2016–17 EHF Cup

Round and draw dates

The schedule of the competition was follows (all draws were held at the EHF headquarters in Vienna, Austria):^[9]

Qualification stage

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.^[3] 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.

Round 1

A total of 30 teams entered the draw for the first qualification round, which was held on Tuesday, 19 July 2016. The draw seeding pots were composed as follows:^[3]

The first legs were played on 2–3 September and the second legs were played on 4 and 10–11 September 2015.^[10]

Team 1	Agg. Tooltip Aggregate score	Team 2	1st leg	2nd leg
Handball Käerjeng	58–561	RK Vojvodina	30–31	28–25
US Créteil Handball	56–56 (a)	RK Zamet	29–32	27–24
Alpla HC Hard	55–43	OCI-Lions	28–17	27–26
Maccabi Rishon LeZion	79–362	London GD HC	38–14	41–22
Chambéry Savoie Handball	67–39	KRAS/Volendam	31–23	36–16
GRK Varaždin 1930	51–583	BB Ankaraspor	24–32	27–26
Haukar Handball	61–464	AC Diomidis Argous	33–26	28–20
KH BESA Famiglia	58–62	HC Dukla Prague	35–31	23–31
B.S.B. Batumi	32–935	FC Porto	16–49	16–44
Csurgói KK	47–44	Bodø HK	28–21	19–23
SCM Politehnica Timișoara	51–43	Põlva Serviti	26–22	25–21
HC Olimpus-85 USEFS	49–77	ZTR Zaporizhia	28–37	21–40
RK Prilep 2010	34–846	Pfadi Winterthur	19–42	15–42
RK Metaloplastika	44–47	Dinamo Astrakhan	24–30	20–17
AC Filippos Veria	58–50	RK Budvanska Rivijera	30–24	28–26

Notes

Round 2

A total of 32 teams entered the draw for the second qualifying round, which was held after the draw for the first qualifying round on Tuesday, 19 July 2016. The draw seeding pots were composed as follows:^[3]

The first legs were played on 8–9 October and the second legs were played on 9 and 15–16 October 2016.^[11]

Team 1	Agg. Tooltip Aggregate score	Team 2	1st leg	2nd leg
KIF Kolding København	69–43	Talent M.A.T. Plzeň	38–23	31–20
Maccabi Rishon LeZion	56–491	Red Boys Differdange	26–25	30–24
Csurgói KK	58–461	HC Achilles Bocholt	34–23	24–23
S.L. Benfica	64–56	Handball Käerjeng	31–26	33–30
Chambéry Savoie Handball	44–49	Füchse Berlin	22–25	22–24
Balatonfüredi KSE	48–50	Pfadi Winterthur	28–23	20–27
Saint Petersburg HC	57–46	BB Ankaraspor	26–19	31–27
ØIF Arendal	49–51	SCM Politehnica Timișoara	23–24	26–27
Haukar Handball	51–55	Alingsås HK	24–24	27–31
ZTR Zaporizhia	45–442	Wacker Thun	23–22	22–22
NMC Górnik Zabrze	50–323	AC Filippos Veria	30–17	20–15
FC Porto	57–46	RD Koper 2013	31–24	26–22
Alpla HC Hard	53–56	SKA Minsk	28–25	25–31
Dinamo Astrakhan	60–49	HC Sporta Hlohovec	33–29	27–20
CSM București	50–50 (a)	RK Zamet	29–23	21–27
HC Dukla Prague	53–59	RK Nexe Našice	30–29	23–30

Notes

Round 3

A total of 32 teams entered the draw for the third qualifying round, which was held on Tuesday, 18 October 2016. The draw seeding pots were composed as follows:^[3][12]

The first legs were played on 18–20 and 23 November and the second legs were played on 25–27 November 2016.^[13]

Team 1	Agg. Tooltip Aggregate score	Team 2	1st leg	2nd leg
RK Zamet	43–66	MT Melsungen	23–34	20–32
SKA Minsk	55–61	Saint-Raphaël Var Handball	30–28	25–33
KS Azoty-Puławy	52–53	S.L. Benfica	34–29	18–24
Dinamo Astrakhan	55–64	HC Midtjylland	29–29	26–35
RK Gorenje Velenje	56–58	Füchse Berlin	24–29	32–29
Fraikin Granollers	57–57 (a)	ZTR Zaporizhia	27–29	30–28
Saint Petersburg HC	48–51	Maccabi Tel Aviv	25–23	23–28
SC Magdeburg	61–49	RK Nexe Našice	31–22	30–27
Helvetia Anaitasuna	53–51	Csurgói KK	27–21	26–30
Alingsås HK	56–58	GOG	29–26	27–32
SCM Politehnica Timișoara	46–52	RD Ribnica	27–22	19–30
Riihimäki Cocks	59–49	NMC Górnik Zabrze	30–19	29–30
Frisch Auf Göppingen	70–621	Pfadi Winterthur	33–30	37–32
CB Ademar León	51–52	KIF Kolding København	24–27	27–25
Bregenz Handball	56–59	FC Porto	27–28	29–31
Grundfos Tatabánya KC	63–49	Maccabi Rishon LeZion	35–23	28–26

Notes

Group stage

Füchse Berlin

Granollers

Anaitasuna

Midtjylland

GOG

KIF Kolding

Riihimäki Cocks

Saint-Raphaël

Tatabánya

M. Tel Aviv

Porto

Benfica

Ribnica

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Location of teams of the 2016–17 EHF Cup group stage.
Red: Group A; Blue: Group B; Green: Group C;