Sport Handball Runner-up FC Barcelona Top scorer Filip Jícha Location Europe | Champions THW Kiel Dates 4 Sep 2009 – 30 May 2010 Champion THW Kiel Best player Filip Jícha | |
Teams 32 (Qualification stage)
24 (Group stage)
16 (Knockout stage) Similar 2014–15 EHF Champio, 2014–15 European Rugby C, 2015–16 Handball‑Bundesliga | ||
The 2009–10 EHF Champions League was the 50th edition of Europe's premier club handball tournament and the seventeenth edition under the current EHF Champions League format. It was also the first edition under the new qualifying format. Ciudad Real were the defending champions. The final was played on 30 May 2010, at the Lanxess Arena, home ground of VfL Gummersbach and Kölner Haie, in Cologne, Germany.
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Draw
The draw for the group stage took place at the Liechtenstein Museum in Vienna on 24 June 2009. A total of 24 teams were drawn into four groups of six. Teams were divided into four pots, based on EHF coefficients. Clubs from the same pot or the same association cannot be drawn into the same group.
Each team played against each other in its group twice. The top two in each group proceeded to the knockout stage, and the third-placed teams entered the EHF Cup's Winners Cup Round of 32.