2012–13 EHF Champions League

EHF Champions League

2012–13
Tournament information
Sport	Handball
Dates	26 September 2012–2 June 2013
Teams	40 (Qualification stage) 24 (Group stage) 16 (Knockout stage)
Final positions
Champions	HSV Hamburg (1st title)
Runner-up	Barcelona
Tournament statistics
Matches played	148
Goals scored	8265 (55.84 per match)
Attendance	690,844 (4,668 per match)
Top scorer(s)	Hans Lindberg (101 goals)
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The 2012–13 EHF Champions League was the 53rd edition of Europe's premier club handball tournament and the 20th edition under the current EHF Champions League format. THW Kiel was the defending champion. The final four was played on 1–2 June 2013.^[1]

HSV Hamburg won their first title by defeating FC Barcelona 30–29 in the final.^[2]

Overview

Team allocation

Group stage
THW Kielth (1st)	Ademar León (3rd)	MKB Veszprém (1st)	Kadetten Schaffhausen (1st)
Flensburg (2nd)	Montpellier (1st)	Pick Szeged (2nd)	Zagreb (1st)
Füchse Berlin (3rd)	Chambéry (2nd)	Gorenje (1st)	Vive Targi Kielce (1st)
Barcelona (1st)	Chekhovskiye Medvedi (1st)	Celje (2nd)	IK Sävehof (1st)
Atlético Madrid (2nd)	St. Petersburg (2nd)	Bjerringbro-Silkeborg2 (1st)
Qualifying
Qualification tournament			Wild card tournament
Constanţa (1st)	Haslum HK (1st)	Lovcen (1st)	HSV Hamburg (4th)
Porto (1st)	Alpla HC Hard (1st)	Dinamo-Minsk (1st)	Saint-Raphaël (3rd)
Metalurg (1st)	Dinamo-Poltava (1st)	Maccabi Rishon LeZion (1st)	Cimos Koper3 (3rd)
Sloga Doboj (1st)	Beşiktaş (1st)	SSV Bozen (1st)	Wisła Płock (2nd)
Partizan (1st)	Tatran Prešov (1st)

Notes

• th Title Holder
• Note 2: AG København was seeded in pot 1 for the 2012–13 EHF Champions League group stage draw, which took place in Vienna, Austria, on 6 July 2012. However, the club filed for bankruptcy on 31 July 2012 and their place in the group stage was awarded to Bjerringbro-Silkeborg.
• Note 3: RK Cimos Koper was invited to the Wild card tournament to replace Bjerringbro-Silkeborg, who replaced AG København in the group stage.

Round and draw dates

All draws held at EHF headquarters in Vienna, Austria unless stated otherwise.

Qualification stage

Qualification tournament

A total of 14 teams will take part in the qualification tournaments. The clubs will be drawn into three groups of four and play a semifinal and the final. The winner of the qualification groups advance to the group stage, while the eliminated clubs will go to the EHF Cup. Matches will be played at 8–9 September 2011. The draw will take place on 3 July, at 11:00 local time at Vienna, Austria.^[3]

Seedings

The two remaining teams from Pot 1 and 4 will play a knock-out match, the winner will go into the group stage. The draw was held on 3 July 2012.^[4]

Pot 1	Pot 2	Pot 3	Pot 4
HCM Constanţa RK Sloga Doboj HC Metalurg HC Dinamo-Minsk	HT Tatran Prešov Haslum HK RK Partizan	HC Dinamo-Poltava F.C. Porto Maccabi Rishon LeZion	Alpla HC Hard Beşiktaş J.K. RK Lovcen SSV Bozen

Qualification tournament 1

RK Partizan organized the event.^[4][5]

	Semi-finals				Final
	8 September 2012
	RK Sloga Doboj	25
	RK Lovcen	23
					9 September 2012
					RK Sloga Doboj	16
					RK Partizan	31
					Third place
	8 September 2012			9 September 2012
	RK Partizan	27		RK Lovcen	25
	F.C. Porto	25			F.C. Porto	31

Qualification tournament 2

Haslum HK organized the event.^[4][5]

	Semi-finals				Final
	8 September 2012
	HC Metalurg	25
	Alpla HC Hard	19
					9 September 2012
					HC Metalurg	30
					Haslum HK	20
					Third place
	8 September 2012			9 September 2012
	Haslum HK	29		Alpla HC Hard	29
	HC Dinamo-Poltava	28			HC Dinamo-Poltava	23

Qualification tournament 3

HCM Constanţa organized the event.^[4][5]

	Semi-finals				Final
	8 September 2012
	HCM Constanţa	33
	SSV Bozen	22
					9 September 2012
					HCM Constanţa	26
					HT Tatran Prešov	21
					Third place
	8 September 2012			9 September 2012
	HT Tatran Prešov	36		SSV Bozen	30
	Maccabi Rishon LeZion	20			Maccabi Rishon LeZion	33

Play-off

HC Dinamo-Minsk and Beşiktaş J.K. played a playoff series to determine a participant for the group stage.^[4]

8 September 2012 18:30	Beşiktaş J.K.	22 – 30	HC Dinamo-Minsk	Süleyman Seba Sport Complex, İstanbul Attendance: 1,500 Referees: Andorka, Hucker (HUN)
	Arifoglu 7	(9–15)	Atman 9
	3×	Report	2× 3×

9 September 2012 16:00	HC Dinamo-Minsk	31 – 24	Beşiktaş J.K.	Minsk Sports Palace, Minsk Attendance: 1,500 Referees: Andorka, Hucker (HUN)
	three players 4	(14–13)	Arifoglu 6
	3× 3×	Report	6× 3×

Dinamo-Minsk wins 61–46 on aggregate.

Wild card tournament

	Semi-finals				Final
	8 September 2012
	HSV Hamburg	28
	Wisła Płock	26
					9 September 2012
					HSV Hamburg	32
					Saint-Raphaël Var HB	31
					Third place
	8 September 2012			9 September 2012
	Saint-Raphaël Var HB	28		Wisła Płock	27
	RK Cimos Koper	23			RK Cimos Koper	22

Group stage

Kiel

Barcelona

Montpellier

Bjerringbro

Zagreb

Veszprém

Chekhov

Gorenje

Atlético Madrid

Flensburg

Kielce

Schaffhausen

León

Chambéry

Berlin

Sävehof

Szeged

St. Petersburg

Celje

Minsk

Partizan

Metalurg

Constanţa

Hamburg

Location of teams of the 2012–13 EHF Champions League group stage.
Red: Group A; Green: Group B; Blue: Group C; Yellow: Group D.

The draw for the group stage took place at the Gartenhotel Altmannsdorf in Vienna on 6 July 2012 at 11:00 local time. A total of 24 teams were drawn into four groups of six. Teams were divided into six pots, based on EHF coefficients. Clubs from the same pot or the same association could not be drawn into the same group, except the wild card tournament winner, which did not enjoy any protection.^[6][7]

Seedings

Pot 1 THW KielTH København1 Barcelona Montpellier

Pot 2 Zagreb Veszprém Medvedi Gorenje

Pot 3 Atlético Madrid Flensburg Vive Targi Kielce Schaffhausen

Pot 4 Ademar León Chambéry Füchse Berlin IK Sävehof

Pot 5 Pick Szeged St. Petersburg Celje Dinamo-Minsk

Pot 6 Partizan Metalurg Constanţa HSV Hamburg

th Title holder. The title holder automatically gets the top position of seeding list.

Notes

• Note 1: AG København was seeded in pot 1 for the 2012–13 EHF Champions League group stage draw, which took place in Vienna, Austria, on 6 July 2012. However, the club filed for bankruptcy on 31 July 2012 and their place in the group stage was awarded to Bjerringbro-Silkeborg.

Group A

Team Pld W D L GF GA GD Pts HSV Hamburg 10 7 2 1 313 272 +41 16 Flensburg 10 6 3 1 310 279 +31 15 Chekhovskiye Medvedi 10 5 4 1 310 282 +28 14 Ademar León 10 3 1 6 265 292 −27 7 Montpellier 10 2 2 6 301 311 −10 6 Partizan 10 1 0 9 268 331 −63 2

MED FLE HAM ADE MON BEO Chekhovskiye Medvedi – 29–29 29–29 36–22 35–29 38–31 Flensburg 36–26 – 29–26 27–22 37–37 31–23 HSV Hamburg 27–27 31–28 – 32–26 35–33 30–24 Ademar León 22–29 29–29 26–28 – 28–26 28–23 Montpellier 30–30 25–27 29–33 27–29 – 31–26 Partizan 27–31 31–37 21–42 33–31 29–32 –

Group B

Team Pld W D L GF GA GD Pts MKB Veszprém 10 9 0 1 295 242 +53 18 THW Kiel 10 8 0 2 329 265 +64 16 Atlético Madrid 10 5 0 5 268 269 −1 10 Celje 10 4 0 6 245 258 −13 8 HCM Constanţa 10 2 0 8 234 283 −49 4 IK Sävehof 10 2 0 8 276 330 −54 4

Celje HCM KIE ATM IKS VES Celje – 24–19 31–28 22–28 31–25 19–24 Constanţa 22–17 – 25–28 23–28 28–23 27–37 THW Kiel 30–26 35–14 – 31–27 43–34 32–21 Atlético Madrid 26–24 25–24 27–32 – 32–25 26–27 IK Sävehof 24–29 35–31 29–40 35–30 – 22–32 MKB Veszprém 32–22 31–21 31–30 26–19 34–24 –

Group C

Team Pld W D L GF GA GD Pts Vive Targi Kielce 10 10 0 0 305 249 +56 20 Metalurg Skopje 10 7 0 3 271 215 +56 14 Gorenje 10 6 0 4 281 250 +31 12 Bjerringbro-Silkeborg1 10 4 0 6 259 281 −22 8 Chambéry 10 2 0 8 266 294 −28 4 St. Petersburg 10 1 0 9 225 318 −93 2

CHB RKG KSK RKM BSV PET Chambéry – 20–31 26–36 30–33 29–26 33–19 Gorenje 31–25 – 25–29 23–19 31–23 35–22 Vive Targi Kielce 36–32 30–24 – 21–20 35–26 30–29 Metalurg Skopje 26–21 30–23 21–23 – 32–18 32–19 Bjerringbro-Silkeborg 25–23 27–26 25–34 23–26 – 31–22 St. Petersburg 31–27 25–32 21–31 14–32 23–35 –

Group D

Team Pld W D L GF GA GD Pts Barcelona 10 9 0 1 321 252 +69 18 Füchse Berlin 10 8 0 2 290 279 +11 16 Dinamo-Minsk 10 5 1 4 276 259 +17 11 Pick Szeged 10 3 0 7 260 293 −33 6 Zagreb 10 2 1 7 266 284 −18 5 Schaffhausen 10 2 0 8 284 330 −46 4

BAR BER MIN SCH SZE RKZ Barcelona – 34–23 25–24 36–25 33–24 35–25 Füchse Berlin 31–30 – 29–25 31–27 29–24 29–27 Dinamo-Minsk 28–30 31–24 – 33–23 29–24 27–27 Schaffhausen 23–33 35–40 28–33 – 36–29 28–27 Pick Szeged 28–33 22–29 26–21 30–29 – 26–24 Zagreb 21–32 24–25 23–25 38–30 30–27 –

Knockout stage

In the knockout phase, teams played against each other over two legs on a home-and-away basis, except for the final four.

Last 16

The draw was held on 26 February 2013 at 12:30 in Vienna, Austria. The first legs were played on 13–17 March, and the second legs were played on 20–24 March 2013.^[8][9]

Team 1	Agg.	Team 2	1st leg	2nd leg
Bjerringbro-Silkeborg	50–58	Barcelona	26–32	24–26
Ademar León	45–56	MKB Veszprém	20–23	25–33
Pick Szeged	53–57	Vive Targi Kielce	26–25	27–32
Celje	60–66	HSV Hamburg	29–38	31–28
Chekhovskiye Medvedi	63–65	THW Kiel	37–35	26–30
Dinamo-Minsk	45–50	Metalurg Skopje	23–26	22–24
Atlético Madrid	56–55	Füchse Berlin	29–29	27–26
Gorenje	50–55	Flensburg	25–28	25–27

Quarterfinals

The first legs were played on 17–21 April, and the second legs were played on 24–28 April 2013.^[10]

Team 1	Agg.	Team 2	1st leg	2nd leg
Atlético Madrid	49–52	Barcelona	25–20	24–32
Metalurg Skopje	40–53	Vive Targi Kielce	25–27	15–26
THW Kiel	61–59	MKB Veszprém	32–31	29–28
Flensburg	51–55	HSV Hamburg	26–32	25–23

Final four

The draw was held on 2 May 2013.^[11]

	Semi-finals				Final
	1 June
	Vive Targi Kielce	23
	Barcelona	28
					2 June
					Barcelona	29
					HSV Hamburg	30
					Third place
	1 June			2 June
	THW Kiel	33		Vive Targi Kielce	31
	HSV Hamburg	39			THW Kiel	30

Top goalscorers

Rank	Name	Team	Goals
1	Hans Lindberg	Hamburg	101
2	Siarhei Rutenka	Barcelona	95
3	Anders Eggert	Flensburg	79
4	Michał Jurecki	Vive Targi Kielce	77
	László Nagy	Veszprém
	Naumče Mojsovski	Metalurg Skopje
7	Marko Vujin	THW Kiel	76
8	Domagoj Duvnjak	Hamburg	73
	Holger Glandorf	Flensburg
10	Gašper Marguč	Celje	72

(excluding qualifying rounds)^[12]

See also

• 2012–13 EHF Cup
• 2012–13 EHF Challenge Cup

References

External links

• Official website