SEHA League

SEHA Liga
СЕХА Лига

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Founded	2011 (2011)
No. of teams	12
Country	Belarus China Croatia Hungary North Macedonia Russia Serbia Slovakia Ukraine Bosnia and Herzegovina (former) Montenegro (former) Romania (former) Slovenia (former)
Confederation	EHF
Most recent champion(s)	Vardar (5th title)
Most titles	Vardar (5 titles)
2019–20 SEHA League

South East Handball Association League or simply SEHA League is a regional men's club handball league in Southeast Europe, featuring teams from Belarus, China, Croatia, Hungary, North Macedonia, Russia, Serbia, Slovakia, and Ukraine. Due to sponsorship reasons, the league is also known as the Gazprom League (or Gazprom South Stream League earlier). The league exists alongside scaled-down national leagues of the participating nations and all of SEHA League teams join their respective country's own competitions in late spring after the SEHA League regular season and post-season have been completed. The league's headquarters are in Zagreb, Croatia, and the league's president is Mihajlo Mihajlovski Vardar's ex-chairman. 2011–12 was the first season of the competition, with Vardar from Skopje becoming the first champions.

History of the league

The initiative for establishing the regional South-East European handball league was presented during the first half of 2011. After the idea of forming a Regional Sparkasse League failed, during July 2011 it was agreed that the first season of the SEHA League would start in September of the same year.

In the first season of SEHA League, 14 clubs took part, but their number reduced during the following years. In the 2019–20 season, there are 12 clubs from 8 countries.

The league is based on a regular season and the Final Four, in which the four best placed clubs from the regular season participate.

The most successful participants of the SEHA League during its first eight seasons is Vardar with five titles. Vardar became the first team with more than one title when it won the 2013–14 edition.

Current season (2019–20)

Below is the list of clubs that are members of the 2019–20 SEHA League season.

Country	Team	City	Venue (Capacity)
Belarus	Meshkov Brest	Brest	Universal Sports Complex Victoria (3,740)
China	Beijing Sport University	Beijing	Dom sportova 2, Zagreb1(3,100)
Croatia	PPD Zagreb	Zagreb	Dom sportova 2 (3,100)
	Nexe	Našice	Sportska dvorana kralja Tomislava (2,500)
Hungary	Telekom Veszprém	Veszprém	Veszprém Aréna (5,096)
North Macedonia	Vardar	Skopje	Jane Sandanski Arena (7,500)
	Eurofarm Pelister	Bitola	Sports Hall Boro Čurlevski (3,700)
Russia	Spartak Moscow	Moscow	Dynamo Sports Palace (5,000)
Serbia	Metaloplastika	Šabac	Zorka Hall (3,000)
	Vojvodina	Novi Sad	Sportski centar Slana Bara (2,000)
Slovakia	Tatran Prešov	Prešov	City Hall Prešov (4,870)
Ukraine	Motor Zaporozhye	Zaporizhia	Yunost Sport Hall (3,600)

Notes

¹ Beijing Sport University will play all of their home matches in Zagreb, Croatia.

Final Four tournaments

Winners

Below is the list of winners, finalists and other participants of Final four SEHA tournaments.

Year	Host		Final				Match for third place
			Champion	Score	Second Place		Third Place	Score	Fourth Place
2011–12 Details	Zagreb		Vardar	21–18	Metalurg		Zagreb	31–29	Tatran Prešov
2012–13 Details	Skopje		Zagreb	25–24 a.e.t.	Vardar		Metalurg	26–21	Meshkov Brest
2013–14 Details	Novi Sad		Vardar	29–27	Meshkov		Zagreb	36–28	Tatran
2014–15 Details	Veszprém		Veszprém	32–21	Meshkov		Zagreb	26–23	Vardar
2015–16 Details	Varaždin		Veszprém	28–26	Vardar		PPD Zagreb	24−23	Meshkov Brest
2016–17 Details	Brest		Vardar	26–21	Veszprém		Meshkov Brest	23−19	PPD Zagreb
2017–18 Details	Skopje		Vardar	26–24	PPD Zagreb		Celje	31–28	Meshkov Brest
2018–19 Details	Brest		Vardar	26–23	PPD Zagreb		Meshkov Brest	24–19	Nexe
2019–20 Details	Zadar

Hosts

Year	Final four host	Hall	Date	Attendance	Final (att.)
2011–12	Zagreb	Arena Zagreb	14–15 April 2012	5,500	1,500
2012–13	Skopje	Boris Trajkovski Sports Center	12–13 April 2013	13,450	5,500
2013–14	Novi Sad	SPC Vojvodina	11–13 April 2014	15,710	5,160
2014–15	Veszprém	Veszprém Aréna	25–29 March 2015	16,100	5,000
2015–16	Varaždin	Varaždin Arena	1–3 April 2016	20,611	5,486
2016–17	Brest	Universal Sports Complex Victoria	7–9 April 2017	12,150	2,750
2017–18	Skopje	Jane Sandanski Arena	13–15 April 2018	16,650	6,000
2018–19	Brest	Universal Sports Complex Victoria	2–3 April 2019	11,135	3,210
2019–20	Zadar	Krešimir Ćosić Hall	3–5 April 2020

Records and statistics

By club

Club	Won	Runner-up	Years won	Years runner-up
Vardar	5	2	2012, 2014, 2017, 2018, 2019	2013, 2016
Veszprém	2	1	2015, 2016	2017
Zagreb	1	2	2013	2018, 2019
Meshkov	0	2		2014, 2015
Metalurg	0	1		2012
Total	8	8

By country

Club / Nation	Won	Runner-up	Finals
North Macedonia	5	3	8
Hungary	2	1	3
Croatia	1	2	3
Belarus	0	2	2
Total	8	8	16

Participating clubs

Correct as of the 2019–20 SEHA League season.
Bold indicates the winning years.

Club	Seasons	Years
Vardar	9	2012, 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020
Zagreb	9	2012, 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020
Tatran	9	2012, 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020
Nexe	9	2012, 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020
Meshkov	8	2013, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020
Metalurg	7	2012, 2013, 2014, 2015, 2017, 2018, 2019
Vojvodina	6	2014, 2015, 2016, 2018, 2019, 2020
Borac	5	2012, 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016
Izviđač	4	2012, 2013, 2017, 2019
Veszprém	4	2015, 2016, 2017, 2020
Lovćen	3	2012, 2013, 2014
Metaloplastika	2	2012, 2020
Celje	2	2017, 2018
Gorenje	2	2017, 2018
Bosna	1	2012
Crvena zvezda	1	2012
Sutjeska	1	2012
Sloga	1	2013
Partizan	1	2014
Radnički	1	2015
Maks Strumica	1	2016
Spartak Vojput	1	2016
Dinamo Pančevo	1	2018
CSA Steaua București	1	2019
Železničar	1	2019
Beijing Sport University	1	2020
Eurofarm Rabotnik	1	2020
Motor Zaporizhia	1	2020
Spartak Moscow	1	2020

External links

• Official website