2012–13 EHF Champions League
| 2012–13 | |
| Tournament information | |
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| Sport | Handball |
| Dates | 26 September 2012–2 June 2013 |
| Teams | 40 (Qualification stage) 24 (Group stage) 16 (Knockout stage) |
| Final positions | |
| Champions |
 HSV Hamburg (1st title)
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| Runner-up |
 Barcelona
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| Tournament statistics | |
| Matches played | 148 |
| Goals scored | 8265 (55.84 per match) |
| Attendance | 690,844 (4,668 per match) |
| Top scorer(s) |
 Hans Lindberg(101 goals) |
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The 2012–13 EHF Champions League was the 53rd edition of Europe's premier club handball tournament and the 20th edition under the current EHF Champions League format. THW Kiel was the defending champion. The final four was played on 1–2 June 2013.
HSV Hamburg won their first title by defeating FC Barcelona 30–29 in the final.
All draws held at EHF headquarters in Vienna, Austria unless stated otherwise.
A total of 14 teams will take part in the qualification tournaments. The clubs will be drawn into three groups of four and play a semifinal and the final. The winner of the qualification groups advance to the group stage, while the eliminated clubs will go to the EHF Cup. Matches will be played at 8–9 September 2011. The draw will take place on 3 July, at 11:00 local time at Vienna, Austria.
The two remaining teams from Pot 1 and 4 will play a knock-out match, the winner will go into the group stage. The draw was held on 3 July 2012.
RK Partizan organized the event.
Haslum HK organized the event.
HCM Constanţa organized the event.
HC Dinamo-Minsk and Beşiktaş J.K. played a playoff series to determine a participant for the group stage.
Dinamo-Minsk wins 61–46 on aggregate.
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.
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