New EHF European League Men with 32 teams
The new EHF European League starts with 32 teams, being drawn to eight groups of four at the start – and therefore no qualification matches are played ahead of the group phase.
According to the place distribution ranking, 36 teams have a place in the EHF European League. However, with twelve teams being upgraded to the EHF Champions League, there are eight spots available for distribution.
Five of them are upgrades respectively additional clubs from federations which received an upgrade to the EHF Champions League. Priority will be given to those federations which because of an upgrade to their club(s) to the EHF Champions League are not represented in the EHF European League any longer.
Two upgrades are open for clubs from federations with neither a fixed place in the EHF Champions League nor in the EHF European League.
For the final spot, the EHF reserves the right to allocate this through a wild card.
Quelle: EHF