2023–24 Women's EHF Champions League

The tournament used the same format as the previous three 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 entered 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.

This season, the EHF decided to make separate rankings for each club competition.^[2] The rankings are based on the performances from the three most recent seasons.

• Associations 1–9 had their league champion qualify for the Group Stage and apply up to two wildcards.
• The Association that won the past season's Women's EHF European League had their league champion and runner up qualified for the Group Stage and applied for one wildcard.
• Associations below the top 9 had their league champion apply for a wildcard.

Rank[3] Association Average points Teams 1 Norway 185.67 1 2 Hungary 172.33 3 3 France 168.33 2 4 Russia 139.00 0 5 Denmark 127.00 3 6 Romania 124.00 2 7 Montenegro 95.00 1 8 Slovenia 84.67 9 Germany 64.67

Rank Association Average points Teams 10 Sweden 53.50 1 11 Czech Republic 49.00 0 12 Croatia 48.00 13 Poland 46.00 1 14 Turkey 22.00 0 15 Spain 18.00 16 Serbia 16.00 17 Everyone else 0.00

21 teams applied for a place, with nine having a fixed place.^[4][5] For the first time ever, countries were allowed to apply two clubs for a wildcard. The final list was announced in June 20 2023, which included Hungary and Denmark having three participating teams for the first time.^[6]

The fixed place for Russia was vacant since the country and its clubs were not admitted to participate in the EHF competitions due to the Russian invasion of Ukraine.^[7]

Participating teams

Team Esbjerg (1st)	Győri Audi ETO KC (1st)	Metz Handball (1st)	CSM București (1st)
Odense Håndbold (2nd)	FTC-Rail Cargo Hungaria (2nd) WC	Brest Bretagne Handball (2nd) WC	CS Rapid București (2nd) WC
Ikast Håndbold (3rd) WC	DVSC Schaeffler (3rd) WC	RK Krim Mercator (1st)	MKS Zagłębie Lubin (1st) WC
Vipers Kristiansand (1st)	IK Sävehof (1st) WC	SG BBM Bietigheim (1st)	WHC Budućnost BEMAX (1st)

• ^WC Accepted wildcards

Wildcard rejection

RK Lokomotiva Zagreb (1st)	Neptunes de Nantes (3rd)	Storhamar HE (2nd)	Sola HK (3rd)
Kastamonu Bld. GSK (1st)

The draw took place on 27 June 2023.^[6][8]

Esbjerg

Odense

Ikast

Kristiansand

Brest

Metz

Győr

Ferencváros

Debrecen

Lubin

Budućnost

Sävehof

Bucharest

Bietigheim

Krim

Bucharest teams
CSM
Rapid

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Location of teams of the 2023–24 Women's EHF Champions League group stage.

The 16 teams were drawn into 2 groups of eight. In regards to Hungary and Denmark, who have three clubs in the Group Stage, a maximum of two clubs from those countries could be drawn into the same group.^[9]

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 was 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;
6. Drawing of Lots

This season, ten national associations were present. For the first time since the 2019–20 season, Poland had a representative, while Sweden returned after a one season absence.

Pos	Team v t e	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification		GYO	ODE	BRE	BUC	DEB	BIE	BUD	SÄV
1	Győri Audi ETO KC	14	11	1	2	432	356	+76	23	Quarterfinals		—	32–29	32–32	24–26	35–23	31–29	37–19	39–20
2	Odense Håndbold	14	10	1	3	461	359	+102	21			30–31	—	29–29	29–25	33–30	42–29	39–24	40–22
3	Brest Bretagne Handball	14	7	3	4	399	367	+32	17[a]	Playoffs		23–24	25–26	—	24–21	38–28	37–30	20–20	28–23
4	CSM București	14	8	1	5	414	366	+48	17[a]			23–27	28–24	28–30	—	29–29	31–28	44–26	35–26
5	DVSC Schaeffler	14	7	1	6	394	414	−20	15			29–28	22–35	31–24	23–30	—	26–36	27–22	32–29
6	SG BBM Bietigheim	14	7	0	7	414	402	+12	14			26–34	25–28	34–30	26–24	27–31	—	34–16	30–21
7	WHC Budućnost BEMAX	14	2	1	11	311	433	−122	5			21–29	17–33	21–34	24–29	21–27	22–27	—	31–30
8	IK Sävehof	14	0	0	14	342	470	−128	0			26–29	20–22	20–25	26–41	27–36	29–33	23–27	—

Pos	Team v t e	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification		MET	ESB	IKA	VIP	KRI	FER	BUC	LUB
1	Metz Handball	14	11	0	3	470	402	+68	22[a]	Quarterfinals		—	36–31	36–39	31–29	40–31	25–24	33–22	42–26
2	Team Esbjerg	14	11	0	3	449	412	+37	22[a]			29–27	—	37–34	32–37	29–21	27–23	30–28	32–26
3	Ikast Håndbold	14	10	1	3	476	435	+41	21	Playoffs		35–34	34–35	—	30–26	33–32	28–28	30–29	41–29
4	Vipers Kristiansand	14	7	1	6	445	403	+42	15			34–36	37–38	31–32	—	29–23	37–26	35–30	28–24
5	RK Krim Mercator	14	6	1	7	389	384	+5	13			22–28	33–27	28–34	24–24	—	32–26	25–24	32–19
6	FTC-Rail Cargo Hungaria	14	4	2	8	387	408	−21	10			25–38	28–33	37–36	27–35	26–28	—	24–24	35–22
7	CS Rapid București	14	4	1	9	366	399	−33	9			31–34	24–33	27–35	30–29	27–22	20–23	—	26–25
8	MKS Zagłębie Lubin	14	0	0	14	327	466	−139	0			24–30	24–36	26–35	20–34	18–36	23–35	21–24	—

Team 1	Agg.Tooltip Aggregate score	Team 2	1st leg	2nd leg
FTC-Rail Cargo Hungaria	59–56	Brest Bretagne Handball	28–30	31–26
SG BBM Bietigheim	60–58	Ikast Håndbold	29–27	31–31
RK Krim Mercator	48–60	CSM București	24–30	24–30
DVSC Schaeffler	55–56	Vipers Kristiansand	28–29	27–27

Team 1	Agg.Tooltip Aggregate score	Team 2	1st leg	2nd leg
Vipers Kristiansand	49–54	Győri Audi ETO KC	23–30	26–24
CSM București	47–56	Metz Handball	24–27	23–29
SG BBM Bietigheim	60–58	Odense Håndbold	30–26	30–32
FTC-Rail Cargo Hungaria	49–55	Team Esbjerg	25–26	24–29

The final four was held at the MVM Dome in Budapest, Hungary on 1 and 2 June 2024.

	Semi-finals				Final
	1 June
	Team Esbjerg	23
					2 June
	Győri Audi ETO KC	24
					Győri Audi ETO KC	30
	1 June
					SG BBM Bietigheim	24
	Metz Handball	29
	SG BBM Bietigheim	36
					Third place
					2 June
					Team Esbjerg	37
					Metz Handball	33

2 June 2024 18:00	Győri Audi ETO KC	30–24	SG BBM Bietigheim	MVM Dome, Budapest Attendance: 18,500 Referees: Lovin, Stancu (ROU)
	Brattset Dale, Gros 6	(17–12)	Hvenfelt 5
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