2024–25 Women's EHF European League

Women's EHF European League

2024–25
The final four will be held at the Raiffeisen Sportpark in Graz.
Tournament information
Sport	Handball
Dates	5 October 2024–4 May 2025
Teams	Competition proper: 16 Total: 37 (from 19 countries)
Website	ehfel.com
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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.^[1]

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.

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.

Rank[2] Association Average points Teams 1 Denmark 112.00 1 2 Germany 85.67 5 3 France 82.33 3 4 Romania 73.00 2 5 Hungary 67.00 3 6 Norway 50.33 7 Russia 44.50 0 8 Poland 28.33 3 9 Croatia 20.33 2 10 Spain 14.00 11 Sweden 13.33 12 Turkey 12.00 13 Czech Republic 6.00 1 14 Switzerland 5.33 2 15 Serbia 5.00 1 16 Austria 1.67

Rank Association Average points Teams 17 Slovakia 0.33 1 18 Belarus 0.00 0 19 Ukraine 0.00 20 Greece 0.00 21 Netherlands 0.00 1 21 Finland 0.00 0 23 Iceland 0.00 23 North Macedonia 0.00 1 23 Portugal 0.00 26 Luxembourg 0.00 0 27 Azerbaijan 0.00 27 Cyprus 0.00 27 Israel 0.00 27 Italy 0.00 27 Kosovo 0.00 32 Everyone else 0.00

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.^[1][3] 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.^[4]

Group stage
Ikast Håndbold (4th)	HSG Bensheim/Auerbach (2nd)	Neptunes de Nantes (3rd)	HC Dunărea Brăila (4th)
Round 3
RK Lokomotiva Zagreb (2nd)	ŽRK Zrinski Čakovec (3rd)	Paris 92 (4th)	Thüringer HC (3rd)
Borussia Dortmund (4th)	TuS Metzingen (5th, Cup)	Motherson Mosonmagyaróvár (3rd)	DVSC Schaeffler (4th)
Sola HK (3rd)	Larvik HK (4th)	KGHM MKS Zagłębie Lubin (1st)	MKS FunFloor Lublin (3rd)
Atticgo BM Elche (2nd)	LC Brühl Handball (1st)	IK Sävehof (1st)
Round 2
Hypo Niederösterreich (1st)	DHK Baník Most (1st)	JDA Bourgogne Dijon HB (5th)	HSG Blomberg-Lippe (6th)
Vác (5th)	HC Gjorche Petrov-WHC Skopje (1st)	Cabooter Fortes Venlo (1st)	Fredrikstad BK (5th)
KPR Gminy Kobierzyce (2nd)	SL Benfica (1st)	SCM Râmnicu Vâlcea (5th)	SU ZRK Crvena Zvezda (1st)
HC DAC Dunajská Streda (1st)	Super Amara Bera Bera (1st)	H65 Höörs HK (5th)	GC Amicitia Zürich (2nd)
Armada Praxis Yalikavakspor (1st)	Ankara Yenimahalle BSK (2nd)

The schedule of the competition was as follows (all draws were held at the EHF headquarters in Vienna, Austria).^[5]

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.^[7]

Team 1	Agg.Tooltip Aggregate score	Team 2	1st leg	2nd leg
H65 Höörs HK	–	HC Gjorche Petrov-WHC Skopje	–	–
SL Benfica	–	Super Amara Bera Bera	–	–
Ankara Yenimahalle BSK	–	DHK Baník Most	–	–
Cabooter Fortes Venlo	–	Vác	–	–
Fredrikstad BK	–	GC Amicitia Zürich	–	–
JDA Bourgogne Dijon HB	–	Hypo Niederösterreich	–	–
HSG Blomberg-Lippe	–	SU ZRK Crvena Zvezda	–	–
SCM Râmnicu Vâlcea	–	HC DAC Dunajská Streda	–	–
KPR Gminy Kobierzyce	–	Armada Praxis Yalikavakspor	–	–

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.^[8]

Team 1	Agg.Tooltip Aggregate score	Team 2	1st leg	2nd leg
Thüringer HC	–	Play Off 4	–	–
Larvik HK	–	Play Off 9	–	–
IK Sävehof	–	KGHM MKS Zagłębie Lubin	–	–
RK Lokomotiva Zagreb	–	Atticgo BM Elche	–	–
Borussia Dortmund	–	Play Off 3	–	–
Play Off 7	–	TuS Metzingen	–	–
Sola HK	–	LC Brühl Handball	–	–
Motherson Mosonmagyaróvár	–	Play Off 5	–	–
MKS FunFloor Lublin	–	Play Off 2	–	–
Play Off 1	–	Paris 92	–	–
Play Off 8	–	DVSC Schaeffler	–	–
Play Off 6	–	ŽRK Zrinski Čakovec	–	–

Podravka

Lokomotiva

NFH

Nantes

Chambray

Bensheim/Auerbach

Thüringer

Mosonmagyaróvár

Praktiker-Vác

Storhamar

Sola

Lublin

Gloria

Dunărea Brăila

Târgu Jiu

Costa del Sol

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Location of teams of the 2023–24 Women's EHF European League group stage.
Red: Group A; Blue: Group B; Yellow: Group C; Green: Group D.

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:

1. Highest number of points in matches between the teams directly involved;
2. Superior goal difference in matches between the teams directly involved;
3. Highest number of goals scored in matches between the teams directly involved;
4. Superior goal difference in all matches of the group;
5. Highest number of plus goals in all matches of the group;

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 2024.

• 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

• Official website
• 2023–24 Croatian League Table
• 2023–24 Czech League Table
• 2023–24 Dutch League Table
• 2023–24 Macedonian League Table
• 2023–24 Polish League Table
• 2023–24 Portuguese League Table
• 2023–24 Serbian League Table
• 2023–24 Turkish League Table