European Women's Cup (handball) 1983/84

The 1983/84 European Cup was the 23rd edition of the competition, in which 20 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, last year's finalist RK Radnički Belgrad prevailed against TSV Bayer 04 Leverkusen from the Federal Republic of Germany and won the cup for the third time. Teams from Poland , the Soviet Union and the GDR did not take part in the competition with a view to the 1984 Olympic Games in Los Angeles .

Preliminary round

	total		First leg	Return leg
Bordeaux EC	46 : 27	HC Bascharage	24:11	22:16
Avanti Lebbeke	21: 34	ATV Basel-Stadt	13:14	08:20
Bankasi Istanbul		SSV Forst Brixen	:	:
Club Balonmano over Valencia	55 : 18	AD de Oeiras	29: 90	26: 90

1. ↑ SSV Forst Brixen continued without a fight

Helsingør IF , TSV Bayer 04 Leverkusen , Maccabi Harazim Ramat Gan, Hypobank Südstadt , CSKA Sofia, CS Știința Bacău. Start Bratislava, Skjeberg IF, Stockholmspolisens IF , Niloc Amsterdam, Vasas Budapest and last year's finalist RK Radnički Belgrade had a bye and went straight to the round of 16.

Round of 16

	total		First leg	Return leg
Helsingør IF	33: 50	TSV Bayer 04 Leverkusen	16:18	17:32
ATV Basel-Stadt	38 : 33	Maccabi Harazim Ramat Gan	17:18	21:15
Hypobank Südstadt	48 : 32	SSV Forst Brixen	24:14	24:18
CSKA Sofia	42 : 37	Club Balonmano over Valencia	24:23	18:14
CS Știința Bacău	48: 49	Start Bratislava	26:21	22:28
Skjeberg IF	27 : 26	Stockholmspolisens IF	16:13	11:13
RK Radnički Belgrade	58 : 30	Niloc Amsterdam	32:14	26:16
Vasas Budapest	43 : 22	Bordeaux EC	25:10	18:12

Quarter finals

	total		First leg	Return leg
RK Radnički Belgrade	68 : 27	ATV Basel-Stadt	30:14	38:13
Vasas Budapest	34 : 34	Start Bratislava	18:15	16:19
CSKA Sofia	32: 32	TSV Bayer 04 Leverkusen	21:16	11:16
Skjeberg IF	30: 41	Hypobank Südstadt	15:19	15:22

1. ↑ Vasas Budapest qualified for the semi-finals due to the away goals rule .
2. ↑ TSV Bayer 04 Leverkusen qualified for the semi-finals due to the away goals rule .

Semifinals

	total		First leg	Return leg
TSV Bayer 04 Leverkusen	32 : 29	Vasas Budapest	15:12	17:17
Hypobank Südstadt	36: 43	RK Radnički Belgrade	17:21	19:22

final

The first leg took place on March 25, 1984 in Belgrade and the second leg on March 31, 1984 in Leverkusen's Wilhelm-Dopatka-Halle .

	total		First leg	Return leg
RK Radnički Belgrade	42 : 35	TSV Bayer 04 Leverkusen	22:16	20:19

literature

• Manfred Seifert: Sport84. A yearbook of GDR sports . Sportverlag Berlin, 1984, ISSN  0232-203X , p. 252 .
• New Germany . Socialist Unity Party of Germany, 1984, ISSN  0323-3375 .