European Cup Winners' Cup (handball) 1996/97

On EHF UEFA Cup Winners' Cup in 1996/97 34 took Handball part -Vereinsmannschaften, who qualified in the previous season in their home countries in the cup competition for the competition. It was the 22nd edition of the European Cup Winners' Cup. The defending champion was the German club TBV Lemgo . The cup games began on September 1, 1996 and ended with the second final game on April 19, 1997. In the final, the Spanish club Elgorriaga Bidasoa was able to prevail against the Hungarian representative KC Veszprém .

mode

The competition started with two games in one elimination round. The winners advanced to the sixteenth finals, in which other, higher ranked teams entered. All rounds including the final were carried out in a knockout system with a return leg. The winner of the final was the European Cup Winners' Cup of the 1996/97 season.

Elimination round

The home and away games took place between September 1, 1996 and September 7, 1996.

	total		First leg	Return leg
HC Port Burgas	48: 49	Željezničar Sarajevo	28:22	20:27
SKAF Minsk	75 : 39	Amirani Tbilisi	34:16	41:23

Sixteenth finals

The home and return games took place between October 11, 1996 and October 20, 1996.

	total		First leg	Return leg
GAS Archelaos Katerinis	41: 58	KC Veszprém	7:30 p.m.	22:28
UHC Stockerau	57: 59	US Ivry HB	29:25	28:34
Chelyabinsk locomotive	45: 59	TBV Lemgo	22:31	23:28
TJ VSŽ Košice	39: 43	Skanderborg HK	19:17	20:26
Mornar Bar	57:57 *	RK Mladost Bogdanci	41:28	16:29
KA Akureyri	56:56 *	ZMC Amicitia Zurich	27:27	29:29
IK Sävehof	41: 47	SC Magdeburg	19:25	22:22
HV Aalsmeer	37: 69	Elgorriaga Bidasoa	20:33	17:36
Ortigia Siracusa	61 : 42	SKAF Minsk	35:26	26:16
ZTR Zaporizhia	47: 49	Wisla Plock	25:23	22:26
HC Herstal	38 : 34	Lusis Akademikas Kaunas	20:16	18:18
Dukla Prague	57 : 44	Maccabi Raʿanana	31:27	26:17
Fibrex Săvineşti	35 : 34	Halkbank Ankara	19:16	16:18
RK Moslavina Kutina	61 : 43	Željezničar Sarajevo	30:21	31:22
Viking Stavanger	64 : 47	HC Dambis Riga	37:24	27:23
Slovan Ljubljana	48: 62	FC Porto	29:27	19:35

^*RK Mladost Bogdanci and KA Akureyri advanced to the second round due to the away goals rule .

Round of 16

The home and away games took place between November 9, 1996 and November 17, 1996.

	total		First leg	Return leg
SC Magdeburg	56 : 51	FC Porto	30:26	26:25
US Ivry HB	57 : 54	RK Moslavina Kutina	32:22	25:32
RK Mladost Bogdanci	55 : 49	Fibrex Săvineşti	36:24	19:25
Skanderborg HK	51:51 †	Wisla Plock	31:26	20:25
KA Akureyri	49 : 43	HC Herstal	26:20	23:23
KC Veszprém	56 : 53	Viking Stavanger	32:20	24:33
TBV Lemgo	52 : 34	Ortigia Siracusa	28:14	24:20
Elgorriaga Bidasoa	56 : 45	Dukla Prague	30:20	26:25

^†Wisła Płock moved into the quarter-finals due to the away goals rule .

Quarter finals

The home and away games took place between February 7, 1997 and February 16, 1997.

	total		First leg	Return leg
SC Magdeburg	46:46 ‡	TBV Lemgo	24:17	22:29
US Ivry HB	70 : 45	RK Mladost Bogdanci	35:22	35:23
Wisla Plock	35: 44	Elgorriaga Bidasoa	21:21	14:23
KA Akureyri	54: 65	KC Veszprém	32:31	22:34

^‡SC Magdeburg moved into the semi-finals due to the away goals rule .

Semifinals

The first leg took place on 15./16. March 1997 and the second leg on March 23, 1997.

	total		First leg	Return leg
US Ivry HB	50: 60	KC Veszprém	29:31	21:29
SC Magdeburg	44: 46	Elgorriaga Bidasoa	26:23	18:23

final

The first leg took place on April 12, 1997 in Irún and the second leg on April 19, 1997 in Veszprém .

	total		First leg	Return leg
Elgorriaga Bidasoa	41 : 38	KC Veszprém	24:19	17:19

See also

• EHF Champions League 1996/97
• EHF Cup 1996/97

Individual evidence

1. ↑ 1996/97 Men's Cup Winners' Cup. In: eurohandball.com. European Handball Federation , accessed February 2, 2019 .