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.

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.

Qualified teams
The full list of teams qualified for each stage of the 2024–25 EHF European League was announced on 9 July 2024.

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


 * WC Accepted Wildcard

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

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

Qualification round
The draw for the qualification round was conducted on 16 July 2024. 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.

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

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.