EHF Challenge Cup 2007/08

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At the EHF Challenge Cup 2007/08 38 took Handball part -Vereinsmannschaften, who had qualified in the previous season in their home countries for the competition. It was the 8th edition of the Challenge Cup. The cup games began on September 28, 2007, the second final took place on May 11, 2008. In the final, the defending champion UCM Sport Reșița from Romania prevailed against the Austrian representative HC Hard .

mode

The competition started in round 2 with 3 groups with 4 teams in which everyone played against everyone in a simple round . The first two of the group moved into round 3, in which other, higher-ranking teams entered. From this round, including the final, the game was played in a knockout system with a return leg. The winner of the final was the EHF Challenge Cup winner of the 2007/08 season.

round 2

All group matches took place from September 28, 2007 to September 30, 2007. Group A played in Minsk , Belarus , Group B in Sabac , Serbia and Group C in Thessaloniki , Greece .

Group A

Pl. team Sp. S. U N Gates Diff. Points
01. BelarusBelarus Arkatron Minsk 03 03 00 00 0117: 7100 +46 06th
02. TurkeyTurkey Ankara İl Özel İdare SK 03 02 00 01 0113: 6600 +47 04th
03. IrelandIreland St. Patrick's College 03 01 00 02 0063: 1150 −52 02
04th EnglandEngland Oxford University HC 03 00 00 03 0057:9800 −41 00

Group B

Pl. team Sp. S. U N Gates Diff. Points
01. Serbia and MontenegroSerbia and Montenegro Metaloplastika Šabac 03 03 00 00 0099:6500 +34 06th
02. SlovakiaSlovakia TJ Štart Nové Zámky 03 02 00 01 0088:7200 +16 04th
03. Bosnia and HerzegovinaBosnia and Herzegovina HRK Izviđač Ljubuški 03 01 00 02 0082:8000  +2 02
04th EnglandEngland University of Manchester HC 03 00 00 03 0047:9900 −52 00

Group C

Pl. team Sp. S. U N Gates Diff. Points
01. Serbia and MontenegroSerbia and Montenegro RK Kolubara Lazarevac 03 02 01 00 0091:7900 +12 05
02. UkraineUkraine Burewestnik Luhansk 03 02 01 00 0093:8200 +11 05
03. GreeceGreece PAOK Thessaloniki 03 01 00 02 0088:8400  +4 02
04th EnglandEngland London DG HC 03 00 00 03 0074: 1010 −27 00

Round 3

The return games took place between November 17, 2007 and November 25, 2007.

total First leg Return leg
RK Moslavina Kutina CroatiaCroatia 76 : 59 North MacedoniaNorth Macedonia RK Prespa Resen 45:27 31:32
BB Ankara Spor TurkeyTurkey 49:49 * UkraineUkraine Burewestnik Luhansk 30:25 19:24
Mornar Bar MontenegroMontenegro 46: 53 BelarusBelarus Arkatron Minsk 28:27 18:26
LIF Lindesberg SwedenSweden 63: 74 RomaniaRomania UCM Sport Reșița 34:35 29:39
RK Mojkovac MontenegroMontenegro 48: 90 PortugalPortugal Sporting Lisbon 22:46 26:44
Ankara İl Özel İdare SK TurkeyTurkey 44: 65 IcelandIceland Fram Reykjavík 24:29 20:36
HC Granitas Kaunas LithuaniaLithuania 58 : 46 BelgiumBelgium HC Eynatten 31:18 27:28
Wacker Thun SwitzerlandSwitzerland 51: 54 RomaniaRomania CSU Poli Timișoara 27:26 24:28
HBC Schifflange LuxembourgLuxembourg 43: 63 UkraineUkraine Shakhtar Akademiya Donetsk 23:27 20:36
HC Hard AustriaAustria 62 : 55 PortugalPortugal Academica da Maia 35:27 27:28
Junior Fasano ItalyItaly 43: 55 KosovoKosovo KH Prishtina 26:27 17:28
HC Kehra Tallinn EstoniaEstonia 57: 59 GreeceGreece GAS Kilkis 32:28 25:31
SPR Chrobry Glogów PolandPoland 58 : 51 SlovakiaSlovakia TJ Štart Nové Zámky 28:24 30:27
RK Kolubara Lazarevac SerbiaSerbia 56: 60 Bosnia and HerzegovinaBosnia and Herzegovina RK Sloga Doboj 31:28 25:32
RK Čakovec CroatiaCroatia 66 : 55 SerbiaSerbia Metaloplastika Šabac 35:25 31:30
SC Ploieşti RomaniaRomania 52: 68 SwitzerlandSwitzerland Pathfinder Winterthur 33:31 19:37
*Burewestnik Luhansk moved into the round of 16 due to the away goals rule .

Round of 16

The home and away games took place between February 9, 2008 and February 17, 2008.

total First leg Return leg
UCM Sport Reșița RomaniaRomania 74 : 62 CroatiaCroatia RK Moslavina Kutina 40:26 34:36
Shakhtar Akademiya Donetsk UkraineUkraine 51: 54 PortugalPortugal Sporting Lisbon 26:33 25:21
RK Čakovec CroatiaCroatia 61: 66 PolandPoland SPR Chrobry Glogów 34:32 27:34
HC Granitas Kaunas LithuaniaLithuania 54: 57 AustriaAustria HC Hard 27:27 27:30
Fram Reykjavík IcelandIceland 49: 50 RomaniaRomania CSU Poli Timișoara 24:26 25:24
Arkatron Minsk BelarusBelarus 65 : 53 KosovoKosovo KH Prishtina 29:16 36:37
RK Sloga Doboj Bosnia and HerzegovinaBosnia and Herzegovina 68 : 53 UkraineUkraine Burewestnik Luhansk 36:25 32:28
GAS Kilkis GreeceGreece 45: 55 SwitzerlandSwitzerland Pathfinder Winterthur 23:25 22:30

Quarter finals

The first leg took place on March 8, 2008 and the second leg on March 15, 2008.

total First leg Return leg
Arkatron Minsk BelarusBelarus 62: 76 RomaniaRomania UCM Sport Reșița 29:31 33:45
HC Hard AustriaAustria 56 : 55 Bosnia and HerzegovinaBosnia and Herzegovina RK Sloga Doboj 32:24 24:31
Sporting Lisbon PortugalPortugal 54 : 43 RomaniaRomania CSU Poli Timișoara 32:22 22:21
Pathfinder Winterthur SwitzerlandSwitzerland 59 : 53 PolandPoland SPR Chrobry Glogów 33:23 26:30

Semifinals

The first leg took place on 4th / 5th. April 2008 and the second leg on 12./13. April 2008.

total First leg Return leg
HC Hard AustriaAustria 66 : 63 SwitzerlandSwitzerland Pathfinder Winterthur 35:24 31:39
Sporting Lisbon PortugalPortugal 56: 58 RomaniaRomania UCM Sport Reșița 31:26 25:32

final

The first leg took place on May 4, 2008 in Hard and the second leg on May 11, 2008 in Reșița . HC Hard was the second team from Austria to make it into a European Cup final. The Vorarlberg trainer , Gerald Gabl, was in the EHF Cup 1993/94 as a player for HC Linz AG when an Austrian team entered the finals for the first time. After a narrow first leg, UCM Sport Reșița was able to defend its title with a clear win in the second leg.

total First leg Return leg
HC Hard AustriaAustria 47: 54 RomaniaRomania UCM Sport Reșița 29:28 18:26

See also

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ 2007/08 Men's Challenge Cup / Final. In: eurohandball.com. European Handball Federation , accessed May 1, 2019 .
  2. ↑ 2007/08 Men's European Cup / Challenge Cup - Round 2. (PDF) In: eurohandball.com. European Handball Federation , accessed May 1, 2019 .
  3. ↑ a b HC Hard missed first European Cup title. In: sport.oe24.at. sport24, May 11, 2008, accessed May 3, 2019 .
  4. ↑ Handball: historical throw. In: diepresse.com. Die Presse, April 13, 2008, accessed May 19, 2019 .