Rostock's handball players play Potsdam in the DHB Cup

Handball - Rostock's handball players play Potsdam in the DHB Cup

Handball-Third league team HC Empor Rostock faces Bundesliga promoter 1. VfL Potsdam in the first round of the DHB-Cup. This was determined in the draw on Thursday in Düsseldorf. Bundesliga teams THW Kiel, HSV Hamburg and TSV Hannover-Burgdorf enter in the second round. SG Flensburg-Handewitt, who finished third in the previous Final Four, starts in the quarterfinals.

In total, six teams from Lower Saxony, Mecklenburg-Vorpommern and Schleswig-Holstein participate in the first round. Second league teams VfL Lübeck-Schwartau and HSG Nordhorn-Lingen travel to Eintracht Hildesheim and MTV Braunschweig. The two third league representatives missed the promotion to the 2nd league in the final games of the promotion round. Wilhelmshavener HV (3. League) receives the tradition-rich club TuS N-Lübbecke as a guest.

The first round is played on August 24 and 25. The second round follows from October 1 to 3, the quarterfinals on November 13 and 14. The Final Four is then scheduled for April 12 and 13, 2025 in Cologne.

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1. Despite being a third-league team, HC Empor Rostock will challenge Bundesliga promoter 1. VfL Potsdam in the first round of the DHB Cup, as decided in the draw held in Düsseldorf.
2. After finishing the previous Final Four in third place, SG Flensburg-Handewitt, hailing from Schleswig-Holstein, will commence their DHB Cup journey in the quarterfinals.
3. Six teams from Lower Saxony, Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, and Schleswig-Holstein will participate in the initial round of the DHB Cup.
4. VfL Lübeck-Schwartau and HSG Nordhorn-Lingen, both second-league teams, will journey to Eintracht Hildesheim and MTV Braunschweig, respectively, in the opening round of the DHB Cup.
5. THW Kiel, HSV Hamburg, and TSV Hannover-Burgdorf, notable Bundesliga handball clubs, will enter the fray in the second round of the DHB Cup.
6. The Lower Saxony team TSV Hannover-Burgdorf will engage in a cup match against an opponent to be determined in the second round.
7. Representing Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania, TSV Hannover-Burgdorf's handball counterpart, THW Kiel, will also join the battle in the second round of the DHB Cup, hosting an opponent yet to be determined.

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