IK Sävehof vs.

FC Midtjylland PartillebohallenFebruary 12 – 19:00Partille

OFFICIAL PROGRAMMEWomen’s EHF Champions League 2015/2016

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WOMEN´S EHF Champions LeagueForeword EHF President – Main Round

Welcome to the 2015/16 Women’s EHF Champions League Main RoundLess than three weeks after Norway's triumph at 2015’s pinnacle national team event, the WorldChampionship, Europe’s elite women’s handball club competition returns to the spotlight as theWomen’s EHF Champions League Main Round starts.

From 6 January to 28 February, the six rounds of the main round will determine the eight teams tomake it to the quarter-finals. I take this opportunity to welcome twelve sides from ten countries tothe third phase of the competition.

Before we start analysing the two main round groups and their participants we should have a lookback to the tournament in Denmark last month, which underlined the prominent position of the EHFChampions League in women's handball. Not only because no fewer than 93 players from the Euro-pean top flight took part in the event and because all twelve main round teams had at least one playerwho took the floor in Denmark. Almost 30 players return to the Champions League race decoratedwith a medal – eight Norwegian reigning champions, four Dutch runners-up and 15 Romanian bronzemedallists. And it goes without saying that Champions League players created a backbone of almostall European teams and former champions from Brazil.We will all be eager to find out how the recently awarded medallists can transfer their success fromnational team competition to their clubs. Their morale boost can prove to be a decisive factor fortheir sides in what will become probably as close and thrilling a main round stage of the Women'sEHF Champions League as ever.While all twelve participants have still a fair chance to reach the quarter-finals, there are still eightto ten teams who have all what it takes to reach the season' culmination in Budapest – theWomen’s EHF FINAL4.In Group 1 the new Russian powerhouse Rostov-Don has yet to drop a point in their maiden Cham-pions League campaign, while defending champions Buducnost dominate Group 2 in a similar fashionhaving lost just one point. However, none of the group leaders can take the ticket to Budapest forgranted as packs of formidable contenders also eye a May trip to the Hungarian capital.

Will Györ be able to show more consistency against fellow heavyweights? Will Baia Mare repeatlast year's amazing surge of reaching the quarter-finals despite starting with zero points? And willtwo other ambitious newcomers CSM Bucuresti and Fleury Loiret Handball just make up the num-bers in the main round or can they make it to the next round? All these questions and many morewill be answered in the next two months.

To the teams, I wish you all the very best of luck! To the fans, I welcome youto the main round, I invite you to sit back, relax, and enjoy the exciting show.

Sporting wishes,

Jean BrihaultEHF President

Team preSeNTaTioN 3

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1 Johanna Bundsen12 isabella mouratidou16 Hanna eriksson

2 Tilda olsson3 emma ekenman-fernis4 loui Sand5 Joanna lindvall-Haggren6 Sofia Tegstedt7 Thess Krönell8 elin enhörning9 Julia eriksson

10 Stine lund andreassen11 rikke Jensen13 elin Karlsson14 linnea pettersson15 Birna Berg Haraldsdottir17 Hanna Örtorp18 linn Hansson19 olivia mellegård21 ida Holm

1 Stephanie andersen12 Stephanie Kjaer16 Sabine englert79 ana Vojcic

2 pauline Boegelund4 line Skak lindegaard Nielsen6 Stine Jörgensen7 annika Jakobsen8 Simone cathrine petersen9 Sabina rosengren Jacobsen

10 Veronica Kristiansen14 Kristina Sommer15 Jane Sönderbaek mejlvang17 Susan Torp Thorsgaard18 Ditte Hoegenhaug aaen20 Sabine pedersen21 fie woller22 Johanna ahlm24 mie augustesen25 Trine ostergaard Jensen27 louise Katharina Burgaard40 Karina andersen

IK SävehofSweden – Home Team

FC Midtjylland Denmark – Guest Team

Referees: Tatjana prastalo (BiH), Vesna Todorovic (BiH) – EHF-Delegate: Kristian Johansen (far)

GROUP 11. rostov-Don 7 7 0 0 182:159 (23) 142. fTc-rail cargo 7 4 1 2 201:188 (13) 93. Hcm Baia mare 7 3 0 4 185:182 (3) 64. larvik 7 3 0 4 185:184 (1) 65. fleury loiret Handball 7 2 2 3 186:196 (-10) 66. Thüringer Hc 7 0 1 6 169:199 (-30) 1

GROUP 21. györi audi eTo Kc 7 5 1 1 174:157 (17) 111. Buducnost 7 5 1 1 188:142 (46) 113. Hc Vardar 7 4 0 3 185:171 (14) 84. cSm Bucuresti 7 3 1 3 167:162 (5) 75. fc midtjylland 7 2 1 4 152:174 (-22) 56. iK Sävehof 7 0 0 7 141:201 (-60) 0

Teams – Main RoundGroup 1rostov-Don – rUS fTc-rail cargo Hungaria – HUN larvik, Nor fleury loiret Handball – fra Hcm Baia mare – roU Thüringer Hc – ger Group 2Buducnost – mNe györi audi eTo Kc – HUN Hc Vardar – mKD cSm Bucuresti – roU fc midtjylland – DeN iK Sävehof – Swe

Matches – Group 16/1fleury loiret Handball vs Thüringer Hc . .27:219/1rostov-Don vs fTc-rail cargo Hungaria .23:21larvik vs Thüringer Hc . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .28:1910/1Hcm Baia mare vs fleury loiret Handball .31:2816/1fTc-rail cargo Hungaria vs larvik . . . .30:27Thüringer Hc vs Hcm Baia mare . . . . . .23:25

17/1fleury loiret Handball vs rostov-Don 22:275/2Hcm Baia mare vs fTc-rail cargo . . . . .32:246/2rostov-Don vs Thüringer Hc . . . . . . . . .30:24larvik vs fleury loiret Handball . . . . . . .26:3113/2fTc-rail cargo Hungaria vs rostov-Don14/2Thüringer Hc vs larvikfleury loiret Handball vs Hcm Baia mare19/2Hcm Baia mare vs Thüringer Hc20/2rostov-Don vs fleury loiret Handballlarvik vs fTc-rail cargo Hungaria27/2fTc-rail cargo Hungaria vs Hcm Baia mare28/2Thüringer Hc vs rostov-Donfleury loiret Handball vs larvik

Matches – Group 29/1györi audi eTo Kc vs Buducnost . . . . .22:20Hc Vardar vs cSm Bucuresti . . . . . . . . . .22:21

10/1fc midtjylland vs iK Sävehof . . . . . . . . . .25:2115/1cSm Bucuresti vs fc midtjylland . . . . . .24:2217/1Buducnost vs Hc Vardar . . . . . . . . . . . . . .31:19iK Sävehof vs györi audi eTo Kc . . . . .18:266/2györi audi eTo Kc vs cSm Bucuresti .28:22Hc Vardar vs iK Sävehof . . . . . . . . . . . . . .37:257/2fc midtjylland vs Buducnost . . . . . . . . . .18:2812/2iK Sävehof vs fc midtjylland14/2Buducnost vs györi audi eTo Kc16/2cSm Bucuresti vs Hc Vardar19/2györi audi eTo Kc vs iK Sävehof21/2fc midtjylland vs cSm BucurestiHc Vardar vs Buducnost26/2iK Sävehof vs Hc Vardar28/2cSm Bucuresti vs györi audi eTo KcBuducnost vs fc midtjylland

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4 Team preSeNTaTioN

2014/15 Buducnost (mNe)2013/14 györi audi eTo Kc (HUN)2012/13 györi audi eTo Kc (HUN)2011/12 Buducnost (mNe)2010/11 larvik (Nor)2009/10 Viborg HK (DeN)2008/09 Viborg HK (DeN)2007/08 Zvezda Zvenigorod (rUS)2006/07 Slagelse DT (DeN)2005/06 Viborg HK a/S (DeN)2004/05 Slagelse fH (DeN)

2003/04 Slagelse fH (DeN)2002/03 Krim eTa N. roberts ljubljana (Slo)2001/02 Kometal D. p. Skopje (mKD)2000/01 rK Krim Neutro roberts (Slo)1999/00 Hypo Niederösterreich (aUT) 1998/99 Dunaferr Se (HUN)1997/98 Hypo Niederösterreich (aUT) 1996/97 mar Valencia (eSp)1995/96 podravka Koprivnica (cro)1994/95 Hypo Niederösterreich (aUT) 1993/94 Hypo Niederösterreich (aUT)

Past Winners 1993-2015

IK SävehofSweden

FC Midtjylland Denmark