2004 European Men's Handball Championship

2004 European Men's Handball Championship

Evropsko prvenstvo v rokometu 2004
Tournament details
Host country	Slovenia
Venue(s)	4 (in 4 host cities)
Dates	22 January – 1 February
Teams	16 (from 1 confederation)
Final positions
Champions	Germany (1st title)
Runner-up	Slovenia
Third place	Denmark
Fourth place	Croatia
Tournament statistics
Matches played	48
Goals scored	2,733 (56.94 per match)
Attendance	149,984 (3,125 per match)
Top scorer(s)	Mirza Džomba (46 goals)
Awards
Best player	Ivano Balić
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The 2004 Men's European Handball Championship was the sixth edition of the tournament and took place from 22 January to 1 February 2004 in Slovenia in the cities of Ljubljana, Celje, Velenje and Koper.

Venues

Location	Picture	City	Arena	Capacity	Status	Round
Ljubljana		Ljubljana	Tivoli Hall	5,600 [1]	Opened in 1965	Preliminary stage & Second Group stage and knockout stages
Koper		Koper	Arena Bonifika	5,000	Opened in 1999	Preliminary stage
Velenje		Velenje	Red Hall	2,500 [1]	Opened in 1975	Preliminary stage
Celje		Celje	Zlatorog Arena	5,500 [2]	Opened in 2003	Preliminary stage and second group stage

Qualification

Country	Qualified as	Previous appearances in tournament 1
Slovenia	Host	4 (1994, 1996, 2000, 2002)
Denmark	Semifinalist of 2002 European Championship	4 (1994, 1996, 2000, 2002)
Germany	Semifinalist of 2002 European Championship	5 (1994, 1996, 1998, 2000, 2002)
Iceland	Semifinalist of 2002 European Championship	2 (2000, 2002)
Sweden	Semifinalist of 2002 European Championship	5 ( 1994 , 1996, 1998 , 2000 , 2002 )
Russia	Fifth place of 2002 European Championship	5 (1994, 1996 , 1998, 2000, 2002)
Croatia	Playoff winner	5 (1994, 1996, 1998, 2000 , 2002)
Czech Republic	Playoff winner	3 (1996, 1998, 2002)
France	Playoff winner	5 (1994, 1996, 1998, 2000, 2002)
Hungary	Playoff winner	3 (1994, 1996, 1998)
Poland	Playoff winner	1 (2002)
Portugal	Playoff winner	3 ( 1994 , 2000, 2002)
Serbia and Montenegro	Playoff winner	3 2 (1996, 1998, 2002)
Spain	Playoff winner	5 (1994, 1996 , 1998, 2000, 2002)
Switzerland	Playoff winner	1 (2002)
Ukraine	Playoff winner	2 (2000, 2002)

¹Bold indicates champion for that year. Italic indicates host for that year.

² as FR Yugoslavia

Preliminary round

All times are local (UTC+1).

Group A

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	Russia	3	3	0	0	87	74	+13	6	Main round
2	Sweden	3	2	0	1	93	79	+14	4
3	Switzerland	3	1	0	2	69	85	−16	2
4	Ukraine	3	0	0	3	74	85	−11	0

Source: EHF
Rules for classification: 1) points; 2) head-to-head points; 3) head-to-head goal difference; 4) head-to-head number of goals scored; 5) goal difference.

22 January 2004 18:00	Russia	28–20	Switzerland	Red Hall, Velenje Attendance: 2,500 Referees: Boye, Jensen (DEN)
	three players 6	(17–10)	Kostadinovich 5
	3× 5×	Report	3× 6×

22 January 2004 20:30	Sweden	31–25	Ukraine	Red Hall, Velenje Attendance: 2,500 Referees: Repenšek, Požežnik (SLO)
	Petersson 9	(14–13)	Petrenko 9
	3× 3×	Report	3× 5× 1×

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24 January 2004 16:00	Switzerland	24–35	Sweden	Red Hall, Velenje Attendance: 2,000 Referees: Lemme, Ullrich (GER)
	Gautschi 6	(12–17)	Källman 6
	3× 5×	Report	3× 4×

24 January 2004 18:00	Ukraine	27–29	Russia	Red Hall, Velenje Attendance: 2,000 Referees: Pleșa, Cîrligeanu (ROU)
	Kostetskiy 6	(12–17)	Tuchkin 7
	3× 6×	Report	4× 6×

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25 January 2004 16:00	Ukraine	22–25	Switzerland	Red Hall, Velenje Attendance: 2,000 Referees: Kékes, Kékes (HUN)
	Kostetskiy 11	(12–13)	Kostadinovich 11
	3× 7× 1×	Report	3× 5×

25 January 2004 18:00	Sweden	27–30	Russia	Red Hall, Velenje Attendance: 2,200 Referees: Nachevski, Nachevski (MKD)
	Lövgren 6	(12–16)	Chipurin 7
	4× 2×	Report	4× 5×

Group B

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	Croatia	3	2	1	0	88	86	+2	5	Main round
2	Denmark	3	2	0	1	85	78	+7	4
3	Spain	3	1	0	2	82	81	+1	2
4	Portugal	3	0	1	2	91	101	−10	1

Source: EHF
Rules for classification: 1) points; 2) head-to-head points; 3) head-to-head goal difference; 4) head-to-head number of goals scored; 5) goal difference.

22 January 2004 18:00	Spain	29–30	Croatia	Tivoli Hall, Ljubljana Attendance: 4,500 Referees: Lemme, Ullrich (GER)
	Belaustegui 11	(17–14)	Metličić 8
	3× 6×	Report	3× 8×

22 January 2004 20:30	Denmark	36–32	Portugal	Tivoli Hall, Ljubljana Attendance: 2,000 Referees: Kékes, Kékes (HUN)
	Knudsen 9	(20–15)	Coelho 8
	2× 4×	Report	3× 4×

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24 January 2004 18:00	Portugal	27–33	Spain	Tivoli Hall, Ljubljana Attendance: 4,000 Referees: Hansson, Olsson (SWE)
	Resende 8	(12–19)	Romero 11
	3× 2×	Report	3× 6×

24 January 2004 20:00	Croatia	26–25	Denmark	Tivoli Hall, Ljubljana Attendance: 7,000 Referees: Vakula, Ljudovik (UKR)
	Lacković 7	(14–12)	Stryger 7
	4× 4×	Report	3× 9×

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25 January 2004 18:00	Portugal	32–32	Croatia	Tivoli Hall, Ljubljana Attendance: 2,500 Referees: Krstič, Ljubič (SLO)
	J. Costa 7	(13–16)	Džomba 10
	4× 5×	Report	3× 6×

25 January 2004 20:00	Denmark	24–20	Spain	Tivoli Hall, Ljubljana Attendance: 3,000 Referees: Rančík, Beňo (SVK)
	Christiansen 5	(12–11)	Belaustegui 7
	3× 3×	Report	3× 6×

Group C

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	Slovenia (H)	3	2	1	0	100	90	+10	5 [a]	Main round
2	Hungary	3	2	1	0	91	83	+8	5 [a]
3	Czech Republic	3	0	1	2	88	97	−9	1 [b]
4	Iceland	3	0	1	2	87	96	−9	1 [b]

Source: EHF
Rules for classification: 1) points; 2) head-to-head points; 3) head-to-head goal difference; 4) head-to-head number of goals scored; 5) goal difference.
(H) Hosts
Notes:

1. Slovenia 29–29 Hungary
2. Iceland 30–30 Czech Republic

22 January 2004 18:00	Czech Republic	25–30	Hungary	Zlatorog Arena, Celje Attendance: 2,500 Referees: Hansson, Olsson (SWE)
	Juříček 7	(10–17)	Pásztor 8
	3× 6×	Report	3× 5×

22 January 2004 20:30	Iceland	28–34	Slovenia	Zlatorog Arena, Celje Attendance: 4,620 Referees: Goulão, Macau (POR)
	Stefánsson 7	(13–13)	Vugrinec 9
	2× 5×	Report	3× 5×

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23 January 2004 18:30	Hungary	32–29	Iceland	Zlatorog Arena, Celje Attendance: 2,800 Referees: Nachevski, Nachevski (MKD)
	Díaz 9	(15–15)	García, Stefánsson 7
	3× 5×	Report	4× 5× 1×

23 January 2004 20:30	Slovenia	37–33	Czech Republic	Zlatorog Arena, Celje Attendance: 4,620 Referees: Vakula, Liudovyk (UKR)
	Lubej 9	(15–18)	Filip, Juříček 7
	3× 9×	Report	4× 7×

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25 January 2004 18:30	Iceland	30–30	Czech Republic	Zlatorog Arena, Celje Attendance: 3,000 Referees: Pleșa, Cîrligeanu (ROU)
	García 7	(15–17)	Jícha 7
	3× 4×	Report	3× 3×

25 January 2004 20:30	Slovenia	29–29	Hungary	Zlatorog Arena, Celje Attendance: 4,616 Referees: Breto, Huelin (ESP)
	Jovičič 6	(13–14)	Nagy 9
	3× 5×	Report	3× 2×

Group D

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	France	3	2	1	0	81	74	+7	5	Main round
2	Serbia and Montenegro	3	2	0	1	86	78	+8	4
3	Germany	3	1	1	1	96	89	+7	3
4	Poland	3	0	0	3	86	108	−22	0

Source: EHF
Rules for classification: 1) points; 2) head-to-head points; 3) head-to-head goal difference; 4) head-to-head number of goals scored; 5) goal difference.

22 January 2004 18:00	France	29–25	Poland	Bonifika Hall, Koper Attendance: 2,000 Referees: Vakula, Liudovyk (UKR)
	Anquetil 6	(14–16)	Bielecki 7
	3× 6×	Report	3× 8×

22 January 2004 20:30	Germany	26–28	Serbia and Montenegro	Bonifika Hall, Koper Attendance: 2,000 Referees: Breto, Huelin (ESP)
	Jansen 8	(10–12)	Ma. Krivokapić 6
	2× 5×	Report	3× 8× 1×

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23 January 2004 18:30	Serbia and Montenegro	20–23	France	Bonifika Hall, Koper Attendance: 2,164 Referees: Rančík, Beňo (SVK)
	Maksić, Nikolić 4	(7–13)	Anquetil 6
	2× 8× 1×	Report	3× 5×

23 January 2004 20:30	Poland	32–41	Germany	Bonifika Hall, Koper Attendance: 2,000 Referees: Repenšek, Požežnik (SLO)
	Tkaczyk 9	(13–21)	Baur 12
	3× 9× 1×	Report	4× 8×

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25 January 2004 18:30	Germany	29–29	France	Bonifika Hall, Koper Attendance: 2,164 Referees: Goulão, Macau (POR)
	Schwarzer 7	(14–13)	Karabatić 10
	3× 7×	Report	3× 5×

25 January 2004 20:30	Serbia and Montenegro	38–29	Poland	Bonifika Hall, Koper Attendance: 1,000 Referees: Boye, Jensen (DEN)
	Maksić 8	(19–11)	Tkaczyk 7
	3× 4×	Report	3× 8× 1×

Main round

Group I

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	Croatia	5	4	1	0	138	131	+7	9	Semifinals
2	Denmark	5	4	0	1	153	125	+28	8
3	Russia	5	3	1	1	149	137	+12	7	Fifth place game
4	Sweden	5	2	0	3	145	144	+1	4	Seventh place game
5	Spain	5	1	0	4	133	143	−10	2
6	Switzerland	5	0	0	5	115	153	−38	0

Source: EHF
Rules for classification: 1) points; 2) head-to-head points; 3) head-to-head goal difference; 4) head-to-head number of goals scored; 5) goal difference.

27 January 2004 16:00	Switzerland	24–26	Spain	Zlatorog Arena, Celje Attendance: 1,000 Referees: Nachevski, Nachevski (MKD)
	Kostadinovich 7	(13–13)	García 8
	3× 5×	Report	3× 4×

27 January 2004 18:00	Sweden	26–28	Croatia	Zlatorog Arena, Celje Attendance: 2,200 Referees: Goulão, Macau (POR)
	Boquist 7	(11–16)	four players 5
	3× 3×	Report	4× 4×

27 January 2004 20:00	Russia	31–36	Denmark	Zlatorog Arena, Celje Attendance: 2,000 Referees: Lemme, Ullrich (GER)
	Koksharov 7	(15–19)	Christiansen, Stryger 7
	3× 4× 1×	Report	3× 6×

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28 January 2004 16:00	Russia	36–30	Spain	Zlatorog Arena, Celje Attendance: 1,000 Referees: Repenšek, Požežnik (SLO)
	Koksharov 10	(16–14)	Hernández 8
	3× 6×	Report	3× 6×

28 January 2004 18:00	Switzerland	27–30	Croatia	Zlatorog Arena, Celje Attendance: 700 Referees: Kékes, Kékes (HUN)
	Kostadinovich 7	(13–15)	Balić 6
	3× 2×	Report	2× 4×

28 January 2004 20:00	Sweden	28–34	Denmark	Zlatorog Arena, Celje Attendance: 800 Referees: Vakula, Liudovyk (UKR)
	Lövgren 9	(14–18)	Knudsen 8
	3× 6×	Report	3× 3×

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29 January 2004 16:00	Switzerland	20–34	Denmark	Zlatorog Arena, Celje Attendance: 1,000 Referees: Rančík, Beňo (SVK)
	Kostadinovich 5	(9–18)	Hjermind, Nielsen 7
	3× 4× 1×	Report	3× 3×

29 January 2004 18:00	Sweden	29–28	Spain	Zlatorog Arena, Celje Attendance: 2,300 Referees: Nachevski, Nachevski (MKD)
	Källman 9	(10–12)	Pérez 8
	3× 4×	Report	3× 5×

29 January 2004 20:00	Russia	24–24	Croatia	Zlatorog Arena, Celje Attendance: 4,000 Referees: Breto, Huelin (ESP)
	Bashkin 6	(13–12)	Džomba 8
	3× 4×	Report	4× 7×

Group II

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	Germany	5	3	1	1	151	131	+20	7 [a]	Semifinals
2	Slovenia (H)	5	3	1	1	144	135	+9	7 [a]
3	France	5	2	1	2	134	129	+5	5 [b]	Fifth place game
4	Serbia and Montenegro	5	2	1	2	134	135	−1	5 [b]	Seventh place game
5	Hungary	5	1	2	2	132	140	−8	4
6	Czech Republic	5	1	0	4	147	172	−25	2

Source: EHF
Rules for classification: 1) points; 2) head-to-head points; 3) head-to-head goal difference; 4) head-to-head number of goals scored; 5) goal difference.
(H) Hosts
Notes:

1. Slovenia 24–31 Germany
2. Serbia and Montenegro 20–23 France

27 January 2004 16:30	Hungary	21–29	France	Tivoli Hall, Ljubljana Attendance: 1,000 Referees: Boye, Jensen (DEN)
	Buday 5	(8–14)	Karabatić 5
	3× 4×	Report	3× 4×

27 January 2004 18:30	Czech Republic	27–37	Germany	Tivoli Hall, Ljubljana Attendance: 3,800 Referees: Hansson, Olsson (SWE)
	Berka 7	(12–19)	Kehrmann 9
	3× 7×	Report	3× 3×

27 January 2004 20:30	Slovenia	27–20	Serbia and Montenegro	Tivoli Hall, Ljubljana Attendance: 7,000 Referees: Rančík, Beňo (SVK)
	Lubej 6	(14–11)	Anđelković 5
	3× 10× 1×	Report	4× 7× 1×

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28 January 2004 16:30	Czech Republic	32–31	France	Tivoli Hall, Ljubljana Attendance: 1,000 Referees: Pleșa, Cîrligeanu (ROU)
	Juříček 9	(17–15)	G. Gille, Girault 6
	3× 6×	Report	4× 5×

28 January 2004 18:30	Hungary	29–29	Serbia and Montenegro	Tivoli Hall, Ljubljana Attendance: 4,000 Referees: Goulão, Macau (POR)
	Császár 7	(10–15)	Milosavljević 9
	4× 6×	Report	3× 8×

28 January 2004 20:30	Slovenia	24–31	Germany	Tivoli Hall, Ljubljana Attendance: 6,000 Referees: Breto, Huelin (ESP)
	Kavtičnik 5	(10–18)	Stephan 8
	3× 7× 1×	Report	3× 3×

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29 January 2004 16:30	Czech Republic	30–37	Serbia and Montenegro	Tivoli Hall, Ljubljana Attendance: 1,000 Referees: Vakula, Liudovyk (UKR)
	Berka 6	(16–21)	Nikolić 8
	3× 3×	Report	3× 5×

29 January 2004 18:30	Hungary	23–28	Germany	Tivoli Hall, Ljubljana Attendance: 5,000 Referees: Pleșa, Cîrligeanu (ROU)
	Díaz 6	(12–16)	Zeitz 8
	3× 5×	Report	3× 7×

29 January 2004 20:30	Slovenia	27–22	France	Tivoli Hall, Ljubljana Attendance: 7,000 Referees: Hansson, Olsson (SWE)
	Kavtičnik 8	(12–9)	Anquetil 6
	3× 11×	Report	3× 4×

Final round

Bracket

	Semifinals				Final
	31 January
	Croatia	25
					1 February
	Slovenia	27
					Slovenia	25
	31 January
					Germany	30
	Denmark	20
	Germany	22
					Third place
					1 February
					Croatia	27
					Denmark	31

Semifinals

31 January 2004 15:00	Denmark	20–22	Germany	Tivoli Hall, Ljubljana Attendance: 6,500 Referees: Rančík, Beňo (SVK)
	Jeppesen 5	(11–11)	Immel 7
	3× 5×	Report	2× 6×

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31 January 2004 17:30	Croatia	25–27	Slovenia	Tivoli Hall, Ljubljana Attendance: 7,000 Referees: Vakula, Ljudovik (UKR)
	Džomba 12	(13–15)	Kavtičnik 6
	3× 4×	Report	4× 8× 1×

Seventh place game

31 January 2004 12:30	Sweden	35–34	Serbia and Montenegro	Tivoli Hall, Ljubljana Attendance: 1,000 Referees: Lemme, Ullrich (GER)
	Andersson, Larholm 7	(16–17)	Mi. Krivokapić 6
	3× 3×	Report	3× 5×

Fifth place game

1 February 2004 12:30	Russia	28–26	France	Tivoli Hall, Ljubljana Attendance: 1,000 Referees: Repenšek, Požežnik (SLO)
	Ivanov 8	(14–11)	Karabatić 7
	3× 5× 1×	Report	3× 5×

Third place game

1 February 2004 15:00	Croatia	27–31	Denmark	Tivoli Hall, Ljubljana Attendance: 7,000 Referees: Breto, Huelin (ESP)
	Lacković 8	(14–15)	Christiansen 9
	4× 4×	Report	2× 6×

Final

1 February 2004 17:30	Slovenia	25–30	Germany	Tivoli Hall, Ljubljana Attendance: 7,000 Referees: Hansson, Olsson (SWE)
	Vugrinec 6	(10–16)	Kehrmann 9
	3× 3×	Report	2× 1×

Ranking and statistics

Final ranking Rank Team   Germany   Slovenia   Denmark 4   Croatia 5   Russia 6   France 7   Sweden 8   Serbia and Montenegro 9   Hungary 10   Spain 11   Czech Republic 12    Switzerland 13   Iceland 14   Portugal 15   Ukraine 16   Poland Qualified for the 2004 Summer Olympics

All-Star Team Position Player Goalkeeper   Henning Fritz  (GER) Right wing   Vid Kavtičnik  (SLO) Right back   Volker Zerbe  (GER) Centre back   Ivano Balić  (CRO) Left back   Nikola Karabatić  (FRA) Left wing   Eduard Koksharov  (RUS) Pivot   Michael Knudsen  (DEN) Most valuable player   Ivano Balić  (CRO) Source: EHF

Top goalscorers Rank Name Team Goals Shots  % 1 Mirza Džomba   Croatia 46 64 75 2 Florian Kehrmann   Germany 45 81 56 3 Daniel Stephan   Germany 42 85 49 4 Michael Knudsen   Denmark 40 49 82 Vid Kavtičnik   Slovenia 65 62 Robbie Kostadinovich    Switzerland 81 49 7 Eduard Koksharov   Russia 38 56 68 Renato Vugrinec   Slovenia 77 49 9 Nikola Karabatić   France 35 71 49 10 Søren Stryger   Denmark 34 42 81 Aleksey Rastvortsev   Russia 71 48 Source: EHF

Top goalkeepers (minimum 20% of total shots received by team) Rank Name Team  % Saves Shots 1 Yevgeny Budko   Ukraine 43 23 54 2 Michael Bruun   Denmark 41 33 80 3 Aleksey Kostygov   Russia 40 23 58 4 Christian Ramota   Germany 39 29 74 Beno Lapajne   Slovenia 56 145 6 Nándor Fazekas   Hungary 38 49 130 7 Kasper Hvidt   Denmark 37 95 254 Henning Fritz   Germany 97 260 János Szathmári   Hungary 52 140 10 Mario Kelentrić   Croatia 35 36 103 Vlado Šola   Croatia 51 146 Martin Galia   Czech Republic 86 248 Antoine Ebinger    Switzerland 39 113 Source: EHF

References

1. EuroBasket2013.org Tivoli Hall Capacity: 5,600. Archived 28 March 2014 at the Wayback Machine
2. "THE ARENA Celje Arena Capacity: 5500". Eurobasket2013.org. Archived from the original on 4 October 2013. Retrieved 1 October 2013.

• eurohandball.com. "2004 Men's European Championship". Archived from the original on 9 August 2018. Retrieved 24 January 2011.
• todor66.com. "Men Handball European Championship 2004" . Retrieved 24 January 2011.

External links

• The official site of the championship with reports, results, statistics, etc.
• Results