Media Information Women’s EHF Champions League Season 2014/15 MVM EHF FINAL4 DRAW Tuesday 14 April 2015, 11:00 hrs Moholy-Nagy University of Art and Design, Budapest Table of contents Media contacts - EHF/M, clubs contacts 4 Map of participating clubs 5 Facts & figures after quarter-finals 6 MVM EHF FINAL4 Draw Preview 7 Buducnost 8 WHC Vardar SCBT 10 Dinamo-Sinara 12 Larvik 14 Potential head-to-head stats in the EC competitions 16 Top scorers after quarter-finals 17 Past winners 18 MVM takes up title sponsorship for the Women’s EHF FINAL4 20 MVM EHF FINAL4 Media Accreditation 20 2014/15 Seeding list 21 2014/15 Playing system diagram - stages and dates 22 Extended women’s coverage on ehfTV 24 Fan vote for All-star team 25 2 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 EHF/M Media contacts Media matters TV and Radio Thomas Schöneich Miguel Mateo Marcellán Media and Communications Media Manager European Handball Federation EHF Marketing GmbH +43 1 80 151 164 +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. 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The word Champions does and we will provide you with the log-in details. not have an apostrophe after the ‘s’. 4 HC Leipzig, Györi Audi WOMEN‘S EHF CHAMPIONS LEAGUE IK Sävehof, GER ETO KC, HUN SWE Season 2014/15 Byasen Trondheim, NOR Eliminated teams MVM EHF FINAL4 teams 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 5 Thüringer HC, Dinamo GER Sinara , RUS Metz Handball, HCM Baia Mare, FRA ROU 2015 MVM 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 Facts and figures Larvik and Buducnost arrive unbeaten in Budapest, Neagu top scorer so far 92 matches since the start of the group matches have been played in the Women’s EHF Champions League so far. Just four remain in 15 different nations are represented in the squads of the four Budapest on 9/10 May and they will determine which team will participants: NOR, POL, DEN, MKD, GER, RUS, FRA, SLO, ESP, MNE, succeed Györi Audi ETO KC as champions. ROU, SRB, TUN, CRO, AZE Here are the most important facts and figures of the 2014/15 18 goals was the biggest margin in the quarter-final matches, season, prior to the MVM EHF FINAL4 in Budapest. The draw for when Larvik beat THC by 36:18. the pinnacle of women’s club handball will be staged in Budapest on Tuesday (live on ehfTV at 11:00 CET), where the new trophy will 19 matches since the start of the group matches ended with a also be unveiled. margin of ten or more goals: Nine in the group matches, eight in the main round and two in the quarter-finals. 1 team – Larvik – have won all their matches this season. 20 goals was the biggest margin all matches since the start of the 1 team – Dinamo-Sinara against Baia Mare– turned a defeat in the competition, when Leipzig beat Hypo 42:22. first quarter-final leg in a ticket to Budapest 22 teams representing 19 countries have been part of the 1 quarter-final match (Györ vs Vardar) ended with a draw. Women’s EHF Champions League season 2014/15. 1 player – Katarina Bulatovic (now in a Buducnost jersey) can be 37 matches in total ended with a win of the away team, 18 in the the only player to win the 2014 and 2015 title of the Women’s EHF group matches, 17 in the main round and two in the quarter-finals. Champions League after raising the trophy with Györ last season. 37 goals were the lowest score in all matches since the start of the 2 teams – Buducnost and Vardar – had already been part of the group phase, when Buducnost beat Thüringer HC by 23:14. first MVM EHF FINAL4 in Budapest in 2014. Buducnost lost the final, against Györ, while Vardar finished third. 42 was the lowest number of goals in the quarter-final matches, when Vardar beat Györ 24:18. 2 teams – Larvik and Buducnost – remained unbeaten in all stages of the competition to make it to Budapest. 47 matches in total ended with a win of the home team, 24 in the group matches, 18 in the main round and five in the quarter-finals. 2 teams won both quarter-final legs – again Larvik and Buducnost. 76 goals were scored in the main round match Krim vs Vardar 2 former Women’s EHF Champions League winners are still in the (29:47) to be the highest score in this season so far. competition: Larvik (2011) and Buducnost (2012). 87 goals were scored in the duels of Larvik vs Sävehof (25:20, 2 multiple EHF CL winners are in the squads of the four teams: 25:17) to be the lowest scoring matches of the main round. Katarina Bulatovic (Buducnost - 2007 Slagelse, 2012 Buducnost, 2014 Györ) and Anja Althaus (Vardar – 2009 and 2010 Viborg). 92 goals had been scored by Romanian left back Cristina Neagu (Buducnost) so far to top the scorers list. 4 nations are represented by the four FINAL4 participants: Norway, Russia, FYR Macedonia and Montenegro. Eight different 92 matches have been played in the Women’s EHF Champions nations were part of the quarter-finals, 11 in the main round and League season so far. 14 in the group matches. +104 is the impressive goal difference of Buducnost after 14 8 straight seasons from 2006/07 to 2013/14 Györ had at least been matches. part of the semi-finals. For the first time since the 2005/06 season the Hungarian champions were eliminated before this stage. 147 goals were scored in the two duels of Krim vs Vardar (30:41, 29:47) to be high score of a duel. 8 matches in total ended with a draw, six in the group matches and each one in the main round and quarter-finals. 287 goals Buducnost conceded in their 14 matches to have the best defensive record of the four MVM EHF FINAL 4 teams 12 points in six matches (maximum) were reached by the two group winners Larvik and Buducnost in the main round. 391 goals were scored by both Buducnost and Larvik to have the best attack of the four participants, one goal ahead of Vardar (390) 15 years ago, Dinamo were part of their first and only Women’s EHF Champions League semi-final to date. The Russians missed the 5,200 spectators was the highest attendance in the Women’s EHF finals by one goal on aggregate after a 18:23 away defeat and a Champions League season so far, when Györ opened their new 26:22 win against Kometal Skopje. arena with the group match against Sävehof. 6 MVM EHF FINAL4 DRAW PREVIEW Two teams are new, two return to Budapest The Women’s EHF Champions League Quarter-finals have been Teams to meet again played, the MVM EHF FINAL4 on 9/10 May is already looming on the horizon, but in between lies one important event: the draw. The draw is open, meaning that there are no restrictions to which teams can face each other in the semi-finals. This also means that WHC Vardar SCBT from FYR Macedonia, Montenegrin side Buducnost, teams can play each other again after they might have met before in Larvik from Norway and Russian club Dinamo-Sinara are the four an earlier stage of the competition.