BHT Petra Plock and OVB Beach Girls have won the men’s and women’s EHF Beach Handball Champions Cup 2022 titles, respectively as the eighth edition of the event completed in Porto Santo, Portugal, on Sunday (23 October).

With their 2-0 win (20:14, 25:22) against Salgótarjáni Strandépítök BHC in the final, Plock became the first Polish side to take the title. 

On their way to gold, they lost just once in nine games, and the title gave them extra cause to celebrate their club’s 10th anniversary. Bartosz Wojdak top-scored for them in the gold medal match with 13 points.

In the women’s final Hungarian side OVB Beach Girls defeated Danish side HEI Dame Beach Handball – complete with Denmark internationals comprising half of their 10-player squad – via a shoot-out 8:5 (2-1).

OVB’s Amina Kazeem top-scored in the final with 18 points, the 17-year-old left wing a rising star in Hungarian beach handball, having represented her country at the 2022 IHF Women’s Youth Beach Handball World Championship in Greece, where they finished fourth.

Reigning men’s champions Fomento Deporte CBMP Ciudad de Malaga finished fourth, while 2021 women’s champions GRD Leça - Love Tiles could only finish 10th.

2016 IHF Women’s Beach Handball World Championship winner with Spain, Maria Asuncion Batista Portero, was the top scorer and named MVP in the women’s competition, playing for GEA A.M. Team Almeria. 

Croatia men’s captain, current IHF Men’s Beach Handball World Championship and World Games title-holder Ivan Juric was named best defender, playing for Fomento Deporte CBMP Ciudad de Malaga.

The previous seven EHF Beach Handball Champions Cup events had seen six different countries take the honours, with teams from Spain winning a total of six titles (three men’s and three women’s), Russian clubs taking three men’s titles and Croatia one, while Hungarian clubs have won two women’s titles, alongside a solitary women’s title going to Norway and Portugal alike.

For a list of previous winners, click here.

Women’s competition

Final Ranking
1 - OVB Beach Girls (HUN)
2 - HEI Dame Beach Handball (DEN)
3 - GEA A.M. Team Almeria (ESP)
4 - BHT Byczki Kowalewo Pomorskie (POL)
5 - Brüder Ismaning (GER)
6 - Beach Bazis / Schleißheim (GER)
7 - TT Sport Multichem Szentendrei NKE (HUN)
8 - London GD (GBR)
9 - Team WON (DEN)
10 - GRD Leça - Love Tiles (POR)
11 - Nazaré BHT (POR)
12 - Balonmano Playa Alcalá (ESP)
13 - S.V. Voorwaarts (NED)
14 - Olympia Beach Handball (GBR)
15 - Beachqueens (SUI)
16 - Brest Bretagne Handball – Ligue de Bretagne (FRA)

Fair Play team: S.V. Voorwarts
Best Goalkeeper: Cristina Torneo Munoz – GEA A.M. Team Almeria
Best Defender: Gabriella Landi – OVB Beach Girls
Top Scorer: Maria Asuncion Batista Portero – GEA A.M. Team Almeria - 168 points
MVP: Maria Asuncion Batista Portero – GEA A.M. Team Almeria

For full information on the women’s competition, click here.

Men’s competition

Final Ranking
1 - BHT Petra Plock (POL)
2 - Salgótarjáni Strandépítök BHC (HUN)
3 - GRD Leça - SPAR (POR)
4 - Fomento Deporte CBMP Ciudad de Málaga (ESP)
5 - Escola de Formação de Espinho - Os Tigres (POR)
6 - Göteborg Beach Handball Club (SWE)
7 - Die Otternasen (GER)
8 - Galobank BM Playa (ESP)
9 - Beach Stars BHC (HUN)
10 - CS VESOUL 70 - LIGUE Bourgogne Franche-Comté (BFC) (FRA)
11 - Hg Gokstad (NOR)
12 - Camelot Handball Tilburg (NED)
13 - Vegetas BHC (POR)
14 - Beach Handball Oderzo Beach Fioi (ITA)
15 - London Beach Handball (GBR)
16 - BHC Beaching Bad Minden (GER)

Fair Play team: London Beach Handball
Best Goalkeeper: Krystian Matusiak – BHT Petra Plock
Best Defender: Ivan Juric (Fomento Deporte CBMP Ciudad de Malaga)
Top Scorer: Bartosz Wojdak – BHT Petra Plock – 151 points
MVP: Tiago Costa - GRD Leça – SPAR

For full information on the men’s competition, click here.

Photo: European Handball Federation/Kolektiff Images