OFFICIAL PROGRAMME Women’s EHF Champions League 2015/2016
IK Sävehof vs. Györi Audi ETO KC Partillebohallen January 17 – 16:15 Partille
Women’s EHF Champions League 2015/2016 official programme
WOMEN´S EHF Champions League Foreword EHF President – Main Round Welcome to the 2015/16 Women’s EHF Champions League Main Round
Less than three weeks after Norway's triumph at 2015’s pinnacle national team event, the World Championship, Europe’s elite women’s handball club competition returns to the spotlight as the Women’s EHF Champions League Main Round starts.
From 6 January to 28 February, the six rounds of the main round will determine the eight teams to make it to the quarter-finals. I take this opportunity to welcome twelve sides from ten countries to the third phase of the competition.
Before we start analysing the two main round groups and their participants we should have a look back to the tournament in Denmark last month, which underlined the prominent position of the EHF Champions League in women's handball. Not only because no fewer than 93 players from the European top flight took part in the event and because all twelve main round teams had at least one player who took the floor in Denmark. Almost 30 players return to the Champions League race decorated with a medal – eight Norwegian reigning champions, four Dutch runners-up and 15 Romanian bronze medallists. And it goes without saying that Champions League players created a backbone of almost all European teams and former champions from Brazil. We will all be eager to find out how the recently awarded medallists can transfer their success from national team competition to their clubs. Their morale boost can prove to be a decisive factor for their sides in what will become probably as close and thrilling a main round stage of the Women's EHF Champions League as ever. While all twelve participants have still a fair chance to reach the quarter-finals, there are still eight to ten teams who have all what it takes to reach the season' culmination in Budapest – the Women’s EHF FINAL4. In Group 1 the new Russian powerhouse Rostov-Don has yet to drop a point in their maiden Champions League campaign, while defending champions Buducnost dominate Group 2 in a similar fashion having lost just one point. However, none of the group leaders can take the ticket to Budapest for granted as packs of formidable contenders also eye a May trip to the Hungarian capital. Will Györ be able to show more consistency against fellow heavyweights? Will Baia Mare repeat last year's amazing surge of reaching the quarter-finals despite starting with zero points? And will two other ambitious newcomers CSM Bucuresti and Fleury Loiret Handball just make up the numbers in the main round or can they make it to the next round? All these questions and many more will be answered in the next two months. To the teams, I wish you all the very best of luck! To the fans, I welcome you to the main round, I invite you to sit back, relax, and enjoy the exciting show.
Sporting wishes,
Jean Brihault EHF President
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Women’s EHF Champions League 2015/2016 official programme
IK Sävehof
Györi Audi ETO KC
Sweden – Home Team
Hungary – Guest Team
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Johanna Bundsen isabella mouratidou Hanna eriksson
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alexa weninger eva Kiss Kari aalvik grimsbø
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Tilda olsson emma ekenman-fernis loui Sand Joanna lindvall-Haggren Sofia Tegstedt Thess Krönell elin enhörning Julia eriksson Stine lund andreassen rikke Jensen elin Karlsson linnea pettersson Birna Berg Haraldsdottir Hanna Örtorp linn Hansson olivia mellegård ida Holm
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Jana Knedlikova Heidi loke anette emma Hudak Julia Harsfalvi Dorina Korsos anita görbicz aniko Kovacsics Yvette Broch linn Jorum Sulland rita laakten eduarda idalina amorim Taleska Szimonetta planeta adrienn orban Zsuzsanna Tomori cornelia Nycke groot Beatrix elö Bernadett Bognar-Bodi luca linder gabriella Toth
Referees: Victoriia alpaidze (rUS), Tatyana Berezkina (rUS) – EHF-Delegate: Kristjan Halldorsson (iSl) GROUP 1 1. rostov-Don 2. fTc-rail cargo 3. larvik 4. fleury loiret Handball 5. Hcm Baia mare 6. Thüringer Hc
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Teams – Main Round Group 1 rostov-Don – rUS fTc-rail cargo Hungaria – HUN larvik, Nor fleury loiret Handball – fra Hcm Baia mare – roU Thüringer Hc – ger Group 2 Buducnost – mNe györi audi eTo Kc – HUN Hc Vardar – mKD cSm Bucuresti – roU fc midtjylland – DeN iK Sävehof – Swe Matches – Group 1 6/1 fleury loiret Handball vs Thüringer Hc . .27:21 9/1 rostov-Don vs fTc-rail cargo Hungaria .23:21 larvik vs Thüringer Hc . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .28:19 10/1 Hcm Baia mare vs fleury loiret Handball .31:28 16/1 fTc-rail cargo Hungaria vs larvik Thüringer Hc vs Hcm Baia mare
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125:113 147:129 132:123 133:143 128:135 122:144
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GROUP 2 1. Buducnost 2. györi audi eTo Kc 3. Hc Vardar 4. cSm Bucuresti 5. fc midtjylland 6. iK Sävehof
17/1 fleury loiret Handball vs rostov-Don 5/2 Hcm Baia mare vs fTc-rail cargo Hungaria 6/2 rostov-Don vs Thüringer Hc larvik vs fleury loiret Handball 13/2 fTc-rail cargo Hungaria vs rostov-Don 14/2 Thüringer Hc vs larvik fleury loiret Handball vs Hcm Baia mare 19/2 Hcm Baia mare vs Thüringer Hc 20/2 rostov-Don vs fleury loiret Handball larvik vs fTc-rail cargo Hungaria 27/2 fTc-rail cargo Hungaria vs Hcm Baia mare 28/2 Thüringer Hc vs rostov-Don fleury loiret Handball vs larvik Matches – Group 2 9/1 györi audi eTo Kc vs Buducnost . . . . .22:20 Hc Vardar vs cSm Bucuresti . . . . . . . . . .22:21
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10/1 fc midtjylland vs iK Sävehof . . . . . . . . . .25:21 15/1 cSm Bucuresti vs fc midtjylland 17/1 Buducnost vs Hc Vardar iK Sävehof vs györi audi eTo Kc 6/2 györi audi eTo Kc vs cSm Bucuresti Hc Vardar vs iK Sävehof 7/2 fc midtjylland vs Buducnost 12/2 iK Sävehof vs fc midtjylland 14/2 Buducnost vs györi audi eTo Kc 16/2 cSm Bucuresti vs Hc Vardar 19/2 györi audi eTo Kc vs iK Sävehof 21/2 fc midtjylland vs cSm Bucuresti Hc Vardar vs Buducnost 26/2 iK Sävehof vs Hc Vardar 28/2 cSm Bucuresti vs györi audi eTo Kc Buducnost vs fc midtjylland
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Women’s EHF Champions League 2015/2016 official programme
IK Sävehof Sweden
Györi Audi ETO KC Hungary
Past Winners 1993-2015
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2014/15 2013/14 2012/13 2011/12 2010/11 2009/10 2008/09 2007/08 2006/07 2005/06 2004/05
Buducnost (mNe) györi audi eTo Kc (HUN) györi audi eTo Kc (HUN) Buducnost (mNe) larvik (Nor) Viborg HK (DeN) Viborg HK (DeN) Zvezda Zvenigorod (rUS) Slagelse DT (DeN) Viborg HK a/S (DeN) Slagelse fH (DeN)
2003/04 2002/03 2001/02 2000/01 1999/00 1998/99 1997/98 1996/97 1995/96 1994/95 1993/94
Slagelse fH (DeN) Krim eTa N. roberts ljubljana (Slo) Kometal D. p. Skopje (mKD) rK Krim Neutro roberts (Slo) Hypo Niederösterreich (aUT) Dunaferr Se (HUN) Hypo Niederösterreich (aUT) mar Valencia (eSp) podravka Koprivnica (cro) Hypo Niederösterreich (aUT) Hypo Niederösterreich (aUT)
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