EHF Champions League 1995/96

In the EHF Champions League 1995/96 , 35 handball club teams took part, which had qualified for the competition in their home leagues in the previous season. It was the 36th edition of the EHF Champions League and the European Cup of National Champions. The cup games began on September 3, 1995, the second final took place on April 26, 1996. In the final between the Spanish participants, FC Barcelona prevailed against defending champion Elgorriaga Bidasoa .

mode

Before the group stage called “ Champions League ”, a round of elimination, a round of sixteen and a round of 16 in a knockout system with a return leg were held. The winners of the round of 16 qualified for the group stage with two groups of four teams each, in which each group had a round trip against each other. The two best in the group played the winner of the EHF Champions League of the 1995/96 season in the final with a return leg.

Elimination round

The first leg took place on September 3, 1995 and the second leg on 9/10. September 1995. An exception were the return match between Partizan Belgrade and HK Topoľčany, which both took place on September 9 and 10, 1995 in Belgrade .

	total		First leg	Return leg
Partizan Belgrade	58 : 41	HK Topoľčany	28:22	30:19
Dinamo Bucharest	44: 45	RK Borec Veles	26:18	18:27
HC Kehra Tallinn	44: 60	GTU Shevardeni Tbilisi	23:25	21:35

Sixteenth finals

The home and away games took place between October 7, 1995 and October 15, 1995.

	total		First leg	Return leg
ABC Braga	64 : 39	Hapoel Rishon LeZion	37:17	30:22
KC Veszprém	67 : 33	HC Berchem	31:20	36:13
RK Zagreb	53 : 44	Çankaya Belediyesi Ankara	28:18	25:26
GOG Gudme	52 : 47	Partizan Belgrade	34:21	18:26
FC Barcelona	70 : 39	GTU Shevardeni Tbilisi	40:19	30:20
Montpellier HB	49 : 43	Dukla Prague	25:24	24:19
Elgorriaga Bidasoa	50 : 35	RK Borec Veles	25:20	25:15
THW Kiel	45 : 30	Initia HC Hasselt	27:13	18:17
RK Celje	73 : 32	HC Lyulin Sofia	38:16	35:16
Filippos Verias	42: 49	ZTR Zaporizhia	23:19	7:30 p.m.
SKA Minsk	61 : 46	BK-46 Karis Handboll	34:24	27:22
Valur Reykjavík	44 : 43	CSKA Moscow	23:23	21:20
HC Linz AG	47 : 43	Wisla Plock	29:18	18:25
HC Granitas Kaunas	53 : 45	IL Runar Sandefjord	29:19	24:26
Pallamano Trieste	55 : 43	HV Aalsmeer	26:18	29:25
Pathfinder Winterthur	42:42 *	Redbergslids IK	24:16	18:26

^*Pfadi Winterthur qualified for the next round due to the away goals rule .

Round of 16

The first leg took place on 11/12. November 1995 and the second leg on 18./19. November 1995, with the exception of the encounter between Granitas Kaunas and THW Kiel , the first leg took place on November 17, 1995 in Berlin and the second leg on November 19, 1995 in Kiel .

	total		First leg	Return leg
SKA Minsk	47: 51	GOG Gudme	26:23	21:28
ZTR Zaporizhia	32: 43	Elgorriaga Bidasoa	15:19	17:24
HC Granitas Kaunas	42: 50	THW Kiel	21:26	21:24
HC Linz AG	47: 62	FC Barcelona	30:27	17:35
RK Celje	45: 46	RK Zagreb	25:21	20:25
Pathfinder Winterthur	53 : 46	Montpellier HB	27:23	26:23
Valur Reykjavík	50: 52	ABC Braga	25:23	25:29
Pallamano Trieste	38: 44	KC Veszprém	22:23	16:21

Group stage

The group stage was played between January 16, 1996 and March 27, 1996.

Group A

Pl.	team	Sp.	S.	U	N	Gates	Diff.	Points
01.	Elgorriaga Bidasoa	06th	04th	00	02	0154: 1360	+18	0008: 4000
02.	THW Kiel	06th	03	00	03	0151: 1480	+3	0006: 6000
03.	KC Veszprém	06th	03	00	03	0147: 1440	+3	0006: 6000
04th	ABC Braga	06th	02	00	04th	0129: 1530	−24	0004: 8000

Group B

Pl.	team	Sp.	S.	U	N	Gates	Diff.	Points
01.	FC Barcelona	06th	04th	01	01	0167: 1350	+32	0009: 3000
02.	Pathfinder Winterthur	06th	03	00	03	0161: 1640	−3	0006: 6000
03.	RK Zagreb	06th	02	01	03	0138: 1440	−6	0005: 7000
04th	GOG Gudme	06th	01	02	03	0136: 1590	−23	0004: 8000

final

The first leg took place on April 20, 1996 in Barcelona and the second leg on April 26, 1996 in Irun . In the third year since the competition was called the EHF Champions League, a team from Spain won for the third time.

	total		First leg	Return leg
FC Barcelona	46 : 38	Elgorriaga Bidasoa	23:15	23:23

See also

• EHF Cup 1995/96
• EHF European Cup Winners' Cup 1995/96
• EHF Cup 1995/96
• Euro City Cup 1995/96

Web links

• Website of the EHF to CL (English)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ 1995/96 VELUX EHF Champions League Final. In: European Handball Federation. Retrieved June 30, 2018 .