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The 2023–24 EHF European League is the 43rd season of Europe's secondary club handball tournament organised by European Handball Federation (EHF), and the 4th season since it was renamed from the EHF Cup to the EHF European League. This is the first season under the new revamped format. The defending champions are Füchse Berlin.
SG Flensburg-Handewitt won their second title after winning an all-German final against defending champions Füchse Berlin.
The tournament is divided in the following phases:
This season, the EHF decided to make separate rankings for each club competition.
The full list of teams qualified for each stage of the 2023–24 EHF European League was announced on 10 July 2023.
The labels in the parentheses show how each team qualified for the place of its starting round:
The Draw took place on the 21 July 2023. The only restriction was that clubs from the same country cannot be in the same group.
The draw for the qualification round was conducted on 18 July 2023. The first legs will be held on 26–27 August 2023 while the second legs will be held on 2–3 September 2023.
The draw for the group stage was conducted on 21 July 2023 at the EHF office in Vienna.
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:
In the main round, the remaining sixteen teams merge into four groups of four, where they play the teams they didn't play in the group stage. Points from the group stage against the teams that advanced with each other are carried over. At the end of the main round, The four group winners advance to the quarter-finals, while the 2nd and 3rd place teams qualify for the play-offs.
In the playoffs, the eight teams ranked 2nd–3rd in Main round Groups I-IV play against each other in two-legged home-and-away matches. The four winning teams advance to the quarterfinals, where they are joined by the top teams of Main round Groups I-IV for another round of two-legged home-and-away matches. The four quarterfinal winners qualify for the final four tournament at the Barclays Arena in Hamburg, Germany.
The final four will held at the Barclays Arena in Hamburg, Germany on 25 and 26 May 2024. The draw took place on 3 May 2024.
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