2024–25 Women's EHF Champions League

This article is about the women's competition. For the men's competition, see 2024–25 EHF Champions League.

Women's EHF Champions League

2024–25
Tournament information
Sport	Handball
Dates	7 September 2024–June 2025
Teams	16
Website	ehfcl.com
Tournament statistics
Matches played	52
Goals scored	2973 (57.17 per match)
Attendance	127,839 (2,458 per match)
Top scorer(s)	Henny Reistad (62 goals)

The 2024–25 Women's EHF Champions League is the 32nd edition of Europe's premier club handball tournament, running from 7 September 2024 to June 2025.

Format

The tournament will run using the same format as the previous three seasons. The competition begins with a group stage featuring sixteen teams divided into two groups. Matches are played in a double round-robin system with home-and-away fixtures, fourteen in total for each team. In Groups A and B, the top two teams automatically qualify for the quarter-finals, with teams ranked 3rd to 6th entering the playoff round.

The knockout stage includes four rounds: the playoffs, quarter-finals, and a final-four tournament comprising two semifinals and the final. In the playoffs, eight teams are paired against each other in two-legged home-and-away matches (third-placed in group A plays sixth-placed group B; fourth-placed group A plays fifth-placed group B, etc.). The four aggregate winners of the playoffs advance to the quarterfinals, joining the top-two teams of Groups A and B. The eight quarterfinalist teams are paired against each other in two-legged home-and-away matches, with the four aggregate winners qualifying to the final-four tournament.

In the final four tournament, the semifinals and the final are played as single matches at a pre-selected host venue.

Rankings

The rankings are based on the performances from the three most recent seasons.

• Associations 1–9 had their league champion qualify for the Group Stage and apply up to two wildcards.
• The best-ranked association in the Women's EHF European League can have its league champion and runner-up qualified for the Group Stage and can apply for one wildcard.
• Associations below the top 9 had their league champion apply for a wildcard.

Rank	Association	Average points	Teams
1	Norway	240.00	2
2	Hungary	182.00
3	France	155.33
4	Russia	133.00	0
5	Denmark	128.33	3
6	Romania	113.00
7	Slovenia	85.00	1
8	Montenegro	71.67
9	Germany	61.33

Rank	Association	Average points	Teams
10	Croatia	53.50	1
11	Sweden	49.00	0
12	Turkey	48.00
13	Czech Republic	46.00
14	Everyone else	0.00

Teams

19 teams applied for a place, with nine having a fixed place. The final list was announced on 21 June 2024.

The fixed place for Russia was vacant since the country and its clubs were not admitted to participate in the EHF competitions due to the Russian invasion of Ukraine.

Participating teams

Team Esbjerg (1st)	Nykøbing Falster Håndboldklub (2nd)	Metz Handball (1st)	HB Ludwigsburg (1st)
FTC-Rail Cargo Hungaria (1st)	WHC Budućnost BEMAX (1st)	Vipers Kristiansand (1st)	CSM București (1st)
RK Krim Mercator (1st)	HC Podravka Vegeta (1st) WC	Odense Håndbold (3rd) WC	Brest Bretagne Handball (2nd) WC
Győri Audi ETO KC (2nd) WC	Storhamar HE (2nd) WC	CS Rapid București (2nd) WC	CS Gloria Bistrița (3rd) WC

• ^WC Accepted wildcards

Rejected upgrades

Borussia Dortmund (4th)

DVSC Schaeffler (4th)

Sola HK (3rd)

Draw

The draw was held on 27 June 2024.

Group stage

Podravka

Esbjerg

NFH

Odense

Brest

Metz

Ludwigsburg

Győr

FTC

Budućnost

Kristiansand

Storhamar

Bucharest

Gloria

Krim

Bucharest teams
CSM
Rapid

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Location of teams of the 2024–25 Women's EHF Champions League group stage.
Red: Group A; Blue: Group B.

Main article: 2024–25 Women's EHF Champions League group stage

The 16 teams were drawn into 2 groups of eight. In regards to Denmark and Romania, who have three clubs in the Group Stage, a maximum of two clubs from those countries could be drawn into the same group.

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 was determined as follows:

1. Highest number of points in matches between the teams directly involved;
2. Superior goal difference in matches between the teams directly involved;
3. Highest number of goals scored in matches between the teams directly involved;
4. Superior goal difference in all matches of the group;
5. Highest number of plus goals in all matches of the group;
6. Drawing of Lots

This season, nine national associations were present. Poland and Sweden both miss out while Croatia return after a one season absence. CS Gloria Bistrița make their debut in the Champions League.

Group A

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification		MET	FER	KRI	BUC	STO	KOP	BIS	NYK
1	Metz Handball	6	5	1	0	176	163	+13	11	Quarterfinals		—	24–19	16 Nov	12 Jan	22 Feb	35–31	28–26	8 Feb
2	FTC-Rail Cargo Hungaria	6	5	0	1	170	145	+25	10			18 Jan	—	28–27	17 Nov	8 Feb	33–24	32–28	31–22
3	RK Krim Mercator	6	4	0	2	174	160	+14	8	Playoffs		10 Nov	11 Jan	—	29–31	25–23	22 Feb	8 Feb	35–25
4	CSM București	6	4	0	2	176	173	+3	8			31–32	10 Nov	18 Jan	—	32–28	9 Feb	22 Feb	27–26
5	Storhamar HE	7	2	1	4	182	189	−7	5			29–29	21–27	26 Jan	16 Feb	—	23–25	25–23	19 Jan
6	HC Podravka Vegeta	7	2	1	4	187	196	−9	5			25 Jan	15 Feb	23–24	28–29	16 Nov	—	18 Jan	27–27
7	CS Gloria Bistrița	7	2	0	5	199	204	−5	4			15 Feb	25 Jan	30–35	30–26	11 Jan	25–29	—	37–29
8	Nykøbing Falster Håndboldklub	7	0	1	6	184	218	−34	1			27–28	22 Feb	15 Feb	26 Jan	28–33	11 Jan	16 Nov	—

Updated to match(es) played on 9 November 2024. Source: EHF
Rules for classification: Tiebreakers

Group B

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification		GYO	BRE	ESB	ODE	VIP	LUD	BUC	BUD
1	Győri Audi ETO KC	7	5	1	1	203	186	+17	11	Quarterfinals		—	18 Jan	28–26	28–35	27–22	16 Feb	31–20	25 Jan
2	Brest Bretagne Handball	6	5	0	1	199	173	+26	10			34–35	—	33–32	17 Nov	30–27	25 Jan	11 Jan	15 Feb
3	Team Esbjerg	7	5	0	2	229	206	+23	10	Playoffs		23 Feb	9 Feb	—	39–30	30–29	12 Jan	39–32	17 Nov
4	Odense Håndbold	6	4	0	2	180	168	+12	8			12 Jan	10 Nov	16 Feb	—	25 Jan	28–22	32–24	31–29
5	Vipers Kristiansand	6	2	1	3	166	164	+2	5			9 Feb	23 Feb	18 Jan	26–24	—	10 Nov	30–30	32–23
6	HB Ludwigsburg	6	2	0	4	178	182	−4	4			26–31	26–33	31–36	23 Feb	16 Nov	—	9 Feb	19 Jan
7	CS Rapid București	7	1	1	5	198	230	−32	3			17 Nov	31–34	26 Jan	19 Jan	16 Feb	29–37	—	32–27
8	WHC Budućnost BEMAX	7	0	1	6	172	216	−44	1			23–23	22–35	23–27	8 Feb	11 Jan	25–36	23 Feb	—

Updated to match(es) played on 9 November 2024. Source: EHF
Rules for classification: Tiebreakers

Knockout stage

Playoffs

Team 1	Agg.Tooltip Aggregate score	Team 2	1st leg	2nd leg
B6	M1	A3	22–23 Mar	29–30 Mar
A6	M2	B3	22–23 Mar	29–30 Mar
B5	M3	A4	22–23 Mar	29–30 Mar
A5	M4	B4	22–23 Mar	29–30 Mar

Quarterfinals

Team 1	Agg.Tooltip Aggregate score	Team 2	1st leg	2nd leg
M4	–	A1	19–20 Apr	26–27 Apr
M3	–	B1	19–20 Apr	26–27 Apr
M2	–	A2	19–20 Apr	26–27 Apr
M1	–	B2	19–20 Apr	26–27 Apr

Final four

The final four will held at the MVM Dome, Budapest, Hungary on 31 May and 1 June 2025.

	Semi-finals				Final
	31 May
					1 June
	31 May
					Third place
					1 June

Top goalscorers

As of 20 October 2024

Rank	Player	Club	Goals
1	Henny Reistad	Team Esbjerg	62
2	Elizabeth Omoregie	CSM București	41
3	Ana Gros	RK Krim Mercator	39
	Anđela Janjušević	Rapid București
5	Sarah Bouktit	Metz Handball	36
	Dione Housheer	Győri Audi ETO KC
7	Chloé Valentini	Metz Handball	35
8	Daria Dmitrieva	FTC-Rail Cargo Hungaria	34
	Clarisse Mairot	Brest Bretagne Handball
10	Katarina Pandza	HC Podravka Vegeta	33
	Thale Rushfeldt Deila	Odense Håndbold
	Jelena Vukčević	WHC Budućnost BEMAX

See also

• 2024–25 EHF Champions League
• 2024–25 EHF European League
• 2024–25 EHF European Cup
• 2024–25 Women's EHF European League
• 2024–25 Women's EHF European Cup

External links

• Official website