2021–22 EHF Champions League

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EHF Champions League

2021–22
Tournament information
Sport	Handball
Dates	15 September 2021–19 June 2022
Teams	16
Website	ehfcl.com
Final positions
Champions	Spain Barça
Runner-up	Poland Łomża Vive Kielce
Tournament statistics
Matches played	126
Goals scored	7682 (60.97 per match)
Attendance	432,271 (3,431 per match)
Top scorer(s)	Spain Aleix Gómez (104 goals)
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The 2021–22 EHF Champions League was the 62nd edition of Europe's premier club handball tournament and the 29th edition under the current EHF Champions League format, running from 15 September 2021 to 19 June 2022. Barça won the competition, defeating Łomza Vive Kielce on penalties in the final.^[1]

Because of the COVID-19 pandemic, each local health department allowed a different number of spectators.

The competition began with a group stage featuring 16 teams divided in two groups. Matches were played in a double round-robin system with home-and-away fixtures. In Groups A and B, the top two teams qualified for the quarterfinals, with teams ranked third to sixth entering the playoffs.

The knockout stage included four rounds: the playoffs, quarterfinals, and a final-four tournament comprising two semifinals and the final. In the playoffs, eight teams were paired against each other in two-legged home-and-away matches. The four aggregate winners of the playoffs advanced to the quarterfinals, joining the top-two teams of Groups A and B. The eight quarterfinalist teams were paired against each other in two-legged home-and-away matches, with the four aggregate winners qualifying to the final-four tournament.

In the final four tournament, the semifinals and the final were played as single matches at a pre-selected host venue.

The final list of 16 participants was revealed by the EHF Executive Committee in June 2021. Ten teams were registered according to fixed places, while six were granted wild cards.^{[2] [3]} On 29 June, the final list was revealed.^[4] Although, in the final list announcement, the EHF said that if RK Vardar did not pay a fine for failing to play Champions League games in the previous season, they would be disqualified and replaced with RK Gorenje Velenje, who was the standby team. However, this never materialised.

Participating teams Wildcard rejection

The draw took place on 2 July 2021.^[5]

Pos	Team v t e	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification	AAL	KIE	SZE	MON	VAR	ELV	ZAG	BRE
1	Denmark Aalborg Håndbold	14	11	0	3	453	410	+43	22	Quarterfinals	—	35–33	34–30	36–28	33–29	32–27	31–25	34–33
2	Germany THW Kiel	14	10	1	3	427	395	+32	21		31–27	—	32–32	35–26	32–30	41–36	36–28	10–0
3	Hungary Pick Szeged	14	8	3	3	412	392	+20	19	Playoffs	31–28	30–26	—	29–29	34–31	30–34	30–21	28–26
4	France Montpellier Handball	14	7	3	4	424	409	+15	17		31–33	37–30	29–29	—	25–28	39–32	24–23	32–26
5	North Macedonia RK Vardar	14	6	1	7	379	368	+11	13		30–28	26–29	27–30	25–31	—	39–30	20–19	35–27
6	Norway Elverum Håndball	14	3	2	9	417	449	−32	8[a]		28–34	30–31	24–27	30–37	27–27	—	30–25	32–33
7	Croatia PPD Zagreb	14	3	2	9	351	385	−34	8[a]	24–34	27–28	26–24	22–25	23–22	27–27	—	31–24
8	Belarus Meshkov Brest	14	1	2	11	342	397	−55	4	30–33	30–33	25–28	31–31	0–10	27–30	30–30	—

Pos	Team v t e	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification	KIE	BAR	PAR	VES	POR	FLE	BUC	MOT
1	Poland Łomża Vive Kielce	14	10	0	4	449	415	+34	20[a]	Quarterfinals	—	29–27	38–33	32–29	39–33	37–29	34–29	33–27
2	Spain Barça	14	9	2	3	420	369	+51	20[a]		30–32	—	30–27	35–30	38–31	29–22	36–32	36–25
3	France Paris Saint-Germain	14	8	2	4	452	396	+56	18	Playoffs	32–27	28–28	—	39–40	33–19	33–30	41–30	40–32
4	Hungary Telekom Veszprém	14	8	1	5	449	423	+26	17		35–33	29–28	34–31	—	28–28	28–23	47–32	36–29
5	Portugal FC Porto	14	4	3	7	375	408	−33	11		29–27	33–33	30–39	23–30	—	28–27	31–32	10–0
6	Germany SG Flensburg-Handewitt	14	4	2	8	381	401	−20	10		25–33	21–25	27–27	30–27	26–26	—	37–30	34–27
7	Romania Dinamo București	14	4	0	10	415	470	−55	8[b]	32–29	30–35	31–39	31–29	26–27	20–28	—	33–29
8	Ukraine Motor	14	4	0	10	312	371	−59	8[b]	25–26	0–10	0–10	29–27	30–27	31–22	28–27	—

Team 1	Agg. Tooltip Aggregate score	Team 2	1st leg	2nd leg
SG Flensburg-Handewitt Germany	60–57	Hungary Pick Szeged	25–21	35–36
Elverum Håndball Norway	60–67	France Paris Saint-Germain	30–30	30–37
FC Porto Portugal	56–64	France Montpellier Handball	29–29	27–35
RK Vardar North Macedonia	53–61	Hungary Telekom Veszprém	22–30	31–31

Team 1	Agg. Tooltip Aggregate score	Team 2	1st leg	2nd leg
Telekom Veszprém Hungary	71–66	Denmark Aalborg Håndbold	36–29	35–37
Montpellier Handball France	50–61	Poland Łomża Vive Kielce	28–31	22–30
Paris Saint-Germain France	62–63	Germany THW Kiel	30–30	32–33
SG Flensburg-Handewitt Germany	53–60	Spain Barça	29–33	24–27

The final four was held at the Lanxess Arena in Cologne, Germany on 18 and 19 June 2022.

Rank	Player	Club	Goals[6]
1	Spain Aleix Gómez	Spain Barça	104
2	France Dika Mem	Spain Barça	100
3	Serbia Petar Nenadić	Hungary Telekom Veszprém	93
4	Sweden Felix Claar	Denmark Aalborg Håndbold	88
	Slovenia Gašper Marguč	Hungary Telekom Veszprém
6	Poland Kamil Syprzak	France Paris Saint-Germain	86
7	Egypt Yahia Omar	Hungary Telekom Veszprém	83
8	Norway Tobias Grøndahl	Norway Elverum Håndball	81
	Sweden Hampus Wanne	Germany SG Flensburg-Handewitt
10	Poland Arkadiusz Moryto	Poland Łomża Vive Kielce	79

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