EHF announced that 43 teams from 26 countries are interested in playing at VELUX EHF Champions League 2017/2018. The final list of all participants will only be confirmed at the EHF Executive Committee meeting on Saturday 24 June in Zagreb.
The confirmation by the EHF EXEC is based on an evaluation of the registered clubs divided into eight different criteria (venue, TV, ranking in the domestic league, spectators, performance in past EHF club competitions, sponsoring potential, implementation of duties and regulations and media).
Only five national champions have decided not to register this season (BEL, CZE, GRE, ISL, SRB).
The draw of the qualification tournament(s) will take place on Thursday 29 June in Vienna, while the group phase draw will be held in Ljubljana on Friday 30 June.
The VELUX EHF Champions League 2017/18 will be played in the same mode as the previous two seasons with 28 teams of the group phase split in four groups. In Group A and B there will be eight teams each, while each in Group C and D only six teams will play.
Teams registered based on the EHF Ranking list (24):
AUT Alpla HC Hard
BLR HC Meshkov Brest
CRO PPD Zagreb
DEN Aalborg Handbold
ESP FC Barcelona Lassa
FIN Cocks
FRA Paris Saint Germain
GER Rhein-Neckar Löwen
GER SG Flensburg Handewitt
HUN Telekom Veszprem
HUN MOL-Pick Szeged
MKD HC Vardar
NOR Elverum
NED OCI/Lions
POL KS Vive Tauron Kielce
POR Sporting CP
ROU CS Dinamo Bucuresti
RUS Chekhovskie medvedi
SLO RK Celje Pivovarna Lasko
SUI Kadetten Schaffhausen
SVK TATRAN Presov
SWE IFK Kristianstad
TUR Besiktas MOGAZ HT
UKR HC “Motor”
Requests for additional Places from Nations with at least one place in the CL (15)
BLR SKA-Minsk
CRO RK Nexe
DEN Skjern Handbold
DEN Bjerringbro-Silkeborg
ESP Ademar de Leon
ESP CBM Ciudad de Logrono
FRA HBC Nantes
FRA Montpellier HB
GER THW Kiel
HUN Grundfos Tatabanya
MKD HC Metalurg
POR FC Porto
POL Orlen Wisla Plock
ROU CSM Bucuresti
SLO RK Gorenje Velenje
Requests from Federations without a place in the CL (4)
EST Pölva Serviti
ISR Maccabi Srugo Rishon Lezion
LTU Dragunas Klaipeda
LUX HB Esch
