HBC Nantes and Naturhouse La Rioja leading the “lower part” Group C and D of the VELUX EHF Champions League. The biggest surprise in Round 3 was made by Norwegian Elverum, who beat French Montpellier 32:31 (18:16) with Pujol and Mehl in the main roles with seven goals.
This can be called a disaster for the team with over 7.000.000 EUR budget, which can’t be comparable with any of their rivals in Group C and D, but certainly making Montpellier a TOP 10 teams in Europe in this moment.
Naturhouse La Rioja beat Tatran Presov 33:27, while Chekhovskie Medved outplayed RK Metalurg 25:21.
STANDINGS:
| 1. Naturhouse La Rioja | 3 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 92 | : | 85 | (7) | 5 |
| 2. Chekhovskie Medvedi | 3 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 81 | : | 77 | (4) | 4 |
| 3. Elverum Handball | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 77 | : | 77 | (0) | 3 |
| 4. Montpellier HB | 3 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 89 | : | 86 | (3) | 2 |
| 5. TATRAN Presov | 3 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 77 | : | 83 | (-6) | 2 |
| 6. HC Metalurg | 3 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 61 | : | 69 | (-8) | 2 |
Another French team HBC Nantes had no problem at the start of the European season. The newcomers in elite competition beat Portuguese ABC UMinho 35:33 to stay at the TOP of Group D.
Turkish Besiktas MOGAZ won point in Bucharest against Dinamo 26:26, while Ukrainian Motor had no problem to win against Danish TT Holstebro 34:28.
STANDINGS:
| 1. HBC Nantes | 3 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 94 | : | 78 | (16) | 5 |
| 2. Dinamo Bucuresti | 3 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 93 | : | 89 | (4) | 4 |
| 3. HC Motor Zaporozhye | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 91 | : | 89 | (2) | 3 |
| 4. Besiktas Mogaz HT | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 78 | : | 90 | (-12) | 3 |
| 5. ABC/UMinho | 3 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 96 | : | 95 | (1) | 2 |
| 6. TTH Holstebro | 3 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 87 | : | 98 | (-11) | 1 |
