2024–25 EHF European League

The 2024–25 EHF European League will be the 44th season of Europe's secondary club handball tournament organised by European Handball Federation (EHF), and the 5th season since it was renamed from the EHF Cup to the EHF European League. The defending champions are SG Flensburg-Handewitt.

• Qualification Round: 20 teams will be drawn into 10 different home and away ties. The 10 winners will advance to the group stage.

• Group Stage: The 22 teams already qualified along with the 10 winners of the qualification round will be drawn into 8 groups of 4 teams each, where they will play in a double round-robin format. The top 2 teams in each group will progress to the main round. Teams from the same country can't be drawn into the same group.

• Main Round: The 16 group winners and runners-up will be placed in 4 groups of 4 teams each where they will play a single round-robin. The winners will advance directly to the quarterfinals, while 2nd and 3rd placed teams will qualify for the play-offs.

• Play-offs: The 2nd and 3rd placed teams from each group in the main round will play in 4 different home and away ties. The winners will progress to the quarterfinals.

• Quarter-finals: The main round group winners will face a play-off winner to determine who makes it to the European League finals.

• EL finals: They will be played in a Final 4 format similar to the Champions League.

The rankings are based on the performances of each club from a respective country from a three year period.

• Associations 1–2 can have four clubs qualify.
• Associations 3–9 can have three clubs qualify.
• Associations 10–18 can have two clubs qualify.
• Associations below the top 18 are allowed to enter apply one club for a potential wildcard.

Rank[1] Association Average points Teams 1 Germany 147.67 4 2 Portugal 88.67 3 France 78.00 3 4 Spain 70.33 5 Poland 68.33 2 6 Croatia 67.67 3 7 Denmark 63.67 8 Switzerland 62.67 9 Sweden 55.00 10 Russia 48.50 0 11 North Macedonia 41.33 1 12 Hungary 31,67 13 Slovenia 31.33 2 14 Slovakia 27.67 1

Rank Association Average points Teams 15 Austria 22.00 0 16 Iceland 19.33 2 17 Romania 18.00 1 18 Ukraine 15.00 0 19 Greece 10.33 20 Finland 9.67 0 21 Turkey 8.00 22 Norway 7.33 1 23 Serbia 1.00 24 Belarus 1.00 0 25 Israel 0.33 0 26 Luxembourg 0.33 N/A Bosnia and Herzegovina 0.00 1 N/A Czech Republic 0.00 N/A Everyone else 0.00 0

The full list of teams qualified for each stage of the 2024–25 EHF European League was announced on 9 July 2024.^[2][3]

The labels in the parentheses show how each team qualified for the place of its starting round:

• EL: European League title holders
• EC: European Cup title holders
• CW: Cup winners
• CR: Cup runners-up
• 4th, 5th, etc.: League position of the previous season

Group stage

SG Flensburg-Handewitt (3rd) EL	FC Porto (2nd)	Montpellier Handball (3rd)	RK Nexe (2nd)
GOG Håndbold (3rd)	Kadetten Schaffhausen (1st)	CD Bidasoa Irun (2nd)	IK Sävehof (1st)
Górnik Zabrze (3rd)	CSM Constanța (2nd)	RK Gorenje Velenje (1st)	Vardar 1961 (2nd)
MOL-Tatabánya KC (3rd)	FH Hafnarfjarðar (1st)	HT Tatran Prešov (1st)	THW Kiel (4th)
SL Benfica (3rd)	MRK Sesvete (3rd)	Fenix Toulouse Handball (4th)	Bathco BM Torrelavega (11th, CR)
KGHM Chrobry Głogów (4th)	RK Vojvodina WC (1st)

Qualification round

MT Melsungen (5th)	ABC Braga (4th)	Bjerringbro-Silkeborg (5th)	HC Kriens-Luzern (2nd)
Fraikin BM Granollers (3rd)	Ystads IF (2nd)	RK Trimo Trebnje (3rd)	Valur (3rd)
VfL Gummersbach (6th)	Maritimo da Madeira Andebol SAD (5th)	GC Amicitia Zürich (3rd)	IFK Kristianstad (3rd)
Limoges Handball (5th)	Mors-Thy Håndbold (8th)	Abanca Ademar León (5th)	RK Bjelin Spacva Vinkovci (5th)
FTC-Green Collect (4th)	Elverum Håndball (2nd)	RK Izviđač (1st)	HCB Karviná (1st)

• ^WC Accepted Wildcard

All draws were held at the EHF headquarters in Vienna, Austria.

The draw took place on the at 11:00 CET in Vienna on 19 July 2024.^[4][5] The only restriction was that no clubs from the same country cannot be in the same group.

The draw for the qualification round was conducted on 16 July 2024.^[2][6] The first legs will be held on 31 August to 1 September 2024 while the second legs will be held on 7–8 September 2024.

Team 1	Agg.Tooltip Aggregate score	Team 2	1st leg	2nd leg
ABC Braga	–	Abanca Ademar León	–	–
MT Melsungen	–	Elverum Håndball	–	–
RK Trimo Trebnje	–	Limoges Handball	–	–
GC Amicitia Zürich	–	HC Kriens-Luzern	–	–
Mors-Thy Håndbold	–	VfL Gummersbach	–	–
Valur	–	RK Bjelin Spacva Vinkovci	–	–
IFK Kristianstad	–	Fraikin BM Granollers	–	–
Bjerringbro-Silkeborg	–	FTC-Green Collect	–	–
Maritimo da Madeira Andebol SAD	–	Ystads IF	–	–

Special Qualification Play off

Unlike the other Play offs, the losers of this tie will drop down to the European Cup.

Team 1	Agg.Tooltip Aggregate score	Team 2	1st leg	2nd leg
RK Izviđač	–	HCB Karviná	–	–

Nexe

Sesvete

GOG

Fenix Toulouse

Montpellier

Flensburg

Kiel

Tatabánya

FH Hafnarfjarðar

Vardar

Porto

Benfica

Górnik Zabrze

Chrobry Głogów

CSM Constanța

Vojvodina

Prešov

Velenje

Torrelavega

Bidasoa

Sävehof

Kadetten

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Location of teams of the 2024–25 EHF European League group stage
Brown: Group A; Red: Group B; Orange: Group C; Yellow: Group D;
Green: Group E; Blue: Group F; Purple: Group G; Pink: Group H

The draw for the group stage was conducted on 19 July 2024 at the EHF office in Vienna.

In the group stage, teams were ranked according to points (2 points for a win, 1 point for a draw, 0 points for a loss). After completion of the group stage, if two or more teams have scored the same number of points, the ranking will be determined as follows:

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification		GOG	GOR	P1	P4
1	GOG Håndbold	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	Main Round		—	–
2	RK Gorenje Velenje	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0			–	—
3	Play Off Winner 1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0					—
4	Play Off Winner 4	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0						—

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification		MON	ZAB	P8	P7
1	Montpellier Handball	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	Main Round		—	−
2	Górnik Zabrze	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0			−	—
3	Play Off Winner 8	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0					—
4	Play Off Winner 7	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0						—

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification		KAD	TAT	BEN	P3
1	Kadetten Schaffhausen	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	Main Round		—	−	−
2	HT Tatran Prešov	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0			−	—	−
3	SL Benfica	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0			−	−	—
4	Play Off Winner 3	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0						—

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification		BID	CON	GLO	P9
1	CD Bidasoa Irun	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	Main Round		—	−	−
2	CSM Constanța	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0			−	—	−
3	KGHM Chrobry Głogów	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0			−	−	—
4	Play Off Winner 9	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0						—

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification		NEX	KIE	TOR	VOJ
1	RK Nexe	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	Main Round		—	–	–	–
2	THW Kiel	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0			–	—	–	–
3	Bathco BM Torrelavega	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0			–	–	—	–
4	RK Vojvodina	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0			–	–	–	—

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification		POR	VAR	P2	P6
1	FC Porto	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	Main Round		—	−
2	Vardar 1961	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0			−	—
3	Play Off Winner 2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0					—
4	Play Off Winner 6	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0						—

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification		FLE	TAT	SES	P10
1	SG Flensburg-Handewitt	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	Main Round		—	−	−
2	MOL-Tatabánya KC	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0			−	—	−
3	MRK Sesvete	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0			−	−	—
4	Special Qualification Play Off Winner	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0						—

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification		SAV	FH	FEN	P5
1	IK Sävehof	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	Main Round		—	−	−
2	FH Hafnarfjarðar	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0			−	—	−
3	Fenix Toulouse Handball	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0			−	−	—
4	Play Off Winner 5	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0						—

In the Main Round, the remaining sixteen teams merge into four groups of four, where they play the teams they didn't play in the Group Stage. Points from the Group Stage against the teams that advanced with each other are carried over. At the end of the Main Round, The four group winners advance to the Quarterfinals, while the 2nd and 3rd place teams qualify for the Play Offs.

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