TEAMS: 1. Oltchim Rm. Vâlcea 2. Randers HK 3. Hypo NÖ 4. Buxtehuder SV

Expert Grit Jurack says: There’s no doubt who the favourites are in this group - in my opinion Vâlcea will march through the Group Matches with six victories. The most important task for new coach Jakob Vestergaard will be to establish a pecking order in his big squad, as everybody wants to play as much as possible. But I think that Jakob will manage to solve this luxury problem. Once again Hypo have a strong team. Every year people write them off, but once again this season they have managed to build an exotic team that will probably prove successful. My former team-mate Gorica Aćimović will play a decisive role among all those Brazilians. Randers have a completely new team and will need some time to get together as a unit, as they lost many key players. Buxtehuder SV is the underdog in this group, but might be able to challenge some of the favourites, especially when their currently injured stars Stefanie Melbeck and Isabell Klein are back on track. So Vâlcea will clearly dominate this group, and all others will be fighting for the second spot for the Main Round, with small advantages for Randers and Hypo.

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MatchID: 201312020103-

Group A matches won draw lost goal-difference points1 ROU Oltchim Rm. Valcea 0 0 0 0 0:0 0 02 DEN Randers HK 0 0 0 0 0:0 0 03 AUT Hypo NÖ 0 0 0 0 0:0 0 04 GER Buxtehuder SV 0 0 0 0 0:0 0 0

001 ROU Oltchim Rm. Valcea vs. AUT Hypo NÖ  14.10.2012 19:00    Ramnicu Valcea / ROU    Del.: Mulleners BEL

002 DEN Randers HK vs. GER Buxtehuder SV  15.10.2012 19:00    Randers / DEN    Del.: Guerrero ESP

003 GER Buxtehuder SV vs. ROU Oltchim Rm. Valcea  20.10.2012 15:00    Hamburg / GER   

004 AUT Hypo NÖ vs. DEN Randers HK  20.10.2012 20:25    Maria Enzersdorf / AUT   

005 DEN Randers HK vs. ROU Oltchim Rm. Valcea  27.10.2012 15:00    Randers / DEN   

006 GER Buxtehuder SV vs. AUT Hypo NÖ  28.10.2012 15:00    Hamburg / GER   

008 AUT Hypo NÖ vs. GER Buxtehuder SV  03.11.2012 20:25    Maria Enzersdorf / AUT   

007 ROU Oltchim Rm. Valcea vs. DEN Randers HK  04.11.2012 19:30    Ramnicu Valcea / ROU   

010 GER Buxtehuder SV vs. DEN Randers HK  11.11.2012 15:00    Hamburg / GER   

009 AUT Hypo NÖ vs. ROU Oltchim Rm. Valcea  11.11.2012 17:00    Maria Enzersdorf / AUT   

012 DEN Randers HK vs. AUT Hypo NÖ  18.11.2012 15:00    Randers / DEN   

011 ROU Oltchim Rm. Valcea vs. GER Buxtehuder SV  18.11.2012 19:00    Ramnicu Valcea / ROU   

 

2012/13 Women's European Cup EHF Champions LeagueGroup Matches

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CS OLTCHIM RÂMNICU VÂLCEA (Romania)

Qualification for the Women´s EHF Champions League 2012/13 season: Romanian champions

Season Preview: Some call it a world selection, others say that this is the best squad that has ever participated in the Women’s EHF Champions League – and the club itself has set the bar as high as possible: ‘We want to win our first ever title in the Champions League’ is the clear message of Vâlcea. With six world-class newcomers and a new coach, who has already won the EHF Champions League, Oltchim are one of the major candidates to win the title in May. Even though their previous squad reached the semi-finals last season and the final in 2010, the Romanian record champions have strengthened their roster in extraordinary fashion. Olympic top scorer Katarina Bulatović has transferred from defending Women´s EHF Champions League winners Budućnost, and former world handball player of the year, Allison Pineau, and superb goalkeeper Amandine Leynaud arrived from Metz (France). The best goalkeeper (by number of saves) in the Olympic tournament, Silvia Navarro has arrived from 2011 Spanish EHF Champions League finalists Itxako, as has top shooter, Alexandrina Barbosa. The new coach is Dane Jakob Vestergaard, who had won the Women´s EHF Champions League trophy twice with Danish side Viborg HK. Vestergaard is the successor of Radu Voina. Montenegrin newcomer and defending winner Bulatović is confident that the newly-built team will fit. "I have no doubt that we will integrate as soon as possible and when the Champions League starts we will be in good shape. We expect our supporters to be close to us like an eighth player and we will do our best to win all games and out on a good show for them," she said.

Club address: Oltchim Rm. Vâlcea Str. Uzinei Nr. 1 240007 Râmnicu Vâlcea, Romania Contact numbers: Tel. +40-250-730755 Fax. +40-250-730928 Email: cs_oltchim@oltchim.com Arena: "Traian" Sport Hall Str.Nicolae Balcescu Nr.24 240190 Ramnicu Vâlcea, Romania Capacity: 3000 OR Transilvania, Sibiu Octavian Goga 2, Sibiu, Romania Capacity: 1800 Media contact: Nicolae Luca, +40 724121121 andrei.luca@cs-oltchim.com Online: Club website: www.cs-oltchim.com ehfCL.com EHF Champions League: Participations (including 2012/13 season): 14 Finalists: 2010 Semi-finalists: 2009, 2012 Last 32: 2000 Main Round: 2008, 2011 Group Phase/Champions League: 1996, 1997, 1998, 1999, 2001 Cup Winners´ Cup: Winners: 2007 Finalists: 2002 Romanian champions: 18 titles(1989, 1990, 1991, 1993, 1994, 1995, 1996, 1997, 1998, 1999, 2000, 2002, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012) Romanian Cup winners: 14 titles

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The squad

No. First Name Family Name Nat. Position Date of Birth Weight Height 79 Aurelia Bradeanu ROU Centre Back 5.5.1979 72 180 32 Katarina Bulatovic MNE Right Back 15.11.1984 75 186 86 Alexandrina Cabral Barbosa POR Left Back 5.5.1986 65 175

5 Iulia Vasilica Curea ROU Left Wing 8.4.1982 62 172 17 Ramona Petruta Farcau ROU Left Wing 14.7.1979 62 170 71 Marija Jovanovic MNE Left Back 26.12.1985 75 182 12 Amandine Suzanne Monique Leynaud FRA Goalkeeper 2.5.1986 70 178

6 Iuliia Managarova UKR Right Wing 27.9.1988 59 170 22 Oana Andreea Manea ROU Line Player 18.4.1985 75 176 18 Adina Laura Meirosu ROU Left Back 11.8.1985 74 182 16 Silvia Navarro Gimenez ESP Goalkeeper 20.3.1979 60 170

8 Cristina Georgiana Neagu ROU Left Back 26.8.1988 66 180 7 Adriana Nicoleta Nechita ROU Right Wing 14.11.1983 63 172

77 Allison Marie Pineau FRA Centre Back 2.5.1989 73 180 13 Nicoleta Safta ROU Line Player 17.11.1994 72 180

9 Ionela Stanca ROU Line Player 9.1.1981 73 176 30 Paula Claudia Ungureanu ROU Goalkeeper 30.3.1980 77 181 19 Ekaterina Vladimirovna Vetkova RUS Line Player 1.8.1986 75 182 79 Aurelia Bradeanu ROU Centre Back 5.5.1979 72 180 32 Katarina Bulatovic MNE Right Back 15.11.1984 75 186

New signings (including former club):

• Katarina Bulatović (Buducnost Podgorica/MNE),

• Allison Pineau (Metz Handball/FRA), • Amandine Leynaud (Metz

Handball/FRA), • Alexandrina Barbosa (Grupo Asfi

Itxako Navarra/ESP) • Silvia Navarro (Grupo Asfi Itxako

Navarra/ESP)

Left the club (including new club): • Valentina Ardean Elisei (pregnant), • Daniela Babeanu (S.C.M.

Craiova/ROU), • Oana Chirila (pregnant), • Melinda Geiger – H.C.M. Baia

Mare/ROU), • Roxana Han (S.C.M. Craiova/ROU), • Sanela Knezović (Dunaujvaros/HUN), • Yeliz Özel (Uskudar BSK

Istanbul/TUR), • Mihaela Smedescu (H.C.M. Baia

Mare/ROU), • Talida Tolnai (Uskudar BSK

Istanbul/TUR)

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Key players

Allison Pineau: Aged only 18, Pineau made her debut in the French women’s national team. Born in Paris, she switched to former top club Metz very early. Pineau is not only a playmaker, but also a brilliant shooter and has enjoyed her major successes with the national team. In 2009 she won a silver medal at the World Championships, and one year later she was awarded World Handball Player of the Year 2010. In 2011 she led the French team to the semi-final of the world championships again, but suffered a torn crucial ligament which put her out of action for some time and without Pineau, France missed gold again. After playing exclusively for French clubs up to that point, the playmaker dared to transfer to Vâlcea – together with her team-mate from Metz, Amandine Leynaud, and winning the Women’s EHF Champions League with her new club is her main aim.

Silvia Navarro: The goalkeeper is one of the main reasons behind the Spanish successes at the previous major tournaments, helping to deny the opposition at the world championship 2011 and the Olympic Games 2012, when Spain won bronze. The 32-year-old started her career at Mar Valencia before transferring to Itxako – and was Women’s EHF Champions League finalist with both clubs. With Itxako she also won the EHF Cup in 2010. Now Navarro is hoping for her first ever Champions League trophy in Vâlcea in her first season at the Romanian champions.

Katarina Bulatović: Like Pineau and Navarro, Bulatović is a newcomer at Oltchim. The Serbian born left-handed shooter arrives from defending champions Budućnost Podgorica. After several attempts she made it to the EHF Champions League final for the first time in May, where her eight goals helped decide the second leg against Györi. And shortly after that success, Bulatović was a key player in Montenegro’s biggest achievement ever, when she was top scorer at the Olympic Games in London and helped secure the silver medal – the first ever Olympic medal for the small Balkan country.

Coach

Jakob Vestergaard: Vestergaard knows how to win the Women’s EHF Champions League: During his time at Danish side Viborg HK from 2008 to 2011, the 37-year-old twice won the trophy, in 2009 and 2010. After leaving Viborg, he coached Aalborg and was assistant coach at Champions League participants FC Midtjylland, but he is aiming to go all the way to the final with Vâlcea.

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RANDERS HK (Denmark)

Qualification for the Women´s EHF Champions League 2012/13 season: Danish champions

Season Preview: Their biggest success was tinged with sadness as Randers HK celebrated winning last season's Danish championship, with some of their key players choosing to end their careers on a high. In 2010 and 2011 Randers had reached the Danish finals but lost against Viborg and Midtjylland one year later. But in 2012, they went all the way. However, two Danish legends had played their last match: Katrine Fruelund, twice Olympics champion, and Mette Melgaard finished their career, becoming Danish champions. Fruelund is now involved with the management of Randers HK, which also won the EHF Cup in 2010. As well as them, the German duo of Nina Wörz and Susann Müller left to join Krim Mercator in Slovenia. “It was a brilliant experience to become champions with Randers before leaving, it was a great feeling not only for me, but for the whole team,” said Wörz looking back. In total nine players left Randers, but seven newcomers arrived in the city of the 2013 EHF European Beach championships, including two international stars: French double world championship runners-up Siraba Dembele and Macarena Aguilar, 2011 EHF Champions League finalist with Itxako and Olympic bronze medallist with Spain. So coach Jan Leslie has to build-up a new team which hopes to proceed for the Main Round for the first time in their third appearance in the EHF Champions League. While the club management almost all agree that the group will be won by Vâlcea, the remaining three teams of Randers, Buxtehude and Hypo are all fairly equal and will have to fight for the second spot in the Main Round.

Club address: Randers HK Sjaellandsgade 57 8900 Randers Denmark Contact numbers: Tel: +45-51-867722 Email: hlm@randershk.dk rhk@randershk.dk Arena: Skyline - Elro Arena Randers Fyensgade 1 8900 Randers, Denmark Capacity: 3000 OR NRGI Atletion Arena Stadion Alle 70 8000 Arhus, Denmark Capacity: 4549 Media contact: Anett Reinholdt +45 40892606 ar@randershk.dk Online: Club website: www.randershk.dk Facebook: randershk ehfCL.com Club achievements: EHF Champions League: Participations (including 2012/13 season): 3 Group Phase: 2011, 2012 EHF Cup: Winner: 2010 City Cup: Finalist: 2000 Danish champions: 2012 (Runners-up: 2010, 2011)

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The squad

No. First Name Family Name Nat. Position Date of Birth Weight Height 22 Stine Bonde Aagaard DEN Goalkeeper 2.6.1988 67 175

2 Ulrika Ågren SWE Line Player 13.7.1987 71 178 5 Macarena Aguilar Diaz ESP Centre Back 12.3.1985 65 170

10 Gitte Evendorff Andersen DEN Right Wing 21.7.1989 65 172 13 Kamilla Hvid Andersen DEN Left Back 22.4.1993 68 178 18 Nanna Skjodt Bugge DEN Right Wing 10.9.1993 60 170 20 Camilla Dalby DEN Right Back 15.5.1988 73 182 17 Siraba Dembele FRA Left Wing 28.6.1986 65 172

8 Rikke Enevoldsen DEN Line Player 26.7.1995 68 176 16 Sisse Marie Boge Fahlberg DEN Goalkeeper 2.7.1993 74 175 14 Cecilie Morch Hansen DEN Centre Back 8.12.1993 67 175

3 Sabina Rosengren Jacobsen SWE Left Back 24.3.1989 75 181 21 Mathilde Skov Jensen DEN Line Player 4.8.1993 67 173 23 Emilie Thanning Strangholt Johansen DEN Right Back 4.8.1990 72 182 15 Sofie Strangholt Johansen DEN Left Back 15.12.1992 67 176 11 Berit Hudtloff Kristensen DEN Centre Back 2.8.1983 68 172 25 Sarah Brüner Kristensen DEN Left Wing 15.4.1993 63 168

6 Freja Cohrt Kyndbol DEN Left Wing 20.1.1994 63 170 1 Chana Franciela Masson De Souza BRA Goalkeeper 18.12.1978 75 182 4 Simone Antonia Pedersen DEN Right Wing 8.4.1993 60 170

New signings (including former club):

• Ulrika Ågren (Team Esbjerg), • Siraba Dembele (Toulon), • Freja Cohrt (FC Midtjylland, Sabina

Jacobsen (Lugi), • Macarena Aguilar (Itxako Navarro), • Sara Brüner (youth team Randers HK), • Cecilie Hansen (youth team Randers

HK)

Left the club (including new club): • Mette Melgaard (retired), • Mie Augustesen (Thüringer, • Gitte Aaen (Søndermarken - 2.

division), • Katrine Fruelund (retired), • Nina Wörz (Krim), Susann Müller

(Krim), • Stephanie Andersen (Silkeborg-Voel

KFUM), • Simone Böhme (Silkeborg-Voel

KFUM), • Veronica Cuadrado (KIF Vejen)

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Key players

Siraba Dembele: French left winger Dembele is playing her first season for the Danish champions after gaining EHF Champions League experience at her former club Toulon. In the season before the 26-year-old played for Issy Paris – but has now made the step to leave France for the first time. Nicknamed “the princess”, Dembele has played for the national team for six years in more than 150 international matches, winning world championship silver twice and EHF EURO bronze once. She is an expert in counter-attacks and special defence tasks.

Chana Masson: Masson was one of the first Brazilian players to move to Europe. The 34-year-old goalkeeper started her European career in Spain where she played for Elche and Ferrobus Mislata, before transferring to Denmark for the first time, to FC København. She then moved to German side HC Leipzig for two years before returning to Denmark, – and since then she has been a rock for Randers. Masson was awarded best goalkeeper at the 2011 world championship in her home-country, and helped Brazil become five-time Pan American champions as well as participate at three Olympic Games. At club level she has become national champion in every country she played (Brazil, Spain, Germany, Denmark) and won the EHF Cup twice with Mislata in 2000 and Randers in 2010.

Macarena Aguilar: With nearly 150 more international caps than any of her team-mates, Aguilar is one of the most experienced players in the Spanish national team. Now the playmaker has left her home country for the first time to be part of the Randers team. Aguilar started her career at Sagunto, and after winning many domestic titles in eight years, she transferred to Itxako in 2009 and became Women’s EHF Champions League 2011 finalists. With the Spanish national team she was a EHF EURO silver medallist 2008 and world championship and Olympic bronze medallist in 2011 and 2012.

Coach

Jan Leslie: Leslie is head coach of Randers HK for the fifth season and led his team to the first ever Danish championship title in 2012 after ranking second below Viborg and Midtjylland in the previous seasons. The experienced 41-year-old coached the women’s teams in Esbjerg and Aalborg beforehand, as well as the men’s team at Skjern.

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HYPO NÖ (Austria)

Qualification for the Women´s EHF Champions League 2012/13 season:Austrian champions

Season Preview: After being eliminated during the Group Matches of the EHF Champions League in the past, Austrian Champions Hypo Niederösterreich are hoping for better luck this season.

The Austrian outfit, who have many Brazilians in their squad, have played in the EHF Champions League for every one of the competition's 20-year history.

Four times the Women’s EHF Champions League winner and six times a finalist, Hypo nowadays count on a strong group of players from Brazil. Four newcomers from the South American country have signed for this season, and despite three others - including top star Daniela Piedade - having left, the club still have eight Brazilians on their books.

Gorica Aćimović returned from Krim to Hypo and is one of four Austrian players in the squad, which is coached by Hungarian András Németh who started his second season at the record winners of the EHF Champions League. One of the newcomers - Karol de Souza – is out until October after she had broken her hand.

After failing to reach the Main Round in the previous three seasons, Hypo hope to survive the Group Matches this season, as player Ana Paula Rodrigues confirms. "Our group is as tough as last season, no one is to be underestimated. Our goal is to reach the Main Round and to be part of the Champions League in 2013, especially after our early exit last season," she said.

Club address: Hypo NÖ BSFZ Südstadt Lise-Prokop-Platz 1 2344 Maria Enzersdorf Austria Contact numbers: Tel. +43-2236-908000 Fax. +43-2236-45389 Email: info@hypo-noe.at Arena: BSFZ Südstadt Liese Prokop Platz 1 2344 Maria Enzersdorf, Austria Capacity: 1100 Media contact: Mark Hegedüs +43 66460164600 mark.hegedues@hypo-noe.at Online: Club website: www.hypo-noe.at Facebook: hyponoe ehfCL.com EHF Champions League records: Participations (including 2012/13 season): 20 Winners: 1994, 1995, 1998, 2000 Finalists: 1996, 2008 Semi-finalists: 1997, 1999, 2005, 2007, 2009 Quarter-final: 2006 Group Phase/Champions League: 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2010, 2011, 2012

Cup Winners´ Cup: Finalists: 2004

Austrian champions: 36 titles Austrian Cup winners: 25 titles

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The squad

No. First Name Family Name Nat. Position Date of Birth Weight Height 77 Gorica Acimovic AUT Left Back 28.2.1985 80 186 12 Barbara Arenhart BRA Goalkeeper 4.10.1986 80 182 16 Petra Blazek AUT Goalkeeper 15.6.1987 70 182

2 Fabiana Carvalho Carneiro Diniz BRA Line Player 13.5.1981 70 184 81 Deonise Cavaleiro Fachinello BRA Right Back 20.6.1983 80 180

7 Karoline Helena De Souza BRA Left Back 24.4.1990 70 180 6 Mirela Dedic AUT Left Wing 15.12.1991 70 169 3 Alexandra Do Nascimento BRA Right Wing 16.9.1981 60 179

88 Mayara Fier de Moura BRA Right Back 5.12.1986 70 168 18 Fernanda Franca da Silva BRA Left Wing 25.9.1989 70 177 22 Stefanie Kaiser AUT Line Player 31.10.1992 80 181 45 Julia Mauler AUT Right Wing 18.2.1992 60 168

9 Ana Paula Rodrigues BRA Centre Back 18.10.1987 70 172 86 Bernadett Temes HUN Centre Back 15.5.1986 70 177

New signings (including former club):

• Julia Mauler (HYPO NÖ II) • Gorica Aćimović (Krim Ljubljana), • Karol de Souza (Siófok), • Mayara de Moura (Mios Biganos), • Dara Diniz (Bera Bera), • Mirela Dedic (HYPO NÖ II) • Deonise Cavaleiro (Itxako)

Left the club (including new club): • Francise De Morales Cararo

(pregnancy), • Sabrina Stumvoll (HYPO NÖ 2), • Daniela De Oliveira Piedade (Krim

Ljubljana), • Nina Stumvoll (HYPO NÖ 2), • Silvia Pinheiro (Toulon), • Viktória Rédei Soós (Györi Audi ETO), • Martina Goričanec (HYPO NÖ 2), • Samira Da Silva Rocha (Zvezda

Zvenigorod)

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Key players

Barbara Arenhart: Despite being just 26 year old, goalkeeper Arenhart has already played handball across the globe in Brazil, Spain, Norway and Austria. Born in Novo Hamburgo in Brazil, Arenhart started playing handball very early in life and was a member of all age group squads for Brazil. After becoming a member of the senior national team she transferred to Spanish side Parc Sagunto, where she had her first taste of the Women’s EHF Champions League. After a one-year move to Norwegian side Byåsen Trondheim, Arenart arrived in South Vienna to join the big community of Brazilian players. Her biggest success with the national team was ranking fifth at the 2011 world championship.

Alexandra do Nascimento: The 30-year-old right wing was the first Brazilian player to arrive at Hypo NÖ, eight years ago. Since then do Nascimento has been a vital part of the Hypo squad, reaching the Women’s EHF Champions League final in 2008 and three times making it to the semi-finals with the record-breaking Austrian champions. Nascimento has been part of the Brazilian national team at three Olympic Games (2004, 2008, 2012) and also secured four Pan American champion titles. In 2011 she became top scorer in the world championship in her home country, when her team ranked fifth. At Hypo, “Ale” has been the captain for many years.

Gorica Aćimović: Back to where it all started: Bosnian born Aćimović became an Austrian citizen in 2007 and played a large number of international matches for her new home country. The back court player (27) first left Bosnia to move to Merignac in France, before arriving at Hypo in 2004 for the first time. In 2008 they were finalists in the EHF Champions League, but lost both matches against Zvezda (Russia). One year later she transferred to Viborg and fulfilled her ambition when she won the Champions League trophy in 2010, against Valceă. After becoming Danish champion, too, Aćimović went to Krim in Slovenia in 2011 – but after just one season there she has returned to Hypo.

Coach

András Németh: In 1998, and later from 2005 to 2008, Németh was head coach of the Hungarian women’s national team, and now the Hungarian is starting his second season as coach at Hypo. Additionally Németh was coach of top Hungarian team Ferencváros Budapest from 1993 to 2007 and was very successful in European Cup competitions.

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BUXTEHUDER SV (Germany)

Qualification for the Women´s EHF Champions League 2012/13 season: Winners of Qualification Tournament 2, German runners-up

Season Preview:

Despite being plagued by a long list of injuries, Buxtehude hope to secure their first ever points in the Women’s EHF Champions League. They are no strangers to suffering injuries, but Buxtehude have had more than their fair share of bad luck in recent months which has left coach Dirk Leun stunned. Firstly, team captain Isabell Klein has been out for six months after rupturing her crucial ligament in the EHF EURO qualification match against Hungary in March. She hopes to return for at least the last three Group Matches.

Then Dutch line player Diane Lamein was out with another severe knee injury. When Buxtehude secured a shock victory in the qualification tournament at Trondheim in the final against host Byåsen, German international Katja Langkeit left the field with another ruptured crucial ligament, and three days later playmaker Randy Bülau broke her foot in a league match in Trier. Both will definitely not be able to participate in any of the Group Matches. Coach Dirk Leun said: "We have to stand together now, we have to spread the responsibility on even more shoulders, even though the number of shoulders we have is very low."

Buxtehude - the team of all 16 in the Women´s EHF Champions League with the fewest changes to their roster - have qualified for the second straight time for the Group Matches by winning their qualification tournament. Like the previous year they were very close to becoming German champions for the first time in their club’s history, but just as they did in the previous season, they missed out by just one goal in the final play-off match against Thüringer HC. In 2011/12 Buxtehude lost all their six Group Matches, but maybe it is a good omen that they have switched arena and will play in the newly-built CU-Arena in Hamburg.

Club address: Buxtehuder SV Michael Jungblut Brüningstrasse 11 21614 Buxtehude Contact numbers: Tel. :+49-171-8384892 Fax: +49-4161-704617 Email: mjbsv22@aol.com Arena: CU Arena Neugraben Am Johannisland 2 -4, 21149 Hamburg- Neugraben/ Fischbek, Germany Capacity: 2003 Media contact: Handballmarketing, +49 416199461-0 info@bsv-live.de Online: Club website: www.bsv-live.de Twitter: @ TeamBuxtehude Facebook: Team-Buxtehude ehfCL.com Club achievements: EHF Champions League: Participations (including 2012/13 season): 2 Group Matches: 2012

Challenge Cup: Winners: 2011 Finalists: 2002 Semi-finalists: 2005

City Cup: Winners: 1994

German champions: - (runners-up: 2003, 2011, 2012) German Cup winners: - (finalist: 1990, 1996, 2007, 2011)

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The squad

No. First Name Family Name Nat. Position Date of Birth Weight Height 8 Randy Bülau GER Centre Back 24.11.1981 66 168 2 Marcella Deen NED Line Player 19.6.1988 61 173

20 Katja Ex GER Goalkeeper 21.4.1985 72 175 7 Lone Fischer GER Left Wing 8.9.1988 67 165

23 Maxi Hayn GER Right Wing 8.2.1988 62 166 9 Isabell Kaiser GER Line Player 24.7.1992 73 173 3 Isabell Klein GER Right Back 28.6.1984 71 172

11 Vanessa Kohler SUI Right Wing 28.11.1994 63 172 16 Jana Krause GER Goalkeeper 10.6.1987 76 186 13 Diane Lamein NED Line Player 18.10.1979 71 173 17 Sahra Lamp GER Left Back 27.8.1991 75 175 18 Katja Langkeit GER Left Wing 22.11.1983 60 170 12 Antje Lenz GER Goalkeeper 15.8.1988 75 181 20 Svenja Louwers GER Goalkeeper 2.1.1992 76 186

5 Friederike Lütz GER Right Wing 26.3.1988 72 175 11 Melissa Luschnat GER Left Wing 17.7.1992 61 170 77 Stefanie Melbeck GER Right Back 16.4.1977 74 178 14 Sina Namat GER Line Player 14.4.1994 75 183 19 Jessica Oldenburg GER Left Back 28.8.1991 68 182 17 Lisa Prior GER Centre Back 29.12.1990 73 172 15 Jana Stapelfeldt GER Centre Back 21.8.1986 72 178 28 Josephine Techert GER Right Back 15.5.1986 70 181

New signings (including former club):

• Marcela Deen (SG Rosengarten)

Left the club (including new club): • -

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Key players

Stefanie Melbeck: Germany-Denmark-Germany-Denmark-Germany – Stefanie Melbeck (35) has been well travelled in handball over the last decade, but during her spells in Germany she has only ever played for one club - Buxtehuder SV. With 223 international caps Melbeck is the most experienced player in the German national team. From 1999 to 2001 she played for her current Women’s EHF Champions League opponent Randers HK in Denmark before returning to Buxtehude, then – from 2007 to 2010 – she played for KIF Kolding before again returning to Germany. With the national team she won the 2007 world championship bronze medal and was twice silver medallist in the German beach handball team at the EHF EURO 2000 and the World Championship 2001.

Isabell Klein: Buxtehude team captain Isabell Klein (28) is currently fighting her way back into the team following injury. Since March Klein, the wife of German men’s national team player and three times VELUX EHF Champions League winner Dominik Klein, has been out of action after rupturing her crucial ligament. Born in Munich, she transferred to Buxtehude in 2007 and thanks to her consistently high performances on the right wing and at right back she made it into the national team and has gone on to captain Germany too. Like her team-mate Melbeck, Klein was a member of the German beach handball team which won gold at the 2006 EHF EURO and silver at the 2006 world championship.

Diane Lamein: With 298 international matches so far, Lamein (32) holds the record in the Dutch national team – but for the last decade the line player has played for German clubs. After crossing the border she started at Lützellinden before changing to Leverkusen, then to Oldenburg and in 2007 to Buxtehude. Lamein is a defence specialist but also a real fighter in attack. Currently she is working hard on her comeback after a knee injury. Her biggest success on the international stage was fifth at the 2005 world championship and winning the EHF Challenge Cup with Buxtehude in 2010.

Coach

Dirk Leun: The former journalist (48) started his coaching career at German side TV Mainzlar. Thanks to his ability to integrate young players in his teams, he became coach of the German women’s junior national team – and led those players to the biggest success ever in women’s younger age categories in Germany when they became world champions in 2008. After his gold medal he moved to Buxtehude, where he is currently forming a new, young, but highly successful team.

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