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2013–14 EHF Champions League

EHF Champions League
Sport Handball
Dates 31 August 20131 June 2014
Teams 38 (Qualification stage)
24 (Group Phase)
16 (Knockout stage)
Champions Germany SG Flensburg-Handewitt (1st title)
Runner-up Germany THW Kiel
Matches played 148
Goals scored 8338 (56.34 per match)
Attendance 651,334 (4,401 per match)
Top scorer(s) Serbia Momir Ilić
(103 goals)
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The 2013–14 VELUX EHF Champions League was the 54th edition of Europe's premier club handball tournament and the 21st edition under the current EHF Champions League format. HSV Hamburg was the defending champion. The VELUX EHF FINAL4 was played on 31 May–1 June at the Lanxess Arena in Cologne, Germany.

SG Flensburg-Handewitt won the title for the first time after defeating THW Kiel 30–28 in the final.

The labels in the parentheses show how each team qualified for the place of its starting round:

Fourteen teams took part in the qualification tournaments. Twelve were drawn into three groups of four teams, where they played a semifinal and a final or third place match, while the remaining two teams played a two-legged playoff match. The winners of the qualification tournaments and of the play-off qualified for the group stage, while the eliminated teams were transferred to the 2013–14 EHF Cup. The draw took place on 27 June 2013, at 14:00 local time, in Vienna, Austria. Matches were played on 31 August and 1 September 2013.

This qualification tournament was hosted in Presov, Slovakia, at the home venue of Tatran Prešov.

This qualification tournament was hosted in Novi Sad, Serbia, at the home venue of Vojvodina.

This qualification tournament was hosted in Porto, Portugal, at the home venue of Porto.

The winner qualified for the group stage and the losing team entered the 2013–14 EHF Cup second round.


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