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.[1]
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.
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.
The Quarterfinals of the EHF Men's Champions League were drawn in the EHF Headquarters on 6 April 2010.
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