EHF Challenge Cup 2003/04

At the EHF Challenge Cup 2003/04 39 took Handball part -Vereinsmannschaften, who had qualified in the previous season in their home countries for the competition. It was the 4th edition of the Challenge Cup. The defending champion was Skjern Håndbold from Denmark. The cup games began on October 11, 2003, the second final took place on April 24, 2004. In the final, the Swedish team IFK Skövde HK prevailed against the French representative US Dunkerque HB .

mode

The competition started with 7 games in round 2. The winners moved into round 3, in which other, higher-rated 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 2003/04 season.

round 2

	total		First leg	Return leg
IFK Skövde HK	76 : 37	Novopolotsk	37:19	39:18
TSV St. Otmar St. Gallen	80 : 56	RK Prijedor	52:30	28:26
Pallamano Trieste	56 : 49	CD Francisco de Holanda	33:21	23:28
Polis Akad. Ankara	64 : 41	CHEV Handball Diekirch	35:23	29:18
HC Mamuli Tbilisi	46: 69	RK Tutunski Kombinat Prilep	22:31	24:38
Politechnyk Donetsk	47: 51	HCM Constanța	23:24	24:27
GK Energija Voronezh	65 : 39	SK Reval Sport	35:19	30:20

Round 3

	total		First leg	Return leg
US Dunkerque HB	66 : 33	HB Dudelange	28:16	38:17
Śląsk Wrocław	70 : 50	RK Tutunski Kombinat Prilep	38:23	32:27
SKAF Minsk	49: 65	Minaur Baia Mare	23:34	26:31
HC Spartak Baku	48: 82	Trabzon Belediyespor	24:44	24:38
Union Beynoise	50: 62	IFK Ystad HK	23:32	27:30
Toulouse Union HB	63: 66	GK Energija Voronezh	31:31	32:35
AC Doukas School	50: 58	Pallamano Trieste	24:26	26:32
IFK Skövde HK	66 : 62	Cadets Schaffhausen	26:26	40:36
TSV St. Otmar St. Gallen	63: 70	Red Star Belgrade	31:39	32:31
Intercollege AC Nicosia	58: 59	RK Jug-Zegin Skopje	32:37	26:22
FCK Håndbold	82 : 18	HC Tbilisi	39:13	43: 5
Polis Akad. Ankara	37: 48	SKIF Krasnodar	24:23	13:25
GAS Kilkis	47 : 39	HC Brovary	27:18	20:21
HCM Constanța	58 : 46	Sporting Club Horta	28:23	30:23
RK Borac Banja Luka	43: 44	Fet IL	28:21	15:23
Gammadue Secchia	61 : 47	HC Tallas	31:19	30:28

Round of 16

	total		First leg	Return leg
FCK Håndbold	58 : 45	Fet IL	34:20	24:25
Gammadue Secchia	51: 52	GAS Kilkis	29:20	22:32
Trabzon Belediyespor	64: 86	GK Energija Voronezh	28:42	36:44
Śląsk Wrocław	42: 53	US Dunkerque HB	18:25	24:28
Pallamano Trieste	67 : 56	Red Star Belgrade	29:26	38:30
IFK Skövde HK	62 : 51	IFK Ystad HK	37:29	25:22
Minaur Baia Mare	88 : 68	RK Jug-Zegin Skopje	43:35	45:33
SKIF Krasnodar	47: 50	HCM Constanța	30:27	17:23

Quarter finals

	total		First leg	Return leg
GAS Kilkis	41: 55	US Dunkerque HB	21:28	20:27
Pallamano Trieste	57 : 54	FCK Håndbold	29:21	28:33
Minaur Baia Mare	57: 63	HCM Constanța	28:28	29:35
IFK Skövde HK	69 : 62	GK Energija Voronezh	38:28	31:34

Semifinals

	total		First leg	Return leg
Pallamano Trieste	60: 67	IFK Skövde HK	33:30	27:37
HCM Constanța	45: 49	US Dunkerque HB	18:24	27:25

final

The first leg took place on April 17, 2004 in Dunkirk and the second leg on April 24, 2004 in Skövde . IFK Skövde HK won the first Swedish European Cup since 1959 .

	total		First leg	Return leg
US Dunkerque HB	45: 47	IFK Skövde HK	21:20	24:27

See also

• EHF Champions League 2003/04
• EHF European Cup Winners' Cup 2003/04
• EHF Cup 2003/04

Individual evidence

1. ↑ 2003/04 Men's Challenge Cup / Final. In: eurohandball.com. European Handball Federation , accessed April 19, 2019 . 
2. ↑ Peter Ström: Europaguld - tack vare mirakel apparatus. In: aftonbladet.se. Aftonbladet , April 25, 2004; accessed April 25, 2019 (Swedish).