News: COMPETITION

Serbian champions Vojvodina have with a 26:21 win over Nexe  on Tuesday evening secured SEHA - Gazprom League regular season No.6. Boris Rojevic and his players managed to outsmart and outplay Croatian vice-champions powered by what was one of the best second-half performances for them this season.  Guests were three goals up after 22 minutes after Mario Tomic (finished the match with six goals) netted one to put his...

Vojvodina - Nexe 26:21 (10:11) (Stankovic 9, Grozdanic 5 / Tomic 6, Gadza 5) Hrvoje Horvat, NEXE coach: A real fight between two strong defenses. Deserved lost for us in the end, we lacked focus in key moments of the encounter. We're dealing with some injuries...

Vardar - Meshkov Brest 30:32 (16:17) (Dibirov 6, Skube 6, Cupic 5 / Djordjic 8, Ivic 6; Pesic 12 saves) Roberto Parrondo, Vardar coach: Brest played a good match. They needed this win and that made the difference. We were not as aggressive as against Montpellier – players were quite tired and I fully understand them. We’ve also already secured a place for ourselves on the final tournament so this match was not as...

Belarusian champions Meshkov Brest have on Tuesday evening in Skopje managed to make a huge step towards qualifying for this season’s final tournament defeating reigning champs Vardar 32:30. With two more regular-season rounds left ahead of them, Cadenas and his players are just a step away from booking F4 ticket for themselves.  Meshkov were able to control the bigger part of the game but weren’t able to seal the deal until the very final minute of the...

Next three matches in SEHA - Gazprom League will pretty much be ‘to be or not to be’ for Meshkov Brest because in case they want to be sure they’ll get another shot at going all the way on SEHA final tournament – they need three victories. First step out of three will be the match against Vardar in Skopje scheduled for Tuesday (17.15 CET). Vardar have on the other side already...

Vojvodina and NEXE will on Tuesday (19.00 CET) meet in Novi Sad in a match in which hosts will look to stun favoured guests who have recently found themselves in a series of tough EHF Cup matches but are at the same time on the right track to repeat last season’s success when they managed to reach quarter-finals. The fact...

Steaua Bucuresti - Zeleznicar 1949 24:31 (11:12) (Georgescu 7, Rapciuga 5 / Vejin 7, Spasic 5, Babic 5) Ovidiu Mihaila, Steaua Bucuresti coach: I have to congratulate Zeleznicar, they delivered a very good outing today and we on the other side try to give our key...

Zeleznicar 1949 have on Saturday celebrated their second SEHA - Gazprom League win in a row defeating Steaua Bucuresti in Bucharest. In the last round they were better than Metalurg at home and this time, reinforced with four newly-signed players, they were just too much for Romanian vice-champions in what was their final match in the competition in their rookie season. In the end 24:31.  Hosts were 10:8 up after 20 minutes but then Zeleznicar managed to...

Six wins and eleven defeats. That is the score so far for the first ever Romanian team to participate in SEHA - Gazprom League in what is their rookie season in the competition and they will have a chance to confirm position No.6 with a positive result from the match against Serbian champs...

After the World Championship in Germany and Denmark, club handball returned, and so did SEHA – Gazprom League. Clubs used the January period for some roster changes, but also for preparations for the second part of the season. As usual, we singled out the best players after the winter break. So, check out which seven men shined the most in February!  Goalkeeper: Josip Kvesic (Izvidjac) Izvidjac reached their first win of the season, in the match against Zeleznicar. The first name of the encounter was the...