South East Handball Association League or simply SEHA League is a regional men's club
handball
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league in
Southeast
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and
East Europe
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, divided in two zones. Due to sponsorship reasons, the league is also known as the
Gazprom
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League (or Gazprom South Stream League earlier). The league exists alongside scaled-down national leagues of the participating nations and all of SEHA League teams join their respective country's own competitions in late spring after the SEHA League regular season and post-season have been completed. The league's headquarters are in
Zagreb
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, Croatia, and the league's president is Mihajlo Mihajlovski,
Vardar
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's ex-chairman. 2011–12 was the first season of the competition, with Vardar from
Skopje
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becoming the first champions.
History of the league
The initiative for establishing the regional
South-East Europe
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an handball league was presented during the first half of 2011. After the idea of forming a
Regional Sparkasse League failed, during July 2011 it was agreed that the first season of the SEHA League would start in September of the same year. In the first season of SEHA League, 12 clubs took part, but their number reduced during the following years. In the 2020–21 season, there are 10 clubs from 7 countries.
The league is based on a regular season and the Final Four, in which the four best placed clubs from the regular season participate. The most successful participants of the SEHA League during its first eight seasons is
Vardar
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with five titles. Vardar became the first team with more than one title when it won the 2013–14 edition.
2022–23 season
:''Below is the list of clubs that are members of the
2022–23 SEHA League season.''
Final Four tournaments
Results by season
Below is the list of winners, finalists and other participants of Final four SEHA tournaments.
Hosts
Records and statistics
By club
By country
Participating clubs
''Correct as of the
2022–23 SEHA League season.''
Bold indicates the winning years.
External links
Official website
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