EHF Champions League 2003/04

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At the EHF Champions League 2003/04 37 took Handball part -Vereinsmannschaften, who had qualified in the previous season in their home leagues for the competition. It was the 44th edition of the EHF Champions League and the European Cup of National Champions. The defending champion was the French club Montpellier HB . The cup games began on September 12, 2003, the second final took place on April 24, 2004. In the final RK Celje was able to prevail against SG Flensburg-Handewitt .

mode

This season, for the first time, a total of 32 teams played in eight groups in the group stage, so there was only one qualifying round in the knockout system with a return leg. The winners from the qualifying round moved into the group stage and the losers into the second round of the 2003/04 EHF Cup . In the group stage with eight groups of four teams each, everyone in the group played a game against each other. The top two in each group reached the newly introduced round of 16 and the eight thirds played in the round of 16 of the 2003/04 European Cup Winners' Cup . From the round of 16 onwards, a knockout system was played with a return leg. The winner of the final was the EHF Champions League winner of the 2003/04 season.

qualification

The first legs took place on 12./13. September 2003. The second leg took place on 20./21. September 2003. The meetings between HC Granitas Kaunas and Filippos Verias, which took place in Veria on September 19 and 21, 2003, were an exception .

total First leg Return leg
HC Hard  AustriaAustria 61 : 43 Belarus 1995Belarus Arkatron Minsk 35:17 26:26
HV Aalsmeer  NetherlandsNetherlands 57: 64 Bosnia and HerzegovinaBosnia and Herzegovina RK Bosna Sarajevo 21:29 36:35
HC Granitas Kaunas  Lithuania 1989Lithuania 46: 58 GreeceGreece Filippos Verias 26:33 20:25
Haukar Hafnarfjörður  IcelandIceland 57 : 47 PortugalPortugal CD de São Bernardo-Aveiro 37:23 20:24
HC Tongeren BelgiumBelgium 46: 61 SlovakiaSlovakia MŠK Považská Bystrica 25:26 21:35

Group stage

The groups were drawn on July 15, 2003. The group stage was played between October 11, 2003 and November 30, 2003.

The course of the preliminary round group E can be noted as a curiosity. There were only home wins here, so that ultimately all four teams were tied and the goal difference had to decide.

groups

Group A AS Conversano 2003 BM Ciudad Real ZTR Saporischschja TBV Lemgo
ItalyItaly
SpainSpain 
UkraineUkraine 
GermanyGermany 

Group B FC Barcelona Haukar Hafnarfjörður SC Magdeburg Vardar Skopje
SpainSpain 
IcelandIceland 
GermanyGermany 
North MacedoniaNorth Macedonia 

Group C ASKI Ankara KIF Kolding Prule 67 Ljubljana RK Partizan Belgrade
TurkeyTurkey
DenmarkDenmark 
SloveniaSlovenia 
Serbia and MontenegroSerbia and Montenegro 

Group D Ademar León Medvedi Chekhov Montpellier HB HC Hard
SpainSpain 
RussiaRussia 
FranceFrance 
AustriaAustria 

Group E Filippos Verias RK Zagreb Sandefjord TIF SC Szeged
GreeceGreece
CroatiaCroatia 
NorwayNorway 
HungaryHungary 

Group F MŠK Považská Bystrica Redbergslids IK RK Celje SG Flensburg-Handewitt
SlovakiaSlovakia 
SwedenSweden 
SloveniaSlovenia 
GermanyGermany 

Group G KC Veszprém KS Vive Kielce HC Bosna Sarajevo Skjern Handball
HungaryHungary 
PolandPoland 
Bosnia and HerzegovinaBosnia and Herzegovina 
DenmarkDenmark 

Group H Chambéry Savoie HB HC Baník Karviná Pfadi Winterthur RK Metković
FranceFrance 
Czech RepublicCzech Republic
SwitzerlandSwitzerland 
CroatiaCroatia 

Group A

Pl. team Sp. S. U N Gates Diff. Points
01. GermanyGermany TBV Lemgo 06th 04th 02 00 0196: 1570 +39 10
02. SpainSpain BM Ciudad Real 06th 04th 01 01 0187: 1450 +42 09
03. UkraineUkraine ZTR Zaporizhia 06th 02 01 03 0161: 1450 +16 05
04th ItalyItaly AS Conversano 06th 00 00 06th 0118: 2150 −97 00

Group B

Pl. team Sp. S. U N Gates Diff. Points
01. GermanyGermany SC Magdeburg 06th 05 00 01 0192: 1760 +16 10
02. SpainSpain FC Barcelona 06th 04th 01 01 0203: 1520 +51 09
03. IcelandIceland Haukar Hafnarfjörður 06th 02 01 03 0179: 1930 −14 05
04th North MacedoniaNorth Macedonia Vardar Skopje 06th 00 00 06th 0157: 2100 −53 00

Group C

Pl. team Sp. S. U N Gates Diff. Points
01. DenmarkDenmark KIF Kolding 06th 04th 01 01 0204: 1720 +32 09
02. SloveniaSlovenia Prule 67 Ljubljana 06th 04th 01 01 0181: 1780  +3 09
03. Serbia and MontenegroSerbia and Montenegro RK Partizan Belgrade 06th 01 01 04th 0179: 1940 −15 03
04th TurkeyTurkey ASKI Ankara 06th 01 01 04th 0163: 1830 −20 03

Group D

Pl. team Sp. S. U N Gates Diff. Points
01. FranceFrance Montpellier HB 06th 05 00 01 0167: 1440 +23 10
02. SpainSpain Ademar León 06th 04th 00 02 0179: 1610 +18 08th
03. RussiaRussia Medvedi Chekhov 06th 03 00 03 0166: 1650  +1 06th
04th AustriaAustria HC Hard 06th 00 00 06th 0138: 1800 −42 00

Group E

Pl. team Sp. S. U N Gates Diff. Points
01. CroatiaCroatia RK Zagreb 06th 03 00 03 0159: 1440 +15 06th
02. HungaryHungary SC Szeged 06th 03 00 03 0160: 1540  +6 06th
03. NorwayNorway Sandefjord TIF 06th 03 00 03 0149: 1570  −8 06th
04th GreeceGreece Filippos Verias 06th 03 00 03 0154: 1670 −13 06th

Group F.

Pl. team Sp. S. U N Gates Diff. Points
01. SloveniaSlovenia RK Celje 06th 05 01 00 0196: 1610 +35 11
02. GermanyGermany SG Flensburg-Handewitt 06th 04th 01 01 0211: 1810 +30 09
03. SwedenSweden Redbergslids IK 06th 02 00 04th 0179: 1860  −7 04th
04th SlovakiaSlovakia MŠK Považská Bystrica 06th 00 00 06th 0163: 2210 −58 00

Group G

Pl. team Sp. S. U N Gates Diff. Points
01. HungaryHungary KC Veszprém 06th 06th 00 00 0197: 1560 +41 12
02. DenmarkDenmark Skjern handball 06th 02 01 03 0151: 1530  −2 05
03. PolandPoland KS Kielce 06th 02 01 03 0159: 1770 −18 05
04th Bosnia and HerzegovinaBosnia and Herzegovina HC Bosna Sarajevo 06th 01 00 05 0151: 1720 −21 02

Group H.

Pl. team Sp. S. U N Gates Diff. Points
01. FranceFrance Chambery Savoie HB 06th 06th 00 00 0185: 1570 +28 12
02. SwitzerlandSwitzerland Pathfinder Winterthur 06th 02 01 03 0192: 1780 +14 05
03. Czech RepublicCzech Republic HC Baník Karviná 06th 02 00 04th 0180: 1940 −14 04th
04th CroatiaCroatia RK Metković 06th 01 01 04th 0156: 1840 −28 03

Round of 16

The first legs took place on 13./14. December 2003, the second leg on 20./21. December 2003.

total First leg Return leg
BM Ciudad Real SpainSpain 69 : 60 FranceFrance Chambery Savoie HB 36:28 33:32
Skjern handball DenmarkDenmark 54: 59 GermanyGermany SC Magdeburg 30:25 24:34
Ademar León SpainSpain 59: 59 † SloveniaSlovenia RK Celje 38:25 21:34
SG Flensburg-Handewitt GermanyGermany 67 : 49 DenmarkDenmark Kolding KIF 34:29 33:20
SC Szeged HungaryHungary 55 : 49 FranceFrance Montpellier HB 29:22 26:27
Pathfinder Winterthur SwitzerlandSwitzerland 56: 61 CroatiaCroatia RK Zagreb 32:29 24:32
Prule 67 Ljubljana SloveniaSlovenia 55: 60 GermanyGermany TBV Lemgo 28:28 27:32
FC Barcelona SpainSpain 59: 60 HungaryHungary KC Veszprém 33:29 26:31
†RK Celje qualified for the next round due to the away goals rule .

Quarter finals

The first legs took place on 14/15. February 2004, the second leg on 21./22. February 2004.

total First leg Return leg
SG Flensburg-Handewitt GermanyGermany 58 : 53 CroatiaCroatia RK Zagreb 30:27 28:26
SC Szeged HungaryHungary 54: 59 GermanyGermany SC Magdeburg 30:31 24:28
RK Celje SloveniaSlovenia 60 : 53 GermanyGermany TBV Lemgo 32:25 28:28
BM Ciudad Real SpainSpain 61 : 49 HungaryHungary KC Veszprém 33:24 28:25

Semifinals

The first legs took place on 13./14. March 2004, the second leg on 20./21. March 2004.

total First leg Return leg
BM Ciudad Real SpainSpain 67: 70 SloveniaSlovenia RK Celje 35:36 32:34
SG Flensburg-Handewitt GermanyGermany 56 : 56 ‡ GermanyGermany SC Magdeburg 30:20 26:36
‡SG Flensburg-Handewitt qualified for the next round due to the away goals rule .

final

The first leg took place on April 18, 2004 in Celje and the second leg on April 24, 2004 in Flensburg . With his first title win, RK Celje stood in the way of a SG Flensburg-Handewitt triple .

total First leg Return leg
RK Celje SloveniaSlovenia 62 : 58 GermanyGermany SG Flensburg-Handewitt 34:28 28:30

statistics

List of goalscorers

The list of goalscorers shows the top ten goalscorers in the EHF Champions League 2003/04. 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 2003/04.

Pl. nation player Item society Sp. Gates O
1. SloveniaSlovenia Siarhei Rutenka (RL) RK Celje 10 73 7.3
2. RussiaRussia Eduard Koksharow (LA) RK Celje 10 66 6.6
3. GermanyGermany Stefan Kretzschmar (LA) SC Magdeburg 8th 64 8.0
4th PolandPoland Karol Bielecki (RL) KS Vive Kielce 6th 62 10.3
5. FranceFrance Stéphane Stoecklin (RR) Chambery Savoie HB 7th 62 8.9
6th SwitzerlandSwitzerland Manuel Liniger (LA) Pathfinder Winterthur 8th 60 7.5
CroatiaCroatia Vedran Zrnić (RA) Prule 67 Ljubljana 8th 60 7.5
8th. DenmarkDenmark Soren Stryger (RA) SG Flensburg-Handewitt 10 59 5.9
9. SloveniaSlovenia Renato Vugrinec (RR) RK Celje 10 58 5.8
10. DenmarkDenmark Boris Schnuchel (LA) KIF Kolding 8th 54 6.8

See also

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ 2003/04 VELUX EHF Champions League Final. In: European Handball Federation . Accessed June 10, 2018 .
  2. ↑ 2003/04 Men's EHF Champions League Match Details. In: European Handball Federation. Retrieved June 15, 2018 .
  3. ↑ European Cup: Draw for the first rounds and the Champions League groups. In: THW archive. Retrieved July 15, 2018 .
  4. ↑ Flensburg defeats the trauma. In: Spiegel Online. May 16, 2004, accessed July 1, 2018 .
  5. ↑ 2003/04 Men's EHF Champions League Top Scorers. In: European Handball Federation. Retrieved June 9, 2018 .