2024–25 Women's EHF European League

The 2024–25 Women's EHF European League is the 44th edition of EHF's second-tier women's handball competition, running from 5 October 2024 to 4 May 2025.

Storhamar Håndball Elite are the defending champions, but they won't be defending their title due to their involvement in this season's Champions League.

Thüringer HC won the title in a dramatic final against Danish side, Ikast Håndbold. The title marks the German club's first European trophy.

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 19–31 can have one club qualify.
*Associations below the top 31 can't participate in this competition.

Qualified teams

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

The list of entered teams was announced on 9 July 2024.https://ehfel.eurohandball.com/media/bj4fwuk2/ehfel_women_system_2024_25_updated-list.pdf Originally, TuS Metzingen entered the Group stage automatically, but this was an error and HSG Bensheim/Auerbach took their place in the group stage instead. On 14 August 2024, Neptunes de Nantes, who had automatically qualified for the group stage, withdrew and as a result, Motherson Mosonmagyaróvár (who would've taken part in Round 3) took their place in the group stage.

Team allocation

Round and draw dates

The schedule of the competition was as follows (all draws were held at the EHF headquarters in Vienna, Austria).

Qualification round

Round 2

There were 18 teams participating in round 2.
The first legs were played on 5–6 October and the second legs were played on 12–13 October 2024.

Round 3

There were 24 teams participating in round 3. The first legs were played on 9–10 November and the second legs were played on 16–17 November 2024.

Group stage

The draw for the group phase was held on 21 November 2024. In each group, teams played against each other in a double round-robin format, with home and away matches.

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:

#Highest number of points in matches between the teams directly involved;
#Superior goal difference in matches between the teams directly involved;
#Highest number of goals scored in matches between the teams directly involved;
#Superior goal difference in all matches of the group;
#Highest number of plus goals in all matches of the group;

Group A

Group B

Group C

Group D

Quarterfinals

Matches

''Ikast Håndbold won 61–60 on aggregate''
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''Thüringer HC won 65–61 on aggregate''
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''HSG Blomberg-Lippe won 52–51 on aggregate''
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''JDA Bourgogne Dijon HB won 59–53 on aggregate''

Final Four

The Final Four, (also known as the EHF Finals by the EHF), is held at the Raiffeisen Sportpark in Graz, Austria on 3 and 4 May 2025.

Bracket

Semifinals

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Third place game

Final

Top goalscorers

Notes

See also

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

References

External links

Official website

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