Danish Handball Cup
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The Danish handball cup is the nationwide cup tournament for handball
Team handball
Handball is a team sport in which two teams of seven players each pass a ball to throw it into the goal of the other team...

 teams of Denmark. The competition has been played annually since 1964.

Tournament structure

The competition begins in the autumn and spring on a regional basis, after which eight teams from the regional federation of Jutland
Jutland
Jutland , historically also called Cimbria, is the name of the peninsula that juts out in Northern Europe toward the rest of Scandinavia, forming the mainland part of Denmark. It has the North Sea to its west, Kattegat and Skagerrak to its north, the Baltic Sea to its east, and the Danish–German...

 and the other five regional federations respectively qualify to the round of 16. That round is the first nationwide round, where no geographical
Geography
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 considerations are taken into account. All rounds are played as a single game, where either the first drawn team or (when relevant) the lowest ranked team play at home. The last four rounds are played from August till newyear, where the finals (both men's and women's) are played in the city of Århus, with both games the same day.

The winner of the tournament will qualify for the European tournament EHF Cup Winners' Cup, unless they later in the season qualify to the EHF Champions League
EHF Champions League
The EHF Champions League is the most important professional club handball competition in Europe . The competition was started in the 1956–57 season, and is administered by the European Handball Federation.The most successful teams are from Germany and Spain...

. In this case the ticket wil pass on to another team.

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