Two former winners, a semi-final debutant and the hunt for the 3,000th goal

Only four matches remain in the Men’s EHF Cup to decide the winner and the successor of Füchse Berlin.

Besides host Nantes, Chambery, Granollers and Göppingen have reached the final destination of the competition.

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0 winners of the new version of the EHF Cup are among the four participants of the EHF Cup Finals 2016.

0 French male teams have ever won the EHF Cup in the new or the old format or Cup Winners’ Cup.

0 national champions arriving from the VELUX EHF Champions League qualification made it to the quarter-finals.

0 Spanish teams have qualified for the EHF Cup Finals since this new finals format was introduced; now Granollers have come all the way.

0 of those three teams arriving from the quarter-finals have won both knock-out matches.

1 team was host and finalist of the EHF Cup Finals before: HBC Nantes in 2013, when they lost the final against Rhein-Neckar Löwen.

1 pair of brothers fight in two different EHF final tournaments for trophies: Marc Canellas with Granollers in Nantes, Joan Canellas with THW Kiel in the VELUX EHF FINAL4 in Cologne.

1 coach was an EHF Cup winner as a player – and even with the club he coaches now: Carlos Viver (Granollers).

1 coach of the EHF Cup Finals participants has won the EHF Cup as a coach: Ivica Obrvan (Chambery) with Croatian side RK Metkovic – the only non-Spanish or non-German club to win the old format of this competition.

1 team – Chambery – will have their debut in an European Cup semi-final, the remaining three teams have even all been finalists in the EHF Cup.

1 player can complete his cabinet of European Cup trophies: Alberto Entrerrios  (Nantes), who won the EHF Champions League three times with Ciudad Real (2006, 2008, 2009) and the Cup Winners’ Cup twice (in 1993 with Barcelona and in 2003 with Ciudad Real).

1 team – Chambery – turned a first leg defeat in the quarter-finals into a ticket to Nantes, while Göppingen and Granollers lost their second legs.

1 coach of the four participants – again Ivica Obrvan (Chambery) …

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