Supercup (handball tournament)
The Supercup was a handball tournament for men's national teams that was held every two years in the Federal Republic of Germany from 1979 to 2015 - since 1983 usually between the end of October and the beginning of November. The first tournament took place in December 1979, the second was played in early February 1981, the 1997 competition was postponed to March 1998. The previous Olympic , world and European champions were initially invited . Because of this top-class group of participants, it was sometimes also referred to as the Mini World Cup . Most recently it took place in alternation with the Statoil World Cup . The Supercup goes back to a suggestion by the then national coach Vlado Stenzel . In 2015 it was held for the last time due to a lack of audience interest.
The sponsor in 2005 and 2007 was the Central Marketing Society of the German Agricultural Industry (CMA), after whose QS seal of approval the cup competition was named QS Supercup .
Competition mode
The number of participants was usually six teams, eight in the years 1983 to 1989 and 1998, in which the Federal Republic of Germany mostly competed with two teams (A and B). In 1993 and from 2009 to 2015 only four teams took part (in addition to the ones mentioned in the winner list in 1993, Romania, 2009 Norway, 2011 hosts Germany, 2013 Egypt and 2015 Serbia).
In 1991, 1993, and 2009 to 2015, “everyone against everyone” was played in a simple round, and in the other years in two preliminary round groups. The mode changed for the placement games: Sometimes the group winners played for 1st and 2nd place, the second for 3rd and 4th, etc., sometimes there were crossover semifinals between the first two in each group, followed by a final between the winners and a small one Final (for 3rd place) between the losers.
Placements (1st to 3rd place)
| year | 1st place | place 2 | place 3 |
| 1979 |
 BR Germany
|
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|
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|
| 1981 |
 Soviet Union
|
BR Germany
|
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|
| 1983 |
Romania
|
Soviet Union
|
Yugoslavia
|
| 1985 |
Soviet Union
|
 GDR
|
BR Germany
|
| 1987 |
BR Germany
|
Soviet Union
|
GDR
|
| 1989 |
Soviet Union
|
GDR
|
 Romania
|
| 1991 |
 Spain
|
Soviet Union
|
 Sweden
|
| 1993 |
Sweden
|
 Germany
|
 Switzerland
|
| 1995 |
 Russia
|
Germany
|
Sweden
|
| 1998 |
Germany A
|
 France
|
Russia
|
| 1999 |
Russia
|
 Croatia
|
Sweden
|
| 2001 |
Germany
|
Russia
|
Sweden
|
| 2003 |
Spain
|
Germany
|
Sweden
|
| 2005 |
Sweden
|
France
|
Russia
|
| 2007 |
 Poland
|
Sweden
|
Germany
|
| 2009 |
Germany
|
 Denmark
|
Sweden
|
| 2011 |
Spain
|
Sweden
|
Denmark
|
| 2013 |
Germany
|
Poland
|
Sweden
|
| 2015 |
Germany
|
 Slovenia
|
 Brazil
|
Medal table
| rank | country | gold | silver | bronze |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 |
Germany (DHB)
|
7th | 4th | 2 |
| 2 |
Soviet Union / Russia
|
5 | 4th | 3 |
| 3 |
Spain
|
3 | 0 | 0 |
| 4th |
Sweden
|
2 | 2 | 7th |
| 5 |
Romania
|
1 | 1 | 1 |
| 6th |
Poland
|
1 | 1 | 0 |
| 7th |
GDR
|
0 | 2 | 1 |
| 8th |
France
|
0 | 2 | 0 |
| 9 |
Denmark
|
0 | 1 | 1 |
| 10 |
Croatia
|
0 | 1 | 0 |
|
Slovenia
|
0 | 1 | 0 | |
| 12 |
Yugoslavia
|
0 | 0 | 2 |
| 13 |
Brazil
|
0 | 0 | 1 |
|
Switzerland
|
0 | 0 | 1 |
Individual evidence
- ↑ Deutscher Handballbund (ed.), Handball Aktuell No. 46/1989, p. 4: "Vlado's idea - direct hit for handball".
- ↑ Germany wins Supercup on sport1.de
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- Until 1995: Yearbook of the German Handball Federation 1995 (corresponding pages in copy)
- For 1993: German handball week 48/1993
- From 1998: Archives of the THW Kiel