1962–63 Women's European Cup (handball)

The 1962–63 Women's Handball European Champions Cup was the third edition of the premier international competition for European women's handball clubs, taking place from November 1962 to April 1963. Fourteen teams took part in the competition, with Denmark, East Germany, Hungary, Netherlands and Sweden making its first appearance, so a first round was introduced. 1962 champion and runner-up Czechoslovakia and Yugoslavia were granted byes for the quarter-finals. For the first time the final was carried out as a single match, taking place in Prague on April 14.^[1]

Trud Moscow, representing the Soviet Union as the first champion of the newly founded Soviet Championship, became the first of three Soviet teams to win the competition by beating Ruch Chorzów, defending champion Spartak Prague Sokolovo and finally Frederiksberg IF, which was the first team from Western Europe to reach the final.^[2]

First Round

Team #1	Agg.	Team #2	1st leg	2nd leg
ČKD Prague	11 – 5	Danubia Wien	9 – 3	2 – 2
Fortschritt Weissenfels	22 – 9	Ymer	14 – 3	8 – 6
Ruch Chorzów	18 – 26	Trud Moscow	11 – 11	7 – 15
Spartak Prague	Bye
Frederiksberg	17 – 10	Südwest 1947	9 – 4	8 – 6
Budapesti Spartacus	8 – 20	Rapid Bucharest	2 – 4	6 – 16
Niloc Amsterdam	? – ?	Ivry	8 – 6	? – ?
Lokomotiva Zagreb	Bye

Team #1	Agg.	Team #2	1st leg	2nd leg
ČKD Prague	14 – 15	Fortschritt Weissenfels	8 – 8	6 – 7
Trud Moscow	17 – 15	Spartak Prague	8 – 7	9 – 8
Frederiksberg	30 – 13	Niloc Amsterdam	17 – 7	13 – 6
Rapid Bucharest	19 – 14	Lokomotiva Zagreb	13 – 8	6 – 6

Team #1	Agg.	Team #2	1st leg	2nd leg
Fortschritt Weissenfels	16 – 19	Trud Moscow	10 – 7	6 – 12
Frederiksberg	14 – 13	Rapid Bucharest	11 – 7	3 – 6

Team #1	Result	Team #2
Trud Moscow	11 – 8	Frederiksberg

Women's Handball European Cup 1962–63 Winner

Trud Moscow First title