Current season, competition or edition: 2016–17 SEHA League |
|
Countries |
Belarus Bosnia and Herzegovina Croatia Hungary Macedonia Slovakia Slovenia |
---|---|
Confederation | EHF |
Founded | 2011 |
Number of teams | 10 |
Current champions | Veszprém (2nd title) |
Most championships | Vardar and Veszprém (2 titles each) |
South East Handball Association League or simply SEHA League is a top-level regional handball league, featuring teams from Belarus, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, Hungary, Macedonia, Slovakia and Slovenia. Due to sponsorship reasons, the league is also known as the Gazprom South Stream League. 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 based in Zagreb, Croatia, and the league's president is Mihajlo Mihajlovski Vardar's ex-chairman. 2011–12 was the first season of the competition, with Vardar from Skopje, Macedonia, becoming the first champions.
Initiative for establishing regional South-East European handball league was presented during the first half of 2011. After idea of forming Regional Sparkasse League failed, during the July 2011 it was published that first season of the competition named SEHA League will start during the September same year.
In the first season of SEHA League participated 14 clubs, but their number is reduced during next years. Today, there are 10 clubs in SEHA League from seven different countries.
League is based on Regular season, and the Final four, in which are participating four best placed clubs from Regular season. Until today, hosts of Final four were cities of Zagreb, Skopje, Novi Sad, Veszprém and Varaždin.