wing 4 Feb 1986 167 20 Raphaelle Tervel FRA Line Player 21 Apr 1979 178
18 Ambros Martín Katrine Lunde Haraldsen coach goalkeeper Like Veszprém, like Győr: Both the top men’s If she is extra keen on winning the EHF and women’s teams in Hungary are counting Champions League, it comes to no surprise, on Spanish coaches for the second season in a as she knows what it feels like. In 2010, after row. As Veszprém signed Carlos Ortega, Győr having won the competition with Viborg for opted for Ambros Martín in 2012. He had been the second year in a row, she joined Győr coaching top Spanish side Estrella Itxako for and accomplished the same feat in her third seven years, winning the EHF Cup in 2009 and season with Hungarian perennial champions. reaching the final of the CL – after defeating his At the age of 33 she is adding valuable current club Győr in the semi-final. He redeemed himself already in his experience to her high class in the goal, and as late as at the EHF first season with Győr with their first European trophy. EURO 2012 she was nominated for the All Star team. EC trophies: EHFCL 2008/09, 2009/10, 2012/13 EC trophies: EHFCL 2012/13, EHF Cup 2008/09 OG: G 2008, 2012 / WCh: G 2011, S 2007, B 2009 / EHF EURO: G 2004, 2006, 2008, 2010, S 2002, 2012
Ivett Szepesi Eduarda Amorim left wing left back Seven goals in the group match against Cluj Brazilian international arrived in Europe were the season’s highlight for left wing in 2006 first joining Kometal Skopje in FYR Yvett Szepesi in the previous EHF Champions Macedonia and she is just five goals shy of League season, her first on the international 300 goals milestone in the European top courts. In the past she played for Dunaferr, flight. The left back transferred to Győr in Tolnau, Tamasi and Siófok in the Hungarian 2009. The 27-year-old Amorim is part of the league but she made her switch to the Brazilian national team, became three-time champions just in time for their first European Pan-American champion, participated in trophy. She helped them out with 28 goals in 16 matches, which two Olympic Games (2008, 2012) and ranked fifth at the 2011 World should guarantee her place in the starting line-up again. Championship on home ground. EC trophies: EHFCL 2012/13 EC trophies: EHFCL 2012/13 Pan-American Games: G 2003, 2007, 2011
Anita Görbicz Heidi Løke centre back line player Despite being among the best players in the The World Handball Player of 2011 is a world over the last decade, the team captain famous daughter in a big handball family as (30) was waiting to secure one of big prizes both of her siblings are professional players at either club or national level for many years and all of them are line players. She is the until she lifted the most coveted trophy with only player to play in both previous CL finals. Győr in the 2012/13 season. Before that her In 2011 she took the title with Larvik as the only honours were individual titles: 2011/12 CL top scorer, and in 2012 she only narrowly CL top scorer and World Handball Player of missed it with Győr only to achieve it one Year (2005). She was voted for the best centre back at three WCh in a year later. With the national team was a member of the all-star teams row (2003, 2005, 2007). at the London Olympics, 2011 WCh and EHF EURO 2010 and 2012.
EC trophies: EHFCL 2012/13 EC trophies: EHFCL 2010/11, 2012/13 WCh: S 2003, B 2005, EHF EURO: B 2004, 2012 OG: G 2012, WCh: G 2011, EHF EURO: G 2008, 2010, S 2012
Katarina Bulatović Adrienn Orbán right back right wing The Serbia-born left-handed shooter arrived She started her professional career at Váci to Győr after a short stint with Oltchim NKSE, although her childhood club was Győr, Vâlcea. She made it to the CL final for the first where she eventually returned in 2009. In the time in 2007 with Slagelse and repeated the same year Orbán had her first international trip in 2012 with Budućnost, when her eight match for the Hungarian national team, goals helped to decide the second leg against and right afterwards she was nominated for her current team. She was a key player in the WCh in China. After the starter at her Montenegro’s biggest achievements, when position Jovanka Radičević left for Vardar she she was the top scorer at both the London Olympics and EHF EURO in is expected to share the challenging workload with a newcomer from 2012 helping to secure the silver and gold respectively. Békéscsaba – Bernadett Bognár-Bódi.
EC trophies: EHFCL 2006/07, 2011/12, Cup Winners’ Cup 2009/10 EC trophies: EHFCL 2012/13 OG: S 2012, EHF EURO: G 2012
19 Thüringer HC
For the fifth straight year German Bundesliga is represented by two teams in the Group Matches of the Women’s EHF Champions League – and for the third time in a row, Thüringer HC are part of the competition as German champions. The last season the team of coach Herbert Müller were dominant in Germany, snatching away championship and cup from their rivals HC Leipzig, but narrowly failed to reach the Main Round of the European top flight.
Thüringer HC, which will play their home matches at Nordhausen, have even bolstered their squad for this season. First they signed the German internationals Jana Krause (goalkeeper) and Franziska Mietzner (left back, junior world champion in 2008) and later they completed the most spectacular transfer of German women’s handball this summer: Thanks to his good contacts to Romania, where he was born, Müller managed to sign Spanish top back court ace Alexandrina Barbosa, who had played for Oltchim Vâlcea before and was Champions League finalist in 2011 with Itxako.
Team captain Kerstin Wohlbold hopes for a successful experience. “We are currently in the build-up stage of our team. Hopefully we will find our form and our balance by the start of the Champions League. In my opinion, Gyõr is the main contender for winning the title, Baia Mare have proven their ambitions by beating two Danish teams in the qualification tournament and Hypo have been part of the Champions League since the first day. But despite those opponents we will get our chances – hopefully we are able to grab them,” she said.
Playing hall Wiedigsburghalle Nordhausen August-Bebel-Platz 6 99734 Nordhausen Germany Capacity: 2,218
Club Address: Qualification for the Women’s EHF Past achievements Thüringer HC Champions League 2013/14 season: Mittelhäuser Str. 21 German champions Women’s EHF Champions League 99089 Erfurt Participations (including 2013/14 Germany season): 3 Newcomers (including former club): Group Matches: 2011/12, 2012/13 Media contact: Jana Krause (Buxtehuder SV) Bernd Hohnstein Martine Smeets (Dalfsen) Other +49 179 4649 389 Iveta Luzumová (Mios Biganos) Cup Winners’ Cup: Semi-finalists [email protected] Franziska Mietzner (Frankfurter HC) 2012/13 Alexandrina Cabral Barbosa (Vâlcea) Challenge Cup: Finalists 2008/09 Online information: Website: www.thueringer-hc.de Left the club (including new club): German league: 3 titles (2011, 2012, Facebook: ThueringerHC Shenja Minevskaja (TuS Metzingen) 2013) Twitter: @ThueringerHC Mie Augustesen (Copenhagen) German cup: 2 titles Katarina Tomašević (Nantes) Nadja Bolze (Union Halle)
Kit colours Light Player shirt: white Player short: black Goalkeeper shirt: yellow Dark Player shirt: red Player short: black Goalkeeper shirt: orange
20 Thüringer HC
Club records – Women’s EHF Champions League
Biggest win 34:30 (18:14) v Viborg HK DEN (h), 14.10.2012 24:20 (10:10) v Buducnost MNE (h), 28.10.2012 Biggest defeat 35:25 (20:10) v Buducnost MNE (a), 06.11.2011 Longest winning run 1 match (14.10.2012) 1 match (28.10.2012) 1 match (11.11.2012) Longest unbeaten run 2 matches (13.11.2011 – 14.10.2012) Longest losing run 5 matches (02.10.2011 – 06.11.2011) Longest run without win 6 matches (02.10.2011 – 13.11.2011) Most goals 34 v Viborg HK DEN 34:30W (h), 14.10.2012 Most goals opponent 35 v Buducnost MNE 35:25L (a), 06.11.2011 Most goals both teams 64 v Viborg HK DEN 34:30W (h), 14.10.2012 Fewest goals 15 v Buducnost MNE 23:15L (a), 04.11.2012 Fewest goals opponent 20 v Buducnost MNE 24:20W (h), 28.10.2012 Fewest goals both teams 38 v Buducnost MNE 23:15L (a), 04.11.2012
Women’s EHF Champions League record
MP W T L GF GA GD PTS Stage Reached 2011/12 Thüringer HC GER 6 0 1 5 139:163 -24 1 4th Gr. A 2012/13 Thüringer HC GER 6 3 0 3 146:153 -7 6 3rd Gr. D Total 12 3 1 8 285:316 -31 7
21 Thüringer HC Team roster
No. First Name Surname Nat. Position Date of Birth Height
20 Anja Althaus GER Line Player 3 Sep 1982 175 8 Marieke Blase GER Left Back 6 Jan 1994 178 86 Alexandrina Cabral Barbosa ESP Centre Back 5 May 1986 175 12 Dinah Eckerle GER Goalkeeper 16 Oct 1995 174 19 Katrin Engel AUT Right Back 2 May 1984 173 5 Sonja Frey AUT Left Wing 22 Apr 1993 169 6 Ana Gros SLO Right Back 21 Jan 1991 186 28 Lydia Jakubisova SVK Right Wing 14 Oct 1981 168 16 Jana Krause GER Goalkeeper 10 Jun 1987 186 18 Iveta Luzumova CZE Centre Back 3 Apr 1989 175 16 Maike März GER Goalkeeper 9 Dec 1983 180 6 Franziska Mietzner GER Left Back 20 Dec 1988 194 3 Nadja Nadgornaja GER Left Back 22 Sep 1988 186 17 Petra Popluharova SVK Left Back 23 Aug 1988 176 8 Martine Smeets NED Left Wing 5 May 1990 172 14 Danick Snelder NED Line Player 22 May 1990 178 31 Kerstin Wohlbold GER Centre Back 11 Jan 1984 169
22 Herbert Müller Maike März coach goalkeeper The former mathematics lecturer at the She does not only know how to save shots, university of Nuremburg was born in the but is an expert in food and beverages too, German speaking minority in Timisoara, as in her business life Maike März is a food Romania, where he got in touch with handball technician. Although she has not played very early. Together with his brother and one single match in the German women’s “permanent” co-coach Helfried, Müller started team she is one of the best goalkeepers in at Augsburg, before leading 1. FC Nürnberg Bundesliga. Three-time German champion from the fourth division to three titles in 2005, and two-time cup winner has been part 2007 and 2008. He returned to his home country for a short stint with of some successful German younger age national team, becoming Braşov and also became the Austrian national team coach. runners-up at the U18 EHF EURO.
EC trophies: Challenge Cup 2003/04
Sonja Frey Nadja Nadgornaja left wing left back As THC coach Herbert Müller is parallel coach Born in Minsk, the parents of Nadja of the Austrian women’s national team, he Nadgornaja are Ukrainian and Belarusian, but knows well, which players have the right she moved to Germany already at the age ambition. So his club signed left wing Sonja of four. After starting as a swimmer like her Frey in 2012, when she was only 19, but had brother she chose handball, as she preferred already played nearly 40 matches for the to be part of a team sport. And the decision national team – and had been awarded MVP was correct, as she became junior world of the U19 WCh in 2012. Before, Frey played champion 2008 and member of the All Star for Austrian sides WAT-Fünfhaus and MGA Fivers – and it was Frey Team of this tournament. In the 2012/13 season she was awarded as who had paved the way for THC to become German champions 2013. the best player of the Bundesliga. Junior WCh: G 2008
Kerstin Wohlbold Anja Althaus centre back line player She is the extended arm of coach Herbert She is the only one in the THC squad, who Müller since years. Already when Müller was already raised the CL trophy – and even twice coaching Nuremburg, she was at his side, with Viborg HK in 2009 and 2010. Born in the and when he switched to Thüringer HC it was famous handball city of Magdeburg, Althaus clear that Wohlbold (29) would join his squad left her home already at the age of 17 to join again. Wohlbold, who intermediately played Trier in 2000, becoming national champion for Austrian side Dornbirn, is the mastermind for the first time in 2003. In her business life of THC with exceptional passes, but also the she switched from advertisement designer to ability to go through the defence. She played in the CL Main Round hairdresser – and she still styles her teammates in club and national four years ago with Nuremburg. team. She is also well-known for her huge shoes selection.
EC trophies: EHFCL 2008/09, 2009/10 WCh: B 2007 / Junior WCh: B 2001
Ana Gros Lýdia Jakubisová right back right wing Before joining Thüringer HC in 2012 Slovenian The Slovak international (32) is one of the international (22) had been part of the squad most experienced players in the THC squad, of Audi ETO Győr, reaching the CL final against but will miss the start of the season due to Podgorica, what was her last match for the an injury. Jakubisová can play both on right Hungarian side. Gros started her career at wing and right back, but since she is at THC, Krim Ljubljana, before transferring to Győr she found her place on the wing position. She in 2010, aged only 19. The student is four was awarded Slovak handball player of the consecutive times national champion and year 2012 – and had made her first steps in cup winner in three countries and played nearly 50 matches for the Germany in 2009, when she first played for Sulzbach, then for Trier Slovenian national team. and Oldenburg, before arriving at Bad Langensalza.
23 Hypo Niederösterreich
It took 13 long years for Hypo NÖ to raise their next international trophy. In May they won the Cup Winners’ Cup, after they had taken their last EHF Champions League title in 2000. However, right after this triumph everything changed at the Austrian record champions – starting from the top of the club, where Martin Kweta is the new president.
On the court, the coach changed as well as almost half of the squad – eight players are new, seven left the club. The successor to coach Andras Németh is Danish born Brazil national team coach Morten Soubak, who will train eight Brazilian players at Maria Enzersdorf at southern outskirts of Vienna.
The appointment is a logical consequence of the cooperation between the Brazilian handball federation and Hypo – with big challenges lying ahead for Soubak and his team as hosts of the 2016 Olympic Games in Rio. Two Brazilians left, two new arrived. Additionally, two highly experienced Hypo players have returned to the squad: Simona Spiridon and Gabi Rotis-Nagy and the team aim for more success than in previous seasons, when the group matches usually was as far as they got.
“Our objective is the same as before last season – proceeding to the main round. In 2013 we failed, but later won the Cup Winners’ Cup. We prepared well under our new coach, but those positive test results do not guarantee top results in the Champions League. Our group is tough – but we do not have to hide our ambitions and maybe we can cause some upsets,” Alexandra Playing hall Nascimento, current World Handball Player of the Year and Hypo team captain said. BSFZ Südstadt Liese Prokop Platz 1 2344 Maria Enzersdorf Austria Capacity: 1,020
Club Address: Qualification for the Women’s EHF Past achievements Hypo Niederösterreich Champions League 2013/14 season: BSFZ Südstadt Austrian champions Women’s EHF Champions League Liese-Prokop-Platz 1 Participations (including 2013/14 2344 Maria Enzersdorf season): 21 Austria Newcomers (including former club): Winners: 1993/94, 1994/95, 1997/98, Olga Sanko (back after pregnancy) 1999/2000 Media contact: Anna Hajgató (Hypo NÖ II) Finalists: 1995/96, 2007/08 Márk Hegedűs Viki Mauler (Hypo NÖ II) Semi-finals: 1996/97, 1998/99, 2004/05, +43 664 60 164 600 Vera Müller (SSV Dornbirn/Schoren) 2006/07, 2008/09 [email protected] Simona Spiridon Quarter-finals: 2005/06 Gabi Nagy-Rotis (back after pregnancy) Group Phase/Champions League: Online information: Francielle Gomes da Rocha (ACD/Estrela de 2000/01, 2001/02, 2002/03, 2003/04, Website: www.hypo-noe.at Guarulhos-SP/BRA) 2009/10, 2010/11, 2011/12, 2012/13 Facebook: Hypo-Niederösterreich Carolline Dias Minto (Col. Santa Catarina/ Novo Hamburgo/BRA) Other Cup Winners Cup: Winners 2012/13, Left the club (including new club): Finalists 2003/04 Kit colours Mirela Dedic (Landhaus) Light Julia Mauler (Atzgersdorf) Austrian league: 37 titles Player shirt: yellow Mayara Fier de Moura (unknown) Austrian cup: 26 titles Player short: blue Karoline de Souza (Team Tvis Holstebro) Goalkeeper shirt: green Petra Blažek (Mios Biganos) Dark Martina Goricanec (Feldkirch) Player shirt: black Bernadett Temes (unknown) Player short: black Goalkeeper shirt: yellow
24 Hypo Niederösterreich
Club records – Women’s EHF Champions League
Biggest win 17:32 (7:17) v Bel. Olimpija Ljubljana SLO (a), 19.02.1995 Biggest defeat 37:21 (19:6) v Larvik HK NOR (a), 18.01.2003 Longest winning run 14 matches (22.01.1994 – 26.03.1995) Longest unbeaten run 14 matches (22.01.1994 – 26.03.1995) Longest losing run 4 matches (20.11.2010 – 30.10.2011) Longest run without win 4 matches (20.11.2010 – 30.10.2011) Most goals 38 v HC Kometal Gjorce Petrov MKD 38:27W (h), 19.01.2007 38 v HC Podravka Vegeta CRO 38:28W (h), 14.03.2009 Most goals opponent 39 v Randers HK DEN 39:32L (a), 30.11.2011 Most goals both teams 71 v Randers HK DEN 39:32L (a), 30.11.2011 Fewest goals 14 v Podravka Koprivnica CRO 17:14L (a), 29.04.1995 14 v Kometal Dj. P. Skopje MKD 21:14L (a), 01.03.1998 Fewest goals opponent 12 v Kometal Dj. P. Skopje MKD 26:12W (h), 21.02.1998 Fewest goals both teams 30 v Podravka Koprivnica CRO 17:13W (h), 04.05.1996
Women’s EHF Champions League record
MP W T L GF GA GD PTS Stage Reached 1993/94 Hypo Niederösterreich AUT 8 8 0 0 186:149 +37 16 Winner 1994/95 Hypo Niederösterreich AUT 8 7 0 1 202:147 +55 14 Winner 1995/96 Hypo Niederösterreich AUT 8 6 1 1 184:150 +34 13 Runner-up 1996/97 Hypo Niederösterreich AUT 10 9 0 1 249:194 +55 18 1/2-finals 1997/98 Hypo Niederösterreich AUT 12 9 0 3 275:241 +34 18 Winner 1998/99 Hypo Niederösterreich AUT 10 8 0 2 277:234 +43 16 1/2-finals 1999/00 Hypo Niederösterreich AUT 12 8 2 2 338:291 +47 18 Winner 2000/01 Hypo Niederösterreich AUT 6 3 0 3 158:162 -4 6 3rd Gr. A 2001/02 Hypo Niederösterreich AUT 6 3 0 3 171:159 +12 6 3rd Gr. C 2002/03 Hypo Niederösterreich AUT 6 3 0 3 149:165 –16 6 3rd Gr. C 2003/04 Hypo Niederösterreich AUT 6 3 0 3 159:166 -7 6 3rd Gr. C 2004/05 Hypo Niederösterreich AUT 10 6 0 4 287:268 +19 12 1/2-finals 2005/06 Hypo Niederösterreich AUT 8 5 0 3 225:211 +14 10 1/4-finals 2006/07 Hypo Niederösterreich AUT 10 7 0 3 295:275 +20 14 1/2-finals 2007/08 Hypo Niederösterreich AUT 16 13 0 3 498:435 +63 26 Runner-up 2008/09 Hypo Niederösterreich AUT 14 11 0 3 421:366 +55 22 1/2-finals 2009/10 Hypo Niederösterreich AUT 12 5 1 6 331:350 -19 10* 3rd MR Gr. 2 2010/11 Hypo Niederösterreich AUT 6 2 0 4 137:147 -10 4 3rd Gr. B 2011/12 Hypo Niederösterreich AUT 6 2 0 4 167:187 -20 4 4th Gr. C 2012/13 Hypo NÖ AUT 6 3 0 3 156:153 +3 6 3rd Gr. A Total 180 121 4 55 4865:4450 +415 245*
* Point for Hypo Niederösterreich deducted by official decision
25 Hypo Niederösterreich Team roster
No. First Name Surname Nat. Position Date of Birth Height
77 Gorica Acimovic AUT Left Back 28 Feb 1985 186 12 Barbara Arenhart BRA Goalkeeper 4 Oct 1986 182 2 Fabiana Carvalho Carneiro Diniz BRA Line Player 13 May 1981 184 81 Deonise Cavaleiro Fachinello BRA Right Back 20 Jun 1983 180 99 Carolline Dias Minto BRA Right Back 17 May 1994 3 Alexandra Do Nascimento BRA Right Wing 16 Sep 1981 179 18 Fernanda Franca da Silva BRA Left Wing 25 Sep 1989 177 92 Francielle Gomes da Rocha BRA Centre Back 10 Jun 1992 27 Anna Hajgato HUN Goalkeeper 27 Apr 1992 174 22 Stefanie Kaiser AUT Line Player 31 Oct 1992 181 20 Viktoria Mauler AUT Left Wing 23 Aug 1993 11 Vera Müller AUT Left Wing 15 Jul 1994 158 9 Ana Paula Rodrigues BRA Centre Back 18 Oct 1987 172 33 Gabriela Rotis-Nagy AUT Centre Back 12 Nov 1980 189 16 Olga Sanko RUS Goalkeeper 28 Feb 1978 180 80 Simona Spiridon AUT Line Player 1 Feb 1980 184
26 Morten Soubak Barbara Arenhart coach goalkeeper After starting his coaching career in his home Nicknamed “Babi”, she made her way from country Denmark, Soubak (49) came to Brazil Brazil to Austria via Norway, as she had and first coached men of Pinheiros. In 2009 he played for Byåsen Trondheim before she was announced coach of the women’s national arrived at Hypo in 2011. She created the team. His strategy, to educate his top players goalkeeper duo in the Brazilian national team in Europe, was successful – as Brazil finished with Chana Masson (Randers), and after not fifth at the home WCh 2011 and sixth at the being nominated for the 2012 Olympics she 2012 OG. On leading his team to the home is back on track and won the 2013 Pan- Olympics 2016 in Rio, the Federation agreed that Soubak will also coach American Games with her team. She was born in Novo Hamburgo and Hypo, as eight of his national team players are contracted there. had played abroad for the first time at Spanish side Sagunto.
Pan-American Championship: G 2011, 2013 EC trophies: Cup Winners’ Cup 2012/13 Pan-American Championship: G 2011, 2013
Fernanda Franca da Silva Gorica Acimovic left wing left back Like her role model Luc Abalo, Fernanda 28-year-old, Bosnian-born Austrian citizen is Franca da Silva plays on the wing position, back at Hypo since last season. She already but opposite to Abalo on the left hand side. had played some years at the Austrian The Brazilian international, who plays for record champions, including reaching the Hypo since 2011, was best scorer of the Pan- 2008 Champions League final, before the left American Games 2013. She became Austrian back left to Viborg in Denmark to become and Spanish champion (at Sagunto) before. Champions League winner in 2010 and then Like a huge number of her compatriots in the to Krim Ljubljana, before returning to Hypo in Hypo squad Fernanda (“Fê “) Franca da Silva started her career at 2012. Acimovic is a tall shooter capable of scoring from nearly all back leading Brazil club Metodista. court positions. EC trophies: Cup Winners’ Cup 2012/13 EC trophies: EHFCL 2009/10, Cup Winners’ Cup 2012/13 Pan-American Championship: G 2013
Ana Paula Rodrigues Fabiana Carvalho Carneiro Diniz centre back line player Brazilian playmaker Ana Paula Rodrigues is Powerful “Dara” is not only a strong fighting the inspiring key in Hypo attacks, but also is shooter from the line, but also a key for able to score using her strength in one-on- the Hypo defence. Diniz joined Hypo in one situations. Like many of her teammates 2012 and was playing for four Spanish Spain was her first step abroad, playing for clubs before: León, Alicante, Elda and Bera Elche and Elda Prestigio. Two seasons ago she Bera. She became domestic cup winner in increased the number of Brazilian players in three countries – Brazil, Spain and Austria, Südstadt. Ana Paula Rodrigues has also been and played more than 160 matches for the part of the successful Brazilian national team for years and raised her Brazilian national team where the biggest success was the fifth rank at first European trophy in May. the 2011 WCh and reaching the Olympic quarter-final at London.
EC trophies: Cup Winners’ Cup 2012/13 EC trophies: Cup Winners’ Cup 2012/13 Pan-American Championship: G 2013 Pan-American Championship: G 2009, 2011, 2013
Deonise Cavaleiro Fachivello Alexandra do Nascimento right back right wing 30-year-old right back participated at two „Alê“ was not only the first Brazilian to arrive Olympic Games (2008 and 2012) for Brazil in Hypo (in 2003) and plays her eleventh and is playing for Hypo for the second season for the club, but also is the first time after her first stint in 2008/09. She ever Pan-American World Handball Player transferred to French side Le Havre, before of the year, awarded in January 2013. Do she joined Spanish Itxako in 2011, where Nascimento was the top scorer of the 2011 she had a taste of the CL final in the 2010/11 WCh, All-Star team player at the 2012 season. Despite she is born in 1983 she wears Olympics and is four-time winner of the Pan- her lucky number 81 at Hypo. She had won three Pan-American gold American championships. With 58 goals she was the top scorer of medals with her team. Hypo on their way to the most recent trophy in the Cup Winners‘ Cup.
EC trophies: Cup Winners’ Cup 2012/13 EC trophies: Cup Winners’ Cup 2012/13 Pan-American Championships: G 2009, 2011, 2013 Pan-American Championship: G 2007, 2009, 2011, 2013
27 HCM Baia Mare
Thanks to their frenetic audience, a great team spirit and three top new arrivals from former EHF Champions League finalists Oltchim Vâlcea, HCM Baia Mare managed to celebrate an unexpected clear qualification for the Group Matches after beating both Danish sides Viborg and Holstebro in the tournament on home court.
Exactly ten years after reaching the Challenge Cup final against German side Borussia Dortmund the dream to be part of the European top flight came true for the first time. Baia Mare finished second in the Romanian league and won the domestic cup – so new challenges and goals are lying ahead, including the first Romanian championship title.
Sport director Daniel Kotecz expects tough matches against opponents like defending champions Győr, reigning Cup Winners’ Cup champions Hypo and German side Thüringer HC. “Since it’s our debut in the Champions League we are glad that we managed to qualify for the group stage. Unfortunately, we are part of the group of death. However, we intend to obtain points in this group and even more, qualification for the next stage or continuing our journey in the Cup Winners’ Cup. We hope to get victories, especially at home games, where we have over 2,500 fans on our side,” he said.
Team captain Claudia Cetateanu also hopes to be successful on home court: “We have very strong opponents, but I hope to win all home matches. Gyõr are definitely the favourite of our group, I think they have a good chance to defend the trophy again.” Playing hall Sala Polivalenta Lascar Pana Bd. Unirii Nr.14 A 430272 Baia Mare - Maramures Romania Capacity: 2,080
Club Address: Qualification for the Women’s EHF Past achievements HCM Baia Mare Champions League 2013/14 season: BD.Bucuresti Nr. 47 A winners of qualification tournament 3, Women’s EHF Champions League 430012 Baia Mare Romanian runners-up Participations (including 2013/14 Romania season): 1 Newcomers (including former club): Media contact: Paula Ungureanu (Oltchim Vâlcea) Other Ramona Ioana Pop Adriana Nechita (Oltchim Vâlcea) Challenge Cup: runners-up 2002/03 +40744839987 Luciana Marin (Oltchim Vâlcea) [email protected] Gabriella Szűcs (HC Zalau) Romanian league: runners-up 1979, Ana Maria Tanasie (HC Zalau) 2013 Online information: Romanian cup: 1 title Website: www.hcmbaiamare.ro Left the club: Facebook: HCM-Baia-Mare Cristina Pop Sunea Sorina Osan Popovici Flavia Matei
Kit colours Light Player shirt: red Player short: red Goalkeeper shirt: black Dark Player shirt: blue Player short: blue Goalkeeper shirt: yellow
28 HCM Baia Mare Team roster
No. First Name Surname Nat. Position Date of Birth Height
1 Mihaela Andreea Babeanu ROU Goalkeeper 1 Mar 1986 178 8 Oana Carmina Bondar ROU Back 26 Mar 1983 178 94 Alina Daniela Bota ROU Left Wing 20 Jan 1994 170 7 Eliza Iulia Buceschi ROU Left Back 1 Aug 1993 178 15 Andra Butulia ROU Centre Back 15 Mar 1994 177 12 Claudia Bogdana Cetateanu ROU Goalkeeper 24 Jun 1976 179 14 Alexandra L. Ciunt ROU Right Back 14 Jun 1992 183 29 Teodora Dinis Vartic ROU Line Player 2 Jul 1981 177 17 Lavinia Maria Dobromir ROU Right Back 3 Jul 1983 176 5 Melinda A. Geiger ROU Right Back 28 Mar 1987 177 85 Renata Andrada Ghionea ROU Right Back 12 Jan 1985 177 3 Andrada Maior Pasca ROU Left Wing 21 Feb 1993 168 22 Luciana Andreea Marin ROU Centre Back 13 Oct 1988 176 77 Adriana Nicoleta Nechita ROU Right Wing 14 Nov 1983 172 4 Ioana Laura Oltean ROU Centre Back 20 Jul 1989 174 2 Aneta Pirvut ROU Right Wing 22 Jun 1989 168 13 Diana Alina Puiu ROU Left Back 24 Aug 1991 178 21 Lavinia Madalina Puscas ROU Goalkeeper 12 Nov 1992 174 11 Lena Jenica Rudics ROU Wing 26 Mar 1979 170 9 Ibolya Gabriella Szucs HUN Left Back 31 Aug 1984 184 18 Ioana Adriana Tamas ROU Right Wing 15 May 1991 168 19 Reka Tamas ROU Left Back 17 May 1993 6 Ana-Maria Tanasie ROU Left Wing 6 Apr 1995 170 23 Timea Judita Tatar ROU Line Player 28 Jul 1989 175 25 Andrada Cynthia Tomescu ROU Line Player 30 Jul 1991 180 30 Paula Claudia Ungureanu ROU Goalkeeper 30 Mar 1980 181
29 Constantin Buceschi Paula Ungureanu coach goalkeeper He started coaching 6 years ago as an assistant The experienced goalkeeper left Romanian at HCM Baia Mare. After 3 years, he switched champions Oltchim after the dissolving to his former team, Minaur Baia Mare, but of the team and made immediately an had his contract terminated after 6 months. In impact, helping Baia Mare qualify for the 2011, he took over at HCM, leading the team Group Matches. She ranked 4th in the top to the best performance in its history, 2nd goalkeepers list of the 2009 WCh with a 41% place in Romania last season. His daughter, save rate. Also, Ungureanu was elected the Eliza, is one of the most important players in best Romanian handball player in 2012, just Baia Mare. He coached both his wife, Carmen, and his daughter two months after giving birth to her son. She has an artificial ligament in years ago in an official game. her left knee after she tore her ligament in 2005.
WCh: S 2005, EHF EURO: B 2010
Jenica Rudics Gabriella Szűcs left wing left back Rudics is one of the most experienced left Szűcs is a Hungarian player, being selected wings in Romania. Born and raised in Baia 96 times in the national team, but was born Mare, the 34-year old left wing has played all in Romania, in Oradea. After kickstarting her her life at HCM Baia Mare and was an integral career in Debrecén, Szűcs was transferred by part of Baia Mare’s team which reached Oltchim Râmnicu Vâlcea in 2008. After a quick the EHF Cup Last 16 in 2008. But the most stint back in Debrecén (2011), she came back glorious times should just arrive now. After 13 to Romania, where she played for HC Zalău years at the Romanian runners-up, she won and HCM Baia Mare. The Hungarian back likes her first trophy last summer, when Baia Mare managed to win the to dress in pink, blue and white and also enjoys pop music. Romanian Cup. EHF EURO: B 2004
Eliza Buceschi Georgeta Diniș-Vârtic centre back line player At only 21 years old, Buceschi is one of the An experienced line player, who played most talented young players in Romania. in the Romanian, German and Polish The press touted that she will become the championships, Diniș Vârtic came back next Cristina Neagu, but several injuries to Romania in 2011. She is at her second hampered her development. However, stint at Baia Mare, playing previously in the Buceschi will become the cornerstone of the Romanian side between 2007 and 2009. new Romanian national team, being selected Her husband, Cristian, is a rugby player, at several times by coach Gheorghe Tadici in the the local team, CSM Știința Baia Mare. An last year. She is coach Constantin’s daughter and has played all her interesting fact is that Diniș Vârtic was coached at Nürnberg by the senior career at HCM Baia Mare. current Thüringer coach, Herbert Muller.
Melinda Geiger Adriana Nechita right back right wing Geiger’s career was a real rollercoaster up A fast, intelligent and experienced right until this point. She played at HCM Baia Mare wing, Nechita is considered one of the most until 2010, when Oltchim Râmnicu Vâlcea beautiful handball players in Romania. She transferred her for 50,000 euros. Therefore, is also a model and likes to play a journalist, Geiger became the most expensive Romanian taking interviews for various media outlets handball player ever. However, she did not with her teammates. The 29-year-old right adapt at Vâlcea and was loaned to German wing spent all her career with Oltchim champions Thüringer (2011-2012) and to Râmnicu Vâlcea before joining Baia Mare this HCM Baia Mare. After Oltchim’s bankruptcy, Geiger came back to Baia summer. She was dating Florin Costea, a national team football player. Mare. She speaks five foreign languages.
EHF EURO: B 2010 EHF EURO: B 2010
30 Group A head-to-heads Historic encounters of the Group A opponents in the EC
Győri Audi ETO KC vs Thüringer HC No previous encounters
Győri Audi ETO KC vs Hypo Niederösterreich 12.04.2009 Hypo Niederösterreich AUT-Győri AUDI ETO KC HUN Women’s EHF Champions League – 1/2-finals 26:25 (15:13) 19.04.2009 Győri AUDI ETO KC HUN-Hypo Niederösterreich AUT Women’s EHF Champions League – 1/2-finals 29:21 (12:9) 09.11.2011 Hypo Niederösterreich AUT-Győri AUDI ETO KC HUN Women’s EHF Champions League – Group C 29:27 (15:13) 13.11.2011 Győri AUDI ETO KC HUN-Hypo Niederösterreich AUT Women’s EHF Champions League – Group C 37:29 (17:12)
Győri Audi ETO KC vs HCM Baia Mare No previous encounters
Thüringer HC vs Hypo Niederösterreich 07.04.2013 Thüringer HC GER-Hypo NÖ AUT Cup Winners’ Cup – 1/2-finals 32:32 (15:19) 13.04.2013 Hypo NÖ AUT-Thüringer HC GER Cup Winners’ Cup – 1/2-finals 24:22 (11:10)
Thüringer HC vs HCM Baia Mare No previous encounters
Hypo Niederösterreich vs HCM Baia Mare No previous encounters
31 Group B preview
Expert’s view Maja Savić
Born in Berane, a town in the north of Montenegro, Maja Savić moved to Podgorica and Budućnost at a young age and went on to play for a decade with the club. In 2004 she made the move to Denmark for the most successful period of her career. Among other trophies, she won two EHF Champions League titles with Slagelse DT in 2005 and 2007, before moving back to Budućnost in 2011 and picking up her third title in 2012.
At the World Championship 2001 in Italy, she was part of All-Star team as the tournament’s best left wing. With Montenegro, she won an Olympic silver in London, after which, she decided to retire.
In January 2013, Savić was appointed national team coach for Montenegro’s women’s under 17 handball team, and led the team to fifth place at the W17 EHF EURO in Poland during the summer. Apart from her national team role, she is also a coach of Danilovgrad, which is a branch of the Budućnost club.
“FTC-Rail Cargo Hungária has a long handball tradition, and they are playing well in this period. In the Hungarian Championship, Ferencváros have already defeated Győr, which means they have a very good team, led by Zsuzsanna Tomori, top scorer of the last season.
As a fan, I will always put Budućnost as favourites to make it for the next round, even though they have lot of new players. Although, realistically, Budućnost are a good team, and I just think they need some more time to put every piece on its place.
FC Midtjylland have always a good team with the Scandinavian system of play and quick handball for all 60 minutes without stopping what makes them difficult to play against. In this group, MKS Lublin might be the weakest team, but no team can afford to stumble against them if they want to stay in the race for the Main Round.
Budućnost, FTC and Midtjylland will fight for first two spots. I hope Budućnost will be one of those two teams. I think they can do it, as they have the quality, and I’d like them to finish at the top of the table in order to have an easier draw for the Main Round.
Budućnost’s first thought is always more on defence than on attack. The fact that their attack is at the moment better than their defence is a proof that all things are not yet in place. I think the language barrier is currently a problem in Budućnost, but it’s an integral part of sport. I believe that the new players of Budućnost will play better after every game.
The competition’s favourites, as in the past seasons, are Győr, Larvik, Budućnost, Krim and FTC, who are always on the top. There is, of course, also Vardar, who brought in lot of new players, but I think they need more time to put together all the pieces, as they by far have most changed the team, almost the whole squad.”
32 Budućnost
After a season of transition, the 2012 Women’s EHF Champions League winners have settled their team a little and added a former World Handball Player of the Year: Cristina Neagu, arriving from Romanian side Oltchim Vâlcea. She arrives alongside four more players from four different foreign countries (Denmark, Poland, Russia and Croatia) to work under Dragan Adžić.
The biggest name to leave the club was Andjela Bulatović, who transferred to Krim Ljubljana.
Although less players transferred compared to the season before, Budućnost admit that they still need some time to rehearse with their squad. After missing out on the semi-final last season, the first goal is to make it among the best eight teams.
In the group matches, Podgorica face Lublin (Poland), FTC Rail Cargo Hungária (Hungary) and Midtjylland, with the duel with the Danish champions, which last occurred two seasons ago, being a special one for Budućnost goalkeeper and team captain Clara Woltering, who will face her former club and national teammate, goalkeeper Sabine Englert.
Woltering is optimistic regarding the upcoming season: “I believe in the new team and the new qualities we have.
“We have a lot of new teammates and it will be an interesting and hopefully successful season,” says Woltering. Playing hall S.C. Morača Legendary player Bojana Popović has been team manager of Budućnost for the last year and Str. Ivana Milutinovića b.b. she discussed the now players she had a part in signing. 81000 Podgorica Montenegro “We enter this season with a lot of new and better quality players compared to last season. All Capacity: 5,000 new players were chosen by Budućnost with the aim to improve.
Club Address: Qualification for the Women’s EHF Past achievements Budućnost Champions League 2013/14 season: Ivana Milutinovića B.B. Montenegrin champions Women’s EHF Champions League 81000 Podgorica Participations (including 2013/14 Montenegro season): 18 Newcomers (including former club): Winners: 2011/12 Media contact: Cristina Neagu (Oltchim Vâlcea) Semi-finals: 1997/98, 1998/99, 1999/00, Savo Laković Camilla Dalby (Randers HK) 2000/01, 2001/02, 2010/11 +382 67 600 055 Marta Žderić (RK Podravka) Main Round: 2012/13 [email protected] Byzdra Kinga (Lubin) Quarter-finals: 2002/03, 2003/04 Irina Nikitina (Lada Togliatti) Last 16: 1995/96 Online information: Group Phase/Champions League: Website: www.zrkbuducnost.com Left the club (including new club): 1996/97, 2004/05, 2005/06, 2006/07, Jelena Trifunović 2007/08, 2009/10 Jelena Živković (both RK Podravka) Andjela Bulatović (RK Krim) Other Claudine Mendy (pregnant) Cup Winners Cup: Winners 2005/06, Katarina Bralo (destination unknown) 2009/10 Kit colours Light Montenegrin league: 25 titles Player shirt: blue/white (1985,1989,1990,1992-2013) Player short: white Montenegrin cup: 18 titles Goalkeeper shirt: red Dark Player shirt: blue Player short: blue Goalkeeper shirt: dark blue
33 Budućnost
Club records – Women’s EHF Champions League
Biggest win 35:21 (13:13) v Frederiksberg IF DEN (h), 10.02.2001 Biggest defeat 36:21 (18:11) v Viborg HK DEN (a), 19.01.1997 Longest winning run 8 matches (04.02.2012 – 08.04.2012) Longest unbeaten run 8 matches (08.11.1998 – 07.03.1999) 8 matches (04.02.2012 – 08.04.2012) Longest losing run 7 matches (21.02.2004 – 30.01.2005) Longest run without win 7 matches (21.02.2004 – 30.01.2005) Most goals 40 v RK Krim Mercator SLO 36:40W (a), 04.03.2011 Most goals opponent 40 v Mar El Osito L’Eliana ESP 26:40L (h), 05.04.1998 Most goals both teams 76 v RK Krim Mercator SLO 36:40W (a), 04.03.2011 Fewest goals 16 v Dunaferr SE HUN 16:18L (h), 06.02.2005 16 v Larvik NOR 28:16L (a), 16.03.2013 Fewest goals opponent 15 v Thüringer HC GER 23:15W (h), 04.11.2012 Fewest goals both teams 34 v Dunaferr SE HUN 16:18L (h), 06.02.2005
Women’s EHF Champions League record
MP W T L GF GA GD PTS Stage Reached 1996/97 Buducnost Podgorica YUG 6 2 2 2 130:143 –13 6 3rd Gr. A 1997/98 Buducnost Podgorica YUG 10 5 1 4 292:305 –13 11 1/2-finals 1998/99 Buducnost Podgorica YUG 10 8 1 1 297:238 +59 17 1/2-finals 1999/00 Buducnost Podgorica YUG 10 5 2 3 287:274 +13 12 1/2-finals 2000/01 Bud. Brillant Podgorica YUG 10 5 3 2 265:246 +19 13 1/2-finals 2001/02 Bud. Brillant Podgorica YUG 10 5 2 3 297:277 +20 12 1/2-finals 2002/03 RK Buducnost MONET YUG 8 4 0 4 215:216 -1 8 1/4-finals 2003/04 RK Buducnost MONET SCG 8 4 0 4 209:219 –10 8 1/4-finals 2004/05 ZRK Buducnost MONET SCG 6 1 0 5 141:165 –24 2 4th Gr. A 2005/06 ZRK Buducnost MONET SCG 6 3 0 3 150:154 -4 6 3rd Gr. C 2006/07 ZRK Buducnost T-Mobile MNE 6 0 0 6 141:174 -33 0 4th Gr. B 2007/08 Buducnost T-Mobile MNE 6 1 1 4 153:189 –36 3 3rd Gr. D 2008/09 Buducnost T-Mobile MNE 12 6 2 4 317:326 -9 14 3rd MR Gr. 2 2009/10 Buducnost T-Mobile MNE 6 2 1 3 138:155 -17 5 3rd Gr. D 2010/11 Buducnost MNE 14 10 0 4 417:360 +57 20 1/2-finals 2011/12 Buducnost MNE 16 14 0 2 453:385 +68 28 Winner 2012/13 Buducnost MNE 12 5 1 6 265:273 -8 11 3rd MR Gr. 1 Total 156 80 16 60 4167:4099 +68 176
34 Budućnost Team roster
No. First Name Surname Nat. Position Date of Birth Height
15 Ivana Bozovic MNE Left Back 14 Jun 1988 177 89 Kinga Byzdra POL Back 9 Jan 1989 181 72 Dragana Cvijic SRB Line Player 15 Mar 1990 183 20 Camilla Dalby DEN Right Back 15 May 1988 182 80 Jelena Despotovic MNE Left Back 30 Apr 1994 183 18 Elena Gjeorgjievska MKD Right Back 27 Mar 1990 184 27 Katarina Jezic CRO Line Player 19 Dec 1992 173 90 Milena Knezevic MNE Back 12 Mar 1990 178 92 Suzana Lazovic MNE Line Player 28 Jan 1992 176 77 Majda Mehmedovic MNE Left Wing 25 May 1990 169 9 Marija Mugosa MNE Right Wing 24 Apr 1995 171 8 Cristina G. Neagu ROU Left Back 26 Aug 1988 180 11 Irina Nikitina RUS Centre Back 21 Mar 1990 180 14 Zeljka Nikolic SRB Right Wing 12 Jul 1991 164 88 Biljana Pavicevic MNE Left Wing 12 May 1988 170 2 Radmila Petrovic MNE Right Wing 19 Apr 1988 174 30 Marina Vukcevic MNE Goalkeeper 24 Aug 1993 178 10 Olivera Vukcevic MNE Left Wing 6 Mar 1995 173 16 Clara Woltering GER Goalkeeper 2 Mar 1983 178 43 Marta Zderic CRO Goalkeeper 20 Apr 1990 189
35 Dragan Adžić Clara Woltering coach goalkeeper He was forced to retire due to injury in 1998 Woltering is set for a third season at and for almost a decade was an assistant to Budućnost and second as the captain. She many coaches in Budućnost, waiting for a first saw handball at the age of 5, when chance while working with youth teams. He she went to watch her two older sisters. became head coach in 2010 and in a short After seeing Clara playing with the ball, the period of time, he achieved great successes, coach of the team told her parents that the especially in 2012, winning the CL in May with youngest Woltering must play handball. Very Budućnost and EHF EURO in December with superstitious, for a long time she banned her Montenegro. He met his wife Timea after she came to the club as an parents from watching her play, thinking it was bad luck and at one interpreter to former coach, Hungarian Gyula Zsiga. stage wore a cap on her head during matches to bring her luck.
EC trophies: CL: 2012, Cup Winners’ Cup: 2010 EC trophies: CL: 2012, Challenge Cup: 2005 OG: S 2012 / EHF EURO: G 2012 WCh: B 2007
Majda Mehmedović Milena Knežević left wing left back Born in a sports family, with a mother who She started playing handball with her sister played handball as a goalkeeper, Majda Dragana and comes from a sporting family, Mehmedović’s sports destiny was already with her brother Ivan a professional soccer decided. She started handball in Bar at player. At 2012 EHF EURO in Serbia, where the age of 12 with her brother Musa and Montenegro finished first, Milena was first immediately loved it. After being signed in assists (29) and shared second place in by Budućnost and needed just two more scoring with Anita Görbicz (41 goals). Two- years to get into the first team and is now time Montenegrin handball player of the irreplaceable for both club and country. In 2012 she was a candidate year and was voted second best young player of the Women’s EHF for EHF Women’s Champions League young player of the season. Champions League in 2012. EC trophies: CL: 2012, Cup Winners’ Cup: 2010 EC trophies: CL: 2012, Cup Winners’ Cup: 2010 OG: S 2012 / EHF EURO: G 2012 OG: S 2012 / EHF EURO: G 2012
Kinga Byzdra Dragana Cvijić centre back line player Kinga Byzdra is the third Polish player in Serbian national team player is facing a third Budućnost’s history, after Monika Marzec season in Budućnost. Cvijić started handball and Izabela Puchacz, who played in Podgorica at the age of 10, first as goalkeeper, but being from 2003 to 2005. Her mother Malgorzata very tall for her age, Dragana’s first coach played handball for Montex Lublin and put her at left back. She never believed she Zagłębie Lubin. With Zagłębie Lubin she won would become a line player, but it happened a Polish title in 2011 and three Polish cups in six years ago in Crvena zvezda and she loved 2009, 2011 and last season, when she scored the new position. The 2011/12 title with Krim 14 goals in the final. Named best player of Poland in 2012, Kinga last was her best season, scoring 33 goals and played through an ACL tear season scored 33 goals in six games in the EHF Cup. three months before the end of the season.
EC trophies: CL: 2012
Camilla Dalby Radmila Petrović right back right wing She is the first Dane in Budućnost’s history Persuaded by a friend, Radmila started and has proven to be a key player. She started training handball at 12, in her home town with handball at four, her mother played of Nikšić, where she played for five years handball, and later was her coach at Spentrup as a right back. When she transferred to IF, where Camilla’s father was president of Budućnost, in 2005, she was moved to the the club. She won a title in Denmark with wing, a right decision for her, since she’s Randers HK in 2012 and an EHF Cup in 2010. became one of the best in Europe, a strong Camilla made a debut for the Danish senior alternative to Jovanka Radičević in Budućnost team in October 2007 after a successful youth career and was named before and now in Montenegro national team. This season Radmila best national team player in 2011/2012. has a new surname – Petrović, after getting married in July.
EC trophies: EHF Cup: 2010 EC trophies: ChL: 2012, Cup Winners’ Cup: 2010 OG: S 2012 / EHF EURO: G 2012
36 FC Midtjylland
Only two of 16 Champions League Group Phase participants count on female coaches – aside from Spanish champions Bera Bera, Danish champions FC Midtjylland are one. Helle Thomsen, who is coaching FCM since April 2012, can count on nearly the same squad as last season, as only two players left and one newcomer arrived.
FCM have an almost all-Danish squad, as only German goalkeeper Sabine Englert and Dutch wing Nicke Groot have a different passport to their teammates – and after Holstebro and Viborg failed in the qualification, Midtjylland are the only club from a country of six Champions League winners within the years 2004 and 2010 (Slagelse and Viborg, three times each) in this year’s competition.
Midtjylland became Danish champions for the second time after re-naming from Ikast-Bording. For FCM manager Torben Kølbæk the upcoming season is something special for his club: “Being the only Danish team in the Champions League, we have an obligation to represent the Danish colours. The Danish league is the best league in the world, meaning a lot of tough additional games for our very few players. We know it is going to be very difficult to proceed and we have the biggest respect for the other teams in our group.”
Team captain Lærke Møller is also expecting close results: “We are proud to have come so far and it is an honour to have qualified to play in the Champions League this season. We are in a very difficult group where all the teams will face some hard and exciting matches.” Playing hall* Ikast-Brande Arena Stadion Allé 2b 7430 Ikast Denmark Capacity: 2,250
Club Address: Qualification for the Women’s EHF Past achievements FC Midtjylland Champions League 2013/14 season: Stadion Alle 2B Danish champions Women’s EHF Champions League 7430 Ikast Participations (including 2013/14 Denmark season): 7 Newcomers (including former club): Semi-final: 2002/03 Media contact: Stine Jørgensen (Aalborg DH) Quarter-final: 1998/99, 2004/05 Nilsan Apputhurai Maria Lindh Main Round: 2003/04, 2008/09, +45 22 98 64 77 2011/12 [email protected] Left the club (including new club): Group Matches: 2003/04 Maibritt Kviesgaard (Esbjerg) Online information: Natasha Ohlendorff (SK Aarhus) Other Website: www.fcm-haandbold.dk Cup Winners’ Cup: Winners 2003/04, Facebook: FCMHaandbold Semi-finals 1999/2000 EHF Cup: Winners 2001/02, 2010/11, Runners-up 2006/07, Semi-finals 2007/08, 2012/13 City Cup: Winners 1997/98, Runners-up Kit colours 1996/97, Semi-finals 1994/95 Light Player shirt: Heather Coloured Danish league: 3 titles (1998, 2011, Player short: Heather Coloured 2013) *Alternative playing hall Goalkeeper shirt: Yellow/White/Blue Danish cup: 5 titles Brande Hallerne Dark Ole Bendixvej 1 Player shirt: Heather Coloured Ikast Player short: Heather Coloured Denmark Goalkeeper shirt: Yellow/White/Blue Capacity: 550
37 FC Midtjylland
Club records – Women’s EHF Champions League
Biggest win 34:18 (16:10) v Motor Zaporoshje UKR (h), 14.11.1998 Biggest defeat 24:38 (14:19) v Viborg HK DEN (h), 07.02.2009 Longest winning run 5 matches (22.02.2004 – 30.01.2005) Longest unbeaten run 6 matches (22.02.2004 – 12.02.2005) Longest losing run 7 matches (18.01.2009 – 21.03.2009) Longest run without win 9 matches (03.01.2009 – 21.03.2009) Most goals 36 v HC ‘Motor’ Zaporozhye UKR 36:25W (h), 22.02.2004 Most goals opponent 38 v Viborg HK DEN 24:38L (h), 07.02.2009 Most goals both teams 67 v CBM Astroc Sagunto ESP 37:30L (a), 19.02.2005 Fewest goals 18 v Byasen NOR 18:21L (h), 05.11.2011 Fewest goals opponent 17 v Byasen NOR 17:19W (a), 01.10.2011 Fewest goals both teams 36 v Byasen NOR 17:19W (a), 01.10.2011
Women’s EHF Champions League record
MP W T L GF GA GD PTS Stage Reached 1998/99 Ikast FS DEN 8 4 2 2 198:173 +25 10 1/4-finals 2002/03 Ikast Bording EH DEN 10 5 0 5 266:266 0 10 1/2-finals 2003/04 Ikast Bording EH DEN 6 3 0 3 162:159 +3 6 3rd Gr. B 2004/05 Ikast Bording EH DEN 8 5 1 2 233:226 +7 11 1/4-finals 2008/09 Ikast-Brande EH DEN 12 3 1 8 325:367 -42 7 4th MR Gr. 1 2011/12 FC Midtjylland DEN 12 6 0 6 290:283 +7 12 4th MR Gr. 1 Total 56 26 4 26 1474:1474 0 56
38 FC Midtjylland Team roster
No. First Name Surname Nat. Position Date of Birth Height
Karina Andersen DEN Left Back 5 Mar 1996 Sanne Hildegard Banggard DEN Line Player 1 May 1986 10 Mette Husum. Bejder DEN Left Back 13 Jan 1995 Pauline Boegelund DEN Right Back 17 Feb 1996 12 Louise Egestorp DEN Goalkeeper 28 Feb 1994 16 Sabine Englert GER Goalkeeper 27 Nov 1981 190 27 Cornelia Nycke Groot NED Centre Back 4 May 1988 170 Rikke Slumstrup Jensen DEN Left Back 30 Sep 1995 25 Trine Ostergaard Jensen DEN Right Wing 17 Oct 1991 19 Line Anna Jörgensen DEN Right Back 31 Dec 1989 6 Stine Jörgensen DEN Left Back 3 Sep 1990 180 2 Gitte Brogger Led DEN Left Wing 1 Sep 1983 170 Jane Sönderbaek Mejlvang DEN Centre Back 2 Aug 1995 Sarah Norgaard Meklenborg DEN Centre Back 5 Jun 1995 Julie Juul Möller DEN Left Wing 17 Oct 1995 89 Laerke Winther Möller DEN Centre Back 14 Jan 1989 Anna Lise Gade Nielsen DEN Goalkeeper 19 Oct 1995 Amalie Risom Nyrup DEN Centre Back 28 Sep 1994 Sofie Amalie Olsen DEN Right Back 16 Feb 1995 15 Simone H. Rasmussen DEN Left Wing 8 May 1993 170 Stephanie Kjaer Rasmussen DEN Goalkeeper 21 Oct 1996 14 Kristina Sommer DEN Right Wing 26 Jan 1994 5 Louise Ambjörn Svalastog Spellerberg DEN Line Player 1 Oct 1982 180 1 Anne Theilgaard Hansen DEN Goalkeeper 13 Jul 1985 17 Susan Thorsgaard DEN Line Player 13 Oct 1988 190 22 Trine Stenbaek Troelsen DEN Left Back 2 May 1985 170 21 Fie Woller DEN Right Wing 17 Sep 1992
39 Helle Thomsen Sabine Englert coach goalkeeper Coming from a handball mad family, Former German national team player Englert, she started playing at the age of five in is in fact a former teammate of Kiel winger Frederikshavn. She was a key part of the Dominik Klein. When she started playing at Frederikshavn team of the late nineties, the age of 5 in Aschaffenburg, she was in the reaching the Danish championship final in same mixed team as Klein. Only a few days 1998 as well as the Danish Cup final and the after signing the contract with FCM in the quarter-finals of the EHF City Cup in 1999. In early spring 2008, she played in her future March 2012 she became head coach of FCM. home, the Ikast Brande Arena, with Hypo NÖ. The 2012/13 season was her most successful so far, leading FCM to the On the same occasion she sustained a knee injury, but since then, she Danish league and cup, as well as the semi-finals of the EHF Cup. has had happier memories of the hall.
EC trophies: EHF Cup: 2011 (as assistant coach) EC trophies: EHF Cup: 2011 Challenge Cup: 2005 (with Bayer Leverkusen) WCh: Bronze 2007
Fie Woller Trine Troelsen left wing left back At the age of 5, when Fie Woller, now 21, When joining FCM at the end of 2009, started to play handball, she knew that her Troelsen actually began as an amateur, as future was on the left wing, just like her idol FCM did not have sufficient financial means Lars Christiansen. In FCM she used to play at the time to sign any more contracts. in the same team as her twin sister Cecilie. However, the problem was soon solved and However, lack of time on the court made Troelsen, who can play both centre and left Cecilie move to league newcomer Nykøbing back returned to the professional life she Falster Håndbold, so now Fie, who won the has enjoyed since 2003 with Viborg HK. She W19 EHF EURO 2011 with Denmark, is the only representative of the was the team’s top scorer during their last Women’s EHF Champions Woller family in the FCM team. League campaign in 2011/12 with 59 goals. EC trophies: EHF Cup: 2011 EC trophies: Chl: 2006 (with Viborg HK) EHF Cup 2004 (with Viborg HK) 2011 (with FCM)
Lærke Møller Louise Svalastog Spellerberg centre back line player During her childhood and teenage years, Despite being a back court player for most the Danish international had more success of her career, a shortage on line players at as a football player than in handball. In former club KIF Kolding in the early 2000’s fact, she made it to the Danish U17 national forced a change of position, which sparked team, before she decided to focus entirely a career in the Danish national team. Her on handball which she had been playing husband Bo Spellerberg, with whom she has alongside football until then. She still has a four-year-old daughter Mille, plays for KIF relations to the football world, in the form Kolding København. In 2012, she took part in of her boyfriend, former Danish football international Thomas the Danish version of the TV program Strictly come Dancing, where Enevoldsen, who plays for Belgian club KV Mechelen. she reached the semi-final.
EC trophies: EHF Cup: 2011
Line Jørgensen Trine Østergaard Jensen right back right wing The captain of the Danish national team Ever since she started playing handball at started playing handball at the age of 3. Her the age of nine, Trine Østergaard has been two cousins, Lars and Kenn Eiberg Jørgensen ambitious. As a child was she determined to have both played in the Danish national become a professional handball player. Being team, both as right backs, just like her. When true to her motto “You are 100% sure to miss joining GOG and later FCM, she had to leave the chances you do not take”, she has not the western suburbs of Copenhagen where only made as a professional, but has become she grew up. The toughest part of moving a key player for FCM, particularly after former according to Line was being so far away from Brøndby Stadium and Danish international Maibritt Kviesgaard left this summer. In 2012 she her favorite football team, Brøndby IF. also made her debut in the Danish national team.
EC trophies: EHF Cup: 2011 EC trophies: EHF Cup: 2011
40 MKS Lublin
It has been ten years since MKS Lublin last played the Women’s EHF Champions League Group Matches, but now the Polish champions are back.
In six previous attempts between 2005 and 2010 the team of head coach Edward Jankowski did not make it past the qualification stage. This season, courtesy of the EHF seeding list, they qualified directly for the group matches.
Lublin strengthened their squad with seven new players, enhancing their options on the court as it is necessary on the European stage.
Two long-time key players, however, are out for the season: Kristina Repelewska is pregnant and Edyta Danielczuk had to put an end to her professional career because of health problems. She is now part of the team staff.
City, club and - of course - team mascot ‘Kozigrodek’ are eagerly awaiting the start of the EHF Champions League and they hope to make it to the main round. On the domestic level the club wants to win its 17th national championship.
The club’s president, Michal Jastrzebski, allows himself to dream: “It is an honour for our team to be a part of the best and the most prestigious competition.
Playing hall “We are going to do our best to be prepared in every single aspect to the games. We know well Globus Hall how important the Champions League for our spectators is and we deeply hope we will fulfill ul.Kazimerza Wielkiego 8 the expectations of our fans who want to see us fighting and being competitive.” 20 611 Lublin Poland Team captain Małgorzata Majerek counts on her team’s home strength: “We know we play Capacity: 4,300 good handball and we simply want to do our best in every single match.”
Club Address: Qualification for the Women’s EHF Past achievements MKS Lublin Champions League 2013/14 season: ul. Melgiewska 2 Polish champions Women’s EHF Champions League 20-209 Lublin Participations (including 2013/14 Poland season): 16 Newcomers (including former club): Quarter-finals: 1999/2000, 2001/02 Media contact: Ekaterina Dzhukeva (EKS Start Elbląg) Last 16: 1995/96 Michał Pomorski Joanna Drabik Group Matches/Champions League: +48 513 20 26 38 Kamila Skrzyniarz 1996/97, 1997/98, 1998/99, 2000/2001, [email protected] Honorata Syncerz (all from KSS Kielce) 2002/03, 2003/04 Katarzyna Kozimur Qualification: 2005/06, 2006/07, Online information: Joanna Szarawaga (both from SMS Gliwice) 2007/08, 2008/09, 2009/10, 2010/11 Website: www.spr.lublin.pl Marta Gega (Cergy-Pontoise, France) Facebook: mkslublin Other Twitter: @sprlublin Left the club (including new club): EHF Cup: Winners 2000/01, Quarter- Ewa Wilczek finals 2007/08, 2009/10 Edyta Danielczuk (end of career) Polish league: 16 titles (1995, 1996, Izabela Czarna (AZS Firmus Politechnika 1997, 1998, 1999, 2000, 2001, 2002, Kit colours Koszalin) 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009, Light Małgorzata Stasiak (Pogon Baltica Szczecin) 2010, 2013) Player shirt: white Polish cup: 10 times Player short: white Goalkeeper shirt: black Dark Player shirt: black Player short: black Goalkeeper shirt: red
41 MKS Lublin
Club records – Women’s EHF Champions League
Biggest win 29:16 (15:6) v Podravka Dolcela CRO (h), 06.02.2000 Biggest defeat 21:38 (10:18) v Kometal DP Skopje MKD (h), 17.02.2002 Longest winning run 4 matches (30.10.1999 – 06.02.2000) Longest unbeaten run 6 matches (30.01.1999 - 06.02.2000) Longest losing run 5 matches (15.02.2003 – 17.01.2004) Longest run without win 5 matches (15.02.2003 – 17.01.2004) Most goals 38 v GAS Anagennisi Artas GRE 38:28W (h), 30.01.2000 Most goals opponent 38 v Kometal DP Skopje MKD 21:38L (h), 17.02.2002 Most goals both teams 66 v GAS Anagennisi Artas GRE 38:28W (h), 30.01.2000 Fewest goals 19 v Motor Zaporoshje UKR 20:19L (a), 25.01.1998 19 v Larvik HK NOR 27:19L (a), 15.02.2003 Fewest goals opponent 16 v Henzo Swift Roermond NED 27:16W (h), 04.01.1997 16 v Podravka Dolcela CRO 29:16W (h), 06.02.2000 Fewest goals both teams 39 v Motor Zaporoshje UKR 20:19L (a), 25.01.1998
Women’s EHF Champions League record
MP W T L GF GA GD PTS Stage Reached 1996/97 Montex Lublin POL 6 2 0 4 155:155 0 4 3rd Gr. B 1997/98 Montex Lublin POL 6 2 0 4 156:163 -7 4 3rd Gr. A 1998/99 Montex Lublin POL 6 2 2 2 142:143 -1 6 3rd Gr. D 1999/00 Montex Lublin POL 8 5 1 2 221:204 +17 11 1/4-finals 2001/02 MKS Montex Lublin POL 8 4 0 4 215:221 -6 8 1/4-finals 2002/03 MKS POL-SKONE Lublin POL 6 1 1 4 133:155 –22 3 4th Gr. C 2003/04 KS BYSTRZYCA Lublin POL 6 1 0 5 155:186 –31 2 4th Gr. D Total 46 17 4 25 1177:1227 –50 38
42 MKS Lublin Team roster
No. First Name Surname Nat. Position Date of Birth Height
16 Aleksandra Baranowska POL Goalkeeper 10 Jan 1989 178 20 Joanna Drabik POL Line Player 28 Oct 1993 180 12 Weronika Gawlik POL Goalkeeper 20 Oct 1986 180 8 Marta Gega POL Left Back 16 Apr 1986 184 6 Agnieszka Kocela POL Left Wing 17 Jan 1988 171 2 Karolina Konsur POL Right Wing 1 Jan 1989 168 18 Katarzyna K. Kozimur POL Right Back 9 Jun 1994 180 9 Malgorzata Majerek POL Right Wing 10 Aug 1976 171 4 Dorota Malek POL Centre Back 3 Jan 1981 176 23 Alesia Mihdaliova BLR Right Back 22 Jan 1985 177 21 Valiantsina Nestsiaruk BLR Centre Back 30 May 1988 170 8 Malgorzata Rola POL Left Wing 7 Jan 1983 170 25 Kamila Skrzyniarz POL Right Back 20 Nov 1984 176 3 Honorata Syncerz POL Centre Back 27 Jan 1993 177 66 Joanna Szarawaga POL Line Player 2 Apr 1994 185 14 Katarzyna Wojdat POL Left Wing 24 Apr 1986 175 52 Alina Wojtas POL Left Back 21 Mar 1987 191
43 Edward Jankowski Weronika Gawlik coach goalkeeper Born in 1950 in the former Soviet Union, he Gawlik is the best goalkeeper among the graduated from Academy of Physical Education photographers and the best photographer in Warsaw and as a player he was goalkeeper. among the handball players. Born in the In the mid-nineties he joined Montex Lublin Silesia region, she attended the handball and was assistant coach helping Andrzej sport school in Gliwice and then at the Druzkowski in Polish league and European Silesian University of Technology. She moved Cups. In 2003 after 2 seasons in Jelenia Góra to Lublin in January 2011 and was initially as the first coach, he came back to Lublin and the second choice behind Anna Baranowska. take charge. He loves fishing and was known for painting and sculpting. However, when Baranowska moved to Germany, Gawlik progressed to first choice for club and country.
Małgorzata Rola Alina Wojtas left wing left back Just like Małgorzata Majerek, Małgorzata The tallest player of the team at 191cm, the Rola was also born in Łuków and came to 26-year-old is an icon in Poland, especially Lublin for secondary school. The 31-year-old for young players coming to watch her play. started playing for the senior team of Montex Born in Nowy Sącz in south-eastern Poland, at the age of 20 but she never dreamt that Wojtas spent a few seasons in Dablex Gdańsk, eight months later she would score a decisive but has been a key player of MKS Lublin since goal to qualify for the EHF Champions League 2009 and become an important figure on the the following season. She has not been a Polish national team. Recently famous for regular performer in the last few seasons due to injury, but is now she photo shoots in which she shows that she could be as good a model is back and ready for Europe. as she is a handball player.
Marta Gęga Joanna Szarawaga centre back line player After becoming top scorer of the Polish Born in 1994, she is one of the youngest line league in 2009, Gega tried her luck in players in the competition. A key member France, first in Le Havre where her guide of Polish Junior National team and joined was Karolina Siodmiak, another well-known the club this summer after graduating from Polish handball player. Incidentally, at the first a handball Secondary School in Gliwice. training in Le Havre, Gęga accidentally broke At 184cm tall, the strong and ambitious two of Siodmaik’s teeth with a shot, a terrible player says that her biggest advantage is her start to an eventually successful season with personality, mentality and sporting character. the club, reaching the EHF Cup Semi-finals. Gęga moved to Lublin this Her idol and personal trainer is Monika Marzec, former Lublin and summer after an injury hampered spell at Cergy-Pontoise. Buducnost line player, now the coach of the club’s second team.
Dorota Małek Małgorzata Majerek right back right wing One of the most experienced players in Majerek was born in the small city of Lukow Lublin. She joined the team in 2001 and in the Lublin region. She graduated from already at the age of 21 she was often the UMCS University in Lublin and started her first choice in European games. Despite many professional career in 1994 joining Lublin injuries between 2005 and 2009 she was team and has stayed there until now. The probably the best Polish league player and 37-year-old is regarded as one of the best participated in the EHF EURO 2006 and the Polish right wingers. She retired from the World Championship a year later. Małek has national team in 2009 and works at the refused all offers from top international teams abroad, including Krim Private Wincenty Pol University of Lublin. This will be her 17th when she was 21. consecutive season in European Cup competition.
44 FTC-Rail Cargo Hungaria
They hope – regarding their name sponsor – to be on the right track this season: FTC or “Fradi” narrowly missed the semi-finals in the previous EHF Champions League season, but after some improvement even their opponents estimate the Hungarian runners-up as one of the main contenders of the competition.
After beating Lokomotiva Zagreb and their domestic rivals from Érd in the qualification tournament on home court, FTC will face 2011 Champions League champions Budućnost, Midtjylland and Lublin in the expected close Group Phase.
After last season’s Champions League top scorer Zsuzsanna Tomori has recovered from a surgery, “Fradi” additionally signed a high ranked back-up option for the left back position: German international Laura Steinbach. And Steinbach is only one of three foreign players in the nearly all-Hungarian squad aside Belarusian Alena Abramovich and Spanish Nerea Pena.
Not only because of those reinforcements FTC hope to finish second in the Hungarian league below reigning Champions League winners from Győr and to clinch a berth in the Main Round again.
Managing director Beatrix Kökény is looking forward despite some challenges: “We were happy to organise the qualification tournament and to proceed to the Group. I would like the team to march ahead into the Main Round although our group is very hard.” Playing hall City Hall Dabas Team captain Zita Szucsánszki shares those hopes: “It was obligatory for us to win the Iscola utca 5 qualification tournament and we did it. We got into a very difficult group but we would like to 2370 Dabas get into the Main Round as we did last year.” Hungary Capacity: 2,498
Club Address: Qualification for the Women’s EHF Past achievements FTC Rail Cargo Hungaria Champions League 2013/14 season: Kobanyai ut 47/a. Winners of qualification tournament 3, Women’s EHF Champions League 1101 Budapest runners-up in Hungary Participations (including 2013/14 Hungary season): 14 Newcomers (including former club): Runners-up: 2001/02 Media contact: Laura Steinbach (Bayer Leverkusen) Semi-finals: 1996/97, 2000/01 Andrea Pordán Melinda Szikora (Fehérvár KC) Quarter-finals: 1999/2000, 2002/03, +36 20 365 8263 Rea Mészáros (Váci NKSE) 2003/04 [email protected] Group Matches/Champions League: Left the club (including new club): 1994/95, 1995/96, 1997/98, 2006/07, Online information: Melinda Pastrovics 2007/08, 2012/13 Website: kezilabda.fradi.hu Dóra Deáki Qualification: 2009/10 Facebook: ftckezilabda Bettina Dajka Twitter: @ftckezilabda Viktória Lukács (all to Siófok KC) Other EHF Cup: Winners: 2005/06, Semi-finals: 2004/05
Kit colours Cup Winners’ Cup: Winners 2010/11, Light 2011/12, Semi-finals: 2006/07 Player shirt: white Player short: white Hungarian league: 11 titles (1966, 1968, Goalkeeper shirt: white/red 1969, 1971, 1994, 1995, 1996, 1997, Dark 2000, 2002, 2007) Player shirt: green Hungarian cup: 12 titles Player short: green Goalkeeper shirt: blue/black
45 FTC-Rail Cargo Hungaria
Club records – Women’s EHF Champions League
Biggest win 42:16 (19:7) v Anagennisi Artas GRE (h), 18.01.1997 Biggest defeat 22:32 (11:13) v CS ‘Oltchim’ Rm. Valcea ROU (h), 04.11.2007 Longest winning run 5 matches (14.10.2012 – 11.11.2012) Longest unbeaten run 6 matches (17.02.1996 – 05.01.1997) Longest losing run 4 matches (12.01.2007 – 17.02.2007) 4 matches (27.10.2007 – 16.11.2007) Longest run without win 5 matches (04.01.1998 – 31.10.1999) Most goals 42 v Anagennisi Artas GRE 42:16W (h), 18.01.1997 Most goals opponent 39 v Viborg HK A/S DEN 39:30L (a), 13.01.2008 Most goals both teams 70 v Hypo Niederösterreich AUT 34:36L (h), 10.02.2007 Fewest goals 17 v Volgograd AKVA RUS 22:17L (a), 03.03.2001 Fewest goals opponent 16 v Anagennisi Artas GRE 42:16W (h), 18.01.1997 16 v TUS Walle Bremen GER 27:16W (h), 25.01.1997 Fewest goals both teams 36 v Hypo Niederösterreich AUT 18:18D (h), 31.03.1996
Women’s EHF Champions League record
MP W T L GF GA GD PTS Stage Reached 1994/95 Ferencvaros Budapest HUN 6 3 1 2 135:129 +6 7 3rd Gr. B 1995/96 Ferencvaros Budapest HUN 6 3 2 1 145:137 +8 8 2nd Gr. B 1996/97 Ferencvaros Budapest HUN 10 6 1 3 264:208 +56 13 1/2-finals 1997/98 HERZ – FTC Budapest HUN 6 1 1 4 147:159 –12 3 3rd Gr. B 1999/00 HERZ – FTC Budapest HUN 8 4 0 4 204:201 +3 8 1/4-finals 2000/01 HERZ – FTC Budapest HUN 10 5 0 5 264:232 +32 10 1/2-finals 2001/02 HERZ – FTC Budapest HUN 12 6 2 4 348:341 +7 14 Runner-up 2002/03 HERZ – FTC Budapest HUN 8 6 0 2 252:228 +24 12 1/4-finals 2003/04 FTC Budapest HUN 8 5 0 3 220:221 -1 10 1/4-finals 2006/07 FTC Budapest HUN 6 2 0 4 177:188 -11 4 3rd Gr. D 2007/08 Budapest Bank-FTC HUN 6 1 0 5 165:192 –27 2 4th Gr. D 2012/13 FTC Rail Cargo Hungaria HUN 12 8 0 4 346:336 +10 16 3rd MR Gr. 2 Total 98 50 7 41 2667:2572 +95 107
46 FTC-Rail Cargo Hungaria Team roster
No. First Name Surname Nat. Position Date of Birth Height
16 Alena Abramovich BLR Goalkeeper 18 Jul 1981 192 3 Anita Cifra HUN Line Player 6 Aug 1989 180 1 Annamaria Ferenczi HUN Goalkeeper 29 May 1994 178 32 Agnes Kocsis HUN Centre Back 11 Feb 1995 178 19 Monika Kovacsicz HUN Right Wing 20 Nov 1983 171 14 Rea Reka Meszaros HUN Line Player 14 Apr 1994 172 29 Noemi Mod HUN Centre Back 20 Apr 1997 174 40 Orsolya Monori HUN Left Back 3 Jul 1997 175 25 Nerea Pena Abaurrea ESP Centre Back 13 Dec 1989 175 18 Laura Steinbach GER Left Back 2 Aug 1985 181 15 Nelli Such HUN Right Wing 12 May 1992 175 98 Piroska Szamoransky HUN Line Player 9 Jul 1986 171 4 Adrienn Szarka HUN Left Wing 28 Jun 1991 176 94 Luca Szekerczes HUN Right Back 18 Jun 1994 175 12 Melinda Szikora HUN Goalkeeper 19 Nov 1988 175 8 Zita Szucsanszki HUN Centre Back 22 May 1987 172 23 Zsuzsanna Tomori HUN Right Back 18 Jun 1987 187 6 Orsolya Verten HUN Left Wing 22 Jul 1982 170 2 Szandra Zacsik HUN Left Back 22 Apr 1990 183
47 Gábor Elek Alena Abramovich coach goalkeeper The successor of Ferencváros’ world famous She was born in Minsk and began her career coach András Németh has been at the helm at Arkatron in 1999. Five years later she since 2008. His father Gyula Elek is the moved to Zvezda Zvenigorod, then to Hungary legendary coach of Ferencváros, as trainer and played in Hódmezővásárhely between of the club for almost three decades from 2006 and 2010, before joining Ferencváros. 1966 to 1992. After passing away in 2012, the Abramovich made her international debut at arena of the club was named in his honour. His the EHF EURO 2002 in Denmark and she has mother, Anna Rothermel, was also a handball been a key player for Belarus ever since. She player with FTC and Hungary. He likes to play soccer and tennis in his likes reading; especially the works of Dan Brown and Paulo Coelho, free time. her favourite Russian literary person is Puskin.
EC trophies: Cup Winners’ Cup: 2011, 2012 EC trophies: Cup Winners’ Cup: 2011, 2012
Orsolya Vérten Zsuzsanna Tomori left wing left back Vérten is the most experienced player of the She is currently one of the biggest stars of team and played for Győr for ten years (2002- Hungary and one of the best back players in 2012). She made her international debut in the world. Previous Hungarian clubs include 2002 and was elected to the All-Star team at Dunaferr, Vasas and Győr, but her biggest the 2008 Olympics where her team finished successes came with FTC, where she won fourth. She is a qualified coach since last year the Cup Winners’ Cup twice. Tomori was the and currently trains the ASI DSK youth team. top scorer in last season’s competition with She would like to train young players after 95 goals. She likes several sports, especially her retirement. She comes from a sport crazy family, but is the only tennis and her favourite player is Roger Federer, she also likes to play professional athlete. guitar in her spare time. EURO: Bronze 2012 / WCh: Bronze 2005 EC trophies: Cup Winners’ Cup: 2011, 2012 EHF EURO: Bronze 2012
Zita Szucsánszki Anita Cifra centre back line player She is the captain and most successful player Since her arrival in 2011 from Békéscsaba, of current Ferencváros team. Awarded the Cifra has become a key player. A member of best player in Hungary in 2011, she has won the Hungarian national team since 2009, a the EHF Cup in 2006 and Cup Winners’ Cup in shoulder injury right before the EHF EURO 2011 and 2012. A member of the Hungarian 2012 ruled her out. The 24-year-old who is national team since 2006 and has won bronze set for her second season in Europe’s elite with the team at the EHF EURO 2012 in competition, started playing handball thanks Serbia. Her parents and her sister were also to her brother, who plays with Orosháza and handball players at an amateur level. She likes to cook and relaxes by previously with Veszprém and Csurgó. “Cifi” loves lions and collects making delicious dishes. lion memorabilia.
EC trophies: EHF Cup: 2006, Cup Winners’ Cup: 2011, 2012 EC trophies: Cup Winners’ Cup: 2012 EHF EURO: Bronze 2012
Szandra Zácsik Mónika Kovacsicz right back right wing She is one of the biggest Hungarian talents She was born in Komárno, Slovakia and and is well-known for her shooting power. played for SSK Nesvady until 1999, after A long lasting shoulder injury has stunted which she moved to Hungary and played her progression, with two operations since for Békéscsaba, Győr and FTC. In 2008 she 2010 and a very long recovery period. Now it moved to Viborg and won the EHF Champions seems like she finally ready to return to form. League two times in a row. She came back Teammate Mónika Kovacsicz is her cousin and to FTC in 2010 and was the top goalscorer in her partner Szabolcs Szöllősi is the line player their successful Cup Winners’ Cup campaign for the Hungarian national team. Szandra likes to go to the cinema, in 2011/2012. Kovascsicz has made over 120 appearances for and has recently started dancing lessons. Hungary. She loves animals and has a Miniature Schnauzer.
EC trophies: Cup Winners’ Cup: 2011, 2012 EC trophies: ChL: 2009, 2010, Cup Winners’ Cup: 2011, 2012 EHF EURO: Bronze 2012 / WCh: Bronze 2005
48 Group B head-to-heads Historic encounters of the Group B opponents in the EC
Buducnost vs FC Midtjylland 16.03.2003 RK Buducnost MONET YUG-Ikast Bording EH DEN Women’s EHF Champions League – 1/4-finals 28:29 (14:16) 22.03.2003 Ikast Bording EH DEN-RK Buducnost MONET YUG Women’s EHF Champions League – 1/4-finals 25:26 (12:14) 04.01.2004 Ikast Bording EH DEN-RK Buducnost MONET SCG Women’s EHF Champions League – Group B 30:22 (12:11) 15.02.2004 RK Buducnost MONET SCG-Ikast Bording EH DEN Women’s EHF Champions League – Group B 31:19 (14:8) 16.01.2005 ZRK Buducnost MONET SCG-Ikast Bording EH DEN Women’s EHF Champions League – Group A 22:27 (14:13) 30.01.2005 Ikast Bording EH DEN-ZRK Buducnost MONET SCG Women’s EHF Champions League – Group A 32:25 (18:15) 16.10.2011 Buducnost MNE-FC Midtjylland DEN Women’s EHF Champions League – Group A 28:25 (11:11) 11.11.2011 FC Midtjylland DEN-Buducnost MNE Women’s EHF Champions League – Group A 34:20 (19:10)
Buducnost vs MKS Lublin 15.10.2006 SPR SAFO-ICom Lublin POL-ZRK Buducnost MONET CRG Women’s EHF Champions League – Qualification Round 2 24:21 (10:10) 22.10.2006 ZRK Buducnost MONET CRG-SPR SAFO-ICom Lublin POL Women’s EHF Champions League – Qualification Round 2 21:17 (10:8)
Buducnost vs FTC-Rail Cargo Hungaria 14.04.2002 HERZ – FTC Budapest HUN-Bud. Brillant Podgorica YUG Women’s EHF Champions League – 1/2-finals 32:32 (16:14) 21.04.2002 Bud. Brillant Podgorica YUG-HERZ – FTC Budapest HUN Women’s EHF Champions League – 1/2-finals 31:32 (16:16) 29.10.2006 Buducnost T-Mobile MNE-FTC Budapest HUN Champions Trophy – Place 3/4 30:25 (15:14) 27.10.2007 Buducnost T-Mobile MNE-Budapest Bank-FTC HUN Women’s EHF Champions League – Group D 22:19 (11:9) 06.01.2008 Budapest Bank-FTC HUN-Buducnost T-Mobile MNE Women’s EHF Champions League – Group D 36:28 (15:12)
FC Midtjylland vs MKS Lublin 22.01.1995 Ikast FS DEN-Montex Lublin POL City Cup – 1/4-finals 19:17 (10:9) 29.01.1995 Montex Lublin POL-Ikast FS DEN City Cup – 1/4-finals 21:19 (11:12) 07.11.1998 Montex Lublin POL-Ikast FS DEN Women’s EHF Champions League – Group D 27:26 (12:15) 30.01.1999 Ikast FS DEN-Montex Lublin POL Women’s EHF Champions League – Group D 20:20 (8:11) 18.01.2003 Ikast Bording EH DEN-MKS POL-SKONE Lublin POL Women’s EHF Champions League – Group C 27:20 (19:12) 22.02.2003 MKS POL-SKONE Lublin POL-Ikast Bording EH DEN Women’s EHF Champions League – Group C 27:28 (15:14) 03.10.2008 Ikast-Brande EH DEN-SPR ASSECO BS Lublin POL Women’s EHF Champions League – Qual. Tournament 2-Group 3 44:31 (20:14)
FC Midtjylland vs FTC-Rail Cargo Hungaria 02.11.2002 FTC Budapest HUN-Ikast Bording DEN Champions Trophy – 1/2-finals 30:32 (18:17)
MKS Lublin vs FTC-Rail Cargo Hungaria 17.03.2002 MKS Montex Lublin POL-HERZ – FTC Budapest HUN Women’s EHF Champions League – 1/4-finals 32:31 (15:14) 24.03.2002 HERZ - FTC Budapest HUN-MKS Montex Lublin POL Women’s EHF Champions League – 1/4-finals 25:23 (13:13) 17.01.2004 FTC Budapest HUN-KS BYSTRZYCA Lublin POL Women’s EHF Champions League – Group D 32:24 (20:13) 22.02.2004 KS BYSTRZYCA Lublin POL-FTC Budapest HUN Women’s EHF Champions League – Group D 27:28 (15:14)
49 Group C preview
Expert’s view Nataliya Derepasko
She won the EHF Champions League in 2001 and 2003 and was in the finals in 2006 again: Nataliya Derepasko wrote history with her club Krim Ljubljana. Born in Ukraine, she joined Krim in 1997 and took over the Slovenian citizenship later. Derepasko was twice top scorer of the Champions League (2004, 2006) and after she retired at Krim in 2008, the now 40-year-old back court ace played one season in Italy – but still lives in Ljubljana.
After playing 11 seasons in the Champions League, she has more than enough experience to give an expert view on Group C (including her former club) of the current competition.
“I really do not like to make any predictions in sport, especially not in women’s handball – as it is always difficult to guess what will happen. Every season brings something unexpected, and this year there will be no exception in the Champions League, especially as so many new teams are part of this competition compared to last season.
Two teams in Group C were not playing in the Champions League last season, so it will be hard to predict chances of Metz and Leipzig returning to the European top flight.
Krim can repeat last season’s result, when they reached the semi-final – but this would only be the minimum success for this team. And from my experience, I know that this club has always put the highest possible goals. I watched Krim at this year’s tournament in Ljubljana, which they won despite a strong competition.
I hope that this shows that the team is in good shape, but unfortunately Krim will have to start the season without Jelena Grubisic and Carmen Martin, two leading players of the team. I do not want to underestimate the other three teams, but I think that Krim are the absolute favourite in this group.
Metz, last season’s EHF Cup finalists, have reinforced the structure of the team with the arrival of new players and found the right balance of youth and experience. After returning to the Champions League, I think Metz are ready to take the next step forward and proceed to the Main Round. In my memory the French champions have always been strong in the attack.
HC Leipzig have a good selection of players and they proved their great desire and will to be back in the best 16 teams at the qualification tournament in Trondheim. But in my opinion Leipzig will be hit by missing pregnant goalkeeper Katja Schülke. Susann Müller, who just returned back home from Krim, can bring variety to the attack, but we have to wait to see, if this will be enough.
I do not think Sävehof are ready for big results in this season’s Champions League. The team consist almost exclusively from local players, but it does not mean that this squad is not able to surprise the favourites.”
50 RK Krim Mercator
Despite a number of severe injuries and the fact that it was the main task of coach Tone Tiselj to build-up a complete new team, Krim made it to the semi-finals of the Women’s EHF Champions League last season, before bowing out of competition at the hands of Larvik.
The squad has remained mostly the same over the summer. Some reinforcements arrived from abroad, mostly from the Romanian national team as well as Mentenegrin Anđela Bulatović from Budućnost.
On the other hand, some big names from the golden days of Krim’s two European triumphs in the early 2000’s have ended their career, they are Maryna Vergeliuk and Liudmila Bodnieva.
Expectations are high in the Slovenian capital – from a sporting and organisational point of view. It is their clear goal to reach the first Women’s EHF FINAL4 tournament (if implemented), for which Ljubljana is also a potential venue.
A major success in this season would be the perfect start for the big jubilee year of 2014, when Krim celebrates their 30th anniversary.
Two key players suffered injuries at the beginning of the season (Jelena Grubišić and Carmen Martin), but Tone Tiselj is used to this situation and does in fact have a larger squad at his disposal compared to 2012/13. Playing hall Arena Stožice Club director Goran Dujić is highly optimistic regarding the first stage of this season. Vojkova Cesta 100 1000 Ljubljana “We have a very interesting group, but according to our history the first position in this group Slovenia should be normal result for us,” says Dujić. Capacity: 6,000
Club Address: Qualification for the Women’s EHF Past achievements RK Krim Mercator Champions League 2013/14 season: Center Stožice Slovenian champions Women’s EHF Champions League Vojkova Cesta 100 Participations (including 2013/14 1000 Ljubljana season): 19 Slovenia Newcomers (including former club): Winner: 2000/01, 2002/03 Oana Manea (Valcea) Runners-up: 1998/99, 2003/04, Media contact: Talida Tolnai (Üsküdar B.S.K) 2005/06 Gašper Lončarič Patricia Vizitiu (Üsküdar B.S.K) Semi-finals: 2012/13 +386 51 630 877 Anđela Bulatović (Budućnost) Quarter-finals: 1995/96, 1996/97, [email protected] Neli Irman (Gen-I Zagorje) 1997/98, 2004/05, 2006/07 Miša Marinček (Žalec) Main Round: 2008/09, 2009/10, Online information: 2010/11, 2011/12 Website: www.rkkrim.com Left the club (including new club): Group Phase/Champions League: Facebook: rkkrim Susann Müller (Leipzig) 1999/00 Gabriella Kain (retired) Liudmila Bodnieva (retired) Other Maryna Vergeliuk (retired) Slovenian league: 19 titles (1995 – 2013) Kit colours Alja Janković (Celjske Mesnine) Slovenian cup: 19 titles Light Player shirt: blue Player short: blue Goalkeeper shirt: red, white, yellow Dark Player shirt: black Player short: black Goalkeeper shirt: dark blue
51 RK Krim Mercator
Club records – Women’s EHF Champions League
Biggest win 36:12 (18:3) v Anagennisi Artas GRE (h), 25.01.1997 Biggest defeat 35:18 (17:9) v Mar El Osito L’Eliana ESP (a), 16.11.1997 Longest winning run 6 matches (04.01.2003 – 22.02.2003) 6 matches (08.01.2005 – 19.02.2005) Longest unbeaten run 7 matches (20.02.2000 – 10.02.2001) Longest losing run 4 matches (13.02.2011 – 12.03.2011) Longest run without win 6 matches (16.10.2011 – 12.02.2012) Most goals 41 v H/K Dinamo Volgograd RUS 41:33W (h), 13.01.2007 Most goals opponent 40 v ‘Buducnost’ MNE 36:40L (h), 04.03.2011 Most goals both teams 76 v ‘Buducnost’ MNE 36:40L (h), 04.03.2011 Fewest goals 17 v Kometal Dorce Petrov MKD 23:17L (a), 14.11.1998 Fewest goals opponent 12 v Anagennisi Artas GRE 36:12W (h), 25.01.1997 Fewest goals both teams 34 v ESBF Besancon FRA 19:15W (h), 02.01.1999
Women’s EHF Champions League record
MP W T L GF GA GD PTS Stage Reached 1996/97 Krim Electa Ljubljana SLO 8 4 0 4 197:178 +19 8 1/4-finals 1997/98 Krim Electa Ljubljana SLO 8 4 0 4 210:218 -8 8 1/4-finals 1998/99 Krim Electa Ljubljana SLO 12 6 1 5 298:287 +11 13 Runner-up 1999/00 Krim Electa NR Ljubljana SLO 6 2 1 3 153:146 +7 5 3rd Gr. B 2000/01 RK Krim Neutro Roberts SLO 12 6 3 3 302:270 +32 15 Winner 2001/02 RK Krim Neutro Roberts SLO 6 3 0 3 148:151 -3 6 3rd Gr. D 2002/03 Krim ETA N. Roberts Ljubljana SLO 12 10 0 2 357:302 +55 20 Winner 2003/04 Krim Ljubljana Slovenia SLO 12 7 0 5 344:309 +35 14 Runner-up 2004/05 Krim Ljubljana SLO 8 7 0 1 222:185 +37 14 1/4-finals 2005/06 Krim Ljubljana Slovenia SLO 12 8 0 4 312:285 +27 16 Runner-up 2006/07 RK Krim Mercator Ljubljana SLO 8 5 0 3 245:231 +14 10 1/4-finals 2007/08 RK Krim Mercator Ljubljana SLO 6 2 1 3 175:180 -5 5 3rd Gr. B 2008/09 RK Krim Mercator SLO 12 6 0 6 383:386 -3 12 4th MR Gr. 2 2009/10 RK Krim Mercator SLO 12 7 1 4 364:334 +30 15 3rd MR Gr. 1 2010/11 RK Krim Mercator SLO 12 6 0 6 364:356 +8 12 3rd MR Gr. 1 2011/12 RK Krim Mercator SLO 12 4 2 6 290:312 -22 10 3rd MR Gr. 2 2012/13 RK Krim Mercator SLO 14 8 0 6 355:355 0 16 1/2-finals Total 172 95 9 68 4719:4485 +234 199
52 RK Krim Mercator Team roster
No. First Name Surname Nat. Position Date of Birth Height
10 Andjela Bulatovic MNE Centre Back 15 Jan 1987 175 5 Daniela De Oliveira Piedade BRA Line Player 2 Mar 1979 175 1 Jelena Grubisic CRO Goalkeeper 20 Jan 1987 181 6 Neli Irman SLO Right Wing 7 Apr 1986 172 33 Katarina Krpez SRB Right Wing 2 May 1988 170 15 Barbara Lazovic-Varlec SLO Right Back 4 Jan 1988 183 22 Oana Andreea Manea ROU Line Player 18 Apr 1985 177 16 Misa Marincek SLO Goalkeeper 18 Feb 1985 187 4 Carmen Martin Berenguer ESP Right Wing 29 May 1988 169 8 Tamara Mavsar SLO Left Wing 1 Apr 1991 178 23 Andrea Penezic CRO Left Back 13 Nov 1985 185 12 Sergeja Stefanisin SLO Goalkeeper 19 Sep 1974 184 21 Talida Tolnai ROU Goalkeeper 21 Aug 1979 187 17 Linnea Torstensson SWE Left Wing 30 Mar 1983 190 88 Patricia Maria Vizitiu ROU Right Back 15 Oct 1988 177 7 Nina Christin Wörz GER Centre Back 14 Nov 1980 180 44 Maja Zrnec SLO Right Wing 31 May 1988 166
53 Tone Tiselj Talida Tolnai coach goalkeeper The 52-year old from Celje is the most The experienced 34-year-old will have to bear decorated Slovenian strategist, having won the burden of the first choice goalkeeper for two consecutive CL trophies with Krim, some months, since Jelena Grubišić will be and reached the EHF EURO final with men’s recovering from injury. But this should not national team on home court in 2004. be an overwhelming task for the seasoned This success has earned him the moniker veteran of the Romanian national team. She »Napoleon« and his 2nd season in his 2nd stint has 17 European seasons under her belt, 8 at Krim gives him another chance to position of them in the CL and 5 of them were with the Ljubljana outfit even more as the one of Europe’s handball forces. Romanian powerhouse Vâlcea. She was closest to the coveted trophy He draws inspiration from different sporting legends. in the 2010 unsuccesful final bid against Viborg.
EC trophies: EHFCL 2001, 2003 EC trophies: Cup Winners’ Cup 2007, City Cup: 1996 Men’s EHF EURO: S 2004 EHF EURO: B 2010
Tamara Mavsar Andrea Penezić left wing left back This will already be the sixth consecutive CL The London Olympics were not a good place appearance for the Ljubljana born and raised for the Croatian international. In England Mavsar. She was only 17 when she first tasted she picked up a tricky injury, which marred Europe’s elite, but she immediatelly made her last season at the perennial Slovenian her mark on the team. Krim has continuously champions. Hopefully the 27-year old, who strenghtened its squad with reinforcement used to play for Lokomotiva in her native but for Mavsar’s position, and that fact alone Zagreb and later Podravka, will be trauma- proves her worth. She was short-listed for the free in her 7th CL season. She is a formidable competition’s best young player in the last season, when her team fell attacking force and a defensive rock, a true all-rounder. She was short in the semi-finals. named the best Croatian player of the year for 5 consecutive times (2008-12).
Nina Wörz Oana Manea centre back line player This will be the second season in Ljubljana for The newcomer fill a void on the 6-meter the 32-year old from Bremen, Germany. In line left by the retired club legend Lyudmila her first season, when the bulk of the squad Bodnyeva. She was born and raised in was nursing their injuries, Wörz had to step Bucharest at her childhood club Vâlcea. up and carry the load on both ends of the Playing in Slovenia will be her maiden season court. She was quite successful — with 46 abroad, although at 28 years of age she has goals she was joint second best scorer of the plenty of top-level experience, going into her team, and she rapidly adapted to the role seventh consecutive CL season and the final of the main playmaker. She is set to cause more problems for the against Viborg in 2010. The 2011 Romanian player of the year is a opposition defences with her passing and breakthroughs. fundamental part of the national team.
EC trophies: EHF Cup 2010 EC trophies: Cup Winners’ Cup 2007 WCh: B 2007 EHF EURO: B 2010
Barbara Lazović-Varlec Katarina Krpež right back right wing The 25-year old from Brežice is expecting With the Spanish leftie Carmen Martin her eighth European season. All but one — a — Krim’s best scorer in the last CL season year-long stint in Zaječar, Serbia — will have (54 goals) — being injured, the bulk of the been played at Krim. She is married to Vuk responsibility on the right wing will fall to Lazović, a handball player from Serbia. After Krpež, who was a part of Krim’s vast influx of contemplating a switch, she remained loyal new talent before last season. She had tasted to the Slovenian national team. After Susann CL before at Zaječar and Metalurg, but it Müller’s departure for Leipzig she will have was at Krim where her full potential as a fast a new contender for her position in the new season in the form of break specialist and scorer can trully be exploited. But will she be able Patricia Vizitiu. to make it hard for Martin to regain her position when fit?
54 Metz Handball
16-time French record champions Metz Handball had been part of the Champions League, but only once – in the 2011/12 season – they made it to the Main Round. In this season it is the clear objective of coach Sandor Rac to proceed among the eight best teams of the competition.
Therefore Metz signed players like tall Ukrainian shooter Anastasija Pidpalova or Czech international Barbora Raníková – but lost French international Katty Piejos to runners-up Fleury, who then failed in the qualification for the Group Phase.
The signs to clinch their berth to the next stage are quite good, as Metz were lucky in the draw, facing last season’s semi-finalists Krim, Sävehof and Leipzig.
In the previous season Metz were close to winning their first ever international title after winning the French double (league and cup): But despite a huge first leg lead in the EHF Cup finals against Danish side Holstebro they finally let the trophy slip from their grasp.
The preparation for the new season was not easy, as two key players – Russian Ekaterina Andryushina and Spanish Lara Gonzalez Ortega – were injured.
The Metz squad is really international, as nine nations are represented.
Sandor Rac, who also is manager of the Lorraine club, hopes – besides defending the domestic Playing hall trophies – to “make it among the best eight teams in Europe”. Team captain Nina Kanto “Les Arenes” Metz expects an equal group: “The first objective is reaching the Main Round of the Champions 5 av. Rue Louis le Debonnaire League. The teams in our group are on the same level, so we are aiming to win as many games 57000 Metz as possible.” France Capacity: 4,500
Club Address: Qualification for the Women’s EHF Past achievements Metz Handball Champions League 2013/14 season: 20 Rue des Mirabelles French champions Women’s EHF Champions League 57050 Metz Participations (including 2013/14 France season): 16 Newcomers (including former club): Main Round: 2001/12 Media contact: Chloé Bulleux (Nîmes) Last 16: 1994/95, 1995/96 Aurelien Klein Barbora Raníková (Zora Olomouc) Last 32: 1993/94 +33 673 829 413 Laura Flippes (Achenheim) Group Matches/Champions League: [email protected] Anastasia Pidpalova 1996/97, 1997/98, 1999/2000, 2000/01, 2002/03, 2008/09, 2009/10, Online information: Left the club (including new club): Qualification: 2004/05, 2005/06, Website: www.metz-handball.com Katty Piejos (Fleury Loiret Handball) 2006/07, 2007/08 Facebook: MetzHandballOfficiel Twitter: @MetzHandball Other EHF Cup: Runners-up 2012/13, Quarter- finals 2000/01, 2004/05, 2005/06, 2007/08 Kit colours Cup Winners’ Cup: Semi-finals 1998/99, Light 2003/04, 2009/10, 2010/11 Player shirt: yellow Player short: blue French league: 18 titles (1989, 1990, Goalkeeper shirt: orange 1993-1997, 1999, 2000, 2002, 2004- Dark 2009, 2011, 2013) Player shirt: black French cup: 6 titles Player short: black Goalkeeper shirt: blue
55 Metz Handball
Club records – Women’s EHF Champions League
Biggest win 28:19 (16:7) v Kometal DP Skopje MKD (h), 30.01.2000 30:21 (16:10) v Hypo Niederösterreich AUT (h), 01.10.2011 Biggest defeat 34:17 (13:10) v Mar El Osito L’Eliana ESP (a), 25.01.1998 Longest winning run 2 matches (30.01.2000 – 05.02.2000) 2 matches (09.11.2008 – 15.11.2008) 2 matches (15.01.2010 – 01.10.2011) Longest unbeaten run 2 matches (04.01.1998 – 11.01.1998) 2 matches (30.01.2000 – 05.02.2000) 2 matches (09.11.2008 – 15.11.2008) 2 matches (15.01.2010 – 01.10.2011) Longest losing run 6 matches (11.01.2003 – 01.11.2008) Longest run without win 8 matches (10.11.1996 – 15.11.1997) Most goals 32 v 1. FC Nürnberg Handball GER 32:24W (h), 15.11.2008 Most goals opponent 37 v Viborg HK DEN 24:37L (h), 01.11.2008 37 v RK Krim Mercator SLO 30:37L (h), 24.10.2009 Most goals both teams 67 v RK Krim Mercator SLO 30:37L (h), 24.10.2009 Fewest goals 14 v Hypo Niederösterreich AUT 27:14L (a), 17.11.1996 Fewest goals opponent 17 v Byasen Trondheim NOR 16:17L (h), 10.11.1996 Fewest goals both teams 33 v Byasen Trondheim NOR 16:17L (h), 10.11.1996
Women’s EHF Champions League record
MP W T L GF GA GD PTS Stage Reached 1996/97 ASPTT Metz FRA 6 0 2 4 108:137 –29 2 4th Gr. C 1997/98 ASPTT Metz HB FRA 6 1 1 4 135:166 –31 3 4th Gr. B 1999/00 ASPTT Metz FRA 6 3 0 3 130:121 +9 6 3rd Gr. A 2002/03 Handball Metz Metropole FRA 6 1 0 5 142:176 –34 2 4th Gr. D 2008/09 Metz Handball FRA 6 2 0 4 173:188 -15 4 3rd Gr. D 2009/10 Metz Handball FRA 6 2 1 3 163:174 -11 5 3rd Gr. B 2011/12 Metz Handball FRA 12 3 1 8 298:322 -24 7 4th MR Gr. 2 Total 48 12 5 31 1149:1284 –135 29
56 Metz Handball Team roster
No. First Name Surname Nat. Position Date of Birth Height
17 Ekaterina Andryushina RUS Centre Back 17 Aug 1985 186 9 Paule Baudouin FRA Left Wing 25 Oct 1984 172 14 Yvette Broch NED Line Player 21 Dec 1990 184 8 Chloe Bulleux FRA Right Wing 18 Nov 1991 172 66 Lindsay Burlet FRA Right Wing 6 Jun 1994 180 46 Margaux Cintrat FRA Goalkeeper 2 Nov 1995 189 20 Deborah Dangueuger FRA Goalkeeper 28 Apr 1994 175 2 Aramata Dembele FRA Left Wing 31 May 1993 175 5 Laura Flippes FRA Right Back 13 Dec 1994 169 1 Laura Glauser FRA Goalkeeper 20 Aug 1993 178 22 Lara Gonzales Ortega ESP Left Back 22 Feb 1992 184 11 Tamara Horacek CRO Right Back 5 Nov 1995 180 4 Nina Kamto Njitam FRA Line Player 5 Jun 1983 178 33 Deborah Kpodar FRA Left Back 3 Jun 1994 63 71 Kristina Liscevic SRB Centre Back 20 Oct 1989 173 30 Jurswailly Luciano NED Left Wing 25 Mar 1991 170 21 Svetlana Ognjenovic SRB Left Wing 26 Jan 1981 166 18 Anastasiya Pidpalova UKR Right Back 5 Jan 1982 190 12 Gervaise Pierson FRA Goalkeeper 9 Jul 1986 178 3 Marie Prudhomme FRA Right Back 3 Apr 1990 183 16 Barbora Ranikova CZE Goalkeeper 12 Mar 1985 180 7 Grace Zaadi Deuna FRA Left Back 7 Jul 1993 171
57 Sandor Rac Gervaise Pierson coach goalkeeper He started his coaching career in 1992 in Gervaise Pierson started handball as a France after a player career mostly in his goalkeeper in an all boys-team, in her native native Yugoslavia. He coached in Tunisia region, the Vosges, in the east of France. and Qatar before signing for Metz in 2006. She never left school for her handball He has experiences of coaching both men’s career and is still a student in physiotherapy and women’s teams during his career. these days. Since 2012, she’s a strong fan Between 2010 and 2012, he was at the helm favourite, especially because of her strong of Bascharage in Luxembourg. With the performances during the EHF Cup’s games departure of Sébastien Gardillou to OGC Nice, the Serbian head coach last season, when she helped Metz to advance to the final. She also came back to Metz. Last season, he was awarded as the best coach in recorded French League and French national cup titles in the last the French league. season.
Paule Baudouin Lara Gonzales left wing left back Paule Baudouin, nicknamed Pauly since her Lara Gonzales signed with Metz one year early carreer, is the team’s globetrotter. Since ago. According to her flatmate Grace Zaadi - 1999, she travelled all accross France, from Le centre-back - she is as good on the court as Havre to Mios-Biganos or Issy-Paris. She even cooking her “delicious fajitas”! Two seasons went abroad playing for Esjberg, in Denmark ago, she finished as the top scorer of the between 2008 and 2010. With Nina Kanto, Spanish league with 220 goals with Club she is the player with the most important Balonmano Elche. She also was the fourth international experience in the team. She was best scorer of the junior world championship elected as the best left winger in the French league last season. in 2012 with Spain. And step by step she made it to the Spanish national team. EC trophies: Challenge Cup 2012 WCh: S 2009, 2011 / EHF EURO: B 2006
Kristina Liščević Yvette Broch centre back line player The Serbian international has one of the most The Dutch international could have been beautiful Metz Handball’s stories. She signed a top model. Actually, she participated in for the French club in January 2012 to replace the TV-show “Holland’s Next Top Model” in Allison Pineau, who was seriously injured. 2008 and finished second in the competition. Since then, she became the favourite of the She also took part in fashion shows during fans and was one of the key player to win the the Amsterdam Fashion week. She left this French championship in the last season. She spangled world for handball, when she signed was elected best player of the year in France to Amsterdam in 2009. Before she arrived in last season. Previously, she also won two championship titles in Metz, she also played for Spain’s Alcobendas. She already declares Macedonian league in 2011 and 2012. that her career after handball will be in the fashion department.
Marie Prudhomme Chloé Bulleux right back right wing She was one of the 2009/10 season’s most She is a young French talent who arrived positive surprises, when she was playing with just this summer in Metz. On the right wing Arvor 29, a club which doesn’t exist anymore. position her mission will be to replace Katty She was injured for more than six months Piéjos, who signed for local rivals from until July 2011, when she decided to sign for Fleury. In her childhood she started playing Metz. She arrived quietly but her talent is basketball, but thanks to her father who now well-known as she was selected to play was OGC Nice’s head coach she discovered with the French national team for the first handball. Since then she played five years in time this summer, just several weeks after she had contributed to the Nîmes, where she experienced the first taste of the European trophy French championship title for Metz. as her team won the Challenge Cup in 2009.
EC trophies: Challenge Cup 2009
58 IK Sävehof
While the men’s team of Sävehof IK failed to defend their Swedish championship title, the women remained on course to win their fourth consecutive championship on domestic ground. And as Sweden, due to the EHF seeding list, again has been awarded a direct qualification place, Sävehof avoided the qualification round, which proved too much for them two years ago. So coach Henrik Signell will be on the international stage again and in the 2013/14 season his team will face Krim, Metz and Leipzig in the Group Matches.
The hopes are high to finish more successful than one year ago, when they ranked fourth, winning only one single match (at Volgograd).
The only new player is Icelandic Birna Berg Haraldsdottir (now the only non-Swedish player), while five players left the Gothenburg located team, which is aiming to win the fifth straight Swedish league title and to proceed to the Women’s EHF Champions League Main Round for the first time in their club history.
Team manager Susanna Laursen hopes for a clear improvement:
“We are happy to be here again. Our goal is to do it better than last year. We have kept all players which we wanted and think that we have developed both as a team and individually.
But we are in a tough group, but we know that we are a good team too,” says Laursen, with Playing hall whom team captain Ida Odén agrees with. Partillebohallen Gamla Kronvägen 56 “We are looking forward to playing games against this kind of opponent and we know that all 43300 Partille teams are excellent, but we also know we are a good team and we can beat every team if we Sweden do well,” says the 26-year-old right back. Capacity: 2,000
Club Address: Qualification for the Women’s EHF Past achievements IK Sävehof Champions League 2013/14 season: Box 201 Swedish champions Women’s EHF Champions League 43324 Partille Participations (including 2013/14 Sweden season): 6 Newcomers (including former club): Group Phase: 2007/08, 2010/11, Media contact: Birna Berg Haraldsdottir (Fram, ISL) 2012/13 Rüdiger Osterloh Frida Granberg Qualification: 2006/07, 2011/12 +46 736 84 57 55 [email protected] Left the club (including new club): Martina Adamsson Jensen (Skara HF) Other Online information: Josefine Olsson (Sparvagen) Cup Winners’ Cup: Last 16: 2011/12 Website: www.savehof.se Linnea Arrhenius (Fredrikstad, NOR) Facebook: Savehof Susanna Andreasson (BK Heid) Swedish league: 9 titles (1993, 2000, Twitter: IK_Savehof Fredrika Zeidler (Karra HF) 2006, 2007, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013)
Kit colours Light Player shirt: yellow Player short: yellow/black Goalkeeper shirt: green Dark Player shirt: black Player short: black Goalkeeper shirt: orange
59 IK Sävehof
Club records – Women’s EHF Champions League
Biggest win 25:30 (12:13) v Dinamo Volgograd RUS (a), 18.11.2012 Biggest defeat 24:37 (13:19) v Viborg HK DEN (h), 10.10.2010 Longest winning run 1 match (11.11.2007) 1 match (18.11.2012) Longest unbeaten run 1 match (11.11.2007) 1 match (05.01.2008) 1 match (18.11.2012) Longest losing run 12 matches (12.01.2008 – 11.11.2012) Longest run without win 14 matches (18.11.2007 – 11.11.2012) Most goals 36 v 1. FC Nürnberg GER 36:34W (h), 11.11.2007 Most goals opponent 39 v Larvik NOR 39:31L (a), 13.10.2012 Most goals both teams 70 v 1. FC Nürnberg GER 36:34W (h), 11.11.2007 70 v Viborg HK DEN 37:33L (a), 14.11.2010 70 v Larvik NOR 39:31L (a), 13.10.2012 Fewest goals 24 v RK Krim Mercator Ljubljana SLO 24:24D (a), 05.01.2008 24 v Viborg HK DEN 24:37L (h), 10.10.2010 24 v ‘Buducnost’ MNE 24:33L (h), 24.10.2010 Fewest goals opponent 24 v RK Krim Mercator Ljubljana SLO 24:24D (a), 05.01.2008 Fewest goals both teams 48 v RK Krim Mercator Ljubljana SLO 24:24D (a), 05.01.2008
Women’s EHF Champions League record
MP W T L GF GA GD PTS Stage Reached 2007/08 IK Sävehof SWE 6 1 1 4 172:191 –19 3 4th Gr. B 2010/11 IK Sävehof SWE 6 0 0 6 163:212 -49 0 4th Gr. A 2012/13 IK Sävehof SWE 6 1 0 5 174:192 –18 2 4th Gr. C Total 18 2 1 15 509:595 -86 5
60 IK Sävehof Team roster
No. First Name Surname Nat. Position Date of Birth Height
15 Jenny Alm SWE Left Back 10 Apr 1989 183 3 Linn Blohm SWE Line Player 20 May 1992 180 1 Johanna Bundsen SWE Goalkeeper 3 Jun 1991 183 11 Edijana Dafe SWE Left Wing 27 May 1990 164 5 Hanna Fogelström SWE Right Wing 8 Nov 1990 179 7 Johanna Forsberg SWE Line Player 16 Oct 1995 177 16 Jennifer Hama SWE Goalkeeper 16 Oct 1995 174 2 Birna Berg Haraldsdottir ISL Right Back 21 Jun 1993 183 12 Filippa Idehn SWE Goalkeeper 15 Aug 1990 183 13 Elin Karlsson SWE Centre Back 4 Jan 1989 180 17 Hanna Larsson SWE Centre Back 19 Feb 1995 180 6 Ida Oden SWE Right Back 14 Apr 1987 172 14 Linnea Petterson SWE Left Back 28 Jul 1995 181 8 Jamina Roberts SWE Left Back 28 May 1990 175 4 Louise Sand SWE Left Wing 27 Dec 1992 160 18 Amanda Sundberg SWE Right Wing 15 May 1994 180 9 Frida Tegstedt SWE Line Player 17 Jul 1987 180 10 Jenny Wikensten SWE Right Wing 1 Aug 1988 169
61 Henrik Signell Filippa Idéhn coach goalkeeper Even though he is only in his second year in 23-year-old is one out of extremely few charge of Sweden’s strongest women’s team, goalkeepers at top level who plays in shorts. he has a long history in the Gothenburg She has explained that this makes her feel based club behind him as he played eight more free to move, and that being hit by years for the club during his active days a hard shot on a bare leg does not hurt which also included one match for Sweden’s any more than through a pair of tracksuit national team. After his active career the trousers. For the first two years of her career, 37-year-old was in charge of the male junior which she started at the age of 12, she was team in Sävehof and later assistant coach for the men’s league team. a backcourt player, but as both goalkeepers in her team were ill for a In between he has also been assistant coach for Finland’s female training session, she took over the new position and has kept it ever national team. since.
Louise Sand Jamina Roberts left wing left back The 20-year old Swedish international, Although her names does not sound Swedish nicknamed Loui, has been crazy about playing at all, but more British or American, 23-year- ball all her life. As a child she played with the old Jamina was born in Sweden – in Bergsjön, ball, when other girls played with dolls, and close to Gothenburg, where her career has for her confirmation she only wanted a ball been unfolded. While playing the left back in as present. With her 160 cm she is not among her club team, she has been used as left wing the tallest on a court, but she more than from time to time in the national team, where compensates for that through her outstanding she had her debut in 2010. Her father, James technique. Coach Henrik Signell claims that she can do things with the was one of Sweden’s first professional body builders, but Jamina has ball which he has never seen any other female player do. never felt tempted to follow in his footsteps. EHF EURO: S 2010
Elin Karlsson Linn Blom centre back line player The 180 cm tall playmaker had a foreign Until three years ago, 180 cm tall Linn Blom adventure at a very young age. Even before actually played left back. At that time, she was 18, she went to Frederikshavn in however, her coach at that time saw her Denmark to play for their U18 team who potential on the line, where tall players also were close to reaching the final of the Danish often come in useful, and since then she has championship. Today, at the age of 24, she had so much success in that position that she dreams of climbing Kilimanjaro, but in the has made it into the national team. 21-year- meantime she organises Sävehof´s attacking old Linn has been deaf on her left ear all play very well and has also appeared in five internationals for Sweden. her life, but that has not stopped her from being successful on the handball court.
Ida Odén Hanna Fogelström right back right wing 26-year-old Odén is one of the most versatile Whether her nickname “Birdie” relates to female handball players, not only in Sävehof, her last name which resembles the Swedish but in Swedish handball in general. Although word for bird, fågel, or to the fact that she is her basic position is the right back, she also afraid of birds is a bit unclear. While she does functions very well as centre back and as left not risk to run into many birds in the handball back. Odén, who got her international debut halls, though, she is definitely not afraid of for Sweden in 2012, has been with Sävehof the fight on the court. Having won three titles for nine years after joining from Borås HK. with Sävehof at the age of only 21, she has Ida is a busy lady – along with her handball career she works at an IT far from got enough triumphs yet, her philosophy being that she can company, and she works with bookkeeping and economy as well. never get fed up with winning.
62 HC Leipzig
After a two season absence, German record champions HC Leipzig (21 titles) are back in the Women’s EHF Champions League Group Matches and they want to continue the way they played in the 2009/10 and 2010/11 seasons, when they were the last German women’s team to make it to the Main Round.
Despite the only former EHF Champions League winner in the Leipzig team – Nora Reiche (2010 with Viborg) - has ended her career, the squad seems to be stronger compared to last season, thanks in no small part to the transfer of “homecoming” Susan Müller, who arrived back after three years playing in Denmark (Alaborg, Randers) and Slovenia (Krim).
After Leipzig managed to earn their ticket to the group matches by beating Minsk and Trondheim in the qualification tournament in Trondheim, Müller has the great joy to face her former Krim teammates and Leipzig will additionally face former player Nina Wörz, who is still in the Ljubljana squad.
But a “positive problem” has an effect on the season goals, as last year’s German handball player of the year Katja Schülke, also number 1 in the German goal, is pregnant.
She was replaced during pre-season by Austrian Melanie Herrmann, moving from Frankfurt/ Oder.
Playing hall New coach Thomas Szwed Ørneborg keeps the Danish tradition at the helm, as he is the fifth Arena Leipzig straight HCL coach arriving from Denmark. His arrival also means the arrival of his wife, Polish Am Sportforum 1 international Karolina Szwed Ørneborg, to the squad. 04105 Leipzig Germany Capacity: 7,000
Club Address: Qualification for the Women’s EHF Past achievements HC Leipzig Champions League 2013/14 season: ARENA Leipzig winner of the qualification tournament Women’s EHF Champions League Am Sportforum 1 1, runners-up in Germany Participations (including 2013/14 04105 Leipzig season): 10 Germany Newcomers (including former club): Main Round (2): 2009/10, 2010/11 Susann Müller (Krim/SLO) Group Matches/Champions League (4): Media contact: Karolina Szwed Ørneborg (Odense/DEN) 1998/99, 1999/2000, 2002/03, 2006/07 Kay-Sven Hähner Melanie Hermann (Frankfurt) Qualification (3): 2000/01, 2008/09, +49 172 1399882 Isa Sophia Rösike (HCL youth team) 2012/13 [email protected] Left the club (including new club): Other Online information: Jessy Kramer (Vag/NOR) Cup Winners’ Cup: Finalist 1996/97, Website: www.hc-leipzig.de Nora Reiche (retired) Semi-finalist 2011/12 Facebook: HCLeipzig Anne Ulbricht (retired) EHF Cup: Runners-up 2008/09, Semi- Twitter: HCLeipzig finals 2004/05
German league: 21 titles (1953, 1957, Kit colours 1965, 1968, 1969, 1970, 1971, 1972, Light 1973, 1975, 1976, 1978, 1984, 1988, Player shirt: blue or white 1991, 1998, 1999, 2002, 2006, 2009, Player short: blue or white 2010) Goalkeeper shirt: red or violet German cup: 7 titles Dark Player shirt: black Player short: black Goalkeeper shirt: yellow
63 HC Leipzig
Club records – Women’s EHF Champions League
Biggest win 32:22 (11:11) v Podravka Vegeta Koprivnica CRO (h), 25.02.2007 Biggest defeat 33:20 (15:10) v Buducnost Podgorica YUG (a), 15.11.1998 Longest winning run 2 matches (06.02.1999 – 30.10.1999) 2 matches (30.01.2000 – 06.02.2000) 2 matches (25.02.2007 – 25.10.2009) 2 matches (09.01.2010 – 17.01.2010) 2 matches (09.10.2010 – 13.10.2010) Longest unbeaten run 3 matches (30.01.2000 – 19.02.2000) 3 matches (14.11.2009 – 17.01.2010) Longest losing run 8 matches (08.02.2003 – 17.02.2007) Longest run without win 8 matches (08.02.2003 – 17.02.2007) Most goals 35 v CB Elda Prestigio ESP 35:28W (h), 30.10.1999 35 v Viborg HK A/S DEN 35:37L (h), 11.02.2007 35 v HC Podravka Vegeta CRO 35:32W (h), 25.10.2009 Most goals opponent 39 v Viborg HK A/S DEN 39:33L (a), 13.01.2007 Most goals both teams 72 v Viborg HK A/S DEN 39:33L (a), 13.01.2007 72 v Viborg HK A/S DEN 35:37L (h), 11.02.2007 Fewest goals 18 v Nordstrand 2000 Oslo NOR 26:18L (a), 23.02.2003 Fewest goals opponent 19 v DVSC – Korvex HUN 19:20W (a), 07.11.2010 Fewest goals both teams 39 v DVSC – Korvex HUN 19:20W (a), 07.11.2010
Women’s EHF Champions League record
MP W T L GF GA GD PTS Stage Reached 1998/99 VfB Leipzig GER 6 1 1 4 140:170 –30 3 4th Gr. B 1999/00 HC Leipzig GER 6 3 1 2 162:157 +5 7 3rd Gr. C 2002/03 HC Leipzig GER 6 1 0 5 149:180 –31 2 4th Gr. B 2006/07 HC Leipzig GER 6 1 0 5 184:196 -12 2 4th Gr. C 2009/10 HC Leipzig GER 12 3 1 8 288:328 -40 7 4th MR Gr. 1 2010/11 HC Leipzig GER 12 4 0 8 280:306 -26 8 4th MR Gr. 2 Total 48 13 3 32 1203:1337 –134 29
64 HC Leipzig Team roster
No. First Name Surname Nat. Position Date of Birth Height
7 Natalie Augsburg GER Left Wing 15 Nov 1983 175 11 Debbie Bont NED Right Wing 9 Dec 1990 174 19 Melanie Herrmann AUT Goalkeeper 3 Aug 1989 180 17 Anne Hubinger GER Right Back 31 Jul 1993 185 14 Karolina Kudlacz POL Centre Back 17 Jan 1985 178 18 Saskia Lang GER Left Back 19 Dec 1986 179 5 Alexandra Mazzucco GER Right Wing 29 Jan 1993 175 20 Elisa Möschter GER Right Wing 20 May 1992 167 8 Anne Müller GER Line Player 5 Jul 1983 174 22 Susann Müller GER Right Back 26 May 1988 186 25 Julia Plöger GER Goalkeeper 15 May 1988 182 29 Isa-Sophia Rösike GER Line Player 30 May 1994 176 23 Nicole Roth GER Goalkeeper 8 May 1995 183 12 Katja Schülke GER Goalkeeper 18 Mar 1984 178 13 Luisa Schulze GER Line Player 14 Sep 1990 190 21 Karolina Szwed Orneborg POL Left Back 23 Apr 1989 183 26 Michelle Urbicht GER Centre Back 6 Jan 1994 172 3 Maura Visser NED Centre Back 1 Jun 1985 178
65 Thomas Szwed Ørneborg Julia Plöger coach goalkeeper Martin Albertsen, Morten Arvidsson, Heine After 25-year-old Julia Plöger had been the Jensen, Stefan Madsen and now Thomas No.2 goalkeeper behind Katja Schülke for four Szwed Ørneborg: Since 2004 Leipzig has years, she is in the spotlight this season, now only been coached by Danes. Ørneborg was that Schülke is pregnant. Plöger started her supposed to arrive for the start of the 2013/14 career at Halle/Neustadt and joined Leipzig season, but when Stefan Madsen left the in 2009. One year later she won the national club already in spring, his successor arrived in championship. Plöger benefits from the March – together with his Polish wife Karolina training sessions she receives by one of the Szwed Ørneborg, whom he met and coached, while he was coach at best German goalkeepers in handball history: Wieland Schmidt who 2012 Polish champions Vistal Łączpol Gdynia. won Olympic gold with GDR in 1980.
Natalie Augsburg Karolina Kudłacz left wing left back Former German champion (2009, 2010) Karolina Kudłacz, nicknamed ‘Kudi’ is arguably was born in the Polish city of Krapowice but the mastermind of HC Leipzig. In 2006 the moved to Germany while she was still a child. Polish international was very much sought She was very talented in athletics and only after by a large number of international top switched to handball at a later stage of her clubs, but she signed with Leipzig, where she life. While playing for TSG Ketsch in south- goes into her seventh season now – her first west Germany, her skills in the game were as the team’s captain as the she inherited that spotted and she transferred to HC Leipzig in role from pregnant goalkeeper Katja Schülke. 2007 where she also developed into a German national team player. The versatile back player played in Gdańsk before and is also the key Besides handball the 29-year-old studies economics figure in the Polish national team.
Maura Visser Anne Müller centre back line player With her playing style Dutch international Müller is the most common German surname, Maura Visser very much resembles THW so it is not very special that two Müllers Kiel’s top star Filip Jícha: her game is powerful (Anne and Susann) play for Leipzig. Until 2010 and she always looks for the straight way Müller played for former record champions, towards the goal. The left back arrived at and then she transferred to Leipzig. She HC Leipzig in 2011 coming from Danish side is a true fighter at the line, both in attack KIF Vejen with which she had reached the and in defence. With Germany she won EHF Cup Winners’ Cup Final the year before. bronze at the World Championship 2007 and Maura Visser was part of the Dutch national team that came fifth at participated at the 2008 Olympic Games. However, a German national the World Championship 2005 in Russia. championship is still missing in her career.
EC trophies: Challenge Cup 2005 WCh: B 2007
Susann Müller Debbie Bont right back right wing Susann Müller has returned back to her In the same way as her Dutch teammate handball roots. After having played for HC Maura Visser, Debbie Bont, nicknamed Leipzig’s youth and junior teams as well as ‘Bontje’, first played in the Netherlands and for the first team, she moved to Denmark then in Denmark before joining HC Leipzig. where she played for Aarhus and Randers. In Bont started her career in Volendam and 2012 the she joined Krim Ljubljana with which Amsterdam and played for FC Midtjylland she reached the Women’s EHF Champions until 2012. She is a counter-attack expert League Semi-finals. Back at Leipzig she has big and possesses the highest speed and the footsteps to fill as one of her predecessors on the right back position highest scoring efficiency in the team. She has already more than 70 was German record international Grit Jurack. internationals for the Netherlands under her belt.
xJunior WCh: G 2008 xEHF U18 EURO: B 2005
66 Group C head-to-heads Historic encounters of the Group C opponents in the EC
RK Krim Mercator vs Metz Handball 04.01.1998 ASPTT Metz HB FRA-Krim Electa Ljubljana SLO Women’s EHF Champions League – Group B 30:26 (14:10) 01.02.1998 Krim Electa Ljubljana SLO-ASPTT Metz HB FRA Women’s EHF Champions League – Group B 31:25 (12:11) 11.01.2003 Krim ETA N. Roberts SLO-Handball Metz Metropole FRA Women’s EHF Champions League – Group D 34:22 (18:9) 09.02.2003 Handball Metz Metropole FRA-Krim ETA N. Roberts SLO Women’s EHF Champions League – Group D 25:31 (12:17) 09.11.2008 RK Krim Mercator SLO-Metz Handball FRA Women’s EHF Champions League – Group D 26:31 (11:19) 03.01.2009 Metz Handball FRA-RK Krim Mercator SLO Women’s EHF Champions League – Group D 29:33 (12:18) 24.10.2009 Metz Handball FRA-RK Krim Mercator SLO Women’s EHF Champions League – Group B 30:37 (12:22) 09.01.2010 RK Krim Mercator SLO-Metz Handball FRA Women’s EHF Champions League – Group B 35:31 (20:14) 18.02.2012 Metz Handball FRA-RK Krim Mercator SLO Women’s EHF Champions League – Main Round-Group 2 20:21 (8:13) 10.03.2012 RK Krim Mercator SLO-Metz Handball FRA Women’s EHF Champions League – Main Round-Group 2 28:24 (14:9)
RK Krim Mercator vs IK Sävehof 27.10.2007 IK Sävehof SWE-RK Krim Mercator Ljubljana SLO Women’s EHF Champions League – Group B 30:31 (14:17) 05.01.2008 RK Krim Mercator Ljubljana SLO-IK Sävehof SWE Women’s EHF Champions League – Group B 24:24 (13:13)
RK Krim Mercator vs HC Leipzig 13.02.2010 RK Krim Mercator SLO-HC Leipzig GER Women’s EHF Champions League – Main Round-Group 1 32:26 (12:15) 07.03.2010 HC Leipzig GER-RK Krim Mercator SLO Women’s EHF Champions League – Main Round-Group 1 27:31 (14:20)
Metz Handball vs IK Sävehof No previous encounters
Metz Handball vs HC Leipzig 12.03.2005 HC Leipzig GER-Handball Metz Metropole FRA EHF Cup – 1/4-finals 32:29 (16:13) 20.03.2005 Handball Metz Metropole FRA-HC Leipzig GER EHF Cup – 1/4-finals 22:21 (13:10)
IK Sävehof vs HC Leipzig No previous encounters
67 Group D preview
Expert’s view Marit Breivik
Marit Breivik (58) played 140 internationals for Norway during her active career. She was the Norwegian national coach from 1994 to 2009, where she started the most glorious time in the history of Norway‘s female national team, leading the team to three European championships, one World championship and one Olympic gold medal. In 2009 she was awarded Knight of first Class of the Norwegian Sankt Olavs Order for her efforts as a role model for Norwegian athletes. Today, she is working at Olympiatoppen, an official organisation with the purpose of developing Norwegian top sports.
I see Group D as the second strongest group in the Women’s EHF Champions League Group Matches. In my opinion, Group A is the toughest one, as it contains extremely strong teams such as Győr and Hypo Niederösterreich. What makes Group D almost as strong, though, is the fact that, apart from Larvik, Vardar is also in that group, and that has become a team with a lot of really good players.
I expect Larvik and Vardar to be the two teams who proceed to the Main Round, and with Larvik as the favourites to proceed as group winners. However, I also see Prodravka as a contender. They have a lot of Champions League experience, and they will undoubtedly be a strong outsider, when the main round places are to be decided, while I do not expect Spanish Bera Bera to play that big a part.
I believe that this group may provide one or even two teams for the final round. Larvik have the qualities to reach the final, and I expect them to be better than they were last season, when they reached the final. They have Nora Mørk back at full strength after her long injury break, and they have all their national team players fit, with Isabel Blanco as a real fighter who will be very important to their team again. Vardar may also be a candidate for the final round, but it may be a question, how soon their many new players will get integrated in the team.
The way I see it, the favorites to reach the semi-finals are Győr, Krim, Larvik and Budućnost, while Hypo and Vardar are interesting outsiders.
68 Larvik
Larvik HK are one of the most consistent teams in the Women’s EHF Champions League. They have been to at least the semi-finals four times in a row since the 2009/10 season. Although the Norwegian record champions and cup winners have only added home grown players to the squad this summer, they have kept all key players and are aiming for another long run in the competition.
Three players have left the squad of coach Ole Gustav Gjekstad: Sara Breistøl, Olga Medvedeva and Pernille Wibe, but the ambitions are high at the 2011 winners and last season’s beaten finalists.
The all-Scandinavian squad, besides Danes Rantala and Bille only Norwegians play for Larvik, include some of the most experienced players of the whole competition like goalkeeping duo Rantala/Leganger, former world handball players Linn-Kristin Riegelhuth-Koren and Gro Hammerseng-Edin as well as Karoline Dyhre Breivang and Tonje Larsen.
For Ole Gustav Gjekstad, who also acts as the sports manager, the goals are set high for the upcoming season, in which Larvik also want to defend all their domestic titles. “After reaching the Champions League finals last year our ambitions will be as high this season. However, our focus will not be stretched further than the next step ahead of us, starting with the group matches and advancing from that stage.
Playing hall One of Larvik’s most influential players, Gro Hammerseng-Edin, shares the high hopes, but Arena Larvik still is humble. “It was a though blow to lose the finals in May, but it proves that we have a Hoffsgate 6 very strong team, which has even more strings to play on this season. We have some strong 3262 Larvik newcomers and I have to say that Nora Mørk’s comeback has been sensational so far. We have Norway also kept all key players from the last season. Our ambitions and expectations are still very Capacity: 4,000 high,” says the confident 33-year-old.
Club Address: Qualification for the Women’s EHF Past achievements Larvik Champions League 2013/14 season: Sverresgate 7 Norwegian champions Women’s EHF Champions League N-3256 Larvik Participations (including 2013/14 Norway season): 15 Newcomers (including former club): Winners: 2010/11 Media contact: Lise Løke (Storhamar) Runners-up: 2012/13 Tor Odvar Moen Alma Hasanic (Glassverket) Semi-finals: 2001/02, 2003/04, 2009/10, +47 479 38 803 Jeanett Egebakken Kristiansen (Glassverket) 2011/12 [email protected] Frida Bjaaland (Gulset) Quarter-finals: 2000/01, 2002/03, Vilde Ingeborg Johansen (junior team) 2006/07 Online information: Sofie Heide Lund (junior team). Group Phase/Champions League: Website: www.larvikhk.no 1994/95, 1997/98, 2005/06, 2007/08, Facebook: larvikhk Left the club (including new club): 2008/09 Twitter: @LarvikHK Sara Breistøl (retired) Olga Medvedeva (no new club) Other Mie Sophie Sando (SønderjyskE) Cup Winners‘ Cup: Winners 2004/05, Pernille Wibe (Issy Paris) 2007/08, Semi-finals 1996/97, 2005/06 Kit colours Light EHF Cup: Runners-up 2005/06 Player shirt: white Player short: red Norwegian league: 15 titles (1994, 1997, Goalkeeper shirt: black 2000-03, 2005-2013) Dark Norwegian cup: 13 titles Player shirt: black Player short: black Goalkeeper shirt: royal blue
69 Larvik
Club records – Women’s EHF Champions League
Biggest win 41:20 (24:9) v Dinamo RUS (h), 12.02.2011 Biggest defeat 29:17 (17:7) v RK Krim Neutro Roberts SLO (a), 10.03.2001 Longest winning run 6 matches (17.04.2010 – 13.11.2010) 6 matches (05.03.2011 – 07.05.2011) 6 matches (28.10.2012 – 10.02.2013) Longest unbeaten run 6 matches (17.04.2010 – 13.11.2010) 6 matches (05.03.2011 – 07.05.2011) 6 matches (28.10.2012 – 10.02.2013) Longest losing run 4 matches (03.11.2007 – 05.01.2008) Longest run without win 4 matches (03.11.2007 – 05.01.2008) 4 matches (12.02.2012 – 04.03.2012) Most goals 41 v Dinamo RUS 41:20W (h), 12.02.2011 Most goals opponent 35 v HC ‘Lada Togliatti’ RUS 35:25L (a), 10.11.2007 Most goals both teams 70 v IK Sävehof SWE 39:31W (h), 13.10.2012 Fewest goals 13 v Buducnost MNE 23:13L (a), 08.04.2012 Fewest goals opponent 16 v Oltchim Valcea ROU 22:16W (h), 10.02.2001 16 v Buducnost MNE 28:16W (h), 16.03.2013 Fewest goals both teams 35 v HC Dinamo RUS 18:17W (h), 08.11.2009
Women’s EHF Champions League record
MP W T L GF GA GD PTS Stage Reached 1994/95 Larvik HK NOR 6 2 1 3 141:144 -3 5 3rd Gr. A 1997/98 Larvik HK NOR 6 3 0 3 165:150 +15 6 3rd Gr. C 2000/01 Larvik HK NOR 8 5 0 3 193:181 +12 10 1/4-finals 2001/02 Larvik HK NOR 10 7 1 2 262:253 +9 15 1/2-finals 2002/03 Larvik HK NOR 8 4 1 3 216:193 +23 9 1/4-finals 2003/04 Larvik HK NOR 10 5 1 4 287:262 +25 11 1/2-finals 2005/06 Larvik HK NOR 6 3 0 3 153:154 -1 6 3rd Gr. A 2006/07 Larvik HK NOR 8 5 0 3 236:211 +25 10 1/4-finals 2007/08 Larvik HK NOR 6 2 0 4 166:179 –13 4 3rd Gr. C 2008/09 Larvik HK NOR 6 3 0 3 179:169 +10 6 3rd Gr. C 2009/10 Larvik HK NOR 14 10 0 4 365:339 +26 20 1/2-finals 2010/11 Larvik NOR 16 13 0 3 469:376 +93 26 Winner 2011/12 Larvik NOR 14 6 2 6 336:330 +6 14 1/2-finals 2012/13 Larvik NOR 16 10 0 6 435:379 +56 20 Runner-up Total 134 78 6 50 3603:3320 +283 162
70 Larvik Team roster
No. First Name Surname Nat. Position Date of Birth Height
22 Kristina Bille DEN Right Wing 3 Apr 1986 170 20 Frida Helene Bjaaland NOR Left Back 5 Jul 1995 179 5 Isabel Blanco NOR Line Player 10 May 1979 175 14 Kristine Breistoel NOR Left Back 23 Aug 1993 191 8 Karoline Dyhre Breivang NOR Centre Back 10 May 1980 172 3 Anja Hammerseng-Edin NOR Centre Back 5 Feb 1983 179 10 Gro Hammerseng-Edin NOR Back 10 Apr 1980 180 12 Alma Hasanic NOR Goalkeeper 13 May 1989 175 7 Kari Mette Johansen NOR Left Wing 11 Jan 1979 172 13 Vilde Ingeborg Johansen NOR Line Player 25 Jul 1994 182 11 Linn-Kristin Koren Riegelhuth NOR Right Wing 1 Aug 1984 178 4 Jeanette Kristiansen NOR Left Wing 24 Dec 1992 179 6 Tine Rustad Kristiansen NOR Back 12 Feb 1980 172 2 Tonje Larsen NOR Back 26 Jan 1975 185 77 Cecilie Leganger NOR Goalkeeper 12 Mar 1975 181 18 Lise Loke NOR Line Player 21 Sep 1984 171 21 Sofie Heide Lund NOR Left Wing 7 Mar 1994 163 9 Nora Mörk NOR Back 5 Apr 1991 167 19 Thea Mörk NOR Left Wing 5 Apr 1991 168 16 Lene Rantala DEN Goalkeeper 10 Aug 1968 181 17 Tine Stange NOR Left Back 14 May 1986 178 15 Linn Jorum Sulland NOR Right Back 15 Jul 1984 178
71 Ole Gustav Gjekstad Cecilie Leganger coach goalkeeper The former Norwegian international (149 caps) Larvik can count on a legendary duo in goal: quit his playing career in 1996 and became One part is Danish veteran Lene Rantala, the coach of Larvik HK for the first time in 1998. other is Cecillie Leganger. Despite having After seven years on the bench he became only one training session with the team each sports director of the club and later-on coach week, 37-year-old Leganger is still one of the of Norwegian men’s club team Drammen HK. world’s best goalkeepers. Apart from a full In 2011, after Larvik had become CL winners, cabinet of world championship medals and 44-year-old Gjekstad returned to the Larvik the EHF EURO title in 1998 she has also won bench and only narrowly missed the trophy after their defeat by Győr in three titles in the CL. In 2001 she was voted for the World Handball the last season’s final. Player of the year.
EC trophies: EHFCL 2004/05, 2006/07, 2010/11, CWC 1997/98, 1998/99, 2008/09 OG: B 2000, WCh: G 1999, S 2001, B 1993 / EHF EURO: G 1998, B 1994
Thea Mørk Gro Hammerseng-Edin left wing left back Nora Mørk’s twin has been playing in the In 2007 the left back was awarded the World same team as her sister since the age of five Handball Player of the year and - excluding – except for the 2009/10 season, when she the world championship title in 2011 and the played for Norwegian side Njård, while Nora Olympic gold medal in 2012 - Hammerseng was already playing in Larvik. The following has the same cabinet of medals as year the sisters were reunited in Larvik. Riegelhuth-Koren. Several times the 32 year Thea is a technically skilled left winger with a old Norwegian was nominated for All Star fine variation of shots. She is coming from a Teams at major tournaments – and in 2011 breakthrough season scoring 31 goals in the CL. Her other sister Kaja she was a key part of Larvik’s CL winning team. In 2013 she resigned plays handball in Nordstrand. from the national team. EC trophies: EHFCL 2010/11 EC trophies: EHFCL 2010/11, Cup Winners’ Cup 2003/04 OG: G 2008 / WCh: S 2001, 2007 / EHF EURO: G 2004, 2006, 2010, S 2002
Anja Hammerseng-Edin Isabel Blanco centre back line player The 31-year-old centre back was awarded After a glorious career in Danish top club MVP at the EHF EURO 2012 after she led Ikast/FC Midtjylland, she returned home Norway to the silver medal. And also for her to Norway to join Larvik in the summer of club team, Edin has proven to be extremely 2011. Experienced Blanco still seems far from valuable – at orchestrating the Norwegian the end of her career. In fact, the physically top team’s attacking play as well as being strong line player, who is also a highly skilled a dangerous shooter herself which was painter with several exhibitions behind her, emphasised by her 58 goals in the European is as crucial to her team as ever. Her father top flight last season. In the 2013 summer she got married to her Fernando was a Spanish football player, who played for Bran Bergen teammate Gro Hammerseng. in the 70s. She spent one season in Spain playing for Ferrobus Mislata.
WCh: B 2009 EC trophies: EHF Cup 2001/02, 2010/11 EHF EURO: G 2004, 2008
Linn Jørum Sulland Linn-Kristin Riegelhuth-Koren right back right wing The expectations were high, when Sulland Double Olympic champion, world champion, was introduced in Larvik back in 2009, when four time EHF EURO champion, winner of she joined from another Norwegian league the CL in 2011 and world handball player of team, Stabæk. Already in 2005/06 she was the year 2008 – “Linka” is one of the most voted for the best player of the domestic successful players in the current CL season. competition and also was the top scorer. And The right wing also won the Cup Winners’ Cup the Norwegian international, who is 28 now, with Larvik. She has played more than 200 has fully met those expectations. Usually she international matches for Norway, scoring is using her strength in the attack only, but here the team benefits a 900 goals. She is married to Norwegian international Einar Koren. lot from her varied shots from the right back position. EC trophies: EHFCL 2010/11, Cup Winners‘ Cup 2004/05, 2007/08 EC trophies: EHFCL 2010/11 OG: G 2008, 2012 / WCh: G 2011, S 2007 / EHF EURO: G 2004, 2006, 2008, 2010, OG: G 2012 / WCh: G 2011, S 2007 / EHF EURO: G 2008, 2010, S 2012 S 2012
72 Balonmano Bera Bera
The 2012/13 season will go down as a momentous year in the history of Spanish side Balonmano Bera Bera from San Sebastián. The team of former coach Tatiana Garmendia Lopez (now manager) did not only become national champions for the first time ever, but also secured the domestic double, including their third Spanish cup.
The Iberians are debutants in the Champions League after leaving their mark on other EHF European Cup competitions. Bera Bera hope to build a fortress in their Josean Gasca sports center in San Sebastián, as they will need to count on home points, if they try to get ahead of the other top teams in their group like last season’s finals Larvik or new powerhouse Vardar Skopje. Additional opponents are Croatian record champions Podravka.
Before their premiere season in the Champions League Bera Bera changed their coach to Imanol Álvarez, who will also try to defend both domestic trophies with nearly the same squad as in the season before.
Manager Tati Garmendia hopes that her team will gain international experience in the Champions League: “In our first participation in the Group Phase the objective of Bera Bera is humble. Larvik and Podravka are very experienced and Vardar are a great team.”
Team captain Matxalen Ziarsolo hopes for a big interest by their fans on the matches on international stage: “The players have a great enthusiasm for the Champions League. Our Playing hall* group is very complicated with very strong opponents. Anyway, we enjoy the best European Polideportivo Jose A. GASCA competition, trying to play the game that characterises Bera Bera and motivate the fans to Paseo de Anoeta, 8 come and support us.” 20 014 San Sebastián Spain Capacity: 2,448
Club Address: Qualification for the Women’s EHF Past achievements Balonmano Bera Bera Champions League 2013/14 season: Travesia Rodil, 8 Spanish champions Women’s EHF Champions League 20013 Donostia/Gipuzkoa Participations (including 2013/14 Spain season): 2 Newcomers (including former club): Qualification: 2012/13 Media contact: Ana Isabel Martínez (Elche) Jabier Otermin Ana Temprano (Zuazo Barakaldo) Other +34 669 796 556 Maitane Etxeberria (Bera Bera II) Cup Winners’ Cup: Semi-finals 2007/08, [email protected] Maria Acuna Quarter-finals 1996/97, 2012/13
Online information: Left the club (including new club): Spanish league: 1 title (2013) Website: www.balonmanoberabera.com Darly Zoqbi (Fleury) Spanish cup: 3 titles Twitter: @BalonmaBeraBera Eider Rubio Libe Altuna (both retired)
Kit colours Light Player shirt: blue Player short: blue *Alternative playing hall Goalkeeper shirt: yellow Bidebieta Sport Centre Dark Serapio Mujka 1 Player shirt: anthracite 20016 Donostia - San Sebastian Player short: anthracite Spain Goalkeeper shirt: green Capacity: 1,000
73 Balonmano Bera Bera Team roster
No. First Name Surname Nat. Position Date of Birth Height
5 Nagore Arizaga Iribarren ESP Centre Back 30 Jun 1992 170 3 Esther Arrojeria ESP Centre Back 11 Feb 1994 163 21 Adriana Cardoso de Castro BRA Right Wing 29 Oct 1990 168 4 Veronica Cuna Lage ESP Centre Back 2 Jul 1981 166 9 Nitsan Dunay ISR Left Back 24 Apr 1991 167 89 Silvia Ederra Urra ESP Line Player 8 Sep 1983 173 13 Patricia Elorza Eguiara ESP Left Back 8 Apr 1984 180 15 Maitane Etxeberria Martinez ESP Right Wing 15 Jan 1997 170 7 Uxue Ezkurdia ESP Left Wing 22 Jan 1994 156 18 Eider Lizarbe ESP Back 2 Apr 1996 170 44 Ana Isabel Martinez Martinez ESP Right Back 7 Dec 1991 173 8 Alba Menendez Martinez ESP Right Back 14 Nov 1991 170 88 Maria Nuñez Nistal ESP Line Player 27 Nov 1988 172 17 Elisabeth Pinedo Saenz ESP Left Wing 13 May 1981 175 23 Olatz Ramon ESP Line Player 24 Sep 1994 167 12 Yamiley Rodriguez Cubas ESP Goalkeeper 14 Jun 1988 179 16 Ana Temprano Fernandez ESP Goalkeeper 28 Jan 1984 173 19 Matxalen Ziarsolo Areitioaurtena ESP Left Wing 1 Feb 1982 171
74 Imanol Álvarez Ana Temprano coach goalkeeper The premiere of Bera Bera in the European Playing football in a boys’ team at the early top flight will be a big test for the 46-year-old, age of six was not amusing enough for Ana, who is in charge of the team for the first time so she rapidly changed to handball. Although this season. He played basketball until 14, Temprano started as a back court player, she when a new teacher came into the school and switched positions with the goalkeeper in her lured him to join handball instead. He always team because of an injury. She has always wanted to become a coach and so at the age worn number 12, this season will be the first of 25 already obtained his national certificate. one without it. Her biggest achievement as a In Asobal Álvarez joined Arrate as the second coach. He is always to player is one trophy of the Spanish Supercup. be seen with the same pair of sporting shoes in the matches as the winning streak of his clubs stands.
Eli Pinedo Patricia Elorza left wing left back The great left winger of Bera Bera and the One of the big names of the Basque team, Spanish team decided to play handball when Patricia Elorza will start her second season she was 12, after having tried football and at Bera Bera with the aim of improve their volleyball. A fashion fanatic, she comes from European performance from previous a very active family, with her twin sister editions. Started at the age of seven and joining her in handball for many years. Once it has been the only sport this tall player coming back from a match in Alicante by bus, (180 cm) has ever trained for. When she is the entire team got trapped by the snow, not playing, she loves trekking, fishing and turning an eight hour trip into a 25 one! reading novels. With Bera Bera she has recorded one league, one cup and two supercup titles. EC trophies: EHF Cup 2008/09 OG: B 2012 / WCh: B 2011 OG: B 2012 / WCh B 2011 / EHF EURO: S 2008
Alba Menéndez María Núñez right back line player She started to play handball a late (14) One of the two Bera Bera players from because she had already tried many sports the Canary Islands, Núñez started playing at early stages. Finally Menéndez decided handball at the age of 12, after practising to play handball as most of her friends were gymnastics and swimming, among other already in the local club. Although she has sports. She played as a right winger until had strong support from her family - her she was called to join the U18 Spanish father is a cycling fanatic. This is the fifth team. There, the coach decided she had to season of this young player (1991) who change to the line. Núñez always wears two already has titles from the Spanish league title, the Spanish Cup and wristbands and carries on to the bench her personal towel (same one the Spanish Supercup in her cabinet. for the past five years).
Ana Isabel Martínez Adriana Cardoso de Castro right back right wing Handball would have lost a very good player This Brazilian left handed player started if Ana Isabel, who took up gymnastics at the handball at the age of 10 at school. Always as early age of 4 had not decided to change a right winger, except for a short period as a sports when she turned seven ‘because right back, she is a familiar face in the Brazil handball was for free and my parents had national side. Like many Brazilians, she feels to pay for gymnastics’. For seven years she homesick sometimes in her fourth year in developed as a line player and changed to a Europe. Before she joined Bera Bera, she had back court player at the age of 14. Spanish played two seasons in Denmark’s Randers. club champion in U12 and U14. As an eccentricity, she buys a top In Spain she has already won one Spanish league title and raised one at the beginning of every season and the wears it in all matches Spanish Cup and 2 Spanish Supercup trophies. throughout the year…
75 HC Podravka Vegeta
Podravka Vegeta are in full transition and a season of uncertainty lies ahead. The Croatian record champions from Koprivnica have a new coach, a new interim director and nine newcomers, while ten players left the 20-time domestic champions set for their 20th appearance in the EHF Champions League.
Among those who left are some experienced players such as Lidija Horvat, Sanja Damnjanović and Marta Žderić and in their place came mostly young players, joining from Croatian sides or returning to their home-country, like Jelena Živković and Jelena Trifunović, who moved from Budućnost during the summer.
Even the coach is new: Goran Mrđen is the successor of Neven Hrupec, who had been coaching Podravka for some years.
After four straight years of failing to proceed to the main round, the team are faced with high hurdles once again, as Podravka will face last season’s finalist Larvik (NOR), the new powerhouse from Vardar and Spanish champions (and competition debutants) Bera Bera.
“We are aware that, unfortunately again, we were drawn into a very strong group, but it does not mean we will downgrade our goals.
“Given that we have a new and young team, we hope that we will ensure the continuation in Playing hall the European competition after the group matches,” says Ljerka Vresk, interim club director, Sport Hall Fran Galović who currently replaces Božica Palčić (maternity leave) in this position. Zeljka Selingera bb 48000 Koprivnica Podravka again start their season in three competitions. Besides the Croatian league and Croatia Women’s EHF Champions League they face stiff competition in the WRHL. Capacity: 2,500
Club Address: Qualification for the Women’s EHF Past achievements HC Podravka Vegeta Champions League 2013/14 season: Zeljka Selingera 3A Croatian champions Women’s EHF Champions League 48000 Koprivnica Participations (including 2013/14 Croatia season): 20 Newcomers (including former club): Winners: 1995/96 Media contact: Jelena Živković (ŽRK Budućnost) Finals: 1994/95 Ljerka Vresk Jelena Trifunović (ŽRK Budućnost) Semi-finals: 1997/98 +385 98 325 075 Mirjana Milenković (Besancon) Quarter-finals: 1996/97 [email protected] Dina Havić (RK Zamet) Main Round: 2000/01, 2001/02, Tina Gavranić (RK Zamet) 2008/09 Online information: Lea Vukojević (RK Zelina) Group Phase/Champions League: Website: www.rk-podravka.hr Antonia Jukić (RK Zelina) 1993/94, 1998/99, 1999/00, 2002/03, Facebook: RkPodravka Ekatarina Nemaškalo (RK Sesvete 2006/07, 2007/08, 2009/10, 2010/11, Agroproteinka) 2011/12, 2012/13 Anita Poljak (RK Lokomotiva) Qualification: 2003/04, 2005/06
Left the club (including new club): Other Kit colours Miranda Tatari (Astrakhanochka) Cup Winners Cup: Runners-up: 2004/05, Light Sanja Damnjanović (Viborg HK) Semi-finals: 2007/08 Player shirt: red/white Marta Žderić (ŽRK Budućnost) EHF Cup: Finals 2000/01, 2005/06 Player short: red Ivana Jelčić (RK Lokomotiva) Goalkeeper shirt: orange/yellow Anita Gaće (RK Lokomotiva) Croatian league: 20 titles Dark Lidija Horvat (RK Lokomotiva) Croatian cup: 19 titles Player shirt: blue Tanja Kiridžić (Iuventa Michalovce) Player short: blue/black Žana Čović (SG BBM Bietigheim) Goalkeeper shirt: black Maja Šon (unknown) Nikica Pušić Koroljević (pregnancy)
76 HC Podravka Vegeta
Club records – Women’s EHF Champions League
Biggest win 35:20 (21:9) v GAS Anagennisi Artas GRE (h), 19.02.2000 Biggest defeat 29:16 (15:6) v Montex Lublin POL (a), 06.02.2000 Longest winning run 6 matches (09.11.1997 – 01.02.1998) Longest unbeaten run 6 matches (09.11.1997 – 01.02.1998) Longest losing run 8 matches (15.11.2009 – 13.11.2010) Longest run without win 8 matches (15.11.2009 – 13.11.2010) Most goals 41 v Zvezda RUS 41:28W (h), 21.11.2010 Most goals opponent 40 v Győri Audi ETO HUN 33:40W (h), 13.01.2008 Most goals both teams 73 v Győri Audi ETO HUN 33:40W (h), 13.01.2008 Fewest goals 13 v HYPO Niederösterreich AUT 17:13L (a), 04.05.1996 Fewest goals opponent 14 v Hypo Niederösterreich AUT 17:14W (h), 29.04.1995 Fewest goals both teams 30 v HYPO Niederösterreich AUT 17:13L (a), 04.05.1996
Women’s EHF Champions League record
MP W T L GF GA GD PTS Stage Reached 1993/94 Podravka Koprivnica CRO 6 2 0 4 123:138 –15 4 4th Gr. A 1994/95 Podravka Koprivnica CRO 8 4 2 2 183:167 +16 10 Runner-up 1995/96 Podravka Koprivnica CRO 8 6 0 2 191:163 +28 12 Winner 1996/97 Podravka Koprivnica CRO 8 5 1 2 208:187 +21 11 1/4-finals 1997/98 Podravka Koprivnica CRO 10 7 0 3 254:220 +34 14 1/2-finals 1998/99 Podravka Koprivnica CRO 6 3 0 3 148:152 -4 6 3rd Gr. A 1999/00 Podravka Dolcela CRO 6 3 0 3 144:144 0 6 3rd Gr. D 2002/03 Podravka Vegeta Koprivnica CRO 6 2 1 3 163:168 -5 5 3rd Gr. A 2006/07 Podravka Vegeta Koprivnica CRO 6 2 0 4 171:197 -26 4 3rd Gr. C 2007/08 HC Podravka Vegeta CRO 6 2 0 4 173:182 -9 4 3rd Gr. A 2008/09 HC Podravka Vegeta CRO 12 6 0 6 347:349 -2 12 3rd MR Gr. 1 2009/10 HC Podravka Vegeta CRO 6 2 0 4 172:192 -20 4 4th Gr. A 2010/11 HC Podravka Vegeta CRO 6 1 0 5 168:180 -12 2 4th Gr. D 2011/12 HC Podravka Vegeta CRO 6 1 2 3 146:161 -15 4 4th Gr. B 2012/13 HC Podravka Vegeta CRO 6 3 0 3 136:143 -7 6 3rd Gr. B Total 106 49 6 51 2727:2743 -16 104
77 HC Podravka Vegeta Team roster
No. First Name Surname Nat. Position Date of Birth Height
2 Andrea Covic CRO Line Player 9 Oct 1993 175 14 Ivana Dragisic CRO Right Wing 29 Mar 1994 177 18 Lana Dusak CRO Centre Back 21 Apr 1996 174 4 Tina Gavranic CRO Centre Back 22 May 1987 172 7 Dina Havic CRO Left Back 13 Nov 1987 183 1 Antonia Jukic CRO Goalkeeper 9 May 1992 172 12 Ivana Kapitanovic CRO Goalkeeper 17 Sep 1994 183 3 Ana Marija Maljak CRO Right Wing 5 Nov 1996 169 13 Vesna Milanovic Litre CRO Line Player 30 May 1986 180 16 Mirjana Milenkovic MNE Goalkeeper 14 Mar 1985 183 10 Ekatarina Nemaskalo CRO Left Wing 31 Jul 1989 167 17 Antonia Oremovic CRO Left Wing 31 Jan 1997 163 91 Anita Poljak CRO Centre Back 12 Jan 1991 181 5 Iva Pongrac CRO Left Wing 19 Jun 1991 167 6 Sara Senvald CRO Line Player 14 Mar 1996 185 25 Jelena Trifunovic SRB Left Back 4 Aug 1991 181 15 Marijeta Vidak CRO Left Back 14 Aug 1992 179 9 Lea Vukojevic CRO Right Wing 6 Apr 1993 175 11 Ena Zagorscak CRO Line Player 7 Sep 1996 174 8 Jelena Zivkovic SRB Right Back 6 Jul 1991 184
78 Goran Mrđen Mirjana Milenković coach goalkeeper Mrđen is the new Podravka coach. He came After Marta Žderić and Ivana Jelčić, two back after 10 years when he won Croatian cup Croatian national team players left the club with Podravka. The coming season will be a Mirjana Milenković became the first choice tough one for the club because his team is very goalkeeper. The Montenegrin national team young and inexperienced. He has worked in player has had a long and successful career, Croatia for the past 10 years, was the coach playing for Budućnost last season and also of Virovitica (finished second in Croatian previously in Spain with SD Itxaco the season championship) and Zelina (who have been before. The best match of her career was playing in Europe). He is also currently the coach of the Croatian junior against Ferencváros while she was at Budućnost. She had amazing 6 national team. penalty shot saves in one match!
Ekaterina Nemaškalo Jelena Trifunović left wing left back Nemaškalo’s mother, Elena Nemaškalo, is At the age of only 17, Trifunović was playing probably the best left wing of all time. She for Vrnjačka Banja, and was the best scorer played for USSR and won gold medal at the of the Serbian championship, and the main WCh, bronze at the Olympics, and hailed reason they advanced to the first division. from the Igor Turcin’s school of handball. The Serbian junior national team player Nemaškalo junior is also a left winger, who scored 34 goals in her first season in the EHF plays for Croatian National team. Two knee Challenge Cup. A former basketball player, injuries halted her career but she has great she likes the playing style of Bojana Popović’s potential and mother to learn from. Her mother was also her coach and Anita Görbitz. She was the third best scorer of the junior EHF for some time in Sesvete. EURO in Slovakia after Milena Knežević and Nora Mørk.
Tina Gavranić Vesna Milanović-Litre centre back line player Tina Gavranić took over the reigns as captain Milanović-Litre is Podravka’s only current of Podravka from the long-serving, Miranda Croatian national team player. The 27-year- Tatari. She was born in Kopranka, Slovenia old economist is Podravka’s key player in and started her career in Umag, Croatia – defence. Her sister, Iva Milanović-Litre, birthplace of the great Croatian coach Lino is also handball player, for HC Samobor, Červar. She made her national team debut in who last season played in Challenge Cup’s Pula, Croatia. Interestingly last season Tanja finals. The two sisters played together for Kiridžić, who is now playing in Slovakia, was Mediterranean bronze in Turkey this year and playing on her position and she also came from Pula. they hope that they will play again in the Croatian team at the EHF EURO in Hungary and Croatia. in 2014.
Jelena Živković Lea Vukojević right back right wing The 184 cm tall right-hander started The Croatian national junior team player her career in Zrenjanin and later joined is currently the only girl from Koprivnica the Serbian National team player after playing for Podravka. She came back from rumours that she might play for Hungary Zelina where she played last season, where or Montenegro. This year she has already her coach was Goran Mrđen. Having a home taken her first gold medal with Serbia at the player in team is a great bonus for the club Mediterranean Games in Turkey. She scored and its fans. In the past ‘home’ players have 44 for Ferencvaros in the Cup Winners’ Cup. included Božica Palčić (now club’s director), After that she has played shortly in Podgorica and Podravka. She has and later Miranda Tatari (captain and national team player). amazing potential.
79 WHC Vardar SCBT
From zero to hero in their premiere season? Many experts expect WHC Vardar SCBT as the dark horse in the upcoming Women’s Champions League season. Though Vardar first managed to win their first domestic championship title against city rivals Metalurg and then qualified for the Group Matches of the Champions League for the first time, they are anything but an inexperienced group of players.
After some international stars like Russian goalkeeper Inna Suslina had already joined the squad in the previous season, the club – back by Russian sponsor Sergey Samsonenko – started an impressive shopping spree all over Europe.
Eight new players – including current Champions League winners Andrea Lekić and Jovanka Radicević from Győr or former winners like Ana Djokić - have joined the club as well as former World Handball Player Allison Pineau, who leads a French trio with Siraba Dembele and goalkeeper Amandine Leynaud.
Additionally Vardar managed the homecoming of big Macedonian star Julija Nikolić (former Portjanko) and signed experienced Russian back court ace Tatiana Khmyrova.
But those big names are no burden for coach Indira Kastratovic, who is responsible for the Vardar squad in the second year – and will see her husband Zoran much more often now, as he is in charge for the Vardar men’s team. Playing hall Boris Trajkovski Never before had one city three teams participating in the Champions League (Vardar men and bul. 8 Septemvri bb women and Metalurg men) – so Skopje is writing history in this season. And just to remember: Skopje It has been already twelve years since a team from Skopje won the Women’s EHF Champions FYR Macedonia League trophy, as Kometal including Indira Kastratovic as a player dominated. Capacity: 6,963
Club Address: Qualification for the Women’s EHF Past achievements WHC Vardar SCBT Champions League 2013/14 season: Preseka 55/10 winners of qualification tournament 4, Women’s EHF Champions League 1000 Skopje Macedonian champions Participations (including 2013/14 FYR Macedonia season): 1 Newcomers (including former club): Media contact: Andrea Lekić Other Davor Stojanoski Jovanka Radičević (both Győri Audi ETO) EHF Cup: Last 16: 2012/13 +389 753 659 12 Ana Djokić (Rostov/Don) [email protected] Allison Pineau (Oltcim Vâlcea) Macedonian league: 1 title (2012/13) Siraba Dembele (Randers HK) Macedonian cup: 1 title Online information: Julija Nikolić (Zvezda Zvenigorod) Website: www.zrkvardar.mk Maja Zebić (RK Zaječar) Facebook: ZRK-Vardar-SCBT Tatiana Khmyrova (Dinamo Volgograd) Twitter: @zrkvardar Left the club (including new club): Olga Vinogradova (retired) Dayane Pires da Rocha (Brazil) Kit colours Ekaterina Lubjanaja Light Anna Vinogradova Player shirt: white Ivana Manevska Player short: white Ivana Sazdovski (WHC Vardar-II team) Goalkeeper shirt: green/blue Dark Player shirt: red Player short: black Goalkeeper shirt: grey
80 WHC Vardar SCBT Team roster
No. First Name Surname Nat. Position Date of Birth Height
51 Biljana Crvenkoska MKD Centre Back 6 Sep 1983 170 17 Siraba Dembele FRA Left Wing 28 Jun 1986 171 5 Ana Djokic MNE Line Player 9 Feb 1979 165 99 Marina Dmitrovic SRB Right Back 23 Mar 1985 183 18 Begona Fernandez Molinos ESP Line Player 22 Mar 1980 180 71 Tatiana Khmyrova RUS Right Back 6 Feb 1990 178 22 Andrea Klikovac MNE Right Back 5 May 1991 175 3 Ekaterina Kostyukova RUS Right Wing 4 Jan 1990 167 77 Andrea Lekic SRB Centre Back 6 Sep 1987 178 12 Amandine S. M. Leynaud FRA Goalkeeper 2 May 1986 178 83 Marija Lojpur SRB Line Player 10 Aug 1983 181 14 Julija Nikolic MKD Centre Back 20 Apr 1983 178 7 Allison Marie Pineau FRA Left Back 2 May 1989 180 4 Jovanka Radicevic MNE Right Wing 23 Oct 1986 170 11 Dragana Ristova MKD Left Wing 11 Apr 1983 170 16 Nigina Saidova RUS Goalkeeper 24 Jun 1977 185 9 Marija Steriova MKD Left Back 19 Mar 1991 178 31 Inna Suslina RUS Goalkeeper 5 Jan 1979 184 19 Maja Zebic CRO Left Wing 30 May 1982 178
81 Indira Kastratović Inna Suslina coach goalkeeper Kastratovic is starting her second season as A former Russian national team player, she coach. As a player, her greatest success was graduated from the University RGPU Rostov achieved with Kometal GP, playing twice in Don as a teacher. For the second time in the EHF Champions League final, and winning her career she is playing outside of Russia, the title in 2002. In 1997, she was the best and earlier spent four seasons with GOG in scorer of the WCh with 71 goals as part of the Denmark. She has a two-year contract with Macedonian team. She was also part of the Vardar ending in June 2014. She won the All-Star team at the WCh 2009. In 2006 she Russian championship with Lada in 2002, quit her active playing career handball to concentrate her attention on 2003 and 2004. She has twice been voted in the all-star team of the coaching youth players. EHF EURO 2006 and the World Championship in 2009.
EC trophies: EHF Cup: 2002 OG: S 2004 / WCh: G 2001, 2005, 2007, 2009 / EHF EURO: S 2006, B 2008
Maja Zebić Allison Pineau left wing left back Zebić has won seven league and seven cup An extremely talented, but still young player, titles in Croatia with Podravka and one title Pinеаu was ‘reserve’ fifteenth player in the in the Regional League in 2009. With the French Olympic team at the 2008 Olympic Croatian champions she reached the final of Games. She was voted World Handball the Cup Winners’ Cup (2005) and EHF Cup Players of the Year in 2009. With France, she (2006). With Itxako Navarra she won the has participated in the 2012 Olympic Games Spanish Super Cup, and with Zaječar last (quarter-finals), three EHF EUROs 2008, 2010, season won the double in Serbia. Since 2006, 2012 and three WChs 2007, 2009, 2011 and Zebić has played for Croatia, playing in four EHF EUROs and three she was voted in WCh All star team in 2009 and 2011. WCh, she won seventh place at the 2012 Olympics. WCh: S 2009, S 2011
Andrea Lekić Ana Djokić centre back line player Before she chose to concentrate on handball, Djokić was born in Arandjelovac, Serbia, and Andrea was successful in several other has played for both the national teams of sports at a young age. First she competed in Serbia and Montenegro and Montenegro. karate and reached the “blue belt” before In a successful career, she has played for moving on sports with a ball. It started Győri Audi ETO KC (three championships and with volleyball, but basketball attracted her four Cups in Hungary), Podravka (league and attention, played football and also tennis. cup title in Croatia, and Regional League), Lekić has won championship trophies Budućnost (three championships and three with Knjaz Miloš, Krim and Győr. She was voted for the MVP of the regional titles). Last season she played in Rostov-Don and won the Women’s Regional Handball League in 2009 and in the All Star team Russian cup. ofEC the trophies: EHF EUROEHF CL 20132012. EC trophies: EHF CL 2012, CWC 2010 MG: S 2005 / OG: S 2012 / EURO: G 2012
Tatiana Khmyrova Jovanka Radičević right back right wing The Russian national team player can play In 2012/2013 Radičević won two important in all three back positions - left, centre and gold medals; European champions with right back. Her career began with Dynamo Montenegro and the Women’s EHF Volgograd, where she played for eight years. Champions League title with Győr. As a With Dinamo she won three championships player with Budućnost, she has won seven and one cup title in Russia. She has played championships and seven cup titles in in all youth categories and won gold at the Montenegro (2005-2011), two Regional World Youth Championship in 2008, the same League titles (2010, 2011) and two titles in the year she made her debut for the senior team. She played at the 2011 Cup Winners’ Cup (2006, 2010). She was voted in the All Star team at WCh (7th) and EURO 2012 (6th). MVP of the Youth WCh: 2008. the EHF EURO in 2012.
EC trophies: EHF Cup 2008 EC trophies: EHF CL 2013, CWC 2006, CWC 2010 WCh: G 2009 / EURO: B 2008 / Youth WCh: G 2008 EURO: G 2012 / OG: S 2012
82 Group D head-to-heads Historic encounters of the Group D opponents in the EC
Larvik vs Balonmano Bera Bera 08.02.1997 Larvik HK NOR-Corteblanco Bidebieta ESP Cup Winners’ Cup – 1/4-finals 30:17 (17:7) 16.02.1997 Corteblanco Bidebieta ESP-Larvik HK NOR Cup Winners’ Cup – 1/4-finals 22:22 (12:8)
Larvik vs HC Podravka Vegeta 14.05.2005 Podravka Vegeta CRO-Larvik HK NOR Cup Winners’ Cup – finals 26:31 (10:12) 21.05.2005 Larvik HK NOR-Podravka Vegeta CRO Cup Winners’ Cup – finals 37:27 (19:12) 14.01.2007 Larvik HK NOR-Podravka Vegeta Koprivnica CRO Women’s EHF Champions League – Group C 36:28 (19:15) 11.02.2007 Podravka Vegeta Koprivnica CRO-Larvik HK NOR Women’s EHF Champions League – Group C 27:32 (14:17) 19.04.2008 HC Podravka Vegeta CRO-Larvik HK NOR Cup Winners’ Cup – 1/2-finals 29:27 (14:17) 26.04.2008 Larvik HK NOR-HC Podravka Vegeta CRO Cup Winners’ Cup – 1/2-finals 33:30 (17:10) 09.11.2008 Larvik HK NOR-HC Podravka Vegeta CRO Women’s EHF Champions League – Group C 27:26 (12:13) 03.01.2009 HC Podravka Vegeta CRO-Larvik HK NOR Women’s EHF Champions League – Group C 32:27 (11:14) 08.10.2011 Larvik NOR-HC Podravka Vegeta CRO Women’s EHF Champions League – Group B 37:25 (18:17) 29.10.2011 HC Podravka Vegeta CRO-Larvik NOR Women’s EHF Champions League – Group B 21:24 (11:11)
Larvik vs WHC Vardar SCBT No previous encounters
Balonmano Bera Bera vs HC Podravka Vegeta 10.01.2004 Podravka Vegeta CRO-Bera Bera S. Sebastian ESP EHF Cup – 1/16-finals 34:27 (15:15) 17.01.2004 Bera Bera S. Sebastian ESP-Podravka Vegeta CRO EHF Cup – 1/16-finals 32:31 (15:14) 11.02.2006 AKABA Bera Bera-Pasajes S. Pedro ESP-Podravka Vegeta Koprivnica CRO EHF Cup – 1/8-finals 32:29 (16:12) 18.02.2006 Podravka Vegeta Koprivnica CRO-AKABA Bera Bera-Pasajes S. Pedro ESP EHF Cup – 1/8-finals 35:26 (19:9)
Balonmano Bera Bera vs WHC Vardar SCBT No previous encounters
HC Podravka Vegeta vs WHC Vardar SCBT No previous encounters
83 Women’s EHF FINAL4 Four bidders apply for the Women’s EHF FINAL4
Three Hungarian and one Slovenian stakeholders vie for hosting the All three Hungarian applicants – SportConcept, Nexus final tournament at the end of the 2013/14 season in the Women’s Communications and the joint bid of Hungarofest and Hungarian EHF Champions League. The bidding process for the organisation of Handball Federation propose to host the Women’s EHF FINAL4 in the event scheduled for 3/4 May 2014 was closed on 10 September. the Papp László Sportaréna in Budapest with a capacity of 9,100 spectators. The EHF and its marketing arm, EHF Marketing GmbH, released a bidding document in June welcoming bids from clubs, national The last season’s semi-finalist of the Women’s EHF Champions League federations, agencies, arenas or any other institutions interested RK Krim Mercator submitted a bid with the Stožice Center in Ljubljana in hosting the first edition of the final tournament in 2014 with all (12,500 seats) as the venue of the tournament. its potential to become the highlight of European women’s club handball. The EHF and the EHF Marketing GmbH are currently studying all four concepts, whether the bids meet the organisational or economic standards necessary to carry out a top-class event.
Overview of the applications for the Women’s EHF FINAL4 in 2014 Stakeholder’s name Venue City Capacity
SportConcept (HUN) Papp László Sportaréna Budapest 9, 100 Hungarofest (HUN) with HUN Federation Papp László Sportaréna Budapest 9, 100 Nexus Communications (HUN) Papp László Sportaréna Budapest 9, 100 RK Krim (SLO) Center Stožice Ljubljana 12, 500
84 EHF Champions League history 1993 – 2003
1993/94 1998/99 Hypo NIederösterreich vs Vasas Budapest 20:18 / 25:21 (45:39) Dunaferr SE vs Krim Electa Ljubljana 25:23 / 26:26 (51:49) New name, new playing system, but well-known finalists – just Two new faces appeared in the Champions League final in the as in the men’s competition the Champions League replaced the 1998/99 season. In the semi-finals Dunaferr had beaten defending Champions Cup from the 1993/94 season. 32 teams played two K.O. champion Hypo NIederösterreich while Ljubljana narrowly held the rounds for the eight places in the Champions League. The two finalists upper hand over Podgorica. In the final it was the Hungarian side that were the winners of the two groups of four. Hypo Niederösterreich prevailed, winning their first Champions League title. became the first title holder showing a spotless performance with 12 victories from 12 matches. 1999/00 Hypo Niederösterreich vs Kometal Skopje 32:23 / 20:22 (52:45) 1994/95 The final of the 1999/00 is less likely to be remembered for Hypo’s Hypo Niederösterreich vs Podravka Koprivnica 14:17 / 26:19 (40:36) fourth title in just four years but more for the violent disruptions After 20 victories in 20 Champions League matches, Hypo caused during the final by Macedonian fans. In the second leg objects Niederösterreich was beaten for the first time in the first leg of the had been thrown onto the court for almost the entire match, and final in Koprivnica. But the 14:17 in Croatia was followed by a clear the problems reached a climax when everyone fled into the changing 26:19 victory in the second leg and the cup remained in Austria. rooms and Hypo manager Gunnar Prokop was attacked.
1995/96 2000/01 Podravka Koprivnica vs Hypo Niederösterreich 13:17 / 25:20 (38:37) Viborg HK A/S vs RK Krim N. Roberts Ljubljana 22:22 / 19:25 (41:47) In the 1995/96 season Austrian side Hypo Niederösterreich „only” After suffering defeat in the 1999 finals against Dunaferr, the time finished second and that created tremendous joy for the Eastern was finally ripe in 2001 for Krim, Slovenia’s most dominating club Croatians. Under the leadership of the old and new top scorer, whose focus had always been to win the Champions League. In the Snežana Petika, Podravka Koprivnica for the first time took the crown final Krim prevailed over Viborg thanks to win and a draw. of the greatest club competition.
1996/97 2001/02 Mar Valencia vs Viborg HK 35:26 / 23:24 (58:50) FTC HERZ Budapest vs Kometal D. P. Skopje 27:25 / 22:26 (49:51) In 1997 there was a whole new constellation in the final. Mar On 19 May 2002, 45,000 fans people celebrated their heroines Valencia, who had narrowly lost three times in the Champions League enthusiastically in the main square of the Macedonian capital Group Phase, celebrated a Spanish fiesta. The team, which was based – a great achievement had been made: Kometal Skopje wore the around the excellent Natalia Morskova, was the first Spanish team in crown of Europe’s top club competition for the first time. Two years the history of the competition to reach the final. The opponent was before, the Macedonians had played in the finals against Hypo Viborg – the first Danish finalist since Copenhagen in 1966 (ed. IHF Niederösterreich but after rioting fans during the second leg in Skopje competition). all Macedonian clubs were banned for one year from the European Cup, and no one had expected Macedonian handball to recover that fast from the shock. 1997/98 Hypo Niederösterreich vs Mar El Osito L’Eliana 28:21 / 28:26 (56:47) Mar El Osito L’Eliana had reached the final by scoring at least 31 goals 2002/03 per match. They failed to repeat this feat when they needed it most. El Osito Valencia vs Krim N. Roberts Ljubljana 30:27 / 28:36 (58:63) Hypo Niederösterreich triumphed with two victories, earning their For the third time in a row, the Champions League winner came from third Champions League title. former Yugoslavia and for the second time after 2001 Krim Ljubljana was sitting on the European throne. Skopje had won the title in 2002. There was also another record: goalkeeper Luminita Dinu won the European title for the third time in a row.
85 EHF Champions League history 2003 – 2013
2003/04 2008/09 Slagelse DT vs Krim Ljubljana 25:24 / 36:32 (61:56) Viborg HK vs Győri AUDI ETO KC 24:26 / 26:23 (50:49) In less than four years world class player and world class coach Viborg HK won the Champions League for the second time after Anja Andersen had led Danish side Slagelse DT out of the second having lost the first leg of the final 24:26 but winning the second leg division and straight into their first Champions League season. And 26:23 against Györ. Viborg’s Grit Jurack contributed four goals in the just one year after they had already celebrated the win of the EHF second match and became the Champions League’s top scorer with Cup, the team was victorious once more – this time in Europe’s most 113 goals in the 2008/09 season. prestigious club handball competition. It was a fairy tale come true.
2009/10 2004/05 Viborg HK vs Oltchim Rm. Vâlcea 28:21 / 32:31 (60:52) Slagelse DT vs Kometal D.P. Skopje 27:23 / 27:20 (54:43) Viborg HK defeated Oltchim Vâlcea to win the Women’s EHF For the second time in the history of the Champions League and after Champions League for the second consecutive time and the third the double victory of Hypo Niederösterreich in 1994 and 1995, a team time in the last five years. Also the Danish dominance continued. was able to defend its title. In all twelve Champions League matches, Since 2003/2004 all Champions League titles had gone to Danish from the Group Phase to the final, coach Anja Andersen’s team teams, except for the 2007/2008 season when Russian team Zvezda suffered only one defeat. Zvenigorod celebrated the victory.
2005/06 2010/11 Krim Ljubljana vs Viborg HK A/S 22:24 / 21:20 (43:44) Larvik vs Itxako Reyno De Navarra 23:21 / 24:25 (47:46) In the history of the Women’s EHF Champions League that had not In a real nail-biting thriller right until the dying seconds, Itxako happened before. In both final matches of the 2005/06 season the defeated Larvik by a single goal in the second leg of the final, but with away teams won. It seemed a mere formality for Viborg to lift the the aggregate score, the Norwegians were the lucky winners of this trophy following their 24:22 win in Slovenia, but Ljubljana fought back clash and brought home the EHF Champions League trophy for the and had one hand on the cup when they led 20:17 in the 52nd minute first time in the club’s history. before running out of steam.
2011/12 2006/07 Győri AUDI ETO KC vs Budoćnost 29:27 / 25:27 (54:54) Slagelse DT vs Lada Togliatti 29:29 / 32:24 (61:53) Budućnost won the tightest edition of the EHF Women’s Champions It was Slagelse’s third go at gold and they did it convincingly. With League by account of scoring the greater number of away goals (27 in elite performances both in the Champions League and the Danish Hungary) than Győri AUDI ETO KC (25 in Montenegro). It was only a small league, where they did not lose one single point, Anja Andersen’s consolation for Győri AUDI ETO KC’s Anita Görbicz who picked up the top women were the favourites for the title – so another success of the scorer for the 2011/12 Women’s EHF Champions League season. “dream team” was not a surprise.
2012/13 2007/08 Larvik HK vs Győri AUDI ETO KC 21:24 / 22:23 (43:47) Zvezda Zvenigorod vs Hypo Niederösterreich 25:24 / 31:29 (56:53) After losing the finals in 2009 and 2012 Győr finally ended their curse After having beaten Hypo Niederösterreich at home 25:24, the of seven European Cup finals without a trophy. The coronation of the Russian champions were also triumphant in Wiener Neustadt in a very new queens of European handball took place in jam-packed Veszprém tough second leg. For Hypo it was a big disappointment as everything Aréna after the second leg victory and carried on in the streets of had been prepared for party at the Arena Nova to celebrated then the city of Győr. The Hungarian team were dominant throughout the ninth title since 1989. whole season as they suffered only one defeat (in the semi-final at home vs Oltchim) in 16 matches.
86 Women’s Women’s EHF Champions League Past Winners
1994 Hypo Niederösterreich AUT
1995 Hypo Niederösterreich AUT
1996 Podravka Koprivnica CRO
1997 Mar El Osito L´Eliana Valencia ESP
1998 Hypo Niederösterreich AUT
1999 Dunaferr SE HUN
2000 Hypo Niederösterreich AUT
2001 RK Krim Neutro Roberts SLO
2002 Kometal D.P. Skopje MKD
2003 Krim ETA Kotex Ljubljana SLO
2004 Slagelse FH DEN
2005 Slagelse FH DEN
2006 Viborg A/S DEN
2007 Slagelse FH DEN
2008 Zvezda Zvenigorod RUS
2009 Viborg A/S DEN
2010 Viborg A/S DEN
2011 Larvik HK NOR
2012 Buducnost Podgorica MNE
2013 Gyõri Audi ETO KC HUN
87 Women’s Women’s EHF Champions League Top Scorers
Season Player Club Goals 1993/94 Natalia Morskova Mar Valencia/ESP 102 1994/95 Snežana Petika Podravka Koprivnica/CRO 72 1995/96 Snežana Petika Podravka Koprivnica/CRO 77 1996/97 Natalia Morskova Mar Valencia/ESP 150 1997/98 Natalia Morskova Mar Valencia/ESP 127 1998/99 Natalia Derepasko Krim Ljubljana/SLO 120 1999/00 Ausra Fridrikas Hypo Niederösterreich/AUT 97 2000/01 Ausra Fridrikas Baekkelagets Oslo/NOR 83 2001/02 Ágnes Farkas FTC Budapest/HUN 112 2002/03 Natalia Derepasko Krim Ljubljana/SLO 81 2003/04 Bojana Popović Slagelse FH/DEN 98 2004/05 Tatjana Logvin Hypo Niederösterreich/AUT 85 2005/06 Natalia Derepasko Krim Ljubljana/SLO 86 2006/07 Bojana Popović Slagelse FH/DEN 96 2007/08 Timea Tóth Hypo Niederösterreich/AUT 127 2008/09 Grit Jurack Viborg HK/DEN 113 2009/10 Cristina Vărzaru Viborg HK/DEN 101 2010/11 Heidi Løke Larvik HK/NOR 99 2011/12 Anita Görbicz Győri AUDI ETO KC/HUN 98 2012/13 Zsuzsanna Tomori FTC Rail Cargo Hungária/HUN 95
88 Women’s Women’s EHF Champions League Top Scorers 2012/13
Rank Player Club Goals 1. Zsuzsanna Tomori (HUN) FTC Rail Cargo Hungária (HUN) 95 2. Katarina Bulatović (MNE) Oltchim Rm. Vâlcea (ROU) 90 3. Milena Knezević (MNE) Budućnost (MNE) 86 4. Anita Görbicz (HUN) Győri Audi ETO KC (HUN) 79 Linn-Kristin Koren Riegelhuth (NOR) Larvik HK (NOR) 79 6. Gro Hammerseng (NOR) Larvik HK (NOR) 71 7. Heidi Løke (NOR) Győri Audi ETO KC (HUN) 67 Liudmila Postnova (RUS) Zvezda Zvenigorod (RUS) 67 9. Camilla Dalby (DEN) Randers HK (DEN) 66 10. Zita Szucsánszki (HUN) FTC Rail Cargo Hungária (HUN) 65 11. Anja Edin (NOR) Larvik (NOR) 58 12. Eduarda Idalina Amorim (BRA) Győri Audi ETO KC (HUN) 57 Jovanka Radičević (MNE) Győri Audi ETO KC (HUN ) 57 Linn Jørum Sulland (NOR) Larvik (NOR) 57 15. Julija Nikolić (MKD) Zvezda Zvenigorod (RUS) 55 Andrea Lekić (SRB) Győri Audi ETO KC (HUN) 55 17. Carmen Martin Berenguer (ESP) RK Krim Mercator (SLO) 54 18. Isabel Blanco (NOR) Larvik HK (NOR) 53 19. Sanja Damnjanović (SRB) HC Podravka Vegeta (CRO) 50 20. Sabina Rosengren Jacobsen (SWE) Randers HK (DEN) 48 Andrea Penezić (CRO) RK Krim Mercator (SLO) 48
89 EHFWomen’s Champions League 1993-2013 All-time club standings
# TR Name of the club MP W D L GF:FA GD P NP % G 1 1 Hypo Niederösterreich AUT 180 121 4 55 4865:4450 +415 245*:115 (21) 68,06% A 2 2 RK Krim Mercator SLO 172 95 9 68 4719:4485 +234 199:145 (18) 57,85% C 3 3 Buducnost MNE 156 80 16 60 4167:4099 +68 176:136 (18) 56,41% B 4 5 Larvik NOR 134 78 6 50 3603:3320 +283 162:106 (15) 60,45% D 5 6 Győri Audi ETO KC HUN 112 75 7 30 3119:2824 +295 157:67 (10) 70,09% A 6 8 FTC-Rail Cargo Hungaria HUN 98 50 7 41 2667:2572 +95 107:89 (13) 54,59% B 7 10 HC Podravka Vegeta CRO 106 49 6 51 2727:2743 -16 104:108 (16) 49,06% D 8 16 FC Midtjylland DEN 56 26 4 26 1474:1474 0 56:56 (7) 50,00% B 9 19 MKS Lublin POL 46 17 4 25 1177:1227 –50 38:54 (8) 41,30% B 10 21 HC Leipzig GER 48 13 3 32 1203:1337 –134 29:67 (7) 30,21% C 11 22 Metz Handball FRAU 48 12 5 31 1149:1284 –135 29:67 (8) 30,21% C 12 35 Thüringer HC GER 12 3 1 8 285:316 -31 7:17 (3) 29,17% A 13 38 IK Sävehof SWE 18 2 1 15 509:595 -86 5:31 (4) 13,89% C 14 55 Balonmano Bera Bera ESP 0 (1) D WHC Vardar SCBT MKD 0 (1) D HCM Baia Mare ROU 0 (1) A
* Point for Hypo NÖ deducted by official decision
^ = Excluding Qualifying matches The club name is the last used name in VELUX Women’s EHF Champions League competition TR – total ranking MP – matches played W – wins D – draws L – losses GF:GA – goals for:goals against P – points NP – number of participations % = winning percentage G - group
All stats in this guide are provided by Roy Knoppert.
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2013/14 Women's European Cup EHF Champions League Qualification Round 1
MatchID: 201412020101- 001 NED SERCODAK Dalfsen 002 TUR Muratpasa Belediyesi SK 68 : 55 31.08.2013 17:00 Antalya (500) 01.09.2013 17:00 Antalya (400) 34:31 (16:10) Ref.: Florescu, Duta ROU Del.: Antonopoulos GRE Ref.: Florescu, Duta ROU Del.: Antonopoulos GRE 34:24 (15:12) Both matches in TUR
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2013/14 Women's European Cup EHF Champions League Qualification Tournaments 2
Group 1 1 GER HC Leipzig 2 NOR Byasen Trondheim 3 NOR Tertnes Bergen 4 BLR BNTU-BelAZ Minsk Reg. MatchID: 201412020102- Cross Matches 001 NOR Byasen Trondheim vs. NOR Tertnes Bergen 21 : 20 (6:7) 07.09.2013 15:00 Trondheim / NOR Spectators: 465 Ref.: Brunovsky, Canda SVK Del.: Nielsen DEN Ref.-Del.: Baum POL 002 GER HC Leipzig vs. BLR BNTU-BelAZ Minsk Reg. 29 : 24 (16:9) 07.09.2013 17:30 Trondheim / NOR Spectators: 150 Ref.: Kurtagic, Wetterwik SWE Del.: Nielsen DEN Ref.-Del.: Baum POL Placement Matches 003 NOR Tertnes Bergen vs. BLR BNTU-BelAZ Minsk Reg. 28 : 25 (10:13) 08.09.2013 15:30 Trondheim / NOR Spectators: 100 Ref.: Kurtagic, Wetterwik SWE Del.: Nielsen DEN Ref.-Del.: Baum POL 004 NOR Byasen Trondheim vs. GER HC Leipzig 23 : 27 (12:13) 08.09.2013 18:00 Trondheim / NOR Spectators: 626 Ref.: Brunovsky, Canda SVK Del.: Nielsen DEN Ref.-Del.: Baum POL
Group 2 1 HUN FTC Rail Cargo Hungaria 2 HUN Erd 3 CRO HC Lokomotiva Zagreb 4 SUI LK Zug Handball MatchID: 201412020102- Cross Matches 006 HUN Erd vs. SUI LK Zug Handball 34 : 25 (18:14) 14.09.2013 15:00 Budapest / HUN Spectators: 950 Ref.: Maric, Masic SRB Ref.-Del.: Nachevski MKD Del.: Berthold AUT 005 HUN FTC Rail Cargo Hungaria vs. CRO HC Lokomotiva Zagreb 26 : 23 (7:9) 14.09.2013 18:00 Budapest / HUN Spectators: 1130 Ref.: Gjeding, Hansen DEN Ref.-Del.: Nachevski MKD Del.: Berthold AUT Placement Matches 007 CRO HC Lokomotiva Zagreb vs. SUI LK Zug Handball 35 : 24 (18:10) 15.09.2013 14:00 Budapest / HUN Spectators: 950 Ref.: Maric, Masic SRB Ref.-Del.: Nachevski MKD Del.: Berthold AUT 008 HUN FTC Rail Cargo Hungaria vs. HUN Erd 31 : 24 (13:16) 15.09.2013 16:15 Budapest / HUN Spectators: 1200 Ref.: Gjeding, Hansen DEN Ref.-Del.: Nachevski MKD Del.: Berthold AUT
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Group 3 1 ROU HCM Baia Mare 2 DEN Team Tvis Holstebro 3 DEN Viborg HK 4 NED SERCODAK Dalfsen MatchID: 201412020102- Cross Matches 009 ROU HCM Baia Mare vs. DEN Viborg HK 26 : 25 (11:12) 14.09.2013 11:00 Baia Mare - Maramures / ROU Spectators: 2080 Ref.: Bonaventura, Bonaventura FRA Ref.-Del.: Gremmel GER Del.: Convents BEL 010 DEN Team Tvis Holstebro vs. NED SERCODAK Dalfsen 38 : 30 (21:14) 14.09.2013 14:00 Baia Mare - Maramures / ROU Spectators: 1700 Ref.: Kouz, Zhoba UKR Ref.-Del.: Gremmel GER Del.: Convents BEL Placement Matches 011 DEN Viborg HK vs. NED SERCODAK Dalfsen 33 : 12 (13:7) 15.09.2013 15:00 Baia Mare - Maramures / ROU Spectators: 1700 Ref.: Kouz, Zhoba UKR Ref.-Del.: Gremmel GER Del.: Convents BEL 012 ROU HCM Baia Mare vs. DEN Team Tvis Holstebro 36 : 23 (20:10) 15.09.2013 18:00 Baia Mare - Maramures / ROU Spectators: 2080 Ref.: Bonaventura, Bonaventura FRA Ref.-Del.: Gremmel GER Del.: Convents BEL
Group 4 1 MKD WHC Vardar SCBT 2 FRA Fleury Loiret Handball 3 RUS Rostov-Don 4 ITA Jomi Salerno MatchID: 201412020102- Cross Matches 013 RUS Rostov-Don vs. FRA Fleury Loiret Handball 21 : 26 (11:12) 14.09.2013 16:30 Eboli / ITA Spectators: 100 Ref.: Badura, Ondogrecula SVK Ref.-Del.: Sokol CRO Del.: Guerrero ESP 014 MKD WHC Vardar SCBT vs. ITA Jomi Salerno 35 : 16 (14:4) 14.09.2013 19:00 Eboli / ITA Spectators: 200 Ref.: Covalciuc, Covalciuc MDA Ref.-Del.: Sokol CRO Del.: Guerrero ESP Placement Matches 015 RUS Rostov-Don vs. ITA Jomi Salerno 41 : 18 (22:8) 15.09.2013 16:30 Eboli / ITA Spectators: 200 Ref.: Covalciuc, Covalciuc MDA Ref.-Del.: Sokol CRO Del.: Guerrero ESP 016 FRA Fleury Loiret Handball vs. MKD WHC Vardar SCBT 25 : 33 (11:18) 15.09.2013 18:30 Eboli / ITA Spectators: 300 Ref.: Badura, Ondogrecula SVK Ref.-Del.: Sokol CRO Del.: Guerrero ESP
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2013/14 Women's European Cup EHF Champions League Group Matches
Group A matches won draw lost goal-difference points 1 HUN Györi Audi ETO KC 0 0 0 0 0:0 0 0 2 GER Thüringer HC 0 0 0 0 0:0 0 0 3 AUT Hypo Niederösterreich 0 0 0 0 0:0 0 0 4 ROU HCM Baia Mare 0 0 0 0 0:0 0 0 MatchID: 201412020103- 001 HUN Györi Audi ETO KC vs. AUT Hypo Niederösterreich 05.10.2013 18:30 Györ / HUN Ref.: Pavicevic, Raznatovic MNE Del.: Huelin ESP 002 GER Thüringer HC vs. ROU HCM Baia Mare 06.10.2013 15:00 Nordhausen / GER Ref.: Arntsen, Röen NOR Del.: Petersen DEN 003 ROU HCM Baia Mare vs. HUN Györi Audi ETO KC 12.10.2013 19:00 Baia Mare - Maramures / ROU Ref.: Brunovsky, Canda SVK Del.: Convents BEL 004 AUT Hypo Niederösterreich vs. GER Thüringer HC 13.10.2013 20:25 Maria Enzersdorf / AUT Ref.: Bonaventura, Bonaventura FRA Del.: Rudin SUI 006 ROU HCM Baia Mare vs. AUT Hypo Niederösterreich 19.10.2013 17:00 Baia Mare - Maramures / ROU
005 GER Thüringer HC vs. HUN Györi Audi ETO KC 20.10.2013 16:00 Nordhausen / GER
007 HUN Györi Audi ETO KC vs. GER Thüringer HC 02.11.2013 19:30 Györ / HUN
008 AUT Hypo Niederösterreich vs. ROU HCM Baia Mare 02.11.2013 20:25 Maria Enzersdorf / AUT
010 ROU HCM Baia Mare vs. GER Thüringer HC 10.11.2013 18:00 /
009 AUT Hypo Niederösterreich vs. HUN Györi Audi ETO KC 10.11.2013 20:05 Maria Enzersdorf / AUT
011 HUN Györi Audi ETO KC vs. ROU HCM Baia Mare 16.11.2013 18:30 Györ / HUN
012 GER Thüringer HC vs. AUT Hypo Niederösterreich 17.11.2013 15:00 Nordhausen / GER
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Group B matches won draw lost goal-difference points 1 MNE Buducnost 0 0 0 0 0:0 0 0 2 DEN FC Midtjylland 0 0 0 0 0:0 0 0 3 POL MKS Lublin 0 0 0 0 0:0 0 0 4 HUN FTC-Rail Cargo Hungaria 0 0 0 0 0:0 0 0 MatchID: 201412020103- 014 DEN FC Midtjylland vs. HUN FTC-Rail Cargo Hungaria 06.10.2013 17:00 Ikast / DEN Ref.: Florescu, Duta ROU Del.: Oie NOR 013 MNE Buducnost vs. POL MKS Lublin 06.10.2013 19:00 Podgorica / MNE Ref.: Nastase, Stancu ROU Del.: Metalari MKD 016 POL MKS Lublin vs. DEN FC Midtjylland 12.10.2013 20:00 Lublin / POL Ref.: Brkic, Jusufhodzic AUT Del.: Sundell FIN 015 HUN FTC-Rail Cargo Hungaria vs. MNE Buducnost 13.10.2013 18:00 Dabas / HUN Ref.: Gousko, Repkin BLR Del.: Sokol CRO 018 HUN FTC-Rail Cargo Hungaria vs. POL MKS Lublin 20.10.2013 14:00 Dabas / HUN
017 DEN FC Midtjylland vs. MNE Buducnost 20.10.2013 15:15 Ikast / DEN
019 MNE Buducnost vs. DEN FC Midtjylland 03.11.2013 17:00 Podgorica / MNE
020 POL MKS Lublin vs. HUN FTC-Rail Cargo Hungaria 03.11.2013 17:15 Lublin / POL
021 POL MKS Lublin vs. MNE Buducnost 09.11.2013 16:00 Lublin / POL
022 HUN FTC-Rail Cargo Hungaria vs. DEN FC Midtjylland 09.11.2013 18:30 Dabas / HUN
023 MNE Buducnost vs. HUN FTC-Rail Cargo Hungaria 16.-17.11.13 /
024 DEN FC Midtjylland vs. POL MKS Lublin 17.11.2013 13:15 Ikast / DEN
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Group C matches won draw lost goal-difference points 1 SLO RK Krim Mercator 0 0 0 0 0:0 0 0 2 FRA Metz Handball 0 0 0 0 0:0 0 0 3 SWE IK Sävehof 0 0 0 0 0:0 0 0 4 GER HC Leipzig 0 0 0 0 0:0 0 0 MatchID: 201412020103- 026 FRA Metz Handball vs. GER HC Leipzig 05.10.2013 16:00 Metz / FRA Ref.: Brehmer, Skowronek POL Del.: Alsemgeest NED 025 SLO RK Krim Mercator vs. SWE IK Sävehof 05.10.2013 20:30 Ljubljana / SLO Ref.: Alpaidze, Berezkina RUS Del.: Stasova SVK 028 SWE IK Sävehof vs. FRA Metz Handball 12.10.2013 16:00 Partille / SWE Ref.: Maric, Masic SRB Del.: Förström FIN 027 GER HC Leipzig vs. SLO RK Krim Mercator 13.10.2013 15:00 Leipzig / GER Ref.: Stolarovs, Licis LAT Del.: Schlick AUT 030 GER HC Leipzig vs. SWE IK Sävehof 19.10.2013 16:00 Leipzig / GER
029 FRA Metz Handball vs. SLO RK Krim Mercator 20.10.2013 19:00 Metz / FRA
031 SLO RK Krim Mercator vs. FRA Metz Handball 02.11.2013 20:30 Ljubljana / SLO
032 SWE IK Sävehof vs. GER HC Leipzig 03.11.2013 18:00 Partille / SWE
034 GER HC Leipzig vs. FRA Metz Handball 10.11.2013 15:00 Leipzig / GER
033 SWE IK Sävehof vs. SLO RK Krim Mercator 10.11.2013 16:00 Partille / SWE
035 SLO RK Krim Mercator vs. GER HC Leipzig 16.11.2013 17:00 Ljubljana / SLO
036 FRA Metz Handball vs. SWE IK Sävehof 17.11.2013 13:15 Metz / FRA
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Group D matches won draw lost goal-difference points 1 NOR Larvik 0 0 0 0 0:0 0 0 2 ESP Balonmano Bera Bera 0 0 0 0 0:0 0 0 3 CRO HC Podravka Vegeta 0 0 0 0 0:0 0 0 4 MKD WHC Vardar SCBT 0 0 0 0 0:0 0 0 MatchID: 201412020103- 037 NOR Larvik vs. CRO HC Podravka Vegeta 05.10.2013 19:30 Larvik / NOR Ref.: Sigurjónsson, Petursson ISL Del.: Hagen SWE 038 ESP Balonmano Bera Bera vs. MKD WHC Vardar SCBT 06.10.2013 12:15 Donostia / ESP Ref.: Herczeg, Südi HUN Del.: Goulao POR 039 MKD WHC Vardar SCBT vs. NOR Larvik 11.10.2013 18:30 Skopje / MKD Ref.: Cacador, Nicolau POR Del.: Szajna POL 040 CRO HC Podravka Vegeta vs. ESP Balonmano Bera Bera 12.10.2013 18:00 Koprivnica / CRO Ref.: Rakytina, Tkachuk UKR Del.: Obucina SRB 042 MKD WHC Vardar SCBT vs. CRO HC Podravka Vegeta 19.10.2013 20:00 Skopje / MKD
041 ESP Balonmano Bera Bera vs. NOR Larvik 20.10.2013 12:15 Donostia - San Sebastian / ESP
043 NOR Larvik vs. ESP Balonmano Bera Bera 02.11.2013 19:30 Larvik / NOR
044 CRO HC Podravka Vegeta vs. MKD WHC Vardar SCBT 03.11.2013 18:00 Koprivnica / CRO
045 CRO HC Podravka Vegeta vs. NOR Larvik 10.11.2013 18:00 Koprivnica / CRO
046 MKD WHC Vardar SCBT vs. ESP Balonmano Bera Bera 10.11.2013 18:00 Skopje / MKD
047 NOR Larvik vs. MKD WHC Vardar SCBT 16.11.2013 19:30 Larvik / NOR
048 ESP Balonmano Bera Bera vs. CRO HC Podravka Vegeta 17.11.2013 12:15 Donostia - San Sebastian / ESP
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