EHF Champions League 2002/03

At the EHF Champions League 2002/03 31 took Handball part -Vereinsmannschaften, who had qualified in the previous season in their home leagues for the competition. It was the 43rd edition of the EHF Champions League and the European Cup of National Champions. The defending champion was SC Magdeburg . The cup games began on September 7, 2002, the second final took place on May 4, 2003. In the final, Montpellier HB was able to prevail against Portland San Antonio .

mode

For the group phase there were two qualifying rounds in a knockout system with a return leg for the lower-ranked qualified clubs. The winners from qualifying round 1 went one round and the losers to the second round of the 2002/03 EHF Cup . The winners from qualifying round 2 advanced to the group stage and the losers to the third round of the EHF Cup. In the group stage with four groups of four teams each, each group played a return match against each other. The two best groups in each group reached the quarter-finals. From the quarter-finals onwards, the game was played in a knockout system with a return leg. The winner of the final was the EHF Champions League winner of the 2002/03 season.

qualification

Round 1

The first legs took place on 7./8. September 2002 and the second leg on 14./15. September 2002. Exceptions were the games between MŠK Považská Bystrica and GTU Shevardeni Tbilisi in Považská Bystrica and the games between HK Lokomotiv Warna and Fibrex Săvineşti in Bacău , which were played on September 7th and 8th, 2002.

	total		First leg	Return leg
Panellinios AC Athens	56 : 48	ASKI Ankara	30:23	26:25
SKA Minsk	48: 55	HC Granitas Kaunas	23:25	25:30
Bregenz HB	59 : 43	PES Strovolos Nicosia	31:19	28:24
Pallamano Trieste	59 : 54	RK Izvidac Ljubuski	33:27	26:27
HC Eynatten	52: 63	Vardar Skopje	28:31	24:32
MŠK Považská Bystrica	70 : 48	GTU Shevardeni Tbilisi	35:25	35:23
Handball Esch	45: 51	V&L Geleen	24:25	21:26
HK Lokomotiv Varna	37: 75	Fibrex Săvineşti	20:41	17:34

round 2

The first legs took place on 5./6. October 2002. The second leg took place on 12./13. October 2002.

	total		First leg	Return leg
HC Baník Karviná	67 : 47	MŠK Považská Bystrica	31:25	36:22
V&L Geleen	43: 69	Wisla Plock	24:28	19:41
Sandefjord TIF	49: 55	Vardar Skopje	26:26	23:29
Fibrex Săvineşti	43 : 41	RK Partizan Belgrade	28:19	15:22
HK Drott Halmstad	49: 51	Panellinios AC Athens	29:26	20:25
Bregenz HB	47: 62	Medvedi Chekhov	25:31	22:31
Shakhtyor Akademi Donetsk	46 : 44	HC Granitas Kaunas	34:24	12:20
Pallamano Trieste	60 : 51	Pathfinder Winterthur	31:26	29:25

Group stage

The group stage was played between November 8, 2002 and December 15, 2002.

groups

Group A  KC Veszprém Panellinios AC Athens SC Magdeburg Wisla Plock

Group B Pallamano Trieste KIF Kolding Portland San Antonio Shakhtyor Akademi Donetsk

Group C HC Baník Karviná Medwedi Chekhov Montpellier HB Prule 67 Ljubljana

Group D Fibrex Săvineşti RK Zagreb THW Kiel Vardar Skopje

Group A

Pl.	team	Sp.	S.	U	N	Gates	Diff.	Points
01.	KC Veszprém	06th	06th	00	00	0163: 1270	+36	12
02.	SC Magdeburg	06th	04th	00	02	0179: 1660	+13	08th
03.	Wisla Plock	06th	01	00	05	0167: 1950	−28	02
04th	Panellinios AC Athens	06th	01	00	05	0131: 1520	−21	02

Group B

Pl.	team	Sp.	S.	U	N	Gates	Diff.	Points
01.	Portland San Antonio	06th	05	00	01	0180: 1420	+38	10
02.	KIF Kolding	06th	04th	00	02	0178: 1520	+26	08th
03.	Pallamano Trieste	06th	02	01	03	0163: 1750	−12	05
04th	Shakhtyor Akademi Donetsk	06th	00	01	05	0135: 1870	−52	01

Group C

Pl.	team	Sp.	S.	U	N	Gates	Diff.	Points
01.	Montpellier HB	06th	05	00	01	0166: 1600	+6	10
02.	Prule 67 Ljubljana	06th	04th	00	02	0179: 1690	+10	08th
03.	Medvedi Chekhov	06th	02	00	04th	0182: 1700	+12	04th
04th	HC Baník Karviná	06th	01	00	05	0167: 1950	−28	02

Group D

Pl.	team	Sp.	S.	U	N	Gates	Diff.	Points
01.	THW Kiel	06th	04th	00	02	0175: 1500	+25	08th
02.	RK Zagreb	06th	03	01	02	0156: 1540	+2	07th
03.	Fibrex Săvineşti	06th	02	01	03	0164: 1620	+2	05
04th	Vardar Skopje	06th	02	00	04th	0152: 1810	−29	04th

Quarter finals

The first legs took place on 1/2. March 2003 and the second leg on 8./9. March 2003.

	total		First leg	Return leg
KIF Kolding	57: 60	KC Veszprém	31:27	26:36
SC Magdeburg	56: 60	Portland San Antonio	22:26	34:34
RK Zagreb	53: 62	Montpellier HB	28:28	25:34
Prule 67 Ljubljana	61 : 59	THW Kiel	33:33	28:26

Semifinals

The first leg took place on March 30, 2003 and the second leg on March 6, 2003.

	total		First leg	Return leg
Prule 67 Ljubljana	52: 56	Montpellier HB	29:27	23:29
Portland San Antonio	54 : 50	KC Veszprém	28:20	26:30

final

The first leg in Pamplona took place on April 26, 2003 and the second leg in Montpellier on May 5, 2003. Montpellier HB's first title win was also the first of a French team in the EHF Champions League or the European Cup.

	total		First leg	Return leg
Portland San Antonio	46: 50	Montpellier HB	27:19	19:31

statistics

List of goalscorers

The list of goalscorers shows the top three goalscorers in the EHF Champions League 2002/03. You can see the player's nation, name, position, club, games played, goals and the average goal per game. The winner is the top scorer of the EHF Champions League 2002/03.

Pl.	nation	player	Item	society	Sp.	Gates	O
1.		Mirza Džomba	(RA)	KC Veszprém	?	67	?
2.		Get rid of it	(RL)	KIF Kolding	8th	53	6.6
		Ólafur Stefánsson	(RR)	SC Magdeburg	8th	53	6.6
4th		Mikhail Yakimovich	(RL)	Portland San Antonio	11	49	4.5

See also

• EHF Cup 2002/03
• EHF European Cup Winners' Cup 2002/03

Web links

• Website of the EHF to CL (English)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ 2002/03 VELUX EHF Champions League Finals. In: European Handball Federation. Accessed June 13, 2018 . 
2. ↑ 2002/03 Men's EHF Champions League Top Scorers. In: European Handball Federation. Retrieved June 3, 2018 . 
3. ↑ Top scorers of the Men's EHF Champions League