SEHA League

SEHA Liga

Sport	Handball
Founded	2011;14 years ago (2011)
Ceased	2023 (inactive)
No. of teams	(varied by season)
Country	Croatia   Hungary   North Macedonia   Serbia   Slovakia   Belarus   Bosnia and Herzegovina   China   Montenegro   Romania   Russia   Slovenia   Ukraine
Confederation	EHF
Most titles	Telekom Veszprém Vardar 1961 (5 titles each)

The South East Handball Association League, or simply the SEHA League, was a regional men's club handball league in Southeast Europe, featuring teams from Croatia, Hungary, North Macedonia, Serbia and Slovakia in its final West season. Due to sponsorship reasons, the league was also known as the Gazprom League (or the Gazprom South Stream League earlier). ^[1] 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. 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, 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.

During the 2021–22, season was interrupted after Russian invasion of Ukraine, which led Motor Zaporizhzhia left the league, and Meshkov Brest being suspended. Siniša Ostoić, managing director, confirmed that the next season will not include teams from Belarus and Ukraine. ^[2] Also, European Handball Federation suspended both Russia and Belarus, meaning they are not able to play any competitive game with other EHF members. ^[3] The following season these clubs founded its own Eastern Division. ^[4] Season 2022–23 was abandoned after six of eight played games in quarterfinals, with the last game being played on 12 April 2023 between Telekom Veszprém and Partizan. ^[5]

On 12 May 2023, SEHA YouTube account was hacked by report given on official web page. ^[6] In the 2022–23 season, several Russian and Belarusian clubs formed their own Eastern Division, operating independently of the original league. ^[7]

Final Four tournaments

Results by season

Below is the list of winners, finalists and other participants of the 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
2021–22 Details	Zadar		Telekom Veszprém	32–30	PPD Zagreb		Eurofarm Pelister	27–23	Nexe
2022–23 Details	League canceled during the quarterfinals

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	4–6 September 2020	2,000	500
2020–21	Zadar	Krešimir Ćosić Hall	3–5 September 2021
2021–22	Zadar	Krešimir Ćosić Hall	2–4 September 2022

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	5	1	2015, 2016, 2020, 2021, 2022	2017
Zagreb	1	4	2013	2018, 2019, 2021, 2022
Meshkov	0	2		2014, 2015
Metalurg	0	1		2012
Total	11	11

By country

Club / Nation	Won	Runner-up	Finals
North Macedonia	5	4	9
Hungary	5	1	6
Croatia	1	4	5
Belarus	0	2	2
Total	11	11	22

Participating clubs

Bold indicates the winning years.

Club	Seasons	Years
Vardar 1961	12	2012, 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023
PPD Zagreb	12	2012, 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023
Tatran Prešov	12	2012, 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023
Nexe Našice	12	2012, 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023
Meshkov Brest	10	2013, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022
RK Vojvodina	9	2014, 2015, 2016, 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023
RK Metalurg Skopje	7	2012, 2013, 2014, 2015, 2017, 2018, 2019
Telekom Veszprém	7	2015, 2016, 2017, 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023
Borac	5	2012, 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016
Izviđač	4	2012, 2013, 2017, 2019
RK Eurofarm Pelister	4	2020, 2021, 2022, 2023
Lovćen	3	2012, 2013, 2014
Metaloplastika	3	2012, 2020, 2021
Partizan	3	2014, 2022, 2023
Celje	2	2017, 2018
Gorenje	2	2017, 2018
Motor Zaporizhzhia	2	2020, 2021
Spartak Moscow / CSKA Moscow	2	2020
Bosna	1	2012
Crvena zvezda	1	2012
Sutjeska	1	2012
Sloga	1	2013
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

References

1. "SEHA - GAZPROM LEAGUE - Official website". SEHA. Retrieved 3 February 2023.
2. "SINIŠA OSTOIĆ: 'SEHA liga ide dalje, ali bez klubova iz Ukrajine i Bjelorusije'" [SINIŠA OSTOIĆ: "SEHA league goes on, but without clubs from Ukraine and Belarus"]. Nacional (in Croatian). 6 August 2022. Retrieved 3 February 2023.
3. "Russia and Belarus suspended by EHF". Handball planet. 1 March 2022. Retrieved 3 February 2023.
4. "WORLD NEWS". WORLD NEWS. Retrieved 4 February 2023.
5. "Results". SEHA. Retrieved 22 February 2024.
6. "SEHA YouTube account under cyber attack". SEHA. 16 May 2023. Retrieved 22 February 2024.
7. "SEHA to form "Eastern division"". Handball planet. 27 July 2022. Retrieved 19 June 2025.

External links

• Official website