Media Guide Women’s EHF Champions League Season 2014/15 Quarter-finals Table of contents Foreword 5 Map of participating clubs 6 Women’s EHF Champions League Information 7 Media contacts - EHF/M, clubs contacts 8 2014/15 Seeding list 9 2014/15 Playing system diagram - stages and dates 10 MVM takes up title sponsorship for the Women’s EHF FINAL4 12 MVM EHF FINAL4 Draw 12 MVM EHF FINAL4 Media Accreditation 12 Facts & Figures 13 Extended women’s coverage on ehfTV 15 Fan vote for All-star team starts 16 Important regulations - scoring of the matches 17 Viborg HK A/S vs Buducnost 19 Thüringer HC vs WHC Vardar SCBT 28 HCM Baia Mare vs Dinamo-Sinara 37 WHC Vardar SCBT vs Györi Audi ETO KC 46 Top scorers after Main Round 55 Past winners 56 3 Thinkonepassion can reach countries.many The UNIQA Group is one of the leading insurance groups in its core markets of Austria and Central and Eastern Europe with over 40 companies in 19 countries and more than 9.3 million customers. www.uniqagroup.com 140917_UNQ_Handball_A4.indd 1 9/18/14 14:29 PM Foreword Dear media representative, As we count down to the 2015 MVM EHF FINAL4 in Budapest on 9/10 May 2015, the next exciting phase of the Women’s EHF Champions League is upon us. There are 116 matches behind us and what remains is a great interfusion of contenders with eight teams from eight countries: Denmark, Germany, Hungary, FYR Macedonia, Montenegro, Norway, Romania, and Russia. The only hurdle standing between the teams and their ticket to Budapest is the quarter-final. Having been a firm fixture of the competition from the early seasons, the teams of Viborg HK A/S and Buducnost will face each other once again; each team comes to the quarter-final as a champion with two decades of experience playing top level handball. Thüringer HC is currently relishing its fourth season in the Champions League; reaching the quarter-finals is the greatest achievement of the club so far, but how will the team fare against Larvik, a team with a wealth of experience and a title under its belt? When the players of HCM Baia Mare meet their counterparts from Dinamo-Sinara, it will be a match where both teams are both on relatively equal footing. Being a veteran of the Champions League, Dinamo performed slightly better in the previous round and this will be the second time that the team has been under the last eight; the team from Romania has entered the quarter-final for the first time. For both teams, winning is everything, as one team will advance further than ever before; and for the other the campaign will end. With the experience of being in a final tournament still fresh in their minds, the players of WHC Vardar SCBT face an uphill battle facing the defending champion, Györi Audi ETO KC; this match is guaranteed to have many moments that are not to be missed. With the teams paired off, the first leg of the all four matches will throw off over the weekend of 4/5 April and the final four will be known a week later when the quarter-final concludes on 12 April. 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, 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. Jean Brihault EHF President 5 HC Leipzig, Györi Audi WOMEN‘S EHF CHAMPIONS LEAGUE IK Sävehof, GER ETO KC, HUN SWE Season 2014/15 Byasen Teams eliminated in the qualification, Trondheim, NOR group matches and the main round Teams qualified for the quarter-finals Larvik HK, NOR Venue of the MVM EHF FINAL4 Viborg HK A/S, DEN BNTU BelAZ Minsk Reg., BLR FC Midtjylland, DEN MKS Selgros Lublin, POL SERCODAK Dalfsen, NED 6 Thüringer HC, Dinamo GER Sinara , RUS Metz Handball, HCM Baia Mare, FRA ROU WOMEN‘S EHF FINAL4 Hypo Host City Budapest, HUN Niederösterreich, AUT RK Krim Mercator, SLO FTC-Rail Cargo Hungaria, HUN HC Lokomotiva Zagreb, CRO WHC Radnicki Kragujevac, SRB HC Podravka Buducnost, WHC Vardar Vegeta, CRO MNE SCBT, MKD Media information Team line-ups and match reports For major events such as the EHF EURO or the VELUX EHF FINAL4 match prep kits including historical information and head-to-head From the opening matches of the season, the complete team line- statistics will also be made available. up has been available online at eurohandball.com and available to download as a PDF document. If you haven’t registered yet, please send an email to [email protected] The change has been made possible thanks to the introduction of a and we will provide you with the log-in details. new online solution, which sees the EHF match delegate complete the final team line-up immediately after the technical meeting. Accreditation for Quarter-finals This development means that team line-ups are available for The written media and photographer’s accreditation procedure in commentators and reporters hours before each match throws-off. the Quarter-finals is entirely in the responsibility of the participating clubs. A further change means that a short time after each match, a completed match report will also be available online with details such TV and Radio accreditations are subjects to approval by EHF as goal scorers and number of spectators. Marketing GmbH – please contact Miguel Mateo Marcellán. Team line-ups and match reports can be viewed by clicking on a Online information particular match on the eurohandball.com or ehfCL.com websites. ehfCL.com The online system is also under further development with the ehfTV.com ultimate aim being to provide live scores and statistics from EHF Regulations of the Women’s EHF Champions League competitions and available on the EHF website. Twitter:@ehfmedia , @ehfcl Facebook: ehf.champions.league Media portal All media representatives are invited to register for the EHF media Official name portal on http://members.ehf.eu The official name of the competition is: Women’s EHF Champions The European Handball Federation’s media portal is a one-stop-shop League. The full name of the competition should always be used. for media representatives offering all the EHF’s media news such as press releases, event flash quotes directly after matches, press Please note: If the season is required, it has to be positioned after conference highlights, draw reactions and downloads of all relevant “Champions League” e.g. Women’s EHF Champions League 2013/14. information including, but not limited to, media guides and event The wording “Champions League” should be written with a capital logos. Furthermore photographs that are free for editorial use letter at the beginning of each word, i.e. Champions League. The will be available for download. remaining letters should be in lower case. The word Champions does not have an apostrophe after the ‘s’. 7 EHF/M Media contacts Media matters TV and Radio Vlado Brindzak Miguel Mateo Marcellán 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] Twitter:@ehfmedia Clubs – Media contacts WHC Buducnost Larvik HK Milos Pavicevic Tor Odvar Moen +382 682 226 66 +47 479 38 803 E-Mail: zrkbuducnost@t-com. [email protected] me / [email protected] Dinamo-Sinara Volgograd Györi Audi ETO KC Eduard Akopian Andrea Szilagyi +7 905 333 33 13 +36 70 394 95 96 [email protected] [email protected] WHC Vardar SCBT HCM Baia Mare Ivana Stojanovska Ramona Ioana Pop +389 71 247 218 +40744839987 [email protected] [email protected] Thüringer HC Viborg HK Bernd Hohnstein Inger Fog +49 179 4649 389 +45 22 70 0904 [email protected] [email protected] 8 WOMEN'S EHF CHAMPIONS LEAGUE 2014/15 Qualification Tournaments Group Matches Main Round Quarterfinals FINAL4 Tournaments 4 groups with 4 teams 12 teams 8 teams 4 teams 17.‐19.10.2014 (1) 30.01‐01.02.2015 (1) 20./21.09.2014 24.‐26.10.2014 (2) 06.‐08.02.2015 (2) 03.‐05.04.2015 09./10.05.2015 tournaments 31.10.‐02.11.2014 (3) 13.‐15.02.2015 (3) first leg tournament played in semi finals 07.‐09.11.2014 (4) 27.02.‐01.03.2015 (4) and finals 14.‐16.11.2014 (5) 06.‐08.03.2015 (5) 10.‐12.04.2015 NATION 21.‐23.11.2014 (6) 13.‐15.03.2015 (6) second leg DRAWS: 26 June 2014 in Vienna 27 June 2014 in Vienna no draw no draw 14 April 2015 1 HUN 1 Györi Audi ETO KC 2 MNE 1 WHC Buducnost 3 NOR 1 Larvik HK 4 SLO 1 RK Krim Ljubljana 5 DEN 1 Viborg HK Quarterfinals group Round the 6 ROU 1 HCM Baia Mare of 7 GER 1 Thüringer HC each Main 8 RUS 1 Dinamo‐Sinara Volgograd League team 9 MKD 1 WHC Vardar SCBT from 10 FRA 1 Metz Handball League placed team 11 AUT 1 Hypo Niederösterreich 12 CRO 1 RK Lokomotiva‐Zagreb Champions 4th 13 SWE 1 IK Sävehof placed EHF and 14 POL 1 MKS Selgros Lublin Champions 3rd 15 HUN 2 FTC Rail Cargo Hungaria 3rd EHF 16 DEN 2 FC Midtjylland 2 and 2nd, 17 NOR 2 Byasen Trondheim WOMEN'S the 2nd of 1st, of 18 GER 2 HC Leipzig 1st, 19 CRO 2 HC Podravka Vegeta WOMEN'S Qualification 20 BLR 1 HC BNTU‐BELAz Minsk tournaments Winners Winners 21 NED 1 Sercodak/Dalfsen 4 22 SRB 1 ZRK Radnicki Kragujevac 2 groups with 4 teams 4th placed teams of CL Qualification Tournaments go to the Cup Winners' Cup Rd 2, 2nd and 3rd placed teams of CL Qualification Tournaments go to the Cup Winners' Cup Rd 3 status: 23.06.2014 Women’s EHF Champions League 2014/15 playing system Qualication Group Matches Main Round Quarter-nals FINAL4 Semi-nals 4 vs.