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. 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)

CountryTeamCityVenue
BelarusMeshkov BrestBrestUniversal Sports Complex Victoria
ChinaBeijing Sport UniversityBeijingDom sportova 2, Zagreb1
CroatiaPPD ZagrebZagrebDom sportova 2
CroatiaNexeNašiceSportska dvorana kralja Tomislava
HungaryTelekom VeszprémVeszprémVeszprém Aréna
North MacedoniaVardarSkopjeJane Sandanski Arena
North MacedoniaEurofarm PelisterBitolaSports Hall Boro Čurlevski
Russia:ru:Спартак |Spartak MoscowMoscowDynamo Sports Palace
SerbiaMetaloplastikaŠabacZorka Hall
SerbiaVojvodinaNovi SadSportski centar Slana Bara
SlovakiaTatran PrešovPrešovCity Hall Prešov
UkraineMotor ZaporozhyeZaporizhiaYunost Sport Hall

;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.

Hosts

YearFinal four hostHallDateAttendanceFinal
2011–12 ZagrebArena Zagreb14–15 April 20125,5001,500
2012–13 SkopjeBoris Trajkovski Sports Center12–13 April 201313,4505,500
2013–14 Novi SadSPC Vojvodina11–13 April 201415,7105,160
2014–15 VeszprémVeszprém Aréna25–29 March 201516,1005,000
2015–16 VaraždinVaraždin Arena1–3 April 201620,6115,486
2016–17 BrestUniversal Sports Complex Victoria7–9 April 201712,1502,750
2017–18 SkopjeJane Sandanski Arena13–15 April 201816,6506,000
2018–19 BrestUniversal Sports Complex Victoria2–3 April 201911,1353,210
2019–20 ZadarKrešimir Ćosić Hall3–5 April 2020

Records and statistics

By club

By country

Participating clubs

Correct as of the 2019–20 SEHA League season.
Bold indicates the winning years.
ClubSeasonsYears
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
:ru:Спартак |Spartak Moscow
1
2020