European Cup Winners' Cup (handball) 1980/81

The 1980/81 European Cup Winners' Cup was the sixth staging of the competition for European handball cup winners . The 26 participating teams qualified in their home countries via the national cup competition for the European Cup organized by the International Handball Federation (IHF) ; the defending champion CB Calpisa Alicante was automatically qualified. In the final, TuS Nettelstedt prevailed against the FDGB Cup winner SC Empor Rostock in its first participation on the international stage (16:18, 17:14).

Competition chronology

First round

	total		First leg	Return leg
KV Sasja HC	29: 62	Helsingør IF	13:25	16:37
HV Sittardia	50 : 36	HC Berchem	30:13	20:23
FC Porto	48 : 41	Pallamano Rimini	25:19	23:22
USM Gagny	30: 52	Atlético Madrid	17:21	13:31
Haukar Hafnarfjörður	53 : 34	Kyndil Torshavn	30:15	23:19
Sparta IF	33: 38	SK Rapp	15:14	18:24
VSŽ Košice	43: 48	Burewestnik Tbilisi	21:23	22:25
UHK Krems	20: 42	SC Empor Rostock	06:22	14:20
HC Minaur Baia Mare	54 : 34	Hapoel Rehovot	27:15	27:19
İTÜ SK	21: 57	CSKA Sofia	10:24	11:33

The other clubs ( TuS Nettelstedt , HK Drott , Elektromos SE , Metaloplastika Šabac , TSV St. Otmar St. Gallen and defending champion CB Calpisa Alicante ) automatically moved into the round of 16 with a bye .

Round of 16

	total		First leg	Return leg
Haukar Hafnarfjörður	30: 39	TuS Nettelstedt	18:21	12:17
TSV St. Otmar St. Gallen	28: 37	SC Empor Rostock	17:17	11:20
CB Calpisa Alicante	47 : 42	FC Porto	23:18	24:24
HK Drott	42: 45	Elektromos SE	23:20	19:25
HC Minaur Baia Mare	(a)	Helsingør IF
Metaloplastika Šabac	63 : 39	SK Rapp	34:19	29:20
CSKA Sofia	47 : 34	HV Sittardia	23:13	24:21
Atlético Madrid	49 : 43	Burewestnik Tbilisi	30:21	19:22

^(a)The Swedish representative Helsingør IF was excluded from the competition by the IHF because of illegal jersey advertising , so that HC Minaur Baia Mare made it to the quarter-finals without a fight.

Quarter finals

	total		First leg	Return leg
Atlético Madrid	36: 39	SC Empor Rostock	20:20	16:19
HC Minaur Baia Mare	37 : 25	CSKA Sofia	20:12	17:23
TuS Nettelstedt	47 : 36	CB Calpisa Alicante	27:16	20:20
Metaloplastika Šabac	46 : 38	Elektromos SE	26:22	20:16

Semifinals

	total		First leg	Return leg
Metaloplastika Šabac	33: 34	SC Empor Rostock	17:11	16:23
TuS Nettelstedt	43 : 40	HC Minaur Baia Mare	23:16	20:24

final

The first leg took place on April 18, 1981 in the Rostock sports and congress hall and the second leg on April 25, 1981 in the Lübbeck district sports hall.

	total		First leg	Return leg
SC Empor Rostock	32: 33	TuS Nettelstedt	18:16	14:17

First leg

SC Empor Rostock		TuS Nettelstedt
	First leg Saturday, April 18, 1981, 5:30 p.m. in Rostock ( sports and congress hall ) Result: 18:16 (11: 6) Spectators: 4,300 (sold out) Referee: Nilsson , Jersmyr ( Sweden )
	Jürgen Rohde , Hans-Joachim Sommer - Hans-Georg Jaunich (1) , Helmut Wilk (4), Frank-Michael Wahl (9/6), Frank Seydel , Siegfried Sanftleben (1), Christian Langner , Holger Langhoff , Volkmar Warning ( 1), Michael Wemuth (1), Jürgen Nowoczin (1) Trainer: Heinz Strauch	Klaus Wöller , Peter Lipp - Hartmut Kania (2), Klaus Schibschid (2), Harry Keller (2), Zdravko Miljak (4), Uwe Kölling , Dieter Waltke (1) , Peter Pickel (1), Klaus Waldhelm (2) , Hans-Jürgen Grund , Milan Lazarević (2) Coach: Martin Karcher

Return leg

Keller scored the goal at 17:14 in the final minute, which finally decided the game and prevented the application of the away goals rule (also in favor of Nettelstedter).

TuS Nettelstedt		SC Empor Rostock
	Second leg Saturday, April 25, 1981, 4:30 p.m. in Lübbecke ( Kreissporthalle ) Result: 17:14 (8: 6) Spectators: 4,000 (sold out) Referee: Nosnicka, Horvat ( Yugoslavia )
	Klaus Wöller , Peter Lipp - Hartmut Kania (2), Klaus Schibschid , Harry Keller (3), Zdravko Miljak (4/3), Uwe Kölling (1), Dieter Waltke (3) , Peter Pickel , Klaus Waldhelm (3), Hans-Jürgen Grund , Milan Lazarević (1) Coach: Martin Karcher	Jürgen Rohde , Hans-Joachim Sommer - Hans-Georg Jaunich , Helmut Wilk (4), Frank-Michael Wahl (6/1), Frank Seydel (1), Siegfried Sanftleben , Christian Langner (2), Holger Langhoff , Volkmar Warning , Michael Wemuth , Jürgen Nowoczin (1) Trainer: Heinz Strauch

literature

• Manfred Seifert: Sport81. A yearbook of GDR sports. Sportverlag Berlin , 1981, ISSN  0232-203X , p. 232 .
• Foosball sports magazine . Olympia-Verlag , Nuremberg (issues from the 1980–1981 season).

Web links

• Todor Krastev: Men Handball VI European Cup Winners Cup 1981. In: todor66.com , accessed on April 15, 2020 (with different information on the literature).

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Well earned, but the lead is small. In: Neues Deutschland from April 20, 1981, p. 7.
2. ↑ It looked good until the break! In: Neue Zeit from April 20, 1981, p. 8.
3. ^ All of Magdeburg's trump cards were brilliantly played. In: Berliner Zeitung of April 26, 1981, p. 6.
4. ↑ Decision kept open until shortly before the end. In: Neues Deutschland from April 27, 1981, p. 7.