Barça became the first team to renew the Champions League title since the Final Four format was used. The stop of Gonzalo Perez de Vargas a Álex Dujshebaev and the penalty that he scored Ludovic Fàbregas Andreas Wolff decided the agonizing final against the Kielce in Cologne.
Those of Antonio Ortega already know their fifteen rivals for the 2022-2023 edition because the European Handball Federation (EHF) announced this Monday which seven teams receive an invitation to join the nine that had a fixed place.
In addition, from Barça the league champions GOG (Din), PSG (Fra), Magdeburgo (Ale), Pick Szeged (Hun), Kielce (Pol), Porto (Por) and Dinamo Bucaresti (Rum). Besides of How, which took second place in the Bundesliga.
He was left uninvited Fraikin BM Granollersone of the candidates for some positions that fell on the Telekom Vesprem Hungarian, French HBC Nantes, Danish Aalborg, Croatian Zagreb, Norwegian Elverum, Polish Wisla Plock and Slovenian Celje.
In addition to Granollers, the top continental competition will not include the Portuguese Sporting, the Ukrainian Motor, the Romanian Minaur Baia Mare, the Swiss Kadetten and the Swedish Ystads.
The 16 participants will be divided into two groups of eight, which will be raffled on July 1.
Compared to the last edition, Magdeburg, Nantes, GOG, Wisla Plock and Celje joined, with Flensburg, Montpellier, Meshkov, Motor and Vardar missing.
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“The Assessment Group chose not to assess the HC Motor (UKR) team in light of the requirements for EHF Champions League matches, as there are too many organizational uncertainties given the current situation at HC Motor,” explained the EHF on Ukrainian training. Russians and Belarusians are excluded.
“He will play next season in the German second league and the home games are likely to be played in Düsseldorf. He will have a fixed place in the group stage of the EHF European League“, underlines the note. It will also be the fate of Granollers and the other clubs without entry into the Champions League.
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