The 2025–26 EHF European League group stage was played between 14 October and 2 December 2025 to determine the sixteen teams advancing to the main round of the 2025–26 EHF European League.
Format In each group, teams played against each other in a double round-robin format, with home and away matches. The top two qualify for the main round.
Draw
The draw took place on the at 11:00 CET in Vienna on 18 July 2025. The only restriction was that no clubs from the same country cannot be in the same group.
Key to coloursTeams advancing to the Main round
+ Pot 1Team SG Flensburg-Handewitt MT Melsungen Montpellier Handball FC Porto Fraikin BM Granollers Fredericia HK Kadetten Schaffhausen IFK Kristianstad + Pot 2Team RK Nexe AHC Potaissa Turda Knattspyrnufélagið Fram FTC-Green Collect HC Vardar 1961 Tatran Prešov RD LL Grosist Slovan + Pot 3Team THW Kiel Fenix Toulouse SL Benfica Abanca Ademar León TSV Hannover-Burgdorf SAH - Skanderborg Elverum Håndball Saint-Raphaël Var Handball + Pot 4Team BSV Bern IK Sävehof MRK Sesvete CS Minaur Baia Mare HF Karlskrona HC Kriens-Luzern Irudek Bidasoa Irún RK Partizan
Tiebreakers In the group stage, teams were ranked according to points (2 points for a win, 1 point for a draw, 0 points for a loss), and if tied on points, the following tiebreaking criteria were applied, in the order given, to determine the rankings: Points in matches among tied teams; Goal difference in matches among tied teams; Goal difference in all group matches; Goals scored in all group matches; If more than two teams were tied, and after applying all head-to-head criteria above, a subset of teams were still tied, all head-to-head criteria above were reapplied exclusively to this subset of teams; Drawing lots.
Groups All times are local.
Group A
Group B
Group C
Group D
Group E
Group F
Group G
Group H
Notes
References
External links Official website