The 2022–23 Women's EHF Champions League was the 30th edition of Europe's premier club
handball
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tournament, running from 10 September 2022 to 4 June 2023.
Vipers Kristiansand won their third title in a row by defeating
FTC-Rail Cargo Hungaria in the final.
Format
The tournament was using the same format as the previous two seasons. The competition began with a group stage featuring sixteen teams divided into two groups. Matches were 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 qualified for the quarter-finals, with teams ranked 3rd to 6th entering the playoff round.
The knockout stage included four rounds: the playoffs, quarter-finals, and a final-four tournament comprising two semifinals and the final. In the playoffs, eight teams were 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 advanced to the quarterfinals, joining the top-two teams of Groups A and B. The eight quarterfinalist teams were 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 were played as single matches at a pre-selected host venue. For this tournament, it was the
MVM Dome.
Team allocation
17 teams applied for a place, with nine having a fixed place. The final list was released on 27 June 2022.
Storhamar HE
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They competed i ...
and
CS Rapid București
Clubul Sportiv Rapid București is a Romanian multi-sport club based in Bucharest, Romania.
History
The club was founded as ''Asociația Culturală și Sportivă CFR'' in 1923.
Men's Football section
Domestic
*Liga I
**Winners (3): 196 ...
will make their debut appearances in the Champions League group stage, while
RK Lokomotiva,
DHK Baník Most
DHK Baník Most is a professional women's handball club from Most, Czech Republic. In the 2019–20 season they made history by qualifying for the EHF Champions League
The EHF Champions League is the most important club handball competition ...
and
SG BBM Bietigheim
HB Ludwigsburg is a German professional handball club from Ludwigsburg, Baden-Württemberg. Its women's team is playing in the Handball-Bundesliga Frauen, and internationally in the Women's EHF Champions League, EHF Champions League. The men's te ...
make their return.
Group stage
The draw took place on 1 July 2022.
Group A
Group B
Knockout stage
Playoffs
Quarterfinals
Final four
The final four will be held at the
MVM Dome in
Budapest
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, Hungary on 3 and 4 June 2023.
Bracket
Final
Top goalscorers
References
External links
Official website
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2022
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