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EHF Champions League
Sixteen teams will be competing in the 67th edition of the EHF Champions League, looking to get their hands on the trophy come the end of the tournament. We look at the new season as well as previous winners of the EHF Champions League in this blog.
This tournament was created in 1956 and was originally known as the European Champions Cup. The format and name stayed in place until 1993, when the current format was employed, and the competition name was changed to the current EHF Champions League.
The first eight titles under the new format and name all went to a Spanish team, five of those being Barcelona, and they have been in good form of late, too, winning it in 2021, 2022, 2024 and 2026.
The only team to stop them over the last four seasons is SC Magdeburg (2023 & 2025). Will there be another success for Barcelona this season? Or will SC Magdeburg deny them again?
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EHF Champions League Preview
The 2026-27 EHF Champions League kicks off in September 2026, and with fourteen rounds of top-class action, the regular season will run through to March 2027 before going to the playoffs.
The season is made of two groups of eight teams, where a round-robin system is deployed with teams playing the other seven teams home and away, with a total of fourteen games.
The top two teams from each group will advance straight to the quarter-final stages of the playoffs, whilst those in third to sixth (4 from each group) will play one knock-out round to decide which four teams will join the others in the quarter-finals.
The playoffs will begin around the end of March and conclude with the Final Four in June, with the champions being crowned.
Most Successful EHF Champions League Nations
- Spain (19 Wins / 13 Runners-Up)
- Germany (18 Wins / 12 Runners-Up)
Barcelona have made five of the last seven finals and have finished in the top four in all of the last seven seasons. They were beaten finalists in 2020, losing 33-28 to the German team THW Kiel, but in 2021 they won their 10th title when defeating Danish side Aalborg HÃ¥ndbold 36-23.
In 2022, landed title number eleven with a 37-35 win over Polish side Vive Kielce, it was number twelve in 2024 when defeating Aalborg 31-30 and then number thirteen in 2026 when defeating Füchse Berlin 37-34.
They are the all-time most successful club in this tournament, winning more than twice as many titles as their nearest rivals.
EHF Champions League Winners
Barcelona picked up the trophy in 2026, which was their thirteenth tournament success and have now won four of the last six tournaments.
2021 Runners-up Aalborg (also runners-up in 2024) were the first Danish team to make it through to the final since Fredericia made the 1976 final; they were also beaten.
The 2023 & 2025 winners, SC Magdeburg, have now won all five finals that they have made it to, and the 2025 final was the first all-German affair since 2014.
The last ten EHF Champions League Champions
| Season | Champions | Score | Runners-Up |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025–26 | Barcelona | 37-34 | Füchse Berlin |
| 2024–25 | SC Magdeburg | 32-26 | Füchse Berlin |
| 2023–24 | Barcelona | 31-30 | Aalborg Håndbold |
| 2022–23 | SC Magdeburg | 30-29 | Vive Kielce |
| 2021–22 | Barcelona | 37–35 | Vive Kielce |
| 2020–21 | Barcelona | 36–23 | Aalborg Håndbold |
| 2019–20 | THW Kiel | 33–28 | Barcelona |
| 2018–19 | RK Vardar | 27–24 | Telekom Veszprém |
| 2017–18 | Montpellier | 32–26 | HBC Nantes |
| 2016–17 | RK Vardar | 24–23 | Paris Saint-Germain |
EHF Champions League Betting Tips
We have some excellent handball tipsters on OLBG who are making predictions daily, not only EHF Champions League tips, either, but they will be picking outcomes on matches available in other tournaments too, like the Women's EHF Champions League and more. Head over to the Handball Tips page to see what they are backing today.
In addition to that page, we also have a Best Handball Tipsters page, where we only highlight tipsters who have made a profit over the past year, so you will only see the best tipsters' tips. Below are some betting statistics which you can also use to help you find a bet.
Five-Year Favourite Statistics
The favourite statistics have been jumping around a bit in more recent seasons. In the 2021-22 season, we saw a total of 65% of favourites winning the games, but that improved for the next two seasons with 72% in 2022-23 and then 71% in 2023-24. However, that then took a big drop for the 2024-25 season, which saw only 61% of favourites win before the jump again last season with 72%.
- 2021-22: 82-127 (64.57%)
- 2022-23: 94-131 (71.76%)
- 2023-24: 94-132 (71.21%)
- 2024-25: 81-132 (61.36%)
- 2025-26: 95-132 (71.97%)
- Overall: 446-654 (68.20%)
Five-Year Goal Statistics
The goals in this competition generally go over the 50-point mark with 93% of the matches over the last five seasons going over that mark, then the numbers start tumbling, just 5 goals more at 55 and we are looking at only 75% of games and once you get to 61 that drops below the half mark with only 45% of matches, the average number of goals per game stands at 60.82 over the last five seasons.
- Over 52.5: 575 Games (87.79%)
- Over 55: 494 Games (75.42%)
- Over 57.5: 441 Games (67.33%)
- Over 60: 331 Games (50.53%)
- Over 62.5: 260 Games (39.69%)
- Over 65: 172 Games (26.26%)
EHF Champions League Most Wins
Barcelona had gone a few years without success before winning the 2021 title, but they backed that up with another win in 2022 and again in 2024 & 2026. They have won more than twice as many as the next best, VfL Gummersbach, who has not tasted success since 1983.
Following their win in 2025, SC Magdeburg have now joined their fellow Germans on five wins, and it's another German team that is 4th in the list, with THW Kiel having won four tournaments.
| Rank | Club | Champions | Runner-Up |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1st | Barcelona | 13 | 5 |
| 2nd | VfL Gummersbach | 5 | 1 |
| 3rd | SC Magdeburg | 5 | 0 |
| 4th | THW Kiel | 4 | 4 |
| 5th | Ciudad Real | 3 | 2 |
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