2012–13 EHF Champions League

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]

EHF Champions League
2012–13
Tournament information
SportHandball
Dates26 September 2012–2 June 2013
Teams40 (Qualification stage)
24 (Group stage)
16 (Knockout stage)
Final positions
Champions HSV Hamburg (1st title)
Runner-up Barcelona
Tournament statistics
Matches played148
Goals scored8265 (55.84 per match)
Attendance690,844 (4,668 per match)
Top scorer(s) Hans Lindberg
(101 goals)

HSV Hamburg won their first title by defeating FC Barcelona 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 (1st) Chekhovskiye Medvedi (1st) Celje (2nd) IK Sävehof (1st)
Atlético Madrid (2nd) St. Petersburg (2nd) Bjerringbro-Silkeborg2 (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 Koper3 (3rd)
Sloga Doboj (1st) Beşiktaş (1st) SSV Bozen Loacker (1st) Wisła Płock (2nd)
Partizan (1st) Tatran Prešov (1st)
Notes

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-finalsFinal
 
      
 
8 September 2012
 
 
 RK Sloga Doboj25
 
9 September 2012
 
 RK Lovcen23
 
 RK Sloga Doboj16
 
8 September 2012
 
 RK Partizan31
 
 RK Partizan27
 
 
 F.C. Porto25
 
Third place
 
 
9 September 2012
 
 
 RK Lovcen25
 
 
 F.C. Porto31

Qualification tournament 2

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

 
Semi-finalsFinal
 
      
 
8 September 2012
 
 
 HC Metalurg25
 
9 September 2012
 
 Alpla HC Hard19
 
 HC Metalurg30
 
8 September 2012
 
 Haslum HK20
 
 Haslum HK29
 
 
 HC Dinamo-Poltava28
 
Third place
 
 
9 September 2012
 
 
 Alpla HC Hard29
 
 
 HC Dinamo-Poltava23

Qualification tournament 3

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

 
Semi-finalsFinal
 
      
 
8 September 2012
 
 
 HCM Constanța33
 
9 September 2012
 
 SSV Bozen Loacker22
 
 HCM Constanța26
 
8 September 2012
 
 HT Tatran Prešov21
 
 HT Tatran Prešov36
 
 
 Maccabi Rishon LeZion20
 
Third place
 
 
9 September 2012
 
 
 SSV Bozen Loacker30
 
 
 Maccabi Rishon LeZion33

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 3× 2×
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-finalsFinal
 
      
 
8 September 2012
 
 
 HSV Hamburg28
 
9 September 2012
 
 Wisła Płock26
 
 HSV Hamburg32
 
8 September 2012
 
 Saint-Raphaël Var HB31
 
 Saint-Raphaël Var HB28
 
 
 RK Cimos Koper23
 
Third place
 
 
9 September 2012
 
 
 Wisła Płock27
 
 
 RK Cimos Koper22

Group stage
Main article: 2012–13 EHF Champions League group stage
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
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 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:

Group B
Team 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:

Group C
Team Pld W D L GF GA GD Pts KSK RKM RKG BSVBSV 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-Silkeborg1 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:

Group D
Team Pld W D L GF GA GD Pts BAR BER MIN SZE RKZ SCH
Barcelona 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:

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. 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-finalsFinal
 
      
 
1 June
 
 
 Vive Targi Kielce23
 
2 June
 
 Barcelona28
 
 Barcelona29
 
1 June
 
 HSV Hamburg30
 
 THW Kiel33
 
 
 HSV Hamburg39
 
Third place
 
 
2 June
 
 
 Vive Targi Kielce31
 
 
 THW Kiel30

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

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. Top scorers
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