The 2009–10 EHF Champions League was the 50th edition of

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's premier club

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and the seventeenth edition under the current

EHF Champions League The EHF Champions League is the most important club handball competition for men's teams in Europe and involves the leading teams from the top European nations. The competition is organised every year by EHF. The official name for the men's com ...

format. It was also the first edition under the new qualifying format.

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were the defending champions. The

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was played on 30 May 2010, at the

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, home ground of

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and

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, in

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Draw

The draw for the

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took place at the

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on 24 June 2009. A total of 24 teams were drawn into four groups of six. Teams were divided into four pots, based on EHF coefficients. Clubs from the same pot or the same association cannot be drawn into the same group. Each team played against each other in its group twice. The top two in each group proceeded to the

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, and the third-placed teams entered the EHF Cup's Winners Cup Round of 32.

Qualification stage

Groups

Group 1
HC Vardar Skopje

HC Dinamo Minsk Hockey Club Dinamo Minsk or HC Dinamo Minsk (; , ''Dynama-Minsk'') is a professional ice hockey club based in Minsk, Belarus. It is a member of the Tarasov Division in the Kontinental Hockey League (KHL). Dinamo has qualified for the KHL playof ...

Besiktas JK

RK Budućnost Podgorica RK Budućnost (Cyrillic: PК Будућност) is a handball club from Podgorica, Montenegro, which was champion of Montenegro for the two times. It is a part of Budućnost sport society. History During the most of their history, Budućnost p ...

Group 2

ZTR Zaporizhzhia ZTR Zaporizhzhia is a team handball club from Zaporizhzhia, Ukraine. Currently, ZTR Zaporizhzhia competes in the Ukrainian Men's Handball Super League. The club was before called ZYY and ZeMtY. The club is renamed ZTR Zaporizhzhia in 1992. ...

A.C. PAOK
SPE Strovolos
Group 3
Fyllingen Handball
A1 Bregenz
RK Partizan Si&Si
Group 4
Tatran Prešov

Vive Targi Kielce KS Iskra Kielce SA, officially known for sponsorship reasons as Industria Kielce, and previously named Vive Kielce between 2002 and 2022, is a professional men's handball club based in Kielce in southeastern Poland. The club plays in the Polish ...

FC Porto Vitalis
, - Group 5

CB Ademar León Abanca Ademar León is a Spanish handball team based in León, Spain. It plays in Liga ASOBAL. History Founded in 1956, Ademar León is the handball team of the city of León. Until 1975 it played in the provincial categories when not existi ...

TBV Lemgo TBV Lemgo is a handball club from Lemgo, Germany, and is competing in the Handball-Bundesliga. History The ascent to one of the best German handball clubs was slow but steady. In the year the Bundesliga was founded, the club was still in the O ...

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Kadetten Schaffhausen Kadetten Schaffhausen is a Switzerland, Swiss professional handball team located in Schaffhausen. Their home matches are played at the :de:BBC-Arena, BBC Arena which has a capacity of 3,500. They compete in the Swiss First League of Handball and w ...

Group 1

Group 2

Group 3

Group 4

Group 5

Group stage

Groups

Group A

Chekhovskiye Medvedi Chekhovskie Medvedi (, ) is a professional handball club from Chekhov, Moscow Oblast, Russia. They compete in the Russian Handball Super League and in the SEHA League. After the launching of the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine, the European Han ...

Montpellier HB

SC Pick Szeged SC Pick Szeged is a Hungary, Hungarian professional handball club from Szeged, that plays in the Nemzeti Bajnokság I (men's handball), K&H férfi kézilabda liga and the EHF Champions League. The current name of the club is OTP Bank - Pick Szege ...

BM Valladolid
HCM Constanța
A.C. PAOK Group B

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Chambéry Savoie

Rhein-Neckar Löwen Rhein-Neckar Löwen is a professional handball club founded in 2002, based in Mannheim, Germany. The club competes in the German Handball-Bundesliga and continentally in EHF European League. Rhein-Neckar Löwen play their home games in SAP A ...

RK Bosna Sarajevo

Group C

BM Ciudad Real Balonmano Ciudad Real was a Spanish handball team based in Ciudad Real, Castilla La Mancha. BM Ciudad Real played in Liga ASOBAL. History In July 1983 is founded in the city of Ciudad Real a handball club named Asociación Deportiva Cultural ...

HC Croatia Zagreb

HSV Hamburg Handball Sport Verein Hamburg is a professional handball club from Germany, located in Hamburg. Currently, Handball Hamburg competes in the Handball-Bundesliga. The full name in German is ''Handball Sport Verein Hamburg e.V.'' but the club has t ...

FCK Handbold
Alingsas HK
Fyllingen Handball Group D

THW Kiel THW Kiel is a professional handball club from Kiel, Germany. Currently, they compete in the Handball-Bundesliga and are the record champion with 23 titles. 2007 and 2012 were the most successful years in the club's history, as THW completed t ...

KIF Kolding KIF Kolding is a professional handball club based in Kolding, Denmark who competes in the Danish Handball League. KIF Kolding has won the Danish Handball League, Danish Handball Championship a record 14 times. It is a part of the broader sports ...

FC Barcelona Borges

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ZMC Amicitia Zürich
HC Vardar Skopje

Group A

Group B

Group C

Group D

Knockout stage

1/8 Final

The Last 16 fixtures of the 2009–10 EHF Men's Champions League were drawn in the EHF Headquarters on 9 March 2010.
The four group winners were drawn against the teams ranked fourth in the Group Phase. The second ranked teams will meet teams ranked third.

1/4 Final

The Quarterfinals of the EHF Men's Champions League were drawn in the EHF Headquarters on 6 April 2010.

Semifinals

3/4 Match

Final

Top scorers

Source:

References

External links

EHF Champions League website
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