EHF Challenge Cup 2017/18

At the EHF Challenge Cup 2017/18 40 took Handball part -Vereinsmannschaften, who had qualified in the previous season in their home countries for the competition. It was the 18th edition of the Challenge Cup. The defending champion was the Portuguese club Sporting Lisbon . The cup games began on October 6, 2017, with the second final on May 20, 2018. In the final, the Romanian club AHC Potaissa Turda prevailed against the Greek representative AEK Athens .

mode

The competition started with round 2 with 8 games. The winners moved into round 3, in which other higher ranked teams entered. All rounds were played in a knockout system . The winner of the final was the winner of the EHF Challenge Cup in the 2017/18 season.

round 2

	total		First leg	Return leg
RK Vogošća	54 : 48	Holon HC	31:24	23:24
Red Boys Differdange	57 : 52	HC Kauno Ąžuolas	32:26	25:26
Taşova Yibo SK	0: 20	RK Mojkovac 2005	0:10	0:10
Aloysians HC	32: 73	PAOK Thessaloniki	17:34	15:39
ORK Šamot 65	75 : 45	Cambridge HC	43:21	32:24
Handball Käerjeng	69 : 58	HC Donbass	32:30	37:28
Vilniaus VHC Šviesa	48: 61	Dynamo Victor Stavropol	24:25	24:36
RK Konjuh Živinice	72 : 39	Proodeftikos Paphos	39:15	33:24

Round 3

	total		First leg	Return leg
RK Konjuh Živinice	48: 63	AS Ramat Hasharon	25:30	23:33
RK Eurofarm Rabotnik	57 : 47	HC Granitas Kaunas	28:24	29:23
London DG HC	37: 81	AEK Athens	16:40	21:41
Madeira Andebol SAD	81 : 32	Parnassos Strovolou	46:12	35:20
HC Gomel	54: 63	ÍBV Vestmannaeyja	27:31	27:32
KH Trepča Mitrovica	49: 75	AHC Potaissa Turda	19:35	30:40
Goztepe SK	63 : 55	PAOK Thessaloniki	35:26	28:29
HC Visé BM	79 : 63	PGU Tiraspol	38:31	41:32
BSB Batumi	49: 89	MRK Zrinski Mostar	17:47	32:42
Dynamo Victor Stavropol	66 : 57	RK Sloga Požega	37:26	29:31
MŠK Považská Bystrica	58 : 50	RK Lovćen Cetinje	34:26	24:24
RK Vogošća	54: 65	Fyllingen mountains	33:35	21:30
SKIF Krasnodar	57 : 55	Handball Käerjeng	31:27	26:28
HC Berchem	59 : 45	ORK Šamot 65	26:21	33:24
HK Motor Zaporizhia	71 : 46	RK Mojkovac 2005	36:20	35:26
Red Boys Differdange	79 : 49	HC Dobrudja Dobrich	43:23	36:26

Round of 16

	total		First leg	Return leg
RK Eurofarm Rabotnik	50: 61	Fyllingen mountains	22:25	28:36
MŠK Považská Bystrica	49: 53	Madeira Andebol SAD	25:23	24:30
ÍBV Vestmannaeyja	53 : 46	AS Ramat Hasharon	32:25	21:21
Dynamo Victor Stavropol	59 : 52	Red Boys Differdange	31:26	28:26
MRK Zrinski Mostar	57: 67	SKIF Krasnodar	27:39	30:28
AHC Potaissa Turda	68 : 53	HC Visé BM	44:24	24:29
Goztepe SK	52: 57	AEK Athens	29:25	23:32
HK Motor Zaporizhia	59: 65	HC Berchem	29:34	30:31

Quarter finals

	total		First leg	Return leg
Dynamo Victor Stavropol	48: 55	Madeira Andebol SAD	27:27	21:28
AHC Potaissa Turda	59 : 56	Fyllingen mountains	29:24	30:32
AEK Athens	64 : 43	HC Berchem	32:25	32:18
SKIF Krasnodar	51: 66	ÍBV Vestmannaeyja	23:25	28:41

Semifinals

	total		First leg	Return leg
Madeira Andebol SAD	44: 52	AEK Athens	21:29	23:23
ÍBV Vestmannaeyja	55: 56	AHC Potaissa Turda	31:28	24:28

final

The first leg took place on May 14, 2018 in Cluj-Napoca and the second leg on May 20, 2018 in Marousi . After losing in the final last year , AHC Potaissa Turda managed to win their first European Cup this time, it is the 6th title of a Romanian team in this competition.

	total		First leg	Return leg
AHC Potaissa Turda	59 : 49	AEK Athens	33:22	26:27

See also

• EHF Champions League 2017/18
• EHF Cup 2017/18

Individual evidence

1. ↑ 2017/18 Men's Challenge Cup / Finals. In: eurohandball.com. European Handball Federation , accessed on May 26, 2019 . 
2. ↑ br: Reigning runners-up face Kosovan opponents in the Challenge Cup. In: eurohandball.com. European Handball Federation , July 18, 2017, accessed June 5, 2019 . 
3. ↑ chs: First European Cup victory for Potaissa Turda. In: handball-world.news. May 21, 2018, accessed June 5, 2019 .