Qualification: Where to watch the action live

Five crucial places are up for grabs in the VELUX EHF Champions League over the weekend 8/9 September 2012 as the new season begins with the qualification phase for Europe’s leading club handball competition.

Handball fans across Europe will be able to follow the action on television and also online with LAOLA1.tv broadcasting many of the games from the opening qualification phase of the competition.

Qualification tournaments, the wild card tournament as well as the first and second legs of the qualification play-off match between HC Minsk (BLR) and Besiktas JK (TUR) will be played in venues across Europe.

The qualification and wild card tournaments will be played over one weekend with semi-finals on Saturday and a 3/4 match and final on Sunday. Only the winner of each tournament and play-off match will go through to the Group Phase of the VELUX EHF Champions League, which throws off at the end of September 2012.

The complete broadcast schedule can be found below:

Saturday 8 September 2012

Wild Card Tournament (St. Raphael/FRA)

16:30 hrs (local time): semi-final 1
HSV Hamburg (GER) vs. Orlen Plock (POL)
Broadcast on Ma Chaine Sport, TV2 Sport Denmark, LAOLA1.tv, Polsat Sport

19:00 hrs (local time): semi-final 2
St. Raphael Var Handball (FRA) vs RK Cimos Koper (SLO)
Broadcast on Ma Chaine Sport, LAOLA1.tv, Polsat Sport Extra

Qualification Group 1 (Belgrade/SRB)

17:00 hrs (local time): semi-final 1
RK Partizan (SRB) vs. FC Porto Vitalis (POR)
Broadcast on: RTS2, LAOLA1.tv, Sport TV2 Portugal

19:30 hrs (local time): semi-final 2
RK Sloga (BIH) vs. HC Lovcen (MNE)

Qualification Group 2 (Rykkin/NOR)

14:00 hrs (local time): semi-final 1
HC Metalurg (MKD) vs. Alpla HC Hard (AUT)

16:30 hrs (local time): semi-final 2
Haslum HK vs. HC Dinamo Poltava (UKR)
Broadcast on TV2 Sporten Norway

Qualification Group 3 (Constanta/ROU)

18:00 hrs (local time): semi-final 1
HCM Constanta (ROU) vs. SSV Loacker Bozen Südtirol (ITA)
Broadcast on Sport1 in Israel, Digisport in Romania and Slovakia and LAOLA1.tv

20:30 hrs (local time): semi-final 2
Tatran Presov vs. Maccabi Srugo Rishon Lezion (ISR)
Broadcast on Sport1 in Israel, Digisport Romania, Digisport Slovakia and LAOLA1.tv

KO Match, first leg (Minsk/BLR)

18.30 hrs (local time): Besiktas JK - HC Dinamo Minsk
Broadcast on Belarus TV.

Matches on Sunday, 9 September 2012

Wild Card Tournament

16:00 hrs (local time): 3/4 placement match

19:00 hrs (local time): final
Both matches will be broadcast on Ma Chaine Sport, Polsat Sport and LAOLA1.tv.
HSV’s match will be broadcasted on TV2 Sport Denmark and if HSV make it into the final, it will be shown on Eurosport GER.

Qualification Group 1

17:00 hrs (local time): 3/4 placement match

19:30 hrs (local time): final
Partizan’s match will be broadcast on RTS2 and the match of Porto on Sport TV Portugal and LAOLA1.tv

Qualification Group 2

14:00 hrs (local time): match 1

16:30 hrs (local time): match 2
Haslum’s match will be broadcast on TV2 Sporten Norway.

Qualification Group 3

18:00 hrs (local time): match 1

20:30 hrs (local time): match 2
Broadcast on Sport1 Israel, Digisport Romania, Digisport Slovakia, LAOLA1.tv

KO Match, second leg (Minsk/BLR)

16:00 hrs (local time): HC Dinamo Minsk – Besiktas JK
Broadcast on Belarus TV