This article describes the group stage of the 2012–13 EHF Champions League.
Format The 24 teams were split into four groups, consisting of six teams. Each team played a home and away game against all opponents in the group. The first four ranked teams advanced to the knockout stage.
Seedings The draw for the group stage took place at the Gartenhotel Altmannsdorf in Vienna on 6 July 2012 at 11:00 local time. A total of 24 teams were drawn into four groups of six. Teams were divided into six pots, based on EHF coefficients. Clubs from the same pot or the same association could not be drawn into the same group, except the wild card tournament winner, which did not enjoy any protection.
Pot 1 THW KielTH AG København1 Barcelona Montpellier Pot 2 Zagreb MKB Veszprém Chekhovskiye Medvedi Gorenje Pot 3 Atlético Madrid Flensburg Vive Targi Kielce Kadetten Schaffhausen Pot 4 Ademar León Chambéry Füchse Berlin IK Sävehof Pot 5 Pick Szeged St. Petersburg Celje Pivovarna Laško Dinamo-Minsk Pot 6 Partizan Q Metalurg Skopje Q HCM Constanța Q HSV Hamburg WC th Title holder. The title holder automatically gets the top position of seeding list. Q Qualified through qualification tournament WC Qualified through wild card tournament
Notes Note 1: AG København was seeded in pot 1 for the 2012–13 EHF Champions League group stage draw, which took place in Vienna, Austria, on 6 July 2012. However, the club filed for bankruptcy on July 31, 2012, and their place in the group stage was awarded to Bjerringbro-Silkeborg.
Groups Key to colours in group tables Top four placed teams advanced to the knockout stage.
Times up to 27 October 2012 (matchdays 1–4) are CEST (UTC+2), thereafter (matchdays 5–10) times are CET (UTC+1).
Group A
Group B
Group C
Notes Note 1: AG København was seeded in pot 1 for the 2012–13 EHF Champions League group stage draw, which took place in Vienna, Austria, on 6 July 2012. However, the club filed for bankruptcy on July 31, 2012, and their place in the group stage was awarded to Bjerringbro-Silkeborg.
Group D
References
External links Official website