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MEDIA INFORMATION Women’s EHF Champions League 2018/19 Group Matches Draw 29 June 2018, 12:30 hrs Erste Campus, Vienna Media contacts EHF/M media contacts Media matters TV and Radio Vlado Brindzak Miguel Mateo Marcellan Media and Communications Media Manager European Handball Federation EHF Marketing GmbH +43 1 80 151 161 +43 1 80 151 224 [email protected] [email protected] Clubs media contacts POT 1 POT 2 Győri Audi ETO KC (HUN) Buducnost (MNE) Kobenhavn Handbold (DEN) Thüringer HC (GER) Tamas Szabo Milos Pavicevic Janni Møller Thomsen Bernd Hohnstein +36 20 505 63 07 +382 682 226 66 +45 223 55 225 +49 179 4649 389 szabo.tamas.gyorietokc [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] @gmail.com [email protected] CSM Bucuresti (ROU) Rostov-Don (RUS) Vipers Kristiansand (NOR) Metz Handball (FRA) Ioana Patachi Andrey Demyanov Terje Marcussen Estelle Vogein +40 748 050 301 +79897198555 +47 905 818 15 +33 608 258 725 ioana.patachi@csmbucur- [email protected] [email protected] estelle.gauvin esti.ro @metz-handball.fr POT 3 POT 4 FTC-Rail Cargo Hungaria (HUN) RK Krim Mercator (SLO) Larvik HK (NOR) Brest Bretagne Handball (FRA) Adam Schleinig Gašper Lončarič Bjørn Bjune Enora Talec +36 704 454 902 +386 51 630 877 +47 479 38800 +33 760 830 128 schleinig.adam@ftckezilabda. [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] hu Odense HC (DEN) IK Sävehof (SWE) Mark Jespersen Hanna Fogelström [email protected] +46 736 845755 [email protected] 2 Women´s EHF Champions league 2018/19 WOMEN'S EHF CHAMPIONS LEAGUE 2018/19 Qualification Tournaments Group Matches Main Round Quarter-finals FINAL4 2 tournaments 4 groups with 4 teams 2 groups with 6 teams 8 teams 4 teams 05.-07.10.2018 (1) 25.-27.01.2019 (1) 11./12.05.2019 07.-09.09.2018 12.-14.10.2018 (2) 01.-03.02.2019 (2) 05.-07.04.2019 tournament tournaments 19.-21.10.2018 (3) 08.-10.02.2019 (3) first leg played in semi-finals 02.-04.11.2018 (4) 22.-24.02.2019 (4) played in semi- and finals 09.-11.11.2018 (5) 01.-03.03.2019 (5) 12.-14.04.2019 finals and finals NATION in one venue 16.-18.11.2018 (6) 08.-10.03.2019 (6) second leg DRAWS: 27 June 2018 in Vienna/AUT 29 June 2018 in Vienna/AUT no draw no draw 16 April 2019 1 HUN 1 Györi Audi ETO KC 2 ROU 1 CSM Bucuresti 3 MNE 1 Buducnost 4 RUS 1 Rostov-Don 5 FRA 1 Metz Handball 6 DEN 1 Kobenhavn Handball 7 NOR 1 Vipers Kristiansand 8 GER 1 Thüringer HC 9 SLO 1 RK Krim Mercator 10 SWE 1 IK Sävehof 11 HUN 2 FTC-Rail Cargo Hungaria 12 DEN 2 Odense HC 13 FRA 2 Brest Bretange HB 14 NOR 2 Larvik HK 15 ROU 2 SCM Craiova 16 GER 2 SG BBM Bietigheim 17 POL 1 MKS Perla Lublin 18 CRO 1 HC Podravka Vegeta the of team placed 4th and 3rd 2nd, 1st, 1st, 2nd and 3rd placed team from each group group each from team placed 3rd and 2nd 1st, 19 ITA 1 Jomi Salerno Round Main League Champions EHF WOMEN'S Qualification Qualification 20 TUR 1 Muratpasa BSK tournaments 21 ESP 1 Super Amara Bera Bera Winners of the 2 4 Winners of WOMEN'S EHF Champions League Quarter-finals League Champions EHF WOMEN'S of Winners 4 22 SRB 1 ZORK Jagodina 2 groups with 4 teams 4th placed teams of CL Group 4th placed teams of CL Qualification Tournaments go Matches go to EHF Cup Group to EHF Cup Rd 2, 2nd and 3rd placed teams of CL Phase Qualification Tornaments go to EHF Cup Rd 3 status: 19.06.2018 Pots Qualification tournaments draw The eight teams hoping to qualify for the Women’s EHF Champions League Group Matches in the 2018/19 season can start their preparations. On Wednesday, they learned their opponents as the qualification draw was conducted at the EHF Office in Vienna. The eight teams were drawn into two groups of four, with all matches to be played on 7-9 September. Only the two group winners will advance to the group matches. The only team that also played Champions League last season, SG BBM Bietigheim, were drawn into Group 1. The German side, who reached the main round upon their debut last season, will face Spanish champions Super Amara Bera Bera. In the other Group 1 semi-final, last year’s Challenge Cup winners, MKS Perla Lublin from Poland, will take on Jomi Salerno, who have won the Italian league two years in row. The winners of those two matches will duel for a place in the group matches. Bera Bera were drawn as the team with the first rights to host the Group 1 tournament. If the Spanish side will not stage the event, next in line to host it are: Lublin, Bietigheim, and ultimately Salerno. In Group 2, reigning EHF Cup champions SCM Craiova from Romania got ZORK Jagodina, which celebrated their first Serbian national title last season, as their opponents in the semi-final. A year ago HC Podravka Vegeta stumbled in the qualification over Vipers Kristiansand. So the team from Croatia, the only participants in the qualification who have actually won the Champions League once (in 1996), will hope for a better outcome this time when they face Muratpasa BSK, who won their fourth Turkish national championship last season. Also in Group 2, the winners of both matches will go head to head for that coveted ticket to the group matches. The first hosting rights for the Group 2 tournament went to Jagodina. Next in line would be Podravka, Craiova, and ultimately Muratpasa. The two teams advancing from Groups 1 and 2 will be joining the 14 teams already seeded for the group matches. The draw for the group matches will be conducted at the Erste Campus in Vienna on Friday. 6 Pots Pots for the group matches One month after a thrilling conclusion of the 2017/18 European club competitions season the representatives of the continent’s elite clubs congregate again this week for the draw event on Friday to outline their first steps in the new season. Eduarda Amorim (Györi Audi ETO KC) and Thierry Omeyer (Paris Saint-Germain Handball), two stellar names known from the Champions League history will take over the responsibility for drawing of the lots on Friday together with Michael Wiederer, EHF President and Martin Hausleitner, EHF Secretary General. Draw procedure 14 directly seeded teams plus two qualification groups’ winners will be divided into four pots of four teams. Teams will not be able to face opponents from the same country in the group. Györi Audi ETO KC, the defending champions, are seeded in the first pot together with two other participants of the Women’s EHF FINAL4 2018, Rostov-Don and CSM Bucuresti and Buducnost. There will also be an open draw for the second pot with Metz Handball, Kobenhavn Handball, Vipers Kristiansand and Thüringer HC. In the third pot FTC-Rail Cargo Hungaria and Odense HC have to avoid their domestic rivals from Györ and Kobenhavn respectively and only then the remaining two teams Krim Mercator and Sävehof will be drawn. To apply the country protection rule in the last pot there will be no draw but the four teams will be allocated always to the first possible group from left to right. 7 Györi Audi ETO KC POT 1 Györi Audi ETO KC This one word could summarise Györi Audi ETO KC’s entire season. After their wins in the Hungarian Cup and the Women’s EHF Champions League, the last trophy was the Hungarian national championship. To finish their season victorious, Györ had to win against Békéscsaba ENKSE and count a better goal difference than FTC- Rail Cargo Hungaria. Ahead of the last round of the season, FTC were at the top with a better goal difference (+6). Györ were to play against Békéscsaba and, at the same time, FTC Club Address faced Vác. Only one thing mattered: Which team could win with the biggest goal Győri Audi ETO KC difference? Kiskutliget FTC were one goal shy of the required goal difference and could not score in the 92027 Győr dying seconds. The team ‘only’ won by 18 goals, 42:24, which meant that Györ Hungary could celebrate the title for the 14th time. Media contact It was a bittersweet moment for Ambros Martin, the head coach of Györ. He Tamas Szabo finished his tenure with the club with the hat-trick in the city of bridges, before +36 20 505 63 07 departing for Rostov for next season. As the last words in the interview after the szabo.tamas.gyorietokc final whistle, Martin said: “Thank you, I am sorry and I love you all!” @gmail.com www.gyorietokc.hu Győri-Audi-ETO-KC @GyoriaudiETO Kit colours Light Player shirt: white Player short: white GK shirt: red Past achievements Women’s EHF Champions League Dark Participations (including 2018/19 season): 16 Player shirt: green/black Winners (4): 2012/13, 2013/14, 2016/17, Player short: green/black 2017/18 GK shirt: blue, black Runners-up (3): 2008/09, 2011/12, 2015/16 Semi-finals (4): 2006/07, 2007/08, 2009/10, 2010/11 Quarter-finals (1): 2014/15 Group Matches (2): 2000/01, 2005/06 Playing hall Qualification (1): 2004/05 AUDI Arena Györ Toth Laszlo utja Other 9027 Györ Cup Winners’ Cup: Runners-up 2005/06, Hungary Semi-final 2002/03 Capacity: 5,000 EHF Cup: Runners-up 1998/99, 2001/02, 2003/04, 2004/05 Hungarian league: 14 titles (1957, 1959, 2005, 2006, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014, 2016, 2017, 2018) Hungarian cup: 13 titles 8 CSM Bucuresti POT 1 CSM Bucuresti For the fourth time in a row, CSM Bucuresti were crowned champions after anoth- er season that resembled a walk in the park for the Romanian powerhouse.