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EHF Champions League will now be live on Premier Sports in the UK

The Match of the Week is coming to British television.  Premier Sports – a subscription channel on the Sky platform on channel 428 – has today announced that it will be showing the Tom O’Brannagáin commentated fixtures either live or on delay as well as the weekly Rewind Show.  The first match to be shown will be Kadetten Schaffhausen v Pick Szeged on Saturday afternoon.

There is no word in the announcement as to whether this will stop British Eurosport 2 offering their own, sparser, coverage or whether the Match of the Week will now be blacked out on the EHF TV live stream.

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Watching the EHF Champions League in the UK

The live internet schedule for the first seven weeks of the men’s EHF Champions League group stage was released this morning.  It is one of the pleasures of following handball that Europe’s premier handball tournament can be watched by anybody with an internet connection and the added bonus is that one match per week gets given special status and gets commentary in English provided by the lovably bonkers Tom O’Brainnagan.  In addition a sizeable number of games are streamed without commentary both via ehftv.com and Bet365’s live streaming service.

The matches to get the commentary are listed below.  Unsurprisingly the matches between Kiel and Madrid will both be shown.

30 September, 5pm UK
Atletico Madrid v THW Kiel

6 October, 4.15pm UK
Pick Szeged v Kadetten Schaffhausen

14 October, 6pm UK
Montpellier v HSV Hamburg

21 October, 6pm UK
Chambery v Kielce

18 November, 5pm UK
Metalurg v Kielce

25 November, 4.15pm UK
SG Flensburg-Handewitt v HSV Hamburg

2 December, 4.15pm UK
THW Kiel v Atletico Madrid

In addition, though perhaps not as exciting is British Eurosport’s schedule.  They don’t have anything planned for match days 1 and 3 and for match day 2 will be showing one match on delay at midnight on 7 October (repeated at 10am on the 8th) and for match day 4 there will be a one hour highlights package at 8am on October 22nd.  All times UK.

If you want to know more about the EHF Champions League group stage itself see here.

British Eurosport 2 to show 2012/13 EHF Champions League

British handball fans – both those who discovered the game through the Olympics and those who have been around for a bit longer – will (hopefully) be pleased to know that British Eurosport 2 will be showing this year’s EHF Champions League.

This is the top-tier competition for clubs across Europe that begins with group stages in September and culminates with the Final 4 weekend in May.  Last year, THW Kiel won the competition to complete a remarkable treble of Bundesliga, German Cup and EHF Champions League.

Matches will be shown from September onwards.  British Eurosport 2 is available on Sky channel 411 and Virgin channel 525 and you can check the listings here.