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EHF Cup

2016–17
Tournament information
Sport	Handball
Dates	2 September 2016–21 May 2017
Teams	57+6 (Qualification stage) 16 (Group stage)

The 2016–17 EHF Cup is the 36th edition of the EHF Cup, the second most important European handball club competition organised by the European Handball Federation (EHF), and the fifth edition since the merger with the EHF Cup Winners' Cup.

Team allocation

Federation ranking

For the 2016–17 EHF Cup, the national federations were allocated places according to their 2016–17 EHF country ranking, which takes into account their performance in European competitions from 2012–13 to 2014–15.

Apart from the allocation based on the country coefficients, federations may have more or less teams participating in the EHF Cup, as noted below:

• (TH) – Additional berth for 2015–16 EHF Cup title holders
• (CL) – Berth transferred from or to 2016–17 EHF Champions League
• (CC) – Berth transferred from 2016–17 EHF Challenge Cup

Rank Federation Coeff. Teams Notes 1 Germany 154.83 3 +1 (TH) 2 Spain 122.83 3 Hungary 103.33 4 France 75.33 5 Denmark 70.00 6 Poland 54.22 −1 (CL) 7 Slovenia 54.00 8 Macedonia 40.56 2 −1 (CL) 9 Romania 36.34 10 Sweden 34.75 −1 11 Croatia 33.71 +1 (CC) 12 Russia 31.00 13 Portugal 30.25 14 Belarus 28.75 1 15 Switzerland 22.33 +1 (CC) 16 Ukraine 21.78 17 Norway 21.11 +1 (CC)

Rank Federation Coeff. Teams Notes 18 Serbia 20.44 1 +1 (CL) 19 Slovakia 13.56 20 Turkey 13.00 21 Luxembourg 11.13 22 Finland 11.00 23 Greece 11.00 +1 (CL) 24 Belgium 9.71 −1 25 Israel 9.00 26 Austria 9.00 27 Czech Republic 6.17 +1 (CL) 28 Bosnia and Herzegovina 5.78 −1 29 Kosovo 5.17 30 Lithuania 4.83 −1 31 Italy 4.78 −1 32 Netherlands 4.75 +1 (CL) 33 Cyprus 4.33 −1 34 Estonia 4.17

Rank Federation Coeff. Teams Notes 35 Bulgaria 3.50 1 −1 36 Iceland 3.29 37 Montenegro 3.14 38 Moldova 1.17 39 Great Britain 1.00 40 Georgia 0.17 41 Albania 0.00 0 42 Andorra 0.00 43 Armenia 0.00 44 Azerbaijan 0.00 45 Faroe Islands 0.00 46 Republic of Ireland 0.00 47 Latvia 0.00 48 Liechtenstein 0.00 49 Malta 0.00 50 Monaco 0.00

Distribution

	Teams entering in this round	Teams advancing from previous round
First qualifying round (30 teams)	30 teams
Second qualifying round (32 teams)	15 teams 2 fourth-placed teams from the Champions League qualification tournaments	15 winners from the first qualifying round
Third qualifying round (32 teams)	12 teams 2 third-placed teams from the Champions League qualification tournaments 2 runners-up from the Champions League qualification tournaments	16 winners from the second qualifying round
Group stage (16 teams)		16 winners from the third qualifying round
Knockout phase (16 teams)		4 group winners from the group stage 4 group runners-up from the group stage

Teams

League positions of the previous season shown in parentheses (TH: title holders; CL QS: 2016–17 EHF Champions League qualification stage losing teams).

Third qualifying round
Frisch Auf GöppingenTH (6th)	Fraikin Granollers (4th)	GOG (3rd)	Gorenje (CL QS)
Melsungen (4th)	Helvetia Anaitasuna (7th)	Midtjylland (12th)	Riihimäki Cocks (CL QS)
Magdeburg (8th)	Grundfos Tatabánya (3rd)	Azoty-Puławy (3rd)	Maccabi Tel Aviv (CL QS)
Ademar León (3rd)	Saint-Raphaël (2nd)	Ribnica (3rd)	Bregenz (CL QS)
Second qualifying round
Füchse Berlin (5th)	CSM București (2nd)	Minsk (2nd)	Red Boys Differdange (CL QS)
Balatonfüredi (4th)	Alingsås (2nd)	Wacker Thun (2nd)	Achilles Bocholt (CL QS)
KIF Kolding (4th)	Nexe Našice (2nd)	Arendal (5th)
Górnik Zabrze (7th)	Saint Petersburg (3rd)	Sporta Hlohovec (2nd)
Koper (4th)	Benfica (2nd)	Talent Plzeň (1st)
First qualifying round
Csurgói (5th)	Porto (3rd)	Filippos Veria (1st)	Pölva Serviti (1st)
Chambéry (5th)	Pfadi Winterthur (3rd)	Diomidis Argous (2nd)	Haukar (1st)
Créteil (6th)	ZTR Zaporizhia (2nd)	Maccabi Rishon LeZion (2nd)	Budvanska Rivijera (1st)
Prilep (4th)	Bodø (7th)	Alpla HC Hard (3rd)	Olimpus-85-USEFS (1st)
Politehnica Timișoara (3rd)	Vojvodina (1st)	Dukla Prague (2nd)	London GD (1st)
Varaždin (3rd)	Metaloplastika (2nd)	BESA Famiglia	Batumi (1st)
Zamet (4th)	Ankaraspor (2nd)	Limburg Lions (1st)
Dinamo Astrakhan (4th)	Kaerjeng (2nd)	KRAS/Volendam (2nd)

Round and draw dates

The schedule of the competition is as follows (all draws are held at the EHF headquarters in Vienna, Austria):

Phase	Round	Draw date	First leg	Second leg
Qualification	First qualifying round	19 July 2016	3–4 September 2016	10–11 September 2016
	Second qualifying round		8–9 October 2016	15–16 October 2016
	Third qualifying round	18 October 2016	19–20 November 2016	26–27 November 2016
Group stage	Matchday 1	29 November 2016	11–12 February 2017
	Matchday 2		17–19 February 2017
	Matchday 3		4–5 March 2017
	Matchday 4		11–12 March 2017
	Matchday 5		25–26 March 2017
	Matchday 6		1–2 April 2017
Knockout phase	Quarter-finals	4 April 2017	22–23 April 2017	29–30 April 2017
	Final four	2 May 2017	20–21 May 2017

Qualification stage

The qualification stage consists of three rounds, which are played as two-legged ties using a home-and-away system. In the draws for each round, teams are allocated into two pots, with teams from Pot 1 facing teams from Pot 2. The winners of each pairing (highlighted in bold) qualify for the following round.

For each round, teams listed first played the first leg at home. In some cases, teams agreed to play both matches at the same venue.

Round 1

A total of 30 teams entered the draw for the first qualification round, which was held on Tuesday, 19 July 2016. The first legs were played on 2–3 September and the second legs were played on 4 and 10–11 September 2015.

Team 1	Agg.Tooltip Aggregate score	Team 2	1st leg	2nd leg
Käerjeng	58–561	Vojvodina	30–31	28–25
Créteil	56–56 (a)	Zamet	29–32	27–24
Alpla HC Hard	55–43	Limburg Lions	28–17	27–26
Maccabi Rishon LeZion	79–362	London GD	38–17	41–22
Chambéry	67–39	KRAS/Volendam	31–23	36–16
Varaždin	51–583	Ankaraspor	24–32	27–26
Haukar	61–464	Diomidis Argous	33–26	28–20
BESA Famiglia	58–62	Dukla Prague	35–31	23–31
Batumi	32–935	Porto	16–49	16–44
Csurgói	47–44	Bodø	28–21	19–23
Politehnica Timișoara	51–43	Pölva Serviti	26–22	25–21
Olimpus-85	49–77	ZTR Zaporizhia	28–37	21–40
Prilep	34–846	Pfadi Winterthur	19–42	15–42
Metaloplastika	44–47	Dinamo Astrakhan	24–30	20–17
Filippos Veria	58–50	Budvanska Rivijera	30–24	28–26

Notes

¹ Both legs were hosted by Käerjeng.

² Both legs were hosted by Maccabi Rishon LeZion.

³ Both legs were hosted by Ankaraspor.

⁴ Both legs were hosted by Diomidis Argous.

⁵ Both legs were hosted by Porto.

⁶ Both legs were hosted by Prilep.

Round 2

A total of 32 teams, including 15 winners of the previous round, entered the draw for the second qualification round, which was held after the draw for the first qualifying round on Tuesday, 19 July 2016. The first legs were played on 8–9 October and the second legs will be played on 9 and 15–16 October 2016.

Team 1	Agg.Tooltip Aggregate score	Team 2	1st leg	2nd leg
KIF Kolding	–	Talent Plzeň	38–23	–
Maccabi Rishon LeZion	–1	Red Boys Differdange	26–25	–
Csurgói	–1	Achilles Bocholt	34–23	–
Benfica	–	Käerjeng	31–26	–
Chambéry	–	Füchse Berlin	22–25	–
Balatonfüredi	–	Pfadi Winterthur	28–23	–
Saint Petersburg	–	Ankaraspor	26–19	–
Arendal	–	Politehnica Timișoara	23–24	–
Haukar	–	Alingsås	24–24	–
ZTR Zaporizhia	45–442	Wacker Thun	23–22	22–22
Górnik Zabrze	50–323	Filippos Veria	30–17	20–15
Porto	–	Koper	31–24	–
Alpla HC Hard	–	Minsk	28–25	–
Dinamo Astrakhan	–	Sporta Hlohovec	33–29	–
CSM București	–	Zamet	29–23	–
Dukla Prague	–	Nexe Našice	30–29	–

Notes

¹ Order of legs reversed

² Both legs were hosted by ZTR Zaporizhia.

³ Both legs were hosted by Górnik Zabrze.

Round 3

A total of 32 teams, including 16 winners of the previous round, will enter the draw for the third qualification round, which will be held on Tuesday, 18 October 2016. The first legs will be played on 19–20 November and the second legs will be played on 26–27 November 2016.

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Group stage

Göppingen

SC Magdeburg

Granollers

Anaitasuna

Aalborg

Silkeborg

Holstebro

Chambery

Nantes

Saint-Raphael

SKA Minsk

Limburg

Pfadi

CSM București

CS Dinamo București

Ystads

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Location of teams of the 2014–15 EHF Cup group stage.
Red: Group A; Green: Group B; Blue: Group C; Yellow: Group D.

Main article: 2016–17 EHF Cup group stage

Draw and format

The draw of the EHF Cup group stage will take place on Tuesday, 29 November 2016. The 16 teams allocated into four pots will be drawn into four groups of four teams. The country protection rule was applied, i.e. two teams from the same country could not face each other in the same group.

On 3 December 2016, EHF announced the composition of the group phase seeding pots.

Pot 1	Pot 2	Pot 3	Pot 4
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In each group, teams play against each other in a home-and-away round-robin format. The matchdays are 11–12 February, 17–19 February, 4–5 March, 11–12 March, 25–26 March and 1–2 April 2017.

Tiebreakers

If two or more teams are equal on points on completion of the group matches, the following criteria are applied to determine the rankings (in descending order):

1. number of points in matches of all teams directly involved;
2. goal difference in matches of all teams directly involved;
3. higher number of plus goals in matches of all teams directly involved;
4. goal difference in all matches of the group;
5. higher number of plus goals in all matches of the group;

If no ranking can be determined, a decision shall be obtained by drawing lots. Lots shall be drawn by the EHF, if possible in the presence of a responsible of each club.

Group A

Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts		FCH	SVH	GOG	RDR
Füchse Berlin	6	5	0	1	185	163	+22	10		—	33–31	37–29	38–30
Saint-Raphaël Var Handball	6	4	0	2	179	164	+15	8		27–21	—	32–36	26–22
GOG	6	3	0	3	187	190	−3	6		26–31	28–32	—	32–27
RD Ribnica	6	0	0	6	154	188	−34	0		20–25	24–31	31–36	—

Source:

Group B

Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts		GÖP	FGR	POR	MYD
Frisch Auf Göppingen	6	6	0	0	181	155	+26	12		—	29–28	30–28	31–23
Fraikin Granollers	6	3	0	3	171	165	+6	6		27–35	—	33–22	34–32
FC Porto	6	2	0	4	159	170	−11	4		27–31	23–22	—	33–25
HC Midtjylland	6	1	0	5	155	176	−21	2		22–25	24–27	29–26	—

Source:

Group C

Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts		MAG	TAT	KOL	MTA
SC Magdeburg	6	5	1	0	200	146	+54	11		—	30–25	36–24	42–24
Grundfos Tatabánya KC	6	4	0	2	161	157	+4	8		28–31	—	28–26	27–24
KIF Kolding København	6	2	1	3	166	172	−6	5		23–23	26–29	—	36–31
Maccabi Tel Aviv	6	0	0	6	146	198	−52	0		22–38	20–24	25–31	—

Source:

Group D

Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts		MEL	ANA	BEN	RCO
MT Melsungen	6	4	0	2	168	140	+28	8		—	28–22	32–22	33–19
Helvetia Anaitasuna	6	4	0	2	171	163	+8	8		23–22	—	35–28	30–24
S.L. Benfica	6	4	0	2	158	165	−7	8		26–24	33–28	—	26–25
Riihimäki Cocks	6	0	0	6	145	174	−29	0		28–29	28–33	21–23	—

Source:

Ranking of the second-placed teams

The ranking of the second-placed teams was carried out on the basis of the team's results in the group stage. Because the French side HBC Nantes, the organizers of the Final 4 tournament, finished on top of their group they qualified directly to the final tournament and only the top three second-placed teams qualified to the quarter-finals.

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Knockout stage

Main article: 2016–17 EHF Cup knockout stage

Quarter-finals

Draw and format

Because the hosts of the Final 4 tournament, HBC Nantes, finished the group stage among the group winners, they have clinched the direct ticket to the final weekend and decided that only three quarter-finals were played for the remaining spots in the final tournament. The draw of the EHF Cup quarter-finals took place on Tuesday 29 March 2016 at the EHF headquarters in Vienna, Austria. Six teams were positioned into two pots. Teams from the same group could not face each other in the quarter-finals. The country protection rule was not applied for the quarter-finals. Therefore, there were two national duels in this round.

In the quarter-finals, teams played against each other on a home-and-away basis, with the teams from second pot playing the first leg at home. The first pot contained the three group winners and the second pot contained the top three second-placed teams.

Pot 1 SC Magdeburg Bjerringbro-Silkeborg Chambery Savoie Handball

Pot 2 Fraikin BM Granollers Frisch Auf Göppingen Saint-Raphael Var Handball

Team 1	Agg.Tooltip Aggregate score	Team 2	1st leg	2nd leg
Fraikin Granollers	56–56	Bjerringbro-Silkeborg	30–24	26-32
Saint-Raphael Var Handball	52–54	Chambery Savoie Handball	30–25	22-29
Frisch Auf Göppingen	58–54	SC Magdeburg	31–25	27-29

Final four

	Semi-finals				Final
	14 May
	Chambery Savoie	25
					15 May
	FA Göppingen	28
					FA Göppingen	32
	14 May
					HBC Nantes	26
	BM Granollers	26
	HBC Nantes	27
					Third place
					15 May
					Chambery Savoie	21
					BM Granollers	25

Top goalscorers

Rank	Name	Team	Goals
1	Ferran Solé Sala	Fraikin BM. Granollers	70
2	Marcel Schiller	Frisch Auf Göppingen	69
3	Robert Weber	SC Magdeburg	66
4	Valero Rivera Folch	HBC Nantes	59
5	Javier Humet	CSM Bucuresti	58
	Michael Damgaard	SC Magdeburg	58

See also

• 2015–16 EHF Champions League
• 2015–16 EHF Challenge Cup

External links

• EHF Cup (official website)