EHF Champions League 1996/97

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In the 1996/97 EHF Champions League , 36 handball club teams took part, which had qualified for the competition in their home leagues in the previous season. It was the 37th edition of the EHF Champions League or the European Cup of National Champions. The defending champion was FC Barcelona . The cup games began on August 24, 1996, with the second final on April 19, 1997. In the final, FC Barcelona was able to prevail against Badel 1862 Zagreb and thus defend its title from the previous year.

mode

This season, a total of 16 teams played in four groups for the first time in the group stage. The round of 16 was canceled and after an elimination round, the winners from the round of 16, both played in a knockout system with a return leg, moved into the group stage. There played in four groups with four teams each, in each group each against each other a return match. The two best in the group each reached the newly introduced quarter-finals. From this point onwards, the knockout system with a two-legged match went through a semi-final to the final. The winner of the final was the EHF Champions League winner of the 1996/97 season.

Elimination round

The home and away games took place between August 24, 1996 and September 8, 1996.

total First leg Return leg
HK Topoľčany SlovakiaSlovakia 56 : 43 BulgariaBulgaria HK Shoumen 31:22 25:21
Red Star Belgrade Yugoslavia Federal Republic 1992Yugoslavia 71 : 41 EstoniaEstonia HC Kehra Tallinn 32:20 39:21
Pelister Bitola North MacedoniaNorth Macedonia 52 : 41 Georgia 1990Georgia GTU Shevardeni Tbilisi 28:27 24:14
Steaua Bucharest RomaniaRomania 54 : 49 Bosnia and HerzegovinaBosnia and Herzegovina RK Sloboda Solana 30:24 24:25

Sixteenth finals

The first legs took place on 11/12/13. October 1996 and the second leg on 19./20. October 1996.

total First leg Return leg
FC Barcelona SpainSpain 71 : 51 RussiaRussia Caustic Volgograd 37:22 34:29
Handball Esch LuxembourgLuxembourg 32: 59 GermanyGermany THW Kiel 17:33 15:26
Pathfinder Winterthur SwitzerlandSwitzerland 45 : 44 SwedenSweden Redbergslids IK 24:17 21:27
Çankaya Belediyesi Ankara TurkeyTurkey 44: 58 CroatiaCroatia Badel 1862 Zagreb 24:27 20:31
HC Linz AG AustriaAustria 37: 41 Belarus 1995Belarus SKA Minsk 19:18 18:23
Hapoel Rishon LeZion IsraelIsrael 40: 41 PortugalPortugal ABC Braga 19:24 21:17
GOG Gudme DenmarkDenmark 40 : 38 North MacedoniaNorth Macedonia Pelister Bitola 21:24 19:14
Iskra Kielce PolandPoland 38: 40 ItalyItaly Pallamano Trieste 22:21 16:19
HC Granitas Kaunas LithuaniaLithuania 55 : 28 NetherlandsNetherlands E&O Emmen 33:13 22:15
HK Topoľčany SlovakiaSlovakia 34: 66 SloveniaSlovenia RK Celje 16:33 18:33
HC Zubří Czech RepublicCzech Republic 49: 52 Yugoslavia Federal Republic 1992Yugoslavia Red Star Belgrade 23:24 26:28
Initia HC Hasselt BelgiumBelgium 39: 45 FranceFrance PSG-Asnières 22:18 17:27
SC Szeged HungaryHungary 50 : 42 RomaniaRomania Steaua Bucharest 27:17 23:25
ESN Vrilissia GreeceGreece 37: 53 NorwayNorway IL Runar Sandefjord 17:32 20:21
Valur Reykjavík IcelandIceland 35: 47 UkraineUkraine Shakhtar Akademiya Donetsk 19:20 16:27
BK-46 Karis Handboll FinlandFinland 38: 55 SpainSpain Cantabria Santander 20:29 18:26

Group stage

The group stage was played between November 9, 1996 and January 19, 1997.

Group A

Pl. team Sp. S. U N Gates Diff. Points
01. SpainSpain FC Barcelona 06th 05 01 00 0180: 1270 +53 11
02. PortugalPortugal ABC Braga 06th 03 00 03 0141: 1360  +5 06th
03. UkraineUkraine Shakhtar Akademiya Donetsk 06th 02 00 04th 0127: 1520 −25 04th
04th LithuaniaLithuania HC Granitas Kaunas 06th 01 01 04th 0118: 1510 −33 03

Group B

Pl. team Sp. S. U N Gates Diff. Points
01. CroatiaCroatia Badel 1862 Zagreb 06th 04th 02 00 0168: 1410 +27 10
02. HungaryHungary SC Szeged 06th 03 02 01 0163: 1500 +13 08th
03. NorwayNorway IL Runar Sandefjord 06th 03 00 03 0155: 1680 −13 06th
04th ItalyItaly Pallamano Trieste 06th 00 00 06th 0147: 1740 −27 00

Group C

Pl. team Sp. S. U N Gates Diff. Points
01. GermanyGermany THW Kiel 06th 05 00 01 0154: 1180 +36 10
02. SwitzerlandSwitzerland Pathfinder Winterthur 06th 05 00 01 0145: 1370  +8 10
03. Yugoslavia Federal Republic 1992Yugoslavia Red Star Belgrade 06th 02 00 04th 0150: 1550  −5 04th
04th Belarus 1995Belarus SKA Minsk 06th 00 00 06th 0114: 1530 −39 00

Group D

Pl. team Sp. S. U N Gates Diff. Points
01. SloveniaSlovenia RK Celje 06th 05 00 01 0155: 1220 +33 10
02. SpainSpain Cantabria Santander 06th 05 00 01 0154: 1350 +19 10
03. DenmarkDenmark GOG Gudme 06th 01 00 05 0133: 1550 −22 02
04th FranceFrance PSG-Asnières 06th 01 00 05 0131: 1610 −30 02

Quarter finals

The first leg took place on February 8, 1997 and the second leg on 15/16. February 1997.

total First leg Return leg
SC Szeged HungaryHungary 42: 66 SpainSpain FC Barcelona 25:26 17:40
ABC Braga PortugalPortugal 46: 49 CroatiaCroatia Badel 1862 Zagreb 24:23 22:26
Cantabria Santander SpainSpain 45: 47 GermanyGermany THW Kiel 26:23 19:24
Pathfinder Winterthur SwitzerlandSwitzerland 40: 49 SloveniaSlovenia RK Celje 21:21 19:28

Semifinals

The first leg took place on 15./16. October 1997 and the second leg on October 23, 1997.

total First leg Return leg
RK Celje SloveniaSlovenia 50: 51 SpainSpain FC Barcelona 24:29 26:22
THW Kiel GermanyGermany 46: 48 CroatiaCroatia Badel 1862 Zagreb 23:23 23:25

final

The first leg in Barcelona took place on April 12, 1997 and the second leg in Zagreb on April 19, 1997. FC Barcelona managed to defend their title for the first time since the competition was called EHF Champions League. Badel 1962 Zagreb was the last team that succeeded when the competition was still called the European Cup.

total First leg Return leg
FC Barcelona SpainSpain 61 : 45 CroatiaCroatia Badel 1862 Zagreb 31:22 30:23

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ 1996/97 VELUX EHF Champions League Final. In: European Handball Federation. Retrieved July 5, 2018 .