Media Information LIQUI MOLY EHF Cup Finals 2017 EWS Arena, Göppingen
Saturday 20 May 2017 Semi-final 2 15:00 SC Magdeburg vs FRISCH AUF! Göppingen :
Semi-final 1 17:45 Saint-Raphael Var Handball vs Füchse Berlin :
Sunday 21 May 2017 3/4 Placement match 14:30 vs :
Final 17:00 vs : Table of contents - Foreword 3
1. Introduction 4
- Welcome 4 - EHF / EHFM / Frisch Auf Göppingen Media Team 4
2. Media timetable 5
3. Essential media information 6
- Accreditation collection 6 - Photographers/TV bibs 6 - Official event name/hastags 6 - Media Centre opening times 6 - Media seats 6 - WLAN access 6 - Video recording 6 - Opening Press conference / Post-match press conference 6 - Opening training 7 - EHF Cup Finals Online 7 - Television and live streaming 7 - Invitation to Media Get Together 7
4. Media rules and guidelines 8
- Rules for ENG crews 8 - Rules for photographers 9
5. Event information 11
- EHF CUP / EHF Cup Finals 11 - EHF Cup Finals Program and Officials 12 - Tournament management 12 - Tickets information 12 - Potential head-to-heads for Sunday’s games 12 - Facts & Figures 13 - Semi-final 2 Preview 16 - SC Magdeburg (Germany) 17 - FRISCH AUF! Göppingen (Germany) 20 - Semi-final 1 Preview 23 - Saint-Raphael Var Handball (France) 24 - Füchse Berlin (Germany) 27 - Important regulations - extra-time and 7m throws 30 - All-time EHF Cup Finals records 31 - EHF Cup 2016/17 - map of participants 33 - Playing system - dates and rounds 34 - Top scorers 2016/17 after quarter-finals 36 - Previous winners 37
2 Foreword
Dear media representative,
It gives me great pleasure to welcome you all to the German city of Göppingen and to the LIQUI MOLY EHF Cup Finals, the final round of this season’s Men’s EHF Cup.
Our host for the weekend is FRISCH AUF! Göppingen, the defending EHF Cup champions, and a club with a long tradition of success both in the German Bundesliga and indeed European competition since its foundation over 70 years ago.
The EHF Cup Finals event is also slowly building a history of its own, with this the fifth event and the first to have attracted a title sponsor in the form of LIQUI MOLY, a globally renowned manufacturer of premium quality lubricants, motor oils, additives and vehicle care products. I am pleased to say that interest in the event from fans has also been tremendous with tickets for the two-day event in the EWS Arena completely sold-out well in advance.
We will see four outstanding teams take to the court in Göppingen and, even before the draw back in April, it was clear that we would see two very exciting and wide open semi-final matches. Each of the teams playing in the LIQUI MOLY EHF Cup Finals clearly has was it takes to make the final and claim the trophy.
In each semi-final pairing we have one newcomer facing a former or reigning champion. The only non-German side Saint-Raphael from France, take on the 2015 winners Füchse Berlin, while SC Magdeburg, who won the old format of the EHF Cup three times, have reached the final tournament for the first time in the club’s history. They will lock horns with the defending champions and hosts FRISCH AUF! Göppingen.
Although we may have just two nations represented in the final weekend this does not mean that the event will lose its strong international flavour. The four clubs from Germany and France boast no fewer than 15 different nationalities in their ranks, not to mention of course the delegates and officials representing the EHF, who hail from right across Europe.
Finally, on behalf of both the EHF and EHF Marketing GmbH, I would like to thank the management of FRISCH AUF! Göppingen for their professional approach to the organisation and hosting of the LIQUI MOLY EHF Cup Finals. Handball plays an important part in the life of the city and I am sure that Europe’s top clubs and their fans will receive a warm welcome here.
I would like to wish all four teams the very best of luck as we look forward to crowning the winners of the EHF Cup 2016/17 on Sunday, 21 May.
Michael Wiederer EHF President
3 1. Introduction
Welcome to the LIQUI MOLY EHF Cup Finals/Göppingen
It is a great pleasure to welcome all media representatives to Göppingen for the fifth edition of the Men’s EHF Cup final tournament - the LIQUI MOLY EHF Cup Finals.
We look forward to two days of top class handball in the sold-out EWS Arena in Göppingen as Saint-Raphael Var Handball, Füchse Berlin, SC Magdeburg, as well as the hosts of the event, FRISCH AUF! Göppingen compete for the EHF Cup title.
Over 100 media representatives are expected in Göppingen to cover the event, and we expect extensive local, regional and national coverage of the LIQUI MOLY EHF Cup Finals.
If you require any help or assistance during your time in Göppingen, please do not hesitate to contact a member of the media team from the EHF, EHFM and FRISCH AUF! Göppingen.
LIQUI MOLY EHF Cup Finals Media Team
Vlado Brindzak Alexander Kolb EHF Media Manager FRISCH AUF! Göppingen Tel. +43 1 80151 161 Mob: +421 908 721 328 Tel: +49 7161 965975-90 [email protected] Email: [email protected]
Oliver Laaber EHFM Media (TV/Radio) Tel: +43 1 80151 217 Mob: +43 676 770 9309 [email protected]
4 2. Media Timetable
Friday, 19 May 2017 13:00 – 14:00 Training FRISCH AUF! Göppingen EWS Arena 14:10 - 15:10 Training SC Magdeburg EWS Arena 14:15 Winners’ Trophy presentation Media Room, EWS Arena 14:15 – 14:45 Media Call FRISCH AUF! Göppingen Media Room, EWS Arena (coach Magnus Andersson, Tim Kneule, Marco Rentschler, Marcel Schiller, Primoz Prost, Zarko Sesum) 14:45 – 15:15 Media Call Saint-Raphael Var Handball Media Room, EWS Arena (coach Joel Da Silva, Adrien Dipanda, Alexandru Simicu, Daniel Sarmiento, Geoffrey Krantz, Raphael Caucheteux) 15:15 – 15:45 Media Call SC Magdeburg Media Room, EWS Arena (coach Bennet Wiegert, Michael Damgaard, Nemanja Zelenovic, Matthias Musche, Finn Lemke, Yves Grafenhorst) 15:20 - 16:20 Training Saint-Raphael Var Handball EWS Arena 15:45 - 16:15 Media Call Füchse Berlin Media Room, EWS Arena (coach Velimir Petkovic, Paul Drux, Silvio Heinevetter, Hans Lindberg, Steffen Fäth, Petar Nenadic) 16:30 - 17:30 Training Füchse Berlin EWS Arena Only first 15 minutes of each training open for media.
Saturday, 20 May 2017 14:30 Photographers’ briefing Media Room, EWS Arena 15:00 Semi-final 2 SC Magdeburg vs FRISCH AUF! Göppingen EWS Arena 15 minutes after final whistle Post-match Press Conference Press Conference Room, (Head coach and a key player from each team) EWS Arena 17:45 Semi-final 1 Saint-Raphael Var Handball vs Füchse Berlin EWS Arena 15 minutes after final whistle Post-match Press Conference Press Conference Room, (Head coach and a key player from each team) EWS Arena 20:00 Media Get-Together Schlossplatz Göppingen
Sunday, 21 May 2017 14:30 3/4 Placement Match Trocardiere 15 minutes after final whistle Post-match Press Conference Press Conference Room, (Head coach and key player from each team) EWS Arena 17:00 Final EWS Arena 15 minutes after winners’ ceremony Post-match Press Conference Press Conference Room, (Head coach and key player from each team) EWS Arena
5 3. Essential media information
Accreditation collection Your accreditation can be collected from the accreditation desk at the EWS Arena in Göppingen from Friday, 19 May 2017, 13:00 hrs. Please bring an official form of identification – your press card or passport – and your official confirmation. Accreditations will not be issued without these.
Media parking Contact Alexander Kolb for Media Parking requests.
Photographer bibs Bibs for photographers will be issued at the accreditation desk at the EWS Arena from Friday, 19 May 2017 against a payment of a returnable deposit of €20 upon collection of the locker keys. The press cards and deposits will be returned at the end of the event when the keys and bibs are returned to the Media Centre.
Official event name/official hashtag The official name of the final event is the ‘LIQUI MOLY EHF Cup Finals’. An official hashtag has also been announced, this is: ‘#ehfcupfinals’. Please use these official terms in your reports and communications.
Media Centre Opening Times The Media Centre is located in the EWS Arena. Opening hours for accredited media representatives are as follows: Friday, 19 May 2017 13:00 – 17:30 hrs Saturday, 20 May 2017 13:00 – 21:30 hrs Sunday, 21 May 2017 12:30 – 21:30 hrs
Media seats Media representatives will be allocated a specific media seat in the EWS Arena. There will be media volunteers available to show you the way to your seat.
WLAN access There will be wireless internet access for all media representatives in the arena free of charge. A password for internet access will be provided on arrival.
Video recording Video in the arena, mixed zone and press conference room may only be recorded with the express permission of EHF Marketing GmbH. Please contact EHFM Media Officer, Oliver Laaber for further information in advance of the event. Equipment used for video recording without permission will be removed.
Press conferences The press conference room is located comfortably at the mixed zone, sign posting will be provided. The post-match press conferences will take place 15 minutes after each match/winners’ ceremony and will be attended by the head coaches and key players. Press conferences will be conducted in English, any questions in your native language should be directed following the completion of the press conference.
Open training for the media Team training on Friday, 19 May 2017 will be open to the media for the first 15 minutes, for TV footage to be
6 filmed and teams to be photographed. Media interviews are possible only at the media call.
LIQUI MOLY EHF Cup Finals Online The event will be covered extensively online by both the EHF Media and Communications Department and FRISCH AUF! Göppingen. The event can be followed on the EHF Cup and EHF Cup Finals websites: www.eurohandball.com and www.frischauf-gp.de and the following social media channels: Facebook EHF, Twitter ehf_live and snapchat ehf_live.
Live Blog There will be a live blog available at www.eurohandball.com starting from Friday noon.
Live ticker Even fans unable to watch the matches on the TV or on the ehfTV live streaming can follow the up-to-second updates of the matches’ scoreline at the live ticker, which was already available over the group phase and the quarter-finals. All handball lovers can check not only the running score, but also the scorers, fouls, two-minutes suspensions, missed shots or saves. The live ticker will be provided both in the HTML and Flash version here: http://ticker.ehf.eu/
Television and live streaming Coverage of the event will be shown on television by the following confirmed TV stations (at the time of publication): MDR (GER), RBB (stream) TV3 Sport 1 (DEN), Viasat (NOR), Viasat (SWE), SFR (FRA), Sport TV (SLO), Digi Sport (ROU) - delayed, Sport TV (CZE/SVK), Sport TV (HUN) - delayed ehfTV coverage and English commentary All four matches will also be streamed live and on-demand around the world at ehfTV.com, the European Handball Federation’s online streaming platform. For the fourth time in the Men’s EHF Cup the matches will be also broadcast with a live English commentary - by Chris O’Reilly. Visit ehfTV.com for more details and to watch games not only from the LIQUI MOLY EHF Cup Finals, but also from the VELUX EHF FINAL4 and on demand from the recent TIPPMIX EHF FINAL4.
Invitation to Media Get Together All accredited media representatives are invited by FRISCH AUF! Göppingen for a Media Get Together on Saturday 20 May at 20:00 hrs local time at the Schlossplatz Göppingen.
7 4. Media rules and guidelines
Official EHFM Rules of Conduct for ENG Crews The following guidelines and rules of conduct for ENG Crews have been developed to make the job of ENG crews easier at EHF events. Upon receiving an accreditation and signing for an ENG bib, TV crews automatically agree to follow the EHFM Rule of Conduct for TV ENG crews.
1. ENG crews are obliged to produce a media identification card upon request. 2. The Host Broadcaster acts on behalf of the European Handball Federation/EHF Marketing GmbH 3. ENG personnel are requested to wear the bib and accreditation at ALL times. 4. All ENG crews must use the stickers provided on their camera equipment. 5. The bib and the accreditation are only valid for the EHF Cup Finals. 6. Only the Host Broadcaster is permitted onto the playing court. 7. Right holders have to stay in the positions designated to them during the games 8. Non-rights holders are not permitted to film during the matches. 9. The guidelines and instructions of the Host Broadcasters MUST be followed at all time 10. At no time, before, during or after the match are ENG crews permitted to stay in the area behind the players‘seats or behind the official table. They must place themselves in the position advised by the EHFM. 11. ENG crews are only permitted in the TV area of the mixed zone 12. ENG crews are not permitted to interfere/obstruct in the work of the Host Broadcaster.
8 Official EHF Rules of Conduct for Photographers The EHF has developed the following guidelines to make the job of photographers at its events easier. Upon receiving the accreditation and bib the photographer automatically agrees to follow the EHF guidelines of conduct for photographers.
1. Photographers must attend the photographer briefing in the Media Centre on Saturday 20 May at 14:30 hrs 2. Photographers are only allowed to enter the court following the match for 3/4 place and final when permitted to do so. There will be a roped off area clearly marked for photographers in front of the timekeepers’ table. 3. Photographs can be taken during the player line-up. An area will be defined before the match for this purpose. Photographers may stand in this position until the pre-match procedure is over. They must then return to their designated position behind the advertising boards at the ends of the court. 4. Photograph bibs should be worn at all times. These will be issued as part of the accreditation process and are available from the Media Info Desk 5. During the match all photographers should be at the ends of the court where seats are available behind the advertising boards. Photographers will be advised before the match of an additionally designated areas where they may take photos looking down on the court. 6. It is not allowed to change ends during the game. This has to be done at the half-time or at the end of the match. If a photographer wishes to change ends during the half-time break, he/she must follow the routing system 7. Photographers are not allowed to stand behind the players’ seats or on the opposite side of the court. 8. Photographers have to remain seated and cannot change seats during the match. 9. Photographers are allowed to sit in front of the nets after the point where it is fixed to the advertising borders (fixed 3 metres each side of the goal). 10. Photographers are not allowed sit or stand in front of or to obstruct the view of the advertising boards. 11. Strobe light photography is not permitted. 12. Photographers are not allowed to enter the court during the celebration and awarding ceremony which follows final. During the celebration and awarding ceremony there will be a clearly marked area reserved for photographers in front of the timekeepers’ table.
Upon collection of your accreditation you are obliged to follow the above-listed rules.
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Playing hall EWS Arena Göppingen Nördlichen Ringstrasse 87 73033 Göppingen Germany Capacity: 5,600
Men’s EHF Cup
The Men’s EHF Cup was re-launched at the start of the 2012/13 season and formed from the merging of the EHF Cup and Cup Winners’ Cup. The second tier of top-class European club handball competition, after the VELUX EHF Champions League, the Men’s EHF Cup is played with a qualification phase, group phase, quarter- finals and final tournament.
In its fifth season 63 teams from 35 countries joined the race for the exclusive trophy, but only 16 qualified for the group phase – four from Germany, three Denmark, two from each Portugal and Spain and one from Israel, Finland, France, Hungary and Slovenia. There were just three-quarter-finals played as the EHF Cup Finals hosts FRISCH AUF! Göppingen managed to qualify directly for the final tournament as winners of their group.
Men’s EHF Cup Finals
The first EHF Cup Finals was played in the Palais des Sports de Beaulieu in Nantes in 2013 and the German club Rhein-Neckar Löwen won the trophy. In 2014 the final tournament was welcome by the Max-Schmeling- Halle in Berlin and saw a stunning victory of Pick Szeged from Hungary. Füchse Berlin won the next edition on the home court and FRISCH AUF! Göppingen dominated in Nantes last year.
11 LIQUI MOLY EHF Cup Finals 2017 Programme
Saturday, 20 May 2017 Semi-final 2 (15:00 hrs): SC Magdeburg (GER) vs Frisch Auf Göppingen (GER) Referees: Nenad Nikolic and Dusan Stojkovic (SRB ) Delegates: Dragan Nachevski (MKD), Marek Goralczyk (POL)
Semi-final 1 (17:45 hrs) Saint-Raphael Var Handball (FRA) vs Füchse Berlin (GER) Referees: Duarte Santos and Ricardo Fonseca (POR) Delegates: Jiri Konecny (CZE), Kristian Johansen (FAR)
Sunday, 21 May 2017 3/4 Placement Match (14:30 hrs): Loser Saint-Raphael/Füchse vs Loser Magdeburg/Göppingen Referees: Csaba Dobrovits and Peter Tajok (HUN)
Final (17:00 hrs): Winner Saint-Raphael/Füchse vs Winner Magdeburg/Göppingen Referees: Vaidas Mazeika and Mindaugas Gatelis (LTU)
Tournament Management Bozidar Djurkovic, EHF Executive Committee Member Gabriella Horváth, EHF Executive Committee Member David Szlezak, Managing Director EHF Marketing Markus Glaser, EHF Chief Sports Officer
Tickets The tickets are available in the ticket shop: https://www.eventimsports.de/ols/goeppingenehfcup/de/tickets/channel/shop/areaplan/venue/event/75921
Potential head-to-heads stats for Sunday’s games:
In the European club competitions: Saint-Raphael Var Handball vs SC Magdeburg Saint-Raphael Var Handball vs Frisch Auf Göppingen Frisch Auf Göppingen vs Füchse Berlin Füchse Berlin vs SC Magdeburg No previous encounters
In the domestic competitions: Füchse Berlin vs FRISCH AUF! Göppingen 14 wins - 2 draws - 11 defeats Füchse Berlin vs SCM Magdeburg 13 wins - 2 draws - 6 defeats
12 Facts & Figures Three former winners, a defending champion and a French side for a premiere
Four matches only remain in the Men’s EHF Cup to decide 1 coach, present at the LIQUI MOLY EHF FINAL4, had been the winner and the successor of Frisch Auf Göppingen EHF Cup winner as a player - and even with the club he (GER). Besides the defending champions, who also host the coaches now: Bennet Wiegert (Magdeburg/2007) LIQUI MOLY EHF Cup Finals the former EHF Cup winners Magdeburg and Berlin plus the semi-final debutant 2 winners of the new version of the EHF Cup is among the Saint-Raphael are in the pot, when the semi-finals of four participants of the LIQUI MOLY EHF Cup Finals: host the tournament will be drawn on Tuesday morning in and defending champions Frisch Auf Göppingen and the Göppingen. Find all major facts, figures and numbers on the 2015 winners Füchse Berlin competition here. 2 participants have already been part of EHF Cup Finals in 0 EHF Cup champions managed to defend their title in the the new format: Berlin and Göppingen. new format, implemented in the 2012/13 season, so far. After their successes in 2013 and 2014, Löwen and Szeged 2 teams - Magdeburg and Saint-Raphael - are EHF Cup Finals continued in the Champions League, while 2015 champions debutants. Berlin failed in the 2015/16 qualification. 2 teams - Göppingen (eight wins in eight matches) and 0 French men’s team has ever won the EHF Cup neither in Magdeburg (nine wins, one draw in ten matches) - arrive the new nor in the old format or the Cup Winners’ Cup. unbeaten at the LIQUI MOLY EHF Cup Finals.
0 national champions arriving from the VELUX EHF 2 coaches of the LIQUI MOLY EHF Cup Finals participants Champions League qualification made it to the quarter- have won the EHF Cup as a coach - both with Frisch Auf finals. Göppingen: Velimir Petkovic (2011, 2012) and Magnus Andersson (2016). 1 team, which started in the second qualification round, made it to Göppingen: Füchse Berlin 3 times - including the upcoming event - Göppingen and Berlin have been part of the EHF Cup Finals. 1 team - Saint-Raphael Var Handball - will have their debut in any European Cup semi-final, the remaining three teams 3 - which means all - teams arriving from the quarter-finals have even all been winners of the EHF Cup. won both k.o. matches.
1 host of the EHF Cup Finals took the trophy so far: Berlin 3 - which means all - German teams have won the EHF Cup in 2015. The same team failed in the semis 2014 on home at least once: Magdeburg (1998, 2001, 2007), Göppingen ground, as Nantes failed twice in the finals against Löwen 2011, 2012, 2016) and Berlin (2015). (2013) and Göppingen (2016). 3 German teams had qualified for the semi-finals the 1 former EHF Champions League winner - as every year so last time in the 2011/12 season (Göppingen, Magdeburg far - is still in the race for the EHF Cup trophy: SC Magdeburg. and Rhein-Neckar Löwen). The season before it were The same club had been quarter-finalist in 2013 and 2016, Göppingen, Lemgo and Großwallstadt. besides it were later-on finalists Montpellier (2014) and Hamburg (2015). 3 nations are represented by the origin of the coaches of the previous EHF Cup Finals winners: Iceland (Gudmundur 1 of 54 matches since the start of the group phase ended Gudmundsson/2013 and Dagur Sigurdsson/2015), with a draw, the 23:23 of Kolding vs Magdeburg in the Spain (Juan Carlos Pastor/2014) and Sweden (Magnus group phase. Andersson/2016).
1 nation - Serbia - is represented in all four LIQUI MOLY EHF Cup Finals.
13 Facts & Figures 3 participants of the LIQUI MOLY EHF Cup Finals had DEN, ESP, CRO, NOR, SWE, NED, AUT, ISL, SLO. Berlin count finished on top of their groups: Berlin (group A), Göppingen on players from ten different nations, Magdeburg eight, (group B) and Magdeburg (group C). Saint-Raphael seven and Göppingen four.
4 nations are represented by the origin of the coaches of 16 matches - 14 in the group phase and two in the quarter- the four LIQUI MOLY EHF Cup Finals: Germany (Bennet finals - ended with 60 or more goals scored. Wiegert/Magdeburg), Sweden (Magnus Andersson/ Göppingen), Bosnia-Herzegovina (Velimir Petkovic/Berlin) 17 times a German team has won the old (14) and the new and Portugal (Joel da Silva/Saint-Raphael). (3) version of the EHF Cup since the implementation of the competition in the 1993/94 season. Five times the winner 5 of 54 matches since the start of the group phase ended came from Spain, once each from Croatia and Hungary. with 45 or less goals, none of it in the quarter-finals. 18 goals were the biggest margin since the start of the 5 - which means all - times the host of the EHF Cup Finals group phase, when Magdeburg beat Tel Aviv 42:24 in the qualified directly from the group phase, skipping the group matches. quarter-finals (2x Nantes and Berlin, now Göppingen). 21 away wins (18 in the group phase, three in the quarter- 5 times – like in all previous EHF Cup Finals at least one finals) were among the 54 matches since the start of the German team is part of: 2013: Göppingen and Löwen, group phase. 2014 Berlin, 2015 Berlin and Hamburg, 2016 Göppingen. 32 times (29 in the group matches, three times in the 6 matches of the group phase - and zero of the quarter- quarter-finals), the home team was victorious since the finals - ended with a margin of ten goals or more. start of the group phase.
7 nations have been represented by the clubs in all EHF 68 goals were scored in the group matches Berlin vs Cup Finals since 2013: Germany (9 teams including 2017), Ribnica (38:30) and Saint-Raphael vs GOG (32:36) to be France (5), Denmark (3), Spain (1), Hungary (1), Romania the highest score since the start of the group phase. The (1) and Slovenia (1). 35:32 of Magdeburg against Anaitasuna (67 goals) were the quarter-final high score. 10 goals difference was the lowest margin in the quarter- finals (Magdeburg vs Anaitasuna 59:49), while 12 goals 76 goals so far make Raphael Caucheteux (Saint-Raphael) were the highest one (Saint-Raphael vs Melsungen 61:49). top the top scorer list. Berlin vs Anaitasuna (58:47) was in between by eleven. +76 is the impressive goal difference of SC Magdeburg 10 EHF Cup matches in a row (including the last season) after group phase and quarter-finals. have been won by Göppingen. 3,029 goals were scored since the start of the group 12 points from six group matches - the optimum - were phase, which means an average of 56,1. taken by Göppingen. The defending champions were the second ever team with this outcome in the group phase 5,926 spectators in the group match Berlin vs Ribnica after Montpellier in the 2013/14 season. was the highest attendance so far, the biggest number of fans in a quarter-final match were 4828 in Berlin against 13 matches - 9 in the group phase and four quarter-final Anaitasuna. games were attended by more than 3000 fans. 20,554 fans in total attended the four home matches of 15 nations are represented by the players on court of the Berlin sinced the start of the group phase - an average of LIQUI MOLY EHF Cup Finals: FRA, GER, SRB, ROU, CZE, BLR, 5,138.
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Semi-final 2 SC Magdeburg vs FRISCH AUF! Göppingen
EWS Arena, Göppingen Saturday 20 May, 15:00 hrs. local time LIVE ON EHFTV.COM
Head-to-head stats in the EC competitions: SC Magdeburg vs Frisch Auf Göppingen 1-0-1 (54:58) 2:2 23.04.2016 Frisch Auf Göppingen vs SC Magdeburg, EHF Cup – Quarter-final 31:25 (13:11) 27.04.2016 SC Magdeburg vs Frisch Auf Göppingen, EHF Cup – Quarter-final 29:27 (17:13)
Head-to-head stats in the domestic competitions: SC Magdeburg vs Frisch Auf Göppingen 24-4-11
Triple winners fight for fourth trophy already in the semi-final At least one German team will be part of Sunday’s final of Frisch Auf have won all matches in this competition. But also the LIQUI MOLY EHF Cup Finals in Göppingen. The question Magdeburg arrived unbeaten at the EWS Arena. Their season is whether the host can end their black series or if SC record in the EHF Cup is nine wins and one defeat (in the Magdeburg can continue on the winners’ way and take group phase against Kolding). revenge for last year’s elimination in the EHF Cup quarter- finals. “We go to Göppingen to win this trophy. It will be a tough fight in the semi-finals, as we do not care how many Which three-time EHF Cup winner will remain in the race matches we have won and Göppingen have lost. We are for the fourth trophy? The statistics and the current series truly ambitious to win the next international trophy after speak for SC Magdeburg, the home advantage for Frisch Auf ten years,” left wing Matthias Musche said. Magdeburg Göppingen. SCM, the EHF Cup winners in 1999, 2001 and will be accompanied by more than 300 fans to Göppingen. 2007 have the high hopes to win an anniversary title after After goalkeeper Jannick Green the second Danish Olympic lifting the last international trophy ten years ago. Frisch Auf champion, Michael Damgaard, just extended his contract at Göppingen were the last club to win the old format of the EHF the 2002 EHF Champions League winners. Cup in 2012 and defending their 2011 titles - and now hope to be the first side in the new format of the competition to “We hope for a full arena and to have the boost we need to defend their 2016 title. make our dream come true,” said Göppingen’s manager Gerd Hofele. Göppingen could become the fourth hosts in the fifth But the host of the LIQUI MOLY EHF Cup Finals face a series edition of the EHF Cup Finals since 2013 to make it to the of defeats. Right after winning their sixth and last group final: In 2013 (Nantes), 2015 (Berlin) and 2016 (Nantes again) it match of the EHF Cup to skip the quarter-finals and qualify happened, but only Berlin (against Hamburg) took the trophy directly for the LIQUI MOLY EHF Cup Finals, they lost all six later. In 2014, Pick Szeged were the only non-German winner Bundesliga matches in a row, including the 19:29 at Wetzlar of this competition since FC Barcelona in 2003. last weekend, which sent Göppingen down to the twelfth position of Bundesliga. “If we want to have a chance in the The overall balance of two of the most traditional German semi-final against Magdeburg we have to improve at least by handball clubs speaks another language in favour of 100 percent,” said coach Magnus Andersson. Magdeburg: In 39 matches, SCM won 24 times, tied four times and were defeated eleven times only. “Statistics do not On the other hand, Magdeburg are on a big winning run at count on Saturday. It is about 60 minutes to make it to a final, the moment: in Bundesliga and EHF Cup combined, the team, nothing else,” underlined SCM coach Wiegert. of coach Bennet Wiegert has not been defeated in the last 22 matches. In that period, they beat Göppingen twice in Bundesliga both by a single goal difference (33:32, 29:28). And Magdeburg was the last team to beat Göppingen in the EHF Cup, one year ago in the quarter-finals (29:27). Since then,
16 SC MAGDEBURG (GER) Once more, German side SC Magdeburg are the only former winners of the EHF Champions League in the current EHF Cup season. Furthermore, they have won the EHF Cup three times when it was still played in its old format – the last victory came exactly ten years ago and in the 2016/17 season they hope to emulate that success at their first EHF Cup Finals.
Taking into consideration results since the middle of November, the side of young head coach Bennet Wiegert is the clear number one men’s team in Germany currently. In 22 matches the 2002 Men’s EHF Champions League winners are unbeaten in both the Bundesliga and the Men’s EHF Cup.
In the latter they picked up five wins and a draw to win their group and added two more wins in the quarter-final against Helvetia Anaitasuna, although the Spanish team gave them a good run for their money partially in the first half of the second leg. Courtesy of an impressive second half, however, they booked their first-ever ticket for the LIQUI MOLY EHF Cup Finals. In 2013 and 2016, they stumbled in the quarter-finals after they failed against the eventual winners (in 2013 vs Rhein-Neckar Löwen, in 2016 vs Frisch Auf Göppingen). Playing hall GETEC-Arena - Bördelandhalle Berliner Chaussee 32 Road to the semi-finals: Past achievements 39114 Magdeburg VELUX EHF Champions League Germany Quarter-final Winners (1): 2001/02 Capacity: 7,800 @ Helvetia Anaitasuna W27:34 (13:15) Semi-final (1): 2003/04 vs Helvetia Anaitasuna W35:32 (15:18) Quarter-final (1): 2002/03 Last 16 (1): 2005/06 Club Address: Group Phase SC Magdeburg @ KIF Kolding Kobenhavn T23:23 (13:13) EHF Cup Handball magdeburg GmbH vs Grundfos Tatabanya KC W30:25 (17:13) Winners (3): 1998/99, 2000/01, 2006/07 Friedrich-Ebert-Straße 68 @ Maccabi CASTRO T. AvivW22:38 (12:16) Runners-up (1): 2004/05 39114 Magdeburg, Germany vs Maccabi CASTRO Tel AvivW42:24 (21:9) Quarter-final (1): 2012/13 vs KIF Kolding Kobenhavn W36:24 (19:12) Last 16 (1): 1999/00 Media contact: @ Grundfos Tatabanya KC W28:31 (12:17) Marc Henrik Schmedt Other +49 391 88685610 Qualification Round 3 Champions Trophy: Winners (2000/01, Marc-Henrik.Schmedt@sc- vs RK Nexe W31:22 (17:12) 2001/02) magdeburg.de @ RK Nexe W27:30 (12:14) Cup Winners’ Cup: Semi-finals (1996/97), Quarter-finals (2007/08) Online information: German league: 12 titles (outdoor 1967, Website: www.scm-handball.de indoor 1970, 1977, 1980-85, 1988, 1991 Facebook: SCMagdeburg - all GDR, 2001) Twitter: @SCMagdeburg German cup: 7 titles (1970, 1977, 1978, 1984, 1990 - all GDR, 1996, 2016) Kit colours Light GROUP C Final Table: Player shirt: white/red Player short: white/red 1. SC Magdeburg 6 5 1 0 200:146 (54) 11 Goalkeeper shirt: yellow 2. Grundfos Tatabanya KC 6 4 0 2 161:157 (4) 8 Dark 3. KIF Kolding Kobenhavn 6 2 1 3 166:172 (-6) 5 Player shirt: green/red 4. Maccabi CASTRO T. Aviv6 0 0 6 146:198 (-52) 0 Player short: green/red Goalkeeper shirt: red
17 Team roster
No. First Name Surname Nat. Position Date of Birth Place of Birth Height Weight Goals 14 Jacob Bagersted DEN Line Player 25/03/1987 København, DEN 196 111 25 25 Marko Bezjak SLO Centre Back 26/06/1986 Ptuj, SLO 184 87 16 20 Mads Christiansen DEN Right Back 03/05/1986 Næstved, DEN 194 92 15 22 Andre Czech GER Right Wing 17/05/1996 Calbe/Saale, GER 182 78 34 Michael Damgaard Nielsen DEN Left Back 18/03/1990 Lolland, DEN 192 95 58 15 Yves Grafenhorst GER Left Wing 15/03/1984 Staßfurt, GER 186 84 31 16 Jannick Green Krejberg DEN Goalkeeper 29/09/1988 Lemvig, DEN 195 94 1 9 Justus Kluge GER Left Wing 24/12/1997 Magdeburg, GER 190 87 50 Finn Lemke GER Right Back 30/04/1992 Bremen, GER 210 115 9 12 Florian Link GER Goalkeeper 31/07/1997 Magdeburg, GER 193 89 2 Zeljko Musa CRO Line Player 08/01/1986 Mostar, CRO 200 103 13 6 Matthias Musche GER Left Wing 18/07/1992 Magdeburg, GER 186 75 31 24 Christian O’Sullivan NOR Centre Back 22/08/1991 Oslo, NOR 190 89 31 11 Daniel Pettersson SWE Right Wing 06/05/1992 Eskilstuna, SWE 179 72 35 21 Dario Quenstedt GER Goalkeeper 22/09/1989 Burg, GER 190 93 29 Alexander Saul GER Right Back 06/10/1995 Premnitz, GER 197 91 7 Julian Schulze GER Left Wing 23/03/1998 Magdeburg, GER 176 70 10 Fabian Van Olphen NED Left Back 30/03/1981 Den Haag, NED 194 102 2 8 Johannes Wasielewski GER Right Back 22/09/1997 Halle, GER 195 94 28 Robert Weber AUT Right Wing 25/11/1985 Bregenz, AUT 179 76 28 18 Tim Wiebe GER Right Back 23/05/1996 Rostock, GER 199 98 42 Nemanja Zelenovic SRB Right Back 27/02/1990 Knin, CRO 194 93 35
Nations represented in the squad: 8 (GER, DEN, SRB, CRO, NOR, SWE, NED, AUT)
Domestic league Bundesliga (GER) Last 3 games 14.05. vs Coburg 2000 W30:23 26.04. @ Lemgo W25:34 19.04. vs TVB Stuttgart W27:26 Next game 24.05. @ Füchse Berlin Standings (as of 18/05/2017) 1. Flensburg 29 904:710 52 2. Rhein-Neckar 28 840:698 51 3. THW Kiel 30 858:751 47 ... 5. Magdeburg 29 828:772 43 ... 18. Coburg 2000 29 723:851 9
18 Bennet Wiegert Jannick Green coach goalkeeper • part of the SCM squad from 1998 until 2013, with • his mother was Danish international, his father the exception of only three years and won the CL was his coach at Lemvig and his younger brothers with Magdeburg in 2002 plays for Aalborg in the first Danish division • former German international on the left wing • was Danish champion and EHF CL participant with two different clubs: Aalborg and Bjerringbro • appointed new coach in December 2015 as successor of Geir Sveinsson • joined Magdeburg in 2014; currently fights with Flensburg’s Kevin Möller for the second goalkeeper • his father Ingolf (Olympic champion as a player in position in the Danish team below Niklas Landin 1980) was also Magdeburg coach • just extended his contract until 2020 • director of the SCM youth academy until December 2015 EC trophies: CL 2002, EHF Cup 2001 (as player) OG: G 2016; EURO S 2014; WCh S 2013
Matthias Musche Finn Lemke left wing left back/defence • plays for SCM since he is eight years old, • the tallest player of the squad (2.10 m) excluding the 2012/13 season when he was on loan • arrived from Lemgo before the 2015/16 season, at Schwerin where he scored over 300 goals in four seasons • had his Bundesliga debut with Magdeburg at the • by the number of blocks - the most efficient age of 19 defence player at the EHF EURO 2016 • part of all the age categories of the German • born near Bremen, he is a big fan of Werder national team; had his debut for the men’s team in Bremen football club 2014; part of the squad at the WCh 2015 in Qatar • will leave Magdeburg after this season to join MT • SCM’s third top scorer in Bundesliga at moment Melsungen after Damgaard and Weber OG: B 2016, EURO: G 2016
Michael Damgaard Marko Bezjak left back centre back • before he joined SCM played for Gudme (2008- • arrived from Gorenje Velenje in 2013 10) and Holstebro (2010-15) • Slovenian champion three times and gained • part of the first EHF Cup Finals 2013 in Nantes Champions League experience with Holstebro, finishing third • in long Slovenian tradition is more a classical • his brother Allan left Holstebro at the same time playmaker than a shooter to Hamburg, but is back in Denmark (Bjerringbro) • shares the position with Norwegian Christian • back-up of Mikkel Hansen in the Danish national O’Sullivan team • currently part of the Slovenian national team and • just extended his contract for two more years was Olympian with them in Rio
OG: G 2016 WCh: B 2017
Nemanja Zelenovic Robert Weber right back right wing • plays for his fourth club in the fourth different • top Austrian scorer at the EHF EURO 2014 and the country after Serbia, Slovenia and Poland 2015 WCh; scored more than 500 for Austria • after playing for Red Star Belgrade, Celje and • scored more than 1,300 goals for Magdeburg Plock was supposed to join Magdeburg in summer since his arrival in 2009, before he played at 2016, but already arrived in November 2015 as Balingen (Germany) and Hard (Austria) SCM faced severe injury problems in the right back • Bundesliga top scorer in 2014/15 with 271 goals position (as first ever Magdeburg player in history), current • classical Balkan backcourt shooter top scorer again • shares the right back position with Danish • counter-attack and penalty throw specialist Olympic champion Mads Christiansen
19 FRISCH AUF! GÖPPINGEN (GER)
For the first time in the short history of the EHF Cup Finals, the defending champions will have a chance to defend their title on home court. After lifting the last two trophies of the old version in 2010 and 2011, Göppingen beat the 2016 hosts HBC Nantes last year to win the current format for the first time and now successfully applied for the upcoming EHF Cup Finals on 20/21 May.
Despite their tough schedule in the Bundesliga, coach Magnus Andersson is confident of going all the way for the third time after 2012 and 2016. His club is already looking forward “to being a good host of the event for all teams and their fans.
Over the last summer the defending champions lost their 2007 World Champion Michael Kraus (now Stuttgart), but signed German international Jens Schöngarth from Magdeburg and Sebastian Heymann, one of the country’s biggest talents.
On their way to the group phase, the defending champions did not have to travel that far to take the win at their Swiss neighbours Winterthur. They also cruised past the group phase after winning all six games in Group B and consequently clinched the direct ticket to the home court final tournament. Göppingen will not only enter the Playing hall LIQUI MOLY EHF Cup Finals as the defending champions but also as a team with the EWS Arena Göppingen longest winning streak garnering ten victories in a row since their 2015/16 quarter- Nördlichen Ringstrasse 87 final defeat by Magdeburg. 73033 Göppingen Germany Capacity: 5,600
Road to the semi-finals: Past achievements Club Address: EHF Cup Frisch Auf Göppingen Group Phase Winners (3): 2010/11, 2011/12, Leonhard Weiss -Strasse 40 vs Fraikin BM. Granollers W29:28 (13:15) 2015/16 73037 Göppingen @ Futebol Clube do Porto W27:31 (14:13) Runners-up (1): 2005/06 Germany @ HC Midtjylland W22:25 (14:17) EHF Cup Finals (2): fourth ranked vs HC Midtjylland W31:23 (14:15) 2013 Media contact: @ Fraikin BM. Granollers W27:35 (11:14) Quarter-final (1): 2009/10 Alexander Kolb vs Futebol Clube do Porto W30:28 (10:13) +49 7161 965 975 90 Other [email protected] Qualification Round 3 German league: 11 titles (outdoor @ Pfadi Winterthur W30:33 (15:16) 1954, 1957, indoor 1954, 1955, 1958, Online information: vs Pfadi Winterthur W37:32 (19:17) 1959, 1960, 1961, 1965, 1970, 1972) Website: www.frischauf-gp.de Facebook: frischaufgp Twitter: @FRISCHAUFGP
GROUP B Final Table: Kit colours Light 1. Frisch Auf Göppingen 6 6 0 0 181:155 (26) 12 Player shirt: white 2. Fraikin BM. Granollers 6 3 0 3 171:165 (6) 6 Player short: green 3. Futebol Clube do Porto 6 2 0 4 159:170 (-11) 4 Goalkeeper shirt: red 4. HC Midtjylland 6 1 0 5 155:176 (-21) 2 Dark Player shirt: green Player short: white Goalkeeper shirt: black
20 Team roster
No. First Name Surname Nat. Position Date of Birth Place of Birth Height Weight Goals 13 Niclas Andreas Barud SWE Line Player 22/03/1988 Partille 196 105 7 21 Andreas Berg SWE Left Wing 09/05/1992 Säve, SWE 190 88 13 5 Joschua Braun GER Right Wing 11/07/1998 Laupheim, GER 190 85 17 Daniel Fontaine GER Left Back 02/07/1989 Saarlouis, GER 194 95 20 3 Tobias Gehrke GER Left Wing 05/01/1996 Esslingen, GER 178 80 30 Anton Halen SWE Right Wing 28/11/1990 Helgum 185 96 14 10 Sebastian Heymann GER Left Back 01/03/1998 Heilbronn, GER 198 91 5 18 Lars Kaufmann GER Left Back 25/02/1982 Görlitz, GER 199 107 20 4 Tim Kneule GER Centre Back 18/08/1986 Reutlingen, GER 190 99 27 26 Adrian Pfahl GER Right Back 30/07/1982 Bietigheim-Bis., GER 192 92 19 16 Primoz Prost SLO Goalkeeper 14/07/1983 Trbovlje, SLO 186 96 2 12 Daniel Rebmann GER Goalkeeper 16/01/1994 Stuttgart, GER 190 100 27 Marco Rentschler GER Right Wing 28/12/1994 Bietigheim-Bis., GER 185 82 24 23 Bastian Rutschmann GER Goalkeeper 30/12/1982 Karlsruhe, GER 195 93 24 Marcel Schiller GER Left Wing 15/08/1991 Bad Urach, GER 189 94 46 6 Jona Schoch GER Centre Back 02/08/1994 Ostfildern, GER 192 90 7 Christian Schöne GER Right Wing 23/02/1981 Halle, GER 188 80 33 Jens Schöngarth GER Right Back 07/12/1988 Emmendingen, GER 203 98 17 15 Zarko Sesum SRB Left Back 16/06/1986 Backa Palanka, SRB 195 97 22 9 Manuel Späth GER Line Player 16/10/1985 Ostfildern, GER 200 101 15
Nations represented in the squad: 4 (GER, SWE, SLO, SRB)
Domestic league Bundesliga (GER) Last 3 games 14.05. @ THW Kiel L32:28 26.04. vs Hannover-Burgdorf W34:27 19.04. @ MT Melsungen T28:28 Next game 24.05. vs SC Magdeburg Standings (as of 18/05/2017) 1. Flensburg 29 904:710 52 2. Rhein-Neckar 28 840:698 51 3. THW Kiel 30 858:751 47 ... 12. Göppingen 30 819:856 21 ... 18. Coburg 2000 29 723:851 9
21 Magnus Andersson Primoz Prost coach goalkeeper • as a player was part of the famous “Bengan Boys”, • has gained EHF Champions League experience at the most successful generation of Swedish handball, Velenje, Bjerringbro-Silkeborg and Montpellier playing 307 international matches • French champion with Montpellier, at the side of • started his coaching career at Halmstadt in players like Nikola Karabatic Sweden, where he was until 2010 • joined Frisch Auf Göppingen in summer 2013, • coach of AG Kobenhavn, leading them to the VELUX shares the position between the Frisch Auf posts EHF FINAL4 2012, before the club ceased to exist with Bastian Rutschmann • was parallel coach of the Austrian national team • has played more than 80 matches for the from 2010 until 2012 and also coach of Malmö and the Slovenian national team, with the highlighter at the Swedish junior team, before he arrived at Göppingen 2013 WCh in Spain (semi-finals) in summer 2014 • back after a long-term injury break EC trophies: EHF Cup 2016 (as coach) EC trophies: EHF Cup 2016 WCh: G 1990, 1999, EURO: G 1994, 1998, 2000, 2002, OG: S 1992, 1996, 2000 (as player) Marcel Schiller Zarko Sesum left wing left back • started his career in Neuhausen, the same “home • born in the same Serbian city, Backa Palanka, club” as team captain Manul Späth; German youth like THW Kiel’s right back Marko Vujin; like Vujin, he champion with Neuhausen transferred to Veszprem, in 2010 switched for Rhein- Neckar Löwen, then for Frisch Auf • arrived at Göppingen in 2013 after scoring 172 Bundesliga goals for Neuhausen in the 2012/13 season • severely injured (skull fracture) during an incident in a night club in Veszprem in 2009, when his former • shares the left wing position with young Swede teammate Marian Cozma was killed Andreas Berg • hit by a coin in the eye after the EURO 2012 semi- • second best scorer of the EHF Cup 2015/16 (69 gls) final Serbia vs Croatia, nearly lost his eye sight • MVP of the EHF Cup Finals 2016 in Nantes EC trophies: EHF Cup 2016 EC trophies: EHF Cup 2013, 2016 EURO: S 2012 Tim Kneule Manuel Späth centre back line player • like many others in the Göppingen squad played • captain of Frisch Auf wears Göppingen’s jersey in the youth programme of TV Neuhausen; joined since 2006, played all of his senior career at the club Frisch Auf at the age of 20 in 2006 • made a special record on 9 November 2013, • one of the rare players, who was part of all three when he played his 250th Bundesliga match (his of Göppingen’s trophy campaigns in the EHF Cup 309th match in total) for Göppingen in a row, without missing a match due to injury • part of the successful German younger age category teams - U20 EURO champions 2006, • boss of Frisch Auf’s defence had been playing runners-up U21 WCh 2007 more than 30 matches for Germany • needed six more years to have his debut in the • in the summer 2017 he will join TVB 1898 German national team in 2012 (23 caps) Stuttgart EC trophies: EHF Cup 2011, 2012, 2016 EC trophies: EHF Cup 2011, 2012, 2016
Adrian Pfahl Anton Halen right back/right wing right wing • started his career close to Göppingen, in Oßweil, • started his career in Drott Halmstad, becoming before joining first Dormagen and then VfL Swedish cup winner and champion Gummersbach in 2008 • best right wing of the Swedish league in 2012/13 • joined Hamburg right after HSV became • discovered by Swedish Frisch Auf coach Magnus Champions League winner, in January 2016, when Andersson and transferred to Göppingen in 2014 HSV went insolvent transferred to Göppingen • has been part of the Swedish national team since • has played 61 internationals for Germany 2013 including the 2011 & 2013 WCh and the EURO 2012 • shares the position with Marko Rentschler • only player in the squad with four EC trophies • has scored more than 1,000 goals in German Bundesliga, highlighted by 225 goals in 2010/11 EC trophies: EHF Cup 2009, 2016; CWC 2010, 2011 EC trophies: EHF Cup 2016
22 Semi-final 1 Saint-Raphael Var Handball vs Füchse Berlin
EWS Arena, Göppingen Saturday 20 May, 17:45 hrs. local time LIVE ON EHFTV.COM
Head-to-head stats in the EC competitions: Saint-Raphael Var Handball vs Füchse Berlin 1-0-1 (58:54) 2:2 19.02.2017 Füchse Berlin vs Saint-Raphael Var Handball, EHF Cup – Group Phase 33:31 (19:14) 01.04.2017 Saint-Raphael Var Handball vs Füchse Berlin, EHF Cup – Group Phase 27:21 (11:12)
German tradition or French debut
Saint-Raphael Var Handball are the only non-German club While the LIQUI MOLY EHF Cup Finals at Göppingen is a new at the LIQUI MOLY EHF Cup Finals in Göppingen. In their first adventure for the Saint-Raphael, Berlin had been hosting the ever international semi-final they hope to cause a sensation 2014 and 2015 editions of the EHF Cup Finals already, besides against the much more experienced foxes from Berlin. they had been part of the VELUX EHF FINAL4 at Cologne in 2012. In the quarter-finals they left Hungarian side Tatabanya Both sides clashed already in the group phase, both sides are behind in a dominant way after becoming winner of group A. currently fourth ranked in Europe’s top leagues and both sides Thus, Berlin play their third EHF Cup semi-finals - their balance lost their domestic dress rehearsal against a top team highly is equal: In 2014, they lost against Montpellier, in 2015 they closely: there’s so much similar, but also so many differences finally took the trophy by beating Hamburg. Since then, the between the two participants of the second semi-final of the “Foxes” sensationally became IHF Super Globe winner twice. LIQUI MOLY EHF Cup Finals. One statistic fact can be an advantage for Saint-Raphael: Saint-Raphael on Sunday gave a hard fight to VELUX EHF The last two times, Berlin were eliminated in the EHF Cup FINAL4 participant and defending French champions was against French teams: In the 2014 semi-final against Paris Saint-Germain, but were defeated 29:32. Berlin had Montpellier, and in the 2015/16 qualification round by the chance to pass THW Kiel to become third ranked in Chambery Savoie. Ironically enough, Chambery eliminated Bundesliga, but lost 28:32. In the group phase, both sides Saint-Raphael in the 2016 quarter-finals. each had won their home match, but now they face on neutral ground at Göppingen. Saint-Raphael can make history next weekend: Never before, a French club has won the EHF Cup either in the “Due to their experience and the quality of their squad, Berlin old or the new format or the Cup Winner’s Cup. Since the are the favourites,” says outgoing Saint-Raphael coach Joel implementation of the new playing system in the 2012/13 da Silva. He steered his side to their first ever semi-final of an season, three French sides had made it to the finals (Nantes international competition after the 2016 French runners-up twice, Montpellier once), but never took the trophy. had failed three times in quarter-finals of the EHF Cup. Their home win against Berlin was one statement, the two clear If on the other hand Füchse win, the second all-German victories in the quarter-final against another German team, final of a EHF Cup Finals would be completed. Berlin hopes MT Melsungen, have boosted the confidence of former EHF that their top scorer Petar Nenadic will be ready to rumble Cup winner Geoffroy Kranz (with VfL Gummersbach) and his at Göppingen after an ankle injury, occurred in the match teammates. against Kiel.
23 SAINT-RAPHAEL VAR HANDBALL (FRA)
Last season, two goals separated Saint-Raphael Var Handball and a place in the EHF Cup Finals as they lost an all-French quarter-final against Chambery. This year, coach Joel de Silva had no intention of missing out despite meeting a representative of a German bundesliga in the quarter-finals.
Already in the summer the French runners-up have bolstered their squad with Spanish world champion and two-time EHF Champions League winner Dani Sarmiento (from Barcelona) as the successor to Icelandic playmaker Arnor Atlasson and Belarusian World Championship star Artsem Karalek. The line player joined the team which knocked his former club SKA Minsk out in the qualification round. In the group phase they ranked second in Group A behind Füchse Berlin.
Despite winning the first quarter-final leg at home against Melsungen only by four goals, there was never really a hint of doubt for Saint-Raphael in the second leg in Playing hall Germany, which they also won. Already before the LIQUI MOLY EHF Cup Finals it is Palais des Sports JF Krakowski clear that the fifth European season of the club has become a breakthrough campaign Rue des Chataigniers for the team from the south of France. Not surprisingly the club’s name sake Raphael 83700 Saint Raphael Caucheteux is leading the charge with 76 goals being also on the top of the current France competition ranking. Capacity: 2,000
Club Address: Road to the semi-finals: Saint-Raphael Var Handball Past achievements PO Box BP 503 Quarter-final VELUX EHF Champions League 83705 Saint Raphael Cedex vs MT Melsungen W30:26 (15:14) Qualification (1): 2012/2013 France @ MT Melsungen W31:23 (15:15) EHF Cup Media contact: Group Phase Quarter-finals (3): 2010/11, 2011/12, Vanessa Patucca-Bourgeais vs GOG L32:36 (17:19) 2015/16 +33 4 94 95 76 00 @ Füchse Berlin L33:31 (19:14) Round 3 (1): 2012/13 [email protected] @ RD Riko Ribnica W24:31 (12:15) vs RD Riko Ribnica W26:22 (15:14) Other Online information: @ GOG W28:32 (15:17) French League: - (2016 runners-up) Website: www.srvhb.com vs Füchse Berlin W27:21 (11:12) Facebook: saintraphaelvar Twitter: @SRVHB Qualification Round 3 @ SKA Minsk L30:28 (16:13) vs SKA Minsk W33:25 (17:10)
Kit colours GROUP A Final Table: Light Player shirt: white 1. Füchse Berlin 6 5 0 1 185:163 (22) 10 Player short: white 2. Saint-Raphael Var H. 6 4 0 2 179:164 (15) 8 Goalkeeper shirt: green 3. GOG 6 3 0 3 187:190 (-3) 6 Dark 4. RD Riko Ribnica 6 0 0 6 154:188 (-34) 0 Player shirt: red Player short: red Goalkeeper shirt: blue
24 Team roster
No. First Name Surname Nat. Position Date of Birth Place of Birth Height Weight Goals 6 Chamal Abdullah FRA Right Wing 20/07/1998 Marseille, FRA 183 78 10 Aurelien Abily FRA Left Back 22/07/1982 Le Mans, FRA 192 80 25 50 Paolo Bardi FRA Left Back 18/08/1999 Frejus, FRA 181 75 33 Marco Belin FRA Left Back 06/01/1996 Talence, FRA 204 110 3 20 Raphael Caucheteux FRA Left Wing 09/05/1985 Montpellier, FRA 200 90 76 32 Adrien Dipanda FRA Right Back 03/05/1988 Dijon, FRA 202 105 23 1 Slavisa Djukanovic SRB Goalkeeper 03/05/1979 Belgrade, SRB 190 97 78 Rares Dan Fortuneanu ROU Centre Back 19/12/1978 Cluj Napoca, ROU 190 94 77 Dorian Galliano FRA Left Wing 20/03/1997 Frejus, FRA 176 72 22 Sebastien Garain FRA Line Player 20/10/1987 Pointe a Pitre, FRA 194 104 88 Wissem Hmam FRA Left Back 21/04/1981 Menzel Temime, TUN 198 104 9 5 Lucas Hubert FRA Back 13/07/1998 Grasse, FRA 188 86 19 Miroslav Jurka CZE Right Wing 07/06/1987 Valasske Mezirici, CZE 189 82 26 50 Artsem Karalek BLR Line Player 20/02/1996 Grodno, BLR 187 70 12 17 Aleksa Kolakovic SRB Centre Back 10/08/1997 Podgorica, MNE 190 1 31 Nicolas Krakowski FRA Left Back 31/10/1987 Frejus, FRA 196 92 4 2 Geoffroy Krantz FRA Centre Back 03/12/1981 Gien, FRA 186 105 14 91 Pierre Luhern FRA Goalkeeper 09/08/1991 Frejus, FRA 183 77 14 Alexander Lynggaard DEN Line Player 27/03/1990 Koge, DEN 198 102 17 76 Valentin Malek FRA Right Wing 07/02/1999 Frejus, FRA 187 82 8 Jonathan Mapu FRA Line Player 10/03/1998 Frejus, FRA 181 95 6 12 Romain Mathias FRA Goalkeeper 13/09/1997 Paris, FRA 197 95 16 Mihai Catalin Popescu ROU Goalkeeper 15/03/1985 Gaesti, ROU 190 100 99 Romain Quatrevaux FRA Goalkeeper 29/12/1999 Frejus, FRA 188 76 11 Daniel Sarmiento Melian ESP Centre Back 25/08/1983 Las Palmas, ESP 188 85 40 7 Alexandru Simicu ROU Left Back 08/10/1988 Timisoara, ROU 202 96 29 23 Jan Stehlik CZE Right Back 18/04/1985 Plzen, CZE 188 91 10 27 Alexian Trottet FRA Left Wing 13/05/1997 Vernon, FRA 175 75 1 24 Arthur Vigneron FRA Right Wing 30/01/1995 Saint-Michel, FRA 182 78 5
Nations represented in the squad: 7 (FRA, SRB, ROU, CZE, BLR, DEN, ESP)
Domestic league Lidl Starligue (FRA) Last 3 games 14.05. vs PSG Handball L29:32 19.04. @ Creteil W31:37 12.04. @ Saran W27:44 Next game 24.05. vs Cesson Rennes-Metropole Standings (as of 18/05/2017) 1. PSG Handball 24 832:663 46 2. Nantes 23 767:662 41 3. Montpellier 24 780:656 36 4. Saint-Raphael 23 657:603 32 ... 14. Selestat 24 570:704 5
25 Joel Da Silva Mihai Popescu coach goalkeeper • after training Toulouse for four seasons, he signed • one of two former Constanta players to have for Saint-Raphael in the summer of 2014 played the EHF Cup Finals in 2015 • voted best coach in the French league in the • the club is so happy about his performances that 2015/16 season they made him sign a contract extension up until 2022 • has never played handball at a high level and started coaching at the age of 14 • aged 32, he would very much like to end his career in France • before joining Toulouse in 2009, he used to work in a gardening store • forms one of the most experienced pairs in Europe with the 38-year-old Slavisa Djukanovic • has a lot of tattoos and a habit of warming the Saint-Raphael fans up
Raphael Caucheteux Alexandru Simicu left wing left back • at two meters, he’s one of the tallest wingers in • one of the only three players in the Saint-Raphael the handball world squad to ever have played in EHF Cup Finals • stayed with Saint Raphael since signing in January • in fact, he actually played twice, once with HCM 2007 from Montpellier - no one in the squad has Constanta and another time with HSV Hamburg, a played longer for the club side with which he played the final • one of the only three players who has scored • aged 28, he has often been criticised for his more than a thousand goals in the French league physical toughness but has never mellowed • for now, he’s the top scorer in the EHF cup with • was signed for Saint-Raphael in 2014 by Christian 76 goals Gaudin, the former coach who discovered him while coaching the Romanian national team
Daniel Sarmiento Alexander Lynggaard centre back line player • transferred from FC Barcelona last summer in • Danish international player, who took part in his order to replace Arnor Atlason first international competition in Poland in 2016 at the EHF EURO • was part of the FC Barcelona team which broke all records in the 2013/14 season, scoring 1,146 goals in • famous for scoring the winning goal in a league only 30 games game last season when he shot from the middle of the court in the last second • after playing seven seasons in Catalunya, this is his first experience abroad • after playing on his own last season, he was joined in the position by young Belarusian talent • despite not speaking a word of French when Artsem Karalek last November he arrived, he is now fairly fluent and is able to give interviews in French • joined Saint-Raphael in 2013, at the same time as compatriot Morten Olsen, who left to Germany a EC trophies: CL 2011, 2015 couple of months later WCh: G 2013; EURO: B 2014
Adrien Dipanda Miroslav Jurka right back right wing • played in Montpellier, before moving to Ademar • arrived in 2013 from Hlohovec in Slovakia, Leon and then to Saint-Raphael in 2012 alongside his wife Helena Sterbova, also a handball player • late bloomer, playing mostly in defence up until just three years ago • his integration was made easier by his compatriot Jan Stehlik, who used to translate everything for him • his progress is now apparent, since he is regularly during his first months in France picked for in the national team • his special trick is long distance inflight-goals coming often from the goalkeeper on fast breaks • Czech Republic international player, he took part OG: S 2016; WCh: G 2017 in the WCh 2015 in Qatar
26 FÜCHSE BERLIN (GER)
In order to reach the group phase of the Men’s EHF Cup, no team had higher hurdles to clear than Füchse Berlin. However, after they had beaten former EHF Cup Finals participants, Chambery Savoie from France and Gorenje Velenje from Slovenia in Rounds 2 and 3 respectively, something surprising happened: In December 2016, Berlin parted ways with their head coach Erlingur Richardsson.
The Icelandic had taken over the team in summer 2015, succeeding Dagur Sigurdsson who then only focussed on his role as German national team coach. Richardsson’s successor is now the experienced Velimir Petkovic, who coached several German clubs before and steered Frisch Auf Göppingen to the EHF Cup trophy in 2016 and safely steered the team to the LIQUI MOLY EHF Cup Finals 2017.
In this season the reigning IHF Super Globe holders can rely mainly on the firepower of a former VELUX EHF Champions League top scorer Hans Lindberg, who is with 74 goals only two efforts below the EHF Cup top scorer Raphael Caucheteux. But scoring responsibilities are not focused just on the Danish winger, even the stalwart goalkeeper Silvio Heinevetter has already contributed with one goal. Playing hall Max-Schmeling-Halle Falkplatz 1 Road to the semi-finals: 10437 Berlin Germany Quarter-final Past achievements Capacity: 8,521 @ Grundfos Tatabanya W25:30 (11:17) VELUX EHF Champions League vs Grundfos Tatabanya W28:22 (14:13) VELUX EHF FINAL4 (1): fourth place 2011/12 Club Address: Group Phase Last 16 (1): 2012/13 Füchse Berlin @ RD Riko Ribnica W20:25 (11:10) Qualification (1): 2013/14 Markgrafenstraße 34 vs Saint-Raphael Var H. W33:31 (19:14) 10117 Berlin vs GOG W37:29 (17:12) EHF Cup Germany @ GOG W26:31 (10:13) Winners (1): 2014/15 vs RD Riko Ribnica W38:30 (18:14) EHF Cup Finals (2): third place 2013/14, Media contact: @ Saint-Raphael Var H. L27:21 (11:12) winners 2014/15 Stefan Güter Qualification Round 3 (1): 2015/16 +49 177 4054946 Qualification Round 3 [email protected] @ Rk Gorenje Velenje W24:29 (10:13) Other vs Rk Gorenje Velenje L29:32 (14:19) IHF Super Globe: winners 2015, 2016 Online information: German cup: 1 title (2014) Website: www.fuechse-berlin.de Qualification Round 2 Facebook: fuechseberlin @ Chambery Savoie H. W22:25 (7:11) Twitter: FuechseBerlin@ vs Chambery Savoie H. W24:22 (14:14)
Kit colours GROUP A Final Table: Light Player shirt: silver 1. Füchse Berlin 6 5 0 1 185:163 (22) 10 Player short: silver 2. Saint-Raphael Var H. 6 4 0 2 179:164 (15) 8 Goalkeeper shirt: yellow 3. GOG 6 3 0 3 187:190 (-3) 6 4. RD Riko Ribnica 6 0 0 6 154:188 (-34) 0 Dark Player shirt: red Player short: red Goalkeeper shirt: blue
27 Team roster
No. First Name Surname Nat. Position Date of Birth Place of Birth Height Weight Goals* 9 Cyrill Akakpo GER Right Wing 01/10/1997 Berlin, GER 186 88 31 Tim Bielzer GER Line Player 07/11/1997 Berlin, GER 195 104 95 Paul Drux GER Left Back 07/02/1995 Gummersbach, GER 192 92 22 4 Bjarki Mar Elisson ISL Left Wing 16/05/1990 Reykjavik, ISL 191 88 33 23 Steffen Fäth GER Left Back 04/04/1990 Frankfurt, GER 194 90 31 16 Mark Ferjan SLO Goalkeeper 30/06/1998 Ljubljana, SLO 183 89 5 Fynn Ole Fritz GER Left Back 03/05/1997 Berlin, GER 194 94 10 Jakov Gojun CRO Left Back 18/04/1986 Split, CRO 203 112 5 12 Silvio Heinevetter GER Goalkeeper 21/10/1984 Bad Langensalza, GER 194 92 2 44 Kresimir Kozina CRO Line Player 25/06/1990 Derventa, CRO 196 99 18 32 Christoffer Kubrak GER Goalkeeper 03/10/1997 Berlin, GER 189 84 18 Hans Lindberg DEN Right Wing 01/08/1981 Höje Taastrup, DEN 188 88 79 55 Drasko Nenadic SRB Left Back 15/02/1990 Belgrade, SRB 202 91 1 13 Petar Nenadic SRB Centre Back 28/06/1986 Belgrade, SRB 198 80 57 17 Ignacio Plaza Jimenez ESP Line Player 10/01/1994 Ciudad Real, ESP 195 102 21 22 Yannick-Marcos Pust GER Right Wing 17/10/1998 Berlin, GER 185 80 43 Christoph Reißky GER Right Back 11/08/1995 Freiberg, GER 187 80 2 14 Kuno Schauer GER Centre Back 07/11/1998 Berlin, GER 189 82 0 26 Frederik Simak GER Left Wing 24/01/1998 Gengenbach, GER 196 100 1 71 Petr Stochl CZE Goalkeeper 24/04/1976 Plzen, CZE 195 93 7 Kevin Struck GER Left Wing 31/12/1996 Berlin, GER 193 87 6 15 Kent Robin Tönnesen NOR Right Back 05/06/1991 Partille, SWE 194 90 25 6 Drago Vukovic CRO Centre Back 03/08/1983 Split, CRO 194 92 6 20 Konstantin Werner GER Left Wing 25/09/1997 Berlin, GER 182 82 3 Fabian Wiede GER Right Back 08/02/1994 Belzig, GER 192 89 23 21 Mattias Zachrisson SWE Right Wing 22/08/1990 Huddinge, SWE 178 86 18 * goals scored in the second qualification round included
Nations represented in the squad: 10 (GER, ISL, SLO, CRO, DEN, SRB, ESP, CZE, NOR, SWE)
Domestic league Bundesliga (GER) Last 3 games 14.05. @ THW Kiel L32:28 26.04. vs Hannover-Burgdorf W34:27 19.04. @ MT Melsungen T28:28 Next game 24.05. vs SC Magdeburg Standings (as of 18/05/2017) 1. Flensburg 29 904:710 52 2. Rhein-Neckar 28 840:698 51 3. THW Kiel 30 858:751 47 4. Füchse 29 844:755 44 ... 18. Coburg 2000 29 723:851 9
28 Velimir Petkovic Silvio Heinevetter coach goalkeeper • born in former Yugoslavia, but with German • goalkeeping stalwart of the German national team citizenship now • his former goalkeeper coach at SC Magdeburg was • as player won the European Champions Cup in legendary Wieland Schmidt (Olympic champion 1980) 1976 with Borac Banja Luka • famous for his unusual style of saving shots • as coach of the same club he won the IHF Cup • liaised with a German TV star Simone Thomalla Winners’ Cup in 1991 • extended his contract until 2018 • after his six-year stint with Wetzlar he was at the helm of Frisch Auf Göppingen for nearly ten years steering them to two EHF Cup titles and the premiere edition of the EHF Cup Finals in 2013
EC trophies: EHF Cup 2011, 2012, IHF CWC 1991 (as coach), Champions Cup 1976 (as EC trophies: EHF Cup 2007, 2015 player) OG: B 2016
Bjarki Mar Elisson Paul Drux left wing left back • discovered by his fellow country man and • born in Gummersbach, discovered by Füchse former Füchse coach Erlingur Richardsson Berlin, when he was 16 • was already playing two years in Germany • since then (until 2016) coached by Sigurdsson (Eisenach), before he joining Füchse in 2015 in the club – and since November 2014 also in the German national team • had his debut with the Icelandic national team in 2012 - but has to face the strong competition • All-star player at the Men’s 20 EHF EURO 2014 with Gudjon Valur Sigurdsson in the same position in Austria, where he led the Germans to the gold medal like at the Men’s 18 EHF EURO 2012 • one of Füchse’s counter attack specialists • recovered from a long-term shoulder injury in • known as the joker of the team summer 2016 EC trophies: EHF Cup 2015 EC trophies: EHF Cup 2015 EURO: S 2012 OG: B 2016 Petar Nenadic Kresimir Kozina centre back line player • signed by Füchse from Plock in September 2014 • started his career with Croatian side Zamet, joined EHF Cup regular Nexe Nasice at the age of 21 • currently playing in his sixth different country after Serbia, Spain, Hungary, Denmark and Poland; top • left to Austrian side Alpla Hard in 2013, became scorer of German Bundesliga in 2015/16 two-time domestic champion and scored 279 goals • awarded best player of the IHF Super Globe 2016 • joined Flensburg-Handewitt in October 2015, but left the former CL winners at the end of the season • married with the Serbian volleyball international Jelena Nikolic; his brother Drasko just signed a short- • now is mainly a defence specialist at Füchse, term contract with Füchse until the end of the season replacing Jesper Nielsen who went to PSG • his start questionable due to ankle injury suffered • will have his last international match for Füchse in the last weekend’s bundesliga game at Kiel in Göppingen, as he will join exactly Frisch Auf
EC trophies: EHF Cup 2015 EURO: B 2016 EURO: S 2012
Fabian Wiede Hans Lindberg right back right wing • transferred from Potsdam to Füchse’s youth • joined Berlin after a long stint with HSV Hamburg team in Berlin at the age of 15; since then (in youth • was top scorer of the Champions League season and senior competitions) won ten titles with Füchse 2012/13; top scorer of the Bundesliga in 2012/13 • every time he and club director Bob Hanning and WCh All-star team 2013 member made it to a final of a competition, they have won it • took part in an EHF Cup final with HSV in 2014/15 • made his debut in the German national team at • started his career at Viborg; his nickname in his the age of 19; was ruled out for the WCh 2017 with younger days at Viborg was “majestæt” a shoulder injury, but now is back on track • has played 238 times for the Danish national team • started an apprenticeship at a bank in Berlin since 2007 only two days after becoming EHF EURO champion EC trophies: EHF Cup 2015 in Poland in 2016 EC trophies: CL 2013 EURO: G 2016, OG: B 2016 EURO: G 2008, G 2012, S 2014, WCh S 2011, S 2013, B 2007
29 Important regulations Extra-time and penalty throws All matches of the LIQUI MOLY EHF Cup Finals shall be played in 2 x 30 minutes. If a semi-final match or the final ends in a draw, there will be a five minutes break followed by one extra time of 2 x 5 minutes, there will be a one minute half-time break at half-time for the changeover of teams. If the extra-time ends in a draw, the match will be decided by penalty throws.
If the placement match 3/4 ends in a draw, there shall be no extra time, the match will be decided directly by penalty throws.
If penalty throws are needed to decide the match, the procedure is as follows:
• At the Technical Meeting the teams will be • In the second round, a decision is reached when informed at which goal the penalty throws will a goal difference arises after both teams have be taken. The team taking the first penalty throw taken one throw each. shall be determined by the referees by drawing • Eligible players are players entered in the match lots. The team winning the draw may choose report that have not been disqualified or whether it wishes to throw first or last. suspended at the time of the final whistle. • Prior to the penalty throws, each team shall • Serious infractions committed during penalty name five players eligible to play at the end of the throws shall be sanctioned by disqualification. match by handing the referees a list of numbers. If a thrower is disqualified or suffers an injury, These players shall then take one throw each, an eligible substitute player shall be additionally alternating with their opponents. Each team is named. free to determine the sequence in which throwers will take their throws. • While the throws are being taken, only the player taking the throw, the current goalkeeper and the • The goalkeepers may be freely selected from the referees may enter the respective half of the match report and exchanged in accordance playing court. with the Rules of the Game. Goalkeepers may take throws and throwers may perform • If the number of eligible players falls below five, as goalkeepers. players may be named to take a second throw in the same round. • If the scores are equal after the first round of penalty throws, it shall be continued until a decision is reached. In the second round, the other team shall start. Again five players shall be named who are eligible to play (the players named before may be named once again).
30 All-time EHF Cup Finals records All-time ranking: 1. Füchse Berlin GER 4 3 0 1 108:103 +5 6:2 2. Rhein-Neckar Löwen GER 2 2 0 0 54:46 +8 4:0 3. Pick Szeged HUN 2 2 0 0 53:50 +3 4:0 4. Frisch Auf Göppingen GER 4 2 0 2 109:107 +2 4:4 5. HBC Nantes FRA 4 2 0 2 103:104 -1 4:4 6. Montpellier Agglomeration HB FRA 2 1 0 1 64:61 +3 2:2 7. Fraikin BM. Granollers ESP 2 1 0 1 51:48 +3 2:2 8. HSV Hamburg GER 2 1 0 1 54:53 +1 2:2 9. Skjern Handbold DEN 2 1 0 1 50:49 +1 2:2 10. Team Tvis Holstebro DEN 2 1 0 1 48:53 -5 2:2 11. HCM Constanta ROU 2 0 0 2 60:65 -5 0:4 12. Chambery Savoie Handball FRA 2 0 0 2 46:53 -7 0:4 13. Rk Gorenje Velenje SLO 2 0 0 2 46:54 -8 0:4
Most goals in one game: Uwe Gensheimer 10 19.05.2013 HBC Nantes-Rhein-Neckar Löwen 24:26 Iuliu Alexandru Csepreghi 10 17.05.2014 HCM Constanta-Montpellier Agglomeration HB 32:36 Dragan Gajic 10 18.05.2014 Montpellier Agglomeration HB-Pick Szeged 28:29 Kentin Mahe 10 17.05.2015 Füchse Berlin-HSV Hamburg 30:27 David Resina Forns 10 14.05.2016 Fraikin BM. Granollers-HBC Nantes 26:27 Ferran Sole Sala 10 15.05.2016 Chambery Savoie Handball-Fraikin BM. Granollers 21:25 Dragan Gajic 9 17.05.2014 HCM Constanta-Montpellier Agglomeration HB 32:36 Marcel Schiller 9 14.05.2016 Chambery Savoie Handball-Frisch Auf Göppingen 25:28 Cedric Paty 9 15.05.2016 Chambery Savoie Handball-Fraikin BM. Granollers 21:25 Valero Rivera Folch 8 18.05.2013 Team Tvis Holstebro-HBC Nantes 20:26 Iker Romero Fernandez 8 18.05.2014 HCM Constanta-Füchse Berlin 28:29 Valero Rivera Folch 8 14.05.2016 Fraikin BM. Granollers-HBC Nantes 26:27 Valero Rivera Folch 8 15.05.2016 Frisch Auf Göppingen-HBC Nantes 32:26
Most participations (including this year): 3 Frisch Auf Göppingen 3 Füchse Berlin 2 HBC Nantes
Most goals in one match: 36 HCM Constanta 17.05.2014 HCM Constanta-Montpellier Agglomeration HB 32:36
Most goals in one match both teams: 68 17.05.2014 HCM Constanta-Montpellier Agglomeration HB 32:36
Least goals in one match: 20 Team Tvis Holstebro 18.05.2013 Team Tvis Holstebro-HBC Nantes 20:26
Least goals in one match both teams: 46 18.05.2013 Team Tvis Holstebro-HBC Nantes 20:26 46 17.05.2014 Füchse Berlin-Pick Szeged 22:24 46 15.05.2016 Chambery Savoie Handball-Fraikin BM. Granollers 21:25
Biggest win: +6 18.05.2013 Team Tvis Holstebro-HBC Nantes 20:26 +6 18.05.2013 Frisch Auf Göppingen-Rhein-Neckar Löwen 22:28 +6 15.05.2016 Frisch Auf Göppingen-HBC Nantes 32:26
Most goals at half-time: 18 Montpellier Agglomeration HB 17.05.2014 HCM Constanta-Montpellier Agglomeration HB (14:18)
31 Most goals at half-time both teams: 32 17.05.2014 HCM Constanta-Montpellier Agglomeration HB (14:18)
Least goals at half-time: 7 Frisch Auf Göppingen 18.05.2013 Frisch Auf Göppingen-Rhein-Neckar Löwen (7:12)
Least goals at half-time both teams: 19 18.05.2013 Frisch Auf Göppingen-Rhein-Neckar Löwen (7:12)
Biggest gap at half-time: +5 Rhein-Neckar Löwen 18.05.2013 Frisch Auf Göppingen-Rhein-Neckar Löwen (7:12) +5 Chambery Savoie Handball 14.05.2016 Chambery Savoie Handball-Frisch Auf Göppingen (14:9)
Biggest change from half-time score to full-time score: 8 14.05.2016 Chambery Savoie Handball-Frisch Auf Göppingen 25:28 (14:9)
Most penalty minutes: 16’ Frisch Auf Göppingen 18.05.2013 Frisch Auf Göppingen-Rhein-Neckar Löwen 22:28 16’ Rhein-Neckar Löwen 19.05.2013 HBC Nantes-Rhein-Neckar Löwen 24:26
Most penalty minutes both teams: 28’ 19.05.2013 HBC Nantes-Rhein-Neckar Löwen 24:26
Least penalty minutes: 2’ Rk Gorenje Velenje 17.05.2015 Rk Gorenje Velenje-Skjern Handbold 22:27 2’ Chambery Savoie Handball 14.05.2016 Chambery Savoie Handball-Frisch Auf Göppingen 25:28
Least penalty minutes both teams: 8’ 17.05.2015 Rk Gorenje Velenje-Skjern Handbold 22:27
Most 7m throws: 9 Rk Gorenje Velenje 16.05.2015 Rk Gorenje Velenje-Füchse Berlin 24:27 9 HSV Hamburg 17.05.2015 Füchse Berlin-HSV Hamburg 30:27
Most 7m throws both teams: 14 16.05.2015 Rk Gorenje Velenje-Füchse Berlin 24:27
Least 7m throws: 0 Team Tvis Holstebro 18.05.2013 Team Tvis Holstebro-HBC Nantes 20:26
Least 7m throws both teams: 3 19.05.2013 Team Tvis Holstebro-Frisch Auf Göppingen 28:27
Most 7m throws scored: 8 Rk Gorenje Velenje 16.05.2015 Rk Gorenje Velenje-Füchse Berlin 24:27 8 HSV Hamburg 17.05.2015 Füchse Berlin-HSV Hamburg 30:27
Most 7m throws scored both teams: 11 16.05.2015 Rk Gorenje Velenje-Füchse Berlin 24:27
Least 7m throws scored: 0 Team Tvis Holstebro 18.05.2013 Team Tvis Holstebro-HBC Nantes 20:26 0 Frisch Auf Göppingen 19.05.2013 Team Tvis Holstebro-Frisch Auf Göppingen 28:27
Least 7m throws scored both teams: 2 19.05.2013 Team Tvis Holstebro-Frisch Auf Göppingen 28:27
Disqualifications: Manuel Späth (Frisch Auf Göppingen) 18.05.2013 Frisch Auf Göppingen-Rhein-Neckar Löwen 22:28 Alexandru Viorel Simicu (HSV Hamburg) 17.05.2015 Füchse Berlin-HSV Hamburg 30:27 32 MEN’S EHF CUP TEAMS Cocks LIQUI MOLY EHF Cup Finals 2017 FIN
Final weekend
Quarter- nals
Group Phase HC Midtjylland GOG DEN DEN
KIF Kolding Kobenhavn DEN Füchse Berlin GER
SC Magdeburg GER
MT Melsungen GER Grundfos Tatabanya KC HUN
Frisch Auf Göppingen GER
Men’s EHF Cup Finals venue
Futebol Clube do Porto POR
Saint-Raphael Var Handball S.L. Ben ca FRA POR
Maccabi CASTRO Tel Aviv Helvetia Anaitasuna Fraikin BM. Granollers RD Riko Ribnica ISR ESP ESP SLO 2016/2017 MEN'S EHF CUP Qualification Qualification Qualification Group Quarter Final Round 1 Round 2 Round 3 Phase finals Tournament 30 teams 32 teams 32 teams 16 teams 8 teams 4 teams 03/04.09.2016 08/09.10.2016 19/20.11.2016 R1: 11/12.02.2017 22/23.04.17 20/21.05.2017 first leg first leg first leg R2: 18/19.02.2017 first leg Tournament R3: 04/05.03.2017 10/11.09.2016 15/16.10.2016 26/27.11.2016 R4: 11/12.03.2017 29/30.04.17 NATION second leg second leg second leg R5:25/26.03.2017 second leg R6:01/02.04.2017 DRAWS: 19.07.2016 19.07.2016 18.10.2016 01.12.2016 04.04.2017 02.05.2017 1 Def. Champ. Frisch Auf Göppingen/GER 2 ESP Abanca Ademar Leon 3 FRA St. Raphael Var Handball 4 GER MT Melsungen 5 ESP Helvetia Anaitasuna 6 DEN HC Midjylland 7 SLO RD Riko Ribnica 8 HUN Grundfos Tatabanya KC 9 POL Azoty-Pulawy 10 GER SC Magdeburg 11 ESP Frainkin BM Granollers 12 DEN GOG 13 2nd CL QT1 2nd CL QT1 14 2nd CL QT2 2nd CL QT2 15 3rd CL QT1 3rd CL QT1 16 3rd CL QT2 3rd CL QT2 17 4th CL QT1 4th CL QT1 18 4th CL QT2 4th CL QT2 19 SWE Alingsas HK 20 SLO RD Koper 2013 21 SUI Wacker Thun 22 HUN Balatonfüredi KSE 23 POR SL Benfica 24 ROU CSM Bucuresti 25 BLR SKA Minsk 26 CRO RK Nexe 27 RUS St. Petersburg HC 28 NOR OIF Arendal 29 SVK HC Sporta Hlohovec 30 CZE Talent M.A.T. Plzen 31 POL Gornik Zabrze 32 GER Füchse Berlin 33 DEN KIF Kolding Kobenhavn 34 FRA Chambery Savoie HB 35 HUN Csurgoi KK 36 FRA US Creteil Handball 37 POR FC do Porto 4 Winners4 of Quarterfinals 38 ROU CSU Poli. Timisoara 39 CRO GRK Varazdin 1930 16 Winners of Qualification Round 3 Round Qualification of Winners 16 40 RUS Dinamo Astrakhan 41 MKD HC Prilep 42 CZE HC Dukla Praha 43 ISL Haukar 44 UKR ZTR Zaporozhye 45 SRB HC Vojvodina Phase Group the of group each of teams placed 2nd and 1st 46 GRE A.C.C. Filippos Verias
47 ISR Maccabi S. Rishon Lezion 16 of Qualification Winners 2 Round 48 NED OCI-Lions 49 KOS KH Besa Famiglia 50 EST Pölva Serviti 51 TUR B.B. Ankara SK 52 LUX HB Käerjeng 53 MDA HC Olimpus-85 USEF 54 MNE RK Budvanska Rivijera 55 GBR London GD HC 56 GEO B.S.B. Batumi 57 SRB RK Metaloplastika Sabac 15 of Qualification Winners 1 Round 58 GRE A.C. Diodmis Argous 59 SUI Pfadi Winterthur 60 CRO HC Zamet 61 NOR Bodo HK 62 AUT Alpla HC Hard 63 NED KRAS Volendam
published version, 12.07.2016 34 vs. vs. vs. vs. Place Match Place rd Final Semi- nals 3 20/21.05.2017 EHF Cup Finals EHF Cup EHF Cup Finals EHF Cup 4 winners 1 vs. vs. vs. vs. 2 rst leg rst 22/23.04.2017 second leg 29/30.04.2017 Quarter-nals Quarter-nals 8 teams 11/12.03.2017 25/26.03.2017 01/02.04.2017 Home Matches Home Matches Matches Away 3 3 Group Phase Group 11/12.02.2017 18/19.02.2017 04/05.03.2017 Group Phase Group 16 winners Season 2016/17 playing dates playing Season 2016/17 Men’s EHF Cup 2016/17 playing system playing EHF 2016/17 Cup Men’s vs. 16 vs.16 Qualication Round 3 Round Qualication rst leg rst 19/20.11.2016 second leg 26/27.11.2016 Qualication Round 3 Round Qualication 16 winners vs. vs. 15 winners 15 vs.15 16 vs. 16 16 vs. Qualication Round 1 Round Qualication 2 Round Qualication rst leg - 08/09.10.2016 second leg - 15/16.10.2016 rst leg - 03/04.09.2016 second leg - 10/11.09.2016 Qualication Round 1 Round Qualication 2 Round Qualication
35 Previous seasons’ top scorers
Season Name & nation Club Goals
2015/16 Ferran Sole Sala (ESP) Fraikin BM Granollers (ESP) 70
2014/15 Skube Stas (SLO) Rk Gorenje Velenje (SLO) 81 2013/14 Dragan Gajic (SLO) Montpellier Agglomeration HB (FRA) 72
2012/13 Momir Rnic (SRB) Frisch Auf Göppingen (GER) 59
Top scorers after quarter-finals
Rank Name & nation Club Goals
1 Raphael Caucheteux (FRA) Saint-Raphael Var Handball (FRA) 76 2 Hans Lindberg (DEN) Füchse Berlin (GER) 74
3 Michael Damgaard (DEN) SC Magdeburg (GER) 58
4 Milos Vujovic (MNE) Grundfos Tatabanya KC (HUN) 56
5 Petar Nenadic (SRB) Füchse Berlin (GER) 54
6 Michael Allendorf (GER) MT Melsungen (GER) 51
7 Chen Pomeranz (ISR) Maccabi CASTRO Tel Aviv (ISR) 47
8 Nico Rönnberg (FIN) Cocks (FIN) 46 Marcel Schiller (GER) Frisch Auf Göppingen (GER) 46
10 Oswaldo Dos Santos Maestro (ESP) Helvetia Anaitasuna (ESP) 45
11 Pertusa Alvaro Cabanas (ESP) Fraikin BM. Granollers (ESP) 44
12 Teemu Tamminen (FIN) Cocks (FIN) 41
13 Daniel Sarmiento (ESP) Saint-Raphael Var Handball (FRA) 40
14 Tobias Möller Torpegaard (DEN) GOG (DEN) 39 15 Novak Boskovic (SRB) Maccabi CASTRO Tel Aviv (ISR) 38
Konstantin Igropulo (RUS) KIF Kolding Kobenhavn (DEN) 38 Antonio Rodrigues Areia (POR) Futebol Clube do Porto (POR) 38
18 Jan Grebenc (SLO) RD Riko Ribnica (SLO) 37
19 Carlos Chocarro Gorraiz (ESP) Helvetia Anaitasuna (ESP) 36
20 Daniel Pettersson (SWE) SC Magdeburg (GER) 35
Nemanja Zelenovic (SRB) SC Magdeburg (GER) 35 (Bold text indicates players that are still active in the competition.) ONLY GOALS SCORED FROM THE THIRD QUALIFICATION ROUND ONWARDS ARE COUNTED IN THE TOPSCORER’S LIST.
36 Past winners
2016 Frisch Auf Göppingen (GER)
2015 Füchse Berlin (GER)
2014 Pick Szeged (HUN)
2013 Rhein-Neckar Löwen (GER)
Previous Men’s EHF Cup winners Previous Men’s Cup Winners’ Cup winners
2012 Frisch Auf Göppingen (GER) 2012 SG Flensburg Handewitt (GER) 2011 Frisch Auf Göppingen (GER) 2011 VfL Gummersbach (GER) 2010 TBV Lemgo (GER) 2010 VfL Gummersbach (GER) 2009 VfL Gummersbach (GER) 2009 Pevafersa Valladolid (ESP) 2008 HSG Nordhorn (GER) 2008 MKB Veszprem KC (HUN) 2007 SC Magdeburg (GER) 2007 HSV Hamburg 2006 TBV Lemgo (GER) 2006 Chekhovski Medvedi (RUS) 2005 Tusem Essen (GER) 2005 C. BM Ademar Leon (ESP) 2004 THW Kiel (GER) 2004 Portland San Antonio (ESP) 2003 FC Barcelona (ESP) 2003 A.D.C. Ciudad Real (ESP) 2002 THW Kiel (GER) 2002 A.D.C. Ciudad Real (ESP) 2001 Sportclub Magdeburg (GER) 2001 SG Flensburg Handewitt (GER) 2000 Metkovic Jumbo (CRO) 2000 Portland San Antonio (ESP) 1999 Sportclub Magdeburg (GER) 1999 Prosesa Ademar Leon (ESP) 1998 THW Kiel (GER) 1998 Caja Cantabria Santander (ESP) 1997 SG Flensburg Handewitt (GER) 1997 Elgorriaga Bidasoa (ESP) 1996 BM Granollers (ESP) 1996 TBV Lemgo (GER) 1995 BM Granollers (ESP) 1995 FC Barcelona (ESP) 1994 Aliza Avidesa (ESP) 1994 FC Barcelona (ESP)
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Contributors: Björn Pazen, Peter Bruun, Kevin Domas, all stats by Roy Knoppert
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