European Cup Winners' Cup (handball) 1989/90

The 1989/90 European Cup Winners' Cup was the 15th edition of the competition for European handball cup winners . The 28 participating teams qualified in their home countries through the national cup competition for the European Cup organized by the International Handball Federation (IHF) . For the automatically qualified defending champion TUSEM Essen , who competed in the national championship cup, the DHB cup finalist VfL Gummersbach moved up into the competition. In the final, the Spanish representative Teka Santander prevailed against the Swedish club HK Drott (22:24, 23:18).

Competition chronology

First round

	total		First leg	Return leg
HC Herstal	35: 35 ( A )	HV Aalsmeer	23:20	12:15
VfL Gummersbach	53 : 24	Red Boys Differdange	30:15	23: 90
Hapoel Rishon LeZion	58 : 52	Sporting Lisbon	40:24	18:28
Grasshopper Club Zurich	(a)	Eskişehir ETİ Bisküileri
UMF Stjarnan	34: 50	HK Drott	14:23	20:27
AEL Limassol	(b)	Ionikos Athens	21:32	-
Riihimäki Cocks	35: 46	GKŻ Wybrzeże	17:18	18:28
Virum-Sorgefri HK	( A ) 46 : 46	Stavanger IF	19:22	27:24
SSV Forst Brixen	35: 35 ( A )	ATSE Waagner Biro Graz	21:19	14:16
RK Medveščak	58: 59	SC Empor Rostock	33:31	25:28
VIF G. Dimitrov Sofia	51: 73	Dinamo Astrakhan	26:36	25:37
Bramac Veszprém	43 : 42	TJ Čh Bratislava	23:18	20:24

^(a) Grasshopper Club Zurich made it to the round of 16 without a fight.

^(b)Since AEL Limassol did without the second leg, Ionikos Athens reached the round of 16 without a fight.

The other clubs ( TV Großwallstadt , USAM Nîmes , HC Minaur Baia Mare and Teka Santander ) automatically moved into the round of 16 with a bye .

Round of 16

	total		First leg	Return leg
Grasshopper Club Zurich	43 : 32	ATSE Waagner Biro Graz	24:14	19:18
Bramac Veszprém	49 : 43	Virum-Sorgefri HK	29:20	20:23
Dinamo Astrakhan	38: 43	VfL Gummersbach	16:22	22:21
HV Aalsmeer	41: 51	GKŻ Wybrzeże	20:24	21:27
HK Drott	52 : 32	Ionikos Athens	28:12	24:20
SC Empor Rostock	49: 52	Teka Santander	26:25	23:27
HC Minaur Baia Mare	51 : 44	Hapoel Rishon LeZion	33:23	18:21
TV Großwallstadt	43 : 33	USAM Nîmes	24:15	19:18

Quarter finals

	total		First leg	Return leg
HC Minaur Baia Mare	40: 44	Bramac Veszprém	22:25	18:19
VfL Gummersbach	48 : 38	Grasshopper Club Zurich	25:17	23:21
HK Drott	45 : 40	GKŻ Wybrzeże	26:18	19:22
TV Großwallstadt	38: 42	Teka Santander	25:19	13:23

Semifinals

	total		First leg	Return leg
VfL Gummersbach	39: 40	HK Drott	22:19	17:21
Bramac Veszprém	45: 54	Teka Santander	24:29	21:25

final

The finals were played in May 1990 in Halmstad (Sweden) and Santander (Spain).

	total		First leg	Return leg
HK Drott	42: 45	Teka Santander	24:22	18:23

literature

• German sport echo . Sportverlag Berlin, ISSN  0323-8628 (issues from the 1989–1990 season).
• Handball . Sportverlag Berlin, ISSN  0138-1296 (issues from the 1989–1990 season).

Web links

• Todor Krastev: Men Handball XV European Cup Winners Cup 1990. In: todor66.com , accessed on April 16, 2020 (with different information on the literature).

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b c} PLAY: Teka Santander - HK Drott från 1990 (with complete recording of the final second leg). In: handbollskanalen.se (March 12, 2016).