20.02.2015, 04:20
All but two confirmed for Tuesday's draw

NEWS REPORT: All eyes on Vienna for the switch from the playing balls to draw balls. Fans will not miss a moment as ehfTV will stream the whole event live with a commentary of Tom O'Brannagain.

All but two confirmed for Tuesday's draw

The focus of handball world shifts to Vienna on Tuesday 24 February again as the Gartenhotel Altmannsdorf 2 in the Austrian capital is to host the first important draw date of the club calendar in 2015 - the VELUX EHF Champions League Last 16 draw.

There are still some pieces of the Last 16 puzzle to put together over the upcoming weekend, however. 14 out of 16 have already secured their place in the first knockout stage on the way to the VELUX EHF FINAL4 in Cologne.

While in Group A all top four positions have been already distrubuted, there are still two teams both in Group B and C who can swap places on the ladder and the situation in Group D with two Last 16 tickets still to play for will not be decided until the last game of the group phase.

The draw of the VELUX EHF Champions League Last 16 will take place on Tuesday, 24 February, at 12:30 hrs local time and it will be live streamed on ehfTV.com with commentary from Tom O'Brannagain. The draw will be live also on the official German broadcaster Sky Sport Deutschland.

The first Last 16 leg is scheduled for 11-15 March, the second leg will be played on 18-22 March. The winning teams of the qualify for the quarter-finals.

Provisional overview of pots for the VELUX EHF Champions League Last 16 draw:
(teams in bold have secured their position)

Pot 1
THW Kiel (GER)
FC Barcelona Intersport (ESP)
MKB-MVM Veszprem (HUN)
Vive Tauron Kielce (POL)

Pot 2
PSG Handball (FRA)
KIF Kolding Kobenhavn (DEN)
Rhein-Neckar Löwen (GER) or HC Vardar (MKD)
MOL-Pick Szeged (HUN)

Pot 3
RK PPD Zagreb (CRO)
SG Flensburg-Handewitt (GER) or Orlen Wisla Plock (POL)
Rhein-Neckar Löwen (GER) or HC Vardar (MKD)
Aalborg Handball (DEN) or Kadetten Schaffhausen (SUI) or Dunkerque HB Grand Littoral (FRA)

Pot 4
Naturhouse La Rioja (ESP)
SG Flensburg-Handewitt (GER) or Orlen Wisla Plock (POL)
Montpellier Agglomeration HB (FRA)
Aalborg Handball (DEN) or Kadetten Schaffhausen (SUI) or Dunkerque HB Grand Littoral (FRA) or Motor Zaporozhye (UKR)

Additional information

On ehfTV.com there will be live streaming of the draw followed by interviews and reactions from the various team representatives, a live ticker of the draw will go live on Tuesday morning on eurohandball.com and the event will also be extensively covered on the official Twitter channel of the VELUX EHF Champions League @ehfcl.

Tom O'Brannagain will also be answering your questions on the draw and the competition in general with a Twitter takeover at 13:30 CET on @ehfcl.

TEXT: EHF / br