European Women's Cup (handball) 1980/81

The 1980/81 European Cup was the 20th edition of the competition, in which 21 handball club teams from 20 countries took part. They qualified for the European Cup in their home countries in the previous season . In the final, Spartak Kiev prevailed against defending champion RK Radnički Belgrade and won the cup for the eighth time.

Preliminary round

	total		First leg	Return leg
LC Brühl Handball St. Gallen	20 : 16	HC Tongeren	10: 80	10: 80
HC Bascharage	15: 49	Hellas The Hague	06:25	09:24
RK Osijek	45 : 30	Via Valencia	25:15	20:15
Ruch Chorzów	32 : 26	TSC Berlin	19: 90	13:17
Spartak Kiev	30 : 28	Vasas Budapest	19:14	11:14

Maccabi Ramat Gan, Iskra Partizanske, Stockholmspolisens IF , TSV Bayer 04 Leverkusen , Hypobank Südstadt , Frederiksberg IF, VIF G. Dimitrow Sofia, Paris Université Club, Skogn IL, CS Știința Bacău and defending champion RK Radnički Belgrade had a bye and went straight into it the last sixteen.

Round of 16

	total		First leg	Return leg
RK Osijek	55 : 18	Maccabi Ramat Gan	29: 70	26:11
Iskra Partizanske	30 : 24	Stockholmspolisens IF	16:12	14:12
TSV Bayer 04 Leverkusen	20: 22	Hypobank Südstadt	12:12	08:10
Frederiksberg IF	25:25 7m: 3: 4	VIF G. Dimitrov Sofia	16:14	9:11
Paris Université Club	23: 28	Skogn IL	12:16	11:12
CS Știința Bacău	31: 33	Ruch Chorzów	17:15	14:18
Hellas The Hague	14: 53	Spartak Kiev	08:20	06:33
LC Brühl Handball St. Gallen	16: 50	RK Radnički Belgrade	06:28	10:22

1. ↑ Both games took place in Frederiksberg .

Quarter finals

	total		First leg	Return leg
RK Osijek	25 : 24	Hypobank Südstadt	17:14	08:10
Iskra Partizanske	30: 38	VIF G. Dimitrov Sofia	18:17	12:21
Spartak Kiev	39 : 27	Ruch Chorzów	20:16	19:11
Skogn IL	29: 42	RK Radnički Belgrade	12:16	17:26

Semifinals

	total		First leg	Return leg
RK Osijek	31: 33	RK Radnički Belgrade	19:18	12:15
Spartak Kiev	41 : 30	VIF G. Dimitrov Sofia	22:11	19:19

final

The first leg took place on April 19, 1981 in Kiev and the second leg on April 26, 1981 in Belgrade .

	total		First leg	Return leg
Spartak Kiev	39 : 26	RK Radnički Belgrade	22:13	17:13

literature

• Manfred Seifert: Sport81. A yearbook of GDR sports . Sportverlag Berlin, 1981, ISSN  0232-203X , p. 232 .

Web links

• Karlheinz Heckert: Handball - European Cup of National Champions. Retrieved January 19, 2015 (German).