title: Limburgse Handbal Dagen
text: # Limburgse Handbal Dagen
  
  The Limburgse Handbal Dagen / Limbourg Handball Days is a handball tournament organized since 1988 in Limburg (Netherlands), especially in the cities of Sittard, Geleen and Beek. The tournament lasts for 3 days with teams from Europe, Africa and Asia.
  
  ## History
  
  It all started in the spring of 1988, the year that HV Sittardia celebrated their forty-year anniversary. They wanted to organise an international tournament in a celebration of this anniversary. The initial periode of the tournament was in September, before the start of the Dutch competition, but it was too short for a proper organisation. That's why the committee decided to organize the tournament in the period between Christmas and New Year. After an interest in a co-organisaters Blauw-Wit Neerbeek and V&L, the Limburgse Handbal Dagen were born.
  
  ## List of winners
  
  ### Plural winners
  
  | Victories | Team | Years | Country |
  | - | - | - | - |
  | 3 | Viking Stavanger | 1995, 1997, 1999 | Norway |
  | 2 | Lukoil/Dynamo Astrakhan | 2001, 2006 | Russia |
  | 2 | FC Porto | 2009, 2012 | Portugal |
  
  ### Victories per country
  
  | Victories | Country |
  | - | - |
  | 5 | Norway, Portugal |
  | 4 | Russia |
  | 3 | Denmark |
  | 2 | France, Netherlands, Soviet Union |
  | 1 | Belgium, Belarus, Croatia, Poland, Ukraine, FR Yugoslavia |
  
  ## Top three places
  
  | Year | First | Second | Third |
  | - | - | - | - |
  | 2016 | Halden Topphåndball | Limburg Lions | South Korea |
  | 2015 | ABC UMinho | Viking HK | Targos Bevo HC |
  | 2014 | GK Permskie Medvedi | SL Benfica | Limburg Lions |
  | 2013 | Águas Santas | Limburg Lions | FC Barcelona B |
  | 2012 | FC Porto | Põlva Serviti | GlobalCaja Ciudad Encantada |
  | 2011 | Limburg Lions | HC Meshkov Brest | RK Porec |
  | 2010 | SL Benfica | RK Borac Banja Luka | St. Petersburg HC |
  | 2009 | FC Porto | Põlva Serviti | K-Sports HC |
  | 2008 | KV Sasja HC Hoboken | ZTR Zaporizhzhia | Sociedad Deportiva Teucro |
  | 2007 | Budivelnyk Brovary | Étoile Sportive du Sahel | Daido Steel Nagoya |
  | 2006 | Lukoil/Dynamo Astrakhan | IFK Skövde | Perutnina Pipo IPC |
  | 2005 | KS Vive Kielce | TMS Ringsted | US Dunkerque |
  | 2004 | Viborg HK | IFK Skövde | ZTR Zaporizhzhia |
  | 2003 | Fredericia HK | CBM Valladolid | Portovik Yuzhny |
  | 2002 | HC Lovcen-Cetinje | Team Helsinge | Wealer/V&L |
  | 2001 | Lukoil/Dynamo Astrakhan | Wealer/V&L | IFK Tumba HK |
  | 2000 | Team Tvis Holstebro | Lithuania | SKP Frydek-Mistek |
  | 1999 | Viking Stavanger | GOG Gudme | HV Sittardia |
  | 1998 | IL Runar Sandefjord | Sporting Toulouse 31 | HV Sittardia |
  | 1997 | Viking Stavanger | HV Sittardia | Banik Karvina |
  | 1996 | US Ivry Handball | Tus Nettelstedt | Vadum IF |
  | 1995 | Viking Stavanger | Sävehof Partille | Hirschmann/V&L |
  | 1994 | Paris St. Germain | Guif Eskilstuna | Sandefjord TIF |
  | 1993 | RK Medveščak Zagreb | US Ivry Handball | Redbergslids IK |
  | 1992 | Nova Petersburg | Kolinska Slovan | IFK Skövde |
  | 1991 | SKA Minsk | VGZ/Sittardia | Drott Halmstad |
  | 1990 | SKIF Krasnodar | HT Tatran Prešov | Redbergslids IK |
  | 1989 | HV Sittardia | Motor Eisenach | Granitas Kaunas |
  | 1988 | MAI Moscow | Herschi/V&L | Lokomotiva Trnava |
  