EHF Challenge Cup 2002/03

At the EHF Challenge Cup 2002/03 42 took Handball part -Vereinsmannschaften, who had qualified in the previous season in their home countries for the competition. It was the 3rd edition of the Challenge Cup. The cup games began on October 4, 2002, the second final took place on May 3, 2003. In the final Skjern Håndbold from Denmark was able to defend his title against AS Filippos Verias from Greece.

mode

The competition started with 10 games in round 2. The winners moved into round 3, in which other, higher-ranking teams entered. All rounds including the final were carried out in a knockout system with a return leg. The winner of the final was the EHF Challenge Cup winner of the 2002/03 season.

round 2

	total		First leg	Return leg
Team Tvis Holstebro	58 : 39	Steaua Bucharest	32:18	26:21
CHEV Handball Diekirch	63 : 45	HC Mamuli Tbilisi	28:24	35:21
Olimpus-85 Chișinău	58: 65	Uniwersytet Homel	24:34	34:31
IK Sävehof	57 : 56	Paris handball	30:27	27:29
Grótta KR	50 : 42	HC Brovary	23:20	27:22
Marítimo Funchal	47: 61	GAS Kilkis	23:30	24:31
RK Jug-Zegin Skopje	55: 59	Trabzon Belediyespor	26:26	29:33
RK Bosna Sarajevo	63 : 54	Bologna handball	37:27	26:27
TV Suhr	80 : 24	Batumi Tbilisi	39:14	41:10
HC KAI Zilant Kazan	50 : 48	UHK West Vienna	30:23	20:25

Round 3

	total		First leg	Return leg
AS Filippos Verias	59 : 58	TV Suhr	29:22	30:36
HC KAI Zilant Kazan	48: 55	HC Hard	23:22	25:33
SKIF Krasnodar	67 : 35	Union Beynoise	38:22	29:13
Politechnyk Donetsk	41: 60	Team Tvis Holstebro	20:30	21:30
Iskra Kielce	57 : 56	GAS Kilkis	25:22	32:34
SK Reval Sport	31: 69	IK Sävehof	16:35	15:34
HB Dudelange	49:49 *	CHEV Handball Diekirch	27:24	22:25
Grótta KR	46 : 40	CD Francisco de Holanda	24:21	22:19
RK Mladost Bogdanci	53: 55	RK Bosna Sarajevo	24:22	29:33
Trabzon Belediyespor	47: 55	Merano handball	23:26	24:29
HC Gračanica	47: 62	Aalborg Håndbold	25:23	22:39
Beşiktaş Istanbul	62 : 50	Cyprus College	37:27	25:23
US Créteil HB	83 : 28	SKA Minsk	42:18	41:10
Uniwersytet Homel	37: 68	GC Amicitia Zurich	18:29	19:39
Skjern Håndbold	51 : 48	IFK Skövde HK	24:23	27:25
Minaur Baia Mare	60 : 48	Ūla Varėna	33:27	27:21

^*CHEV Handball Diekirch moved into round 4 due to the away goals rule .

Round 4

	total		First leg	Return leg
Iskra Kielce	59: 60	Beşiktaş Istanbul	34:28	25:32
SKIF Krasnodar	53 : 48	GC Amicitia Zurich	27:23	26:25
Skjern Håndbold	49:49 *	HC Hard	25:21	24:28
US Créteil HB	49 : 40	Team Tvis Holstebro	29:20	20:20
Minaur Baia Mare	50: 67	AS Filippos Verias	25:32	25:35
Grótta KR	50:50 *	Aalborg Håndbold	23:20	27:30
Merano handball	60 : 35	CHEV Handball Diekirch	29:22	31:13
RK Bosna Sarajevo	46: 53	IK Sävehof	26:25	20:28

^*Skjern Håndbold and Grótta KR moved into the quarterfinals due to the away goals rule .

Quarter finals

	total		First leg	Return leg
US Créteil HB	63 : 46	SKIF Krasnodar	35:23	28:23
IK Sävehof	56 : 50	Grótta KR	34:26	22:24
AS Filippos Verias	65 : 51	Beşiktaş Istanbul	35:18	30:33
Merano handball	49: 55	Skjern Håndbold	24:25	25:30

Semifinals

	total		First leg	Return leg
IK Sävehof	51: 55	Skjern Håndbold	24:24	27:31
US Créteil HB	50: 53	AS Filippos Verias	28:22	22:31

final

The first leg took place on April 26, 2003 in Veria and the second leg on May 3, 2003 in Herning . After winning the first Danish European Cup the year before, Skjern managed to defend their title.

	total		First leg	Return leg
AS Filippos Verias	55: 62	Skjern Håndbold	30:27	25:35

See also

• EHF Champions League 2002/03
• EHF European Cup Winners' Cup 2002/03
• EHF Cup 2002/03

Individual evidence

1. ↑ 2002/03 Men's Challenge Cup / Final. In: eurohandball.com. European Handball Federation , accessed April 19, 2019 . 
2. ↑ Ritzau: Håndbold: Skjern vandt Challenge Cup. In: jyllands-posten.dk. Jyllands-Posten , May 3, 2003, accessed April 24, 2019 (Danish).