Media Information VELUX EHF FINAL4 LANXESS Arena Cologne
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Season 2013/14 Media Information VELUX EHF FINAL4 LANXESS arena Cologne Saturday, 31 May 2014 Semi-final 2 – 15:15 MKB MVM Veszprém (HUN) vs THW Kiel (GER) : Semi-final 1 – 18:00 FC Barcelona (ESP) vs SG Flensburg-Handewitt (GER) : Sunday, 1 June 2014 3/4 Placement match – 15:15 vs : Final – 18:00 vs : Table of contents Playing system diagram 4 Playing order & regulations 5 Facts & figures 6 FC Barcelona 8 THW Kiel 14 SG Flensburg Handewitt 20 MKB-MVM Veszprém 26 Head-to-heads 31 VELUX EHF Champions League Current Top Scorers 33 EHF Champions League Top Scorers 34 EHF Champions League Past Winners 35 EHF Champions League All-time club standings 36 2 VELUX EHF Champions League 2013/14 playing system Qualication Group Phase Last 16 Quarter-nals FINAL4 Tournaments Semi-nals 4 vs. 1 3 vs. 2 2 vs. 1 vs. vs. vs. vs. vs. vs. vs. vs. 4 3rd Place Match vs. vs. vs. Qualication/ vs. Wild Card Matches vs. vs. Final Home Matches 5 1 1 vs. vs. Total Matches 10 2 2 vs. Season 2013/14 playing dates Qualication Tournaments Group Phase Last 16 Quarter-nals FINAL4 31.08. - 01.09.2013 18. - 22.09.2013 20. - 24.11.2013 rst leg rst leg 31.05 /1.06.2014 25. - 29.09.2013 27.11 - 01.12.2013 19.03. - 23.03.2014 16.04. - 20.04.2014 Qualication 09. - 13.10.2013 05. - 09.02.2014 and Wild Card Matches 16. - 20.10.2013 12. - 16.02.2014 second leg second leg 13. - 17.11.2013 19. - 23.02.2014 26.03. - 30.03.2014 23.04. - 27.04.2014 21.08. - 01.09.2013 Playing order overview LANXESS arena, Cologne Saturday, 31 May 2014 15:15 hrs Semi-final 2: MKB-MVM Veszprem vs. THW Kiel Ref: Nenad Krstic & Peter Ljubic / SLO Del: Bozidar Djurkovic (EHF Comptrollers / SRB) & Antonio Goulao (EHF Technical Refereeing Committee / POR) 18:00 hrs Semi-final 1: FC Barcelona vs SG Flensburg-Handewitt Ref: Vaclav Horacek & Jiri Novotny / CZE Del: Martin Hausleitner (EHF Competitions Commission / AUT) & Dragan Nachevski (EHF Competitions Commission / MKD) Sunday, 1 June 2014 15:15 hrs 3/4 placement match: Loser SF 1 vs. Loser SF 2 Ref: Andrei Gousko & Siarhei Repkin / BLR 18:00 hrs Final: Winner SF 1 vs. Winner SF 2 Ref: Martin Gjeding & Mads Hansen / DEN Important regulations What follows, if a match ends in a draw All matches of the VELUX EHF FINAL4 shall be played in 2 x 30 minutes • At the Technical Meeting the teams will be informed at which with a half-time break of 15 minutes. goal the penalty throws will be taken. The team taking the first penalty throw shall be determined by the referees by drawing lots. The team winning the draw may choose whether it wishes • If a semi-final match or the final ends in a draw, there will be a to throw first or last. 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 • If the scores are equal after the first round of penalty throws, changeover of teams. If there is a draw at the end of the extra- it shall be continued until a decision is reached. In the second time. round, the other team shall start. Again five players shall be named who are eligible to play (the players named before may • If the placement match 3/4 ends in a draw, there shall be be named once again). no extra time, the match will be decided directly by penalty throws. • In the second round, a decision is reached when a goal difference arises after both teams have taken one throw each. • If penalty throws are needed to decide the match, the procedure is as follows: • Eligible players are players entered in the match report that have not been disqualified or suspended at the time of the • Prior to the penalty throws, each team shall name five players final whistle. eligible to play at the end of the match by handing the referees a list of numbers. These players shall then take one throw • Serious infractions committed during penalty throws shall each, alternating with their opponents. Each team is free to be sanctioned by disqualification. If a thrower is disqualified determine the sequence in which throwers will take their or suffers an injury, an eligible substitute player shall be throws. supplementary named. • The goalkeepers may be freely selected from the match report • While the throws are being taken, only the player taking the and exchanged in accordance with the Rules of the Game. throw, the current goalkeeper and the referees may enter the Goalkeepers may take throws and throwers may perform as respective half of the playing court. goalkeepers. • If the number of eligible players falls below five, players may be named to take a second throw in the same round. 5 Facts & figures Vugrinec, Kiel and Barcelona top the rankings 0 times SG Flensburg-Handewitt and MVM-MKB Veszprem had been 4 times both THW Kiel and FC Barcelona have been participants at the part of the VELUX EHF FINAL4 before. VELUX EHF FINAL 4. While Barcelona took the trophy once in 2011, Kiel won the title in 2010 and 2012. 0 champions of the VELUX EHF FINAL4 have defended their titles – and things will not change in 2014, as defending champions Hamburg 5 times Siarhei Rutenka has won the EHF Champions League to are already out after losing their Last 16 tie against Vardar Skopje. date, 2004 with Celje, 2006, 2008 and 2009 with Ciudad Real and 20111 with Barcelona. If Rutenka wins his sixth individual title, the 0 teams have qualified for all five VELUX EHF FINAL4 events since Belarusian would join the two legendary goalkeepers Tomas Svensson 2010. and David Barrufet, who also have six trophies to their name. 1 - Veszprem was finalist of the EHF Champions League once – but lost 7 times FC Barcelona won the EHF Champions League title; five 2002 against SC Magdeburg, led by current Kiel coach Alfred Gislason. straight times from 1996 and 2000 as well as 2005 and 2011. 1 - MVM MKB Veszprem is the first Hungarian side to qualify for 16 goals were scored by Uwe Gensheimer (Rhein Neckar Löwen) the VELUX EHF FINAL4. Other “maiden voyage” countries are Russia against FC Barcelona, making him the top scorer of the round, but 14 (Medvedi 2010), Denmark (AG Kobenhavn 2012) and Poland (Vive came in the first leg. Targi Kielce 2013). The remaining teams came either from Spain or Germany. 18 goals (65:47) were the biggest difference ever scored in a quarter- final of the VELUX EHF Champions League quarter-finals since the 2 VELUX EHF FINAL 4 participants are coached by Spaniards: implementation of the current playing system in the 2009/10 season. Veszprem (Carlos Ortega) and Barcelona (Xavi Pascual). The remaining This result was scored by THW Kiel against Metalurg, followed by 14 teams are coached by Icelandic (Alfred Gislason/Kiel) and Swedish goals in the 2010/11 pairing HSV Hamburg vs. Chekhovskie Medvedi (Ljubomir Vranjes/Flensburg) coaches. Vranjes is the first Swedish (75:61) and 13 goals in the 2012/13 season by Kielce vs. Metalurg coach in Cologne. (53:40). 2 duels of the four quarter-final pairings were level at the ebd and 25 points from 14 matches by THW Kiel is the best record of the four had to be decided by the number of away goals: Barcelona vs. Löwen teams to reach Cologne, followed by Barcelona with 24 points, ahead (62:62 – 31:38, 31:24) and Flensburg vs. Vardar 49:49 (24:22, 25:27). of Veszprem on 23 and 21 for Flensburg. 2 times before FC Barcelona played finals of the VELUX EHF FINAL4 95 goals were scored by Renato Vugrinec so far to lead the top scorer against German teams (2010 vs. Kiel and 2013 vs. Hamburg) – and ranking of the VELUX EHF Champions League. The right back is ahead never have the Catalans won. The only title they took was in the 2011 of Momir Ilic (Veszprem - 81) and Gasper Marguc (Celje - 79). Ilic is all-Spanish final against Atletico Madrid. the only of the top three who can add to his tally in Cologne. 2 times SG Flensburg-Handewitt had been finalist in the EHF 98 goals was the lowest number of all current quarter-final pairings, Champions League finals - but the Northern Germans have not won scored by Flensburg and Vardar Skopje. the title after their defeats against Celje (2004) and Kiel (2007) 124 goals were scored by Löwen and Barcelona in their quarter-finals 2 teams of the 2013 VELUX EHF FINAL4 have made it again to Cologne: to top the number of goals in this round. Barcelona and Kiel. Kielce and defending champions Hamburg were eliminated in the Last 16. 355 goals conceded gives Veszprem the best defence of the four VELUX EHF FINAL4 participants after 14 matches, followed by 360 3 Icelandic left wing Gudjon Valur Sigurdsson will have his fourth (Barcelona), 375 (Kiel) and 379 (Flensburg) VELUX EHF FINAL4 with his third club: In 2011 he was in Cologne with Rhein Neckar Löwen, in 2012 with AG Kobenhavn and 2013 and 2014 470 goals in 14 matches scored by FC Barcelona puts them on top, with THW Kiel. “Goggi” has yet to win the trophy in Cologne. followed by 435 (Veszprem), 434 (Kiel) and 418 (Flensburg). 3 times has two German teams been part of the VELUX EHF FINAL4 before: 2011, when Hamburg and Füchse both missed the final, 2012 when Kiel won after beating Füchse in the semi-finals and 2013, when Hamburg won the trophy after a semi-final win over Kiel.