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1 Media Guide Men s EHF Cup LIQUI MOLY EHF Cup Finals 2017 Tuesday 2 May 2017, 11:00 hrs Town Hall, Göppingen

2 LIQUI MOLY EHF Cup Finals Draw Town Hall (Rathaus),Göppingen, 2 May 2017, 11:00 hrs Draw Programme 11:00 hrs LIQUI MOLY EHF Cup Finals Press Conference followed by the LIQUI MOLY EHF Cup Finals Draw semi-finals Draw Particpants Bozidar Djurkovic, EHF Executive member & EHF Competition Commision Chairman Gerd Hofele, Frisch Auf Göppingen Managing Director Guido Till, Lord Mayor of the City of Göppingen Markus Glaser, EHF Chief Sports Officer Vlado Brindzak, EHF Media and Communications Draw Procedures The three teams qualifying from the Men s EHF Cup quarter-finals, as well as Frisch Auf Göppingen, who qualified directly from the group phase as the host club, will be in the pot for the draw. There will be one single pot and no protection of any kind for the teams. The teams will be drawn as follows: Team 1 => Team 3 => Team 2 => Team 4 Semi-finals will be played: Team 1 versus Team 2 / Team 3 versus Team 4 Please note: The order of the semi-final matches will only be finalised after consulting TV partners in the days after the draw. The final playing schedule will be announced by the EHF on its website. EHF Cup The new Men s EHF Cup was formed at the beginning of the 2012/13 season following the merging of the Men s EHF Cup and the Men s Cup Winners Cup. The competition forms the second tier of the EHF club competitions system after the VELUX EHF Champions League and above the Men s Challenge Cup. The new competition also brought with it a new format, with three qualification rounds, a group phase, quarter-finals and a final tournament the EHF Cup Finals. LIQUI MOLY EHF Cup Finals in Göppingen The event will be held in the Town Hall of Göppingen, Germany over two days with semi-finals to be played on Saturday, 20 May, the match for third/fourth place and the final on Sunday, 21 May. More than 150 volunteers, 150 media representatives and up to 80 players will take part in the two-day tournament. The hosts of the final tournament Frisch Auf Göppingen can become the first team in the competition s history since 2013 who can defend the EHF Cup title after they were crowned 12 months ago at the Salle Sportive de la Trocardiere in Nantes. 2

3 LIQUI MOLY EHF Cup Finals Programme Friday, 19 May 2017 Media call at the EWS Arena (TBA) - Team trainings at the EWS Arena (afternoon) Welcome reception at the Filseck Castle (TBA) Technical meeting at the EWS Arena (TBA) Saturday, 20 May Semi-final 1 - (TBA) - Semi-final 2 - (TBA) - Fan-Village at the EWS Arena - Fan Party at the Castle of Göppingen (TBA) Sunday, 21 May /4 Placement Match - (TBA) - EHF Cup Final - (TBA) - Fan-Village at the EWS Arena * Note that the playing order will be only finalised after the draw following negotiations with TV partners. Tickets Tickets: At the time of publication more than 4,000 tickets have been already sold for the event. The remaining 600 tickets are available in the ticket shop: Ticket prices range from 49 to 119 euros for the whole event. VIP Packages: purchase directly from Frisch Auf Göppingen, prices from 299 to 319 euros. Contact Thomas. Ohl@frischauf-gp.de for more information Club tickets: 250 tickets have been reserved for the fans of each of the participating teams, these tickets will be available directly from each of the participating clubs themselves. Any remaining tickets from the club allocations will be released for sale back into the ticket shop. Media Accreditation Over 150 media representatives are expected to come to Göppingen to cover the event for print and online publications as well as TV and radio. Media accreditation is open to professional media representatives working on the event. Freelance journalists may be required to provide evidence of their work. Given the demand for media places, it may not be possible to accept all requests. Accreditation is open until Friday, 5 May 2017 via an online registration system: Media Hotel Frisch Auf Göppingen has made reservations in hotels of different categories for media representatives. Please contact Alexander Kolb at the local organiser for booking contact and full details alexander.kolb@ frischauf-gp.de 3

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5 Media Events Friday Afternoon (TBC) Media call Afternoon - Team training (first 15 mins open to TV/photographers, interviews possible for 15 mins after training) Saturday Semi-final 1/2-15 minutes after final whistle press conference - 1 player and coach each team Sunday 3/4 Placement Match - 15 minutes after final whistle press conference - 1 player and coach each team Final 15 minutes after awarding ceremony - press conference - 1 player and coach each team LIQUI MOLY EHF Cup Finals Online The event will be covered extensively online by both the EHF Media and Communications department and Frisch Auf Göppingen. The event can be followed on the EHF Cup and EHF Cup Finals websites: europeancup.eurohandball.com/ and Official hashtag - #ehfcupfinals Twitter users can follow the coverage of the event on the official Twitter Channel of the EHF Media and and also using the hashtag #ehfcupfinals. Television and live streaming Coverage of the event will be shown on television by several TV stations (the detailed list will be released in due time). Matches will also be streamed live and on-demand around the world at ehftv.com, the European Handball Federation s online streaming platform. Visit the ehftv.com for more details and to watch games not only from the EHF Cup Finals, the VELUX EHF FINAL4 in Cologne and the TIPPMIX EHF FINAL4 in Budapest. Media Contacts Vladislav Brindzak (EHF Cup Finals Media Management) EHF Media and Communications Tel: Mob: brindzak@eurohandball.com Oliver Laaber (TV/radio management) EHF Marketing GmbH Tel: laaber@ehfmarketing.com Alexander Kolb (Local organisation media) Frisch Auf Göppingen Tel: alexander.kolb@frischauf-gp.de 5

6 Facts & Figures Three former winners, a defending champion and a French side for a premiere Four matches only remain in the Men s EHF Cup to decide the winner and the successor of Frisch Auf Göppingen (GER). Besides the defending champions, who also host the LIQUI MOLY EHF Cup Finals the former EHF Cup winners Magdeburg and Berlin plus the semi-final debutant Saint-Raphael are in the pot, when the semi-finals of the tournament will be drawn on Tuesday morning in Göppingen. Find all major facts, figures and numbers on the competition here. 0 EHF Cup champions managed to defend their title in the new format, implemented in the 2012/13 season, so far. After their successes in 2013 and 2014, Löwen and Szeged continued in the Champions League, while 2015 champions Berlin failed in the 2015/16 qualification. 0 French men s team has ever won the EHF Cup neither in the new nor in the old format or the Cup Winners Cup. 0 national champions arriving from the VELUX EHF Champions League qualification made it to the quarterfinals. 1 team, which started in the second qualification round, made it to Göppingen: Füchse Berlin 1 team - Saint-Raphael Var Handball - will have their debut in any European Cup semi-final, the remaining three teams have even all been winners of the EHF Cup. 1 host of the EHF Cup Finals took the trophy so far: Berlin in The same team failed in the semis 2014 on home ground, as Nantes failed twice in the finals against Löwen (2013) and Göppingen (2016). 1 former EHF Champions League winner - as every year so far - is still in the race for the EHF Cup trophy: SC Magdeburg. The same club had been quarter-finalist in 2013 and 2016, besides it were later-on finalists Montpellier (2014) and Hamburg (2015). 1 of 54 matches since the start of the group phase ended with a draw, the 23:23 of Kolding vs Magdeburg in the group phase. 1 coach, present at the LIQUI MOLY EHF FINAL4, had been EHF Cup winner as a player - and even with the club he coaches now: Bennet Wiegert (Magdeburg/2007) 2 winners of the new version of the EHF Cup are among the four participants of the LIQUI MOLY EHF Cup Finals: host and defending champions Frisch Auf Göppingen and the 2015 winners Füchse Berlin 2 participants have already been part of EHF Cup Finals in the new format: Berlin and Göppingen. 2 teams - Magdeburg and Saint-Raphael - are EHF Cup Finals debutants. 2 teams - Göppingen (eight wins in eight matches) and Magdeburg (nine wins, one draw in ten matches) - arrive unbeaten at the LIQUI MOLY EHF Cup Finals. 2 coaches of the LIQUI MOLY EHF Cup Finals participants have won the EHF Cup as a coach - both with Frisch Auf Göppingen: Velimir Petkovic (2011, 2012) and Magnus Andersson (2016). 3 times - including the upcoming event - Göppingen and Berlin have been part of the EHF Cup Finals. 3 - which means all - teams arriving from the quarter-finals won both k.o. matches. 3 - which means all - German teams have won the EHF Cup at least once: Magdeburg (1998, 2001, 2007), Göppingen 2011, 2012, 2016) and Berlin (2015). 3 German teams had qualified for the semi-finals the last time in the 2011/12 season (Göppingen, Magdeburg and Rhein-Neckar Löwen). The season before it were Göppingen, Lemgo and Großwallstadt. 3 nations are represented by the origin of the coaches of the previous EHF Cup Finals winners: Iceland (Gudmundur Gudmundsson/2013 and Dagur Sigurdsson/2015), Spain (Juan Carlos Pastor/2014) and Sweden (Magnus Andersson/2016). 1 nation - Serbia - is represented in all four LIQUI MOLY EHF Cup Finals participants with at least one player. 6

7 3 participants of the LIQUI MOLY EHF Cup Finals had finished on top of their groups: Berlin (group A), Göppingen (group B) and Magdeburg (group C). 4 nations are represented by the origin of the coaches of the four LIQUI MOLY EHF Cup Finals: Germany (Bennet Wiegert/Magdeburg), Sweden (Magnus Andersson/ Göppingen), Bosnia-Herzegovina (Velimir Petkovic/Berlin) and Portugal (Joel da Silva/Saint-Raphael). 5 of 54 matches since the start of the group phase ended with 45 or less goals, none of it in the quarter-finals. 5 - which means all - times the host of the EHF Cup Finals qualified directly from the group phase, skipping the quarter-finals (2x Nantes and Berlin, now Göppingen). 5 times like in all previous EHF Cup Finals at least one German team is part of: 2013: Göppingen and Löwen, 2014 Berlin, 2015 Berlin and Hamburg, 2016 Göppingen. 6 matches of the group phase - and zero of the quarterfinals - ended with a margin of ten goals or more. 7 nations have been represented by the clubs in all EHF Cup Finals since 2013: Germany (9 teams including 2017), France (5), Denmark (2), Spain (1), Hungary (1), Romania (1) and Slovenia (1). Facts & Figures on players from ten different nations, Magdeburg eight, Saint-Raphael seven and Göppingen four. 16 matches - 14 in the group phase and two in the quarterfinals - ended with 60 or more goals scored. 17 times a German team has won the old (14) and the new (3) version of the EHF Cup since the implementation of the competition in the 1993/94 season. Five times the winner came from Spain, once each from Croatia and Hungary. 18 goals were the biggest margin since the start of the group phase, when Magdeburg beat Tel Aviv 42:24 in the group matches. 21 away wins (18 in the group phase, three in the quarterfinals) were among the 54 matches since the start of the group phase. 32 times (29 in the group matches, three times in the quarter-finals), the home team was victorious since the start of the group phase. 68 goals were scored in the group matches Berlin vs Ribnica (38:30) and Saint-Raphael vs GOG (32:36) to be the highest score since the start of the group phase. The 35:32 of Magdeburg against Anaitasuna (67 goals) were the quarter-final high score. 10 goals difference was the lowest margin in the quarterfinals (Magdeburg vs Anaitasuna 59:49), while 12 goals were the highest one (Saint-Raphael vs Melsungen 61:49). Berlin vs Anaitasuna (58:47) was in between by eleven. 10 EHF Cup matches in a row (including the last season) have been won by Göppingen. 12 points from six group matches - the optimum - were taken by Göppingen. The defending champions were the second ever team with this outcome in the group phase after Montpellier in the 2013/14 season. 13 matches - 9 in the group phase and four quarter-final games were attended by more than 3000 fans. 15 nations are represented by the players on court of the LIQUI MOLY EHF Cup Finals: FRA, GER, SRB, ROU, CZE, BLR, DEN, ESP, CRO, NOR, SWE, NED, AUT, ISL, SLO. Berlin count 76 goals so far make Raphael Caucheteux (Saint-Raphael) top the top scorer list. +76 is the impressive goal difference of SC Magdeburg after all their ten games this season (qualification round, group phase and quarter-finals). 3,029 goals were scored since the start of the group phase, which means an average of 56,1. 5,926 spectators in the group match Berlin vs Ribnica was the highest attendance so far, the biggest number of fans in a quarter-final match were 4828 in Berlin against Anaitasuna. 20,554 fans in total attended the four home matches of Berlin sinced the start of the group phase - an average of 5,138. 7

8 FÜCHSE BERLIN (GER) In order to reach the group phase of the Men s EHF Cup, no team had higher hurdles to clear than Füchse Berlin. However, after they had beaten former EHF Cup Finals participants, Chambery Savoie from France and Gorenje Velenje from Slovenia in Rounds 2 and 3 respectively, something surprising happened: In December 2016, Berlin parted ways with their head coach Erlingur Richardsson. The Icelandic had taken over the team in summer 2015, succeeding Dagur Sigurdsson who then only focussed on his role as German national team coach. Richardsson s successor is now the experienced Velimir Petkovic, who coached several German clubs before and steered Frisch Auf Göppingen to the EHF Cup trophy in 2016 and safely steered the team to the LIQUI MOLY EHF Cup Finals In this season the reigning IHF Super Globe holders can rely mainly on the firepower of a former VELUX EHF Champions League top scorer Hans Lindberg, who is with 74 goals only two efforts below the EHF Cup top scorer Raphael Caucheteux. But scoring responsibilities are not focused just on the Danish winger, even the stalwart goalkeeper Silvio Heinevetter has already contributed with one goal. Playing hall Max-Schmeling-Halle Falkplatz Berlin Germany Capacity: 8,521 Club Address: Füchse Berlin Markgrafenstraße Berlin Germany Media contact: Stefan Güter gueter@fuechse-berlin.de Online information: Website: Facebook: fuechseberlin Kit colours Light Player shirt: silver Player short: silver Goalkeeper shirt: yellow Dark Player shirt: red Player short: red Goalkeeper shirt: blue Coach: Velimir Petkovic (BIH) Nations represented in the squad: 10 (GER, ISL, SLO, CRO, DEN, SRB, ESP, CZE, NOR, SWE) Top scorers: Hans Lindberg 74 Petar Nenadic 54 Bjarki Elisson 29 GROUP A Final Table: 1. Füchse Berlin :163 (22) Saint-Raphael Var H :164 (15) 8 3. GOG :190 (-3) 6 4. RD Riko Ribnica :188 (-34) 0 Road to the semi-finals: Grundfos Tatabanya W25:30 (11:17) vs Grundfos Tatabanya W28:22 (14:13) Group RD Riko Ribnica W20:25 (11:10) vs Saint-Raphael Var H. W33:31 (19:14) vs GOG W37:29 GOG W26:31 (10:13) vs RD Riko Ribnica W38:30 Saint-Raphael Var H. L27:21 (11:12) Qualification Round Rk Gorenje Velenje W24:29 (10:13) vs Rk Gorenje Velenje L29:32 (14:19) Qualification Round Chambery Savoie H. W22:25 (7:11) vs Chambery Savoie H. W24:22 (14:14) Past achievements VELUX EHF Champions League VELUX EHF FINAL4 (1): fourth place 2011/12 Last 16 (1): 2012/13 Qualification (1): 2013/14 EHF Cup Winners (1): 2014/15 EHF Cup Finals (2): third place 2013/14, winners 2014/15 Qualification Round 3 (1): 2015/16 Other IHF Super Globe: winners 2015, 2016 German cup: 1 title (2014) 8

9 SC MAGDEBURG (GER) Once more, German side SC Magdeburg are the only former winners of the EHF Champions League in the current EHF Cup season. Furthermore, they have won the EHF Cup three times when it was still played in its old format the last victory came exactly ten years ago and in the 2016/17 season they hope to emulate that success at their first EHF Cup Finals. Taking into consideration results since the middle of November, the side of young head coach Bennet Wiegert is the clear number one men s team in Germany currently. In 18 matches the 2002 Men s EHF Champions League winners are unbeaten in both the Bundesliga and the Men s EHF Cup where they picked up five wins and a draw to win their group and added two more wins in the quarter-final against Helvetia Anaitasuna, although the Spanish team gave them a good run for their money partially in the first half of the second leg. Courtesy of an impressive second half, however, they booked their first-ever ticket for the LIQUI MOLY EHF Cup Finals. In 2013 and 2016, they stumbled in the quarter-finals after they failed against the eventual winners (in 2013 vs Rhein-Neckar Löwen, in 2016 vs Frisch Auf Göppingen). Playing hall GETEC-Arena - Bördelandhalle Berliner Chaussee Magdeburg Germany Capacity: 7,800 Club Address: SC Magdeburg Handball magdeburg GmbH Friedrich-Ebert-Straße Magdeburg, Germany Media contact: Marc Henrik Schmedt Marc-Henrik.Schmedt@scmagdeburg.de Online information: Website: Facebook: SCMagdeburg Kit colours Light Player shirt: white/red Player short: white/red Goalkeeper shirt: yellow Dark Player shirt: green/red Player short: green/red Goalkeeper shirt: red Coach: Bennet Wiegert (GER) Nations represented in the squad: 8 (GER, DEN, SRB, CRO, NOR, SWE, NED, AUT) Top scorers: Michael Damgaard 58 Daniel Petterson 35 Nemanja Zelenovic 35 GROUP C Final Table: 1. SC Magdeburg :146 (54) Grundfos Tatabanya KC :157 (4) 8 3. KIF Kolding Kobenhavn :172 (-6) 5 4. Maccabi CASTRO T. Aviv :198 (-52) 0 Road to the semi-finals: Helvetia Anaitasuna W27:34 (13:15) vs Helvetia Anaitasuna W35:32 (15:18) Group KIF Kolding Kobenhavn T23:23 (13:13) vs Grundfos Tatabanya KC W30:25 Maccabi CASTRO T. AvivW22:38 (12:16) vs Maccabi CASTRO Tel AvivW42:24 (21:9) vs KIF Kolding Kobenhavn W36:24 Grundfos Tatabanya KC W28:31 (12:17) Qualification Round 3 vs RK Nexe W31:22 RK Nexe W27:30 (12:14) Past achievements VELUX EHF Champions League Winners (1): 2001/02 Semi-final (1): 2003/04 Quarter-final (1): 2002/03 Last 16 (1): 2005/06 EHF Cup Winners (3): 1998/99, 2000/01, 2006/07 Runners-up (1): 2004/05 Quarter-final (1): 2012/13 Last 16 (1): 1999/00 Other Champions Trophy: Winners (2000/01, 2001/02) Cup Winners Cup: Semi-finals (1996/97), Quarter-finals (2007/08) German league: 12 titles (outdoor 1967, indoor 1970, 1977, , 1988, all GDR, 2001) German cup: 7 titles (1970, 1977, 1978, 1984, all GDR, 1996, 2016) 9

10 SAINT-RAPHAEL VAR HANDBALL (FRA) Last season, two goals separated Saint-Raphael Var Handball and a place in the EHF Cup Finals as they lost an all-french quarter-final against Chambery. This year, coach Joel de Silva had no intention of missing out despite meeting a representative of a German bundesliga in the quarter-finals. Already in the summer the French runners-up have bolstered their squad with Spanish world champion and two-time EHF Champions League winner Dani Sarmiento (from Barcelona) as the successor to Icelandic playmaker Arnor Atlasson and Belarusian World Championship star Artsem Karalek. The line player joined the team which knocked his former club SKA Minsk out in the qualification round. In the group phase they ranked second in Group A behind Füchse Berlin. Playing hall Palais des Sports JF Krakowski Rue des Chataigniers Saint Raphael France Capacity: 2,000 Club Address: Saint-Raphael Var Handball PO Box BP Saint Raphael Cedex France Media contact: Vanessa Patucca-Bourgeais vanessa.srvhb@gmail.com Online information: Website: Facebook: saintraphaelvar Kit colours Light Player shirt: white Player short: white Goalkeeper shirt: green Dark Player shirt: red Player short: red Goalkeeper shirt: blue Despite winning the first quarter-final leg at home against Melsungen only by four goals, there was never really a hint of doubt for Saint-Raphael in the second leg in Germany, which they also won. Already before the LIQUI MOLY EHF Cup Finals it is clear that the fifth European season of the club has become a breakthrough campaign for the team from the south of France. Not surprisingly the club s name sake Raphael Caucheteux is leading the charge with 76 goals being also on the top of the current competition ranking. Coach: Joel da Silva (POR) Nations represented in the squad: 7 (FRA, SRB, ROU, CZE, BLR, DEN, ESP) Top scorers: Raphael Caucheteux 76 Daniel Sarmiento 40 Alexandru Simicu 29 GROUP A Final Table: 1. Füchse Berlin :163 (22) Saint-Raphael Var H :164 (15) 8 3. GOG :190 (-3) 6 4. RD Riko Ribnica :188 (-34) 0 Road to the semi-finals: Quarter-final vs MT Melsungen W30:26 MT Melsungen W31:23 (15:15) Group Phase vs GOG L32:36 Füchse Berlin L33:31 RD Riko Ribnica W24:31 (12:15) vs RD Riko Ribnica W26:22 GOG W28:32 (15:17) vs Füchse Berlin W27:21 (11:12) Qualification Round SKA Minsk L30:28 (16:13) vs SKA Minsk W33:25 (17:10) Past achievements VELUX EHF Champions League Qualification (1): 2012/2013 EHF Cup Quarter-finals (3): 2010/11, 2011/12, 2015/16 Round 3 (1): 2012/13 Other French League: - (2016 runners-up) 10

11 FRISCH AUF GÖPPINGEN (GER) For the first time in the short history of the EHF Cup Finals, the defending champions will have a chance to defend their title on home court. After lifting the last two trophies of the old version in 2010 and 2011, Göppingen beat the 2016 hosts HBC Nantes last year to win the current format for the first time and now successfully applied for the upcoming EHF Cup Finals on 20/21 May. Despite their tough schedule in the Bundesliga, coach Magnus Andersson is confident of going all the way for the third time after 2012 and His club is already looking forward to being a good host of the event for all teams and their fans. Over the last summer the defending champions lost their 2007 World Champion Michael Kraus (now Stuttgart), but signed German international Jens Schöngarth from Magdeburg and Sebastian Heymann, one of the country s biggest talents. Playing hall EWS Arena Göppingen Nördlichen Ringstrasse Göppingen Germany Capacity: 5,600 Club Address: Frisch Auf Göppingen Leonhard-Weiss-Strasse Göppingen Germany Media contact: Alexander Kolb alexander.kolb@frischauf-gp.de Online information: Website: Facebook: frischaufgp Kit colours Light Player shirt: white Player short: green Goalkeeper shirt: red Dark Player shirt: green Player short: white Goalkeeper shirt: black On their way to the group phase, the defending champions did not have to travel that far to take the win at their Swiss neighbours Winterthur. They also cruised past the group phase after winning all six games in Group B and consequently clinched the direct ticket to the home court final tournament. Göppingen will not only enter the LIQUI MOLY EHF Cup Finals as the defending champions but also as a team with the longest winning streak garnering ten victories in a row since their 2015/16 quarterfinal defeat by Magdeburg. Coach: Magnus Andersson (SWE) Nations represented in the squad: 4 (GER, SWE, SLO, SRB) Top scorers: Marcel Schiller 46 Tim Kneule 24 Marco Rentschler 22 GROUP B Final Table: 1. Frisch Auf Göppingen :155 (26) Fraikin BM. Granollers :165 (6) 6 3. Futebol Clube do Porto :170 (-11) 4 4. HC Midtjylland :176 (-21) 2 Road to the semi-finals: Group Phase vs Fraikin BM. Granollers W29:28 Futebol Clube do Porto W27:31 HC Midtjylland W22:25 (14:17) vs HC Midtjylland W31:23 Fraikin BM. Granollers W27:35 (11:14) vs Futebol Clube do Porto W30:28 (10:13) Qualification Round Pfadi Winterthur W30:33 (15:16) vs Pfadi Winterthur W37:32 (19:17) Past achievements EHF Cup Winners (3): 2010/11, 2011/12, 2015/16 Runners-up (1): 2005/06 EHF Cup Finals (2): fourth ranked 2013 Quarter-final (1): 2009/10 Other German league: 11 titles (outdoor 1954, 1957, indoor 1954, 1955, 1958, 1959, 1960, 1961, 1965, 1970, 1972) 11

12 MT Melsungen GER SC Magdeburg GER S.L. Benfica POR Futebol Clube do Porto POR Men s EHF Cup Finals venue Frisch Auf Göppingen GER Group Phase Quarter-finals LIQUI MOLY EHF Cup Finals Helvetia Anaitasuna ESP KIF Kolding Kobenhavn DEN HC Midtjylland DEN Quarter-finals 2016/17 MEN S EHF CUP TEAMS Fraikin BM. Granollers ESP Saint-Raphael Var Handball FRA Cocks FIN RD Riko Ribnica SLO Maccabi CASTRO Tel Aviv ISR Grundfos Tatabanya KC HUN Füchse Berlin GER GOG DEN

13 NATION Qualification Qualification Qualification Group Quarter Final Round 1 Round 2 Round 3 Phase finals Tournament 30 teams 32 teams 32 teams 16 teams 8 teams 4 teams 03/ / / R1: 11/ / / first leg first leg first leg R2: 18/ first leg Tournament R3: 04/ / / / R4: 11/ / second leg second leg second leg R5:25/ second leg R6:01/ DRAWS: 1 Def. Champ. Frisch Auf Göppingen/GER 2 ESP Abanca Ademar Leon 3 FRA St. Raphael Var Handball 4 GER MT Melsungen 5 ESP Helvetia Anaitasuna 6 DEN HC Midjylland 7 SLO RD Riko Ribnica 8 HUN Grundfos Tatabanya KC 9 POL Azoty-Pulawy 10 GER SC Magdeburg 11 ESP Frainkin BM Granollers 12 DEN GOG 13 2nd CL QT1 2nd CL QT1 14 2nd CL QT2 2nd CL QT2 15 3rd CL QT1 3rd CL QT1 16 3rd CL QT2 3rd CL QT2 17 4th CL QT1 4th CL QT1 18 4th CL QT2 4th CL QT2 19 SWE Alingsas HK 20 SLO RD Koper SUI Wacker Thun 22 HUN Balatonfüredi KSE 23 POR SL Benfica 24 ROU CSM Bucuresti 25 BLR SKA Minsk 26 CRO RK Nexe 27 RUS St. Petersburg HC 28 NOR OIF Arendal 29 SVK HC Sporta Hlohovec 30 CZE Talent M.A.T. Plzen 31 POL Gornik Zabrze 32 GER Füchse Berlin 33 DEN KIF Kolding Kobenhavn 34 FRA Chambery Savoie HB 35 HUN Csurgoi KK 36 FRA US Creteil Handball 37 POR FC do Porto 38 ROU CSU Poli. Timisoara 39 CRO GRK Varazdin RUS Dinamo Astrakhan 41 MKD HC Prilep 42 CZE HC Dukla Praha 43 ISL Haukar 44 UKR ZTR Zaporozhye 45 SRB HC Vojvodina 46 GRE A.C.C. Filippos Verias 47 ISR Maccabi S. Rishon Lezion 48 NED OCI-Lions 49 KOS KH Besa Famiglia 50 EST Pölva Serviti 51 TUR B.B. Ankara SK 52 LUX HB Käerjeng 53 MDA HC Olimpus-85 USEF 54 MNE RK Budvanska Rivijera 55 GBR London GD HC 56 GEO B.S.B. Batumi 57 SRB RK Metaloplastika Sabac 58 GRE A.C. Diodmis Argous 59 SUI Pfadi Winterthur 60 CRO HC Zamet 61 NOR Bodo HK 62 AUT Alpla HC Hard 63 NED KRAS Volendam 2016/2017 MEN'S EHF CUP 15 Winners of Qualification Round 1 16 Winners of Qualification Round 2 16 Winners of Qualification Round 3 1st and 2nd placed teams of each group of the Group Phase 4 Winners of Quarterfinals 13 published version,

14 Men s EHF Cup 2016/17 playing system Qualification Round 1 Qualification Round 3 Group Phase Quarter-finals EHF Cup Finals winners Qualification Round 2 16 winners winners 8 teams winners Semi-finals 3 rd Place Match Home Matches 3 Away Matches 3 Final Season 2016/17 playing dates Qualification Round 1 Qualification Round 3 Group Phase first leg - 03/ first leg 11/ second leg - 10/ / / / / Quarter-finals first leg 22/ EHF Cup Finals 20/ Qualification Round 2 first leg - 08/ second leg - 15/ second leg 26/ / / second leg 29/

15 Potential head-to-heads Historic encounters of the LIQUI MOLY EHF Cup Finals opponents in the EC Saint-Raphael Var Handball vs Füchse Berlin (58:54) 2: Füchse Berlin vs Saint-Raphael Var Handball, EHF Cup Group Phase 33:31 (19:14) Saint-Raphael Var Handball vs Füchse Berlin, EHF Cup Group Phase 27:21 (11:12) Frisch Auf Göppingen vs SC Magdeburg (58:54) 2: Frisch Auf Göppingen vs SC Magdeburg, EHF Cup Quarter-final 31:25 (13:11) SC Magdeburg vs Frisch Auf Göppingen, EHF Cup Quarter-final 29:27 (17:13) Saint-Raphael Var Handball vs SC Magdeburg Saint-Raphael Var Handball vs Frisch Auf Göppingen Frisch Auf Göppingen vs Füchse Berlin Füchse Berlin vs SC Magdeburg No previous encounters in European competitions All-time stats before the LIQUI MOLY EHF Cup Finals All-time ranking 1. Füchse Berlin GER : :2 2. Rhein-Neckar Löwen GER : :0 3. Pick Szeged HUN : :0 4. Frisch Auf Göppingen GER : :4 5. HBC Nantes FRA : :4 6. Montpellier Agglomeration HB FRA : :2 7. Fraikin BM. Granollers ESP : :2 8. HSV Hamburg GER : :2 9. Skjern Handbold DEN : :2 10. Team Tvis Holstebro DEN :53-5 2:2 11. HCM Constanta ROU :65-5 0:4 12. Chambery Savoie Handball FRA :53-7 0:4 13. Rk Gorenje Velenje SLO :54-8 0:4 Most goals in one game Uwe Gensheimer HBC Nantes-Rhein-Neckar Löwen 24:26 Iuliu Alexandru Csepreghi HCM Constanta-Montpellier Agglomeration HB 32:36 Dragan Gajic Montpellier Agglomeration HB-Pick Szeged 28:29 Kentin Mahe Füchse Berlin-HSV Hamburg 30:27 David Resina Forns Fraikin BM. Granollers-HBC Nantes 26:27 Ferran Sole Sala Chambery Savoie Handball-Fraikin BM. Granollers 21:25 Most participations (including this year): 3 Frisch Auf Göppingen, 3 Füchse Berlin, 2 HBC Nantes Most goals in one match: 36 HCM Constanta HCM Constanta-Montpellier Agglomeration HB 32:36 Most goals in one match both teams: HCM Constanta-Montpellier Agglomeration HB 32:36 Least goals in one match : 20 Team Tvis Holstebro Team Tvis Holstebro-HBC Nantes 20:26 Least goals in one match both teams: Team Tvis Holstebro-HBC Nantes 20:26 15

16 Previous seasons top scorers Season Name & nation Club Goals 2015/16 Ferran Sole Sala (ESP) Fraikin BM Granollers (ESP) /15 Skube Stas (SLO) Rk Gorenje Velenje (SLO) /14 Dragan Gajic (SLO) Montpellier Agglomeration HB (FRA) /13 Momir Rnic (SRB) Frisch Auf Göppingen (GER) 59 Top scorers after quarter-finals Rank Name & nation Club Goals 1 Raphael Caucheteux (FRA) Saint-Raphael Var Handball (FRA) 76 2 Hans Lindberg (DEN) Füchse Berlin (GER) 74 3 Michael Damgaard (DEN) SC Magdeburg (GER) 58 4 Milos Vujovic (MNE) Grundfos Tatabanya KC (HUN) 56 5 Petar Nenadic (SRB) Füchse Berlin (GER) 54 6 Michael Allendorf (GER) MT Melsungen (GER) 51 7 Chen Pomeranz (ISR) Maccabi CASTRO Tel Aviv (ISR) 47 8 Nico Rönnberg (FIN) Cocks (FIN) 46 Marcel Schiller (GER) Frisch Auf Göppingen (GER) Oswaldo Dos Santos Maestro (ESP) Helvetia Anaitasuna (ESP) Pertusa Alvaro Cabanas (ESP) Fraikin BM. Granollers (ESP) Teemu Tamminen (FIN) Cocks (FIN) Daniel Sarmiento (ESP) Saint-Raphael Var Handball (FRA) Tobias Möller Torpegaard (DEN) GOG (DEN) Novak Boskovic (SRB) Maccabi CASTRO Tel Aviv (ISR) 38 Konstantin Igropulo (RUS) KIF Kolding Kobenhavn (DEN) 38 Antonio Rodrigues Areia (POR) Futebol Clube do Porto (POR) Jan Grebenc (SLO) RD Riko Ribnica (SLO) Carlos Chocarro Gorraiz (ESP) Helvetia Anaitasuna (ESP) Daniel Pettersson (SWE) SC Magdeburg (GER) 35 Nemanja Zelenovic (SRB) SC Magdeburg (GER) 35 (Bold text indicates players that are still active in the competition.) 16

17 Past winners 2016 Frisch Auf Göppingen (GER) 2015 Füchse Berlin (GER) 2014 Pick Szeged (HUN) 2013 Rhein Neckar Löwen (GER) Previous Men s EHF Cup winners 2012 Frisch Auf Göppingen (GER) 2011 Frisch Auf Göppingen (GER) 2010 TBV Lemgo (GER) 2009 VfL Gummersbach (GER) 2008 HSG Nordhorn (GER) 2007 SC Magdeburg (GER) 2006 TBV Lemgo (GER) 2005 Tusem Essen (GER) 2004 THW Kiel (GER) 2003 FC Barcelona (ESP) 2002 THW Kiel (GER) 2001 Sportclub Magdeburg (GER) 2000 Metkovic Jumbo (CRO) 1999 Sportclub Magdeburg (GER) 1998 THW Kiel (GER) 1997 SG Flensburg Handewitt (GER) 1996 BM Granollers (ESP) 1995 BM Granollers (ESP) 1994 Aliza Avidesa (ESP) Previous Men s Cup Winners Cup winners 2012 SG Flensburg Handewitt (GER) 2011 VfL Gummersbach (GER) 2010 VfL Gummersbach (GER) 2009 Pevafersa Valladolid (ESP) 2008 MKB Veszprem KC (HUN) 2007 HSV Hamburg 2006 Chekhovski Medvedi (RUS) 2005 C. BM Ademar Leon (ESP) 2004 Portland San Antonio (ESP) 2003 A.D.C. Ciudad Real (ESP) 2002 A.D.C. Ciudad Real (ESP) 2001 SG Flensburg Handewitt (GER) 2000 Portland San Antonio (ESP) 1999 Prosesa Ademar Leon (ESP) 1998 Caja Cantabria Santander (ESP) 1997 Elgorriaga Bidasoa (ESP) 1996 TBV Lemgo (GER) 1995 FC Barcelona (ESP) 1994 FC Barcelona (ESP) LIQUI MOLY EHF Cup Finals 2017 Draw Event Media Guide by EHF Media & Communications, 01/05/2017 Contributors: Björn Pazen, Peter Bruun, Kevin Domas, Bence Martha, Sergey Nikolaev, all stats by Roy Knoppert 17

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