EHF Cup 1996/97

At the EHF Cup 1996/97 33 took Handball part -Vereinsmannschaften, who had qualified in the previous season in their home leagues for the competition. The defending champion was BM Granollers . It was the 16th edition of the EHF Cup or the IHF Cup. The cup games began on September 4, 1998, the second final took place on April 19, 1999. In the final, SG Flensburg-Handewitt prevailed against Virum-Sorgenfri HK .

mode

The competition started with an elimination round with one game. The winner made it to the sixteenth finals. All rounds including the final were carried out in a knockout system with a return leg.

Elimination round

	total		First leg	Return leg
Arkatron Minsk	57 : 48	RK Bosna Visoko	25:21	32:27

Sixteenth finals

	total		First leg	Return leg
CSKA Moscow	50 : 35	Beşiktaş Istanbul	30:16	20:19
HRK Karlovac	51 : 44	Śląsk Wrocław	31:21	20:23
HC Bruck	43 : 38	AS Filippos Verias	27:17	16:21
BM Granollers	52 : 38	Union Beynoise	24:19	28:19
SD Octavio Vigo	65 : 43	Arkatron Minsk	36:26	29:17
Pestszentlörinc Elektromos SE	47:47 *	RK Velenje	25:25	22:22
SG Flensburg-Handewitt	50 : 37	Cadets Schaffhausen	27:16	23:21
HC Brovary	45: 51	Virum-Sorgefri HK	23:21	22:30
HC Nes Ziona	39: 57	HC Baník Karviná	20:26	19:31
Kentro Neotitos Larnacos	53: 55	HC Standard Luxembourg	23:24	30:31
Minaur Baia Mare	37: 44	HK Drott Halmstad	20:17	17:27
Sporting Lisbon	39: 42	Montpellier HB	22:16	17:26
Jūrmalas PSK Riga	74 : 46	HC Mamuli Tbilisi	41:23	33:23
RK Prespa Resen	37 : 34	RK Partizan Belgrade	16:11	21:23
Alpi Prato	45 : 44	SIF Håndball	26:20	19:24
UMF Stjarnan	38 : 35	V&L Geleen	22:18	16:17

^*RK Velenje moved into the round of 16 due to the away goals rule .

Round of 16

	total		First leg	Return leg
Jūrmalas PSK Riga	47: 67	SD Octavio Vigo	23:31	24:36
HC Standard Luxembourg	30: 74	RK Velenje	12:37	18:37
HK Drott Halmstad	49: 52	Virum-Sorgefri HK	26:23	23:29
Alpi Prato	38 : 37	HRK Karlovac	18:15	20:22
Montpellier HB	41 : 35	CSKA Moscow	24:18	17:17
RK Prespa Resen	44: 46	BM Granollers	22:16	22:30
UMF Stjarnan	65 : 59	HC Bruck	33:24	32:35
HC Baník Karviná	39: 47	SG Flensburg-Handewitt	21:21	18:26

Quarter finals

	total		First leg	Return leg
UMF Stjarnan	45: 56	SD Octavio Vigo	26:28	19:28
Alpi Prato	47: 51	Virum-Sorgefri HK	21:25	26:26
Montpellier HB	45: 46	BM Granollers	21:20	24:26
RK Velenje	36: 57	SG Flensburg-Handewitt	19:28	17:29

Semifinals

	total		First leg	Return leg
BM Granollers	44: 47	SG Flensburg-Handewitt	23:25	21:22
SD Octavio Vigo	57: 58	Virum-Sorgefri HK	30:27	27:31

final

The first leg in Brøndby took place on April 13, 1997 and the second leg in Flensburg on April 18, 1997.

	total		First leg	Return leg
Virum-Sorgefri HK	42: 52	SG Flensburg-Handewitt	25:22	17:30

Web links

• Men Handball European EHF Cup 1997 / Sport Statistics - International Competitions Archive

Individual evidence

1. ↑ 1996/97 Men's EHF Cup. In: eurohandball.com. European Handball Federation , accessed October 4, 2018 .