SEHA League

SEHA Liga
СЕХА Лига

Current season, competition or edition:
Countries	Belarus  Croatia  Hungary  North Macedonia  Serbia  Slovakia  Ukraine  Bosnia and Herzegovina (former)  China (former)  Montenegro (former)  Romania (former)  Russia (former)  Slovenia (former)
Confederation	EHF
Founded	2011; 11 years ago (2011)
Number of teams	10
Current champions	Telekom Veszprém (4th title)
Most championships	Vardar 1961 (5 titles)

South East Handball Association League or simply SEHA League is a regional men's club handball league in Southeast Europe, featuring teams from Belarus, Croatia, Hungary, North Macedonia, 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 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, 12 clubs took part, but their number reduced during the following years. In the 2020–21 season, there are 10 clubs from 7 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.

2021–22 season[]

Below is the list of clubs that are members of the season.

Country	Team	City	Venue (Capacity)
Belarus	Meshkov Brest	Brest	(3,740)
Croatia	Nexe	Našice	(2,500)
	PPD Zagreb	Zagreb	Dom sportova 2 (3,100)
Hungary	Telekom Veszprém	Veszprém	Veszprém Aréna (5,096)
North Macedonia	Eurofarm Pelister	Bitola	Sports Hall Boro Čurlevski (3,700)
	Vardar 1961	Skopje	Jane Sandanski Arena (6,500)
Serbia	Partizan	Belgrade	(2,000)
	Vojvodina	Novi Sad	(2,000)
Slovakia	Tatran Prešov	Prešov	Tatran Handball Arena (4,870)
Ukraine	Motor Zaporizhzhia	Zaporizhzhia	(3,600)

Final Four tournaments[]

Results by season[]

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		Telekom Veszprém	35–27	Vardar		Meshkov Brest	29–24	PPD Zagreb
2020–21 Details	Zadar		Telekom Veszprém	27–27 (pen. 4–2)	PPD Zagreb		Motor Zaporizhzhia	31–20	Meshkov Brest

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		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		2–3 April 2019	11,135	3,210
2019–20	Zadar	Krešimir Ćosić Hall	4–6 September 2020	2,000	500
2020–21	Zadar	Krešimir Ćosić Hall	3–5 September 2021

Records and statistics[]

By club[]

Club	Won	Runner-up	Years won	Years runner-up
Vardar	5	3	2012, 2014, 2017, 2018, 2019	2013, 2016, 2020
Veszprém	4	1	2015, 2016, 2020, 2021	2017
Zagreb	1	3	2013	2018, 2019, 2021
Meshkov	0	2		2014, 2015
Metalurg	0	1		2012
Total	10	10

By country[]

Club / Nation	Won	Runner-up	Finals
North Macedonia	5	4	9
Hungary	4	1	5
Croatia	1	3	4
Belarus	0	2	2
Total	10	10	20

Participating clubs[]

Correct as of the 2020–21 SEHA League season.
Bold indicates the winning years.

Club	Seasons	Years
Vardar 1961	10	2012, 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021
PPD Zagreb	10	2012, 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021
Tatran Prešov	10	2012, 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021
Nexe Našice	10	2012, 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021
Meshkov Brest	9	2013, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021
RK Metalurg Skopje	7	2012, 2013, 2014, 2015, 2017, 2018, 2019
RK Vojvodina	7	2014, 2015, 2016, 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021
Borac	5	2012, 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016
Telekom Veszprém	5	2015, 2016, 2017, 2020, 2021
Izviđač	4	2012, 2013, 2017, 2019
Lovćen	3	2012, 2013, 2014
Metaloplastika	3	2012, 2020, 2021
Celje	2	2017, 2018
Gorenje	2	2017, 2018
RK Eurofarm Pelister	2	2020, 2021
Motor Zaporizhzhia	2	2020, 2021
Bosna	1	2012
Crvena zvezda	1	2012
Sutjeska	1	2012
Sloga	1	2013
Partizan	1	2014
Radnički	1	2015
Maks Strumica	1	2016
	1	2016
	1	2018
CSA Steaua București	1	2019
Železničar	1	2019
Beijing Sport University	1	2020
Spartak Moscow	1	2020

External links[]

• Official website