Media Information Women s EHF Champions League Season 2015/16

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1 Media Information Women s EHF Champions League Season 2015/16 Qualification Tournaments Group 1 - Drammen, NOR Group 2 - Baia Mare, ROU September 2015

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3 Table of contents Foreword 4 Map of participating clubs 5 Media contacts - EHF/M, Media contacts 6 EHF Live Ticker 6 Playing system diagram - stages and dates 7 Seeding list 8 Important regulations - extra-time and penalty throws 9 Qualification teams GROUP 1 Preview 10 Györi Audi ETO KC 11 Glassverket 15 SERCODAK Dalfsen 18 WHC Radnicki Kragujevac 21 GROUP 2 Preview 25 Team Esbjerg 26 HCM Baia Mare 29 HC BNTU-BelAz Minsk 33 Ankara Yenimahalle BSK /15 top scorers 39 Past winners 40 3

4 Foreword Dear media representatives, Welcome to a new season in the Women s EHF Champions League. Four months after Buducnost claimed their second European crown, we are ready to write a completely new chapter as we enter the 23rd season of the competition. Eight matches and two qualification tournaments will determine which two teams will earn the remaining berths in the 2015/16 Group Matches. The tournaments will take place in two of the biggest countries in women s handball and I am sure we can look forward to large crowds in both Baia Mare, Romania and Drammen, Norway. What makes this year s qualification even more exciting is the fact that we have two participants with the potential to make it all the way to the Women s EHF FINAL4 in Budapest on 7/8 May HCM Baia Mare and Györi Audi ETO KC both reached the newly introduced quarter-final stage last season, but found themselves fighting for their spots in the Group Matches phase courtesy of surprising stumbles in their respective domestic leagues. EHF Champions League newcomers CSM Bucuresti took the Romanian title at the expense of Baia Mare and the double winner Györ suffered a shock final defeat to their arch rivals FTC-Rail Cargo Hungaria in the Hungarian league final. Their mission is clear, but not at all easy as they both face formidable adversaries. Györ will have expectations to live up to in Group 1, where the Norwegian runners-up Glassverket are amongst their fiercest opponents. Baia Mare and the star-studded Esbjerg team, which boasts Dutch, Danish, Swedish and Norwegian international players, will both be eyeing the same prize in Group 2. To reach the final showdown in each of the two groups, the favourites have to overcome their semi-final hurdles and the history of our sport offers numerous examples of teams underestimating their opponents and coming undone. Ankara Yenimahalle BSK are the Turkish newcomers in qualification but all the other sides competing WHC Radnicki Kragujevac, BNTU-BelAZ Minsk Reg. and SERCODAK Dalfsen - have all gathered enough experience in previous seasons to spring a surprise. In the Group Matches FC Midtjylland, HC Vardar and Hypo Niederösterreich await the winner of Group 1 from Drammen, whilst the winner of Group 2 in Baia Mare will join last season s runners-up Larvik, RK Krim Mercator and the emerging Russian powerhouse of Rostov-Don. There are eight exciting matches ahead in this qualification phase and I wish to all teams the very best of luck. 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 during the course of the season, 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. We look forward to working with you in the upcoming season! Jean Brihault EHF President 4

5 FC Midtjylland, DEN RK Krim Mercator, SLO Hypo Niederösterreich, AUT Fleury Loiret Handball, FRA Thüringer HC, GER SERCODAK Dalfsen, NED Group Matches teams Qualification teams Season 2015/16 WOMEN S EHF CHAMPIONS LEAGUE 5 HC Podravka Vegeta, CRO Team Esbjerg, DEN Larvik HK, NOR Glassverket, NOR Buducnost, MNE IK Sävehof, SWE HC Vardar, MKD WHC Radnicki Kragujevac, SRB Györi Audi ETO KC, HUN FTC-Rail Cargo Hungaria, HUN Ankara Yenimahalle BSK, TUR CSM Bucharest, ROU Host City Budapest, HUN WOMEN S EHF FINAL4 HCM Baia Mare, ROU Rostov-Don, RUS MKS Selgros Lublin, POL BNTU BelAZ Minsk Reg., BLR

6 EHF/M Media contacts Media matters Vlado Brindzak Media and Communications European Handball Federation brindzak@eurohandball.com TV and Radio Miguel Mateo Marcellán Media Manager EHF Marketing GmbH mateo@ehfmarketing.com Clubs Media contacts GROUP 1 Györi Audi ETO KC Andrea Szilagyi szilagyi.andrea@gyorietokc.hu Glassverket Erik Oie erik.oie@glassverketif.no SERCODAK Dalfsen Rene Cloo info@sercodakdalfsen.nl WHC Radnicki Kragujevac Goran Stanisic predsednik@zrkradnicki.org GROUP 2 Team Esbjerg Per Kristiansen pk@teamesbjerg.dk HCM Baia Mare Ramona Ioana Pop meramonaioana@gmail.com HC BNTU BelAz Minsk Valeryia Miklashevich hc.bntu@tut.by Ankara Yenimahalle BSK Mesut Bolatcan yenimahbel.sporkulubu@gmail.com New way to follow the matches The qualification tournaments in Drammen, Norway and Baia Mare, Romania offer fans the opportunity to track the action in a new format. The tournaments will be covered on a variety of platforms, ensuring that anyone interested will not miss a beat, wherever they are. The EHF Live Ticker will track the scores of all four matches this weekend and for the rest of the season. Every goal, missed shot and yellow card will be documented and live statistics made available online for the first time at this stage of Europe s elite club competition. Apart from that the semi-final matches and the both finals will be also streamed live on ehftv.com. 6

7 Women s EHF Champions League 2015/16 playing system Qualification Group Matches Main Round Quarter-finals FINAL4 4 vs. 1 3 vs. 2 Semi-finals vs. vs. vs. vs. 3 rd Place Match vs. Home matches 3 Total matches Final vs. Season 2015/16 playing dates Qualification Group Matches Main Round 12/ Quarter-finals FINAL4 first leg 07. / second leg

8 WOMEN'S EHF CHAMPIONS LEAGUE 2015/16 Qualification Tournaments Tournaments Group Matches 4 groups with 4 teams Main Round 12 teams Quarterfinals 8 teams FINAL4 4 teams (1) (1) 12./ (2) (2) / tournaments (3) (3) first leg tournament played in semi finals (4) (4) and finals (5) (5) NATION in one venue (6) (6) second leg in Budapest DRAWS: 26 June 2015 in Vienna/AUT 26 June 2015 in Vienna/AUT no draw no draw HUN 1 FTC-Rail Cargo Hungaria 2 MNE 1 Buducnost 3 NOR 1 Larvik HK 4 DEN 1 FC Midtjylland 5 MKD 1 HC Vardar 6 SLO 1 RK Krim Mercator 7 ROU 1 CSM Bucuresti 8 GER 1 Thüringer HC 9 RUS 1 Rostov-Don 10 SWE 1 IK Sävehof 11 AUT 1 Hypo Niederösterreich 12 CRO 1 HC Podravka Vegeta 13 FRA 1 Fleury Loiret Handball 14 POL 1 MKS Selgros Lublin 15 HUN 2 Györi Audi ETO KC 16 DEN 2 Team Esbjerg 17 NOR 2 Glassverket 18 ROU 2 HCM Baia Mare 19 BLR 1 HC BNTU-BelAZ Minsk 20 NED 1 Sercodak Dalfsen 21 SRB 1 WHC Radnicki Kragujevac 22 TUR 1 Ankara Yenimahalle BSK Winners of the 2 Qualification tournaments 1st, 2nd and 3rd placed team from each group 1st, 2nd, 3rd and 4th placed team of the WOMEN'S EHF Champions League Main Round 4 Winners of WOMEN'S EHF Champions League Quarterfinals 2 groups with 4 teams 4th placed teams of CL Qualification Tournaments go to Cup Winners' Cup Rd 2, 2nd and 3rd placed teams of CL Qualification Tornaments go to Cup Winners' Cup Rd 3 status:

9 Important regulations SCORING OF MATCHES AND RANKING GENERAL All matches of the WOMEN S EHF Champions League shall be played in 2 x 30 minutes with a half-time break of 10 minutes. The EHF reserves the right to extend the half-time break in special circumstances to 15 minutes. QUALIFICATION TOURNAMENTS If a semifinal match or the final (place 1/2) ends in a draw, there will be a five minutes break followed by one extra time of 2 x 5 minutes, there will be a one minute half-time break at the half time for the changeover of teams. If the placement match (place 3/4) ends in a draw, there shall be no extra time, the match will be decided directly by penalty throws. In the semifinals and/or final (place 1/2), if there is no winner after the extra time, the match will be decided by penalty throws. RULES FOR EXECUTION OF PENALTY THROWS - Prior to penalty throwing, each team shall name five players eligible to play at the end of the match by handing the referees a list of numbers. These players shall then take one throw each, alternating with their opponents. Each team is free to determine the sequence in which throwers will take their throws - The goalkeepers may be freely selected from the match report and exchanged in accordance with the Rules of the game. Goalkeepers may take throws and throwers may play as goalkeepers. - The referees shall choose the goal at which throws are taken. The team taking the first penalty throw shall be determined by the referees by drawing lots. The team winning the draw may choose whether it wishes to throw first or last. - If scores are equal after the first round of penalty throwing, it shall be continued until a decision is reached. In the second round, the other team shall start. Again five players shall be named who are eligible to play (the players named before may be named once again). - In the second round, a decision is reached when a goal difference arises after both teams have taken one throw each. - Eligible players are players entered in the match report who have not been disqualified or suspended at the time of the final whistle. - Serious infractions committed during penalty throwing shall be sanctioned by disqualification. If a thrower is disqualified or suffers an injury, an eligible substitute player shall be named supplementary. - While the throws are being taken, only the player taking the throw, the current goalkeeper and the referees may enter the respective half of the playing area. - If the number of eligible players falls below five, players may be named to take a second throw in the same round. 9

10 Qualification Group 1 Qualification Group 1 Györi Audi ETO KC (HUN) Glassverket (NOR) SERCODAK Dalfsen (NED) WHC Radnicki Kragujevac (SRB) Group C FC Midtjylland (DEN) HC Vardar (MKD) Hypo Niederösterreich (AUT) Winner QT 1 Playing hall Drammenshallen Knoffsgt Drammen Norway Capacity: 4,000 2 nd ranked team - Cup Winners Cup, Round 3 vs ZORK Jagodina (SRB) 3 rd ranked team - Cup Winners Cup, Round 3 vs Vistal Gdynia (POL) 4 th ranked team - Cup Winners Cup, Round 2 vs Jomi Salerno (ITA) Match schedule (all times local) Saturday, 12 September 2015: Semi-finals 1 16:30 hrs Györi Audi ETO KC vs. WHC Radnicki Kragujevac 2 19:00 hrs Glassverket vs SERCODAK Dalfsen Sunday, 13 September 2015: 3rd place match 14:30 hrs Loser semi-final 1 vs loser semi-final 2 Final 17:00 hrs Winner semi-final 1 vs winner semi-final 2 Preview: Four hopeful teams meet in Drammen One of the two remaining tickets for the Women s EHF Champions League 2015/16 will be handed out in Drammenshallen in Norway on 13 September. The EHF Champions League winners from 2013 and 2014, Györi Audi ETO KC are seen by most people as the clear favourites, but hosts Glassverket do at least have the home advantage. The winner of the group in Drammen will join Group C of the group matches, where HC Vardar, FC Midtjylland and Hypo Niederösterreich will be awaiting them. GROUP 1 Györi Audi ETO KC (HUN) vs WHC Radnicki Kragujevac (SRB) Having to go through the qualification tournament in order to reach the group stage will be a new experience for Györ who won the tournament in 2013 and again in However, losing the Hungarian championship to their rivals FTC has put Györ in that situation. At least three players in the Györ team are likely to feel at home - the three Norwegian internationals in the Hungarian roster line player Heidi Loke, right back Linn Jorum Sulland and goalkeeper Kari Aalvik Grimsbo. For Györ s opponents from Kragujevac, playing in the qualifiers is no new experience. The Serbian club was in the same situation last year, without making it to the group matches. There is no doubt, that again this year, the Kragujevac team, which consist entirely of Serbian players, except for Bosnian centre back Dejana Kulic will have their hands full against the ambitious Györ team under head coach Ambros Martin. Still, the Györ coach is cautious: The coming weekend will be our FINAL4! We are going to play two important matches in two days, and those matches will determine our season. Therefore we will have to be on form, says Ambros Martin who regrets the absence of injured Gabriella Toth, but who seeks comfort in the return of Anita Görbicz from maternity leave. Glassverket (NOR) vs SERCODAK Dalfsen (NED) While this match will be Glassverket s first European game ever, Dalfsen are well used to European handball, and with the Champions League qualifiers in particular. This is the Dutch champions third attempt at trying to reach the promised land of the group matches, but so far without success. If you ask their coach Peter Portengen, the young Dutch team is not likely to make the cut this year either. We definitely lack the international experience, but of course we hope for a surprise, says Portengen who appears pretty relaxed about his team s position as underdogs. Even if we miss out on qualification, we will play in the (EHF) Cup Winners Cup - and for our young team this is the perfect way to gain experience and learn for the future, he says. 10

11 GROUP 1 Győri Audi ETO KC (HUN) Few had expected at the beginning of the previous season that Győr would have to hand over the Hungarian women s crown to their domestic rivals Ferencváros. Numerous absences took its toll and Ferencváros beat Győr in the last round of the regular season, but the defending champions still held on to home court advantage for the finals. Győr wanted to celebrate the national title at home so they asked to switch the venue of the first game, which was duly played in Budapest, but Ambros Martin s team lost on penalties after a thrilling draw (24:21). Much to their surprise the holders suddenly found themselves in need of fighting for their crown, but Ferencváros gathered momentum and won in Győr 27:25. It was a turbulent summer for the Hungarian powerhouse on the player s market as they said farewell to many players and replaced them the likes of Nycke Groot, Yvette Broch, Eva Kiss or Linn-Jorum Sulland. Past achievements Playing hall AUDI Arena Kiskút liget 9027 Györ Hungary Capacity: 5,000 Club Address: Győri Audi ETO KC Kiskutliget Győr Hungary Media contact: Andrea Szilagyi szilagyi.andrea@gyorietokc.hu Online information: Website: Facebook: Győri-Audi-ETO-KC Women s EHF Champions League Participations (including 2015/16 season): 13 Winners (2): 2012/13, 2013/14 Runners-up (2): 2008/09, 2011/12 Semi-final (4): 2006/07, 2007/08, 2009/10, 2010/11 Quarter-final (1): 2014/15 Group Matches (2): 2000/01, 2005/06 Qualification (1): 2004/05 Other Cup Winners Cup: Runners-up 2005/06, Semi-final 2002/03 EHF Cup: Runners-up 1998/99, 2001/02, 2003/04, 2004/05 Hungarian league: 11 titles (1957, 1959, 2005, 2006, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014) Hungarian cup: 12 titles Kit colours Light Player shirt: white Player short: green Goalkeeper shirt: white/red Dark Player shirt: green/black Player short: green/black Goalkeeper shirt: blue, black 11

12 Győri Audi ETO KC (HUN) Biggest win: 41:22 (21:11) v Hypo Niederösterreich AUT (h), Biggest defeat: 28:39 (12:20) v Spartak Kiev UKR (a), Longest winning run: 13 matches ( ) Longest unbeaten run: 22 matches ( ) Longest losing run: 3 matches ( ) Longest run without win: 4 matches ( ) 4 matches ( ) Most goals: 41 v Hypo Niederösterreich AUT 41:22W (h), Most goals opponent: 39 v Spartak Kiev UKR 39:28L (a), Most goals both teams: 73 v HC Podravka Vegeta CRO 33:40W (a), Fewest goals: 18 v Larvik NOR 18:24L (h), v WHC Vardar SCBT 24:18L (a), Fewest goals opponent: 14 v SD Itxako ESP 14:20W (a), Fewest goals both teams: 34 v SD Itxako ESP 14:20W (a), Women s EHF Champions League record MP W T L GF GA GD PTS Stage 2000/01 Györi Graboplast ETO HUN : th Gr. D 2005/06 Györi ETO Kezilabda Club HUN : rd Gr. D 2006/07 Györi Audi ETO KC HUN : /2-finals 2007/08 Györi Audi ETO HUN : /2-finals 2008/09 Györi Audi ETO KC HUN : Runner-up 2009/10 Györi AUDI ETO KC HUN : /2-finals 2010/11 Györi AUDI ETO KC HUN : /2-finals 2011/12 Györi AUDI ETO KC HUN : Runner-up 2012/13 Györi Audi ETO KC HUN : Winner 2013/14 Györi Audi ETO KC HUN : Winner 2014/15 Györi Audi ETO KC HUN : :7 1/4-finals Total : :76 12

13 Győri Audi ETO KC (HUN) Team roster No. First Name Surname Nat. Position Date of Birth Place of Birth Height 18 Eduarda Idalina Amorim Taleska BRA Left Back Blumenau/BRA Bernadett Bognar-Bodi HUN Right Wing Szeged Yvette Broch NED Line Player Monster/NED Beatrix Elö HUN Right Back Györ Anita Görbicz HUN Centre Back Veszprem Cornelia Nycke Groot NED Centre Back Alkmaar/NED Anette Emma Hudak HUN Left Back Bratislava/SVK Jana Knedlikova CZE Right Wing Praha/CZE Dorina Korsos HUN Left Wing Kecskemét Aniko Kovacsics HUN Centre Back Nagyatad Rita Lakatos HUN Centre Back Dunajska Streda/SVK Luca Linder HUN Line Player Mohacs Heidi Loke NOR Line Player Tonsberg/NOR Szimonetta Planeta HUN Right Back Kazincbarcika Linn Jorum Sulland NOR Right Back Oslo/NOR Zsuzsanna Tomori HUN Left Back Budapest Gabriella Toth HUN Back Berettyóújfalu Adrienn Orban HUN Right Wing Györ Julia Harsfalvi HUN Centre Back Zalaegerszeg Alexa Weninger HUN Goalkeeper Györ Eva Kiss HUN Goalkeeper Debrecen Kari Aalvik Grimsbø NOR Goalkeeper Bergen/NOR 180 Ambros Martín coach born in Lanzarote, Canary Islands joined Győr in 2012 previously coached top Spanish side Estrella Itxako for seven years, winning the EHF Cup in 2009 also eliminating Györ in the semi-final on the way to the CL final in 2010/11 during that spell in his first season with Győr he won their first European trophy EC trophies: CL 2013, 2014, EHF Cup

14 EC trophies: CL 2013, 2014 EURO: B 2012 Kari Aalvik Grimsbø goalkeeper joined Györ from Danish Team Esbjerg during the 2014/15 season, as Croatian Jelena Grubisic, a replacement for pregnant Katrine Lunde, got injured before joining Esbjerg, had a long career in Norwegian Byasen, including a lot of appearances in the CL, the EHF Cup and the Cup Winners Cup an injury in the first match at the EHF EURO 2014 meant that she missed the Norwegian triumph started her career at the age of 5, had her debut for Byasen in the Norwegian league at the age of 17 EC trophies: CL 2013, 2014 EURO: B 2012 Dorina Korsos left wing was only seventeen years old when she made her debut in the CL despite her young age a key player for Ambros Martin playing on the top of the 5+1 defence and her stellar performances have won her an All-star defender title in the 2014/15 season with the absence of Anita Görbicz, Kovacsics plays more in the middle and gives Korsos more time to prove herself on the wing EC trophies: CL 2013, 2014 EURO: B 2012 Aniko Kovacsics left wing/centre back the playmaker was propelled into the starting seven due to the pregnancy of Anita Görbicz in the 2014/15 season the 23-year-old made her CL debut at 16 and is already in her eighth season. also able to play left wing and was deployed in that position by Hungary during EHF EURO 2014 awarded best young player of the 2012/13 CL season EC trophies: Cup Winners Cup: 2011, 2012 EHF EURO: B 2012 Zsuzsanna Tomori left back joined Györ for the second time in her career in the summer of 2015 from arch rivals Ferencvaros previous Hungarian clubs included Dunaferr, Vasas and Győr, but her biggest successes came with FTC, where she won the Cup Winners Cup 2012/13 CL top scorer with 95 goals set to have a bigger role to play at least until Eduarda Amorim fully recovers after an injury Nycke Groot centre back due to injury of Gabi Toth and recovery of Anita Görbicz is expected to have a major share on the playing time at the playmaker s position has had her entire career at top level in Denmark until she joined Györ in the summer of 2015 (started in Team Tvis Holstebro and since 2011 in FC Midtjylland) experienced and inventive playmaker played a particularly big part in FCM reaching the MVM EHF FINAL4, where she became the best scorer (20 goals) player of the year in the Danish league in 2014 Linn-Jørum Sulland right back recent new reinforcement from Larvik, whom she joined in 2009 from league rivals Stabæk in 2005/06 the best player of the domestic league and also was the top scorer reached the 500-goal plateau in the national team top scorer of the European Beach Handball Championship in 2007 Heidi Loke line player World Handball Player of the Year (2011) famous daughter in a big handball family as both of her siblings are professional players and all of them are line players in 2011 she took the title with Larvik as the CL top scorer, and in 2012 she only narrowly missed it with Győr only to achieve it one year later member of the All-Star teams at the London Olympics, 2011 WCh and EHF EURO 2010, 2012 & 2014 EC trophies: CL 2011, 2013, 2014 OG: G 2012, WCh: G 2011, EHF EURO: G 2008, 2010, 2014, S 2012 Bernadett Bognar-Bodi right wing debuted for Györ in the 2002/03 season returned in 2013 after spending time with Randers in Denmark and various Hungarian teams filled up the gap left by Jovanka Radicevic at right wing her personal best in the CL is 30 goals she recorded in the 2014/15 season EC trophies: CL 2011 OG: G 2012, WCh: G 2011, S 2007, EURO: G 2008, 2010, S 2012 EC trophies: CL

15 GROUP 1 Glassverket (NOR) With Larvik maintaining their almost perfect form throughout the previous season, the rest of the league could only have sights on a place in the final against them. Glassverket finished second in the main round and won their semi-finals against Byasen with ease. The first final proved to be a close encounter as Larvik came away with a 28:27 win before cruising to the title in the second leg. Even the final defeat was enough for the Drammen-based club to launch their maiden European campaign. It would really mean a lot to us, but we also realise that it will be extremely difficult, as we will almost certainly have to get past Györ, who are one of the strongest teams in Europe, says head coach Kenneth Gabrielsen. We feel very well prepared for the task. We had a good pre-season phase and a great start to the Norwegian league season, defeating Byasen by 11 goals. I also feel that we have a good knowledge about Dalfsen and I think we have a very good chance to defeat them and reach the final. I am in no doubt, though, that our opponent in the deciding match will be Györ, and this reduces our chances considerably. Of course, we have a very good knowledge of Györ. We know what their Norwegian players, Heidi Loke, Linn Jorum Sulland and Kari Aalvik Grimsbo can do, but Györ have so many other star players such as Amorim, Tomori and others. Past achievements Women s EHF Champions League Participations (including 2015/16 season): 1 Other Playing hall Drammenshallen Knoffsgt Drammen Norway Capacity: 4,000 Club Address: Glassverket Elite Postboks Drammen Norway Media contact: Erik Oie erik.oie@glassverketif.no Norwegian league: 2 titles (1974, 1981) Kit colours Light Player shirt: white Player short: black Goalkeeper shirt: blue Dark Player shirt: purple Player short: white Goalkeeper shirt: black Online information: Website: Facebook: GIF.handball 15

16 Glassverket (NOR) Team roster No. First Name Surname Nat. Position Date of Birth Place of Birth Height 23 Lisa Forsberg Bernhardsen NOR Line Player Fredrikstad, NOR Line Bjoernsen NOR Right Back Stavanger, NOR Kari Brattset NOR Line Player Sarpsborg, NOR Trine Bronsta NOR Back Drammen, NOR Emilie Christensen NOR Centre Back Bergen, NOR Line Ellertsen NOR Back Stavanger, NOR Ane Landaas Hovland NOR Line Player Drammen, NOR Monica Iversen NOR Line Player Drammen, NOR Charlotte Aasbo NOR Left Wing Drammen, NOR Jeanette Kristiansen NOR Left Back Stavanger, NOR Tiril Merg NOR Centre Back Bærum, NOR Pia Christine Narvesen NOR Right Wing Drammen, NOR Kristin Noersteboe NOR Right Back Bærum, NOR Eline Jarlsrud Rikartsen NOR Right Wing Drammen, NOR Sofie Tangen Syvertsen NOR Back Drammen, NOR Hege Bakken Wahlquist NOR Back Lærdal, NOR Martina Thörn SWE Goalkeeper Västeräs, SWE Silje Meese Johanesen NOR Goalkeeper Drammen, NOR Marte Langeli NOR Goalkeeper Drammen, NOR 179 Kenneth Gabrielsen coach coach of Norway s Women s 19 team besides being in charge of Glassverket has been with Glassverket ever since he took them to the promotion into the Norwegian league in the 2011/2012 season awarded Coach of the Year for the 2014/15 season by the players of the Norwegian league. in his playing days, he represented Sandefjord TIF in the Norwegian league and in the EHF Cup. 16

17 Martina Thörn goalkeeper joined Glassverket before the 2015/16 season from the Swedish club Västeras Irsta for her first season outside Sweden after Sissi Karlson left for Bordeaux in France and with Guro Rundbraaten sidelined with a torn cruciate ligament, she became first goalkeeper has 12 junior internationals for Sweden on her CV for some time already, she has been considered one of Sweden s most promising young goalkeepers Hege Bakken Wahlquist left wing played in the clubs Sola and Jotun before joining Glassverket besides playing handball, she is studying to become a nurse even though Luc Abalo plays the opposite wing, the French international is her idol has played 32 internationals all in all for Norwegian youth teams, but so far not senior matches Jeannett Kristiansen left back back in Glassverket since the 2014/15 season after one year in Larvik from a real handball family, her older sister Veronica playing for Danish champions FC Midtjylland and another sister, Charlotte also playing handball played in the left wing position in Larvik, but in Glassverket, coach Kenneth Gabrielsen makes use of her on the left back. has played four internationals for Norway so far Emilie Christensen centre back playing her third season for Glassverket after joining from 1. Division (second league) club Fana with Glassverket, she has got her first league experience and her first time as a professional handball player characterised by experts as one of the most talented female players born in Norway in 1993 still waiting for her chance in Norway s national team, but has played a total of 26 matches for her country in various youth teams Kari Brattset line player joined Glassverket in the summer of 2014 from league colleagues Fredrikstad with her height easy to find for her back court players has played two internationals for Norway so far the upcoming qualification matches for the CL will be her European debut at club level Kristin Noersteboe right back playing her third season with Glassverket after joining from league colleagues Stabaek in the summer of 2013 her greatest international triumph so far was winning silver at the 2010 Women s U21 World Championship with Norway was part of the squad for the national senior team for the test matches against Russia before the start of the 2015/16 season, but without being sent on played ten senior internationals for Norway, though Line Bjornsen right wing/back versatile left handed player who can play the right back as well as the right wing arrived in Glassverket from Stabaek in the summer of 2015 part of the Norwegian team who took silver at the 2010 Junior WCh, together with her new teammates Emilie Christensen and Hege Bakken Wahlquist has played one senior international so far, but no less than 48 internationals in various youth teams Pia Christine Narvesen right wing with Glassverket since 2013 joined the club after a two-year break from handball, partly due to a foot injury has a past career by other Norwegian league clubs Larvik and Flint Tonsberg before her break before her league career, she represented the local clubs Konnerud IL and Drammen 17

18 GROUP 1 SERCODAK Dalfsen (NED) Dalfsen have won the fifth title in their club s history in style last season, beating VOC Amsterdam in the play-off finals twice. With five national titles, they are now the fifth most successful club in the history of Dutch women s handball. The team of head coach Peter Portengen were never troubled in the finals as they cruised to gold. Dalfsen have crowned their incredible season with the title after winning all 18 matches in the regular season prior to the play-offs, including two victories against eventual runners-ups VOC. In the upcoming season the team will look much different as many players such as Kelly Dulfer, Inger Smits (both VfL Oldenburg), Esther Shovel (Nantes Loire Atlantique Handball) and Myrthe Schoenaker (Füchse Berlin) left the club and were replaced by many teenagers who pushed the age average well below 20 years. We are used to be something like a training company. We educate young players, bring them to a high level - and then they leave abroad, mainly to Germany or Denmark. But the situation in the last two years is really tough, as ten of our best players left the club, Portengen is sad, adding: With last season s team we might have had a chance at the Champions League qualification tournament, but not with our current squad. Past achievements Women s EHF Champions League Participations (including 2015/16 season): 5 Qualification (3): 2011/12, 2012/13, 2013/14, 2014/15 Playing hall Topsportcentrum IISPA Almelo Stadionlaan JZ Almelo Netherlands Capacity: 1,700 Club address: SERCODAK Dalfsen To: R. Cloo Ossenkamp 2a 8024 AE Zwolle Netherlands Media contact: Rene Cloo info@sercodakdalfsen.nl Online information: Facebook: SercodakDalfsenHandbal Twitter: SercodakDalfsen Other Challenge Cup: Quarter-final 2009/10, Last /11 Dutch league: 5 titles (2011, 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015) Dutch cup winners: 4 titles Kit colours Light Player shirt: red Player short: black Goalkeeper shirt: black Dark Player shirt: black Player short: black Goalkeeper shirt: blue 18

19 SERCODAK Dalfsen (NED) Team roster No. First Name Surname Nat. Position Date of Birth Place of Birth Height 14 Nienke De Wild NED Right Back Diemen, NED Astrid Holstad NOR Right Back Trondheim, NOR Jill Huizing NED Left Back Assen, NED Josien Klarenbeek NED Left Wing Bathmen Jill Kooij NED Line Player Oostzaan, NED Fabienne Logtenberg NED Line Player Deventer, NED Michelle Mennink NED Left Wing Zwolle, NED Yara Maria Nijboer NED Right Back Deventer, NED Larissa Nusser NED Back Sittard, NED Lisa Oosterwijk NED Left Back Deventer, NED Ana Pavkovic NED Right Back Rotterdam, NED Fenne Rijks NED Right Back Venray, NED Alineke Ros NED Left Wing Tilburg, NED Jolanda Schutte NED Right Back Wijhe, NED Angela Steenbakkers NED Left Wing Venlo, NED Tess Van Buren NED Centre Back Dordrecht, NED Roos Van Leeuwen NED Back Amsterdam, NED Britte Wilmink NED Line Player Dalfsen, NED Kristy Zimmerman NED Goalkeeper Willemstad, NED Janneke Vandewall NED Goalkeeper Meerssen, NED Yara ten Holte NED Goalkeeper Amsterdam, NED 175 Peter Portengen coach was a player for several Dutch clubs such as Emmen or Lions in his active career played 128 international matches for the Dutch national team was coach of the men s team of Volendam for eleven years, before he joined Dalfsen s women s team in 2011 assistant coach of the Dutch women s national team and U20 national team, at the side of Henk Groener, who was his coach in Emmen before just extended his contract for one more year 19

20 Kristy Zimmerman goalkeeper played in the youth teams of Kwiek Ralte and HV DOS, before she joined Dalfsen part of all Dutch younger age category national teams one of the biggest talents in Dutch handball and is supposed to be one of the next players to leave abroad famous for her spectacular saves and high-speed reflexes Angela Steenbakkers left wing played for Venlo before she joined Dalfsen had her debut in the Dutch national team in 2014 might get the chance to play her first big tournament with the national team in 2015 or 2016 had gone through all youth teams in the Netherlands one of the best counter attack specialists in her team Roos van Leeuwen left back had her first European Cup appearance at the age of 16 with Dalfsen three-time Dutch champion despite her age of 18 should replace two former top stars Myrthe Schoenaker (left for Berlin) or Inger Smits (now Oldenburg) played only in defence before - on club level and the U20 national team - but should get more space in attack too Larissa Nusser left back can have her international debut in the qualification tournament in Drammen at the age of 15 was even too young to be part of the Dutch U17 team at the EURO in FYR Macedonia, but will be integrated in that team soon biggest back court talent in Dutch handball one of three 15-year-old players in Dalfsen like other young players lives in a hotel, as she is 150 kilometres from home Tess van Buren centre back started her career at Quintus, including two European Cup appearances in the Cup Winners Cup and Challenge Cup, before she joined Dalfsen in 2014 should fill the void after the playmaker Kelly Dulfer left to German side Oldenburg very valuable in the Dalfsen defence, famous for her steals has to take the full responsibility in organising the attack despite her age of 19 Fabienne Logtenberg line player by far oldest and most experienced player of the squad - at the age of 23 plays already her seventh international season for Dalfsen (Challenge Cup, Cup Winners Cup, CL qualification) boss of Dalfsen s defence and a powerful line player in attack part of the Dutch national team Nienke de Wild right back successor of Dutch international Debbie Bont (now Kobenhavn) on the right back position in contrast to Bont, who often plays on the right wing, is a much taller shooter with a hammer shot had her first appearance in European Cup competitions in 2012, when playing for VOC Amsterdam transferred to Dalfsen in 2014 with 189 cm the tallest player of the team Ana Pavkovic right wing has Croatian roots, but played handball only in the Netherlands, where she lives since her early childhood has 38 matches for the Dutch Youth and Junior national team on her tally the fastest player of the Dalfsen squad joined Dalfsen in 2013 and had her first European Cup match at the age of 18 20

21 GROUP 1 WHC Radnicki Kragujevac (SRB) ZRK Radnicki Kragujevac took no prisoners in their title defence campaign last season, as they went on a hot streak of 21 matches without defeat in Serbian Championship. A last round slump in Novi Sad against Minaqua (34:35) did not overshadow the dominance displayed by the Tigresses, winning 13 of their 22 matches played by double-digits. Young Serbian national team right back Andjela Janjusevic led the way for Radnicki, with excellent efficiency displayed when needed the most. The cup final win against the biggest rivals ZORK Jagodina (26:18) exemplified the effectiveness of a blend of youth and experience in a team coached by Aleksandar Radosavljevic. Last year Kragujevac sprang a surprise by eliminating FC Midtjylland in the semi-final of the qualification tournament on the home court, but failed in the final against Podravka. This time around their chances are even smaller as they travel to Norway with a squad which players have just 18,95 years on averge. Past achievements Women s EHF Champions League Participations (including 2015/16 season): 2 Qualification (1): 2014/15 Playing hall Sport Centar Mladost Jezero Grada Sirena Kragujevac Serbia Capacity: 1,100 Other Cup Winners Cup: Last /15 EHF Cup: Last /13 Serbian league: 2 titles (2014, 2015) Serbian cup: 3 titles Club address: WHC Radnicki Kragujevac Grada Sirena Kragujevac Serbia Media contact: Goran Stanisic predsednik@zrkradnicki.org Online information: Facebook: zrkradnicki.kragujevac Kit colours Light Player shirt: red Player short: red Goalkeeper shirt: yellow Dark Player shirt: black Player short: black Goalkeeper shirt: purple 21

22 WHC Radnicki Kragujevac (SRB) Team roster No. First Name Surname Nat. Position Date of Birth Place of Birth Height 8 Marta Begovic SRB Back Kragujevac, SRB Jovana Dukic SRB Line Player Beograd, SRB Andjela Janjusevic SRB Right Back Beograd, SRB Dejana Kulic BIH Centre Back Sokolac, BIH Vanja Lukic SRB Line Player Beograd, SRB Ksenija Petrovic SRB Right Wing Beograd, SRB Ivana Prijovic SRB Centre Back Sabac, SRB Nevena Radosavljevic SRB Centre Back Kragujevac, SRB Sanja Radosavljevic SRB Left Wing Pancevo, SRB Sandra Radovic SRB Left Back Beograd, SRB Tijana Ristic SRB Line Player Kragujevac, SRB Sanja Simic SRB Left Back Kragujevac, SRB Katarina Stepanovic SRB Left Back Arandjelovac, SRB Ana Stojkovic SRB Right Wing Kragujevac, SRB Marijana Tanic SRB Centre Back Beograd, SRB Marija Todorovic SRB Left Back Beograd, SRB Milica Veljkovic SRB Left Wing Kragujevac, SRB Anastasija Vlaskovic SRB Back Kragujevac, SRB Tijana Cosic SRB Goalkeeper Kragujevac, SRB Jovana Risovic SRB Goalkeeper Beograd, SRB Mina Stajkovic SRB Goalkeeper Beograd, SRB 166 Aleksandar Radosavljevic coach won the double (Serbian league and cup title) in 2013/14, his first season with WHC Radnicki successfully defended the double with Radnicki in 2014/15 started as a men s coach in RK Metalac and RK Zajecar, before starting the women s coach career at HC BMS Milenium Serbian (men s) cup finalist with RK Zajecar made it to Challenge Cup Quarter-final in 2013/14 season with HC BMS Milenium 22

23 Jovana Risovic goalkeeper started playing handball as a left wing current Serbia national team first-choice goalkeeper, having made a debut at the EHF EURO 2012 aged 19, also has scored two goals for Serbia voted the best player of the Serbian league for two seasons in 2012 and 2013 gold-medallist from the Mediterranean Games in 2013 and won a bronze medal at the Universiade 2015 in Gwangju Sanja Radosavljevic left wing current Serbia national team member went trough all youth ranks of Serbian national team born in Pancevo in 1994, Radosavljevic is playing her fifth season for Radnicki studying law at the University of Kragujevac has a bronze medal won at the Universiade2015 in Gwangju WCh: S 2013 Sanja Simic left back 2015/16 is her debut season in Radnicki shirt left her childhood club RK Svijajnac for the prospect of playing in the CL with Radnicki bronze-medallist at the Universiade 2015 in Gwangju equally adept playing both left and centre back positions Joining fellow Serbian under-19 national team teammates Sanja Radisavljevic and Andjela Janjusevic at Radnicki Ivana Prijovic centre back 2015/16 is her fifth EC season scored 46 goals in total in EHF Cup, Challenge Cup and Cup Winners Cup starting her third season with the club made her Serbia national team debut in 2015 opted to stay in Radnicki for another season to help the team win the CL berth won bronze medal at the Universiade 2015 in Gwngju Katarina Stepanovic left back current Serbia national team member, having made a debut in 2013, EHF EURO 2014 was her first competition with Serbia born in Arandjelovac in 1985, where she made first handballing steps at ZRK Knjaz Milos, but joined bitter rivals ZRK Radnicki in 2012 has CL experience, having played in the Group Matches in 2005/06, scored 109 goals in all European club competitions sister to Ana Vojcic (former Buducnost, Aalborg and Serbia national team goalkeeper) Dejana Kulic centre back current Bosnia Herzegovina under-19 national team member 2015/16 is her debut season for WHC Radnicki and in any EHF club competition Bosnian cup best scorer in 2014/15 was a major factor for her former team RK Rogatica to win promotion to Bosnian top-tier competition Jovana Dukic line player made her first handball steps playing for ZRK Zemun, winning promotion to the Super League before leaving the club played in the Challenge Cup Last 16 with Max Sport Nova Pazova, scoring 13 goals in 2013/14 tipped to replace the retired club legend Biljana Balac this season current Serbia junior (under-19) national team member 2015/16 is her second season in Kragujevac, having won the Serbian champions title with RK Radnicki in 2014/15 Andjela Janjusevic right back current Serbia national team member started handball career playing for local ZRK Vozdovac 1955, where she won over 28 medals in various youth club competitions voted Serbian league s best player for 2014/15 season by Sportski Zurnal newspaper has a bronze medal won at the Universiade 2015 in Gwangju 23

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25 Qualification Group 2 Qualification Group 2 Team Esbjerg (DEN) HCM Baia Ma re (ROU) HC BNTU BelAz Minsk (BLR) Ankara Yenimahalle BSK (TUR) Group A Larvik (NOR) RK Krim Mercator (SLO) Rostov-Don (RUS) Winner QT 2 Playing hall Sala Polivalenta Lascar Pana Bd. Unirii Nr.14 A Baia Mare - Maramures Romania Capacity: 2,080 2 nd ranked team - Cup Winners Cup, Round 3 vs Winner of R2: Skuru IK (SWE)/Ardesen GSK (TUR) 3 rd ranked team - Cup Winners Cup, Round 3 vs Winner of R2: 4./2 CL QT/SSV Dornbirn (AUT) 4 th ranked team - Cup Winners Cup, Round 2 vs SSV Dornbirn Schoren (AUT) Match schedule (all times local) Saturday, 12 September 2015: Semi-finals 1 13:30 hrs Team Esbjerg vs. Ankara Yenimahalle BSK 2 16:00 hrs HCM Baia Mare vs HC BNTU BelAz Minsk Sunday, 13 September 2015: 3rd place match 14:00 hrs Loser semi-final 1 vs loser semi-final 2 Final 16:30 hrs Winner semi-final 1 vs winner semi-final 2 Preview: Another Danish exam for Baia Mare While Györi Audi ETO KC seem to be the clear favorite to proceed to the Group Matches from Group 1 of the qualification tournament, the other group is an unpredictable one. In a packed Lascar Pana venue, the hosts, HCM Baia Mare, Team Esbjerg from Denmark, Ankara Yenimahalle BSK from Turkey, and the Belarusian champions, BNTU BelAZ Minsk Region, will fight for one ticket to the Group Phase with Larvik HK, RK Krim Mercator and Rostov-Don. GROUP 2 Team Esbjerg (DEN) vs Ankara Yenimahalle BSK (TUR) The Danish powerhouse endured an agonising loss in last season s local championship final, after a 22:23 loss and a 22:22 draw against FC Midtjylland. But the Danish insist last season s woes are behind them, as they embark on their first ever EHF Women s Champions League game. Their opponent, Ankara Yenimahalle BSK, is also a fresh face in Europe s top flight competition, but they come with an experienced line-up: Croatian right wing Anita Gace, Polish goalkeeper Anna Wysokinska and Women s EHF Champions League finalist Yeliz Ozel. However, Esbjerg will be the clear favourite with Estavana Polman in superb form. The Dutch back scored 22 goals in her team s first three official matches and will look to add to her tally in Baia Mare. HCM Baia Mare (ROU) vs BNTU-BelAZ Minsk Region (BLR) Two seasons ago, Baia Mare shocked Danish handball by qualifying after beating against Viborg HK and Team Tvis Holstebro. The connection between that performance and 2015 is home advantage and the vocal home crowd of Baia Mare. But before the Romanians could possibly meet another Danish team in a qualifying tournament final, Aurelian Rosca s team have to overcome BNTU BelAZ Minsk Region. However, the pressure is on the Romanian side: Our main focus is on Saturday against Minsk. The only goal for us is to qualify for the Group Phase. Anything less will be disappointing. That doesn t mean it is going to be easy. It will be very tough but we will give everything to qualify in front of our own fans, said Lois Abbingh, Baia Mare s left back. It s Baia Mare s qualification to lose, after a flurry of changes that have seen huge changes in their roster. In the coaching department, Aurelian Rosca replaced Tone Tiselj, while several important players like Barbara Arenhart, Ekaterina Davydenko, Ksenia Makeeva, Anastasia Lobach and Camilla Herrem have all left the team. French star Allison Pineau, Croatian line-player Katarina Jezic, promising Romanian back Gabriela Perianu, experinced goalkeeper Ionica Munteanu and defensive specialist Gabriela Preda have bolstered Baia Mare s squad. This Romanian side is seeking their third consecutive qualification to the group stage. 25

26 GROUP 2 Team Esbjerg (DEN) In the previous season having won the regular season by one point ahead of FC Midtjylland, Esbjerg went into the playoffs in a confident mood. Two one-goal wins against reigning champions Viborg in the semi-finals set up a tense final clash with Midtjylland. Despite holding a five-goal lead ten minutes before the final whistle, Midtjylland only managed to land a 23:22 win in the first leg. The final debutants from Esbjerg, though, did not manage to benefit from the narrow difference in the second leg in front of more than 3,000 spectators in the Blue Water Dokken and they had to be content with silver after a 22:22 draw. Team Esbjerg has already celebrated European success in the recent past. In 2014, they reached the EHF Cup final but came up short against Lada. However, there is something much bigger on this line this weekend in Qualification Tournament 2, held in Romania, where home team HCM Baia Mare take on BNTU-BelAZ Minsk Region and Team Esbjerg take on Ankara Yenimahalle BSK in the semi-finals. With a super cup and league win against last season s champions FC Midtjylland, Team Esbjerg has had a perfect start to the season in the Danish league, and the Dutch back has great confidence in the team. We feel good right now and we play like a team. There are some details to improve on, but I think the weekend in Baia Mare will be great and I hope we will have a lot of fun, says Polman. Home side and potential opponents in the final Baia Mare are familiar foes to the new Esbjerg goalkeeper Filippa Idehn. Last season she played against the Romanian side in the main round with her former club IK Sävehof. They have lost some of their players since I played against them last season, but they are still a really good team. Playing on their home court will be very hard. You can barely hear yourself speak down there, so we need to prepare for the noise from the crowd, because they will do everything they can in order to make us lose the match, the Swedish goalkeeper says. Past achievements Women s EHF Champions League Participations (including 2015/16 season): 1 Playing hall Blue Water Dokken Gl. Vardevej Esbjerg Denmark Capacity: 2,949 Club Address: Team Esbjerg Gammel Vardevej Esbjerg Denmark Media contact: Per Kristiansen pk@teamesbjerg.dk Other EHF Cup: runners-up 2013/14, quarterfinal 2010/11, 2014/15 Cup Winners Cup: Last /13 Danish league: - runners-up (2015) Kit colours Light Player shirt: white Player short: black Goalkeeper shirt: green Dark Player shirt: red Player short: black Goalkeeper shirt: blue Online information: Website: Facebook: TeamEsbjergDameHandboldligaen 26

27 Team Esbjerg (DEN) Team roster No. First Name Surname Nat. Position Date of Birth Place of Birth Height 15 Jenny Alm SWE Left Back Uddevalla, SWE Susanne Kastrup Forslund DEN Left Wing Luxembourg, LUX Lotte Grigel DEN Centre Back Esbjerg, DEN Ida Björndalen Karlsson NOR Right Back Sarpsborg, NOR Maibritt Kviesgaard DEN Right Wing Århus, DEN Stine Bodholt Nielsen DEN Line Player Aabenraa, DEN Estavana Polman NED Left Back Arnhem, NED Betina Riegelhuth NOR Left Back Oslo, NOR Tove Elise Seest DEN Right Wing Tørring-Uldum, DEN Laura Van der Heijden NED Right Back Amersfoort, NED Maria Mose Vestergaard DEN Left Wing Esbjerg, DEN Rikke Riber Zachariassen DEN Line Player Nørre-Rangstrup, DEN Emily Stang Sando NOR Goalkeeper Tønsberg, NOR Filippa Idéhn SWE Goalkeeper Jönköping, SWE 183 Lars Frederiksen coach has been with Team Esbjerg since 2011, when he joined from league colleagues and local rivals KIF Vejen recently extended his contract with the club until 2017 in his playing days, he was an uncompromising defender and solid playmaker by KIF Kolding, with whom he won several Danish championships his greatest achievement as a coach so far have been taking KIF Vejen to the Cup Winners Cup final in the 2009/10 season and Team Esbjerg to the EHF Cup final in the 2013/14 season as well as to the Danish Championship final last season kite surfing is his way of relaxing and taking off the stress between matches 27

28 Emily Stang Sando goalkeeper joined Esbjerg from Norwegian league club Flint Tonsberg in the summer of 2013 and extended her contract with the club until the summer of 2017 promoted into first-choice keeper at the middle of the 2014/15 season, as her Norwegian teammates Kari Aalvik Grimsbo left for Györ before the EHF EURO 2014 formed a duo with Silje Solberg in the national team, due to Katirne Lunde s pregnancy and Grimsbo s injury Susanne Kastrup Forslund left wing joined Team Esbjerg from league rivals and neighbours KIF Vejen in 2013 born in Luxembourg by Danish parents, moved to Denmark at the age of nine played 32 internationals for Denmark, but has not been called up for the national team in recent years married to former league player by KIF Kolding Mads Forslund EHF EURO: G 2014 Estevana Polman left back with Laura Van Der Heijden forms a Dutch international duo in the back court line by Esbjerg arrived in 2013 from league colleagues SonderjyskE, before coming to Denmark, she represented the Dutch top club VOC Amsterdam likes it so much in Esbjerg that she turned down several foreign clubs in the winter of 2015 to extend her contract with Esbjerg for another year Betina Riegelhuth left back joined Esbjerg from Norwegian club Storhamar on a two-year contract in the summer of 2015 for a long time mainly known as the younger sister of Linn Kristin Riegelhuth, but in recent years, has really stepped out of her sister s shadow apart from Storhamar also represented Skien, Njard and Baekkelaget played 33 internationals for Norway so far EHF EURO: G 2014 Lotte Grigel centre back played in Esbjerg her entire handball life, having started her career in Kvik Esbjerg, one of the mother clubs of Team Esbjerg had her debut in the Danish national teams already at the age of 17 a knee injury meant that she missed Denmark s only medal triumph within the last ten years, the bronze at the 2013 WCh in Serbia in keen competition for the playmaker position with Swedish Jenny Alm who joined from Sävehof Stine Bodholt Nielsen line player in for her second season by Esbjerg, having joined from league rivals Skive FH in the summer of 2014 originally a product of the talent factory of Viborg HK, from whom she joined nearby Skive her twin sister Sidsel also plays handball and was also representing Skive until this summer, when she joined Viborg had her debut in the Danish national team in 2014 and has represented her country six times this far Laura Van Der Heijden right back came to Esbjerg from German Bundesliga side VfL Oldenburg in 2014 has also represented the clubs LHV Leusden, Venus Nieuwegein and VOC Amsterdam in her homeland, the Netherlands had her debut in the Dutch national team already at the age of 17 and played over 120 internationals with her 172 cm, not among the tallest back court players, but she compensates with her intelligence, her variety of shots and her ability to break through the opponents defence WCh: B 2013 Maibritt Kviesgaard right wing joined Esbjerg from FC Midtjylland in the summer of 2013 tore her anterior cruciate ligament at the 2011 WCh in Brazil, but came back from that long injury break as strong as before has played 103 internationals for Denmark, scoring 216 goals combining handball at top level with studying to become a physiotherapist 28

29 GROUP 2 HCM Baia Mare (ROU) Last season Baia Mare finished the regular season just ahead of CSM Buchuresti after both sides lost just two matches from 26. There was no stopping the Women s EHF Champions League Quarter-finalists in the playoffs, before they met CSM Buchuresti in the final and suffered two narrow defeats. After being granted an additional place, Baia Mare will have to make their way through qualification this season. For 53 years, HCM Baia Mare have never played in the European top flight. However, Oltchim Ramnicu Valcea s demise in 2013 meant that Romania had witnessed an important change and Baia Mare were ready to step up to the next level. The lessons were there to be learned it the first two seasons in the Champions League, but Baia Mare enjoyed a bright start to the competition, coming just short of the FINAL4 in Budapest last season, after a tough battle with Dinamo-Sinara in the quarter-finals. But the main topic of the summer in Baia Mare has been change. After the team lost the Romanian title to CSM Bucuresti, the management decided that coach Tone Tiselj was surplus to requirements. Aurelian Rosca, the former Oltchim assistant coach and the man who led Romania s U18 team to the gold medal in the Youth World Championship in 2014, was the chosen replacement. After five official games with Rosca, Baia Mare has yet to lose. The most impressive win was in the Romanian Supercup, 31:25, against CSM Bucuresti, on the champions home court. Rosca wanted to change our playing style into a faster one. We have some great and especially fast players and this can be our advantage. Personally I like this style of handball a lot, said left back Lois Abbingh. Past achievements Women s EHF Champions League Participations (including 2015/16 season): 3 Quarter-final (1): 2014/15 Group matches (1): 2013/14 Playing hall Sala Polivalenta Lascar Pana Bd. Unirii Nr.14 A Baia Mare - Maramures Romania Capacity: 2,080 Other Challenge Cup: runners-up 2002/03 Romanian league: 1 title (2014) Romanian cup: 3 titles Club Address: HCM Baia Mare BD.Bucuresti Nr. 47 A Baia Mare Romania Media contact: Ramona Ioana Pop meramonaioana@gmail.com Online information: Website: Facebook: hcm.baiamare.official Kit colours Light Player shirt: red Player short: red Goalkeeper shirt: black Dark Player shirt: white Player short: black Goalkeeper shirt: green 29

30 HCM Baia Mare (ROU) Biggest win: 34:24 (18:12) v IK Sävehof SWE(h), :22 (17:11) v Viborg HK A/S DEN (h), Biggest defeat: 21:33 (10:16) v Györi Audi ETO KC HUN (h), Longest winning run: 2 matches ( ) 2 matches ( ) Longest unbeaten run: 2 matches ( ) 2 matches ( ) Longest losing run: 3 matches ( ) Longest run without win: 3 matches ( ) Most goals: 34 v IK Sävehof SWE 34:24W (h), Most goals opponent: 36 v Thüringer HC GER 36:29L (a), Most goals both teams: 65 v Thüringer HC GER 36:29L (a), Fewest goals: 18 v Györi Audi ETO KC 18:26L (h), Fewest goals opponent: 19 v Thüringer HC GER 20:19W (h), Fewest goals both teams: 39 v Thüringer HC GER 20:19W (h), Women s EHF Champions League record MP W T L GF GA GD PTS Stage 2013/14 HCM Baia Mare ROU : :8 4th Gr. A 2014/15 HCM Baia Mare ROU : :14 1/4-finals Total : :22 30

31 HCM Baia Mare (ROU) Team roster No. First Name Surname Nat. Position Date of Birth Place of Birth Height 10 Lois Abbingh NED Centre Back Groningen, NED Valentina Neli Ardean Elisei ROU Left Wing Focsani, ROU Alexandra L. Ciunt ROU Left Back Simisna, ROU Alexandra Priscilla Do Nascimento BRA Right Wing Sao Paulo, BRA Melinda Geiger ROU Right Back Baia Mare, ROU Elena Gjeorgjievska MKD Right Back Struga, MKD Katarina Jezic CRO Line Player Rijeka, CRO Andrada Maior Pasca ROU Left Wing Baia Mare, ROU Luciana Andreea Marin ROU Centre Back Slatina, ROU Adriana Nicoleta Nechita ROU Right Wing Bailesti, ROU Ioana Laura Oltean ROU Centre Back Bistrita, ROU Gabriela Perianu ROU Left Back Braila, ROU Allison Marie Pineau FRA Centre Back Chartres, FRA Aneta Pirvut ROU Right Wing Dr. Severin, ROU Gabriela Preda ROU Left Back Tirgu Neamt, ROU Ibolya Gabriella Szucs HUN Left Back Oradea, ROU Ana-Maria Tanasie ROU Left Wing Hunedoara, ROU Timea Judita Tatar ROU Line Player Baia Mare, ROU Bianca Elena Tiron ROU Left Back Iasi, ROU Andrada Cynthia Tomescu ROU Line Player Baia Mare, ROU Patricia Maria Vizitiu ROU Right Back Petrosani, ROU Madalina Maria Zamfirescu ROU Centre Back Rm. Valcea, ROU Yuliya Dumanska ROU Goalkeeper Gorodenka, UKR Ionica Munteanu ROU Goalkeeper Bucharest, ROU Paula Claudia Ungureanu ROU Goalkeeper Brasov, ROU 181 Aurelian Rosca coach first started handball as a player, but retired at only 21 years old to focus on coaching before an important game, he stays up all night to thoroughly explore the opponent s weaknesses considered one of the best youth coaches in the history of Romanian handball, with gold medals with the Under18 team in EURO 1999 and WCh 2014 has been an assistant coach at Oltchim Ramnicu Valcea from 2009 to

32 Paula Ungureanu goalkeeper twice named the best handball player in Romania, in 2012 and 2014 after Luminita Hutupan s retirement in 2009, she became Romania s first choice in the goal after a ligament tear in 2010 she has taken a twoyear hiatus and had a baby, Paul, in January 2012 her husband is a football player, also a goalkeeper, and has followed Paula almost everywhere she played Valentina Elisei left wing one of the most experienced players in Baia Mare s roster after a ligament tear, made a one-year break from handball and had a baby, Robert, in January 2013 signed only two weeks after the birth will split her duties with Norwegian ace Camilla Herrem, who came to Baia Mare in the 2014 summer, from Byasen Trondheim WCh: S 2005, EHF EURO: B 2010 EC trophies: Cup Winners Cup 2007, Champions Trophy 2007, Challenge Cup 2002 WCh: S 2005, EHF EURO: B 2010 Lois Abbingh left back played four years at German side VfL Oldenburg ( ) before she transferred to Baia Mare last summer made her comeback on the court after an eightmonth injury break in January 2015 top scorer and member of the All-star team at the 2010 U18 World Championship and top scorer of the 2011 U19 EHF EURO with the Netherlands top scorer of the Dutch league in the 2009/10 season at the age of only 18 WCh: S 2009, 2011, EHF EURO: B 2010 Allison Pineau centre back French star has been named the World Player of the Year in 2012 suffered two knee injuries, but came back more powerful than before a social-media addict, she has a page on which she posts on a daily basis and has over 43,000 fans After leaving Oltchim in 2013, she changed three clubs Vardar Skopje, Krim Ljubljana and HBC Nimes Katarina Jezic line player joined Baia Mare in the summer of 2015 after stints with Lokomotiva Zagreb and Buducnost the Croatian player has represented her country at all age categories first taken up swimming, but she decided that handball was her big passion first started wearing the mohawk when she was 14, spends 20 minutes a day for her hairstyle and uses a lot of gel EHF EURO: B 2010 Melinda Geiger right back most expensive Romanian player ever, after Oltchim paid euros to Baia Mare in 2010 her favourite movie is The Notebook, while she doesn t miss any movie that features Bruce Willis her models in handball are Bojana Radulovics and Gro Hammerseng after only three years of handball, she was featuring in Baia Mare s roster at 16 years of age Adriana Nechita right back one of the most experienced players in the team her passion is photography and modeling, acted as a reporter for different Romanian TV stations followed by nearly 7,000 people on her official Facebook account shares the position with Brazilian stalwart Alexandra do Nascimento Alexandra do Nascimento right wing after 11 seasons played for Hypo she took a new challenge and accepted Baia Mare s offer in World Handball Player of the Year with over 500 goals scored over 13 seasons one of the top scorers of the CL history her husband, the Chilean right wing Patricio Martinez, followed her to Baia Mare and plays for the men s team EC trophies: Cup Winners Cup 2007, Champions Trophy 2007 EHF EURO: B 2010 EC trophies: Cup Winners Cup 2013 WCh: G 2013, Panamerican Games: G 2003, 2007,

33 GROUP 2 HC BNTU-BelAz Minsk (BLR) Belarus perennial champion left their rivals no chance for surprises, earning the national title for the 22nd time last season. Only once in the history of Belarusian handball BNTZ BelAZ failed to win gold, losing the final against Gorodnichanka in Some of their best players leaving the club every summer to seek happiness elsewhere, does not keep the Minsk region club from collecting national trophies. The team of Kanstantin Sharavarou predictably took the first place in the regular season. In the semi-finals against HC Berestie, two victories was all they needed to proceed to the next round. After winning twice in the final, they gave their opponents HC Gomel some hope losing the third match 18:24 at home. But in the fourth game in Gomel, BNTU BelAZ showed great moral and therefore celebrated a 25:22 victory. During the summer they bolstered their squad by Liliya Artsiukhovich who returned after three years spent in Astrkhanochka, Zvezda, Baia Mare and Krim Ljubljana and by Russian player Natalyia Danshina who came from Dinamo-Sinara and played at the MVM EHF FINAL4 in Budapest last May. Past achievements Playing hall Sportshall Victoria Leningradskaya Brest Belarus Capacity: 3,500 Club address: BNTU-BelAZ Minsk Region B. Khmelnitsky Street 9 Office Minsk Belarus Media contact: Valeryia Miklashevich hc.bntu@tut.by Women s EHF Champions League Participations (including 2015/16 season): 17 Last 16 (2): 1993/94, 1995/96 Last 32 (5): 1994/95, 1996/97, 1997/98, 1998/99, 1999/00 Qualification (8): 2000/01, 2001/02, 2002/03, 2003/04, 2005/06, 2006/07, 2007/08, 2014/15 Other EHF Cup: Round /01 Belarusian league: 22 titles (1993, 1994, 1995, 1996, 1997, 1998, 1999, 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015) Belarusian cup winners: 7 titles under current name Kit colours Light Player shirt: white Player short: white/black Goalkeeper shirt: black/white Dark Player shirt: red Player short: black/white Goalkeeper shirt: yellow/blue 33

34 HC BNTU-BelAz Minsk (BLR) Team roster No. First Name Surname Nat. Position Date of Birth Place of Birth Height 11 Liliya Artsiukhovich BLR Left Back Minsk, BLR Deborah Nkeiruka Arukwe BLR Centre Back Kharkov, UKR Nataliya Danshina RUS Right Back Voljski, RUS Katsiaryna Drazdova BLR Centre Back Naberejnye Chelny, BLR Anastasiya Hrakhouskaya BLR Centre Back Lepel, BLR Valeriya Hutava BLR Line Player Vitebsk, BLR Maryia Kanaval BLR Left Back Rogachev, BLR Regina Kudriavceva RUS Left Wing Pikaleva, RUS Alena Kulik BLR Left Wing Gomel, BLR Anastasiya Mazgo BLR Left Back Lepel, BLR Khrystyna Ozolina UKR Right Wing Vinnica, UKR Natallia Platanovich BLR Line Player Oshmiany, BLR Tatsiana Rudkouskaya BLR Right Wing Bobruisk, BLR Natalia Sakalouskaya BLR Left Back Sluck, BLR Katsiaryna Silitskaya BLR Right Back Slutsk, BLR Hanna Sukhamirava BLR Centre Back Slutsk, BLR Volha Nikitina BLR Goalkeeper Belinichi, BLR Yuliya Shut BLR Goalkeeper Gancevichi, BLR Alesya Safonova BLR Goalkeeper Minsk, BLR 183 Kanstantsin Sharavarau coach has been coaching BNTU BelAz since 2004 and led the team to ten titles on the national champion in , was also the head coach of Belarus women s national team born in Minsk, he was a prominent player of SKA Minsk in the eighties, having won five titles of the USSR champion as well as three European Champions Cups, the Cup Winners Cup and the Supercup of Europe also played for the USSR national team and became an Olympic champion in Seoul EC: Champions Cup 1987, 1989, 1990, Cup Winners Cup 1988 (as player) OG: G 1988, WCh: S 1990 (as player) 34

35 Volha Nikitina goalkeeper considered to be a rising star of BNTU BelAz and Belarusian handball in general the first-choice goalkeeper of Belarus national team at the 2015 Women s 19 EHF EURO in Spain already called up for the senior Belarus team by the head coach Tomaz Cater enjoys playing volleyball in her free time, especially in summer Alena Kulik left wing at 36, the veteran of BNTU BelAz still has a good speed, and her fast breaks are a threat to any opponent in the past, she has played 75 matches for the Belarus national team can successfully perform both on left and right wings at school she was successful in both handball and fencing, but eventually had to pick one sport out of the two, and concentrated on handball Liliya Arstiukhovich left back experienced player who has been an important part of Belarus national team for many years physically strong and powerful with an excellent shot came back to BNTU BelAz after a five-year spell abroad, during which she played in Russia, Romania and Slovenia at the CL qualification, she is going to face her ex-club HCM Baia Mare, and if BNTU advance to the group, one of their rivals will be RK Krim Mercator, a team where she actually spent the 2015/16 season Hanna Sukhamirava centre back has spent all her career in BNTU BelAz where she starts her 16th season and has won the Belarusian league as many as 14 times had some offers from abroad in the past but had to turn them down because of recurrent injuries which have marred her career natural leader on and off the court, an intellectual person who has an engineer s diploma universal player who can perform both as a playmaker and a line player Natallia Platanovich line player one of the most experienced players of the Belarusian handball moved to BNTU BelAz in 2013 from Gorodnichanka where she had spent the most part of her career at a younger age, she also spent some time in Russia where she tried her luck at Zvezda Zvenigorod plays very well in defence and does a great amount of work on the court in general Natalya Danshina right back starts her first season in BNTU BelAz and is probably the most prominent summer signing of the team was one of the leaders at Dinamo Volgograd but left in the summer of 2015 together with a few other key players following the financial problems had lucrative offers from other Russian teams as well as from abroad but opted to move to Belarus won a gold medal at the Junior WCh in 2013 Katsiaryna Silitskaya right back spend the pre-season preparation with Lada Togliatti but failed to sign a contract because her style was not suitable for the Russian team just signed a new one-year contract with BNTU BelAz where she has been playing since 2009 best right back of the Belarusian league in the 2014/15 season born in Slutsk but moved to Minsk sports academy at the age of 16 Khrystyna Ozolina right wing moved to BNTU BelAz in the summer of 2015 from Gorodnichanka where she had played for five seasons gradually becoming one of the leaders fast left-handed player with a good jump and powerful shot born and raised in Vinnica, Ukraine but is planning to get a Belarusian passport in order to play for Belarus 35

36 GROUP 2 Ankara Yenimahalle BSK (TUR) The team led by Turkish handball star Yeliz Özel could not have been more successful last season, winning all three Turkish titles on offer. Yenimahalle BSK can call the Super cup, the Turkish cup and the Super League cup their own in the 2014/15 season after beating the defending champions Muratpasa Belediye SK in the final matches. For the new season the club management reinforced the line-up by signing several experienced players. Croatian right wing Anita Gace joined the club from Dinamo-Sinara Volgograd after reaching the MVM EHF FINAL4 last May in Budapest with the Russian club. Also Ukrainian right back Olga Laiuk arrived after four seasons at the league rivals Muratpasa. Past achievements Women s EHF Champions League Participations (including 2015/16 season): 1 Playing hall THF Spor Complex Yildizevler Hilal Mah., Holanda Cankaya/Ankara Turkey Capacity: 2,090 Other EHF Cup: Round /15 Turkish league: 1 title (2015) Club Address: Ankara Yenimahalle BSK Gayret Mahallesi Asik Celebi Sokak No: Ankara Turkey Media contact: Mesut Bolatcan yenimahbel.sporkulubu@gmail.com Kit colours Light Player shirt: blue Player short: light blue Goalkeeper shirt: yellow Dark Player shirt: dark blue and yellow Player short: blue Goalkeeper shirt: black Online information: Website: sporkulubu.yenimahalle.bel.tr 36

37 Ankara Yenimahalle BSK (TUR) Team roster No. First Name Surname Nat. Position Date of Birth Place of Birth Height 14 Nurceren Akgün TUR Line Player Antalya Elif Sila Aydin TUR Back Ankara Duygu Aydogan Soysal TUR Left Back Ankara Kateryna Chumak UKR Right Wing Kiev, UKR Anita Gace CRO Right Wing Split, CRO Esra Gündar TUR Left Wing Ankara Dina Havic CRO Left Back Rijeka, CRO Lenche Ilkova MKD Line Player Strumica, MKD Olga Laiuk UKR Right Back Kiev, UKR Yeliz Özel TUR Left Back Ankara Marina Tankaskaya AZE Centre Back Baku, AZE Beyza Irem Türkoglu TUR Line Player Ankara Özge Yakar TUR Left Wing Ankara Anca Mihaela Rombescu ROU Goalkeeper Drobeta-Turnu Severin, ROU Anna Maria Wysokinska POL Goalkeeper Wroclav, POL Merve Toker TUR Goalkeeper Eskisehir 173 Serdar Eler coach considered the best Turkish right back ever lecturer at Gazi University College of Physical Education and Sports played 571 games for all Turkish national teams (494 games in 19 years for men s team) holding the country s record won 14 national championship, 13 Turkish Cup, 5 Super Cup, 3 Prime Minister s Cup and 5 President s Cup titles as a player as a coach, famous for coaching Gazi University men s team that has 26 gold medals won bronze medal at European University Championship, fourth place at World University Handball Championship 37

38 Anna Wysokinska goalkeeper has strong sport traditions in the family: her mother born in Russia was a silver medalist of Soviet Union in javelin throw her younger sister Aleksandra is also a good handball goalkeeper who won three Polish championship titles with Lublin graduated from German Philology at Marie Curie- Sklodowska University in Lublin and already before moving to Bundesliga she was fluent in German spent three seasons in Germany (Union Halle and Bietigheim), where she was also working in a kindergarden Esra Gündar left wing played more than 100 games for national team, won silver medal at Mediterranean Games, also a player of Turkish women s beach handball national team won 8 national championship titles with four different clubs in Turkish league, 4 Turkish Cup titles and 2 Turkish Super Cup titles. spent all her career in Ankara as a key player in top women clubs like Havelsan SK, Milli Piyango SK, Cankaya Belediye SK and Yenimahalle BSK graduated from a respectable Hacettepe University and working as a teacher in Ankara Marina Tankatskaya centre back three-time champion of Turkey, she has won two titles with Muratpasa and one title with Ankara in the past season has been playing in Turkey for the last seven years with the exception of season when she briefly came back to Azerbaijan and played for ABU Baku, a club where she had started her career before moving to Turkey for the first time, she had also a short spell in Romania playing for Tomis captain and a key player of the Azerbaijan national team for many years Olga Layuk right back started her career at Spartak Kiev where she played until 2007, and then joined Motor Zaporozhye to spend there two more seasons in her homeland Ukraine her first experience abroad were two seasons at Spain s Sagunto after that, she moved to Turkey, where she won three gold medals for four seasons at Muratpasa and in 2015 signed a contract with Ankara plays for the national team of Ukraine not only in regular handball but also in beach handball, having been selected to the All-Star team at the WCh in 2014 in Brazil where the Ukrainians finished fourth Anca Rombescu goalkeeper after being runner-up in the Women s EHF Cup in 2006, with Tomis Constanta, Rombescu has left Romania for Turkey most experienced foreign player in Yenimahalle BSK s roster, with seven seasons under her belt in Turkey has never played for the Romanian national team, but is a two-time Turkish champion, with Uskudar (2011) and Ankara Yenimahalle (2015) loves travelling and her dream destination would be Bahamas Yeliz Özel left back with 20 successful years of handball career considered the best Turkish player of all time, played more than 450 games for the national team won 12 national championship titles (6 in Turkey, 4 in Macedonia with Kometal Skopje and 2 in Romania with Oltchim Valcea) fourth top scorer of 2004/05 CL with 61 goals, when she reached the final with Kometal as a part of beach handball national team won the silver medal both at World (twice) and ECh nominated for the 2006 IHF Player of the Year Lenche Ilkova line player started her career in Mlaz Bogdanci and few years later transferred in the most successful Macedonian club Kometal, where she also played the CL in 2010 moved to Turkey where she has played for three clubs: Muratpasa Belediyesi SK, Üsküdar BSK and Ankara Yenimahalle in the 2010/11 season reached the Challenge cup Final with Muratpasa but her team failed vs Mios Biganos part of the FYR Macedonia national team at the EHF EURO 2008 (7th place) Anita Gace right wing joined Ankara from Dinamo-Sinara in the summer of 2015 after she took part at the MVM EHF FINAL4 in Budapest with the Russian club spent all her previous career at home in Croatia, changed four clubs Makarska, Osijek, Podravka and Lokomotiva won six gold medals in a row at the Croatian league ( ), all of them with Podravka played more than 100 games for the Croatia national team, took part in four major tournaments (2011 WCh, 2012 OG, EHF EURO 2012 & 2014) 38

39 2014/15 Top Scorers Rank Player Club Goals 1 Cristina Neagu (ROU) Buducnost (MNE) 102 Andrea Penezic (CRO) WHC Vardar SCBT (MKD) Nora Mørk (NOR) Larvik (NOR) 98 4 Anna Kochetova (RUS) Dinamo-Sinara (RUS) 94 5 Karolina Kudlacz (POL) HC Leipzig (GER) 84 6 Olga Akopian (RUS) Dinamo-Sinara (RUS) 82 7 Linn-Kristin Koren Riegelhuth (NOR) Larvik (NOR) 77 8 Daria Dmitrieva (RUS) Dinamo-Sinara (RUS) 76 9 Ida Oden (SWE) IK Sävehof (SWE) Ana Gros (SLO) Metz Handball (FRA) 73 Tamara Mavsar (SLO) RK Krim Mercator (SLO) Nadja Nadgornaja (GER) Thüringer HC (GER) Heidi Loke (NOR) Györi Audi ETO KC (HUN) 68 Rikke Skov Erhardsen (DEN) Viborg HK A/S (DEN) Katrin Engel (AUT) Thüringer HC (GER) Aniko Kovacsics (HUN) Györi Audi ETO KC (HUN) Katarina Bulatovic (MNE) Buducnost (MNE) Mirjeta Bajramoska (MKD) RK Krim Mercator (SLO) Andrea Lekic (SRB) WHC Vardar SCBT (MKD) 58 Radmila Petrovic (MNE) Buducnost (MNE) 58 39

40 Past Winners 1994 Hypo Niederösterreich AUT 1995 Hypo Niederösterreich AUT 1996 Podravka Koprivnica CRO 1997 Mar El Osito L Eliana Valencia ESP 1998 Hypo Niederösterreich AUT 1999 Dunaferr SE HUN 2000 Hypo Niederösterreich AUT 2001 RK Krim Neutro Roberts SLO 2002 Kometal D.P. Skopje MKD 2003 Krim ETA Kotex Ljubljana SLO 2004 Slagelse FH DEN 2005 Slagelse FH DEN 2006 Viborg A/S DEN 2007 Slagelse FH DEN 2008 Zvezda Zvenigorod RUS 2009 Viborg A/S DEN 2010 Viborg A/S DEN 2011 Larvik HK NOR 2012 Buducnost Podgorica MNE 2013 Gyõri Audi ETO KC HUN 2014 Gyõri Audi ETO KC HUN 2015 Buducnost Podgorica MNE 2015/16 Women s EHF Champions League Qualification Media Information by EHF Media & Communications, 10/9/2015 Contributors: Björn Pazen, Peter Bruun, Adrian Costeiu, Amina Idrizi, Nemanja Savic, Michal Pomorski, Fulya Oktem, Bence Martha, Roy Knoppert 40

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