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.

SEHA Liga
СЕХА Лига
Current season, competition or edition:
2019–20 SEHA League
CountriesBelarus
China
Croatia
Hungary
North Macedonia
Russia
Serbia
Slovakia
Ukraine
Bosnia and Herzegovina (former)
Montenegro (former)
Romania (former)
Slovenia (former)
ConfederationEHF
Founded2011 (2011)
Number of teams12
Current championsVardar (5th title)
Most championshipsVardar (5 titles)

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
Total88

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
Total8816

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
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