2016–17 Women's EHF Cup

The 2016–17 Women's EHF Cup was the 36th edition of EHF's second-tier women's handball competition. It started on 9 September 2016.

Team allocation
The labels in the parentheses show how each team qualified for the place of its starting round:
 * TH: Title holders
 * CWC: EHF Women's Cup Winners' Cup holders
 * 1st, 2nd, 3rd, 4th, 5th, 6th, etc.: League position
 * CW: Domestic cup winners
 * CR: Domestic cup runners-up
 * CL QT: Losers from the Champions League qualification stage.
 * CL Group: Losers from the Champions League group stage.

Round and draw dates
All draws held at the European Handball Federation headquarters in Vienna, Austria.

Round 1
There is 42 teams participating in round 2.


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Round 2
There is 32 teams participating in round 2.

21 teams who qualified from round 1 and 11 teams joining the draw.


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Round 3
There is 24 teams participating in round 3.

16 teams who qualified from round 2 and 8 teams joining the draw.


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Group stage
There is 16 teams participating in the group phase.

12 teams who qualified from round 3 and 4 teams joining the draw.

Seedings
The seedings were announced on 21 November 2016

Teams in the draw will be protected against meeting teams from the same country in the same group.

The first round of the group phase was scheduled for 7–8 January and the last round took place on 11–12 February.

Only the top two teams of each group made it to the quarter-finals.

Quarter-finals
Teams listed first played the first leg at home. Bolded teams qualified into semi-finals.


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Semi-finals

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Final

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