Media Information VELUX EHF Champions League Season 2016/17 Match of the Week - Round 2 FC Barcelona Lassa (ESP) vs THW Kiel (GER) Palau Blaugrana, Barcelona Saturday, 1 October, 19:30 hrs GROUP A Match of the Week Round 2 FC Barcelona Lassa (ESP) vs THW Kiel (GER) Saturday, 1 October 2016, 19:30 hrs Playing hall Palau Blaugrana Av. Aristides Maillol, s/n 08028 Barcelona Spain Capacity: 7,250 • both sides started their 2016/17 CL campaign victorious: Barcelona won at Plock, Kiel defeated Paris on home ground Most Games vs Kiel: • duel of the two best teams in the All-time ranking of the EHF Most Games vs Barcelona: Laszlo Nagy 17 Champions League. Barcelona top the ranking with 383 points after Marcus Ahlm 13 David Barrufet Bofill 13 245 matches ahead of Kiel (352 points in 241 matches) Dominik Klein 13 Jesper Brian Nöddesbo 12 Stefan Lövgren 12 • the two sides combine 11 EHF Champions League titles, as Iker Romero Fernandez 12 Barcelona are the record winners (8x), followed by Kiel (3) Henrik Lundström 12 Victor Tomas Gonzalez 12 Filip Jicha 11 • Alfred Gislason is one of two coaches (plus Talant Dujshebaev), Thierry Omeyer 11 who won the CL with 2 clubs: Magdeburg (2002), THW (2010, 2012) Christian Zeitz 11 • each side plays its 20th EHF Champions League season Most Goals vs Kiel: Most Goals vs Barcelona: • both clubs are record winners of the VELUX EHF FINAL4 with Laszlo Nagy 53 Filip Jicha 78 two titles each (Kiel 2010, 2012/Barcelona 2011/2015) Iker Romero Fernandez 50 Marcus Ahlm 51 Juan Garcia Lorenzana 48 • Kiel have qualified six times for the VELUX EHF FINAL4 to Dominik Klein 42 Jesper Brian Nöddesbo 41 record participants, ahead of Barcelona (5) Stefan Lövgren 42 Demetrio Lozano Jarque 39 • both clubs faced each other twice in the CL finals: 2000 Henrik Lundström 30 Barcelona were successful, 2010 Kiel took revenge • only five players from the 2010 final, are still in the squads: Domestic league Filip Jicha (now FCB, then Kiel), Jesper Noddesbo, Victor Tomas Domestic leagues (both FCB), Christian Zeitz and Christian Sprenger (both Kiel) Spanish ASOBAL German Bundesliga • besides, Zeitz and Sprenger are the only players left in the Last 4 games Last 4 games current THW squad, who were part of Kiel’s last CL triumph in 2012 28.09. @ Benidorm W27:30 27.09. vs Balingen-Weilstet. W26:23 • Tomas and Zeitz are the only players of their teams, who won 21.09. vs Cuenca W34:15 the EHF Champions League three times with the same club 21.09. @ Minden W23:34 17.09. @ La Rioja W22:24 • left backs Wael Jallouz and Filip Jicha played for THW before 14.09. vs Göppingen W30:21 14.09. @ Guadalajara W25:34 • 2008 semi-final re-match at Palau Blaugrana (44:37 for FCB) 11.09. vs Lemgo W34:23 Next game was one of the CL matches with the biggest number of goals Next game 8.10. vs Atletico Valladolid • seven players of both sides played in the EHF EURO 2016 final 5.10. @ Füchse Berlin in Krakow, when Germany beat Spain 24:17: Andreas Wolff and Rune Dahmke for Germany, Raul Entrerrios, Viran Morros, Gonzalo Perez de Varga, Valero Rivera and Tomas for Spain. Kiel’s German Standings Standings internationals Christian Dissinger, Patrick Wiencek and Steffen 1. Barcelona 5 159:115 10 Weinhold were ruled out by injuries 1. Füchse Berlin 5 153:113 10 2. Ademar 4 103:92 7 • in the last four seasons, Barcelona only lost one CL match on 2. Kiel 6 175:139 10 home ground, the 31:33 against eventual champions Kielce in the 3. Granollers 4 117:111 6 3. Flensburg-Hand. 5 146:110 10 2015/16 group phase ... ... • both sides have rejuvenated their squads by talents from all 16. Benidorm 5 116:138 0 over Europe: Barcelona signed Dane Lasse Andersson from Kolding 18. Ballingen-Weil. 6 133:161 1 and the Frenchmen Dika Mem and Timothy N’Guessan, while the 19 -year-old back court talents Lukas Nilsson (Sweden) and Nikola Bilyk (Austria) transferred to Kiel • three Danish Olympic champions will be on court, including two line players: Jesper Noddesbo (Barcelona) will face his national teammates Rene Toft Hansen and Niklas Landin 2 Historic encounters in the EC FC Barcelona Lassa vs THW Kiel 10-1-10 (627:637) 21:21 22.04.2000 THW Kiel vs FC Barcelona, EHF Champions League – Final 28:25 (15:14) 29.04.2000 FC Barcelona vs THW Kiel, EHF Champions League – Final 29:24 (15:12) 25.03.2001 THW Kiel vs FC Barcelona, EHF Champions League – Semi-final 28:24 (12:11) 31.03.2001 FC Barcelona vs THW Kiel, EHF Champions League – Semi-final 33:28 (14:11) 20.04.2002 THW Kiel vs FC Barcelona, EHF Cup – Final 36:29 (19:13) 28.04.2002 FC Barcelona vs THW Kiel, EHF Cup – Final 28:24 (14:8) 05.03.2005 THW Kiel vs FC Barcelona, EHF Champions League – Quarter-final 30:25 (13:14) 12.03.2005 FC Barcelona vs THW Kiel, EHF Champions League – Quarter-final 33:27 (17:14) 06.04.2008 THW Kiel vs FC Barcelona, EHF Champions League – Semi-final 41:31 (20:15) 13.04.2008 FC Barcelona vs THW Kiel, EHF Champions League – Semi-final 44:37 (19:20) 19.10.2008 FC Barcelona Borges vs THW Kiel, EHF Champions League – Group C 27:31 (15:15) 23.11.2008 THW Kiel vs FC Barcelona Borges, EHF Champions League – Group C 33:26 (16:11) 11.10.2009 FC Barcelona Borges vs THW Kiel, EHF Champions League – Group D 27:30 (17:20) 14.02.2010 THW Kiel vs FC Barcelona Borges, EHF Champions League – Group D 30:32 (15:17) 30.05.2010 FC Barcelona Borges vs THW Kiel GER, VELUX EHF Champions League FINAL4 – Final 34:36 (20:17) 03.10.2010 THW Kiel vs FC Barcelona Borges, VELUX EHF Champions League – Group A 28:28 (14:10) 05.12.2010 FC Barcelona Borges vs THW Kiel, VELUX EHF Champions League – Group A 32:29 (13:15) 24.04.2011 FC Barcelona Borges vs THW Kiel, VELUX EHF Champions League – Quarter-final 27:25 (14:15) 01.05.2011 THW Kiel vs FC Barcelona Borges, VELUX EHF Champions League – Quarter-final 33:36 (15:19) 24.04.2016 THW Kiel vs FC Barcelona Lassa, VELUX EHF Champions League – Quarter-final 29:24 (16:12) 30.04.2016 FC Barcelona Lassa vs THW Kiel, VELUX EHF Champions League – Quarter-final 33:30 (13:14) Matchdetails of last match - 30.04.2016 (Barcelona, Spain) FC Barcelona Lassa vs THW Kiel 33:30 (13:14) VELUX EHF Champions League – Quarter-finals, second leg Referees: Slave Nikolov/Gjorgji Nachevski (FYR Macedonia). Suspensions: 6’ – 8’ (Tomas Gonzalez 2’, Entrerrios Rodriguez 2’, Jicha 2’ – Duvnjak 2’, Mamelund 2’, Brozovic 2’, Vujin 2’). Number of 7m: 4/3 – 2/2. Attendance: 6,762. Moreno Perez de Vargas Niklas Landin Jacobsen (Al-Qiyada <-) Danijel Saric Nikolas Katsigiannis (-> HC Erlangen) - - Jesper Nöddesbo (3) Domagoj Duvnjak (Telekom Veszprem <-) Marko Kopljar Erlend Mamelund (-> Haslum HK) Victor Tomas (4) (1) Christian Sprenger Raul Entrerrios (6) (1) Steffen Weinhold Cedric Sorhaindo Christian Dissinger (Saint Raphael Var <-) Daniel Sarmiento Melian (1) (1) Patrick Wiencek Aitor Arino Bengoechea (3) (2) Niclas Ekberg (HBC Nantes <-) Eduardo Gurbindo (4) (2) Igor Anic (-> Saran HB) (Rhein-Neckar Löwen <-) Gudjon Valur Sigurdsson (5) (6) Joan Cañellas Reixach (-> HC Vardar) Kamil Syprzak Rune Dahmke Viran Morros (1) Dener Jaanimaa Filip Jicha (5) Dominik Klein (-> HBC Nantes) Wael Jallouz (5) (2) Ilija Brozovic Kiril Lazarov (5) (6) Marko Vujin 3 Most goals in one game FC Barcelona Lassa vs THW Kiel: Juan Garcia Lorenzana 13 30.05.2010 FC Barcelona Borges-THW Kiel 34:36 Demetrio Lozano 10 31.03.2001 FC Barcelona-THW Kiel 33:28 Iker Romero Fernandez 10 13.04.2008 FC Barcelona-THW Kiel 44:37 Dragan Skrbić 9 05.03.2005 THW Kiel-FC Barcelona 30:25 Demetrio Lozano Jarque 9 06.04.2008 THW Kiel-FC Barcelona 41:31 Iker Romero Fernandez 9 06.04.2008 THW Kiel-FC Barcelona 41:31 Demetrio Lozano Jarque 9 13.04.2008 FC Barcelona-THW Kiel 44:37 Juan Garcia Lorenzana 9 23.11.2008 THW Kiel-FC Barcelona Borges 33:26 Most goals in one game THW Kiel vs FC Barcelona Lassa: Nenad Perunicic 11 22.04.2000 THW Kiel-FC Barcelona 28:25 Filip Jicha 11 30.05.2010 FC Barcelona Borges-THW Kiel 34:36 Nikola Karabatic 10 13.04.2008 FC Barcelona-THW Kiel 44:37 Filip Jicha 10 14.02.2010 THW Kiel-FC Barcelona Borges 30:32 Nenad Perunicic 9 31.03.2001 FC Barcelona-THW Kiel 33:28 Johan Pettersson 9 20.04.2002 THW Kiel-FC Barcelona 36:29 Filip Jicha 9 06.04.2008 THW Kiel-FC Barcelona 41:31 Dominik Klein 9 24.04.2016 THW Kiel-FC Barcelona Lassa 29:24 Last Ten Games in VELUX EHF Champions League: FC Barcelona Lassa: current run - won two 22.11.2015 Skopje MKD @ HC Vardar MKD W 25:27 29.11.2015 Brøndby DEN @ KIF Kolding Kobenhavn DEN W 28:36 05.12.2015 Barcelona ESP vs KS Vive Tauron Kielce POL L 31:33 14.02.2016 Pérols FRA @ Montpellier HB FRA W 23:31 21.02.2016 Barcelona ESP vs MOL-Pick Szeged HUN W 30:25 25.02.2016 Kristianstad SWE @ IFK Kristianstad SWE W 24:31 05.03.2016 Barcelona ESP vs Rhein-Neckar Löwen GER W 26:20 24.04.2016 Kiel GER @ THW Kiel GER L 29:24 30.04.2016 Barcelona ESP vs THW Kiel GER W 33:30 25.09.2016 Płock POL @ Orlen Wisla Plock POL W 23:28 THW Kiel: current run - won one 17.02.2015 Kiel GER vs Orlen Wisla Plock POL W 26:24 24.02.2016 Istanbul TUR @ Besiktas Jimnastik Kulubu TUR W 27:32 03.03.2016 Kiel GER vs HC Prvo plinarsko drustvo Zagreb CRO W 31:29 20.03.2016 Szeged HUN @ MOL-Pick Szeged HUN L 33:29 23.03.2016 Kiel GER vs MOL-Pick Szeged HUN W 36:29 24.04.2016 Kiel GER vs FC Barcelona Lassa ESP W 29:24 30.04.2016 Barcelona ESP @ FC Barcelona Lassa ESP L 33:30 28.05.2016 Köln GER @ MVM Veszprém HUN L 31:28aet 29.05.2016 Köln GER @ Paris Saint-Germain Handball FRA L 29:27 25.09.2016 Kiel GER vs Paris Saint-Germain Handball FRA W 28:27 4 FC Barcelona Lassa vs German clubs 31-2-29 Season Opponent Home Away Competition 1973/74