2012–13 EHF Women's Champions League

The 2012–13 EHF Women's Champions League was the 20th edition of the EHF Women's Champions League, the competition for top women's clubs of Europe, organized and supervised by the European Handball Federation. Budućnost Podgorica was title holder, after beating Győri Audi ETO KC in past season's final.^[1]

2012–13 EHF Women's Champions League

Tournament details
Dates	22 September 2012 – 12 May 2013
Teams	17 (qualification stage) 16 (group stage) 8 (Main round) 4 (knockout stage)
Final positions
Champions	Győri Audi ETO KC (1st title)
Runners-up	Larvik HK
Tournament statistics
Matches played	78
Goals scored	4,012 (51.44 per match)
Attendance	179,511 (2,301 per match)
Top scorer(s)	Zsuzsanna Tomori (95 goals)
← 2011–12 2013–14 →

Győri redeemed themselves by winning this season's edition. They defeated Larvik HK 47–43 in the final.^[2]

Overview

Format

A few changes had been made in the competition's format. The first qualifying tournament has been deleted. As past season the second qualifying tournament was played under a final four format. A Wild Card Tournament with three teams was organized, the winner were qualified for the Group Phase. In addition, a knock-out match between one team from Pot 1 of the QT2 and a team from Pot 2 of the QT2 was played. The winner also qualified for the Group Phase.^[3]

Team allocation

28 teams from 19 federations participated to the Women's Champions League this season. Places were distributed according to the EHF league coefficient, which took into account the performances in European competitions from 2008–09 to 2010–11.^[4]

Group matches
Hypo Niederösterreich	RK Podravka Koprivnica	Randers HK	Thüringer HC
Győri Audi ETO KC	ŽRK Budućnost Podgorica	Larvik HK	CS Oltchim Rm. Vâlcea
Dinamo Volgograd	Krim Ljubljana	IK Sävehof	Wild Card Tournament Winner
WQT1	WQT2	WQT3	Knock-out game winner
Qualification Tournament
Viborg HK	Buxtehuder SV	FTC-Rail Cargo Hungaria	ŽRK Metalurg
SERCODAK Dalfsen	Byåsen HE	Vistal Łączpol Gdynia	Universitatea Cluj
Rostov-Don	RK Zaječar	IUVENTA Michalovce	Balonmano Bera-Bera
LC Brühl	Muratpaşa BSK
Wild Card Tournament
Issy-Paris Hand	Zvezda Zvenigorod	HC Leipzig

th Title Holder

Round and draw dates

The draws will be held in Vienna, Austria and Herzogenaurach, Germany.

Phase	Round	Draw date	First leg	Second leg
Qualifying	Qualification Tournament 2	3 July 2012	22–23 September 2012
	Wild Card Tournament		22–23 September 2012
Group stage	Matchday 1	6 July 2012	13–14 October 2012
	Matchday 2		20–21 October 2012
	Matchday 3		27–28 October 2012
	Matchday 4		3–4 November 2012
	Matchday 5		10–11 November 2012
	Matchday 6		17–18 November 2012
Main round	Matchday 1	20 November 2012	2–3 February 2013
	Matchday 2		9–10 February 2013
	Matchday 3		16–17 February 2013
	Matchday 4		2–3 March 2013
	Matchday 5		9–10 March 2013
	Matchday 6		16–17 March 2013
Knockout phase	Semifinals	—	6–7 April 2013	13–14 April 2013
	Finals	16 April 2013	4–5 May 2013	11–12 May 2013

Qualification stage

Main article: 2012–13 EHF Women's Champions League qualifying

Qualification tournament

A total of 14 teams took part in the qualification tournaments. The clubs were drawn into three groups of four and played a semifinal and the final. The winner of the qualification groups advanced to the group stage, while the eliminated clubs went to the EHF Cup. Matches were played at 8–9 September 2011. The draw took place on 3 July, at 11:00 local time at Vienna, Austria.^[5]

Seedings

The two remaining teams from Pot 1 and 4 played a knock-out match, the winner went into the group stage. The draw was held on 3 July 2012.^[6]

Pot 1	Pot 2	Pot 3	Pot 4
Byåsen HE FTC-Rail Cargo Hungaria Universitatea Cluj Viborg HK	Balonmano Bera-Bera Rostov-Don Buxtehuder SV	Vistal Łączpol Gdynia SERCODAK Dalfsen RK Zaječar	ŽRK Metalurg Muratpaşa BSK IUVENTA Michalovce LC Brühl

Qualification tournament 1

Viborg HK organized the event.^[6]

	Semi-finals				Final
	22 September 2012
	Viborg HK	30
					23 September 2012
	LC Brühl	14
					Viborg HK	26
	22 September 2012
					Vistal Łączpol Gdynia	22
	Balonmano Bera-Bera	22
	Vistal Łączpol Gdynia	31
					Third place
					23 September 2012
					LC Brühl	23
					Balonmano Bera-Bera	33

Qualification tournament 2

Byåsen HE organized the event.^[6]

	Semi-finals				Final
	22 September 2012
	Byåsen HE	29
					23 September 2012
	ŽRK Metalurg	19
					Byåsen HE	22
	22 September 2012
					Buxtehuder SV	26
	Buxtehuder SV	34
	SERCODAK Dalfsen	31
					Third place
					23 September 2012
					ŽRK Metalurg	34
					SERCODAK Dalfsen	26

Qualification tournament 3

Universitatea Cluj organized the event.^[6]

	Semi-finals				Final
	22 September 2012
	Universitatea Cluj	34
					23 September 2012
	Muratpaşa BSK	26
					Universitatea Cluj	23
	22 September 2012
					Rostov-Don	22
	Rostov-Don	29
	RK Zaječar	28
					Third place
					23 September 2012
					Muratpaşa BSK	27
					RK Zaječar	35

Play-off

IUVENTA Michalovce and FTC-Rail Cargo Hungaria played a playoff series to determine a participant for the group stage.^[6]

19 September 2012 18:00	IUVENTA Michalovce	26–40	FTC-Rail Cargo Hungaria	Chemkostav Arena, Chemkostav Arena Attendance: 1,800 Referees: Marić, Mašić (SRB)
	Tobiášová 6	(10–15)	Pena, Tomori 6
	2× 4×	Report	3× 1×

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22 September 2012 18:00	FTC-Rail Cargo Hungaria	31–22	IUVENTA Michalovce	Elek Gyula Aréna, Budapest Attendance: 1,000 Referees: Delle, Engberg (SWE)
	Pena 6	(16–8)	Wollingerová 5
	3× 3×	Report	3× 1×

FTC-Rail Cargo Hungaria wins 71–48 on aggregate.

Wild card tournament

Issy-Paris Hand organized the event.^[7]

Team v t e	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts
Zvezda Zvenigorod	2	2	0	0	52	41	+11	4
HC Leipzig	2	1	0	1	42	42	0	2
Issy-Paris Hand	2	0	0	2	36	47	−11	0

Source: ^{[citation needed]}

Group matches

Main article: 2012–13 EHF Women's Champions League group stage and main round § Group matches

Győr

Budućnost

Larvik

Vâlcea

Randers

Thüringer HC

Volgograd

Krim

Hypo

Koprivnica

IK Sävehof

Zvezda

Viborg

Buxtehuder SV

Cluj

Ferencváros

Location of teams of the 2012–13 EHF Women's Champions League group stage.
Red: Group A; Green: Group B; Blue: Group C; Yellow: Group D.

The draw of the group matches was held on 6 July at the Gartenhotel Altmannsdorf in Vienna. A total of sixteen teams were concerned in the process, to be divided into four pots of four. Teams were divided into four pots, based on EHF coefficients. Clubs from the same pot or the same association could not be drawn into the same group, except the wild card tournament winner, which did not enjoy any protection.^[8][9]

Seedings

Pot 1	Pot 2	Pot 3	Pot 4
Győri Audi ETO KC ŽRK Budućnost Podgorica Larvik HK CS Oltchim Rm. Vâlcea	Randers HK Thüringer HC Dinamo Volgograd Krim Ljubljana	Hypo Niederösterreich RK Podravka Koprivnica IK Sävehof Zvezda Zvenigorod	Viborg HK Buxtehuder SV Universitatea Cluj FTC-Rail Cargo Hungaria

Group A

Team v t e	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts		CSV	RHK	HYP	BSV
CS Oltchim Rm. Vâlcea	6	6	0	0	170	129	+41	12		—	27–23	30–25	30–22
Randers HK	6	3	0	3	166	156	+10	6		20–24	—	29–20	36–26
Hypo Niederösterreich	6	3	0	3	156	153	+3	6		24–25	32–25	—	27–24
Buxtehuder SV	6	0	0	6	134	188	−54	0		15–34	27–33	20–28	—

Source: ^{[citation needed]}

Group B

Team v t e	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts		GKC	RKK	KOP	UJC
Győri Audi ETO KC	6	6	0	0	180	134	+46	12		—	29–22	24–19	37–26
Krim Ljubljana	6	3	0	3	151	157	−6	6		20–31	—	28–22	28–27
Podravka Koprivnica	6	3	0	3	136	143	−7	6		22–29	25–22	—	28–21
Universitatea Cluj	6	0	0	6	141	174	−33	0		25–30	23–31	19–20	—

Source: ^{[citation needed]}

Group C

Team v t e	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts		LHK	FTC	VOL	IKS
Larvik HK	6	5	0	1	197	156	+41	10		—	30–23	40–25	39–31
FTC-Rail Cargo Hungaria	6	5	0	1	183	163	+20	10		28–24	—	30–28	31–28
Dinamo Volgograd	6	1	0	5	157	200	−43	2		24–35	21–37	—	25–30
IK Sävehof	6	1	0	5	174	192	−18	2		25–29	32–34	28–34	—

Source: ^{[citation needed]}

Group D

Team v t e	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts		ZVE	ŽRK	THC	VHK
Zvezda Zvenigorod	6	5	0	1	154	142	+12	10		—	31–25	31–24	20–17
Budućnost Podgorica	6	4	0	2	149	134	+15	8		29–21	—	23–15	26–23
Thüringer HC	6	3	0	3	146	153	−7	6		20–23	24–20	—	34–30
Viborg HK	6	0	0	6	143	163	−20	0		27–28	20–26	26–29	—

Source: ^{[citation needed]}

Main round

Main article: 2012–13 EHF Women's Champions League group stage and main round § Main round

The draw of the group matches was held on 20 November at the Gartenhotel Altmannsdorf in Vienna. A total of eight teams were concerned in the process, to be divided into two pots of four. Teams were divided into two pots, based on EHF coefficients. Clubs from the same pot or group could not be drawn into the same group.^[10][11]

Seedings

Pot 1	Pot 2
CS Oltchim Rm. Vâlcea Győri Audi ETO KC Larvik HK Zvezda Zvenigorod	Randers HK Krim Ljubljana FTC-Rail Cargo Hungaria ŽRK Budućnost Podgorica

Group 1

Team v t e	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts		GKC	LHK	ŽRK	RHK
Győri Audi ETO KC	6	6	0	0	160	122	+38	12		—	30–24	27–17	32–24
Larvik HK	6	4	0	2	146	133	+13	8		18–24	—	28–16	25–19
Budućnost Podgorica	6	1	1	4	116	139	−23	3		21–22	18–20	—	24–22
Randers HK	6	0	1	5	129	157	−28	1		18–25	26–31	20–20	—

Source: ^{[citation needed]}

Group 2

Team v t e	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts		RKK	CSV	FTC	ZVE
Krim Ljubljana	6	4	0	2	161	149	+12	8		—	28–24	31–25	27–23
CS Oltchim Rm. Vâlcea	6	4	0	2	154	142	+12	8		23–20	—	22–23	29–25
FTC-Rail Cargo Hungaria	6	3	0	3	163	173	−10	6		30–26	23–30	—	35–34
Zvezda Zvenigorod	6	1	0	5	159	173	−14	2		24–29	23–26	30–27	—

Source: ^{[citation needed]}

Knockout stage

Main article: 2012–13 EHF Women's Champions League knockout stage

Semifinals

Team 1	Agg.Tooltip Aggregate score	Team 2	1st leg	2nd leg
CS Oltchim Rm. Vâlcea	47–48	Győri Audi ETO KC	22–24	25–24
Larvik HK	49–43	Krim Ljubljana	22–24	27–19

Final

Team 1	Agg.Tooltip Aggregate score	Team 2	1st leg	2nd leg
Larvik HK	43–47	Győri Audi ETO KC	21–24	22–23

Top scorers

Rank	Name	Team	Goals
1	Zsuzsanna Tomori (HUN)	Ferencváros	95
2	Katarina Bulatović (MNE)	Vâlcea	90
3	Milena Knežević (MNE)	Budućnost	86
4	Anita Görbicz (HUN)	Győr	79
	Linn-Kristin Riegelhuth Koren (NOR)	Larvik
6	Gro Hammerseng (NOR)	Larvik	71
7	Heidi Løke (NOR)	Győr	67
	Lyudmila Postnova (RUS)	Zvenigorod
9	Camilla Dalby (DEN)	Randers	66
10	Zita Szucsánszki (HUN)	Ferencváros	65

Excluding qualifying rounds^[12]