2004 European Men's Handball Championship
The 6th European Handball Championship for men was held from January 22 to February 2, 2004 in Slovenia. The German national handball team was able to secure a final victory against host Slovenia for the first time the title. After the main round of the tournament in Switzerland was completed, Austria could not qualify for the European Championship.
- 4.1 Group I
- 4.2 Group II
- 5.1 Game for 7th place
- 5.2 Match for 5th place
- 5.3 Semi-finals
- 5.4 3rd place match
- 5.5 final
- 9.1 European Champion: Germany
- 9.2 Second Place: Slovenia
- 9.3 Third Place: Denmark
Participant
Venues
- Celje - Nove Dvorana Pod Golovcem, 4,620 places
- Koper - Dvorana Bonifika, 2,164 places
- Velenje - Prenovljena Rdeca Dvorana, 4,000 places
- Ljubljana - Dvorana Tivoli, 7,000 places
Preliminary round
In the preliminary round, each team played within their group exactly once against every other team. The first three of each group reached the main round, the fourth-placed resigned from.
Group A
The matches of Group A were held in Velenje.
Group B
The Group B played in Ljubljana.
Group C
The Group C matches took place in Celje.
Group D
The teams in Group D wore their games from Koper.
Main Round
The main round matches took place in Celje and Ljubljana. From the 12 teams from the preliminary round, two groups were formed. In group I played the first three of the groups A and B, in group II, the first three of the groups C and D. The points were taken from the first round that has been made against the other teams who had also reached the main round. The respective first and second placed teams from the groups were advancing to the semifinals, the third played the direct qualification for the European Handball Championship 2006 in Switzerland.
Group I
The games in Group I were held in Celje.
Group II
The matches of Group II took place in Ljubljana.
Final round
Venue for all matches of the final round was Ljubljana.
Game for 7th place
Match for 5th place
Semifinal
3rd Place Match
Final
Full Time
Top scorers
All-Star Team
Squad
European champions: Germany
- Henning Fritz
- Pascal Hens
- Mark Dragunsky
- Jan- Olaf Immel
- Christian Schwarzer
- Klaus -Dieter Petersen
- Daniel Stephan
- Florian Kehrmann
- Beautiful Christian
- Steffen Weber
- Carsten Lichtlein
Coach: Heiner Brand
Second Place: Slovenia
- Dušan Podpečan
- Ognjen Bačković
- Renato Vugrinec
- Zoran Jovicic
- Andrej Kastelic
- Vid Kavtičnik
- Branko Bedekovic
- Roman Pungartnik
- Gorazd Skof
- Tomaž Tomšič
- Ivan Simonovic
- Aleš Pajović
- Bostjan Ficko
- Uroš Zorman
- Zoran Lubej
Coach: Kasim Kamenica
Third Place: Denmark
- Kasper Hvidt
- Morten Bjerre
- Kasper Nielsen
- Klavs Bruun Jørgensen
- Torsten Laen
- Lars Jørgensen
- Jesper Jensen
- Lars Christiansen
- Joachim Boldsen
- Boris Schnuchel
- Michael Bruun Pedersen
- Michael V. Knudsen
- Claus Møller Jakobsen
- Søren Stryger
- Christian Hjermind
- Lars Krogh Jeppesen
Coach: Torben Winther
Weblink
- Tournament on eurohandball.com
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