Media Information 2016 EHF Cup Finals Salle Sportive Metropolitaine de la Trocardiere, Nantes

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ADI_16_021_AZ_Handball_Stabil_boost_A4.indd 1 07.04.16 10:56 Table of contents - Foreword 4

1. Introduction 5

- Welcome 5 - EHF / EHFM / Füchse Berlin Media Team 5

2. Media timetable 6

3. Essential media information 7

- Accreditation collection 7 - Photographers/TV bibs 7 - Official event name/hastags 7 - Media Centre opening times 7 - Media seats 7 - WLAN access 7 - Video recording 7 - Opening Press conference / Post-match press conference 7 - Opening training 8 - EHF Cup Finals Online 8 - Television and live streaming 8 - Invitation to Media Get Together 8

4. Media rules and guidelines 9

- Rules for ENG crews 9 - Rules for photographers 10

5. Event information 12

- EHF CUP / EHF Cup Finals 12 - New trophy 12 - EHF Cup Finals Program and Officials 13 - Tournament management 13 - Tickets information 13 - Facts & Figures 15 - Head-to-head stats 16 - Semi-final 2 Preview 17 - Fraikin BM Granollers (Spain) 18 - HBC Nantes (France) 21 - Semi-final 1 Preview 24 - Chambery Savoie Handball (France) 25 - Frisch Auf Göppingen (Germany) 28 - Important regulations - extra-time and 7m throws 31 - EHF Cup 2015/16 - map of participants 33 - Playing system - dates and rounds 34 - All-time EHF Cup Finals records 36 - Top scorers 2015/16 after quarter-finals 38 - Previous winners 39

3 Foreword

Dear media representative,

Welcome to the fourth edition of the Men’s EHF Cup Finals; we are now just moments away from the matches that will determine the new champion of the 2015/16 Men’s EHF Cup. It has been a very interesting journey for a competition that continues to grow and gain momentum since undergoing a facelift in 2013.

In September 2015 the first teams embarked on a journey to Nantes in the first qualification round. Following the end of Qualification Round 2 in October, 32 teams moved into the third and final qualification stage; this was where every match mattered and the race was on to become one of the last sixteen teams standing in order to play the six-round group phase that commenced in February.

Over the course of season 60 teams have now been whittled down to four as the three quarter-final pairings made the last cut. And I congratulate each and every team which took part in this “odyssey” for their valiant athletic efforts. For the remaining teams, one more challenge awaits – the EHF Cup Finals.

On behalf of the European Handball Federation, I welcome the delegations of Fraikin BM Granollers, Chambery Savoie Handball, Frisch Auf Göppingen and HBC Nantes where in front of a 4,500 strong capacity crowd in the Salle Sportive Metropolitaine de la Trocardiere, a new champion will be crowned.

After Rhein-Neckar Löwen took the first trophy in 2013, Szeged in 2014 and Füchse Berlin last year we are excited to see the new champions to be crowned in this beautiful arena. The reigning trophy holders Füchse have been out of the picture since the third qualification round as they were left behind by Chambery.

It is a sort of homecoming for this competition after Nantes hosted the premiere edition of the EHF Cup Finals in 2013. It was such a success that there was no hesitation on the part of the European Handball Federation to give a positive answer to the application this club handed in with a great deal of enthusiasm. Also for me personally it is a great pleasure to come to the city where I was involved with handball many a time as a player and later as a referee. It is amazing to see how handball has developed here.

We pride ourselves on our positive and cooperative relationship with the press and media and I am sure this will continue and develop in the future. Should you require any information, help or assistance during the course of the season, your first point of contact is the EHF Media and Communications Department based in our office in Vienna. They will be more than happy to assist you with any questions you might have.

We look forward to working with you in the upcoming season!

Jean Brihault EHF President

4 1. Introduction

Welcome to the EHF Cup Finals/Nantes

It is a great pleasure to welcome all media representatives to Nantes for the fourth edition of the Men’s EHF Cup Finals.

We look forward to two days of top class handball in the sold-out Salle Sportive Metropolitaine de la Trocardiere in Nantes as Fraikin BM Granollers, Frisch Auf Göppingen, Chambery Savoie Handball, as well as the hosts of the event, HBC Nantes compete for the EHF Cup title.

Up to 150 media representatives are expected in Nantes to cover the event, and we expect extensive local, regional and national coverage of the EHF Cup Finals.

If you require any help or assistance during your time in Nantes, please do not hesitate to contact a member of the media team from the EHF, EHFM and HBC Nantes.

EHF Cup Finals Media Team

Vlado Brindzak Lionel Pouget EHF Media Manager HBC Nantes Tel. +43 1 80151 161 Mob: +421 908 721 328 Mob: +33 6 8544 4258 [email protected] [email protected]

Oliver Laaber Chris O’Reilly EHFM Media EHF Website / (TV/Radio) Social Media Editor Tel: +43 1 80151 217 Tel. +43 1 80151 168 Mob: +43 676 770 9309 Mob: +43 660 579 6544 [email protected] [email protected]

5 2. Media Timetable

Friday, 13 May 2016 16:00 – 16:30 Media Call HBC Nantes Media Room, Trocardiere (coach Thierry Anti, Rock Feliho, Matias Schulz, Alberto Entrerios, , Valero Rivera) 16:00 – 17:00 Training Chambery Savoie Handball Trocardiere 16:30 – 17:00 Media Call Fraikin BM Granollers Media Room, Trocardiere (coach , Adria Figueras, Marc Canellas, David Resina, Ferran Sole) 16:30 - 17:30 Training HBC Nantes Les Belians (Rue Gisheim, Gustavsburg 44340) Bouguenais) 17:00 – 17:30 Media Call Chambery Savoie Handball Media Room, Trocardiere (coach , Timothey N’Guessan, Damir Bicanic, Marko Panic, ) 17:00 – 18:00 Training Fraikin BM Granollers Trocardiere 17:30 – 18:00 Media Call Frisch Auf Göppingen Media Room, Trocardiere (coach Magnus Andersson, Primoz Prost, Michael Kraus, Thomas Kristensen, Niclas Barud) 18:00 – 19:00 Training Frisch Auf Göppingen Trocardiere Only first 15 minutes of each training open for media.

Saturday, 14 May 2016 14:15 Photographers’ briefing Media Centre 14:45 Semi-final Fraikin BM Granollers vs HBC Nantes Trocardiere 15 minutes after final whistle Post-match Press Conference Press Conference Room, (Head coach and key player from each team) Trocardiere 17:30 Semi-final Chambery Savoie Handball vs Frisch Auf Göppingen Trocardiere 15 minutes after final whistle Post-match Press Conference Press Conference Room, (Head coach and key player from each team) Trocardiere 21:00 Media Get Together Restaurant Aubureau, 10 Quai Francois Mitterand, 44000 Nantes

Sunday, 16 May 2016 14:45 3 / 4 Place Trocardiere 15 minutes after final whistle Post-match Press Conference Press Conference Room, (Head coach and key player from each team) Trocardiere 17:30 Final Trocardiere 15 minutes after winners’ ceremony Post-match Press Conference Press Conference Room, (Head coach and key player from each team) Trocardiere

6 3. Essential media information

Accreditation collection Your accreditation can be collected from the accreditation desk at the Salle Sportive Metropolitaine de la Trocardiere from Friday, 13 May 2016, 15:00 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 No media parking in the arena will be available, media are advised to use the adjacent parking boulevard J. Arribas.

Photographer bibs Bibs for photographers will be issued at the accreditation desk at the Salle Sportive Metropolitaine de la Trocardiere from Friday, 13 May 2016 against a valid press card. All journalists will be required to pay 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 ‘Men’s EHF Cup Finals’ or simply the ‘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 Salle Sportive Metropolitaine de la Trocardiere. Opening hours for accredited media representatives are as follows: Friday, 13 May 2016 15:00 – 19:30 hrs Saturday, 14 May 2016 12:45 – 21:30 hrs Sunday, 15 May 2016 12:45 – 22:00 hrs

Media seats Media representatives will be allocated a specific media seat in the Salle Sportive Metropolitaine de la Trocardiere. 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.

7 Open training for the media Team training on Friday, 13 May 2016 will be open to the media for the first 15 minutes, for TV footage to be filmed and teams to be photographed. Media interviews are possible only at the media call.

EHF Cup Finals Online The event will be covered extensively online by both the EHF Media and Communications Department and HBC Nantes. The event can be followed on the EHF Cup and EHF Cup Finals websites: www.eurohandball.com and http://hbcnantes.com/finales-ehf-cup-ehf-cup-finals/ 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 afternoon.

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): MaChaine Sport (FRA) - Host Broadcaster, TV3 Catalunya (ESP), Sportdeutschland TV (GER), Sport TV (HUN), Dolce Sport and DIGI Sport (ROU), Sport TV (CZE/SVK), TV3 Sport (DEN) and Viasat (NOR). 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 third time in the Men’s EHF Cup the matches will be also broadcast with a live English commentary of Tom O‘ Brannagain. Visit ehfTV.com for more details and to watch games not only from the Men’s EHF Cup Finals, but also from the VELUX EHF FINAL4 and on demand from the recent WOMEN’S EHF FINAL4.

Invitation to Media Get Together All accredited media representatives are invited by HBC Nantes for a Media Get Together on Saturday 14 May at 21:00 hrs local time at Restaurant Aubureau, 10 Quai Francois Mitterand, 44000 Nantes.

8 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.

9 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 14 May at 14:15 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 Salle Sportive de la Trocardiere 91 Rue de la Trocadiere 44400 Reze France Capacity: 4,438

EHF Cup The new Men’s EHF Cup was formed at the beginning of the 2012/13 season following the merging of the Men’s EHF Cup and the Men’s Cup Winners’ Cup. The competition forms the second tier of competition after the VELUX EHF Champions League and above the Men’s Challenge Cup. The new competition also brought with it a new format, with three qualification rounds, a group phase, quarter-finals and a final tournament – the EHF Cup Finals.

EHF Cup Finals in Nantes The event will be held in the Salle Sportive Metropolitaine de la Trocardiere in Nantes, with the capacity of up to 4,500 spectators, over two days with semi-finals to be played on Saturday, 14 May, the match for third/ fourth place and the final on Sunday, 15 May. More than 100 volunteers, 150 media representatives, 9,000 spectators, and up to 80 players will take part in the two-day tournament.

New trophy With ten days to go to the 2016 EHF Cup Finals the new trophy was unveiled by HBC Nantes, the tournament’s organisers.

It has been designed by a local artist, Jean Noël Scerri. The specialist in sculpturing wood and steel also designed the first trophy for the Men’s EHF Cup Finals in 2013.

“It was an honour to design and make the first trophy for the Men’s EHF Cup Finals. My main inspiration this year was to start by using my previous work in 2013 and to evolve it into something more modern. It was a very exciting challenge,” he said.

“The 2016 trophy maintains the tradition of the previous design, by respecting the golden ratio but with a much more modern design. The idea of an arm with a ball is being used again but this year I wanted to show both the attack move and the power of the shot. If you look very carefully you can see the ball at the top of a triangle. Using very simple forms, I wanted to show the idea of victory,” Scerri added.

The 2016 trophy is 63 cm tall and weighs 5 kilograms. It has been made of steel with a wooden stand, which has been designed with help of Tristan Jaoul, a member of the Racine Carbone group. It required 20 hours of searching and working on draws and preparation and almost 40 hours of manufacturing.

12 EHF Cup Finals Programme

Saturday, 14 May 2016 14:45 hrs Semi-final 2: Fraikin BM Granollers (ESP) vs HBC Nantes (FRA) Referees: Dalibor Jurinovic and Marko Mrvica / CRO Delegates: Antonio Goulao (POR), Marek Szajna (POL) 17:30 hrs Semi-final 1: Chambery Savoie Handball (FRA) vs Frisch Auf Göppingen (GER) Referees: Vaidas Mazeika and Mindaugas Gatelis / LTU Delegates: Janka Stasova (SVK), Henrik La Cour (DEN)

Sunday, 15 May 2016 14:45 hrs 3/4 Placement match: Loser SF 1 vs. Loser SF 2 Referees: Kürsad Erdogan and Ibrahim Özdeniz / TUR 17:30 hrs Final: Winner SF 1 vs. Winner SF 2 Referees: Bogdan Stark and Romeo Stefan / ROU

Tournament Management Jean Brihault, EHF President Joan Marin, EHF EXEC Member Leopold Kalin, EHF EXEC Member David Szlezak, EHFM Managing Director

Tickets The tickets are available in the ticket shop: http://www.digitick.com/men-s-ehf-cup-finals-2016-sport-la-trocardiere-reze-du-14-au-15-mai-2016-css5- finalitescoupedeuropeehf-pg101-ri3756075.html

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Facts & Figures Two former winners, a semi-final debutant and the hunt for the 3,000th goal Only four matches remain in the Men’s EHF Cup to decide 1 team - Chambery - turned a first leg defeat in the the winner and the successor of Füchse Berlin. Besides quarter-finals into a ticket to Nantes, while Göppingen host Nantes, Chambery, Granollers and Göppingen have and Granollers lost their second legs. reached the final destination of the competition. Find all major facts, figures and numbers on the Men’s EHF Cup 1 coach of the four participants – again Ivica Obrvan here. (Chambery) – is parallel coach of a national team: FYR Macedonia. Magnus Andersson (Göppingen) had been 0 winners of the new version of the EHF Cup are among coach of the Austrian national team before. the four participants of the EHF Cup Finals 2016. 1 team - Chambery - has arrived from the second 0 French male teams have ever won the EHF Cup in the qualification round and thus have already played 12 new or the old format or Cup Winners’ Cup. matches to make it to Nantes. In contrast, host Nantes only needed eight matches to qualify for the event. 0 national champions arriving from the VELUX EHF Göppingen and Granollers have played ten matches each. Champions League qualification made it to the quarter- finals. 1 player - Göppingen’s new arrival Adrian Pfahl - was on court at the 2015 EHF Cup Finals, but lost it with Hamburg 0 Spanish teams have qualified for the EHF Cup Finals since against Berlin. this new finals format was introduced; now Granollers have come all the way. 2 times has La Trocardière Arena in Nantes been the venue for the EHF Cup Finals (after 2013). 0 of those three teams arriving from the quarter-finals have won both knock-out matches. 2 participants of the 2016 EHF Cup Finals have won the old version of the EHF Cup each twice: Granollers (1995, 1 team was host and finalist of the EHF Cup Finals before: 1996) and Göppingen (2011, 2012). HBC Nantes in 2013, when they lost the final against Rhein-Neckar Löwen. 2 participants have already been part of EHF Cup Finals: Nantes and Göppingen in 2013. 1 pair of brothers fight in two different EHF final tournaments for trophies: Marc Canellas with Granollers 2 Göppingen players have already won previous EHF Cup in Nantes, Joan Canellas with THW Kiel in the VELUX EHF Finals: Zarko Sesum (2013 with Löwen) and Peter Tatai FINAL4 in Cologne. (2014 with Szeged)

1 coach was an EHF Cup winner as a player - and even with 2 nations are again represented by Iceland and Spain the club he coaches now: Carlos Viver (Granollers). on a coaching level at the EHF Cup Finals and both nations also had the winning coach: Iceland (Gudmundur 1 coach of the EHF Cup Finals participants has won the EHF Gudmundsson/2013 and Dagur Sigurdsson/2015) and Cup as a coach: Ivica Obrvan (Chambery) with Croatian Spain (Juan Carlos Pastor/2014). side RK Metkovic - the only non-Spanish or non-German club to win the old format of this competition. 2 participants of the EHF Cup Finals finished on top of their groups: Nantes (Group B) and Chambery (Group D) 1 team - Chambery - will have their debut in an European Cup semi-final, the remaining three teams have even all 3 nations are represented by the four teams: France (2), been finalists in the EHF Cup. Germany and Spain.

1 player can complete his cabinet of European Cup 3 times in the group phase (and not a single time in the trophies: Alberto Entrerrios (Nantes), who won the EHF quarter-finals) did spectators see 45 or less goals in a Champions League three times with Ciudad Real (2006, match. 2008, 2009) and the Cup Winners’ Cup twice (in 1993 with Barcelona and in 2003 with Ciudad Real). 4 goals in aggregate (58:54 of Magdeburg vs Göppingen) was the biggest winning margin in the quarter-finals.

15 Facts & Figures 4 players on court in Nantes are EHF Champions 16 times a German team has won the old (14) and the new Champions League winners: Alberto Entrerrios (2006, (2) version of the EHF Cup since the implementation of the 2008, 2009 with Ciudad Real), Valero Rivera Floch (2005 competition in the 1993/94 season. Five times the winner with Barcelona), Michael Kraus (2013 with Hamburg) and came from Spain, once each from Croatia and Hungary. Lars Kaufmann (2014 with Flensburg-Handewitt). 17 matches of the group phase and the quarter-finals 4 – like in all previous EHF Cup Finals at least one German were attended by more than 3000 spectators. team is part of the competition: 2013 Göppingen and Löwen, 2014 Berlin, 2015 Berlin and Hamburg. 20 goals was the biggest winning margin since the start of the group phase so far, when Göppingen beat OCI Lions 4 (all) hosts of the previous and current EHF Cup Finals (NED) by 40:20. have skipped the quarter-finals and qualified directly from their ranking in the group phase: HBC Nantes (2013, 60 clubs from 37 countries have been involved in the EHF 2016) and Füchse Berlin (2014, 2015) Cup season since the start of the first qualification phase.

4 matches of the group phase - and zero of the quarter- 71 goals were scored in the match OCI Lions vs Göppingen finals - ended with a margin of ten goals or more. (31:40) to be the high score since the start of the group phase. 7 matches of the group phase ended with a draw, no teams drew in the quarter-finals. 2,978 goals have been scored in the EHF Cup since the start of the group phase, 2648 in the group phase and 330 7 nations have been represented by clubs in all EHF Cup in the quarter-finals. Finals since 2013: Germany (6 teams including 2016), France (4), Denmark (3), Spain (1), Hungary (1), Romania 4,765 spectators attended the quarter-final Magdeburg (1) and Slovenia (1). vs Göppingen making it the highest attendance of the season so far. 9 times in group phase matches did spectators see more than 60 goals. 8,965 fans in total attended both legs of the all-German quarter-finals of Göppingen and Magdeburg. 15 matches of the group phase and none of the quarter- finals ended with an away win.

Head-to-heads in the EC Fraikin BM. Granollers vs Chambery Savoie Handball No previous encounters in European competitions

Fraikin BM. Granollers vs HBC Nantes No previous encounters in European competitions

Fraikin BM. Granollers vs Frisch Auf Göppingen No previous encounters in European competitions

Chambery Savoie Handball vs HBC Nantes No previous encounters in European competitions

Chambery Savoie Handball vs Frisch Auf Göppingen No previous encounters in European competitions

HBC Nantes vs Frisch Auf Göppingen 1-0-1 (53:51) 2:2 27.02.2016 Frisch Auf Göppingen vs HBC Nantes, EHF Cup – Group B 27:26 (14:13) 06.03.2016 HBC Nantes vs Frisch Auf Göppingen, EHF Cup – Group B 27:24 (13:10)

16 Semi-final 2 Fraikin BM Granollers vs HBC Nantes

Salle Sportive Metropolitaine de la Trocardiere, Nantes Saturday 14 May, 14:45 hrs. local time LIVE ON EHFTV.COM

Head-to-head stats: No previous encounters in European competitions

Nantes aim for European final on home ground

EHF Cup Finals hosts HBC Nantes hope to win the tournament Granollers play a somewhat unusual game, considering their on home ground this weekend, but qualifying for the finals via top three scorers in the EHF Cup are either line players or a semi-final against Fraikin BM. Granollers will not be easy. wingers, indicating how much the team love to run and make fast breaks. For the second time in four years, HBC Nantes is hosting the EHF Cup Finals tournament. Though they were defeated 24:26 This recipe has worked very well, from qualifying for the by Rhein-Neckar Löwen in the semi-final in 2013, this time group phase against Norwegian side OIF Arendal to arriving in they are well prepared to reach for gold. Nantes to reclaim a trophy Granollers has not won in twenty years. The Spanish side won the EHF Cup trophy two seasons “We want to erase the disappointment from 2013. The in a row, in 1995 and 1996, before disappearing under the team has grown up, we are more mature and more used to radar. Granollers resurfaced on an international level in 2010, handling such big occasions,” team captain Rock Feliho said when they were defeated in the Cup Winners’ Cup Final by after the semi-final draw was announced. VfL Gummersbach.

But is Fraikin BM. Granollers the best draw they could have HBC Nantes might not have the same rich European history, hoped for? but they are ready to get their hands on the trophy.

Even though the Spanish side were not the biggest profiles in After defeating Croatian side RK Nexe away in the the competition’s starting line-up in September, they earned qualification rounds early in the competition, the French their ticket to the finals the hard way, which would seem to team finished first in what was seen as the hardest group of make them all the more dangerous. the group phase. Conceding only one defeat to Frisch Auf Göppingen and beating Team Tvis Holstebro twice, Nantes Along the way, they recorded several impressive wins, grabbed a direct ticket to the final weekend, which will take including clear victories against two Danish teams: Aalborg place in the brand new La Trocardière Arena. Handball and Bjerringbro-Silkeborg, the latter of which they defeated in the quarter-final stage to earn their place in Nantes are in a good position ahead of the home finals, with Nantes. stars like top scorer Valero Rivera Folch and key back court player in excellent form. Even though Granollers only made it to the final weekend due to superior away-goal performance, Nantes coach Thierry They also added two new players, Uros Bundalo and Sime Anti is well aware of the quality of the opponent: Ivic, to the team in January, which has made things even more comfortable for them. “Just like in football, just like in basketball, Spanish handball teams like to actually play handball. These are very technical The French side are currently second in the domestic league, players, tactically intelligent, which can adapt to the defence and aim to play the VELUX EHF Champions League next they’ve got in front of them. The key is to be able to create season – but before that, they would very much to win ‘their’ problems they might not have anticipated.” finals weekend.

17 FRAIKIN BM GRANOLLERS (ESP) Granollers qualified to the quarterfinals in a heart attack game against Aalborg in the last round of the group phase. The Catalan team only needed to win or draw to be in the next round, but the Denmark’s side was very near to ruin the dream of Granollers. Palau d’Esports de Granollers, the venue of the team, had the best attendance of the season to help its team to pass the round. Ferran Solé scored the goal that draw the game (24:24) and the Catalans reached the EHF Cup quarter-finals after 11 years.

The team of Carlos Viver began the group phase with a lost against Dinamo Bucuresti at home. They won the first two points in Denmark on court of Aalborg but they lost again in Germany – against Magdeburg. But the team won the next two important games, against Magdeburg at home - in the best match of the team in this group phase - and they won in Romania against Dinamo Bucuresti which propelled them to the top of the group. After a draw in the last game they finished the group phase in the second position with 7 points, 1 below Magdeburg, the first one. At the beginning of the season, the left back Juan del Arco - maybe the best player of the team - transferred to El Jaish (Qatar). It was an important loss for Granollers who tried to fill the void with the Brazilian, Henrique Texeira. In October, the right back, Jose Guilherme Toledo, left the team to sign for Wisla Plock to play EHF Champions League. Alex Marquez came from FC Barcelona and the last player who joined Granollers Playing hall is another Brazilian: Fernando Pacheco. This year is very special for Salva Puig who Palau d’Esports de Granollers announced his retirement at the end of the season. Puig played most of his career in Adva. Francesc Macia s/num. Granollers in three different stages (1996-2003, 2008-2011 and currently), Göppingen 08400 Granollers (2003-04), FC Barcelona (2004-07), BM. Valladolid (2007-08) and Toulouse (2011-13). Spain Capacity:5,260 In the most thrilling of the three quarter-final pairings Granollers eliminated Bjerringbro-Silkeborg only on the away goal rule as both teams won their home matches by six goals. Club Address: Fraikin BM. Granollers Road to the EHF Cup Finals: C/Voluntaris 1 Past achievements EHF Cup: 08402 Granollers Quarter-finals: Winners (2): 1994/95, 1995/96 Spain vs Bjerringbro-Silkeborg W30:24 (12:11) Semi-final (1): 1996/97 @ Bjerringbro-Silkeborg L26:32 (15:18) Group Phase (1): 2014/15 Media contact: Aggregate score: 56:56, Fraikin qualified on Quarter-final (1): 2004/05 Josep Blanchart the away goals rule +34 655 870435 Last 16 (2): 2007/08, 2011/12 [email protected] Group Phase vs Dinamo Bucuresti L29:28 (13:20) Other Cup Winners’ Cup: final 2009/10 Online information: @ Aalborg Handball W31:25 (15:11) Champions Trophy: final 1995/96 Website: www.bmgranollers.cat @ SC Magdeburg L28:32 (14:16) City Cup: semi-final 1993/94 Facebook: BMGranollers vs SC Magdeburg W34:29 (15:13) IHF Cup Winners’ Cup: 1975/76 Twitter: BMGranollers@ @ Dinamo Bucuresti W27:26 (15:14) vs Aalborg Handball T24:24 (13:10) Spanish league: 10 titles (1959, 1960, 1961, 1966, 1967, 1968, 1970, 1971, Qualification Round 3 1972, 1974) Kit colours vs OIF Arendal W29:21 (13:11) Copa del Rey: 3 titles Light @ OIF Arendal L26:28 (14:11) ASOBAL Cup: 1 title Player shirt: white Aggregate score: 55:49 Player short: blue Goalkeeper shirt: green GROUP A Final Table:

Dark 1. SC Magdeburg 6 4 0 2 184:162 (22) 8 Player shirt: red 2. Fraikin BM. Granollers 6 3 1 2 172:165 (7) 7 Player short: black 3. Dinamo Bucuresti 6 2 1 3 166:181 (-15) 5 Goalkeeper shirt: blue 4. Aalborg Handball 6 1 2 3 147:161 (-14) 4

18 FRAIKIN BM GRANOLLERS (ESP) Team roster No. First Name Surname Nat. Position Date of Birth Place of Birth Height Weight Goals 39 Carles Asensio Cambra ESP Line Player 10.8.1997 St Quirze del Vall., ESP 197 110 4 Moises Blanxart Moreno ESP Right Wing 25.1.1988 Granollers, ESP 182 85 2 15 Marc Cañellas Reixach ESP Centre Back 21.7.1995 St Maria de Pal., ESP 187 80 28 29 Jose Guilherme De Toledo BRA Right Back 11.1.1994 Sao Paulo, BRA 193 96 28 Alvaro Ferrer Vecilla ESP Centre Back 17.3.1982 Granollers, ESP 190 95 9 13 Adrian Figueras Trejo ESP Line Player 31.8.1988 Barcelona, ESP 191 88 42 Miquel Flores Traveria ESP Centre Back 29.3.1990 Granollers, ESP 185 80 36 Gerard Forns Galve ESP Goalkeeper 26.12.1994 St Boi de Llobr., ESP 185 82 9 Arnau Garcia Barcelo ESP Left Back 12.6.1994 Granollers, ESP 194 90 19 7 Marc Garcia Dieguez ESP Left Back 27.9.1984 Barcelona, ESP 194 97 7 18 Mamadou Gassama Cissokho ESP Right Wing 28.10.1993 Granollers, ESP 188 80 2 1 Marc Guardia Tomas ESP Goalkeeper 13.1.1995 Barcelona, ESP 187 83 33 Fernando Jose Magalhaes Pacheco BRA Right Back 25.5.1983 Niteroi, BRA 191 95 20 95 Alejandro Marquez Coloma ESP Right Back 5.1.1995 Alcobendas, ESP 194 90 17 77 Marc Montolio Montero ESP Line Player 3.4.1994 Granollers, ESP 190 90 89 Cesar Augusto Oliveira de Almeida BRA Goalkeeper 6.1.1989 Sao Paulo, BRA 190 92 5 Edgar Perez Lopez ESP Left Wing 20.3.1994 Granollers, ESP 178 75 10 Adria Perez Martinez ESP Left Wing 26.11.1991 Barcelona, ESP 181 80 11 3 Gonzalo Vicente Porras Perez ESP Line Player 18.6.1992 Erandio, ESP 190 98 11 19 Salvador Puig Asbert ESP Right Back 4.12.1979 Montcada Reixac, ESP 198 99 17 David Resina Forns ESP Left Wing 5.4.1987 Granollers, ESP 181 75 29 16 Pol Sastre Rodriguez ESP Goalkeeper 24.7.1991 Granollers, ESP 182 80 2 Henrique Selicani Teixeira BRA Left Back 27.2.1989 Maringa, BRA 190 90 8 14 Ferran Sole Sala ESP Right Wing 25.8.1992 Sant Quirze, ESP 192 83 54 25 Guilherme Valadao Gama BRA Left Back 25.1.1991 Sao Bernardo, BRA 192 97 24

19 Carlos Viver Cesare Oliveira de Almeida coach goalkeeper • became head coach before 2014/15 season, • Brazillian joined Granollers on temporary basis after leading the BM. Granollers female team to the before the 2015/16 season filling the void after they Spanish 1st Division in the previous season parted ways with their veteran Dimitrije Pejanovic • born in the same city (Granollers), he is the • although only in his first season in the European perfect prototype of a “one club man”, playing 16 Cups the most experienced goalkeeper of the club seasons in BM. Granollers as a professional player • backed by two youngsters Marc Guardia and Pol • 1,150 league goals and most capped player for his Sastre Rodriguez club in European competition • has won 40 caps with the national team and won the gold medal the 2015 Panamerican Games in EC trophies: EHF Cup 1994, 1995 (player) Toronto with Brazil

David Resina Forns Marc Garcia Dieguez left wing left back • joined his birthtown club in 2006 and the 2015/16 • joined the team in February 2013 after playing in season is his fifth in the EC competitions with the Cangas Morrazo, Alcobendas, Almeria, Arrate, and Catalan club also in Barcelona’s second team • reached the Cup Winners’ Cup final in 2009/10 • best defender of the team and one of the best of the whole Asobal league • scored two goals against eventual winners VfL Gummersbach in the first leg on home court • in the second division was the top scorer of the league (with Barcelona) but nowadays only plays in • played nine internationals for the Spanish junior the defensive line national team • shares his position with Adria Perez Martinez

Marc Canellas Adria Figueras centre back line player • his nine-year older brother Joan plays in THW Kiel • joined the team in the 2014/15 season • unlike his brother, who belongs to stalwarts of • second best scorer of Granollers in the 2015/16 the Spanish national team, Marc is waiting for his EHF Cup group phase debut in the senior team • came through ranks of FC Barcelona • has played 16 matches for the Spanish junior national team and was part of a bronze-winning • played one CL game for Barca in the 2006/07 team at the Men’s 20 EHF EURO 2014 season scoring his only goal against Panellinios Athens • student of biotechnology joined Granollers before the 2014/15 season

Alex Marquez Ferran Sole right back right wing/back • joined Granollers in November 2015 and debuted • one of the best player of Granollers can play both in the EHF Cup in the third qualification round the right wing or right back position against OIF Arendal • debuted with the team at only 18 years of age • in the 2014/15 season mainly in the FC Barcelona • one of the top scorers in ASOBAL League in the second team (scoring 100 goals/3,85 goals per 2015/16 season game), after he joined from Alcobendas in the Spanish second league • very quick player with an amazing technical play • Barcelona coach Xavi Pascual called him earlier • with the young Spanish team won the EHF EURO in the 2015/16 season for some games for the top and the silver medal in the World Championship team and made debuts in the CL and in ASOBAL

EC trophies: CL 2015 Men’s 20 EHF EURO: G 2012 Men’s 20 EHF EURO: B 2014

20 HBC NANTES (FRA)

EHF Cup Finals without the host club wouldn’t have had the same taste and, luckily, HBC Nantes managed to snatch a ticket for the finals right after the group phase, by finishing first of their group.

The story was not already written though, as the draw put three contenders to the trophy in the same group. Nantes was about to meet Frish Auf! Göppingen and Team Tvis Holstebro as well as newcomers OCI-Lions, after beating RK Nexe without fear in qualification round three.

If the first clash with the German club ended in a narrow defeat, the rest of the tests was a success, as Nantes rounded up the first stage with five victories, including some impressive ones at home against Göppingen and Holstebro.

Nantes’s campaign has been a success so far, both on and off the court. The team, who reached the EHF Cup final in 2013, finished second best defence and third best attack of all the group phase teams, even if key players like Nicolas Claire, Rock Feliho, Playing hall Matias Schulz or Rodrigo Salinas were all injured at some point or another. Salle Sportive de la Trocardiere 91 Rue de la Trocardiere In the meantime, in the stands, two of the three best attendances were recorded at 44400 Reze La Trocardiere. The reception of Göppingen, a key moment of the group phase, 4,421 France spectators filled the arena, while more than 4,000 were also present two weeks later, Capacity: 4,500 for the send-off of OCI-Lions. A good sign that the EHF Cup Finals will be a popular event after the already rousing success of the event, which took place three seasons Club Address: ago at the old Palais des Sports de Beaulieu. HBC Nantes 91 rue de la Trocardiere 44400 Reze France Road to the EHF Cup Finals Group Phase Past achievements Media contact: @ OCI-LIONS W33:26 (16:12) Lionel Pouget vs Team Tvis Holstebro W32:23 (17:9) EHF Cup +33 685 44 42 58 @ Frisch Auf Göppingen L26:27 (13:14) EHF Cup Finals (1): second place [email protected] vs Frisch Auf Göppingen W27:24 (13:10) 2012/13 vs OCI-LIONS W30:24 (14:14) Quarter-finals (1): 2013/14 Online information: @ Team Tvis Holstebro W28:27 (10:13) Round 3 (2): 2011/12, 2014/15 Website: www.hbcnantes.com Facebook: HBCNantesOfficiel Qualification Round 3 Other Twitter: HBCNantes 1st leg: @ RK Nexe (CRO) D26:26 French League Cup: 1 title (2015) 2nd leg: vs Nexe W22:18 Aggregate score: 48:44 Kit colours Light Player shirt: white/purple Player short: white GROUP B Final Table: Goalkeeper shirt: orange or blue Dark 1. HBC Nantes 6 5 0 1 176:151 (25) 10 Player shirt: purple/yellow 2. Frisch Auf Göppingen 6 4 0 2 198:161 (37) 8 Player short: purple 3. Team Tvis Holstebro 6 3 0 3 167:180 (-13) 6 Goalkeeper shirt: black 4. OCI-LIONS 6 0 0 6 154:203 (-49) 0

21 HBC NANTES (FRA) Team roster

No. First Name Surname Nat. Position Date of Birth Place of Birth Height Weight Goals 20 Lucien Auffret FRA Right Wing 25.1.1997 La Roche sur Yon, FRA 182 70 19 Romeu ESP Right Wing 17.8.1991 Barcelona, ESP 184 83 29 27 Florent Bourget-Jans FRA Centre Back 12.6.1998 Nantes, FRA 184 77 3 Uros Bundalo SLO Line Player 29.4.1989 Ljubljana, SLO 198 109 1 22 Adama Camara FRA Left Back 21.1.1997 Vernon, FRA 191 94 10 Jordan Camarero FRA Right Wing 10.3.1992 Pau, FRA 181 82 3 30 Robin Cantegrel FRA Goalkeeper 13.2.1995 Nantes, FRA 192 90 6 Nicolas Claire FRA Centre Back 10.7.1987 St Denis de la R., FRA 186 86 25 17 Florian Delecroix FRA Right Back 17.3.1994 Niort, FRA 197 93 10 14 Theo Derot FRA Left Back 17.6.1992 Nîmes, FRA 193 96 2 Alberto Entrerrios Rodriguez ESP Left Back 7.11.1976 Gijon, ESP 192 102 31 13 Rock Feliho FRA Back 13.8.1982 Cotonou, BEN 192 95 5 Mahmoud Gharbi TUN Line Player 11.2.1982 Tunis, TUN 191 85 11 9 Sime Ivic CRO Right Back 21.1.1993 Split, CRO 195 93 10 15 Vitaly Komogorov RUS Left Back 28.8.1991 Volgograd, RUS 196 95 9 23 FRA Left Back 5.3.1997 Lorient, FRA 190 95 9 21 Michel Junior Matiaba-Tuzolana FRA Left Wing 27.5.1997 Argenteuil, FRA 187 72 8 O’Brian Nyateu FRA Centre Back 7.11.1992 Bordeaux, FRA 186 90 4 7 Valero Rivera Folch ESP Left Wing 22.2.1985 Barcelona, ESP 189 80 43 29 Ahmed Saidi FRA Right Back 21.1.1998 Versailles, FRA 183 75 18 Rodrigo Alonso Salinas Munoz CHI Right Back 25.2.1989 Vina del Mar, CHI 188 94 22 16 Julien Salmon FRA Goalkeeper 17.12.1994 Nantes, FRA 190 85 1 Matias Carlos Schulz ARG Goalkeeper 12.2.1982 Buenos Aires, ARG 190 88 24 James Junior Scott FRA Left Back 27.5.1996 Lens, FRA 200 80 12 Gorazd Skof SLO Goalkeeper 11.7.1977 Novo Mesto, SLO 188 91 11 Nicolas Tournat FRA Line Player 5.4.1994 Niort, FRA 200 200 116 17 25 Adrien Vergely FRA Line Player 14.9.1996 Saint Affrique, FRA 190 100 26 Lucas Weiss FRA Back 4.3.1997 Colmar, FRA 189 90

22 Thierry Anti Gorazd Skof coach goalkeeper • arrived in 2009 as they just upgraded to the • veteran has travelled all across Europe and French first league Nantes is the ninth club of his professionnal career • steered them to one trophy, the League cup in • signed for PSG for 2016/17 season 2014/15 • arrived in France in 2012, and has the key role of • previously coached Créteil and Paris and reached driving the new recruits from eastern Europe, since the IHF Cup Winners’ Cup final with Créteil in 1989 he speaks Slovenian, but also Croatian and Russian • one of his biggest regret was not winning the EHF • has gained experience playing in some of the best Cup final at home three seasons ago clubs in Europe, such as Celje, Velenje or RK Zagreb

• trusts a lot his young players and helps them EURO. S 2004 develop

Valero Rivera Alberto Entrerrios left wing left back • born in Barcelona, he only wore the Blaugrana • arrived in Nantes in 2012 after playing most of his jersey from 2001 to 2005, before moving on to career in Ciudad Real and Atletico Madrid other clubs and finally arriving in Nantes in 2010 • fifth player with the most games played under the • was one of the first Spanish players to arrive in Spanish national team jersey Nantes and fitted in immediately • his age (39) and his wiseness earned him the • his girlfriend is his coach’ daughter, and they have nickname “Daddy” in Nantes two kids together • has already played two EHF Cup finals, in 2002 • best scorer of the EHF EURO 2016, French league and 2013 in 2012 & 2013, elected WCh 2015 best left-winger • his father, also named Valero Rivera, currently coaches Qatar

EC trophies: CL 2005 EC trophies: CL 2006, 2008, 2009; CWC 1999, 2003 WCh: G 2013; EURO: S 2016, B 2014 WCh : G 2005, 2013, B 2011; OG : B 2008; EURO: S 2006, B 2000

Nicolas Tournat Rodrigo Salinas line player right back • considered by as “one of the • one of the last summer’s transfer market brightest hopes in French handball” surprises, born in Chile, then moved to Spain, where he played in Granollers • as a consequence, Tournat made his first national team appearance in November 2015 • after a year in Bucharest, he joined Nantes • signed his first contract in the 2014/15 season • best scorer of the Granollers team two seasons and is now a regular fixture in the Nantes squad ago and finished fourth best scorer of the 2015 WCh • even though only 1.88 m tall he works his way around defences with his jumps and his fake shots • will leave Nantes at the end of the 2015/16 season

Nicolas Claire David Balaguer right back right wing • former player of PSG Handball joined Nantes in • one of the Spanish players in Nantes already 2014 to meet Thierry Anti, the coach who coached speaks French fluently him at the beginning of his professionnal career • born in Barcelona, played with the Blaugranas • played his first international games with France until 2014, when he moved to Ciudad Encantada and in April 2015 then to Nantes in the summer of 2015 • born on La Réunion island, the same Jackson • part of the squad that reached the CL final in 2014 Richardson and are from • Valero Rivera himself advised Thierry Anti, the • handball is a family affair for him, since his two team’s coach, to recruit Balaguer younger brothers play in the second league in France

23 Semi-final 1 Chambery Savoie Handball vs Frisch Auf Göppingen

Salle Sportive Metropolitaine de la Trocardiere, Nantes Saturday 14 May, 17:30 hrs. local time LIVE ON EHFTV.COM

Head-to-head stats: No previous encounters in European competitions

Seasoned finalists meet for semi-final battle Two teams used to European battles will face each other in Cup Finals, and seven took part in Chambery’s last VELUX EHF the second semi-final of the EHF Cup in Nantes on Saturday. Champions League campaign.

In fact, you might even call Chambery Savoie Handball and The final ingredient in this recipe for a thrilling 60 minutes is Frisch Auf Göppingen ‘regulars’ at this level of international that both teams are extremely hungry for European success. competition. Chambery has never lifted a continental trophy, and the last The French side played the EHF Champions League five they won on French ground was three years ago. seasons in a row, between 2008 and 2013, and are now trying to match their past glories in the EHF Cup. “This is a unique chance for two teams that are not that used to winning trophies to get their hands on one,” says Göppingen have won the EHF Cup twice, in 2011 and 2012, Chambery’s Croatian right wing Jerko Matulic. finished as runners-up in 2006 and made it to the final weekend in Nantes back in 2013. “It adds more pressure for sure, but there are experienced players on both sides and we have proven this season that we Men’s EHF Cup Finals, Semi-final were able to handle it.” Chambery Savoie Handball (FRA) vs Frisch Auf Göppingen (GER) They truly have. Chambery began their campaign by beating Saturday 14 May, 17:30 local time live on ehfTV HC Sporta Hlohovec in first round of qualification matches before defeating title holders Füchse Berlin to qualify for the Considering both teams’ history, it is difficult to pick a group phase. favourite ahead of Saturday’s match. Even the coaches think it will be a 50/50 affair, as Chambery assistant coach Danilo With four wins and two draws the group phase seemed like a Brestovac explains: walk in the park, but the quarter-finals were not. It was only in the last fifteen minutes of the return leg that Chambery “This is a game between two teams which are I think are secured their place at the final weekend, when they defeated almost equal. We have had a decent run since the beginning fellow countrymen Saint-Raphael Var Handball. of the competition, but so have Göppingen. Göppingen also had to beat a team from their own nation in “They’ve been able to beat Nantes and Holstebro this season, the quarter-finals, and their victims were SC Magdeburg. and qualifying for the finals against Magdeburg was not a certainty. I guess fate will pick the team which can handle the With even the most detailed statistics so closely aligned it is pressure best.” clear that it will be a close call as to who proceeds to the final on Sunday. In terms of experience, both teams are also level. Four players from the German side were on court four years ago in the EHF

24 CHAMBERY SAVOIE HANDBALL (FRA)

Chambery are the only team to have finished the group phase undefeated. If you could argue their opponents were not the toughest you could find, they still managed to remain serious until the end, getting their quarter finals ticket two games before the end of the phase.

After beating title holders Füchse Berlin in the third qualification round, Chambery faced Ystad in their first group game and deserved a large home win. For the second game the French struggled against Bucuresti, coming back from Romania with a lucky draw. In fact, the Romanians were the only team against which Chambery did not win, both games ended in a draw. But that did not really matter since both Helvetia Anaitasuna and Ystad could not snatch a point against them. Timothey N’Guessan was the best scorer of the team, with 37 goals, while Melvyn Richardson, at only 19, is one of the best surprises of the competition so far. Able to play both on the centre back and the right back position, Jackson’s son proved to be one of the key asset in his Playing hall team, and his talent will surely be needed in the national clash against Saint Raphaël. Le Phare 800 avenue du Grand Arietaz In an exciting all-French affair they lost the first leg by five goals but in the dying 73000 Chambery minutes of the return leg managed to climb back and clinched their ticket to the final France tournament. Capacity: 4,600

Road to the quarter-finals: Past achievements Club Address: EHF Champions League Chambery Savoie Handball Quarter-finals: Last 16 (3): 2004/04, 2006/07, 2010/11 688 Avenue des Follaz @ Saint-Raphael Var L25:30 (12:11) Main Round (1): 2008/09 73000 Chambery vs Saint-Raphael Var W29:22 (13:13) Group stage (4): 2001/02, 2009/10, France 2011/12, 2012/13 Group Phase Media contact: vs Ystads IF W32:22 (16:11) EHF Cup Thomas Fior @ CSM Bucuresti T25:25 (12:12) Quarter-final (1): 2007/08 +33 4 79 70 60 55 @ Helvetia Anaitasuna W28:22 (14:12) Group Phase (1): 2013/14 thomas.fior@chamberysavoiehandball. vs Helvetia Anaitasuna W26:23 (10:9) Last 16 (1): 1998/99 com @ Ystads IF W27:26 (13:14) Round 3 (2): 1999/00, 2000/01 vs CSM Bucuresti T23:23 (12:11) Online information: Other www.chamberysavoiehandball.com Qualification Round 3 Cup Winners’ Cup: Quarter-final Facebook: CSH73 @ Füchse Berlin T31:31 (15:16) 2002/03, Last 16 2005/06 Twitter: @ChamberySH_Hand vs Füchse Berlin W34:30 (19:17) French league: 2001 French Champions Trophy: 2014 Qualification Round 2 Kit colours vs HC Sporta Hlohovec W35:12 (15:3) Light @ HC Sporta Hlohovec W31:28 (18:14) Player shirt: white Player short: white Goalkeeper shirt: blue/yellow/red GROUP D Final Table: Dark 1. Chambery Savoie 6 4 2 0 161:141 (20) 10 Player shirt: black 2. Ystads IF 6 3 1 2 159:167 (-8) 7 Player short: black 3. CSM Bucuresti 6 1 3 2 152:156 (-4) 5 Goalkeeper shirt: blue/yellow/red 4. Helvetia Anaitasuna 6 1 0 5 150:158 (-8) 2

25 CHAMBERY SAVOIE HANDBALL (FRA) Team roster

No. First Name Surname Nat. Position Date of Birth Place of Birth Height Weight Goals 16 Maxime Aicardi FRA Goalkeeper 5.12.1994 Hyeres, FRA 191 93 2 Yvan Andrieu FRA Right Back 18.8.1996 Saint-Flour, FRA 194 84 13 Edin Basic BIH Centre Back 4.5.1979 Zadovici, BEL 190 94 24 77 Damir Bicanic CRO Left Back 25.6.1985 Vukovar, CRO 194 95 37 6 Fabien Chazallet FRA Right Wing 10.7.1996 Saint-Priest, FRA 192 82 25 Gregoire Detrez FRA Line Player 22.5.1981 Clermont Ferrand 185 96 17 1 Maxime Diot FRA Goalkeeper 28.2.1993 Annecy, FRA 188 84 14 Remi Feutrier FRA Left Wing 28.9.1989 Paris, FRA 180 72 1 7 Kenny Fidji FRA Left Wing 7.4.1998 Chambery, FRA 199 80 10 Joao Pedro Francisco da Silva BRA Centre Back 29.1.1994 Nova Iguacu, BRA 190 93 10 12 FRA Goalkeeper 26.12.1981 Enghien les Bains, FRA 185 89 9 Benjamin Gille FRA Line Player 3.5.1982 Valence, FRA 191 91 15 Bastien Guicciardi FRA Right Wing 23.3.1996 Aix-les-Bains, FRA 170 75 17 Etienne Leclerc FRA Left Back 30.1.1996 Decine, FRA 191 85 5 Baptiste Malfondet FRA Left Wing 6.9.1995 Venissieux, FRA 182 68 20 Johannes Marescot FRA Line Player 4.4.1994 Caen, FRA 193 96 1 21 Jerko Matulic CRO Right Wing 20.4.1990 Supetar, CRO 187 83 19 19 Timothey N’Guessan FRA Left Back 18.9.1992 Massy, FRA 194 94 45 22 Sullivan Ouegnin FRA Centre Back 9.12.1998 Versailles, FRA 190 90 8 Marko Panic BIH Right Back 10.3.1991 Jajce, BIH 197 101 34 23 Pierre Paturel FRA Line Player 26.1.1989 Annemasse, FRA 196 92 10 18 Cedric Paty FRA Right Wing 25.7.1981 Chatillon sur Seine 195 86 13 24 Volodia Percevic FRA Line Player 11.11.1997 Caen, FRA 206 90 26 David Rambaud Measson FRA Goalkeeper 26.1.1996 Ivry sur Seine, FRA 194 87 27 Yoan Randy FRA Left Back 16.2.1997 Evian les Bains, FRA 199 102 11 Melvyn Richardson FRA Right Back 31.1.1997 Marseille, FRA 190 85 41 1 Radivoje Ristanovic MNE Goalkeeper 2.12.1982 Belgrade, SRB 198 105 28 Thomas Sermet Bellet FRA Centre Back 3.3.1995 Decines, FRA 179 70 3 Queido Traore FRA Left Wing 15.10.1994 Diataya, MLI 185 86 24 4 Alexandre Tritta FRA Right Back 9.12.1994 La Tronche, FRA 186 88 4

26 Ivica Obrvan Yann Genty coach goalkeeper • aged 49, he was born in Croatia and played in • At 33 his first experience of the European Cup in Zagreb for most of his career the 2015/16 season • also coached the most important club in his • arrived in Chambery in 2014, after playing for native country, before moving to Slovenian side other French clubs such as Cesson, Istres or Aurillac Velenje and then to Chambery, in 2014 • elected best goalkeeper of the French league in • icoach of the Macedonian national team the 2014/15 season, he’s famous for blocking shots firmly instead of just pushing balls away • as a coach, he won the EHF Cup in 2000 with Metkovic • his clubs trusts him so much they’ve extended his contract until 2020 recently • just one year after arriving, he’s already talking in French during time-outs and doesn’t need his Croatian players as tranlators anymore EC trophies (as coach): EHF Cup 2000

Remi Feutrier Timothey N’Guessan left wing left back • born in Paris to a Japanese mother and a French • nicknamed “Timoute”, he’s another famous father, he came to handball almost by accident and product of the Reunion island, like Jackson is now a Japan national player Richardson • after his birth, he went back to Japan and only • speaking of Richardson, N’Guessan has got the arrived in France three years ago same jersey number in the national team, the 17 • good at 1 vs 1 situations, skilled when it comes to • after suffering a tough injury in 2011, he came shooting and always ready enough to steal balls back stronger and impressed national team coach , who called him for the first time in 2013 • having worn long dreadlocks for years, he decided to cut his hair in the summer of 2015 - did not weaken his handball power, though

Edin Basic Gregoire Detrez centre back line player • from Bosnia, he started playing handball only at • after playing for many seasons in Nimes, he is 16, since his country was at war before then now in his eighth season in Chambery • example of a stable player, before arriving in • at 34, not known for his long speeches, but his Chambery in 2009, he played for eight years in attitude on the court says everything about him : Switzerland tough to beat and giving it 100% • in 2011, 2012 and 2013 he was elected best • elected, somehow ironically, the best player to centre back of the French league make jokes in his club for the last two seasons • with Chambery, he has played five times in the CL • former French national player announced his while he only played the EHF Cup once international retirement in 2012

EURO: G 2010

Marko Panic Cedric Paty right back right wing • only of the very few players who play as well with • walking miracle - tore his knee ligament in his right and his left hand - therefore used on the November 2015, but after a short rehab period and right back, but has every option to trick defenders no surgery, he was back in three months • when arrived from Bosnia in 2012, he failed • arrived in 2005, he has become the player who to impress anyone, but that was just because he has played for the most years in Chambery needed time to adapt • on the right wing, he shares the position with • with Edin Basic, Jerko Matulic, Damir Bicanic and Croatian young hope Jerko Matulic coach Ivica Obrvan, he is one of the five guys from • wine fanatic already bought a parcel of vineyard the Balkans in the Chambery team and hopes to bottle his own product sometime soon

OG: S 2008, EURO: B 2008

27 FRISCH AUF GÖPPINGEN (GER)

After a three year absence from European Cup competitions, the 2011 and 2012 winner of the “old” EHF Cup qualified again for an international competition. The qualification stage with matches against Polish side Gornik Zabrze was anything but a high hurdle for Frisch Auf Göppingen, as they won both duels by an overall goal difference of +19. At that stage, Göppingen had hoped for hosting the EHF Cup Finals, but failed with their bid - against their group phase opponent HBC Nantes.

After a surprising opening defeat at Holstebro, Göppingen were awake and mainly unbeatable on home ground. Winning all three matches at EWS-Arena including the close 27:26 against later-on group winners Nantes, the team of Swedish born head coach Magnus Andersson paved the way to the quarter-finals. After winning the direct encounter against Holstebro by a clear 36:23 the gate was open, but Göppingen needed to wait until the away win at OCI Lions in the final round until the berth for the next stage was clinched.

Not only thanks to their 40:20 against the Dutch champions on home ground - the clearest win in all group matches, Göppingen finally had the best attack of all 16 teams (198 goals) and the best goal difference (+37) of all contenders. But funny enough not Playing hall their internationally experienced top stars such as German World Champion Michael EWS Arena Göppingen Kraus or Serbian EURO 2012 silver medallist Zarko Sesum were their top scorers in the Nördlichen Ringstrasse 87 EHF Cup so far, but the young guns Marcel Schiller (42) and Andreas Berg (36), both 73033 Göppingen left wings and counter attack experts. Germany Capacity: 5,600 On domestic ground, the chance to make it again to the European Cup competitions is still there, as Frisch Auf currently are ranked seventh in the Bundesliga, in the German Cup they failed in the quarter-finals, as they were defeated by their upcoming EHF Cup Club Address: opponent Magdeburg 29:25 in the quarter-finals. However, they paid it back to their Frisch Auf Göppingen domestic rivals in the EHF Cup Quarter-finals as they reached Nantes at Magdeburg’s Leonhard Weiss -Strasse 40 expense. 73037 Göppingen Germany Road to the EHF Cup Finals: Quarter-finals: Media contact: vs SC Magdeburg W31:25 (13:11) Past achievements Alexander Kolb @ SC Magdeburg L27:29 (13:17) EHF Cup +49 7161 965 975 90 EHF Cup Finals (1): fourth ranked 2013 [email protected] Group Phase Winners (2): 2010/11, 2011/12 @ Team Tvis Holstebro L31:34 (17:17) Runners-up (1): 2005/06 Online information: vs OCI-LIONS W40:20 (22:10) Quarter-final (1): 2009/10 Website: www.frischauf-gp.de vs HBC Nantes W27:26 (14:13) Facebook: frischaufgp @ HBC Nantes L24:27 (10:13) Other Twitter: @FRISCHAUFGP vs Team Tvis Holstebro W36:23 (16:12) German league: 11 titles (outdoor 1954, @ OCI-LIONS W40:31 (19:15) 1957, indoor 1954, 1955, 1958, 1959, 1960, 1961, 1965, 1970, 1972) Kit colours Qualification Round 3 Light @ Górnik Zabrze W39:29 (20:17) Player shirt: white vs Górnik Zabrze W38:29 (19:16) Player short: green Goalkeeper shirt: red GROUP B Final Table: Dark Player shirt: green 1. HBC Nantes 6 5 0 1 176:151 (25) 10 Player short: white 2. Frisch Auf Göppingen 6 4 0 2 198:161 (37) 8 Goalkeeper shirt: black 3. Team Tvis Holstebro 6 3 0 3 167:180 (-13) 6 4. OCI-LIONS 6 0 0 6 154:203 (-49) 0

28 FRISCH AUF GÖPPINGEN (GER) Team roster

No. First Name Surname Nat. Position Date of Birth Place of Birth Height Weight Goals 13 Niclas Andreas Barud SWE Line Player 22.3.1988 Partille, SWE 196 105 12 21 Andreas Berg SWE Left Wing 9.5.1992 Säve, SWE 190 88 11 36 17 Daniel Fontaine GER Left Back 2.7.1989 Saarlouis, GER 194 94 30 22 Marvin Fuß GER Left Back 31.3.1996 Göppingen, GER 191 95 3 Tobias Gehrke GER Centre Back 5.1.1996 Esslingen, GER 178 80 28 Nicolas Gross GER Goalkeeper 10.4.1997 Stuttgart, GER 188 90 30 Anton Halen SWE Right Wing 28.11.1990 Helgum, SWE 192 90 19 18 Lars Kaufmann GER Left Back 25.2.1982 Görlitz, GER 199 107 27 4 Tim Kneule GER Centre Back 18.8.1986 Reutlingen, GER 190 99 18 2 Michael Kraus GER Centre Back 28.9.1983 Göppingen, GER 187 98 37 20 Thomas Kristensen NOR Right Wing 2.5.1990 Bærum, NOR 197 81 26 12 Felix Lobedank GER Right Back 12.8.1984 Bamberg, GER 196 103 2 10 Alix Kevynn Nyokas FRA Right Back 28.6.1986 Montfermeil, FRA 192 88 26 Adrian Pfahl GER Right Back 30.7.1982 Bietigheim-Biss., GER 192 92 35 16 Primoz Prost SLO Goalkeeper 14.7.1983 Trbovlje, SLO 186 97 26 Daniel Rebmann GER Goalkeeper 16.1.1994 Stuttgart, GER 190 100 27 Marco Rentschler GER Right Wing 28.12.1994 Bietigheim-Biss., GER 185 82 2 23 Bastian Rutschmann GER Goalkeeper 30.12.1982 Karlsruhe, GER 195 93 24 Marcel Schiller GER Left Wing 15.8.1991 Bad Urach, GER 189 90 53 6 Jona Schoch GER Centre Back 2.8.1994 Ostfildern, GER 192 90 7 Christian Schöne GER Right Wing 23.2.1981 Halle, GER 188 80 3 15 Zarko Sesum SRB Left Back 16.6.1986 Backa Palanka, SRB 195 97 24 9 Manuel Späth GER Line Player 16.10.1985 Ostfildern, GER 200 100 9 12 Peter Tatai HUN Goalkeeper 23.6.1983 Györ, HUN 195 98

29 Magnus Andersson Peter Tatai coach goalkeeper • as a player was part of the famous “Bengan Boys”, • signed in January 2016 as replacement for injured the most successful generation of Swedish handball, Primoz Prost, who was out for several months playing 307 international matches • arrived from Romanian Champions League • started his coaching career at Halmstadt in participant and national champion Baia Mare Sweden, where he was until 2010 • started his handball career in his birthplace Györ, • coach of AG Kobenhavn, leading them to the before he transferred to Veszprem in 2005, later he VELUX EHF FINAL4 2012, before they got bankrupt played for Dunkerque (France), Szeged (Hungary), Baia Mare (Romania) and now Göppingen (Germany) • was parallel coach of the Austrian national team from 2010 until 2012 • Had been part of the Hungarian national team for nearly a decade, but mostly was number 2 below • was coach of Malmö and the Swedish junior Nandor Fazekas or Roland Mikler team, before he arrived at Göppingen in 2014 WCh: G 1990, 1999, EURO: G 1994, 1998, 2000, 2002, OG: S 1992, 1996, 2000 (as EC trophies: EHF Cup 2014 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, like club” like team captain Manul Späth THW Kiel’s right back Marko Vujin • as German youth champion with Neuhausen. • like Vujin, he transferred to Veszprem, in 2010 switched for Rhein-Neckar Löwen, then for FAG • arrived at Göppingen in 2013 after scoring 172 Bundesliga goals for Neuhausen in the 2012/13 • severely injured (skull fracture) during an incident season. in a night club in Veszprem in 2009, when his former teammate Marian Cozma was killed • shares the left wing position with young Swede Andreas Berg • hit by a coin in the eye after the EURO 2012 semi- final Serbia vs Croatia, nearly lost his eye sight EC trophies: EHF Cup 2013 EURO: S 2012

Michael Kraus Manuel Späth centre back line player • started his career at Frisch Auf, before he first • captain of Frisch Auf wears Göppingen’s jersey transferred to Lemgo (2007-10) and HSV (2010-13) since 2006, so played all of his senior career at the same club • Hamburg’s top scorer with six goals in the victorious CL final 2013 against Barcelona in Cologne • made a special record on 9 November 2013, when he played his 250th Bundesliga match (his • All-Star Team member at the 2007 WCh 309th match in total) for Göppingen in a row, • Olympian in Beijing 2008 together with his without missing any match due to injury brother Christian, an Olympic fencer • boss of FAG’s defence had been playing more • At the age of 16, he was elected “Bravo Boy of the than 30 matches for the German national team Year” by the biggest German youth magazine EC trophies: CL 2013 EC trophies: EHF Cup 2011, 2012 WCh: G 2007

Alix Kevynn Nyokas Adrian Pfahl right back right wing • can also play on the right wing position. • arrived in January 2016 from bankrupt Hamburg • his twin brother Olivier plays for German side • three times European Cup winner with his former (and Göppingen’s local rivals) Balingen-Weilstetten, club VfL Gummersbach and part of the HSV team, but will return to France this summer, joining Nantes which was 2015 EHF Cup finalist in Berlin • started his professional career at Paris Saint • has scored more than 1000 goals in Bundesliga Germain, then he played for Chambery • was replacement for injured Kevynn Nyokas, • in 2014 he transferred to Göppingen - right after when he arrived in Göppingen, now is a key player his first major tournament with the French national on the right back and right wing position team, winning EURO gold at Denmark. • has played 61 international matches for Germany • returned in Feb 2016 after a long term knee injury and part of two WCh and one EURO EURO G 2014, WCh G 2015 EC trophies: Cup Winners Cup 2010, 2011, EHF Cup 2009

30 Important regulations Extra-time and penalty throws All matches of the Men’s 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).

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44 NED HV Kras/Volendam Phase Group the of group each of teams placed 2nd and 1st 45 LUX HB Dudelange 46 TUR Rainbow Kayseri SK 16 of Qualification Winners 2 Round 47 KOS KH Besa Famiglia 48 LTU Klaipeda Dragunas 49 EST Pölva Serviti 50 BEL Hubo Initia Hasselt 51 ITA SSV Bozen Loacker 52 MDA PGU-Kartina TV Tiraspol 53 MNE HC Lovcen 54 BUL HC Fregata-Burgas 55 FIN Riihimäki Cocks 56 LUX HB Käerjeng 12 of Qualification Winners 1 Round 57 ROU Dinamo Bucuresti 58 NOR Haslum HK 59 CRO RK Porec 60 ITA A.S.D. Romagna Handball

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All-time ranking Men’s EHF Cup Finals: 1. Füchse Berlin GER 4 3 0 1 108:103 +5 6 2. Rhein-Neckar Löwen GER 2 2 0 0 54:46 +8 4 3. Pick Szeged HUN 2 2 0 0 53:50 +3 4 4. HBC Nantes FRA 2 1 0 1 50:46 +4 2 5. Montpellier Agglomeration HB FRA 2 1 0 1 64:61 +3 2 6. HSV Hamburg GER 2 1 0 1 54:53 +1 2 7. Skjern Handbold DEN 2 1 0 1 50:49 +1 2 8. Team Tvis Holstebro DEN 2 1 0 1 48:53 -5 2 9. HCM Constanta ROU 2 0 0 2 60:65 -5 0 10. Frisch Auf Göppingen GER 2 0 0 2 49:56 -7 0 11. Rk Gorenje Velenje SLO 2 0 0 2 46:54 -8 0

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 Dragan Gajic 9 17.05.2014 HCM Constanta-Montpellier Agglomeration HB 32:36 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

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

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

Most goals at half-time: 18 Montpellier Agglomeration HB 17.05.2014 HCM Constanta-Montpellier Agglomeration HB (14:18)

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 at Men’s EHF Cup Final Tournament: 19 18.05.2013 Frisch Auf Göppingen-Rhein-Neckar Löwen (7:12)

36 Biggest gap at half-time: +5 Rhein-Neckar Löwen 18.05.2013 Frisch Auf Göppingen-Rhein-Neckar Löwen (7:12)

Biggest change from half-time score to full-time score: 6 17.05.2015 Rk Gorenje Velenje-Skjern Handbold 22:27 (13:12)

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

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

37 Top scorers after quarter-finals

Rank Name & nation Club Goals

1. Robert Weber (AUT) SC Magdeburg (GER) 66 2. Michael Damgaard Nielsen (DEN) SC Magdeburg (GER) 58

Javier Humet Gaminder (ESP) CSM Bucuresti (ROU) 58

4. Ferran Sole Sala (ESP) Fraikin BM. Granollers (ESP) 54

5. Marcel Schiller (GER) Frisch Auf Göppingen (GER) 53 Jakov Vrankovic (CRO) Dinamo Bucuresti (ROU) 53

7. Peter Balling Christensen (DEN) Team Tvis Holstebro (DEN) 51 Patrick Wiesmach Larsen (DEN) Team Tvis Holstebro (DEN) 51

9. Raphael Caucheteux (FRA) Saint-Raphael Var Handball (FRA) 50

10. Uladzislau Kulesh (BLR) SKA Minsk (BLR) 47

11. (FRA) Saint-Raphael Var Handball (FRA) 46

12. Timothey N'guessan (FRA) Chambery Savoie Handball (FRA) 45

13. Valero Rivera Folch (ESP) HBC Nantes (FRA) 43

14. Adrian Figueras Trejo (ESP) Fraikin BM. Granollers (ESP) 42 Marcel Hess (SUI) Pfadi Winterthur (SUI) 42

Stefan Hundstrup (DEN) Bjerringbro-Silkeborg (DEN) 42

Lukas Nilsson (SWE) Ystads IF (SWE) 42

18. Melvyn Richardson (FRA) Chambery Savoie Handball (FRA) 41

19. Roman Sidorowiz (SUI) Pfadi Winterthur (SUI) 40

20. Aurelien Abily (FRA) Saint-Raphael Var Handball (FRA) 38 Artsem Karalek (BLR) SKA Minsk (BLR) 38

Joao Ramos (POR) OCI-LIONS (NED) 38

Sebastian Skube (SLO) Bjerringbro-Silkeborg (DEN) 38

(Bold text indicates players that are still active in the competition.)

38 Past winners

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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