2017–18 EHF Cup
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| Sport | Handball |
| Dates | 2 September 2017–20 May 2018 |
| Teams | 60+3 (Qualification stage) 16 (Group stage) |
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The 2017–18 EHF Cup is the 37th edition of the EHF Cup, the second most important European handball club competition organised by the European Handball Federation (EHF), and the sixth edition since the merger with the EHF Cup Winners' Cup.
The labels in the parentheses show how each team qualified for the place of its starting round:
The schedule of the competition is as follows (all draws are held at the EHF headquarters in Vienna, Austria):
The qualification stage consists of three rounds, which are played as two-legged ties using a home-and-away system. In the draws for each round, teams are allocated into two pots, with teams from Pot 1 facing teams from Pot 2. The winners of each pairing (highlighted in bold) qualify for the following round.
For each round, teams listed first played the first leg at home. In some cases, teams agreed to play both matches at the same venue.
A total of 30 teams entered the draw for the first qualification round, which was held on Tuesday, 18 July 2017. The draw seeding pots were composed as follows:
The first legs were played on 2–3 September and the second legs were played on 9–10 September 2017.
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