European Champion Clubs' Cup (handball) 1982/83

The 1982/83 European Cup was the 23rd edition of the competition, in which 27 handball club teams from 26 countries took part. They qualified for the European Cup in their home countries in the previous season . The VfL Gummersbach was in the final against CSKA Moscow win the cup for the fifth time.

1 round

	total		First leg	Return leg
Dukla Prague	57 : 32	HC Raika Koeflach	29:22	28:10
Víkingur Reykjavík	62 : 42	Vestmanna ÍF	35:19	27:23
FC Barcelona	64 : 43	Benfica Lisbon	32:25	32:18
Hapoel Rehovot	75 : 25	HB Liverpool	40:10	35:15
IK home	62 : 49	Fredensborg / Ski IL	32:23	30:26
Sporting Neerpelt	32: 37	Vlug en Lenig Geleen	20:16	12:21
Ionikos Nea Filadelfeia	45: 70	Steaua Bucharest	28:34	17:36
SC Magdeburg	59 : 42	Cividin Trieste	29:24	30:18
HBC Schifflange	35: 59	USM Gagny	17:25	18:34
Építők Veszprém	57 : 37	İstanbul Bankası Yenişehir	26:19	31:18
Sjundeå IF	46: 63	CSKA Moscow	27:27	19:36

Skovbakken Aarhus, VfL Gummersbach , Metaloplastika Šabac , last year's finalist TSV St. Otmar St. Gallen and defending champion Honvéd Budapest had a bye and went straight to the round of 16.

Round of 16

	total		First leg	Return leg
Skovbakken Aarhus	38: 45	VfL Gummersbach	18:21	20:24
Dukla Prague	41 : 34	Víkingur Reykjavík	23:15	18:19
FC Barcelona	55 : 24	Hapoel Rehovot	25:16	30: 80
IK home	44 : 36	TSV St. Otmar St. Gallen	32:20	12:16
Honvéd Budapest	56 : 34	Vlug en Lenig Geleen	30:21	26:13
Steaua Bucharest	43: 45	Metaloplastika Šabac	21:18	22:27
SC Magdeburg	62 : 43	USM Gagny	33:16	29:27
CSKA Moscow	61 : 44	Építők Veszprém	31:19	30:25

Quarter finals

	total		First leg	Return leg
Dukla Prague	35: 35	VfL Gummersbach	19:18	16:17
IK home	34: 46	FC Barcelona	16:20	18:26
Honvéd Budapest	39: 47	Metaloplastika Šabac	19:15	20:32
CSKA Moscow	54 : 49	SC Magdeburg	30:17	24:32

1. ↑ VfL Gummersbach moved into the semi-finals due to the away goal rule .

Semifinals

	total		First leg	Return leg
VfL Gummersbach	44 : 38	FC Barcelona	21:16	23:22
Metaloplastika Šabac	39: 42	CSKA Moscow	23:17	16:25

final

The first leg took place on April 24, 1983 in Moscow's ZSKA Sports Palace and the second leg on May 1, 1983 in Dortmund's Westfalenhalle .

	total		First leg	Return leg
CSKA Moscow	29: 32	VFL GUMMERSBACH	15:19	14:13

First leg

CSKA Moscow		VfL Gummersbach
	Sunday, April 24, 1983 at 2 p.m. in Moscow ( CSKA Sports Palace ) Result: 15:19 (8:13) Spectators: 3,000 Referees: Terje Anthonsen, Øivind Bolstad ( Norway )
	Nikolai Tomin , Vadim Walejscho - Anatoli Fedjukin , Alexei Schuk , Michail Wassiljew , Adrian Below , Alexander Rymanow , Juri Kidjajew , Evgeni Tschernyschow , Igor Sasankow , Bjersins Trainer: Yuri Solomko	Andreas Thiel , Ulrich Theis - Claus Fey , Heiner Brand , Erhard Wunderlich , Frank Dammann , Dirk Rauin , Thomas Krokowski , Gerd Rosendahl , Franz-Josef Salewski , Markus Hütt , Christian Fitzek Trainer: Petre Ivănescu
	Fedjukin (8/1) Vasiliev (3) Tomin (1/1) Kidjajew (1) Schuk (1) Bjersins (1)	Dammann (5) Wunderlich (4/2) Salewski (2) Rauin (2) Krokowski (2) Brand (2) Fey (2)
	Below	fire
	Chernyshev (2 ×), Rymanow	Dammann, Fey, Brand, Salewski, Rosendahl
	only two out of eight seven meters transformed

Return leg

VfL Gummersbach		CSKA Moscow
	Sunday, May 1st 1983 at 3:30 p.m. in Dortmund ( Westfalenhalle ) Result: 13:14 (4: 7) Spectators: 12,000 (sold out) Referees: Milan Valčić, Milan Mitrović ( Yugoslavia )
	Andreas Thiel , Ulrich Theis - Claus Fey , Heiner Brand , Erhard Wunderlich , Frank Dammann , Dirk Rauin , Thomas Krokowski , Gerd Rosendahl , Franz-Josef Salewski , Markus Hütt , Christian Fitzek Trainer: Petre Ivănescu	Nikolai Tomin , Vadim Walejscho - Anatoli Fedjukin , Alexei Schuk , Michail Wassiljew , Adrian Below , Alexander Rymanow , Juri Kidjajew , Evgeni Tschernyschow , Wassily Baran , Igor Sasankow Trainer: Juri Solomko
	Wunderlich (7/3) Frey (4) Krokowski (2)	Baran (7/4) Kidjajew (2) Schuk (2) Vasiljew ( 2) Fedjukin (1)
	Fey	Rymanow
	Rosendahl	Below, Kidjajew, Chernyshev

literature

• Manfred Seifert: Sport82. A yearbook of GDR sports . Sportverlag Berlin, 1983, ISSN  0232-203X , p. 243 .
• New Germany . Socialist Unity Party of Germany, Berlin (1982–1983).
• Foosball sports magazine . Olympia-Verlag, Nuremberg (issues from the 1982–1983 season).

Web links

• todor66.com
• History of Vfl Gummersbach