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 Intersport
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)

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 Barcelona Intersport 30–29 in the final.[2]

Overview

Team allocation

Group stage
THW Kiel (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 Intersport (1st)	Chekhovskiye Medvedi (1st)	Celje (2nd)	IK Sävehof (1st)
Atlético Madrid (2nd)	St. Petersburg (2nd)	Bjerringbro-Silkeborg^2 (1st)
Qualifying
Qualification tournament			Wild card tournament
Constanța (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 Koper^3 (3rd)
Sloga Doboj (1st)	Beşiktaş (1st)	SSV Bozen Loacker (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.

Phase	Round	Draw date	First leg	Second leg
Qualifying	Qualification tournament	3 July 2012	8–9 September 2012
	Wild card tournament
Group stage	Matchday 1	6 July 2012	26–30 September 2012
	Matchday 2		3–7 October 2012
	Matchday 3		10–14 October 2012
	Matchday 4		17–21 October 2012
	Matchday 5		14–18 November 2012
	Matchday 6		21–25 November 2012
	Matchday 7		28 November–2 December 2012
	Matchday 8		6–10 February 2013
	Matchday 9		13–17 February 2013
	Matchday 10		20–24 February 2013
Knockout phase	Last 16	26 February 2013	13–17 March 2013	20–24 March 2013
	Quarterfinals	26 March 2013	17–21 April 2013	24–28 April 2013
	Final four	TBD	1–2 June 2013

Qualification stage

Main article: 2012–13 EHF Champions League qualifying

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 Constanța 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 Loacker

Qualification tournament 1

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

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

Qualification tournament 2

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

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

Qualification tournament 3

HCM Constanța organized the event.[4][5]

	Semi-finals				Final
	8 September 2012
	HCM Constanța	33
					9 September 2012
	SSV Bozen Loacker	22
					HCM Constanța	26
	8 September 2012
					HT Tatran Prešov	21
	HT Tatran Prešov	36
	Maccabi Rishon LeZion	20
					Third place
					9 September 2012
					SSV Bozen Loacker	30
					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, Istanbul Attendance: 1,500 Referees: Andorka, Hucker (HUN)
	Arifoglu 7	(9–15)	Atman 9
	3×	Report	3× 2×

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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	3× 6×

Dinamo-Minsk wins 61–46 on aggregate.

Wild card tournament

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

Group stage

Main article: 2012–13 EHF Champions League 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

Constanța

Hamburg

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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 Kiel^TH København^1 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 Constanța 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.

Key to colours in group tables
Top four placed teams advanced to the last 16

Group A

Team v t e	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts		HAM	FLE	MED	ADE	MON	BEO
HSV Hamburg	10	7	2	1	313	272	+41	16		—	31–28	27–27	32–26	35–33	30–24
Flensburg	10	6	3	1	310	279	+31	15		29–26	—	36–26	27–22	37–37	31–23
Chekhovskiye Medvedi	10	5	4	1	310	282	+28	14		29–29	29–29	—	36–22	35–29	38–31
Ademar León	10	3	1	6	265	292	−27	7		26–28	29–29	22–29	—	28–26	28–23
Montpellier	10	2	2	6	301	311	−10	6		29–33	25–27	30–30	27–29	—	31–26
Partizan	10	1	0	9	268	331	−63	2		21–42	31–37	27–31	33–31	29–32	—

Source: ^[citation needed]

Group B

Team v t e	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts		VES	KIE	ATM	CEL	HCM	IKS
MKB Veszprém	10	9	0	1	295	242	+53	18		—	31–30	26–19	32–22	31–21	34–24
THW Kiel	10	8	0	2	329	265	+64	16		32–21	—	31–27	30–26	35–14	43–34
Atlético Madrid	10	5	0	5	268	269	−1	10		26–27	27–32	—	26–24	25–24	32–25
Celje	10	4	0	6	245	258	−13	8		19–24	31–28	22–28	—	24–19	31–25
HCM Constanța	10	2	0	8	234	283	−49	4		27–37	25–28	23–28	22–17	—	28–23
IK Sävehof	10	2	0	8	276	330	−54	4		22–32	29–40	35–30	24–29	35–31	—

Source: ^[citation needed]

Group C

Team v t e	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts		KSK	RKM	RKG	BSV^BSV	CHB	PET
Vive Targi Kielce	10	10	0	0	305	249	+56	20		—	21–20	30–24	35–26	36–32	30–29
Metalurg Skopje	10	7	0	3	271	215	+56	14		21–23	—	30–23	32–18	26–21	32–19
Gorenje	10	6	0	4	281	250	+31	12		25–29	23–19	—	31–23	31–25	35–22
Bjerringbro-Silkeborg^1	10	4	0	6	259	281	−22	8		25–34	23–26	27–26	—	25–23	31–22
Chambéry	10	2	0	8	266	294	−28	4		26–36	30–33	20–31	29–26	—	33–19
St. Petersburg	10	1	0	9	225	318	−93	2		21–31	14–32	25–32	23–35	31–27	—

Source: ^[citation needed]

Group D

Team v t e	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts		BAR	BER	MIN	SZE	RKZ	SCH
Barcelona Intersport	10	9	0	1	321	252	+69	18		—	34–23	25–24	33–24	35–25	36–25
Füchse Berlin	10	8	0	2	290	279	+11	16		31–30	—	29–25	29–24	29–27	31–27
Dinamo-Minsk	10	5	1	4	276	259	+17	11		28–30	31–24	—	29–24	27–27	33–23
Pick Szeged	10	3	0	7	260	293	−33	6		28–33	22–29	26–21	—	26–24	30–29
Zagreb	10	2	1	7	266	284	−18	5		21–32	24–25	23–25	30–27	—	38–30
Schaffhausen	10	2	0	8	284	330	−46	4		23–33	35–40	28–33	36–29	28–27	—

Source: ^[citation needed]

Knockout stage

Main article: 2012–13 EHF Champions League 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.Tooltip Aggregate score	Team 2	1st leg	2nd leg
Bjerringbro-Silkeborg	50–58	Barcelona Intersport	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.Tooltip Aggregate score	Team 2	1st leg	2nd leg
Atlético Madrid	49–52	Barcelona Intersport	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
					2 June
	Barcelona Intersport	28
					Barcelona Intersport	29
	1 June
					HSV Hamburg	30
	THW Kiel	33
	HSV Hamburg	39
					Third place
					2 June
					Vive Targi Kielce	31
					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	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]

Awards

The All-star team of the Champions League 2012/13:[13] Position Player Goalkeeper Darko Stanić (Metalurg Skopje) Right wing Ivan Čupić (Vive Targi Kielce) Right back László Nagy (MKB Veszprém) Centre back Daniel Narcisse (THW Kiel) Left back Filip Jícha (THW Kiel) Left wing Anders Eggert (SG Flensburg-Handewitt) Pivot Julen Aguinagalde (Atlético Madrid) Best defender Timuzsin Schuch (MKB Veszprém)

Stanić Eggert Aguinagalde Čupić Jícha Narcisse Nagy Best Defender : Timuzsin Schuch

See also

• 2012–13 EHF Cup

References

1. "VELUX EHF Champions League 2012/13". ehfcl.com. 21 June 2012. Retrieved 21 June 2012.
2. "Hamburg win thrilling final". ehfcl.com. 2 June 2013.
3. "First draw of VELUX EHF Champions League season". ehfcl.com. 28 June 2012.
4. "Draw results". ehfcl.com. 3 July 2012.
5. "Qualification Tournament organisers announced". ehfcl.com. 17 July 2012.
6. "VELUX EHF Champions League Group Phase draw". European Handball Federation. 4 July 2012. Retrieved 4 July 2012.
7. "Draw results – VELUX EHF Champions League". European Handball Federation. 6 July 2012. Retrieved 6 July 2012.
8. "All four pots for Last 16 draw completed". ehfcl.com. 23 February 2013.
9. "Kiel vs Chekhovskie Medvedi, Barcelona against Silkeborg". ehfcl.com. 26 February 2013.
10. "Kiel vs Veszprém, Barcelona against Atlético". ehfcl.com. 26 March 2013.
11. "Defending champions THW Kiel meet HSV Hamburg in the semi-final". ehfcl.com. 5 February 2013.
12. "EHF Champions League 2012/13 - Scorers". Archived from the original on 19 October 2013. Retrieved 7 November 2022.
13. "„All Star team" EHF Lige šampiona 2012/2013: Stanić i Čupić među idealnima!". 31 May 2013. Retrieved 15 April 2023.

External links

• Official website