One club on debut, six former champions and 132 matches ahead

0 teams have been part of all 10 Women’s EHF FINAL4 tournaments. Record winners Györ top the ranking with nine appearances, seven final participations and five trophies won in Budapest. The only time they missed the event was in 2015.

1 player has won the Women’s EHF Champions League seven times and now aims for her eighth trophy: 42-year-old Vipers goalkeeper Katrine Lunde, who took the title with Viborg (2009, 2010), Györ (2013, 2014) and Vipers (2021, 2022, 2023). She was awarded MVP of the 2022/23 season at the first EHF Excellence Awards.

1 city is represented by two teams, as in the previous season: Bucharest, by CSM and Rapid Bucuresti.

1 debutant is among the 16 teams part of the group phase: CS Gloria from the Romanian city of Bistrita-Nasaud.

1 draw is needed before the Women’s EHF FINAL4: for the semi-finals. The other knockout rounds towards the pinnacle event are decided by the final ranking of the group phase.

1 — for the first time since the implementation of the Women’s EHF FINAL4 in Budapest, in 2023, two teams from the same country were part of it: Györ and FTC from Hungary. Both lost against Vipers.

2 teams have defended their trophy at the EHF FINAL4 in Budapest: Györ in 2018 and 2019, after winning the first in that run in 2017, and Vipers 2022 and 2023, following their first in the series in 2021. Through their victory in the 2018/19 edition, Györ were the first ever women’s side to win the EHF Champions League three times in a row. Now, Vipers have followed.

2 group winners and runners-up qualify directly from the group phase to the quarter-finals.

2 nations are represented by three teams each in the group phase: Denmark (Esbjerg, Odense, Nyköbing) and Romania (CS Gloria, CSM and Rapid Bucuresti).

2 teams per group — those that finish seventh and eighth on their final table ranking — will terminate their international journey after the first stage of the competition.

2 EHF Champions League debutants made it to Budapest in their first EHF Champions League seasons and one of them is part of the 2024/25 group phase: Vardar (2014) and CSM Bucuresti (2016).

2 players who are part of the 2024/25 competition have won the EHF Champions League six times: Nora Mørk (Team Esbjerg) and Jana Knedlikova (Vipers). Knedlikova won all six titles consecutively — three times with Györ then three times with Vipers.

3 nations are represented by two teams: France (Metz and Brest), Hungary (Györ and FTC) and Norway (Vipers and Storhamar).

3 countries have seen the trophy won by two different clubs: Norway with Larvik and Vipers, Hungary with Györ and Dunaferr, and Denmark with Slagelse and Viborg. Since the inception of the competition in 1994, the remaining countries on the winners’ list have been represented by only one club.

4 different clubs have won the EHF FINAL4 in Budapest since its premiere in 2014: Vipers, Györ, Buducnost (2015) and CSM Bucuresti (2016).

4 — which means all — teams at the EHF FINAL4 2024 in Budapest are part of the group stage again: Györ, Ludwigsburg (formerly Bietigheim), Esbjerg and Metz.

4 different throw-off times make it easy for fans to follow the EHF Champions League Women: The matches will either start at 16:00 or 18:00 CET/CEST on Saturdays and 14:00 or 16:00 CET/CEST on Sundays.

4 former of current female IHF World Players of the Year combining for seven awards are part of the group phase: Cristina Neagu (CSM/2010, 2015, 2016, 2018), Andrea Lekic (FTC/2013), Sandra Toft (Györ/2021) and Henny Reistad (Esbjerg/2023).

5 former EHF Champions League top scorers will be on court in the group phase: Cristina Neagu (2015: 102 for Buducnost; 2018: 110 for CSM; 2022: 110 for CSM), Ana Gros (2021: 135 for Brest), Henny Reistad (2023: 142 for Esbjerg), Zsuzsanna Tomori (2013: 102 for FTC) and Anna Vyakhireva (2024: 113 for Vipers)

6 times, including the 2023/24 season, Györ became EHF Champions League winners — the record title holders in this competition.

6 former or current Women’s EHF Champions League winners (including all since 2012) representing 15 titles are part of the 2024/25 group stage: Podravka (1996), Krim (2001, 2003), Buducnost (2012, 2015), Györ (2013, 2014, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2024), CSM Bucuresti (2016) and Vipers (2021, 2022, 2023).

9 of the 16 teams in the group phase have been part of the EHF FINAL4 in Budapest: Györ, Vipers, Metz, CSM, Brest, Esbjerg, FTC, Buducnost and Ludwigsburg (as Bietigheim).

9 different nations — one less than the previous season — are part of the group matches: Denmark, France, Germany, Hungary, Montenegro, Norway, Romania, Slovenia and Croatia.

11 nations represent the previous winners of the Women’s EHF Champions League: Hungary (seven titles), Denmark (six), Austria (four), Norway (four), Slovenia (two), Montenegro (two), North Macedonia, Spain, Croatia, Russia and Romania (one each).

12 clubs that were part of the 2023/24 group phase are back again: Odense, Esbjerg, Brest, Metz, Ludwigsburg (formerly Bietigheim), FTC, Györ, CSM Bucuresti, Rapid Bucuresti, Buducnost, Vipers and Krim. The clubs joining the race for the title in 2024/25 are Nyköbing, Storhamar, Podravka and CS Gloria replacing Ikast, Lublin, Sävehof and Debrecen.

13 different clubs were part of the eight EHF FINAL4 events: Györ (nine times), Vardar (five), Vipers (four), Buducnost (four), Metz (three), Esbjerg (three), CSM (three), Rostov (two), Midtjylland, Volgograd, Larvik, CSKA, Brest, FTC and Bietigheim (all one).

18 from 18 previous seasons, record and current defending title holders Györ had qualified for at least the quarter-finals of the competition. 16 times for the semi-finals.

16 or 18 matches will be played by those four teams that make it to the EHF FINAL4 in Budapest (31 May–1 June 2025), depending on whether they skip the play-offs or not.

30 times, including the new season, Krim have been part of the Women’s EHF Champions League. Their participation record has them one ahead of Buducnost, with 29 participations. 

78 goals is the record of an individual player at the EHF FINAL4 in Budapest, scored by Henny Reistad in only 10 matches, ahead of her Esbjerg teammate Nora Mørk (70), and Nycke Groot, Andrea Lekic and Anita Görbicz (all 57).

112 group matches will be thrown off between September 2024 and February 2025.

113 goals were scored by Russian Anna Vyakhireva (Vipers) to make her top scorer of the 2023/24 season.

132 matches are ahead until the winners of the Women’s EHF Champions League 2024/25 are confirmed in Budapest on 1 June 2025.

219 victories (21 draws and 50 defeats) in 290 EHF Champions League matches give Györ the all-time number one ranking in the competition. During the group phase, Györ will become the third team with more than 300 EHF Champions League Women matches.

320 EHF Champions League matches are in the history books for Buducnost. They became the first women’s club with more 300 matches in the top flight in the 2022/23 season and are followed by Krim (316). 

1,141 goals have been scored by Jovanka Radicevic (Krim) in 20 EHF Champions League seasons, making her the all-time top scorer, ahead of Cristina Neagu (1,132). Both are still part of the competition and passed previous all-time top scorer Anita Görbicz (1,016) in the 2022/23 season.

7,380 goals were scored in the 132 matches of the 2023/24 season, including 6,261 goals in the 112 group matches, 455 goals in the play-offs, 428 in the quarter-finals and 236 at the EHF FINAL4, for an average of 55.9 goals per match.

20,022 spectators set the new world record for women’s handball attendance at the sold-out EHF FINAL4 2023 in MVM Dome in Budapest. This record was broken at the 2024 Olympic Games.