QUALIFICATION GROUPS DETERMINED

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3 QUALIFICATION GROUPS DETERMINED All twenty teams vying for six places in the 2013/14 VELUX EHF Champions League Group Phase know their respective hurdles now as the draw of the qualification was carried out in the EHF headquarters in Vienna on Thursday 27th June. The draw has been conducted by Sándor Andorka, the member of the EHF Competition Commission for Club competitions. The home right for both legs of the knock-out match between Handball Esch and HK DROTT Halmstad has been also drawn as the Luxembourgish surprise package of the last season's Challenge Cup will play the first leg away. Twelve other qualification teams were divided into three groups. All tournaments will be played over the weekend 31 August/1 September in two semi-finals, in which teams from Pot 1 will play against teams from Pot 4 and teams from Pot 2 will meet teams from Pot 3, followed by finals. In Group 2 the participant of the previous season's Last 16 Dinamo Minsk will take on AEK Athens and Tatran Prešov face Besiktas JK. In Group 3 Borac m:tel Banja Luka play against HC Motor Zaporozhye and RK Vojvodina against Alpla HC Hard and in Group 4 HCM Constanta meet HV KRAS/Volendam and FC Porto Vitalis face Elverum Handball Herrer. The first right to organise tournaments has been drawn to the teams from the row 2 (Tatran Prešov, RK Vojvodina, FC Porto Vitalis). The home right for the Wild Card knock-out match between HSV Hamburg and Füchse Berlin will be drawn on Friday, 28 June at 20:15 at the Gloriette in Vienna. Results of the VELUX EHF Champions League Qualification draw: Knock-out match - Group 1: (Playing dates: 24/25 August and 31 August/1 September 2013) 1st leg: HK DROTT Halmstad (SWE) vs Handball Esch (LUX) 2nd leg: Handball Esch (LUX) vs HK DROTT Halmstad (SWE) Group 2 Group 3 Group 4 Row 1 HC Dinamo Minsk (BLR) Borac m:tel Banja Luka (BIH) HCM Constanta (ROU) Row 2 Tatran Prešov (SVK) HC Vojvodina (SRB) FC Porto Vitalis Row 3 Besiktas JK (TUR) Alpla HC Hard (AUT) Elverum Handball (NOR) Row 4 AEK Athens (GRE) HC Motor (UKR) HV KRAS/Volendam (NED)

4 GROUP PHASE DRAW PREVIEW: EXCITING ENCOUNTERS PROMISED 18 teams from eleven nations have been handed direct qualification for the Group Phase of the 2013/14 VELUX EHF Champions League season on account of the EHF seeding list. Top ranked nations Germany and Spain have three spots each, Denmark, France and Slovenia have two clubs each among those 18 teams, while Hungary, Poland, Croatia, Russia, FYR Macedonia and Switzerland are represented by one team each in the Group Phase. The Gloriette in Vienna s famous Schönbrunn castle will be the venue for the composition of those four groups. On Friday, 28 June at 20:15 hrs. local time the draw will take place, live-streamed and followed by interviews with the club representatives on ehftv.com. Additionally a live ticker is available on eurohandball.com and draw update on EHF regulations state that teams from the same nation cannot be drawn in the same group with one exception: a team arriving from the Wild Card Tournament (Montpellier, Metalurg, Szeged and Plock) or the Wild Card KO matches between defending champions Hamburg and Berlin. Besides defending champions HSV Hamburg and 2003 champions MAHB Montpellier (both still have the chance to make it among those 24 teams of the Group Phase) each of the VELUX EHF Champions League winners since 2004 are among those 18 teams directly qualified: THW Kiel (winner 2007, 2010, 2012), FC Barcelona Intersport (winner 2005, 2011), Atletico Madrid (winner 2006, 2008, 2009 under their former name Ciudad Real) and RK Pivovarna Lasko Celje (winner 2004). Paris is calling Despite the familiarity among many of the teams involved, those who assumed that only the traditionally strong teams are among those 18 teams to be drawn in the four groups on Friday are completely wrong. Some new faces will bring a fresh breath of life to the VELUX EHF Champions League. A special focus is on PSG Handball. The team from Paris became French champion for the first time and their shopping spree which started in 2012 when Qatari investors took over the club is not finished. After signing players like former World Handball Player of the Year Mikkel Hansen (Denmark), Marko Kopljar (Croatia), World, European and Olympic champions Luc Abalo and Didier Dinart (both France) in the previous season, now the current World Handball Player of the Year Daniel Narcisse (France, from THW Kiel), Croatian Olympic and World Champion Igor Vori (arriving from defending VELUX EHF Champions League winner HSV Hamburg) and Hungarian playmaker Gabor Czaszar (Veszprem) have joined the club seeded in Pot 2 on Friday.

5 Danish dynamite and Macedonians with a Russian twist Paris is not the only new team hoping to make a major impact on the VELUX EHF Champions League. Aalborg Handball, founded in 2011, made it to the Group Phase as Danish champions for the first time. And the club of former THW Kiel player Nicolaj Jakobsen is seeded in Pot 1, avoiding clubs like THW Kiel, FC Barcelona or MKB Veszprem in the Group Phase. Pot 3 includes new Macedonian champions Vardar Skopje, with four former players of Russian powerhouse Chekhovskie Medvedi (Mikhail Chipurin, Daniil Shishkarev, Alexey Rastvortsev and Timur Dibirov). Fresh blood from France, Switzerland and Spain Three more teams enter the best club competition in handball for the first time: Swiss champions Wacker Thun (former EHF Challenge Cup winner), Spanish team Naturhouse La Rioja (third ranked in the Asobal league) and Dunkerque HB Grand Littoral (second ranked in France). Major transfers among the traditional teams Many of the teams who are regular faces in the competition have been undergoing a squad transformation. After losing the thrilling final against Hamburg in extra-time, FC Barcelona Intersport reinforced their squad with top guns and former Champions League top scorers Nikola Karabatic (Aixen-Provence/Montpellier) and Kiril Lazarov (Madrid). Kiel lost four experienced players (Thierry Omeyer/Montpellier, Daniel Narcisse/Paris, Momir Ilic/Veszprem and Marcus Ahlm/end of career), but signed rising stars Wael Jallouz, Rasmus Lauge and Johan Sjöstrand. Veszprem lost Csaszar to Paris, but signed Ilic and Celje lost their top shooter Borut Mačkovšek to German side Hannover-Burgdorf. Playing system remains the same The Group Phase will as since the 2009/10 season - be played in ten rounds from 18 September 2013 to 23 February 2014 (seven rounds in 2013, three after the EHF EURO 2014 break). The four best teams of each group qualify for the Last 16 (19-30 March 2014), when the group winners will face the fourth ranked teams and the runners-up compete with the third ranked teams for the eight spots of the quarter-finals (16-27 April 2014). Those quarter-final winners have made it to the pinnacle of the season, the VELUX EHF FINAL4 in Cologne (31 May/1 June 2014).

6 SIX CLUBS TO COMPETE IN WILD CARD QUALIFICATION A decision has been reached by the EHF Executive Committee at its meeting in Herning, Denmark regarding the teams that will receive a wild card place in qualification for the VELUX EHF Champions League in the 2013/14 season. Eight clubs were put forward for a place, in addition to winners of the 2012/13 competition, HSV Hamburg, who received a guaranteed place in wild card qualification having not qualified directly through their national league. Play-off match for Hamburg and Füchse The EHF Executive took into consideration the situation in the German league, which has seen Füchse Berlin finish in fourth place whilst HSV Hamburg finished in fifth place. The view was taken that both teams are of a standard to compete in the VELUX EHF Champions League and that Füchse Berlin should not be penalised when they finished in a higher position in the German league. The decision was therefore reached that HSV Hamburg and Füchse Berlin should play each other home and away in a play-off match for direct qualification to the Group Phase. Four teams in wild card tournament A second place in the Group Phase is available to the winner of a wild card tournament. The EHF Executive Committee decided that the following teams would compete in the tournament: Szeged (HUN) Plock (POL) Montpellier (FRA) Metalurg (MKD) Wild card tournament will be played semi-finals Szeged (HUN) versus Metalurg (MKD) and Plock (POL) versus Montpellier (FRA). The tournament will be played 31 August/1 September The winner goes to the Group Phase and the remaining three teams will participate in the EHF Cup. The three teams not receiving a place in the wild card tournament, Skjern (DEN), Schaffhausen (SUI) and Kristianstad (SWE) will also play in the Men s EHF Cup.

7 CLUB PROFILES POT 1 THW Kiel (GER) German champions Coach: Alfred Gislason, since 2008 Participations (including 2013/14 season): 17 Winner (3): 2006/07, 2009/10, 2011/12 Final (3): 1999/2000, 2007/08, 2008/09 Semi-final (3): 1996/97, 2000/01, 2012/13 Quarter-final (5): 1998/99, 2002/03, 2004/05, 2005/06, 2010/11 Group Phase (2): 1994/95, 1995/96 EHF Cup: Winner 1997/98, 2001/02, 2003/04 German champion: 18 (1957, 1962, 1963, 1994, 1995, 1996, 1998, 1999, 2000, 2002, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010 und 2012, 2013) German Cup winner: 9 (1998, 1999, 2000, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2011, 2012, 2013) Aalborg Handball (DEN) Danish Champion Coach: Nicolaj Jakobsen, since 2012 Participations (including 2013/14 season): 1 Danish champion: 2012/13

8 FC Barcelona (ESP) Spanish Champion Coach: Xavi Pascual, since Participations (including 2013/14 season): 17 Winner (7): 1995/96, 1996/97, 1997/98, 1998/99, 1999/2000, 2004/05, 2010/11 Final (3): 2000/01, 2009/10, 2012/13 Semi-final (1): 2007/08 Quarter-final (3): 2005/06, 2006/07, 2011/12 Last 16 (1): 2003/2004 Main Round (1): 2008/09 EHF Cup: Winner: 2002/03, Finalist 2001/02 Cup Winners' Cup: Winner: 1993/94, 1994/95 Spanish champion: 1969, 1973, 1980, 1982, 1986, 1988, 1989, 1990, 1991, 1992, 1996, 1997, 1998, 1999, 2000, 2003, 2006, 2011, 2012, 2013 Spanish Cup winner: 1969, 1972, 1973, 1983, 1984, 1985, 1988, 1990, 1993, 1994, 1997, 1998, 2000, 2004, 2007, 2009, 2010 MKB Veszprém KC (HUN) Hungarian Champion Coach: Carlos Antonio Ortega Perez, since July 2012 Participations (including 2013/2014 season): 19 Final (1): 2001/02 Semi-final (2): 2002/03, 2005/06 Quarter-final (9): 1997/98, 1998/99, 1999/2000, 2003/04, 2004/05, 2006/07, 20/2009, 2009/10, 2012/13 Last 16 (2): 1993/94, 2010/11, 2011/12 Group Phase (3): 1994/95, 1995/96, 2007/08 Cup Winners Cup: Winner 2007/08, Final: 1996/97 Hungarian champion: 1985, 1986, 1992, 1993, 1994, 1995, 1997, 1998, 1999, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013 Hungarian Cup winner: 1984, 1988, 1989, 1990, 1991, 1992, 1994, 1995, 1996, 1998, 1999, 2000, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2007, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013

9 POT 2 KS Vive Targi Kielce (POL) Polish champions Coach: Bogdan Wenta, since 2008 Participations (including 2013/2014 season): 11 Semi-final (1): 2012/13 (third ranked in VELUX F4) Last 16 (4): 1993/94, 1994/95, 2009/10, 2011/12 Last 32 (2): 1996/97, 1998/99 Group Phase (3): 1999/2000, 2003/04, 2010/11 11 participations in other ECs Polish champion: 1993, 1994, 1996, 1998, 1999, 2003, 2009, 2010, 2012, 2013 Polish Cup winner: 1985, 2000, 2003, 2004, 2006, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013 PSG Handball (FRA) French Champion Coach: Philippe Gardent Participations (including 2013/14 season): 2 Last 16 (1): 2005/06 EHF Cup: Quarter-finalist 2006/07, Last /04 French champion: 2013 French Cup winner: 2007

10 HC Croatia Osiguranje Zagreb (CRO) Croatian Champion Coaches: Boris Dvoršek/Zlatko Saračević, since 1 June 2013 Participations (including 2013/14 season): 20 Final (4): 1994/95, 1996/97, 1997/98, 1998/99 Semi-final (1): 1999/2000 Quarter-final (5): 2000/01, 2002/03, 2003/04, 2008/09, 2011/12 Last 16 (3): 2005/06, 2009/10, 2010/11 Main Round (1): 2007/08 Group Phase (4): 1993/94, 2004/05, 2006/07, 2012/13 EHF Cup: Finalist 2004/05 Cup Winners Cup: Semi-finalist 2006/07 Croatian champion: 1991, 1992, 1993, 1994, 1995, 1996, 1997, 1998, 1999, 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013 Croatian Cup winner: 1991, 1992, 1993, 1994, 1995, 1996, 1997, 1998, 1999, 2000, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2012, 2013 RK Gorenje Velenje (SLO) Slovenian Champion Coach: Branko Tamše, since 2010 Participations (including 2013/14 season): 7 Last 16 (3): 2005/06, 2009/10, 2012/13 Main Round (1): 2007/08 Group Phase (1): 2004/05 Qualification (1): 2010/11 EHF Cup: Finalist 2008/2009 Slovenian champion: 2009, 2012, 2013 Slovenian Cup winner: 2003

11 POT 3 SG Flensburg-Handewitt (GER) German runners-up Coach: Ljubomir Vranjes, since November 2010 Participations (including 2013/14 season): 9 Final (2): 2003/04, 2006/07 Semi-final (1): 2005/06 Quarter-final (4): 2004/05, 2008/09, 2010/11, 2012/13 Main Round (1): 2007/08 Cup Winners Cup: Winner 2000/ /12 EHF Cup: Winner: 1996/97 City Cup: Winner 1998/99 German champion: 2004 German Cup winner: 2003, 2004, 2005 BM Atlético Madrid (ESP) Spanish runners-up Coach: Talant Dujshebaev, since 2005 Participations (including 2013/14 season): 11 Winner (3): 2005/06, 2007/08, 2008/09 Final (3): 2004/05, 2010/11, 2011/12 Semi-final (1): 2003/04, 2009/10 Quarter-final (2): 2006/07, 2012/13 Cup Winners Cup: Winner 2001/02, 2002/03 City Cup: Finalist 1998/99 Spanish champion: 2004, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010 Spanish Cup winner: 2003, 2008, 2011, 2012, 2013

12 St. Petersburg HC (RUS) Russian runners-up Coach: Dmitriy Torgovanov (since 2009) Participations (including 2013/14 season): 4 Group Phase (3): 2010/11, 2011/12, 2012/13 Russian champion: - (runners-up: 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013) HC Vardar Skopje PRO (MKD) Macedonian champion Coach: to be confirmed Participations (including 2013/14 season): 8 Last 32 (1): 1999/2000 Group Phase (6): 2001/02, 2002/03, 2003/04, 2004/05, 2007/08, 2009/10 Cup Winners Cup: Semi-finalist 1998/99, 2004/05, 2010/11, Quarter-finalist 2006/07 Others: Winner of SEHA Liga 2012 Macedonian champion: 19999, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2007, 2009, 2013 Macedonian Cup winner: 1997, 2000, 2001, 2003, 2004, 2007, 2008, 2012

13 POT 4 KIF Kolding København (DEN) Danish runners-up Coach: Peter Bredsdorff-Larsen, since 2011 Participations (including 2013/14 season): 11 Semi Final (1): 2001/02 Quarter-Final (1): 2002/03 Last 16 (6): 2003/04, 2004/05, 2005/06, 2006/07, 2009/10, 2010/11 Last 32 (1): 1993/94 Group Phase (1): 1994/95 Cup Winners Cup: Semi-finalist 1999/2000, Quarter-finalist 2007/08 EHF Cup: Quarter-finalist 2012/13 Danish champion: 12 times (1987, 1988, 1990, 1991, 1993, 1994, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2009) Danish Cup winner: 7 times (1989, 1993, 1998, 2001, 2004, 2006, 2007) Wacker Thun (SUI) Swiss champion Coach: Martin Rubin, since 1990 Participations (including 2013/2014 season): 1 Cup Winners Cup: Last 16: 2006/07 EHF Cup: Last /06 Challenge Cup: Winner: 2004/05, Finalist: 2011/12 City Cup: Quarter-finalist: 1998/99 Swiss champions: 2013 Swiss Cup winner: 2002, 2006, 2012, 2013

14 Rhein-Neckar Löwen (GER) third ranked in Germany Coach: Gudmundur Gudmundsson, since 23 September 2010 Participations (including 2013/14 season): 5 Semi-Final (2): 2008/09, 2010/11 Quarter-final (1): 2009/10 Qualification (1): 2011/12 Cup Winners Cup: Finalist 2007/08 EHF Cup: Winner 2012/13, Semi-finalist 2011/12, Quarter-finalist 2006/07 Naturhouse La Rioja (ESP) third ranked in Spain Coach: Jesús Javier González Fernández, since 2007 Participations (including 2013/14 season): 1 EHF Cup: Semi-finalist 2009/10, 2010/11, Group Phase 2012/13

15 Dunkerque HB Grand Littoral (FRA) POT 5 runners-up in France Coach: Patrick Cazal Participations (including 2013/14 season): 2 Qualification (1): 2011/12 EHF Cup: Finalist 2011/12, Quarter-finalist: 2006/07, 2007/07, 2009/10 Challenge Cup: Finalist 2003/04 City-Cup: Quarter-finalist 1998/99, 1999/2000 French Cup winner: 2010/11 Celje Pivovarna Laško (SLO) Slovenian runners-up Coach: Vladan Matic, since 2011 Participations (including 2013/14 season): 19 Winner (1): 2003/2004 Semi Final (6): 1996/97, 1997/98, 1998/99, 1999/2000, 2000/01, 2004/05 Quarterfinal (2): 2001/02, 2005/06 Last 16 (2): 1995/96, 2006/07, 2012/13 Main Round (2): 2007/08, 2008/09 Group Phase (3): 1993/1994, 1994/95, 2010/11 Qualification (1): 2009/10 Cup Winners' Cup: Semi-finalist 2002/03, 2011/12 Slovenian champion: , , 2010 Slovenian Cup winner: , 2004, 2006, 2007, 2010, 2012, 2013 Qualifier Group 1 HK DROTT Halmstad (SWE)/Handball Esch (LUX) Qualifier Group 2 HC Dinamo Minsk (BLR), Tatran Presov (SVK), Besiktas JK (TUR), AEK Athens (GRE)

16 POT 6 Qualifier Group 3 Borac m:tel Banja Luka (BIH), RK Vojvodina (SRB), Alpla HC Hard (AUT), HC Motor (UKR) Qualifier Group 4 HCM Constanta (ROU), FC Porto Vitalis (POR), Elverum Handball Herrar (NOR), HV KRAS/Volendam (NED) Qualifier Wild Card KO Match HSV Hamburg (GER)/Füchse Berlin (GER) Qualifier Wild Card Tournament Pick Szeged (HUN), SPR Wisla Plock (POL), Montpellier Agglomeration HB (FRA), HC Metalurg (MKD)

17 Qualification Tournaments 4 groups with 6 teams 16 teams 8 teams 4 teams (1) / (2) / tournaments (3) (4) first leg first leg tournament NATION (5) 1 GER 1 THW Kiel 2 ESP 1 FC Barcelona 3 DEN 1 Aalborg Handball 4 HUN 1 MKB Veszprem KC 5 POL 1 KS Vive Targi Kielce 6 CRO 1 HC Croatia Osiguranje Zagreb 7 FRA 1 PSG Handball 8 SLO 1 RK Gorenje Velenje 9 GER 2 SG Flensburg Handewitt 10 ESP 2 BM Atletico Madrid 11 RUS 2 St. Petersburg HC 12 MKD 1 HC Vardar PRO Skopje 13 DEN 2 KIF Kolding Kobenhavn 14 SUI 1 Wacker Thun 15 GER 3 Rhein Neckar Löwen 16 ESP 3 Naturhouse La Rioja 17 FRA 2 Dunkerque HB Grand Littoral 18 SLO 2 Celje Pivovarna Lasko 19 Qualifier Gr. 1 Qualifier Gr Qualifier Gr. 2 Qualifier Gr SWE 1 HK DROTT Halmstad 22 BLR 1 HC Dinamo Minsk 23 BIH 1 Borac m:tel Banja Luka 24 ROU 1 HCM Constanta 25 SRB 1 HC Vojvodina 26 SVK 1 Tatran Presov 27 POR 1 FC Porto Vitalis 28 AUT 1 Alpla HC Hard 29 NOR 1 Elverum Handball 30 TUR 1 Besiktas JK 31 UKR 1 HC Motor 32 GRE 1 A.E.K. Athens 33 NED 1 HV KRAS/Volendam 34 LUX 1 Handball Esch WC 1 / HUN 2 WC 2 / POL 2 WC 3 / FRA 3 WC 4 / MKD 2 WC GER 5 WC GER 4 played in semi finals and finals Pick Szeged SPR Wisla Plock S.A. Montpellier Aggl. HB HC Metalurg HSV Hamburg/Def. Champ VELUX EHF CHAMPIONS LEAGUE 2013/14 Füchse Berlin Group Phase Last (6) (7) (8) (9) (10) second leg second leg FINAL4 DRAWS: 27 June 2013 in Vienna 28 June 2013 in Vienna 25 February April 2014 tbd one 1st and 2nd leg match (Pot 1 vs. Pot 6) 3 groups with 4 teams (Pot 2, 3, 4, 5) 4th placed teams of CL Qualification Tournaments and Wild Card Tournament go to the EHF Cup Qualification Rd 2, 2nd and 3rd placed teams of CL Qualification Tornaments and Wild Card Tournament as well as the loser from the KO matches go to EHF Cup Qualification Rd 3 Winners of group 1 and 2 go to Group Phase Pot 5 Winners of group 3 and 4 goes to Group Phase Pot 6 Wildcard winner goes to Group Phase Pot 6 Wildcard winner goes to Group Phase Pot 6 1st, 2nd, 3rd and 4th placed team from each group Quarterfinals 8 Winners of VELUX EHF Champions League Last 16 4 Winners of VELUX EHF Champions League Quarterfinals The two Wild Card winners go to the same two groups as the winner of qualification group 1 and 2 Final version:

18 2013/14 Men's European Cup EHF Champions League Qualification 1 MatchID: SWE HK DROTT Halmstad 002 LUX Handball Esch Qualification Tournaments Group 2 1 BLR HC Dinamo Minsk 2 SVK TATRAN Presov 3 TUR Besiktas JK 4 GRE A.E.K. Athens MatchID: Cross Matches 001 BLR HC Dinamo Minsk vs. GRE A.E.K. Athens / 002 SVK TATRAN Presov vs. TUR Besiktas JK / Placement Matches 003 Loser Group 2 SF1 vs. Loser Group 2 SF / 004 Winner Group 2 SF1 vs. Winner Group 2 SF / Group 3 1 BIH RK Borac m:tel Banja Luka 2 SRB RK Vojvodina 3 AUT Alpla HC Hard 4 UKR HC Motor Zaporozhye MatchID: Cross Matches 005 BIH RK Borac m:tel Banja Luka vs. UKR HC Motor Zaporozhye / 006 SRB RK Vojvodina vs. AUT Alpla HC Hard / Placement Matches 007 Loser Group 3 SF1 vs. Loser Group 3 SF / EHF Report :26 1/3

19 2013/14 Men's European Cup EHF Champions League 008 Winner Group 3 SF1 vs. Winner Group 3 SF / EHF Report :26 2/3

20 2013/14 Men's European Cup EHF Champions League Group 4 1 ROU HCM Constanta 2 POR FC Porto Vitalis 3 NOR Elverum Handball Herrer 4 NED HV KRAS/Volendam MatchID: Cross Matches 009 ROU HCM Constanta vs. NED HV KRAS/Volendam / 010 POR FC Porto Vitalis vs. NOR Elverum Handball Herrer / Placement Matches 011 Loser Group 4 SF1 vs. Loser Group 4 SF / 012 Winner Group 4 SF1 vs. Winner Group 4 SF / Wildcard Qualification Group W 1 HUN Pick Szeged 2 POL Orlen Wisla Plock 3 FRA Montpellier Agglomeration HB 4 MKD HC Metalurg MatchID: Cross Matches 013 HUN Pick Szeged vs. MKD HC Metalurg / 014 POL Orlen Wisla Plock vs. FRA Montpellier Agglomeration HB / Placement Matches 015 Loser Group W SF1 vs. Loser Group W SF / 016 Winner Group W SF1 vs. Winner Group W SF / RR_B389R1 EHF Report :26 3/3

21 PAST WINNERS 2013 HSV Hamburg (GER) 2012 THW Kiel (GER) 2011 FC Barcelona Borges (ESP) 2010 THW Kiel (GER) 2009 BM Ciudad Real (ESP) 2008 BM Ciudad Real (ESP) 2007 THW Kiel (GER) 2006 BM Ciudad Real (ESP) 2005 FC Barcelona-Cifec (ESP) 2004 RK Celje Pivovarna Laško (SLO) 2003 Montpellier HB (FRA) 2002 SC Magdeburg (GER) 2001 Portland San Antonio (ESP) 2000 FC Barcelona (ESP) 1999 FC Barcelona (ESP) 1998 FC Barcelona (ESP) 1997 FC Barcelona (ESP) 1996 FC Barcelona (ESP) 1995 Elgorriaga Bidasoa (ESP) 1994 TEKA Santander (ESP)

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