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Women's EHF Champions League
The Women's EHF Champions League has sixteen teams competing to be crowned the EHF Champions League winners, and we will take a look at the new season as well as previous winners of the Women's EHF Champions League in this blog.
This tournament was created in 1961 and was previously known as the 'European Champions Cup'. Romanian side Știința București won the first-ever tournament when beating Dynamo Prague 13-5 in the final.
However, it was Spartak Kyiv who dominated things in the early years, between 1970 and 1988, the Soviet Union side won a total of thirteen titles, and before that, the Soviet Union also won titles with Trud Moscow (1963) and Žalgiris Kaunas (1967-68).
The tournament changed its name in 1993 to the EHF Women's Champions League and adopted the group and knockout system, which was used right up until the 2012-13 season.
The following season saw the DELO EHF FINAL4 system introduced, where the final games of the season are staged in one location over one weekend, the two semi-finals on Saturday, which are followed by the third-place game and the final on Sunday.
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2026-27 Women's EHF Champions League Preview
Metz won their first-ever Champions League title in 2026 in their first-ever final appearance, having beaten the treble-seeking Győri Audi ETO KC 31-29 in the final.
This used to be a tournament where you could expect the Scandiwegian countries to succeed; however, Vipers Kristiansand's success in 2021 was the first Scandiwegian success since Larvik HK won the tournament in 2011, and the first since the introduction of the final four format system, which was introduced, between 2004 and 2011, all bar one winner (Zvezda Zvenigorod in 2008) came from a Scandiwegian country.
Most Successful Women's EHF Champions League Nations
- Soviet Union (16 Wins / 3 Runners-Up)
- Hungary (9 Wins / 12 Runners-Up)
- Austria (8 Wins / 5 Runners-Up)
- Denmark (7 Wins / 6 Runners-Up)
- Norway (4 Wins / 2 Runners-Up)
There have been plenty of back-to-back winners of this tournament in the past, so for Metz to retain their title would not be the biggest of surprises.
Metz reached the semi-finals in 2022, 2024 & 2025, and after their win in 2026, they are certainly a team to watch this season in defence of their title.
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Women's EHF Champions League Past Winners
Vipers Kristiansand became the first Norwegian winner of the tournament in 2021 since Larvik HK won it in 2011 and backed that up with more success in both 2022 & 2023, whilst Metz Handball became the first-ever French winners in 2026.
In recent years, it has been the Southeast European countries that have dominated the tournament. Since 2012, the winners have come from Montenegro (ŽRK Budućnost x2), Hungary (Győri Audi ETO KC x7) and Romania (CSM București), with the only exception being the three won by Vipers Kristiansand from Norway and Metz in 2026.
| Season | Champions | Score | Runners-Up |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025–26 | Metz Handball | 31-29 | Győri Audi ETO KC |
| 2024–25 | Győri Audi ETO KC | 29-27 | Odense Håndbold |
| 2023–24 | Győri Audi ETO KC | 30-24 | SG BBM Bietigheim |
| 2022–23 | Vipers Kristiansand | 28–24 | Ferencvárosi TC |
| 2021–22 | Vipers Kristiansand | 33–31 | Győri Audi ETO KC |
| 2020–21 | Vipers Kristiansand | 34–28 | Brest Bretagne Handball |
| 2019–20 | The tournament was cancelled | ||
| 2018–19 | Győri Audi ETO KC | 25–24 | Rostov-Don |
| 2017–18 | Győri Audi ETO KC | 27–26 | HC Vardar |
| 2016–17 | Győri Audi ETO KC | 31–30 | HC Vardar |
Women's EHF Champions League Betting Tips
The Women's Champions League is very popular on OLBG, with plenty of handball tipsters getting involved with the competition, not only this tournament, either; we have dedicated handball tipsters predicting match outcomes daily, all of which you can find on the Handball Predictions page.
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Five-Year Favourite Statistics
The favourite statistics do highlight one thing, and that is that the women's Champions League tournament is probably easier to call than the Men's Champions League, where the favourites' data is generally all over the place. This tournament has been fairly consistent for the last five tournaments, with the winning favourites ranging from 71.21% to 77.10% and the average over the five seasons being 74.50%, which means, on average, just over seven from ten favourites are successful.
- 2021-22: 93-127 (73.23%)
- 2022-23: 101-131 (77.10%)
- 2023-24: 94-132 (71.21%)
- 2024-25: 94-126 (74.60%)
- 2025-26: 100-131 (76.34%)
- Overall: 482-647 (74.50%)
Five-Year Goal Statistics
The general rule of thumb in this tournament is that the totals usually average somewhere between 45 and 48, with 95% of the games seeing 45+ points, and then, as you would expect, the numbers gradually drop off. Once you get past 56.5 points, then you are looking at less than half of the games (47%). The average number of goals per game is 57.16, which shows you do get some high-scoring games, but on average, the number of games getting over 56.5 points is only 47%.
- Over 47.5: 600 Games (92.45%)
- Over 50: 522 Games (80.43%)
- Over 52.5: 464 Games (71.49%)
- Over 55: 375 Games (57.78%)
- Over 57.5: 305 Games (47.00%)
- Over 60: 205 Games (31.59%)
Women's EHF Champions League Most Wins
With the Soviet Union's dominance in the early years, it's no surprise that Spartak Kyiv tops the pile for the number of wins after being crowned champions thirteen times. They now play under the name of HC Spartak Kyiv in Ukraine.
The Austrian club Hypo Niederösterreich has eight wins, which has been a dominant force in Austria, but their last final came in 2008, and their last win was back in 2000. Hungarian Győri Audi ETO KC are the most successful team in recent times with seven wins between 2013 & 2025.
| Rank | Club | Champions | Runner-Up |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1st | Spartak Kyiv | 13 | 2 |
| 2nd | Hypo Niederösterreich | 8 | 5 |
| 3rd | Győri Audi ETO KC | 7 | 5 |
| 4th | Radnički Belgrade | 3 | 4 |
| 5th | Viborg HK | 3 | 2 |
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