Three of the participating sides were also present at the EHF FINAL4 2025: title-holders SC Magdeburg, runners-up Füchse Berlin and 2024 EHF Champions League winners Barça. They are joined by 2024 finalists Aalborg Håndbold.
The two semi-finals will be rematches of the last two editions’ finals, as Magdeburg face Berlin in a German derby, and Aalborg will try to get past Barça in the other semi-final.
SEMI-FINALS
Saturday 13 June, 15:00 CEST, live on EHFTV
H2H: 2-0-0
Last match: Füchse Berlin vs SC Magdeburg, 15th June 2025 (26:32 (12:16))
- Magdeburg finished second in group B with 23 points, and defeated OTP-Bank PICK Szeged 80:65 on aggregate in the quarter-finals
- Berlin finished first in group A, with 22 points, before beating One Veszprém HC in the quarter-finals by just one goal on aggregate (69:68)
- Magdeburg are the reigning Machineseeker EHF Champions League champions, and have won the trophy three times: in 2002, 2023 and 2025
- Berlin, on the other hand, reached the EHF FINAL4 for the first time last season, when they reached the final but lost 26:32 to Magdeburg
- last season’s EHF FINAL4 final remains the only time the two clubs played against each other in the competition; however, they also met in the EHF European League Men 2020/21 final, when SCM took the title (28:25)
- Magdeburg also won the two confrontations the two teams played in the Bundesliga this season, at home (33:31) and in Berlin (39:31)
- Berlin’s Mathias Gidsel is the current best scorer of the competition with 144 goals while Ómar Ingi Magnusson has scored 86 for SCM this season
- the two clubs have already won one domestic title each this season: Magdeburg won the Bundesliga a couple of days ago, Berlin won the German Cup in April, beating Bergischer HC 42:33 in the final
