The 2021–22 EHF Champions League knockout stage began on 30 March with the playoffs and ended on 19 June 2022 with the final at the Lanxess Arena in Cologne, Germany, to decide the winners of the 2021–22 EHF Champions League. A total of twelve teams will compete in the knockout phase.

Format In the playoffs, the eight teams ranked third to sixth in Groups A and B played against each other in two-legged home-and-away matches. The four winning teams advanced to the quarterfinals, where they are joined by the top-two teams of Groups A and B for another round of two-legged home-and-away matches. The four quarterfinal winners qualified for the final four tournament at the Lanxess Arena in Cologne, Germany.

Qualified teams The top six teams from Groups A and B qualified for the knockout stage.

GroupQualified for quarterfinalsQualified for playoffsFirst placeSecond placeThird placeFourth placeFifth placeSixth place A Aalborg Håndbold THW Kiel Pick Szeged Montpellier Handball RK Vardar Elverum Håndball B Łomża Vive Kielce Barça Paris Saint-Germain Telekom Veszprém FC Porto SG Flensburg-Handewitt

Playoffs Overview

Matches

SG Flensburg-Handewitt won 60–57 on aggregate.

Paris Saint-Germain won 67–60 on aggregate.

Montpellier Handball won 64–56 on aggregate.

Telekom Veszprém won 61–53 on aggregate.

Quarterfinals Overview

Matches

Telekom Veszprém won 71–66 on aggregate.

Łomża Vive Kielce won 61–50 on aggregate.

THW Kiel won 63–62 on aggregate.

Barcelona won 60–53 on aggregate.

Final four The final four will held at the Lanxess Arena in Cologne, Germany on 18 and 19 June 2022. The draw took place on 24 May 2022.

Bracket

Semifinals

Third place game

Final

Barça 1 GK Gonzalo Pérez de Vargas 12/44 40 GK Leonel Maciel 0/0 10 RB Dika Mem 5/10 13 LW Aitor Ariño 3/4 18 RW Blaž Janc 1/1 19 LB Timothey N'Guessan 5/10 20 RW Aleix Gómez 9/12 22 LB Thiagus dos Santos 1/1 25 CB Luka Cindrić 0/1 32 LW Ángel Fernández Pérez 3/3 35 CB Domen Makuc 1/1 37 LB Haniel Langaro 1/2 41 P Youssef Benali 0/0 66 RB Melvyn Richardson 2/4 72 P Ludovic Fabregas 1/2 90 RL Ali Zein 0/0 Coach : Antonio Carlos Ortega Statistics (without penalties shootout) 32/51 Goals scored 32/51 62,7 % % Success 62,7 % 5/5 7m shots 4/5 0 Yellow card 06 min Suspensions 8 min 0 Red card 0 12/44 Saves 12/44 27,2 % % Saves 27,2 % tirs au but: success, failed. Kielce 33 GK Andreas Wolff 12/43 1 GK Mateusz Kornecki 0/1 2 RB Branko Vujović 4/4 4 LW Miguel Sánchez-Migallón 0/0 5 CB Michał Olejniczak 0/0 9 LB Szymon Sićko 3/7 10 RW Alex Dujshebaev 4/9 11 P Nicolas Tournat 2/2 18 CB Igor Karačić 1/1 22 LB Uladzislau Kulesh 4/6 23 RW Arkadiusz Moryto 4/7 24 LB Daniel Dujshebaev 4/8 34 RB Paweł Paczkowski 0/0 48 RB Tomasz Gębala 0/0 50 P Artsem Karalek 4/5 99 LW Dylan Nahi 2/2 Coach : Talant Dujshebaev

References

External links Official website