Clube de Alvalade was one of the four excluded due to criteria set by the EHF Evaluation Group

Sporting was excluded from the Handball Champions League for the 2023/24 season, in which the Porto club will participate, following the decision taken by the European Union’s evaluation group, which was announced by the federation on Tuesday.

Sporting was one of the ten clubs nominated to compete in the most important European club competition, but it was one of the four excluded due to the criteria set by the Evaluation Group of the European Handball Federation (EHF), which met on Monday in Cologne (Germany). ).

In addition to Sporting, the Portuguese runners-up, Dinamo Bucharest (Romania), Kadeten Schaffhausen (Switzerland) and IFK Kristianstad (Sweden), were excluded, while Zagreb (Croatia), Aalborg (Denmark), Montpellier (France), Beck Szeged were excluded. (Hungary), Kolstad (Norway), and Wisla Block (Poland) will be able to make it to the race.

FC Porto, a four-time national champion, participated directly in the next edition of the UEFA Champions League, along with GOG (Denmark), FC Barcelona (Spain), Paris Saint-Germain (France), Magdeburg, cup holders, and Kiel (both from Germany) , Veszprém (Hungary), Pelister (North Macedonia), Kielce (Poland) and Celje Pivovarna Lasko (Slovenia).

by Lusa