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Media Information Women’s EHF Champions League Season 2016/17 TIPPMIX EHF FINAL4 DRAW Tuesday 18 April 2017, 13:00 hrs Budapest, Hungary ULTIMATE Completely controlled bounce. Extreme durability. Optimal roundness. Perfect grip and soft feel. Official match ball of the WOMEN’S EHF Champions League. select-sport.com 2 Table of contents Media contacts - EHF/M, clubs contacts 5 Map of participating clubs 7 TIPPMIX EHF FINAL4 Media Accreditation 8 Facts & figures after quarter-finals 10 TIPPMIX EHF FINAL4 Draw Preview 12 Potential head-to-head stats 13 Buducnost 14 HC Vardar 16 Györi Audi ETO KC 18 CSM Bucuresti 20 Top scorers after quarter-finals 22 Past winners 23 2015/16 Seeding list 24 2015/16 Playing system diagram - stages and dates 25 Fan vote for All-star team 26 TIPPMIX EHF FINAL4 2017 Draw Media Information by EHF Media & Communications, 17/04/2017 Contributors: Björn Pazen, Peter Bruun, Adrian Costeiu, Amina Idrizi, Sasa Joncic, Nemanja Savic, Sergey Nikolaev, Bence Martha, Kevin Domas, Sergey Nikolaev, Jelena Bagaric, all stats by Roy Knoppert 3 OFFICIAL MERCHANDISE 4 EHF/M Media contacts Media matters TV and Radio Thomas Schöneich Miguel Mateo Marcellan Media and Communications Media Manager European Handball Federation EHF Marketing GmbH +43 1 80 151 164 +43 1 80 151 224 [email protected] [email protected] Main Round Clubs – Media contacts CSM Bucuresti Buducnost Florin Sandu Milos Pavicevic +40 726 777 533 +382 682 226 66 [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] HC Vardar Györi Audi ETO KC Ana Stojkov Tamas Szabo +38976487779 +36 20 505 63 07 [email protected] [email protected] Media information Media portal Online information All media representatives are invited to register for the EHF media ehfFINAL4.com portal on http://members.ehf.eu ehfCL.com ehfTV.com The European Handball Federation’s media portal is a one-stop-shop Regulations of the Women’s EHF Champions League for media representatives offering all the EHF’s media news such Twitter:@ehf , @ehfcl as press releases, event flash quotes directly after matches, press Facebook: ehf.champions.league conference highlights, draw reactions and downloads of all relevant information including, but not limited to, media guides and event logos. Furthermore photographs that are free for editorial use Official name will be available for download. The official name of the competition is: Women’s EHF Champions For major events such as the EHF EURO or the TIPPMIX EHF FINAL4 League. The full name of the competition should always be used. match prep kits including historical information and head-to-head statistics will also be made available. Please note: If the season is required, it has to be positioned after “Champions League” e.g. Women’s EHF Champions League 2013/14. If you haven’t registered yet, please send an email to The wording “Champions League” should be written with a capital [email protected] letter at the beginning of each word, i.e. Champions League. The and we will provide you with the log-in details. remaining letters should be in lower case. The word Champions does not have an apostrophe after the ‘s’. 5 Thinkonepassion can reach countries.many The UNIQA Group is one of the leading insurance groups in its core markets of Austria and Central and Eastern Europe with over 40 companies in 19 countries and more than 9.3 million customers. www.uniqagroup.com 6 140917_UNQ_Handball_A4.indd 1 9/18/14 14:29 PM Györi Audi WOMEN‘S EHF CHAMPIONS LEAGUE IK Sävehof, ETO KC, HUN SWE Season 2016/17 MKS Selgros Glassverket IF, Lublin, POL Teams eliminated in qualification NOR Teams eliminated in group matches Larvik HK, NOR HC Gomel Teams eliminated in main round BLR Quarter-finals teams Team Esbjerg, TIPPMIX EHF FINAL4 teams DEN IUVENTA Michalovce, SVK FC Midtjylland, DEN SERCODAK Dalfsen, NED Rostov-Don, RUS 7 Thüringer HC, GER HC Leipzig Astrakhanochka GER RUS Metz Handball, FRA TIPPMIX EHF FINAL4 Host City Budapest, HUN Balonmano Bera Bera, ESP CSM Bucuresti, Hypo ROU Niederösterreich, AUT Ankara RK Krim Yenimahalle BSK, TUR Mercator, SLO HC Podravka Vegeta, CRO FTC-Rail Cargo Hungaria, HUN Indeco WHC Buducnost, HC Vardar, Conversano, ITA MNE MKD Budapest hosts the TIPPMIX EHF FINAL4 2017 Following its successful first three editions in Budapest in 2014 and 2015, the Women’s EHF FINAL4 will stay for another year in the Hungarian capital. Hungarian side Györi Audi ETO KC won the maiden edition in May 2014 in front of 10,000 frenetic fans, while Buducnost dominated one year later and CSM Bucuresti stunned all the handball world last year with their penalty throw win. The agreement which was reached with the Hungarian Handball Federation as organisers sees the event being played in Budapest’s Papp Laszlo Sportarena until 2019. Sports betting game TIPPMIX, a product of Hungary’s national lottery, Szerencsejáték Zrt., will be the title sponsor of this year’s WOMEN’S EHF FINAL4. The event’s official name will be the TIPPMIX EHF FINAL4 2017. The title sponsorship was announced in Budapest at the Elek Gyula Arena ahead of the Hungarian domestic league match between WOMEN’S EHF Champions League participants FTC-Rail Cargo Hungaria and Győri Audi ETO KC. TIPPMIX EHF FINAL4 Draw More information at: www.ehfFINAL4.com The draw for the TIPPMIX EHF FINAL4 Media Accreditation for the TIPPMIX EHF FINAL4 2017 in Budapest will take place on The accreditation procedure of media representatives for the Women’s EHF FINAL4 has been Tuesday, 18 April 2017, 13:00 hrs launched. in the Terem club in Budapest. Written media, photographers, TV and radio representatives can now submit their request for accreditation via an online form. Piarista köz 2., 1052 Budapest Requests for media accreditation have to be made until Friday 21 April 2017. Media accreditation Players will be involved in media is only open to professional media representatives working at the event. Freelance media activities following the draw. representatives may be asked to provide additional evidence of their work. There are limited places and it may not be possible to accept all requests for an accreditation. Tickets for TIPPMIX EHF FINAL4 2017 on sale Since the start of the 2017 year tickets for the 2017 edition of Women’s EHF FINAL4 in Budapest went on sale. Up to 12,000 spectators will be able to follow the showpiece event on 6/7 May 2017 in the Hungarian capital’s Papp László Budapest Sportaréna. Tickets can be purchased via the official website, www.ehfFINAL4.com . All tickets are valid for both playing days. Ticket prices: Category 1: 39,990 HUF (approx. 130 €) Category 2: 27,990 HUF (approx. 90 €) Category 3: 19,990 HUF (approx. 65 €) Category 4: 9,900 HUF (approx. 35€) 8 Official Partner of the EHF Champions League KOBRA WOMEN White salminghandball.com 9 Facts and figures Everything you need to know about the TIPPMIX EHF FINAL4 participants The same four participants as last season, four coaches from four for two other TIPPMIX FINAL4 participants next season: Cristina nations, four World Handball Players, four Olympic, World and Neagu will join Bucuresti, Dragana Cvijic will move to Vardar. EURO finalists, four draws, and HC Vardar hoping they will not miss the final for the fourth time – the Facts and Figures prior to the 3 former or current Champions League winners made it to the TIPPMIX EHF FINAL4 in Budapest are all about the number four. TIPPMIX EHF FINAL4: Bucuresti (2016), Györ (2013, 2014) and Buducnost (2012, 2015). Vardar are the only side without a trophy 0 times has any team defended their title since the so far. implementation of the VELUX EHF FINAL4 in Cologne in the Men’s Champions League competition (since 2010) and the TIPPMIX 3 coaches of the four TIPPMIX EHF FINAL4 are or were national FINAL4 in the Women’s EHF Champions in 2014. Györi Audi ETO KC team coaches: Dragan Adzic (Buducnost and Montenegro), Ambros were the last to defend a Women’s EHF Champions League title, Martin (Györ and Romania) and Per Johansson (Bucuresti and winning the final trophy played in the old format in 2013 and the Sweden until 2012). first FINAL4 event in 2014. 4 goals scored in one half is the lowest record of all matches, when 0 nations are represented in every TIPPMIX EHF FINAL4 squad, Glassverket were down 4:10 to Thüringer HC in the group phase. but three of the four sides count on players from Croatia and The Norwegian side lost 16:24 – the lowest score of a team in 60 Montenegro. minutes in the whole 2016/17 season. 1 person – HC Vardar’s Irina Dibirova – can become the first ever 4 of the 104 matches in the 2016/17 Women’s EHF Champions woman to win the Champions League as a player (2005 with League season ended in a draw – one in the group matches, three Slagelse, 2008 with Zvezda) and as a coach. In the Men’s EHF in the main round. Champions League, Talant Dujshebaev has claimed this record already, winning in 1994 as a player for Santander, then in 2006, 4 – and therefore all – teams that were part of the 2016 edition of 2008 and 2009 as coach of Ciudad Real and in 2016 with Kielce. the FINAL4 in Budapest have made it to the final destination again. 1 team – Vardar – have never made it to the final in Budapest 4 goals was the closest aggregate margin in the quarter-finals despite four consecutive qualifications for the FINAL4 tournament. (Vardar vs FC Midtjylland, 54:50). 1 former Women’s EHF Champions League winning side – Larvik – 4 current or former IHF World Handball Players of the Year will was eliminated in the 2017 quarter-finals.