2024–25 EHF European League

EHF European League
2024–25
Tournament information
Sport	Handball
Dates	31 August 2024–25 May 2025
Teams	Competition proper: 32; Total: 42 (from 19 countries)
Website	ehfel.com
	← 2023–24 2025–26 →

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.

Format

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.

Rankings

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	4
3	France	78.00	3
4	Spain	70.33	3
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	1
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	0
20	Finland	9.67	0
21	Turkey	8.00	0
22	Norway	7.33	1
23	Serbia	1.00	1
24	Belarus	1.00	0
25	Israel	0.33	0
26	Luxembourg	0.33	0
N/A	Bosnia and Herzegovina	0.00	1
N/A	Czech Republic	0.00	1
N/A	Everyone else	0.00	0

Qualified teams

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 Spačva Vinkovci (5th)
FTC-Green Collect (4th)	Elverum Håndball (2nd)	RK Izviđač (1st)	HCB Karviná (1st)

^WC Accepted Wildcard

Schedule

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

Phase	Round	Draw date	Round date^[3]
Qualification round	First leg	16 July 2024	31 August–1 September 2024
Qualification round	Second leg	16 July 2024	7–8 September 2024
Group stage	Matchday 1	19 July 2024	8 October 2023
	Matchday 2		15 October 2024
	Matchday 3		22 October 2024
	Matchday 4		29 October 2024
	Matchday 5		19 November 2024
	Matchday 6		26 November 2024
Main Round	Matchday 7		11 February 2025
	Matchday 8		18 February 2025
	Matchday 9		25 February 2025
	Matchday 10		4 March 2025
Play offs	First leg	no draw	25 March 2025
Play offs	Second leg	no draw	1 April 2025
Quarterfinals	First leg	no draw	22 April 2025
Quarterfinals	Second leg	no draw	29 April 2025
Final four	Semi-finals	TBD	24 May 2025
Final four	Final and Third place game	TBD	25 May 2025

Draw

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.

Pot 1	Pot 2	Pot 3	Pot 4
SG Flensburg-Handewitt FC Porto Montpellier Handball RK Nexe GOG Håndbold Kadetten Schaffhausen CD Bidasoa Irun IK Sävehof	Górnik Zabrze CSM Constanța RK Gorenje Velenje Vardar 1961 MOL-Tatabánya KC FH Hafnarfjarðar HT Tatran Prešov THW Kiel	SL Benfica MRK Sesvete Fenix Toulouse Handball Bathco BM Torrelavega KGHM Chrobry Głogów Play Off Winner 1 Play Off Winner 2 Play Off Winner 3	Play Off Winner 4 Play Off Winner 5 Play Off Winner 6 Play Off Winner 7 Play Off Winner 8 Play Off Winner 9 RK Vojvodina RK Izviđač or HCB Karviná

Qualification round

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.

Seeding^[7]
Seeded	Unseeded
MT Melsungen ABC Braga Bjerringbro-Silkeborg HC Kriens-Luzern Fraikin BM Granollers Ystads IF RK Trimo Trebnje Valur VfL Gummersbach	Maritimo da Madeira Andebol SAD GC Amicitia Zürich IFK Kristianstad Limoges Handball Mors-Thy Håndbold Abanca Ademar León RK Spačva Vinkovci FTC-Green Collect Elverum Håndball

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 Spačva 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	–	–

Group stage

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:

Tiebreakers
Highest number of points in matches between the teams directly involved; Superior goal difference in matches between the teams directly involved; Highest number of goals scored in matches between the teams directly involved; Superior goal difference in all matches of the group; Highest number of plus goals in all matches of the group; Drawing of Lots

Group A

Pos	Team	Qualification	GOG	GOR	P1	P4
1	GOG Håndbold	Main Round	—	–
2	RK Gorenje Velenje	Main Round	–	—
3	Play Off Winner 1				—
4	Play Off Winner 4					—

Source: EHF

Group B

Pos	Team	Qualification	MON	ZAB	P8	P7
1	Montpellier Handball	Main Round	—	−
2	Górnik Zabrze	Main Round	−	—
3	Play Off Winner 8				—
4	Play Off Winner 7					—

Source: EHF

Group C

Pos	Team	Qualification	KAD	TAT	BEN	P3
1	Kadetten Schaffhausen	Main Round	—	−	−
2	HT Tatran Prešov	Main Round	−	—	−
3	SL Benfica		−	−	—
4	Play Off Winner 3					—

Source: EHF

Group D

Pos	Team	Qualification	BID	CON	GLO	P9
1	CD Bidasoa Irun	Main Round	—	−	−
2	CSM Constanța	Main Round	−	—	−
3	KGHM Chrobry Głogów		−	−	—
4	Play Off Winner 9					—

Source: EHF

Group E

Pos	Team	Qualification	NEX	KIE	TOR	VOJ
1	RK Nexe	Main Round	—	–	–	–
2	THW Kiel	Main Round	–	—	–	–
3	Bathco BM Torrelavega		–	–	—	–
4	RK Vojvodina		–	–	–	—

Source: EHF

Group F

Pos	Team	Qualification	POR	VAR	P2	P6
1	FC Porto	Main Round	—	−
2	Vardar 1961	Main Round	−	—
3	Play Off Winner 2				—
4	Play Off Winner 6					—

Source: EHF

Group G

Pos	Team	Qualification	FLE	TAT	SES	P10
1	SG Flensburg-Handewitt	Main Round	—	−	−
2	MOL-Tatabánya KC	Main Round	−	—	−
3	MRK Sesvete		−	−	—
4	Special Qualification Play Off Winner					—

Source: EHF

Group H

Pos	Team	Qualification	SAV	FH	FEN	P5
1	IK Sävehof	Main Round	—	−	−
2	FH Hafnarfjarðar	Main Round	−	—	−
3	Fenix Toulouse Handball		−	−	—
4	Play Off Winner 5					—

Source: EHF

Main round

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.

Group I

Pos	Team	Qualification	Team 1	Team 2	Team 3	Team 4
1	Team 1	Quarterfinals	—
2	Team 2	Play Offs		—
3	Team 3	Play Offs			—
4	Team 4					—

Source: EHF

Group II

Pos	Team	Qualification	Team 1	Team 2	Team 3	Team 4
1	Team 1	Quarterfinals	—
2	Team 2	Play Offs		—
3	Team 3	Play Offs			—
4	Team 4					—

Source: EHF

Group III

Pos	Team	Qualification	Team 1	Team 2	Team 3	Team 4
1	Team 1	Quarterfinals	—
2	Team 2	Play Offs		—
3	Team 3	Play Offs			—
4	Team 4					—

Source: EHF

Group IV

Pos	Team	Qualification	Team 1	Team 2	Team 3	Team 4
1	Team 1	Quarterfinals	—
2	Team 2	Play Offs		—
3	Team 3	Play Offs			—
4	Team 4					—

Source: EHF

External links

Official website

References

^ https://www.eurohandball.com/media/lf0hvm1g/placedistribution_final_24_25_men.pdf
^ ^a ^b "Seedings set for 2024/25 EHF European League Men draw". ehfel.eurohandball.com.
^ ^a ^b https://www.eurohandball.com/media/2rtiwitv/ehfel_men_system_2024_25.pdf
^ "Path through European League Men 2024/25 group matches to be set". ehfel.eurohandball.com.
^ "Elite sides learn EHF European League group matches fate". ehfel.eurohandball.com.
^ "EHF European League Men qualification picture is complete". ehfel.eurohandball.com.
^ "Season's first EHF EL draw takes place on Tuesday". www.eurohandball.com.

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[4] "Path through European League Men 2024/25 group matches to be set". ehfel.eurohandball.com.

[5] "Elite sides learn EHF European League group matches fate". ehfel.eurohandball.com.

[auto1-6] "EHF European League Men qualification picture is complete". ehfel.eurohandball.com.

[auto-7] "Season's first EHF EL draw takes place on Tuesday". www.eurohandball.com.

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2024–25 EHF European League

Contents

Format

Rankings

Qualified teams

Schedule

Draw

Qualification round

Group stage

Group A

Group B

Group C

Group D

Group E

Group F

Group G

Group H

Main round

Group I

Group II

Group III

Group IV

See also

External links

References