The European Handball Federation on Tuesday confirmed the improve requests to the EHF Champions League for the 2025/26 season, taking the ultimate step to finish the enjoying discipline of 16 groups every within the males’s and girls’s competitors.
For the Machineseeker EHF Champions League, 9 groups had utilized for an improve. The requests have been assessed by the analysis group, which consisted of EHF and membership representatives, in response to the factors specified by the competitors laws. The EHF Govt Committee finally confirmed the proposal tabled by the group.
The groups with a confirmed improve request are:
- GOG (DEN)
- HBC Nantes (FRA)
- OTP Financial institution – PICK Szeged (HUN)
- HC Eurofarm Pelister (MKD)
- Kolstad Håndball (NOR)
- Industria Kielce (POL)
These six be part of the already mounted groups of HC Zagreb, Aalborg Håndbold, Barça, Paris Saint-Germain, Füchse Berlin, SC Magdeburg, One Veszprém HC, Orlen Wisla Plock, Sporting CP, and Dinamo Bucuresti.
The 16 groups might be break up into two teams of eight on the group section draw, scheduled for Friday 27 June at 15:00 CEST in Vienna.
The improve requests for FC Porto, Kadetten Schaffhausen, and RD LL Grosist Slovan weren’t accredited. These groups could have the best to begin within the EHF European League or the EHF European Cup.
Seven upgrades confirmed for EHF Champions League Ladies
Within the EHF Champions League Ladies, 10 groups had requested an improve with seven locations within the competitors finally out there – 9 groups had mounted locations.
The analysis group put the next requests ahead for subsequent season’s competitors:
- RK Podravka Vegeta (CRO)
- Ikast Håndbold (DEN)
- Brest Bretagne Handball (FRA)
- BV Borussia Dortmund (GER)
- DVSC Schaeffler (HUN)
- FTC Rail-Cargo Hungaria (HUN)
- Gloria Bistrita (ROU)
The groups with mounted locations are Odense Håndbold, Crew Esbjerg, Metz Handball, HB Ludwigsburg, Györi Audi ETO KC, OTP Group Buducnost, Storhamar Handball Elite, CSM Bucuresti, and RK Krim Mercator.
The improve requests of Sola HK, Tertnes Bergen, and CS Minaur Baia Mare weren’t accredited.
The draw for the EHF Champions League Ladies 2025/26 group section additionally takes place on 27 June at 15:00 CEST.
