European Cup Winners' Cup (handball) 1997/98

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In the EHF European Cup Winners' Cup 1997/98 , 33 handball club teams took part, which had qualified for the competition in their home countries in the previous season in the cup competition. It was the 23rd edition of the European Cup Winners' Cup. The defending champion was the Spanish club Elgorriaga Bidasoa . The cup games began on September 14, 1997 and ended with the second final game on April 25, 1998. In the final, the Spanish representative Cantabria Santander prevailed against the German club HSG Dutenhofen / Münchholzhausen .

mode

The competition started with one game 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 1997/1998 season.

Elimination round

The first leg took place on September 14, 1997 and the second leg on September 21, 1997.

total First leg Return leg
AC Latsia Nicosia Cyprus 1960Cyprus 35: 68 Belarus 1995Belarus Arkatron Minsk 16:29 19:39

Sixteenth finals

The home and return games took place between October 4, 1997 and October 12, 1997.

total First leg Return leg
Sporting Neerpelt BelgiumBelgium 47: 65 SwitzerlandSwitzerland TSV St. Otmar St. Gallen 25:35 22:30
IF Guif SwedenSweden 56 : 54 North MacedoniaNorth Macedonia Vardar Skopje 28:25 28:29
Steaua Bucharest RomaniaRomania 39: 57 GermanyGermany HSG Dutenhofen / Münchholzhausen 20:30 19:27
HC Linz AG AustriaAustria 49: 65 SpainSpain Cantabria Santander 28:32 21:33
Arkatron Minsk Belarus 1995Belarus 37: 58 SpainSpain Elgorriaga Bidasoa 17:38 20:20
Wisla Plock PolandPoland 37: 52 HungaryHungary Pestszentlörinc Elektromos SE 20:27 17:25
Chelyabinsk locomotive RussiaRussia 53 : 45 FranceFrance US Créteil HB 26:21 27:24
RK Zeleznicar 1949 Nis Yugoslavia Federal Republic 1992Yugoslavia 46: 47 DenmarkDenmark GOG Gudme 24:19 22:28
Tel Aviv Uni Sports Club IsraelIsrael 65 : 53 LatviaLatvia Jūrmalas PSK Riga 29:24 36:29
Ortigia Siracusa GreeceGreece 27: 58 NorwayNorway Viking Stavanger 13:29 14:29
ZTR Zaporizhia UkraineUkraine 49: 54 PortugalPortugal Sporting Lisbon 25:31 24:23
Athinaikos Athens  GreeceGreece 47: 58 SlovakiaSlovakia ŠKP Bratislava 25:25 22:33
HC Berchem LuxembourgLuxembourg 42: 60 NetherlandsNetherlands E&O Emmen 16:31 26:29
ASKI Ankara TurkeyTurkey 54 : 38 BulgariaBulgaria HK Lokomotiv Varna 25:17 29:21
HRK Karlovac CroatiaCroatia 50: 59 Czech RepublicCzech Republic Talent Pilsen 26:24 24:35
RK Velenje SloveniaSlovenia 70 : 54 Lithuania 1989Lithuania Šiauliai Universitetas 36:31 34:23

Round of 16

The return games took place between November 7, 1997 and November 16, 1997.

total First leg Return leg
Chelyabinsk locomotive RussiaRussia 54 : 41 SloveniaSlovenia RK Velenje 32:15 22:26
Elgorriaga Bidasoa SpainSpain 49: 57 NorwayNorway Viking Stavanger 30:31 19:26
HSG Dutenhofen / Münchholzhausen GermanyGermany 50 : 46 PortugalPortugal Sporting Lisbon 24:16 26:30
IF Guif SwedenSweden 62 : 47 NetherlandsNetherlands E&O Emmen 33:18 29:29
TSV St. Otmar St. Gallen SwitzerlandSwitzerland 71 : 48 IsraelIsrael Tel Aviv Uni Sports Club 34:26 37:22
Cantabria Santander SpainSpain 51 : 44 Czech RepublicCzech Republic Talent Pilsen 32:21 19:23
Pestszentlörinc Elektromos SE HungaryHungary 65 : 49 TurkeyTurkey ASKI Ankara 32:28 33:21
GOG Gudme DenmarkDenmark 61 : 40 SlovakiaSlovakia ŠKP Bratislava 33:18 28:22

Quarter finals

The first legs took place on 21./22. February 1998 and the second legs on February 28 and March 1, 1998.

total First leg Return leg
TSV St. Otmar St. Gallen SwitzerlandSwitzerland 53:53 * NorwayNorway Viking Stavanger 30:24 23:29
Chelyabinsk locomotive RussiaRussia 45 : 44 SwedenSweden IF Guif 26:20 19:24
Pestszentlörinc Elektromos SE HungaryHungary 38: 40 GermanyGermany HSG Dutenhofen / Münchholzhausen 22:18 16:22
Cantabria Santander SpainSpain 47 : 43 DenmarkDenmark GOG Gudme 26:18 21:25
*Viking Stavanger moved into the semi-finals due to the away goals rule .

Semifinals

The first leg took place on March 22, 1998 and the second leg on March 28, 1998.

total First leg Return leg
Viking Stavanger NorwayNorway 46: 51 SpainSpain Cantabria Santander 25:25 21:26
HSG Dutenhofen / Münchholzhausen GermanyGermany 58 : 41 RussiaRussia Chelyabinsk locomotive 26:13 32:28

final

The first leg took place on April 12, 1998 in Santander and the second leg on April 19, 1998 in Rotenburg . HSG Dutenhofen is the first second division team to have qualified for a European Cup competition and then to reach the final.

total First leg Return leg
Cantabria Santander SpainSpain 56 : 39 GermanyGermany HSG Dutenhofen / Münchholzhausen 30:15 26:24

See also

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ 1997/98 Men's Cup Winners' Cup. In: eurohandball.com. European Handball Federation , accessed February 2, 2019 .
  2. ↑ Dieter Schmidt: A village dreams of Europe's crown . In: Kicker . April 26, 1998, ISSN  0023-1290 , p. 79 .
  3. ^ Jörg Winterfeldt: A coffee trip to Europe. In: taz.de. Die Tageszeitung , March 10, 1997, accessed on May 1, 2019 .
  4. ↑ dpa: Two suburbs of Wetzlar celebrate far behind the Urals. In: welt.de. Die Welt , March 30, 1998, accessed May 1, 2019 .