2015–16 EHF Champions League
| Sport | Handball | ||
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| Dates | 5 September 2015–29 May 2016 | ||
| Teams | 28 (group stage) 31 (total) |
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| Website | ehfcl.com | ||
| Champions |
 Vive Targi Kielce
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| Runner-up |
 MVM Veszprém
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| Matches played | 201 | ||
| Goals scored | 11168 (55.56 per match) | ||
| Attendance | 843,367 (4,196 per match) | ||
| Top scorer(s) |
 Mikkel Hansen (DEN)(141 goals) |
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The 2015–16 EHF Champions League was the 56th edition of Europe's premier club handball tournament and the 23rd edition under the current EHF Champions League format. FC Barcelona was the defending champion.
Vive Targi Kielce defeated MVM Veszprém in the final to capture their first title.
Twenty-seven teams were directly qualified for the group stage.
In March 2014, EHF introduced a new competition format.
Twenty-eight teams participated in the competition, divided in four groups. Groups A and B played with eight teams each, in a round robin, home and away format. The top team in each group qualified directly for the quarter-finals, the bottom two in each group dropped out of the competition and the remaining 10 teams qualified for the first knock-out phase.
In groups C and D, six teams played in each group in a round robin format, playing both home and away. The top two teams in each group then met in a ‘semi-final’ play-off, with the two winners going through to the first knock-out phase. The remaining teams dropped out of the competition.
12 teams played home and away in the first knock-out phase, with the 10 teams qualified from groups A and B and the two teams qualified from groups C and D.
The six winners of the matches in the first knock-out phase joined with the winners of groups A and B to play home and away for the right to play in the VELUX EHF FINAL4.
The culmination of the season, the VELUX EHF FINAL4, with the four top teams from the competition competing for the title.
All draws held at the European Handball Federation headquarters in Vienna, Austria.
There was no draw held. The four teams played a semifinal and final to determine the last participant. Matches were played on 5 and 6 September 2015.RK Banja Luka organized the tournament.
All times are local (UTC+2).
The draw for the group stage was held on 26 June 2015, 20:00 CEST, in the Vienna city centre. The 28 teams were drawn into four groups, two containing eight teams (Groups A and B) and two containing six teams (Groups C and D). The only restriction was that teams from the same national association could not face each other in the same group. Since Germany qualified three teams, the lowest seeded side (Flensburg-Handewitt) had necessarily to be drawn with one of the other two.
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