This page details statistics of the European Cup and Champions League.
General performances By club
By nation CountryWinnersRunners-upWinning clubsRunners-up 18 13 Barcelona (12)Ciudad Real (3)TEKA Santander (1), Bidasoa Irún (1), Portland San Antonio (1) Barcelona (5)Portland San Antonio (2), Ciudad Real (2)TEKA Santander (1), Bidasoa Irún (1), Atlético Madrid (1), Atlético de Madrid (1) 18 11 VfL Gummersbach (5)THW Kiel (4)Magdeburg* (3), Frisch Auf Göppingen (2), TV Großwallstadt (2)Hamburg (1), Flensburg-Handewitt(1) THW Kiel (4)Flensburg-Handewitt (2)Frisch Auf Göppingen (1), VfL Gummersbach (1), TUSEM Essen (1), Wallau-Massenheim (1), Füchse Berlin (1) 5 3 SKA Minsk (3)MAI Moscow (1), CSKA Moscow (1) CSKA Moscow (2)MAI Moscow (1) 4 7 Metaloplastika (2)Bjelovar (1), Borac Banja Luka (1) Bjelovar (2)Medveščak Zagreb (1), Borac Banja Luka (1), Slovan Ljubljana (1), Metaloplastika (1), Proleter Zrenjanin (1) 4 2 Magdeburg* (2)SC Leipzig (1), ASK Frankfurt/Oder (1) Dynamo Berlin (1), Empor Rostock (1) 3 3 Steaua București (2)Dinamo București (1) Steaua București (2)Dinamo București (1) 3 2 Dukla Prague (3) Dukla Prague (2) 2 4 Zagreb (2) Zagreb (4) 2 2 Montpellier (2) Paris Saint-Germain (1) HBC Nantes (1) 2 0 RK Vardar (2) 1 5 Honvéd (1) Honvéd (1), MVM Veszprém (4) 1 5 PGE Vive Kielce (1) Wybrzeże Gdańsk (2), PGE Vive Kielce (2), Śląsk Wrocław (1) 1 1 Redbergslids IK (1) Örebro SK (1) 1 0 Celje (1) 0 4 Aarhus GF (1), Fredericia KFUM (1), Aalborg Håndbold (2) 0 1 Valur (1) 0 1 TSV St. Otmar St. Gallen (1) 0 1 ABC Braga (1) Some countries ceased to exist during the early 1990s. SC Magdeburg is the only handball club who has won the European club title while representing two different countries (e.g. East Germany and Germany).
Notes Results until the Dissolution of the Soviet Union in 1991. Three out of five titles were won by clubs from present day Belarus, while two titles and the additional three times runners-up were achieved by clubs from present day Russia. Results until the Breakup of Yugoslavia in the early 1990s. Clubs from present day Serbia won the title two times and were runners-up additional two times, clubs from present day Croatia won the title once and were runners-up three times, clubs from present day Bosnia and Herzegovina won the title once and were runners-up once, while clubs from present day Slovenia were runners-up one time. Results until the Dissolution of Czechoslovakia in 1993. Three titles and two times runners-up were all achieved by HC Dukla Prague.
Number of participating clubs of the Champions League era The following is a list of clubs that have played in or qualified for the Champions League group stages.
Clubs Performance review (from 1993–present) By semi-final appearances (European Cup and EHF Champions League)
TeamNo.Years in Semi-finals Barcelona1983, 1990, 1991, 1992, 1993, 1996, 1997, 1998, 1999, 2000, 2001, 2005, 2008, 2010, 2011, 2013, 2014, 2015, 2017, 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023, 2024, 2025 THW Kiel1995, 1996, 1997, 2000, 2001, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2020, 2022, 2024 VfL Gummersbach1967, 1970, 1971, 1972, 1974, 1975, 1976, 1977, 1983, 1984 Veszprém2002, 2003, 2006, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2019, 2020, 2022 Dukla Praha1957, 1962, 1963, 1966, 1967, 1968, 1980, 1984, 1985 Steaua București1968, 1970, 1971, 1975, 1977, 1986, 1989 Zagreb1992, 1993, 1995, 1997, 1998, 1999, 2000 Celje1997, 1998, 1999, 2000, 2001, 2004, 2005 Ciudad Real2004, 2005, 2006, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011 Dinamo București1959, 1960, 1963, 1965, 1967, 1979 Metaloplastika1983, 1984, 1985, 1986, 1987, 1988 Portland San Antonio1999, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2006, 2007 Magdeburg1978, 1981, 1989, 2002, 2004, 2023, 2024, 2025 Paris Saint-Germain2016, 2017, 2018, 2020, 2021, 2023 PGE Vive Kielce2013, 2015, 2016, 2019, 2022, 2023 Bjelovar1962, 1968, 1971, 1972, 1973 Honvéd1966, 1978, 1979, 1982, 1984 Frisch Auf Göppingen1959, 1960, 1962, 1963 CSKA Moscow1977, 1981, 1983, 1988 Flensburg-Handewitt2004, 2006, 2007, 2014 HSV Hamburg2008, 2009, 2011, 2013 MAI Moscow1972, 1973, 1974 TV Großwallstadt1979, 1980, 1982 Atlético Madrid1980, 1985, 1986 SKA Minsk1987, 1989, 1990 TUSEM Essen1987, 1988, 1990 Bidasoa Irún1988, 1995, 1996 TEKA Santander1992, 1994, 1995 Montpellier2003, 2005, 2018 RK Vardar2017, 2018, 2019 HBC Nantes2018, 2021, 2025 Paris UC1957, 1960 Helsingør IF1959, 1982 Aarhus GF1960, 1966 IK Skovbakken1962, 1963 SC Leipzig1966, 1973 Dynamo Berlin1968, 1970 Borac Banja Luka1975, 1976 Fredericia KFUM1976, 1977 Wybrzeże Gdańsk1986, 1987 KIF Kolding1992, 2002 Rhein-Neckar Löwen2009, 2011 Aalborg Håndbold2021, 2024 Füchse Berlin2012, 2025 Örebro SK1957 HG København1957 Redbergslids IK1959 Medveščak Zagreb1965 Grasshopper1965 Ajax København1965 SK Cuncevo1967 Crvenka1970 Sporting CP1971 Tatran Prešov1972 SolK Hellas1973 Oppsal1974 Ruda Hvezda Bratislava1974 ASK Frankfurt/Oder1975 IK Fredensborg1976 Śląsk Wrocław1978 Calpisa1978 Empor Rostock1979 Valur1980 Slovan Ljubljana1981 LUGI HF1981 St. Gallen1982 FH Hafnarfjördur1985 HK Drott1989 Créteil1990 Proleter Zrenjanin1991 Eskişehir ETİ1991 Dinamo Astrakhan1991 Wallau-Massenheim1993 Vénissieux1993 ABC Braga1994 USAM Nîmes1994 West Wien1994 Pfadi Winterthur1996 TBV Lemgo1998 Prule 672003 Valladolid2007 Chekhovskiye Medvedi2010 Atlético Madrid2012 AG København2012 Finalist team in season Note: In the 1994, 1995 and 1996 seasons there were no semi-finals as the finalists qualified via a group stage. The winners (Braga and TEKA Santander in 1994, Zagreb and Bidasoa Irún in 1995, Bidasoa Irún and Barcelona in 1996) and runners-up (Nîmes and UHK West Wien in 1994, TEKA Santander and THW Kiel in 1995, THW Kiel and Pfadi Winterthur in 1996) of the two groups are still marked as semi-finalists in the table.
By quarter-final and semi-final appearances (EHF Champions League) TeamYears in QF (not in SF)Years in SFQF Apps.SF Apps. Barcelona2006, 2007, 2012, 20161996, 1997, 1998, 1999, 2000, 2001, 2005, 2008, 2010, 2011, 2013, 2014, 2015, 2017, 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023, 2024, 2025 THW Kiel1999, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2011, 2017, 2018, 2021, 20231995, 1996, 1997, 2000, 2001, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2020, 2022, 2024 Veszprém KC1995, 1996, 1998, 1999, 2000, 2004, 2005, 2007, 2009, 2010, 2013, 2021, 2023, 2024, 20252002, 2003, 2006, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2019, 2020, 2022 Celje1994, 2002, 20061997, 1998, 1999, 2000, 2001, 2004, 2005 Ciudad Real20072004, 2005, 2006, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011 Portland San Antonio20081999, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2006, 2007 Paris Saint-Germain2014, 2015, 2019, 2022, 20242016, 2017, 2018, 2020, 2021, 2023 PGE Vive Kielce2013, 20242013, 2015, 2016, 2019, 2022, 2023 Zagreb1994, 1996, 2001, 2003, 2004, 2009, 2012, 2015, 20161995, 1997, 1998, 1999, 2000 Flensburg-Handewitt2005, 2009, 2011, 2013, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2021, 20222004, 2006, 2007, 2014 HSV Hamburg20102008, 2009, 2011, 2013 Montpellier2001, 2006, 2010, 2011, 2017, 2022, 20242003, 2005, 2018 Vardar2014, 2015, 20162017, 2018, 2019 SC Magdeburg20032002, 2004, 2023, 2024, 2025 Rhein-Neckar Löwen2010, 20142009, 2011 TEKA Santander19971994, 1995 Bidasoa Irún1995, 1996 HBC Nantes20192018, 2021, 2025 ABC Braga1996, 1997, 1998, 20011994 Chekhovskiye Medvedi2008, 2009, 20112010 KIF Kolding1995, 20032002 Pfadi Winterthur1997, 19981996 TBV Lemgo2004, 20051998 Atlético Madrid20132012 Aalborg Håndbold2022, 20252021, 2024 UHK West Wien1994 USAM Nîmes1994 Prule 672003 Valladolid2007 AG København2012 Füchse Berlin2012, 2025 Pick Szeged1997, 2004, 2015, 2017, 2019, 2025 Ademar León1998, 2000, 2002, 2012 GOG Håndbold1996, 2008, 2023 ZTR Zaporizhia1999, 2000 VfL Gummersbach2007, 2008 Metalurg Skopje2013, 2014 Wallau-Massenheim1994 Sandefjord TIF1994 Dukla Prague1995 OM Vitrolles1995 Kaustik Volgograd1999 Hapoel Rishon LeZion2000 Lovćen Cetinje2001 Metković2002 Redbergslids IK2002 Cimos Koper2012 Skjern Håndbold2018 Meshkov Brest2021 Orlen Wisła Płock2023 Sporting CP2025 Finalist team in season
EHF Champions League Final Four The history of the EHF Champions League Final Four system, which was permanently introduced in the 2009–10 season.
By season Season 1st place 2nd place 3rd place 4th place THW Kiel Barcelona Ciudad Real Chekhovskiye Medvedi Barcelona Ciudad Real Rhein-Neckar Löwen HSV Hamburg THW Kiel Atlético Madrid AG København Füchse Berlin HSV Hamburg Barcelona Vive Targi Kielce THW Kiel Flensburg-Handewitt THW Kiel Barcelona MVM Veszprém Barcelona MVM Veszprém Vive Targi Kielce THW Kiel Vive Targi Kielce MVM Veszprém Paris Saint-Germain THW Kiel RK Vardar Paris Saint-Germain MVM Veszprém Barcelona Montpellier Handball HBC Nantes Paris Saint-Germain RK Vardar RK Vardar Telekom Veszprém Barcelona Lassa PGE Vive Kielce THW Kiel Barcelona Paris Saint-Germain Telekom Veszprém Barcelona Aalborg Håndbold Paris Saint-Germain HBC Nantes Barcelona Vive Kielce THW Kiel Telekom Veszprém SC Magdeburg Vive Kielce Barcelona Paris Saint-Germain Barcelona Aalborg Håndbold THW Kiel SC Magdeburg SC Magdeburg Füchse Berlin Barcelona HBC Nantes
Performance by club Club 1st 2nd 3rd 4th Total Barcelona533213 THW Kiel31239 Vardar2––13 SC Magdeburg2––13 PGE Vive Kielce12216 HSV Hamburg1––12 Flensburg-Handewitt1–––1 Montpellier1–––1 Veszprém KC–3137 Paris Saint-Germain–1416 HBC Nantes–1113 Aalborg Håndbold–2––2 Ciudad Real–11–2 Füchse Berlin–1–12 Atlético Madrid–1––1 Rhein-Neckar Löwen––1–1 AG København––1–1 Chekhovskiye Medvedi–––11
Countries Only on eight occasions has the final of the tournament involved two teams from the same country: 1996 Spain: Barcelona vs Bidasoa Irún 46–38 (23–15, 23–23) 2001 Spain: Portland San Antonio vs Barcelona 52–49 (30–24, 22–25) 2005 Spain: Barcelona vs Ciudad Real 56–55 (27–28, 29–27) 2006 Spain: Ciudad Real vs Portland San Antonio 62–47 (25–19, 37–28) 2007 Germany: THW Kiel vs Flensburg-Handewitt 57–55 (28–28, 29–27) 2011 Spain: Barcelona vs Ciudad Real 27–24 2014 Germany: Flensburg-Handewitt vs THW Kiel 30–28 2018 France: Montpellier vs HBC Nantes 32–26 The country providing the highest number of wins is Germany with 15 victories, shared by eight teams, VfL Gummersbach (5), THW Kiel (3), Frisch Auf Göppingen (2), TV Grosswallstadt (2), Magdeburg (1), HSV Hamburg (1) and Flensburg-Handewitt (1)
See also EHF Champions League Women's EHF Champions League
References
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