2009–10 EHF Champions League
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.
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.
| Key to colors in group tables |
| Top two places advance to the first knockout round |
| Third place enters the EHF Cup's Winner Cup at the round of 32 |
| Fourth place is eliminated from continental competitions |
Qualification stage
Groups
Group 1HC Vardar Skopje
HC Dinamo Minsk
Besiktas JK
RK Budućnost Podgorica
Group 2
ZTR Zaporizhzhia
A.C. PAOK
SPE Strovolos
Group 3
Fyllingen Handball
A1 Bregenz
RK Partizan Si&Si
Group 4
Tatran Prešov
Vive Targi Kielce
FC Porto Vitalis
Group 5
CB Ademar León
TBV Lemgo
Celje
Kadetten Schaffhausen
Group stage
Groups
Group AChekhovskiye Medvedi
Montpellier HB
SC Pick Szeged
BM Valladolid
HCM Constanța
A.C. PAOK
Group B
MKB Veszprém
Gorenje
Chambéry Savoie
Rhein-Neckar Löwen
RK Bosna Sarajevo
Vive Targi Kielce
Group C
BM Ciudad Real
HC Croatia Zagreb
HSV Hamburg
FCK Handbold
Alingsas HK
Fyllingen Handball
Group D
THW Kiel
KIF Kolding
FC Barcelona Borges
Ademar León
ZMC Amicitia Zürich
HC Vardar Skopje
Knockout stage
1/8 Final
The Last 16 fixtures of the 2009–10 EHF Men's Champions League were drawn in the EHF Headquarters on 9 March 2010.The four group winners were drawn against the teams ranked fourth in the Group Phase. The second ranked teams will meet teams ranked third.
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 1/4 FinalThe Quarterfinals of the EHF Men's Champions League were drawn in the EHF Headquarters on 6 April 2010.
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