21.10.2014, 08:30
Big names await their EHF Cup fate

NEWS REPORT: 2013 VELUX EHF Champions League winners HSV Hamburg among the teams set to enter Qualification Round 3

Big names await their EHF Cup fate

32 teams look forward to Tuesday morning’s Men’s EHF Cup Qualification Round 3 draw, held at the EHF Office in Vienna.

The competition is really taken up a notch in this round, with second and third placed teams from the VELUX EHF Champions League qualification enter this round, as do 2013 champions HSV Hamburg and last season’s EHF Cup Finals hosts Füchse Berlin.

All 16 ties will consist of one team from Pot 1 and one team from Pot 2. The winners of each pairing over two legs will progress to the group phase.

The draw event starts at 11:00 hrs (local time) and will be live tweeted on the @EHFMedia Twitter account and a live ticker will be available on www.eurohandball.com

The seedings are as follows:

POT 1 (16 Teams)            
Alpla HC Hard (AUT)
Team Tvis Holstebro (DEN)
BM Huesca (ESP)
Fraikin BM. Granollers (ESP)
Füchse Berlin (GER)
HSV Hamburg (GER)
Oroshazi FKSE-Linamar (HUN)
Haslum Handballklubb (NOR)
Futebol Clube do Porto (POR)
HC Potaissa Turda (ROU)
HCM Constanta (ROU)
St. Petersburg HC (RUS)
Gorenje Velenje (SLO)
HC Vojvodina (SRB)
HK  AGRO Topolcany (SVK)
TATRAN Presov (SVK)

POT 2 (16 Teams)            
SKA Minsk (BLR)
RK Nexe (CRO)
Skjern Handbold (DEN)
Abanca Ademar Leon (ESP)
HBC Nantes (FRA)
MT Melsungen (GER)
Balatonfüredi KSE (HUN)
Grundfos Tatabanya KC (HUN)
Elverum Handball Herrer (NOR)
Sporting Clube de Portugal (POR)
Stiinta Municipal Dedeman Bacau (ROU)
HC Kaustik Volgograd (RUS)
Permskie medvedi (RUS)
Pfadi Winterthur (SUI)
Eskilstuna Guif (SWE)
IFK Kristianstad (SWE)

TEXT: EHF / cor