The 2010–11 EHF Champions League was the 51st edition of Europe's premier club handball tournament and the eighteenth edition under the current EHF Champions League format. THW Kiel were the defending champions. The final four was played on 28–29 May 2011 at the Lanxess Arena at Cologne, Germany.Final Four returns to Cologne
FC Barcelona Borges defeated BM Ciudad Real in the final to win the title for the 8th time.
Draw The draw for the group stage took place at the Liechtenstein Museum in Vienna on 22 June 2010. A total of 24 teams were drawn into four groups of six. Teams were divided into four pots, based on EHF coefficients. Clubs from the same pot or the same association cannot be drawn into the same group.
Each team played against each other in its group twice. The top two in each group proceeded to the knockout stage, and the third-placed teams entered the EHF Cup's Winners Cup Round of 32.
Key to colors in group tablesTop two places advanced to the first knockout roundThird place entered the EHF Cup's Winner Cup at the round of 32Fourth place is eliminated from continental competitions
Qualification stage A total of eight teams took part in the Qualification Tournaments. The clubs were drawn into two groups of four. The winner of Qualification Group 1 qualified into Group B, the winner of Qualification Group 2 qualified into Group C. Play was scheduled at 3/4/5 September 2010. The matches of Group 1 were played at Bregenz, Austria. Group 2 played their games at Porto, Portugal.
Groups Group AGroup B HT Tatran Prešov Drammen HK A1 Bregenz Beşiktaş JK RK Metalurg Skopje ZTR Zaporizhzhia HC Dinamo-Minsk FC Porto
Group 1
All times are local (UTC+2)
Group 2
All times are local (UTC+1)
Wild Card Round Four teams participated played for one place in EHF Champions League Group A. The games were played at the Europahalle in Karlsruhe, Germany.
All times are local (UTC+2)
Group stage
Groups Group AGroup BGroup CGroup D THW Kiel Celje Laško F.C. Barcelona Borges Chambéry Savoie Rhein-Neckar Löwen Vive Targi Kielce MKB Veszprém Montpellier HB HSV Hamburg KIF Kolding IK Sävehof HT Tatran Prešov Chekhovskiye Medvedi AaB Handball Pick Szeged BM Valladolid Kadetten Schaffhausen HC Dinamo-Minsk BM Ciudad Real RK Zagreb St. Petersburg HC SG Flensburg-Handewitt RK Bosna Sarajevo HCM Constanța
Group A
All times are local
Group B
All times are local
Group C
All times are local
Group D
All times are local
Knockout stage
Last 16 The draw was held on March 7, 2011 at 19:00 in Vienna, Austria. The first leg was played on 24–27 March 2011 and the second leg on 31 March–3 April 2011. Team #1Agg.Team #21st match2nd matchKadetten Schaffhausen 58–61 Montpellier HB 31–26 27–35KIF Kolding 53–72 THW Kiel 29–36 24–36Chambéry Savoie 43–63 BM Ciudad Real 24–27 19–36RK Bosna Sarajevo 39–61 Chekhovskiye Medvedi 22–31 17–30Pick Szeged 46–60 SG Flensburg-Handewitt 26–27 20–33F.C. Barcelona Borges 54–51 MKB Veszprém 28–21 26–30RK Zagreb 55–58 Rhein-Neckar Löwen 28–31 27–27HSV Hamburg 63–55 BM Valladolid 28–22 35–33
First match
Second match
Quarterfinals The draw was held on April 4, 2011 at 18:30 in Vienna, Austria. The first leg was played on 20–24 April 2011, the second leg at 27 April–1 May 2011. Team #1Agg.Team #21st match2nd matchSG Flensburg-Handewitt 46–59 BM Ciudad Real 24–38 22–21F.C. Barcelona Borges 63–58 THW Kiel 27–25 36–33HSV Hamburg 75–61 Chekhovskiye Medvedi 38–24 37–37Rhein-Neckar Löwen 62–55 Montpellier HB 27–29 35–26
First match
Second match
Final four The draw was held on 2 May 2011.
Semifinals
Third place game
Final
Top scorers Rank Name Team Goals 1 Uwe Gensheimer Rhein-Neckar Löwen 118 2 Marko Vujin MKB Veszprém 98 3 Anders Eggert SG Flensburg-Handewitt 88 4 Filip Jicha THW Kiel 87 5 William Accambray Montpellier HB 75 6 Lars Christiansen KIF Kolding 74 Kiril Lazarov BM Ciudad Real 74 Mait Patrail Kadetten Schaffhausen 74 9 Vasily Filippov Chekhovskiye Medvedi 67 10 Pavel Atman HC Dinamo-Minsk 63 Jonas Larholm AaB Handball 63
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References
External links EHF Champions League website