European Cup Winners' Cup (handball) 1987/88

The 1987/88 European Cup Winners' Cup was the 13th staging of the competition for European handball cup winners . The 26 participating teams qualified in their home countries through the national cup competition for the European Cup organized by the International Handball Federation (IHF) . In the final, the Soviet representative SKA Minsk prevailed against TV Großwallstadt (21:24, 27:15). Minsk won the competition for the second time after 1983 , while Großwallstadt lost the final for the second time after 1986 .

Competition chronology

First round

	total		First leg	Return leg
Kronohagens IF	28: 52	Got IF	17:27	11:25
IF Urædd	42 : 41	HP Warta	22:21	20:20
KV Sasja HC	37 : 27	Kyndil Torshavn	19:14	18:13
HV Aalsmeer	63 : 27	Salford HC	32:11	31:16
UMF Stjarnan	86 : 26	Yago School	42:13	44:13
HC Baník Karviná	42 : 33	ASKÖ Linz	23:10	19:23
SCM Politehnica Timișoara	53 : 39	Balkan Lovech	27:20	26:19
Hapoel Rishon LeZion	45 : 39	AC Doukas School	24:21	21:18
US Créteil HB	47 : 45	Cividin Trieste	23:21	24:24
Benfica Lisbon	31: 50	Atlético Madrid	20:21	11:29

The other clubs ( TV Großwallstadt , RK Medveščak , SKA Minsk , SC Leipzig , BSV Bern and Rába Vasas ETO ) automatically moved into the round of 16 with a bye .

Round of 16

	total		First leg	Return leg
RK Medveščak	62 : 54	Hapoel Rishon LeZion	37:29	25:25
US Créteil HB	39: 59	TV Großwallstadt	17:30	22:29
UMF Stjarnan	35: 35 ( A )	IF Urædd	20:19	15:16
Rába Vasas ETO	37: 39	Atlético Madrid	24:15	13:24
SCM Politehnica Timișoara	39: 39 ( A )	SC Leipzig	23:17	16:22
Got IF	40 : 25	KV Sasja HC	23: 90	17:16
SKA Minsk	60 : 46	HV Aalsmeer	28:22	32:24
BSV Bern	35: 41	HC Baník Karviná	22:23	13:18

Quarter finals

	total		First leg	Return leg
RK Medveščak	35 : 33	SC Leipzig	19:14	16:19
HC Baník Karviná	41 : 38	Atlético Madrid	19:17	22:21
SKA Minsk	61 : 43	IF Urædd	33:20	28:23
Got IF	28: 46	TV Großwallstadt	15:23	13:23

Semifinals

	total		First leg	Return leg
SKA Minsk	61 : 46	RK Medveščak	35:23	26:23
TV Großwallstadt	49 : 29	HC Baník Karviná	28:13	21:16

final

The first leg took place on May 15, 1988 and the second leg on May 21 or 22, 1988 in Minsk .

	total		First leg	Return leg
TV Großwallstadt	39: 48	SKA Minsk	24:21 (12:10)	15:27 (8:13)

literature

• Manfred Seifert: Sport88 . A yearbook of GDR sports. Sportverlag Berlin , 1988, ISSN  0232-203X , p. 218 .
• German sport echo . Sportverlag Berlin, ISSN  0323-8628 (issues from the 1987–1988 season).
• Handball . Sportverlag Berlin, ISSN  0138-1296 (issues from the 1987–1988 season).

Web links

• Todor Krastev: Men Handball XIII European Cup Winners Cup 1988. In: todor66.com , accessed on April 16, 2020 (with different information on the literature).

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Tele-Tip today. In: Thuner Tagblatt, May 14, 1988, p. 18 (accessed from e-newspaperarchives.ch ).
2. ↑ Notes. In: Neues Deutschland, May 16, 1988, p. 7.
3. ↑ Handball. In: Le Nouvelliste of May 24, 1988, p. 39 (accessed via e-newspaperarchives.ch ).