Media Guide. Ottostadt Magdeburg EHF Cup Finals GETEC Arena, Magdeburg : : Saturday 19 May Sunday 20 May 2018

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1 Media Guide Ottostadt Magdeburg EHF Cup Finals 2018 GETEC Arena, Magdeburg Saturday 19 May 2018 Semi-final 1 14:15 Saint-Raphael Var Handball vs SC Magdeburg Semi-final 2 17:00 FRISCH AUF! Göppingen vs Füchse Berlin : : Sunday 20 May /4 Placement match 12:45 Final 15:15 vs vs : :

2 Table of contents - Foreword 3 1. Introduction 4 - Welcome 4 - EHF / EHFM / SC Magdeburg Media Team 4 2. Media timetable 5 3. Essential media information 6 - Accreditation collection 6 - Photographers/TV bibs 6 - Official event name/hastags 6 - Media Centre opening times 6 - Media seats 6 - WLAN access 6 - Video recording 6 - Opening Press conference / Post-match press conference 6 - Opening training 6 - EHF Cup Finals Online 7 - Television and live streaming 7 - Invitation to Media Get Together 7 4. Media rules and guidelines 8 - Rules for ENG crews 8 - Rules for photographers 9 5. Event information 11 - Playing system - dates and rounds 11 - EHF CUP / EHF Cup Finals 12 - EHF Cup 2017/18 - map of participants 13 - Facts & Figures 14 - Semi-final 1 Preview 16 - Saint-Raphael Var Handball (France) 17 - SC Magdeburg (Germany) 20 - Semi-final 2 Preview 23 - FRISCH AUF! Göppingen (Germany) 24 - Füchse Berlin (Germany) 27 - Important regulations - extra-time and 7m throws 30 - Potential head-to-heads for Sunday s games 31 - All-time EHF Cup Finals records 32 - Top scorers 2017/18 after quarter-finals 34 - Previous winners 35 2

3 Foreword Dear media representatives, It gives me great pleasure to welcome you all to the German city of Magdeburg and to the Ottostadt Magdeburg EHF Cup Finals, the final round of this season s Men s EHF Cup. Our hosts for the weekend are SC Magdeburg, a club with a long tradition of success in both the German Bundesliga and European competitions since its foundation over 60 years ago. The EHF Cup Finals event is also slowly building a history of its own as this is already the sixth edition. I am pleased to say that interest in the event from fans has also been tremendous with tickets for the two-day event in the GETEC Arena being completely sold out well in advance. We will see four outstanding teams take to the court in Magdeburg. And even before the draw two weeks ago, it was clear that we were going to see two very exciting and wide open semi-final matches like we did 12 months ago when the same four teams gathered in Göppingen for the previous edition of this tournament. Yet again each of the teams playing in the Ottostadt Magdeburg EHF Cup Finals this time around clearly has what it takes to make the final and claim the trophy. The only non-german side, Saint-Raphael from France, take on the hosts SC Magdeburg, who won the old format of the EHF Cup three times. In the second semifinal the 2015 EHF Cup winners Füchse Berlin lock horns with defending champions FRISCH AUF! Göppingen. Although we may have just two nations represented in the final weekend, this does not mean that the event will lose its strong international flavour. The four clubs from Germany and France boast no fewer than 17 different nationalities in their ranks, not to mention of course the delegates and officials representing the EHF, who hail from right across Europe. Finally, on behalf of both the EHF and EHF Marketing GmbH, I would like to thank the management of SCM Magdeburg for their professional approach to the organisation and hosting of the Ottostadt Magdeburg EHF Cup Finals. Handball plays an important part in the life of the city and I am sure that Europe s top clubs and their fans will receive a warm welcome here. We pride ourselves on our positive and cooperative relationship with the press and media and I am sure this will continue and develop during this tournament too. We look forward to working with you! Michael Wiederer EHF President 3

4 1. Introduction Welcome to the Ottostadt Magdeburg EHF Cup Finals / Magdeburg It is a great pleasure to welcome all media representatives to Magdeburg for the sixth edition of the Men s EHF Cup final tournament - the Ottostadt Magdeburg EHF Cup Finals. We look forward to two days of top class handball in the sold-out GETEC Arena in Magdeburg as Saint- Raphael Var Handball, Füchse Berlin, FRISCH AUF! Göppingen, as well as the hosts of the event, SC Magdeburg compete for the EHF Cup title. Over 100 media representatives are expected in Magdeburg to cover the event, and we expect extensive local, regional and national coverage of the Ottostadt Magdeburg EHF Cup Finals. If you require any help or assistance during your time in Göppingen, please do not hesitate to contact a member of the media team from the EHF, EHFM and SC Magdeburg. Ottostadt Magdeburg EHF Cup Finals Media Team Vlado Brindzak EHF Media Manager Tel Mob: brindzak@eurohandball.com Sören Thümler SC Magdeburg Mob: soeren.thuemler@mdr.de Oliver Laaber EHFM Media (TV/Radio) Tel: Mob: laaber@ehfmarketing.com 4

5 2. Media Timetable Friday, 18 May :00 14:00 Training Saint-Raphael Var Handball GETEC Arena 14:10-15:10 Training SC Magdeburg GETEC Arena 14:15 14:45 Media Call Saint-Raphael Var Handball Media Room, GETEC Arena (coach Joel Da Silva, Adrien Dipanda, Alexander Lyngaard, Xavier Barachet, Geoffrey Krantz, Mihai Popescu) 14:45 15:15 Media Call Frisch Auf Göppingen Media Room, GETEC Arena (coach Rolf Brack, Marcel Schiller, Daniel Fontaine, Zarko Sesum, Kresimir Kozina, Jens Schöngarth) 15:15 15:45 Media Call SC Magdeburg Media Room, GETEC Arena (coach Bennet Wiegert, Michael Damgaard, Nemanja Zelenovic, Matthias Musche, Piotr Chrapkowski, Christian O Sullivan) 15:20-16:20 Training Frisch Auf Göppingen GETEC Arena 15:45-16:15 Media Call Füchse Berlin Media Room, GETEC Arena (coach Velimir Petkovic, Hans Lindberg, Steffen Fäth, Fabian Wiede, Mattias Zachrisson, Bjarki Mar Elisson and also rest of the team) 16:30-17:30 Training Füchse Berlin (most likely will not happen!) GETEC Arena Only first 15 minutes of each training open for media. Saturday, 19 May :45 Photographers briefing Media Room, GETEC Arena 14:15 Semi-final 1 Saint-Raphael Var Handball vs SC Magdeburg GETEC Arena 15 minutes after final whistle Post-match Press Conference Press Conference Room, (Head coach and a key player from each team) GETEC Arena 17:00 Semi-final 2 FRISCH AUF! Göppingen vs Füchse Berlin GETEC Arena 15 minutes after final whistle Post-match Press Conference Press Conference Room, (Head coach and a key player from each team) GETEC Arena 20:00 Media Get-Together TBA Sunday, 20 May :45 3/4 Placement Match GETEC Arena 15 minutes after final whistle Post-match Press Conference Press Conference Room, (Head coach and key player from each team) GETEC Arena 15:15 Final GETEC Arena 15 minutes after winners ceremony Post-match Press Conference Press Conference Room, (Head coach and key player from each team) GETEC Arena 5

6 3. Essential media information Accreditation collection Your accreditation can be collected from the accreditation desk at the GETEC Arena in Magdeburg from Friday, 18 May 2018, 13:00 hrs. Please bring an official form of identification your press card or passport and your official confirmation. Accreditations will not be issued without these. Media parking Contact Sören Thümler for Media Parking requests. Photographer bibs Bibs for photographers will be issued at the accreditation desk at the GETEC Arena from Friday, 18 May 2018 against a payment of a returnable deposit of 20 upon collection of the locker keys. The press cards and deposits will be returned at the end of the event when the keys and bibs are returned to the Media Centre. Official event name/official hashtag The official name of the final event is the Ottostadt Magdeburg EHF Cup Finals. An official hashtag has also been announced, this is: #ehfcupfinals. Please use these official terms in your reports and communications. Media Centre Opening Times The Media Centre is located in the GETEC Arena. Opening hours for accredited media representatives are as follows: Friday, 18 May 2018 Saturday, 19 May 2018 Sunday, 20 May :00 17:30 hrs 12:30 21:30 hrs 11:00 19:30 hrs Media seats Media representatives will be allocated a specific media seat in the GETEC Arena. There will be media volunteers available to show you the way to your seat. WLAN access There will be wireless internet access for all media representatives in the arena free of charge. A password for internet access will be provided on arrival. Video recording Video in the arena, mixed zone and press conference room may only be recorded with the express permission of EHF Marketing GmbH. Please contact EHFM Media Officer, Oliver Laaber for further information in advance of the event. Equipment used for video recording without permission will be removed. Press conferences The press conference room is located comfortably closed to the mixed zone, sign posting will be provided. The post-match press conferences will take place 15 minutes after each match/winners ceremony and will be attended by the head coaches and key players. Press conferences will be conducted in English, any questions in your native language should be directed following the completion of the press conference. Open training for the media Team training on Friday, 18 May 2018 will be open to the media for the first 15 minutes, for TV footage to be 6

7 filmed and teams to be photographed. Media interviews are possible only at the media call. Ottostadt Magdeburg EHF Cup Finals Online The event will be covered extensively online by both the EHF Media and Communications Department and SC Magdeburg. The event can be followed on the EHF Cup and EHF Cup Finals websites: and and the following social media channels: Facebook EHF, Twitter ehf_live and snapchat ehf_live. Live ticker Even fans unable to watch the matches on the TV or on the ehftv live streaming can follow the up-to-second updates of the matches scoreline at the live ticker, which was already available over the group phase and the quarter-finals. All handball lovers can check not only the running score, but also the scorers, fouls, two-minutes suspensions, missed shots or saves. The live ticker will be provided both in the HTML and Flash version here: Television and live streaming Coverage of the event will be shown on television by the following confirmed TV stations (at the time of publication): MDR (GER), TV3 Sport (DEN), Viasat (NOR), Viasat (SWE), SFR Sport2 (FRA), MySports (SUI), Sport 1 (SVK), Sport 1 (CZE), ehftv coverage and English commentary All four matches will also be streamed live and on-demand around the world at ehftv.com, the European Handball Federation s online streaming platform. For the fifth time in the Men s EHF Cup the matches will be also broadcast with a live English commentary - by Chris O Reilly. Visit ehftv.com for more details and to watch games not only from the Ottostadt Magdeburg EHF Cup Finals, but also from the VELUX EHF FINAL4 and on demand from the recent Women s EHF FINAL4. Invitation to Media Get Together All accredited media representatives are invited by SC Magdeburg for a Media Get Together on Saturday 19 May at 20:00 hrs local time (location to be announced later). 7

8 4. Media rules and guidelines Official EHFM Rules of Conduct for ENG Crews The following guidelines and rules of conduct for ENG Crews have been developed to make the job of ENG crews easier at EHF events. Upon receiving an accreditation and signing for an ENG bib, TV crews automatically agree to follow the EHFM Rule of Conduct for TV ENG crews. 1. ENG crews are obliged to produce a media identification card upon request. 2. The Host Broadcaster acts on behalf of the European Handball Federation/EHF Marketing GmbH 3. ENG personnel are requested to wear the bib and accreditation at ALL times. 4. All ENG crews must use the stickers provided on their camera equipment. 5. The bib and the accreditation are only valid for the EHF Cup Finals. 6. Only the Host Broadcaster is permitted onto the playing court. 7. Right holders have to stay in the positions designated to them during the games 8. Non-rights holders are not permitted to film during the matches. 9. The guidelines and instructions of the Host Broadcasters MUST be followed at all time 10. At no time, before, during or after the match are ENG crews permitted to stay in the area behind the players seats or behind the official table. They must place themselves in the position advised by the EHFM. 11. ENG crews are only permitted in the TV area of the mixed zone 12. ENG crews are not permitted to interfere/obstruct in the work of the Host Broadcaster. 8

9 Official EHF Rules of Conduct for Photographers The EHF has developed the following guidelines to make the job of photographers at its events easier. Upon receiving the accreditation and bib the photographer automatically agrees to follow the EHF guidelines of conduct for photographers. 1. Photographers must attend the photographer briefing in the Media Centre on Saturday 20 May at 14:30 hrs 2. Photographers are only allowed to enter the court following the match for 3/4 place and final when permitted to do so. There will be a roped off area clearly marked for photographers in front of the timekeepers table. 3. Photographs can be taken during the player line-up. An area will be defined before the match for this purpose. Photographers may stand in this position until the pre-match procedure is over. They must then return to their designated position behind the advertising boards at the ends of the court. 4. Photograph bibs should be worn at all times. These will be issued as part of the accreditation process and are available from the Media Info Desk 5. During the match all photographers should be at the ends of the court where seats are available behind the advertising boards. Photographers will be advised before the match of an additionally designated areas where they may take photos looking down on the court. 6. It is not allowed to change ends during the game. This has to be done at the half-time or at the end of the match. If a photographer wishes to change ends during the half-time break, he/she must follow the routing system 7. Photographers are not allowed to stand behind the players seats or on the opposite side of the court. 8. Photographers have to remain seated and cannot change seats during the match. 9. Photographers are allowed to sit in front of the nets after the point where it is fixed to the advertising borders (fixed 3 metres each side of the goal). 10. Photographers are not allowed sit or stand in front of or to obstruct the view of the advertising boards. 11. Strobe light photography is not permitted. 12. Photographers are not allowed to enter the court during the celebration and awarding ceremony which follows final. During the celebration and awarding ceremony there will be a clearly marked area reserved for photographers in front of the timekeepers table. Upon collection of your accreditation you are obliged to follow the above-listed rules. 9

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11 Men s EHF Cup 2017/18 playing system Qualification Round 1 Qualification Round 3 Group Phase Quarter-finals EHF Cup Finals vs. 15 vs winners Qualification Round 2 16 winners vs. 16 vs winners 8 teams 2 vs. 1 vs. vs. vs. 4 winners Semi-finals vs. vs. 3 rd Place Match vs. vs. 16 vs. 16 Home Matches 3 Away Matches 3 Final vs. Season 2017/18 playing dates Qualification Round 1 Qualification Round 3 Group Phase first leg - 02/ first leg 10/ second leg - 09/ / / / Qualification Round 2 first leg - 07/ second leg - 14/ second leg 25/ / / / Quarter-finals first leg 21/ second leg 28/ EHF Cup Finals 19/

12 Magdeburg to host the Ottostadt Magdeburg EHF Cup Finals Playing hall GETEC-Arena - Bördelandhalle Berliner Chaussee Magdeburg Germany Capacity: 7,800 Men s EHF Cup The Men s EHF Cup was re-launched at the start of the 2012/13 season and formed from the merging of the EHF Cup and Cup Winners Cup. The second tier of top-class European club handball competition, after the VELUX EHF Champions League, the Men s EHF Cup is played with a qualification phase, group phase, quarterfinals and final tournament. In its sixth season 63 teams from 35 countries joined the race for the elusive trophy, but only 16 qualified for the group phase three from Germany, two from Spain and France and one from Belarus, Croatia, Denmark, Finland, Poland, Slovenia, Switzerland, Slovakia and Sweden. There were just three-quarter-finals played as the Ottostadt Magdeburg EHF Cup Finals hosts SC Magdeburg managed to qualify directly for the final tournament as winners of their group. Men s EHF Cup Finals The first EHF Cup Finals was played in the Palais des Sports de Beaulieu in Nantes in 2013 and the German club Rhein-Neckar Löwen won the trophy. In 2014 the final tournament was welcome by the Max-Schmeling- Halle in Berlin and saw a stunning victory of Pick Szeged from Hungary. Füchse Berlin won the next edition on the home court and FRISCH AUF! Göppingen dominated not only in Nantes in 2016 but also on the home court last year Tournament Management Henrik La Cour, EHF Executive Committee Member Jerzy Eliasz, EHF Executive Committee Member David Szlezak, EHF Marketing Managing Director Markus Glaser, EHF Chief Sports Officer 12

13 SC Magdeburg GER Chambery Savoie Mont Blanc FRA Wacker Thun SUI Frisch Auf Göppingen GER Men s EHF Cup Finals venue Group Phase Quarter-finals Final weekend Helvetia Anaitasuna ESP Füchse Berlin GER Bjerringbro-Silkeborg DEN Lugi HF SWE Ottostadt Magdeburg EHF Cup Finals 2018 MEN S EHF CUP TEAMS Fraikin BM. Granollers ESP Saint-Raphael Var Handball FRA Cocks FIN RD Koper SLO RK Nexe CRO TATRAN Presov SVK SKA Minsk BLR KS Azoty-Pulawy SA POL

14 Facts & Figures Same teams as 2017, new high score, new low score Four matches only remain in the Men s EHF Cup to decide the winner and the successor of Frisch Auf Göp-pingen (GER). In general, familiar faces will meet at the Ottostadt Magdeburg EHF Cup Finals in Magdeburg on 19/20 May, as exactly the same four teams as in 2017 are in the pot for the semi-final draw on Wednesday (11:00 hrs local time, livestream on ehftv.com). Besides the defending champions and host Magde-burg, last year s finalists Füchse Berlin and Saint-Raphael Var Handall as only Non-German team made it to the final tournament. Here are all major facts, figures and numbers on the competition here. 0 French male team has ever won the EHF Cup neither in the new nor the old format or the Cup Winners Cup. 0 zero times since the implementation of the new format in the 2012/13 season, the EHF Cup champions were coached by a German, though four times a German team won. This year the chance is higher, as all three German participants are coached by Germans (Velimir Petkovic has a German passport now, though he was born in Banja Luka.) 0 national champions arriving from the VELUX EHF Champions League qualification made it to the quarter-finals. 0 teams, which started in the second qualification round, made it to Magdeburg. 1 EHF Cup champion managed to defend their title in the new format: current title holders Frisch Auf Göp-pingen, who took the trophy 2016 at Nantes and defended it on home ground last year. 1 non-german team won the new version of the EHF-Cup only: Pick Szeged in 2014 in the final at Berlin against Montpellier. 1 team - Göppingen (9 victories, 1 draw so far in the 2017/18 season) - arrives unbeaten at the Ottostadt Magdeburg EHF Cup Finals. 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 and semi-finalist in 2017, besides it were later-on finalists Montpellier (2014) and Hamburg (2015). So far, no former Champions League winner took the trophy. 1 nation - Denmark - is represented in all four squads at the Ottostadt Magdeburg EHF Cup Finals. Three teams each have German, Croatian, Serbian or Swedish players in their line-ups. 1 coach, present at the Ottostadt Magdeburg EHF Cup Finals, had been EHF Cup winner as a player - and even with the club he coaches now: Bennet Wiegert (Magdeburg/2007). 1 team arriving from the quarter-finals won both knock-out matches: defending champions Frisch Auf Göp-pingen against Chambery Savoie. 1 coach of the Ottostadt Magdeburg EHF Cup Finals participants have won the EHF Cup as a coach - Füchse coach Velimir Petkovic, both times with Frisch Auf Göppingen (2011, 2012). 1 team, which finished second after the group stage, made it to Magdeburg: Saint Raphael. 2 times - for the second time in a row - three German sides are among the four participants. 2 winners of the new version of the EHF Cup are among the four participants of the Ottostadt Magdeburg EHF Cup Finals: Füchse Berlin (2015) and Frisch Auf Göppingen (2016, 2017). 2 all-german finals have been played since the competition was merged: in 2015 it was Berlin vs Hamburg and in 2017 Göppingen vs Berlin. 2 hosts of the EHF Cup Finals took the trophy so far: Berlin in 2015 and Göppingen in Füchse had failed in the semis 2014 on home ground, as Nantes failed twice in the finals against Löwen (2013) and Göppingen (2016). 2 of 54 matches since the start of the group phase ended with a draw, Presov vs Minsk (25:25) and Cham-bery vs Granollers (30:30), none of it in the quarter-finals. 3 - which means all - German teams, which qualified for the EHF Cup Finals, have won the EHF Cup at least once: Magdeburg (1998, 2001, 2007), Göppingen 2011, 2012, 2016, 2017) and Berlin (2015). 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 and 2017). Definitely, a fourth nationality will be added now, either Germany or France. 3 participants of the EHF Cup Finals had finished on top of their groups: Magdeburg (group A), Berlin (group B) and Göppingen (group C). 3 matches since the start of the group phase ended with 45 or less goals: First two in group C - Cocks vs Nexe (20:22) and Koper vs Göppingen (20:25), then the quarter-final Füchse vs Nexe 25:16. 4 teams, which means all, which had been part of the 2017 edition of the EHF Cup Finals, made it again. 4 times - including the upcoming event - Göppingen and Berlin have been part of the EHF Cup Finals. 4 times Göppingen have won the EHF Cup, each twice in the old format (2011, 2012) and the new format (2016, 2017) to be record holders ahead of SC Magdeburg (1999, 2001, 2007) and THW Kiel (1998, 2002, 2004) with three titles each. 14

15 Facts & Figures 6 - which means all - times the host of the EHF Cup Finals qualified directly from the group phase, skipping the quarterfinals (Nantes and Berlin each twice, Göppingen and now Magdeburg). 6 times like in all previous EHF Cup Finals - at least one German team is part of: 2013 it were Göppingen and Löwen, 2014 Berlin, 2015 Berlin and Hamburg, 2016 Göppingen, 2017 and 2018 Göppingen, Berlin and Füchse. 7 nations have been represented by the clubs in all EHF Cup Finals since 2013: Germany (12 teams including 2018), France (6), Denmark (3), Spain (1), Hungary (1), Romania (1) and Slovenia (1). 7 goals difference was the highest aggregate margin in the quarter-finals (Göppingen vs Chambery/61:54). 8 goals was the lead of RK Nexe against Füchse Berlin after the first leg of the quarter-final (28:20), but Berlin won the re-match 25:16. 8 matches since the start of the group phase were attended by more than 3000 fans, including the quarter-final Berlin vs Nexe (5000). 9 matches since the start of the qualification ended with a draw: 5 in qualification round 1, 0 in round 2, 2 in round 3 and 2 in the group phase. No quarter-final ended with a levelled result. 10 goals was the advance of Granollers in the second quarterfinal against Saint-Raphael (40:30), but still the Catalans were eliminated after losing the first leg 23: points from six group matches - the optimum - were taken by Göppingen. The defending champions had this outcome already in the previous season. 14 goals in the quarter-final Saint-Raphael vs Granollers (37:23) are the highest margin since the start of the group phase. Before, it were 12 goals of the match Magdeburg vs Presov (36:24). 17 matches since the start of the group phase ended with 60 or more goals scored, including two quarter-finals, again both encounters of Saint-Raphael and Granollers. In the previous season, it was nearly the same number at this stage, EHF Cup matches in a row (including the last two seasons) Göppingen are unbeaten in this competition, the record is 21 victories, one draw (in the qualification of this season against Arendal. The last team to beat Göppingen was Magdeburg in the first leg of the 2015/16 quarter-finals (29:27). 31 times (26 in the group matches, 5 times in the quarter-finals), the home team was victorious since the start of the group phase. In the previous season, it were 32 home victories at the same time. 41 goals in the quarter-final Füchse vs Nexe (25:16) are the lowscore in a match since the start of the group phase). 45 goals in two quarter-final matches against Nexe were enough for Füchse Berlin to qualify for the Otto-stadt Magdeburg EHF Cup Finals. +50 is the goal difference of Frisch Auf Göppingen after qualification, group phase and quarter-finals. 70 goals scored in the quarter-final re-match Granollers vs Saint-Raphael (40:30) are the high score since the start of the group phase. Before, it were 67 goals each in the group matches Azoty-Pulawy vs Granoll-ers (30:37) and Anaitasuna vs Saint- Raphael (29:38). 75 goals were scored by Uladzislau Kulesh (Minsk) and Nico Rönnberg (Cocks) to top the top scorer list so far. Best scorer still in competition is the 2016/17 overall top scorer Hans Lindberg (Belrin) by 67 goals. 331 goals were scored by Saint-Raphael to have the best attack of all four participants. 334 goals were scored in the six quarter-final matches. 2,943 goals were scored since the start of the group phase, which means an average of 54,5 goals. Last season, it were 3,029 goals at the same time. 5,983 fans were the highest attendance since the start of the group phase, when Berlin hosted Anaitasuna, the biggest number of fans in a quarter-final match were 5000, again in Berlin, in the match against Nexe. 18 times a German team has won the old (14) and the new (4) version of the EHF Cup since the implementa-tion of the competition in the 1993/94 season. Five times the winner came from Spain, each once from Croatia and Hungary. 18 nations are represented by the players on court of the Ottostadt Magdeburg EHF Cup Finals: GER, FRA, CIV, CZE, BLR, SRB, DEN, ROU, ESP, SWE, CRO, SLO, SVK, ISL, POL, RUS, NOR, AUT - last year it were 15 different nations. 21 away wins (20 in the group phase, 1 in the quarter-finals) were among the 54 matches since the start of the group phase - exactly the same number as in the 2016/17 season. 15

16 Semi-final 1 Saint-Raphael Var Handball vs SC Magdeburg GETEC Arena, Magdeburg Saturday 19 May, 14:15 hrs. local time LIVE ON EHFTV.COM Referees: Ignacio Garcia Serradilla, Andreu Marin Lorente (ESP) Delegates: Dragan Nachevski (MKD), Gunnar Gunnarsson (ISL) Saint-Raphael want to end the French curse Since the introduction of the reformed EHF Cup, four of five times the hosts made it to the final - the only exception were Füchse Berlin in Now SC Magdeburg hope to extend this series in their sold-out fortress GETEC-Arena. On the other hand, their semi-final opponent Saint-Raphael Var Handball are out to prove the strength of the French league and to take their first ever win at EHF Cup Finals. French team yet to win the EHF Cup in the old or new format. The only duel of both was sides the third place match at the 2017 EHF Cup Finals, won by SCM after penalties. Magdeburg s last defeat in an EHF Cup home match occurred in the 2011/12 semi-finals against a French team: a 25:30 vs Dunkerque, followed by 17 victories and one draw The first semi-final is the re-match of last year s 3/4 Placement match at the EHF Cup Finals at Göppingen - which ended in a true showdown, as Magdeburg needed a penalty shoot-out to take the third position after losing their semi against hosts Göppingen. Now SCM - EHF Cup winners in the old format in 1999, 2001 and are in the favourite role to reach their first international final since eleven years and to make history exactly 40 years after their first international trophy, winning the Champions s Cup final (forerunner of the EHF Champions League) against Wroclaw. We want to profit from the home advantage and having the fans behind us. I guess our chances to first make it to the final and then to take the trophy are a bit higher than for the rest of the teams, said SCM coach Bennet Wiegert, who as a player was part of Magdeburg s historic squad, which won the EHF Champions League in As the host of the Ottostadt Magdeburg EHF Cup Finals, SCM skipped the quarter-finals as group winners. Saint-Raphael were runners-up in the Füchse Berlin group - and entered the gates to the EHF Cup Finals by an impressive 37:23 in the first quarter-final leg against Fraikin Granollers (ESP) - the so far biggest margin the EHF Cup season since the start of the group phase. But in the high-scoring encounter of the whole season, Granollers somehow were back on track, but a 40:30 on home ground were not enough to stop the French side on their way to Magdeburg. Saint-Raphael have already proved in this season that they can win on German ground, by taking the points from Füchse in the group phase opener to take revenge for the demolishing 24:35 semi-final defeat against Berlin one year ago. At Magdeburg, we want to show that we can play much better than we did last year at Göppingen, says Saint-Raphael coach Joel da Silva. But for him the roles for the first semifinal are clearly marked: Everybody expects Magdeburg to win, they are under pressure, they are at home - but we do not have anything to lose, what might be a psychological advantage. In the whole history of the EHF Cup, even including the former Cup Winners Cup, no French team ever won the trophy - though three French teams were finalists only since the new mode had been implemented. Nantes lost the finals on home court twice against German sides (2013 against Rhein-Neckar Löwen and 2016 against Göppingen), Montpellier lost at Berlin against Pick Szeged, the so far only non-german side to raise the trophy in the new format of the competition. If Magdeburg win the semi, the third All-German final since 2015 would occur after Berlin vs Hamburg (2015) and Göppingen vs Berlin (2017). Magdeburg just lost another semi-final in the German Cup against Rhein-Neckar Löwen and in the Bundesliga match against the same opponent some days later, left wing Lukas Mertens tore his Achilles tendon and the club decided to add Yves Grafenhorst as a late entry for the final tournament. Head-to-head stats in the EC competitions: Saint-Raphael Var Handball vs SC Magdeburg (31:32) 0: Saint-Raphael Var Handball vs SC Magdeburg, EHF Cup Finals Place 3/4 31:32 (12:13, 27:27) 16

17 Saint-Raphael Var Handball (FRA) No French team have ever won the Men s EHF Cup. Now Saint-Raphael start their next attempt to go for the trophy. They lost unluckily in the quarter-finals two years ago, and made it to the EHF Cup Finals in Göppingen last year. However, they lost in the semifinals against Füchse Berlin (35:24), and the following day against Magdeburg (32:31) to finish fourth. An off-court change is an enlargement of their playing arena with 500 additional seats, raising the capacity to 2,500. Saint-Raphael had no problems in qualification. They beat Croatian side Dubrava clearly twice (40:29 and 41:31) in their sixth EHF Cup season. They kicked off the group phase with a sensational win away at Füchse Berlin, however their only defeat in the stage came in the reverse fixture on the home court. As the goal difference spoke in favour of foxes Saint-Raphael had to play against the Group D winners Fraikin BM Granollers in the quarter-finals. The French team laid the foundation of their trip to Magdeburg already in the first leg winning by 14 goals. Playing hall Palais des Sports JF Krakowski Rue des Chataigniers Saint Raphael France Capacity: 2,500 Club Address: Saint-Raphael Var Handball PO Box BP Saint Raphael Cedex France Media contact: Vanessa Patucca-Bourgeais v.patucca-bourgeais@srvhb.com The coach Joel Da Silva regarded the three German sides Berlin, Göppingen and Magdeburg as favourites already before the season s start, but also his own team. As he was completely correct in his predictions, the finals would get the same line-up as last year. Coach: Joel da Silva (POR) Nations represented in the squad: 8 (FRA, SRB, ROU, CZE, BLR, DEN, ESP, CIV) Top scorers: Raphael Caucheteux 62 Adrian Dipanda 37 Artsem Karalek 36 GROUP B Final Table: 1. Füchse Berlin : 154 (31) Saint-Raphael Var Handball : 165 (18) Helvetia Anaitasuna : 201 (-27) 4 4. Lugi HF : 191 (-22) 0 Online information: Website: Facebook: saintraphaelvar Kit colours Light Player shirt: turquoise / yellow Player short: Turquoise / yellow Goalkeeper shirt: purple Dark Player shirt: dark blue Player short: dark blue Goalkeeper shirt: green Road to the semi-finals: Quarter-final vs Fraikin BM Granollers W37:23 Fraikin BM Granollers L40:30 (16:15) Group Füchse Berlin W21:26 (7:13) vs Helvetia Anaitasuna W36:27 Lugi HF W28:30 (10:11) vs Lugi HF W28:26 (14:17) vs Füchse Berlin L25:34 Helvetia Anaitasuna W29:38 (14:16) Qualification Round 3 vs RK Dubrava W40:29 RK Dubrava W31:41 (16:23) Past achievements EHF Cup EHF Cup Finals (1): 2016/17 (4th place) Quarter-finals (1): 2015/16 Round 3 (1): 2012/13 Other VELUX EHF Champions League: 2012/2013 qualification Challenge Cup: 2010/11, 2011/12 quarter-finals French League: - (2016 runners-up) 17

18 Team roster No. First Name Surname Nat. Position Date of Birth Place of Birth Height Weight Goals 10 Aurelien Abily FRA Left Back 22/07/1982 Le Mans, FRA Xavier Barachet FRA Right Back 19/11/1988 Nice, FRA Paolo Bardi FRA Centre Back 18/08/1999 Frejus, FRA Geoffrey Bourasseau FRA Left Back 18/02/1999 Paris, FRA Raphael Caucheteux FRA Left Wing 09/05/1985 Montpellier, FRA Alexandre D le FRA Goalkeeper 22/04/1993 Draguignan, FRA Adrien Dipanda FRA Right Back 03/05/1988 Dijon, FRA David Eponouh CIV Left Back 01/04/1999 Abidjan, CIV Theo Gaspari FRA Line Player 05/12/1999 Cagnes sur Mer, FRA Wissem Hmam FRA Line Player 21/04/1981 Menzel Temime, TUN Lucas Hubert FRA Back 13/07/1998 Grasse, FRA Miroslav Jurka CZE Right Wing 07/06/1987 Valasske Mezirici, CZE Artsem Karalek BLR Line Player 20/02/1996 Grodno, BLR Aleksa Kolakovic SRB Centre Back 10/08/1997 Podgorica, MNE Nicolas Krakowski FRA Left Back 31/10/1987 Frejus, FRA Geoffroy Krantz FRA Back 03/12/1981 Giens, FRA Alexander Lynggaard DEN Line Player 27/03/1990 Koge, DEN Jonathan Mapu FRA Line Player 10/03/1998 Frejus, FRA Romain Mathias FRA Goalkeeper 13/09/1997 Paris, FRA Mihai Catalin Popescu ROU Goalkeeper 15/03/1985 Gaesti, ROU Romain Quatrevaux FRA Goalkeeper 29/12/1999 Frejus, FRA Daniel Sarmiento Melian ESP Centre Back 25/08/1983 Las Palmas, ESP Alexandru Simicu ROU Left Back 08/10/1988 Timisoara, ROU Alexian Trottet FRA Left Wing 13/05/1997 Vernon, FRA Arthur Vigneron FRA Right Wing 30/01/1995 Saint-Michel, FRA

19 Joel Da Silva coach after training Toulouse for four seasons, he signed for Saint-Raphael in the summer of 2014 voted best coach in the 2015/16 French league has never played handball at a high level and started coaching at the age of 14 before joining Toulouse in 2009, he used to work in a gardening store has a habit of taking his time-outs NBA-style, having the players sat on the bench in front of him Mihai Popescu goalkeeper one of two former Constanta players to have played the EHF Cup Finals in 2015 and 2017 with Saint-Raphael the club is so happy about his performances that they made him sign a contract extension up until 2022 aged 33, he would very much like to end his career in France Raphael Caucheteux left wing at 2 meters, one of the tallest wingers in handball signed in January 2007 from Montpellier - no one in the squad has played longer for Saint-Raphael all-time French league top scorer of all-time with more than 1,500 goals scored so far at 32, had a debut with the first French national team in 2018 at the EURO 2018 in Croatia Aurelien Abily left back joined Saint-Raphael in 2009 but has yet to win a title with the club just like Geoffroy Krantz, he announced that he would retire at the end of the season has much more responsabilities in the team since Alexandru Simicu s injury, who won t come back until the end of the season EURO: B 2016 Daniel Sarmiento centre back transferred from FC Barcelona last summer in order to replace Arnor Atlason was part of the FC Barcelona team which broke all records in the 2013/14 season, scoring 1,146 goals in only 30 games feels so good in his club that he s already extended his contract to 2020 Artsem Karalek line player has started a Belarus fashion in Saint-Raphaël, since his compatriot Vadim Gayduchenko will join the club next summer aged 22, he s one of the most talented young line players in the circuit has already signed for Polish side Kielce for next season aged 33, he s the only player in the French side to have ever won the CL EC trophies: CL 2011, 2015 EURO: G 2018, B 2014; WCh: G 2013 EURO: B 2018, OG: S 2016; WCh: G 2017 Adrien Dipanda right back played in Montpellier before moving to Ademar Leon and then to Saint-Raphael in 2012 late bloomer, he played mostly in defence until his arrival in Saint-Raphael - there, he developed into a complete player also was a late-comer to the national team, in which he now is a regular fixture was the only valid right-back in the team during the four first months of the season, due to Xavier Barachet s wrist injury Miroslav Jurka right wing arrived in 2013 from Hlohovec in Slovakia, alongside his wife Helena Sterbova, also a handball player his integration was made easier by his compatriot Jan Stehlik, who used to translate everything for him during his first months in France his special trick is long distance inflight-goals coming often from the goalkeeper on fast breaks Czech Republic international player, he took part in the WCh 2015 in Qatar, but missed the last Euro due to the birth of his son 19

20 SC Magdeburg (GER) When the EHF announced its decision in December, happiness was huge in Magdeburg: the EHF Champions League winners in 2002 will host the EHF Cup Finals on May After Berlin (2014 and 2015) and Göppingen (2017), the final tournament will be held in Germany for the fourth time. And Magdeburg hope to go all the way, just like Göppingen did when they took the title on home court last season. SC Magdeburg, by far the most successful Eastern German club since the reunification, hope to raise their fourth EHF Cup trophy. They won the title under the old format of the competition in 1999, 2001 and And, like all previous EHF Cup Finals hosts, they took advantage of their group win courtesy of which they advanced directly to the finals. In the group phase they dropped just the last game at Bjerringbro-Silkeborg. 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: Olaf Scholz ola.sch@web.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 Last season, Magdeburg were part of the EHF Cup Finals for the first time. They lost their semi-final against eventual winners and hosts Göppingen, and finished third after beating Saint-Raphael in a penalty shoot-out. Coach: Bennet Wiegert (GER) Nations represented in the squad: 10 (GER, DEN, SRB, CRO, NOR, SWE, POL, AUT, SLO, RUS) Top scorers: Matthias Musche 39 Robert Weber 31 Lukas Mertens 27 GROUP A Final Table: 1. SC Magdeburg : 157 (35) Bjerringbro-Silkeborg : 167 (-1) 6 3. SKA Minsk : 178 (-1) 5 4. TATRAN Presov : 179 (-33) 3 Road to the semi-finals: Quarter-final bye Group SKA Minsk W31:33 (19:17) vs Bjerringbro-Silkeborg W33:26 TATRAN Presov W19:29 (11:16) vs TATRAN Presov W36:24 (22:12) vs SKA Minsk W35:30 Bjerringbro-Silkeborg L27:26 (12:11) Qualification Round 3 vs HC Dobrogea Sud Constanta W27:25 HC Dobrogea Sud Constanta L27:26 (15:15) Past achievements EHF Cup Winners (3): 1998/99, 2000/01, 2006/07 Runners-up (1): 2004/05 Third place (1): 2016/17 Quarter-final (1): 2012/13 Last 16 (1): 1999/00 Other VELUX EHF Champions League: 2001/02 winners, 2003/04 semi-finals, 2002/03 quarter-final Champions Trophy: 2000/01, 2001/02 winners Cup Winners Cup: 1996/97 semi-finals, 2007/08 quarterfinals 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) 20

21 Team roster No. First Name Surname Nat. Position Date of Birth Place of Birth Height Weight Goals 25 Marko Bezjak SLO Centre Back 26/06/1986 Ptuj, SLO Hannes Bransche GER Right Back 06/01/1999 Nordhausen, GER Piotr Chrapkowski POL Left Back 24/03/1988 Goreczno, POL Mads Christiansen DEN Left Back 03/05/1986 Næstved, DEN Michael Damgaard Nielsen DEN Left Back 18/03/1990 Lolland, DEN Niklas Danowski GER Line Player 11/07/1998 Magdeburg, GER Lukas Diedrich GER Goalkeeper 28/03/2000 Northeim, GER Yves Grafenhorst GER Left Wing 15/03/1984 Stassfurt, GER Jannick Green Krejberg DEN Goalkeeper 29/09/1988 Lemvig, DEN Jakob Hensen GER Centre Back 23/06/1998 Dessau, GER Gleb Kalarash RUS Line Player 29/11/1990 Moscow, RUS Justus Kluge GER Left Wing 24/12/1997 Magdeburg, GER Justin Kurch GER Line Player 20/04/1999 Magdeburg, GER Lukas Mertens GER Left Wing 22/03/1996 Wilhelmshaven, GER Max Mohs GER Goalkeeper 12/11/1999 Magdeburg, GER Carlos Molina Cosano ESP Left Back 31/05/1991 Barcelona, ESP Juan Munoz de la Pena ESP Centre Back 04/04/1996 Madrid, ESP Zeljko Musa CRO Line Player 08/01/1986 Mostar, CRO Matthias Musche GER Left Wing 18/07/1992 Magdeburg, GER Christian O Sullivan NOR Centre Back 22/08/1991 Oslo, NOR Daniel Pettersson SWE Right Wing 06/05/1992 Eskilstuna, SWE Dario Quenstedt GER Goalkeeper 22/09/1989 Burg, GER Leon Rastner GER Left Back 09/03/1998 Santander, ESP Robert Weber AUT Right Wing 25/11/1985 Bregenz, AUT Tim Wiebe GER Left Back 23/05/1996 Rostock, GER Nemanja Zelenovic SRB Left Back 27/02/1990 Knin, CRO

22 Bennet Wiegert coach part of the SCM squad from 1998 until 2013, with the exception of only three years and won the CL with Magdeburg in 2002 Jannick Green goalkeeper his mother was Danish international, his father was his coach at Lemvig and his younger brothers plays for Aalborg in the first Danish division former German international on the left wing appointed new coach in December 2015 as successor of Geir Sveinsson his father Ingolf (Olympic champion as a player in 1980) was also Magdeburg coach was Danish champion and EHF CL participant with two different clubs: Aalborg and Bjerringbro joined Magdeburg in 2014; currently fights with Flensburg s Kevin Möller for the second goalkeeper position in the Danish team below Niklas Landin just extended his contract until 2020 director of the SCM youth academy until December 2015 EC trophies: CL 2002 (as player) OG: G 2016; EURO S 2014; WCh S 2013 Matthias Musche left wing plays for SCM since he was eight years old, excluding the 2012/13 season when he was on loan at Schwerin had his Bundesliga debut with Magdeburg at the age of 19 part of all the age categories of the German national team; had his debut for the men s team in 2014; part of the squad at the WCh 2015 in Qatar SCM s best EHF Cup scorer at moment with 39 goals OG: G 2016 Michael Damgaard left back before he joined SCM played for Gudme ( ) and Holstebro ( ) part of the first EHF Cup Finals 2013 in Nantes with Holstebro, finishing third his brother Allan left Holstebro at the same time to Hamburg, but is back in Denmark (Bjerringbro) back-up of Mikkel Hansen in the Danish national team Gleb Kalarash line player arrived at Magdeburg from Motor Zaporozhye last summer his father Vladislav had already been professional handball player - and had played for several German clubs the translation of his first name means bread in Russian loves to sing traditional Russian songs. replaced German EURO champion Finn Lemke, who joined MT Melsungen. WCh: B 2017 Marko Bezjak centre back arrived from Gorenje Velenje in 2013 Slovenian champion three times and gained Champions League experience in long Slovenian tradition is more a classical playmaker than a shooter shares the position with Norwegian Christian O Sullivan currently part of the Slovenian national team and was Olympian with them in Rio Nemanja Zelenovic right back plays for his fourth club in the fourth different country after Serbia, Slovenia and Poland after playing for Red Star Belgrade, Celje and Plock was supposed to join Magdeburg in summer 2016, but already arrived in November 2015 as SCM faced severe injury problems in the right back position will join defending EHF Cup champions Frisch Auf Göppingen next season Robert Weber right wing top Austrian scorer at the EHF EURO 2014 and the 2015 WCh; scored more than 500 for Austria scored more than 1,900 goals for Magdeburg since his arrival in 2009, before this he played for Balingen (Germany) and Hard (Austria) Bundesliga top scorer in 2014/15 with 271 goals (as first ever Magdeburg player in history), runnersup in the 2016/17 season counter-attack and penalty throw specialist 22

23 Semi-final 2 FRISCH AUF! Göppingen vs Füchse Berlin GETEC Arena, Magdeburg Saturday 19 May, 17:00 hrs. local time LIVE ON EHFTV.COM Referees: Peter Brunovsky, Vladimir Canda (SVK) Delegates: Urmo Sitsi (EST), Oyvind Togstad (NOR) The re-match of last year s final one round earlier For the second time in a row, two German teams face in the semi-final of the EHF Cup Finals, and for the second time in a row, Frisch Auf Göppingen are part of it. After beating this year s host SC Magdeburg on home ground in 2017 to pave the way for the final, now they lock horns with Füchse Berlin - their 2017 final opponent, which they beat 30:22 to raise the trophy. Now the Foxes including former Frisch Auf coach Velimir Petkovic are out to strike back. Göppingen are record EHF Cup champions with four titles, each two in the old and new format. Tim Kneule can win his fifth individual trophy with Göppingen. Göppingen and Berlin had become EHF Cup winners in the new format on home ground Since December 2016, when Velimir Petkovic became coach of Füchse Berlin, his side faced Frisch Auf Göppingen five times - and beat Petkovic s former club four times. Berlin s only defeat was a truly painful one, as they lost the 2016/17 EHF Cup Finals at Göppingen 22:30 and had to look up to the winners podium, where Frisch Auf received their fourth EHF Cup trophy. The first two titles in the old EHF Cup format happened in 2011 and and Petkovic was the mastermind behind this success. In 2013, both side went separate ways. But even the next trophy winning coach is out of duty at the defending EHF Cup winners: although he steered Frisch Auf to the titles in 2016 and 2017, Swedish coach Magnus Andersson was sacked in autumn 2017 and replaced by Handball Professor Rolf Brack. He continued, where Andersson had stopped - as Göppingen have the most impressive series of success in the history of this competition: since the 27:29 defeat in the first leg of the 2015/16 quarter-final at Magdeburg, Frisch Auf are unbeaten, with 21 victories and only one draw, which funny enough occurred in the qualification of this season against Arendal from Norway. Like in the 2016/17 season, Göppingen won all six group matches, and like in the previous year, Brack s club is much more successful in the EHF Cup compared to Bundesliga - proved for example by the two clear defeats against Füchse in the current season (19:33 at Berlin, 32:38 on home ground). Again it is our only chance to qualify for the EHF Cup by winning the trophy, says Brack, for whom Füchse have the wider squad with higher qualities. Some of his players such as Tomas Urban (definitely out) or Allan Damgaard, Daniel Fontaine, Anton Halen and Jens Schöngarth (all in question) are injured, but Berlin is hit by injuries too: defence boss Marko Kopljar is ruled out as well as his Croatian country fellow Stipe Mandalinic - some others such as line player Erik Schmidt are in question. Last year, we played a dominant season, Göppingen were weak in Bundesliga - but when it came to the EHF Cup final, everything was turned around, says Petkovic, who expects a classical 50:50 encounter. While Göppingen quite easily cruised through their quarter-finals against Chambery, winning both matches home and away, Berlin needed a miracle to make it to Magdeburg: Füchse lost the first leg 20:28 at Nexe (Croatia) after a quite uninspired performance, but then were pushed by more than 5,000 fans in their arena to a sensational 25:16 home win. The match will be a special experience for Croatian line player Kresimir Kozina, who had his last international match for Füchse in the 2017 final, before he joined Göppingen. While approximately 200 fans from Göppingen are expected in the GETEC Arena, Berlin will count on around 400 supporters from the German capital. Berlin s Danish right wing Hans Lindberg can hope for even two trophies at Magdeburg - as the 2016/17 overall top scorer is currently again on top of the top scorer list by 67 goals. Head-to-head stats in the EC competitions: Frisch Auf Göppingen vs Füchse Berlin (30:22) 2: Füchse Berlin vs Frisch Auf Göppingen, EHF Cup Finals Final 22:30 (13:15) Head-to-head stats in the domestic competitions: Frisch Auf Göppingen vs Füchse Berlin

24 FRISCH AUF! Göppingen (GER) They were the first club to defend their EHF Cup trophy after the new system was implemented in the 2012/13 season. And following their victory on home court in May, Frisch Auf Göppingen have become the record winners of the competition, leading fellow German sides THW Kiel and SC Magdeburg, who won the trophy three times in the old format. No team has been more dominant in the old and new version of the EHF Cup as Göppingen have taken the title four times in seven seasons between 2011 and 2017 And they are hungry for more success as the Men's EHF Cup Group Phase in February. Despite the great success on international level, the 12-time German champions fired their Swedish coach Magnus Andersson at the end of September. The reason was the lack of success in the Bundesliga. 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 Online information: Website: Facebook: frischaufgp One of the most experienced German handball coaches took over: Rolf Brack, who steered Balingen for more than a decade and later was the Swiss national team coach The sports and handball professor at the Stuttgart University had a debut at the age of 64: The EHF Cup Qualification Round 3 matches against OIF Arendal in November were his first ever international games on club level. After a surprising draw on home court, the defending champions beat the Norwegian side 31:21 in the away game 10 days later. In the group phase they cruised past their opponents in all games and clinched their ticket to Magdeburg thanks to two clear wins over Chambery in the quarter-finals. Coach: Rolf Brack (GER) Nations represented in the squad: 7 (GER, DEN, SRB, CRO, SWE, SLO, SVK) Top scorers: Marcel Schiller 57 Kresimir Kozina 34 Daniel Fontaine 28 GROUP C Final Table: 1. Frisch Auf Göppingen : 144 (33) RK Nexe : 152 (12) 8 3. RD Koper : 168 (-16) 2 4. Cocks : 172 (-29) 2 Kit colours Light Player shirt: white Player short: green Goalkeeper shirt: red Dark Player shirt: green Player short: white Goalkeeper shirt: blue Road to the semi-finals: Chambery Savoie MBH W27:30 (11:19) vs Chambery Savoie MBH W31:27 (18:13) Group Phase vs RK Nexe W30:27 RD Koper W20:25 Cocks W20:31 (12:14) vs Cocks W33:27 RK Nexe W24:27 (8:15) vs RD Koper W31:26 (17:11) Qualification Round 3 vs OIF Arendal D27:27 OIF Arendal W21:31 (9:15) Past achievements EHF Cup Winners (4): 2010/11, 2011/12, 2015/16, 2016/17 Runners-up (1): 2005/06 EHF Cup Finals (3): 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) 24

25 Team roster No. First Name Surname Nat. Position Date of Birth Place of Birth Height Weight Goals 14 Jacob Bagersted DEN Line Player 25/03/1987 København, DEN Allan Damgaard Espersen DEN Centre Back 11/04/1986 Nysted, DEN Daniel Fontaine GER Left Back 02/07/1989 Saarlouis, GER Tobias Gehrke GER Left Wing 05/01/1996 Esslingen, GER Anton Halen SWE Right Wing 28/11/1990 Helgum, SWE Sebastian Heymann GER Left Back 01/03/1998 Heilbronn, GER Tim Kneule GER Centre Back 18/08/1986 Reutlingen, GER Kresimir Kozina CRO Line Player 25/06/1990 Derventa, CRO Linus Mathes GER Goalkeeper 03/09/1996 Berlin, GER Jochen Nägele GER Right Wing 26/05/1993 Geislingen, GER Adrian Pfahl GER Right Back 30/07/1982 Bietigheim-Biss., GER Primoz Prost SLO Goalkeeper 14/07/1983 Trbovlje, SLO Daniel Rebmann GER Goalkeeper 16/01/1994 Stuttgart, GER Marco Rentschler GER Right Wing 28/12/1994 Bietigheim-Biss., GER Jan Reusch GER Centre Back 08/02/1996 Bad Urach, GER Joscha Ritterbach GER Left Wing 31/01/1994 Lengerich, GER Marcel Schiller GER Left Wing 15/08/1991 Bad Urach, GER Jens Schöngarth GER Right Back 07/12/1988 Emmendingen, GER Zarko Sesum SRB Left Back 16/06/1986 Backa Palanka, SRB Alexander Trost GER Right Wing 12/05/1981 Nürtingen, GER Tomas Urban SVK Right Wing 17/09/1989 Kosice, SVK

26 Rolf Brack coach started his coaching career 34 years ago and coached Göppingen before from 1994 to 1996 had his longest period coaching German Bundesliga team HBW Balingen from 2004 to September 2013 coached the Swiss national team for three years became successor of Swedish Magnus Andersson, who had steered Frisch Auf to the 2016 and 2017 EHF Cup trophies besides his coaching job is professor of physical education at the Stuttgart university EC trophies: EHF Cup 2016, 2017 Primoz Prost goalkeeper has gained EHF Champions League experience with Velenje, Bjerringbro-Silkeborg and Montpellier French champion with Montpellier, at the side of players like Nikola Karabatic joined Frisch Auf Göppingen in summer 2013 has played more than 80 matches for the Slovenian national team, with the highlight being the 2013 WCh in Spain (semi-finals) EC trophies: EHF Cup 2016, 2017 Marcel Schiller left wing started his career in Neuhausen; German youth champion with Neuhausen arrived at Göppingen in 2013 after scoring 172 Bundesliga goals for Neuhausen in the 2012/13 season had his debut in the Men s national team last autumn against Switzerland currently Göppingen s best scorer of the EHF Cup 2015/16 (57 goals) EC trophies: EHF Cup 2013, 2016, 2017 EURO: S 2012 Zarko Sesum left back born in the same Serbian city, Backa Palanka, like THW Kiel s right back Marko Vujin; like Vujin, he transferred to Veszprem, in 2010 switched for Rhein- Neckar Löwen, then for Frisch Auf severely injured (skull fracture) during an incident in a night club in Veszprem in 2009, when his former teammate Marian Cozma was killed MVP of the EHF Cup Finals 2016 in Nantes will join Kadetten Schaffhausen after this season EC trophies: EHF Cup 2011, 2012, 2016, 2017 Tim Kneule centre back like many others in the Göppingen squad played in the youth programme of TV Neuhausen joined Frisch Auf at the age of 20 in 2006 part of the successful German younger age category teams, which became U20 EURO champions in 2006 and runners-up at the U21 WCh 2007 (at the side of Uwe Gensheimer) needed six more years to have his debut in the German men s team in 2012; has played 27 times for the men s team Adrian Pfahl right back/right wing started his career close to Göppingen, in Oßweil, before joining Dormagen and later Gummersbach joined Hamburg right after HSV became CL winner, in January 2016 transferred to Göppingen has played 61 internationals for Germany including the 2011 & 2013 WCh and the EURO 2012 only player in the squad with five EC trophies has scored more than 1,000 goals in German Bundesliga, highlighted by 225 goals in 2010/11 will finish career after this season EURO: B 2016 Kresimir Kozina line player started his career at Croatian side Zamet, then joined EHF Cup participant Nexe at the age of 21 left to Austrian side Alpla Hard in 2013, became two times domestic champion and scored 279 goals for them after half of a season at SG Flensburg-Handewitt in October 2015, he joined Füchse Berlin in 2016 had his last international match for Füchse in last year s EHF Cup final against Göppingen, his new club Marco Rentschler right wing another local hero, as he is born at Bietigheim, where he played until scored 84 goals to steer his former side to Bundesliga in right after his transfer to Göppingen, he tore his ACT and was out for several month studies business administration besides handball shares the position with Anton Halen EC trophies: EHF Cup 2009, 2016; 2017, CWC 2010, 2011 EC trophies: EHF Cup 2016,

27 Füchse Berlin (GER) During six years of participation in European club competitions, Füchse Berlin have made it to the finals event four times. They have done it three times in the Men s EHF Cup. In 2014 (third) and 2015 (champions), the Foxes hosted the event in Berlin; in 2017 (finalists) they lost to hosts Frisch Auf Göppingen. Füchse also qualified for the VELUX EHF FINAL4 as debutant in the competition in And twice they won the IHF Super Globe, in 2015 and At the EHF EURO, Füchse were the only EHF Cup participants with a player in the All-star Team as Jakov Gojun of Croatia was named best defender. Swedish right wing Mattias Zachrisson returned with a silver medal but the German and Croatian players were rather disappointed after missing out on the semi-finals. Serbian international Petar Nenadic moved to Veszprém in the winter break (and has been replaced by Zagreb s Stipe Mandalinic) while German international Paul Drux missed the group phase after injuring his right knee at the EHF EURO in Croatia, but returned to the squad for the quarter-finals against Nexe. Playing hall Max-Schmeling-Halle Falkplatz Berlin Germany Capacity: 8,521 Club Address: Füchse Berlin Markgrafenstraße Berlin Germany Media contact: Ronald Maier maier@fuechse.berlin Following an unexpected eight-goal defeat in the first game in Croatia Füchse struggled also in the return leg and shortly after the break they led only by two goals. Still the German club prevailed in a dramatic end and denied Nexe in their bid for a EHF Cup Finals premiere. Coach: Velimir Petkovic (GER) Nations represented in the squad: 7 (GER, DEN, ISL, CRO, SWE, ESP, CZE) Top scorers: Hans Lindberg 67 Steffen Fäth 39 Mattias Zachrisson 28 GROUP B Final Table: 1. Füchse Berlin : 154 (31) Saint-Raphael Var Handball : 165 (18) Helvetia Anaitasuna : 201 (-27) 4 4. Lugi HF : 191 (-22) 0 Online information: Website: Facebook: fuechseberlin Kit colours Light Player shirt: white Player short: grey Goalkeeper shirt: yellow Dark Player shirt: blue Player short: blue Goalkeeper shirt: red Road to the semi-finals: RK Nexe L28:20 (12:9) vs RK Nexe W25:16 (14:9) Group Phase vs Saint-Raphael Var H. L21:26 Lugi HF W27:32 Helvetia Anaitasuna W28:30 (11:17) vs Helvetia Anaitasuna W34:23 Saint-Raphael Var H. L25:34 (12:17) vs Lugi HF W34:25 (17:12) Qualification Round Futebol Clube do Porto W27:30 (12:14) vs Futebol Clube do Porto W33:25 (17:12) Past achievements EHF Cup Winners (1): 2014/15 EHF Cup Finals (3): runners-up 2016/17, third place 2013/14, winners 2014/15 Qualification Round 3 (1): 2015/16 Other VELUX EHF Champions League: 2011/12 VELUX EHF FINAL4 - fourth place, 2012/13 Last 16 IHF Super Globe: winners 2015, 2016 German cup: 1 title (2014) 27

28 Team roster No. First Name Surname Nat. Position Date of Birth Place of Birth Height Weight Goals 19 Cyrill Akakpo GER Right Wing 01/10/1997 Berlin, GER Tim Bielzer GER Centre Back 07/11/1997 Berlin, GER Paul Drux GER Left Back 07/02/1995 Gummersbach, GER Bjarki Mar Elisson ISL Left Wing 16/05/1990 Reykjavik, ISL Steffen Fäth GER Left Back 04/04/1990 Frankfurt a.m., GER Fynn Ole Fritz GER Left Back 03/05/1997 Berlin, GER Frederik Genz GER Goalkeeper 08/03/1997 Waldbröl, GER Erik Gerntke GER Right Back 14/05/1999 Herzberg, GER Jakov Gojun CRO Left Back 18/04/1986 Split, CRO Silvio Heinevetter GER Goalkeeper 21/10/1984 Bad Langensalza, GER Konstantin Karch GER Goalkeeper 07/05/1999 Heidelberg, GER Johan Koch DEN Line Player 29/11/1990 Svendborg, DEN Marko Kopljar CRO Right Back 12/02/1986 Pozega, CRO Hans Lindberg DEN Right Wing 01/08/1981 Höje Taastrup, DEN Stipe Mandalinic CRO Left Back 09/09/1992 Split, CRO Tim Matthes GER Left Wing 05/05/1999 Berlin, GER Torben Matzken GER Centre Back 01/02/2000 Mons, BEL Oliver Milde GER Left Back 09/07/1993 Berlin, GER Maximilian Mißling GER Right Back 29/07/1998 Wolfsburg, GER Petar Nenadic SRB Centre Back 28/06/1986 Beograd, SRB Ignacio Plaza Jimenez ESP Line Player 10/01/1994 Ciudad Real, ESP Mex Raguse GER Left Back 07/12/1999 Berlin, GER Joshua Rau GER Goalkeeper 01/11/1999 Berlin, GER Christoph Reißky GER Right Back 11/08/1995 Freiberg, GER Kuno Schauer GER Centre Back 07/11/1998 Berlin, GER Erik Schmidt GER Line Player 28/12/1992 Mainz, GER Julius Schröder GER Centre Back 24/04/1998 Gummersbach, GER Frederik Simak GER Left Back 24/01/1998 Gengenbach, GER Petr Stochl CZE Goalkeeper 24/04/1976 Pilsen, CZE Kevin Struck GER Left Wing 31/12/1996 Berlin, GER Rolando Urios Gonzales ESP Line Player 10/04/1999 La Havanna, CUB Drago Vukovic CRO Centre Back 03/08/1983 Split, CRO Fabian Wiede GER Right Back 08/02/1994 Belzig, GER Mattias Zachrisson SWE Right Wing 22/08/1990 Huddinge, SWE

29 Velimir Petkovic coach born in former Yugoslavia, but with German citizenship now as player won the European Champions Cup in 1976 with Borac Banja Luka as coach of the same club he won the IHF Cup Winners Cup in 1991 after his six-year stint with Wetzlar he was at the helm of Frisch Auf Göppingen for nearly ten years steering them to two EHF Cup titles and the premiere edition of the EHF Cup Finals in 2013 Silvio Heinevetter goalkeeper goalkeeping stalwart of the German national team his former goalkeeper coach at SC Magdeburg was legendary Wieland Schmidt (Olympic champion 1980) famous for his unusual style of saving shots dating with a German TV star Simone Thomalla currently has 173 international matches for Germany on his account EC trophies: EHF Cup 2011, 2012, IHF CWC 1991 (as coach), Champions Cup 1976 (as Player) EC trophies: EHF Cup 2015 EC trophies: EHF Cup 2010 EHF EURO: G2016, OG B 2016 EC trophies: EHF Cup 2015 EURO: G 2016, OG: B 2016 Bjarki Mar Elisson left wing discovered by his fellow country man and former Füchse coach Erlingur Richardsson was already playing two years in Germany (Eisenach), before he joining Füchse in 2015 had his debut with the Icelandic national team in but has to face the strong competition with Gudjon Valur Sigurdsson in the same position one of Füchse s counter attack specialists known as the joker of the team Steffen Fäth centre back was the first and so far only IHF Rookie of the Year 2010 was EHF EURO U18 champion and U21 World Champion after playing for Wallau, Rhein-Neckar Löwen and Gummersbach he settled down at Wetzlar in 2010 after six years and becoming national team player, he joined Berlin in 2016; will return to Löwen after this season can either play on left back or centre back Fabian Wiede right back transferred from Potsdam to Füchse s youth team in Berlin at the age of 15; since then (in youth and senior competitions) won ten titles with Füchse the loss in the EHF Cup Final in 2017 marked the first time he and club director Bob Hanning made it to a final of a competition and didn't win it made his debut in the German national team at the age of 19 started an apprenticeship at a bank in Berlin only two days after becoming EURO champion in 2016 EC trophies: EHF Cup 2007, 2015 OG: B 2016 EC trophies: EHF Cup 2015 OG: B 2016 EURO: G 2016 Paul Drux left back born in Gummersbach, discovered by Füchse Berlin, when he was 16 All-star player at the Men s 20 EHF EURO 2014 in Austria, where he led the Germans to the gold medal like at the Men s 18 EHF EURO 2012 just recovered from a meniscus injury occurred at the EHF EURO 2018 missed several top events due to long-term injuries Erik Schmidt line player TSG Friesenheim (Ludwigshafen) was his first Bundesliga club from 2015 until 2017, he played for TSG Hannover-Burgdorf at Hannover, he had his first EHF Cup participation and become national team player rather an attack player than a defence specialist replaced Kresimir Kozina, who left from Berlin to Göppingen Hans Lindberg right wing joined Berlin after a long stint with HSV Hamburg was top scorer of the Champions League season 2012/13; top scorer of the Bundesliga in 2012/13 and WCh 2013 All-star team member started his career in Viborg; his nickname in during his days with Viborg was majestæt has played more than 240 times for the Danish national team since 2007 EHF Cup top scorer in the 2016/17 season and leader in 2017/18 EC trophies: CL 2013 EURO: G 2008, G 2012, S 2014, WCh S 2011, S 2013, B

30 Important regulations Extra-time and penalty throws All matches of the Ottostadt Magdeburg EHF Cup Finals shall be played in 2 x 30 minutes. If a semi-final match or the final 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 half-time for the changeover of teams. If the extra-time ends in a draw, the match will be decided by penalty throws. If the placement match 3/4 ends in a draw, there shall be no extra time, the match will be decided directly by penalty throws. If penalty throws are needed to decide the match, the procedure is as follows: At the Technical Meeting the teams will be informed at which goal the penalty throws will be 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. Prior to the penalty throws, 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 perform as goalkeepers. If the scores are equal after the first round of penalty throws, 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 that have not been disqualified or suspended at the time of the final whistle. Serious infractions committed during penalty throws shall be sanctioned by disqualification. If a thrower is disqualified or suffers an injury, an eligible substitute player shall be additionally named. 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 court. If the number of eligible players falls below five, players may be named to take a second throw in the same round. 30

31 Sunday s matches Sunday, 20 May /4 Placement Match (12:45 hrs): Loser Saint-Raphael/Magdeburg vs Loser Göppingen/Füchse Referees: Ivan Mosorinski, Aleksandar Pandzic (SRB) Final (17:00 hrs): Winner Saint-Raphael/Magdeburg vs Loser Göppingen/Füchse Referees: Per Olesen, Claus Gramm Pedersen (DEN) Potential head-to-heads Saint-Raphael Var Handball vs Füchse Berlin (133:144) 4: Füchse Berlin vs Saint-Raphael Var Handball, EHF Cup Group A 33:31 (19:14) Saint-Raphael Var Handball vs Füchse Berlin, EHF Cup Group A 27:21 (11:12) Saint-Raphael Var Handball vs Füchse Berlin, EHF Cup Finals Semi-final 24:35 (10:17) Füchse Berlin vs Saint-Raphael Var Handball, EHF Cup Group B 21:26 (7:13) Saint-Raphael Var Handball vs Füchse Berlin, EHF Cup Group B 25:34 (12:17) Saint-Raphael Var Handball vs Frisch Auf Göppingen No previous encounters in European competitions Füchse Berlin vs SC Magdeburg No previous encounters in European competitions (25 matches - 14 Füchse victories - 4 draws - 7 Magdeburg victories in the domestic competitions) Frisch Auf Göppingen vs SC Magdeburg (91:83) 4: 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) SC Magdeburg vs Frisch Auf Göppingen, EHF Cup Finals Semi-final 29:33 (14:16) (42 matches - 12 Göppingen victories - 4 draws - 26 Magdeburg victories in the domestic competitions) Impact on the distribution of places in 2018/19 According to the EHF Place Distribution for the 2018/19 season Germany basically has a total of two places in the Champions League available and three places in the EHF Cup. Considering the results of the German Cup Final Four, where Rhein-Neckar Löwen beat Hannover in the final, the two teams ranked No 1 and 2 of the Bundesliga can register for the Champions League, while the third placed as well as the fourth placed team can register for the EHF Cup together with Hannover as the losing team of the Cup final assuming that Rhein-Neckar Löwen will be among the two teams ranked either first or second after the last round of the season The Ottostadt Magdeburg EHF Cup Finals will have a large impact on the situation of the EHF Cup places. The following alternatives are possible: Füchse Berlin or SC Magdeburg win the EHF Cup and also qualify for the EHF Cup via the domestic league. In this case Germany will have the right to register an additional team to the EHF Cup 2018/19 which then is a total of four teams. If the winner of the EHF Cup will end the Bundesliga season on either first or second rank, this would not change the situation for the EHF Cup and still bring an additional place, so still a total of four places. If Saint-Raphael wins the EHF Cup, Germany has no right for a fourth place, but could still request a fourth place which then would be awarded by the EHF or not, depending on the total number of registrations. The right for an additional place would then go the French federation. If Frisch Auf Göppingen wins the EHF Cup the club is automatically qualified for the next season s EHF Cup as defending champion. In this case, apart from the third and fourth ranked team and Hannover, no further team can be registered to the EHF Cup. 31

32 All-time stats of the EHF Cup Finals All-time ranking 1. Frisch Auf Göppingen GER : :4 2. Füchse Berlin GER : :4 3. Rhein-Neckar Löwen GER : :0 4. Pick Szeged HUN : :0 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. SC Magdeburg GER :64-3 2:2 11. Team Tvis Holstebro DEN :53-5 2:2 12. HCM Constanta ROU :65-5 0:4 13. Chambery Savoie Handball FRA :53-7 0:4 14. Rk Gorenje Velenje SLO :54-8 0:4 15. Saint-Raphael Var Handball FRA : :4 Most goals in one game Yves Grafenhorst Saint-Raphael Var Handball-SC Magdeburg 31:32 Hans Lindberg Saint-Raphael Var Handball-Füchse Berlin 24:35 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 Daniel Pettersson Saint-Raphael Var Handball-SC Magdeburg 31:32 Dragan Gajic HCM Constanta-Montpellier Agglomeration HB 32:36 Marcel Schiller Chambery Savoie Handball-Frisch Auf Göppingen 25:28 Cedric Paty Chambery Savoie Handball-Fraikin BM. Granollers 21:25 Zarko Sesum SC Magdeburg-Frisch Auf Göppingen 29:33 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: Füchse Berlin-Pick Szeged 22: Chambery Savoie Handball-Fraikin BM. Granollers 21:25 Biggest win at Ottostadt Magdeburg EHF Cup Finals: Saint-Raphael Var Handball-Füchse Berlin 24:35 Most goals at half-time at Ottostadt Magdeburg EHF Cup Finals: 18 Montpellier Agglomeration HB HCM Constanta-Montpellier Agglomeration HB (14:18) Most goals at half-time both teams at Ottostadt Magdeburg EHF Cup Finals: HCM Constanta-Montpellier Agglomeration HB (14:18) 32

33 Least goals at half-time at Ottostadt Magdeburg EHF Cup Finals: 7 Frisch Auf Göppingen Frisch Auf Göppingen-Rhein-Neckar Löwen (7:12) Least goals at half-time both teams at Ottostadt Magdeburg EHF Cup Finals: Frisch Auf Göppingen-Rhein-Neckar Löwen (7:12) Biggest gap at half-time at Ottostadt Magdeburg EHF Cup Finals: +7 Füchse Berlin Saint-Raphael Var Handball-Füchse Berlin (10:17) Biggest change from half-time score to full-time score at Ottostadt Magdeburg EHF Cup Finals: Chambery Savoie Handball-Frisch Auf Göppingen 25:28 (14:9) Most penalty minutes at Ottostadt Magdeburg EHF Cup Finals: 16 Frisch Auf Göppingen Frisch Auf Göppingen-Rhein-Neckar Löwen 22:28 16 Rhein-Neckar Löwen HBC Nantes-Rhein-Neckar Löwen 24:26 Most penalty minutes both teams at Ottostadt Magdeburg EHF Cup Finals: HBC Nantes-Rhein-Neckar Löwen 24:26 Least penalty minutes at Ottostadt Magdeburg EHF Cup Finals: 2 Rk Gorenje Velenje Rk Gorenje Velenje-Skjern Handbold 22:27 2 Chambery Savoie Handball Chambery Savoie Handball-Frisch Auf Göppingen 25:28 Least penalty minutes both teams at Ottostadt Magdeburg EHF Cup Finals: Rk Gorenje Velenje-Skjern Handbold 22:27 Most 7m throws at Ottostadt Magdeburg EHF Cup Finals: 11 Saint-Raphael Var Handball Saint-Raphael Var Handball-SC Magdeburg 31:32 Most 7m throws both teams at Ottostadt Magdeburg EHF Cup Finals: Saint-Raphael Var Handball-SC Magdeburg 31:32 Least 7m throws at Ottostadt Magdeburg EHF Cup Finals: 0 Team Tvis Holstebro Team Tvis Holstebro-HBC Nantes 20:26 Least 7m throws both teams at Ottostadt Magdeburg EHF Cup Finals: Team Tvis Holstebro-Frisch Auf Göppingen 28:27 Most 7m throws scored at Ottostadt Magdeburg EHF Cup Finals: 9 Saint-Raphael Var Handball Saint-Raphael Var Handball-SC Magdeburg 31:32 9 SC Magdeburg Saint-Raphael Var Handball-SC Magdeburg 31:32 Most 7m throws scored both teams at Ottostadt Magdeburg EHF Cup Finals: Saint-Raphael Var Handball-SC Magdeburg 31:32 Least 7m throws scored at Ottostadt Magdeburg EHF Cup Finals: 0 Team Tvis Holstebro Team Tvis Holstebro-HBC Nantes 20:26 0 Frisch Auf Göppingen Team Tvis Holstebro-Frisch Auf Göppingen 28:27 Least 7m throws scored both teams at Ottostadt Magdeburg EHF Cup Finals: Team Tvis Holstebro-Frisch Auf Göppingen 28:27 Disqualifications at Ottostadt Magdeburg EHF Cup Finals: Manuel Späth (Frisch Auf Göppingen) Frisch Auf Göppingen-Rhein-Neckar Löwen 22:28 Alexandru Viorel Simicu (HSV Hamburg) Füchse Berlin-HSV Hamburg 30:27 Bjarki Mar Elisson (Füchse Berlin) Saint-Raphael Var Handball-Füchse Berlin 24:35 33

34 Previous seasons top scorers Season Name & nation Club Goals 2016/17 Hans Lindberg (DEN) Füchse Berlin (GER) /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 Current top scorers Rank Name & nation Club Goals 1 Hans Lindberg (DEN) Füchse Berlin (GER) 67 2 Raphael Caucheteux (FRA) Saint-Raphael Var Handball (FRA) 62 Nico Rönnberg (FIN) Cocks (FIN) 62 4 Uladzislau Kulesh (BLR) SKA Minsk (BLR) 58 5 Sasa Barisic Jaman (SLO) RK Nexe (CRO) 57 Marcel Schiller (GER) Frisch Auf Göppingen (GER) 57 7 Lenny Rubin (SUI) Wacker Thun (SUI) 51 Vedran Zrnic (CRO) RK Nexe (CRO) 51 9 Fahrudin Melic (MNE) Chambery Savoie Mont Blanc H. (FRA) Adrian Figueras (ESP) Fraikin BM. Granollers (ESP) Jakub Hrstka (CZE) TATRAN Presov (SVK) 47 Nikolaj Oris Nielsen (DEN) Bjerringbro-Silkeborg (DEN) Adam Bratkovic (SLO) RD Koper (SLO) Marc Cañellas (ESP) Fraikin BM. Granollers (ESP) 41 Hampus Jildenbäck (SWE) Lugi HF (SWE) Quentin Minel (FRA) Chambery Savoie Mont Blanc H. (FRA) 40 Raul Nantes Campos (BRA) Helvetia Anaitasuna (ESP) 40 David Resina Forns (ESP) Fraikin BM. Granollers (ESP) Steffen Fäth (GER) Füchse Berlin (GER) 39 Matthias Musche (GER) SC Magdeburg (GER) Adrien Dipanda (FRA) Saint-Raphael Var Handball (FRA) 37 (Bold text indicates players that are still active in the competition.) 34

35 Past winners 2017 Frisch Auf Göppingen (GER) 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) Ottostadt Magdeburg EHF Cup Finals 2018 Media Guide by EHF Media & Communications, 16/05/2018 Contributors: Björn Pazen, Kevin Domas, all stats by Roy Knoppert 35

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