EHF Challenge Cup 2016/17

At the EHF Challenge Cup 2016/17 32 took Handball part -Vereinsmannschaften, who had qualified in the previous season in their home countries for the competition. It was the 17th edition of the Challenge Cup. The defending champion was the Portuguese club ABC Braga . The cup games started on November 18, 2016, the second final took place on May 27, 2017. In the final, the Portuguese club Sporting Lisbon prevailed against the Romanian representative AHC Potaissa Turda.

mode

The competition started with 16 games in round 3. All rounds were played in a knockout system . The winner of the final was the winner of the EHF Challenge Cup in the 2016/17 season.

Round 3

	total		First leg	Return leg
Sporting Lisbon	69 : 49	Romagna handball	32:25	37:24
AHC Potaissa Turda	75 : 42	HC Dobrudja Dobrich	32:23	43:19
HB Dudelange	56 : 55	Hapoel Ashdod	23:28	33:27
RK Sloga Požega	50 : 47	HC Visé BM	26:21	24:26
PGU Tiraspol	51: 58	HK Motor Zaporizhia	23:27	28:31
AS Ramat Hasharon	39: 54	Handball Esch	21:29	18:25
RK Partizan 1949 Tivat	49 : 43	PES Strovolou Nicosia	27:21	22:22
RK Partizan Belgrade	52: 59	MŠK Považská Bystrica	23:31	29:28
Valur Reykjavík	56 : 49	Haslum HK	31:24	25:25
Olympiakos SFP	43: 45	AC Doukas School	27:21	16:24
KH Kastrioti Ferizaj	51: 60	HKM Šaľa	29:31	22:29
Goztepe SK	47: 48	HV Hurry-Up	22:20	25:28
Dragūnas Klaipėda	52: 63	TSV St. Otmar St. Gallen	28:35	24:28
Taşova Yibo SK	65 : 56	HC Riviera	32:29	33:27
Cambridge HC	47: 76	HK locomotive Varna	22:36	25:40
Pelister Bitola	49 : 48	RK Vogošća	21:23	28:25

Round of 16

	total		First leg	Return leg
Taşova Yibo SK	58: 66	AC Doukas School	28:32	30:34
Valur Reykjavík	45:45 *	RK Partizan 1949 Tivat	21:21	24:24
Handball Esch	56: 59	AHC Potaissa Turda	27:31	29:28
HK Motor Zaporizhia	54: 57	HB Dudelange	27:32	27:25
HKM Šaľa	57 : 55	TSV St. Otmar St. Gallen	30:27	27:28
Pelister Bitola	44: 66	Sporting Lisbon	18:32	26:34
MŠK Považská Bystrica	49: 51	HV Hurry-Up	30:19	19:32
RK Sloga Požega	58 : 44	HK locomotive Varna	35:22	23:22

^*Valur Reykjavík reached the quarter-finals due to the away goals rule .

Quarter finals

	total		First leg	Return leg
RK Sloga Požega	53: 59	Valur Reykjavík	27:30	26:29
AHC Potaissa Turda	68 : 64	HB Dudelange	32:29	36:35
AC Doukas School	48: 62	Sporting Lisbon	23:35	25:27
HV Hurry-Up	66 : 56	HKM Šaľa	28:24	38:32

Semifinals

	total		First leg	Return leg
HV Hurry-Up	41: 69	Sporting Lisbon	27:32	14:37
Valur Reykjavík	53: 54	AHC Potaissa Turda	30:22	23:32

final

The first leg took place on May 21, 2017 in Almada and the second leg on May 27, 2017 in Cluj-Napoca . After 2010 the second success for Sporting Lisbon in the Challenge Cup.

	total		First leg	Return leg
Sporting Lisbon	67 : 52	AHC Potaissa Turda	37:28	30:24

See also

• EHF Champions League 2016/17
• EHF Cup 2016/17

Individual evidence

1. ↑ 2016/17 Men's Challenge Cup / Finals. In: eurohandball.com. European Handball Federation , accessed on May 26, 2019 . 
2. ^ Br: Sporting open the new season with an Italian affair. In: eurohandball.com. European Handball Federation , July 19, 2016, accessed June 4, 2019 . 
3. ↑ glg: Sporting Lisbon European Cup winner for the second time. In: handball-world.news. May 28, 2017. Retrieved June 4, 2019 .