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OFFICIAL PROGRAMMEWomens EHF Champions League 2015/2016

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WOMENS EHF Champions LeagueForeword EHF President Main Round

Welcome to the 2015/16 Womens EHF Champions League Main RoundLess than three weeks after Norway's triumph at 2015s pinnacle national team event, the WorldChampionship, Europes elite womens handball club competition returns to the spotlight as theWomens EHF Champions League Main Round starts.

From 6 January to 28 February, the six rounds of the main round will determine the eight teams tomake it to the quarter-finals. I take this opportunity to welcome twelve sides from ten countries tothe third phase of the competition.

Before we start analysing the two main round groups and their participants we should have a lookback to the tournament in Denmark last month, which underlined the prominent position of the EHFChampions League in women's handball. Not only because no fewer than 93 players from the Euro-pean top flight took part in the event and because all twelve main round teams had at least one playerwho took the floor in Denmark. Almost 30 players return to the Champions League race decoratedwith a medal eight Norwegian reigning champions, four Dutch runners-up and 15 Romanian bronzemedallists. And it goes without saying that Champions League players created a backbone of almostall European teams and former champions from Brazil.We will all be eager to find out how the recently awarded medallists can transfer their success fromnational team competition to their clubs. Their morale boost can prove to be a decisive factor fortheir sides in what will become probably as close and thrilling a main round stage of the Women'sEHF Champions League as ever.While all twelve participants have still a fair chance to reach the quarter-finals, there are still eightto ten teams who have all what it takes to reach the season' culmination in Budapest theWomens EHF FINAL4.In Group 1 the new Russian powerhouse Rostov-Don has yet to drop a point in their maiden Cham-pions League campaign, while defending champions Buducnost dominate Group 2 in a similar fashionhaving lost just one point. However, none of the group leaders can take the ticket to Budapest forgranted as packs of formidable contenders also eye a May trip to the Hungarian capital.

Will Gyr be able to show more consistency against fellow heavyweights? Will Baia Mare repeatlast year's amazing surge of reaching the quarter-finals despite starting with zero points? And willtwo other ambitious newcomers CSM Bucuresti and Fleury Loiret Handball just make up the num-bers in the main round or can they make it to the next round? All these questions and many morewill be answered in the next two months.

To the teams, I wish you all the very best of luck! To the fans, I welcome youto the main round, I invite you to sit back, relax, and enjoy the exciting show.

Sporting wishes,

Jean BrihaultEHF President

Team preSeNTaTioN 3

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1 Johanna Bundsen12 isabella mouratidou16 Hanna eriksson

2 Tilda olsson3 emma ekenman-fernis4 loui Sand5 Joanna lindvall-Haggren6 Soa Tegstedt7 Thess Krnell8 elin enhrning9 Julia eriksson

10 Stine lund andreassen11 rikke Jensen13 elin Karlsson14 linnea pettersson15 Birna Berg Haraldsdottir17 Hanna rtorp18 linn Hansson19 olivia mellegrd21 ida Holm

1 Dragana petkovska12 amandine leynaud31 inna Suslina

4 Jovanka radicevic5 andrea Klikovac

11 Sanja Damnjanovic15 Barbara lazovic17 Siraba Dembele19 maja Sokac20 anja althaus23 andrea penezic25 olga chernoivanenko27 andrea covic30 alena ikhneva71 Tatiana Khmyrova77 andrea lekic91 Sara ristovska96 itana grbic

IK SvehofSweden Home Team

HC Vardar Macedonia Guest Team

Referees: pter Horvth (HUN), Balzs marton (HUN) EHF-Delegate: Kalev Ventsli (eST)

GROUP 11. rostov-Don 9 8 1 0 249:209 (40) 172. larvik 9 5 0 4 250:235 (15) 103. Hcm Baia mare 9 5 0 4 241:226 (15) 104. fTc-rail cargo 9 4 2 3 261:254 (7) 105. fleury loiret Handball 9 2 2 5 224:252 (-28) 66. Thringer Hc 9 0 1 8 216:265 (-49) 1

GROUP 21. gyri audi eTo Kc 9 6 1 2 228:208 (20) 131. Buducnost 9 6 1 2 237:190 (47) 133. Hc Vardar 9 6 0 3 241:220 (21) 124. cSm Bucuresti 9 4 1 4 220:215 (5) 95. fc midtjylland 9 2 1 6 199:234 (-35) 56. iK Svehof 9 1 0 8 199:257 (-58) 2

Teams Main RoundGroup 1rostov-Don rUS fTc-rail cargo Hungaria HUN larvik, Nor fleury loiret Handball fra Hcm Baia mare roU Thringer Hc ger Group 2Buducnost mNe gyri audi eTo Kc HUN Hc Vardar mKD cSm Bucuresti roU fc midtjylland DeN iK Svehof Swe

Matches Group 16/1fleury loiret Handball vs Thringer Hc . .27:219/1rostov-Don vs fTc-rail cargo Hungaria .23:21larvik vs Thringer Hc . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .28:1910/1Hcm Baia mare vs fleury loiret Handball .31:2816/1fTc-rail cargo Hungaria vs larvik . . . .30:27Thringer Hc vs Hcm Baia mare . . . . . .23:25

17/1fleury loiret Handball vs rostov-Don 22:275/2Hcm Baia mare vs fTc-rail cargo . . . . .32:246/2rostov-Don vs Thringer Hc . . . . . . . . .30:24larvik vs fleury loiret Handball . . . . . . .26:3113/2fTc-rail cargo Hungaria vs rostov-Don . .29:2914/2Thringer Hc vs larvik . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .20:28fleury loiret Handball vs Hcm Baia mare .17:1819/2Hcm Baia mare vs Thringer Hc . . . . . .38:2720/2rostov-Don vs fleury loiret Handball 38:21larvik vs fTc-rail cargo Hungaria . . . .37:3127/2fTc-rail cargo Hungaria vs Hcm Baia mare28/2Thringer Hc vs rostov-Donfleury loiret Handball vs larvik

Matches Group 29/1gyri audi eTo Kc vs Buducnost . . . . .22:20Hc Vardar vs cSm Bucuresti . . . . . . . . . .22:21

10/1fc midtjylland vs iK Svehof . . . . . . . . . .25:2115/1cSm Bucuresti vs fc midtjylland . . . . . .24:2217/1Buducnost vs Hc Vardar . . . . . . . . . . . . . .31:19iK Svehof vs gyri audi eTo Kc . . . . .18:266/2gyri audi eTo Kc vs cSm Bucuresti .28:22Hc Vardar vs iK Svehof . . . . . . . . . . . . . .37:257/2fc midtjylland vs Buducnost . . . . . . . . . .18:2812/2iK Svehof vs fc midtjylland . . . . . . . . . .32:2414/2Buducnost vs gyri audi eTo Kc . . . . .25:2216/2cSm Bucuresti vs Hc Vardar . . . . . . . . . .25:3019/2gyri audi eTo Kc vs iK Svehof . . . . .32:2621/2fc midtjylland vs cSm Bucuresti . . . . . .23:28Hc Vardar vs Buducnost . . . . . . . . . . . . . .26:2426/2iK Svehof vs Hc Vardar28/2cSm Bucuresti vs gyri audi eTo KcBuducnost vs fc midtjylland

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2014/15 Buducnost (mNe)2013/14 gyri audi eTo Kc (HUN)2012/13 gyri audi eTo Kc (HUN)2011/12 Buducnost (mNe)2010/11 larvik (Nor)2009/10 Viborg HK (DeN)2008/09 Viborg HK (DeN)2007/08 Zvezda Zvenigorod (rUS)2006/07 Slagelse DT (DeN)2005/06 Viborg HK a/S (DeN)2004/05 Slagelse fH (DeN)

2003/04 Slagelse fH (DeN)2002/03 Krim eTa N. roberts ljubljana (Slo)2001/02 Kometal D. p. Skopje (mKD)2000/01 rK Krim Neutro roberts (Slo)1999/00 Hypo Niedersterreich (aUT) 1998/99 Dunaferr Se (HUN)1997/98 Hypo Niedersterreich (aUT) 1996/97 mar Valencia (eSp)1995/96 podravka Koprivnica (cro)1994/95 Hypo Niedersterreich (aUT) 1993/94 Hypo Niedersterreich (aUT)

Past Winners 1993-2015

IK SvehofSweden

HC Vardar Macedonia