On Saturday and Sunday, June 14 and 15, 2025, the Handball Champions League Final Four will take place in Cologne. Two Bundesliga teams are dreaming of triumph in the premier class.
Champions League Final Four 2025: Schedule & Dates
When is the Handball Champions League Final Four 2025?
The Handball Champions League Final Four 2025 will take place on June 14 and 15 at the Lanxess Arena in Cologne. The final tournament of the premier class of handball has been held in the cathedral city for many years.
The Champions League Four 2025 schedule starts with the two semi-finals on Saturday. The first semi-final between Füchse Berlin and HBC Nantes kicks off at 3 p.m.
The second semi-final between FC Barcelona and SC Magdeburg will start at 6 p.m. On Sunday, June 15, the teams will battle it out for the medals and the winner’s trophy.
At 3 p.m., the match for third place will be played between the two semi-final losers from the previous day. The highlight of the Handball Champions League Final Four 2025 schedule will follow at 6 p.m., when the final kicks off!
Champions League Final Four broadcast on TV & stream
Who is showing the matches in the 2025 Handball Champions League Final Four?
The Handball TV broadcast of the final tournament of the premier handball competition will be available from three different providers: DAZN, DF1, and Dyn.
The Champions League Final Four 2025 will be broadcast live on DAZN. The sports streaming service has the rights to the European Handball Cup and will therefore also show the final tournament live in its entirety.
Pre-match coverage on both days will begin on the sports streaming service half an hour before kick-off.
Jens Westen will provide commentary and Anna Bitter will be the expert analyst for the first semi-final between Berlin and Nantes on Saturday. The second semi-final between Barcelona and Magdeburg will be commentated by Uwe Semrau, with Jogi Bitter providing expert analysis.
The commentary teams will remain the same for the CL Final Four broadcast on Sunday. Jens Westen and Anna Bitter will commentate on the match for third place. The duo for the final will then be Uwe Semrau and Jogi Bitter again.
Thanks to its cooperation with DAZN, DF1 will also broadcast all matches of the 2025 Champions League Final Four – on free TV! DF1 will take over the commentary from the streaming service.
However, the first semi-final and the match for third place will not appear in the program until 75 minutes late. Whether this will actually be the case or whether the match will be broadcast live in its entirety is currently unclear. We have contacted DF1 for further information.
Last but not least, the mini tournament will be streamed live on Dyn, which many handball fans are likely to have subscribed to anyway. As with DAZN, the pre-match reports will begin half an hour before kick-off.
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The four teams in the 2025 Handball Champions League Final Four
Four teams will battle it out in the EHF Final Four for the 2025 Champions League title.
Defending champions FC Barcelona will be there, as will 2023 champions SC Magdeburg. Füchse Berlin and HBC Nantes have also qualified for the Final Four.
In the quarterfinals, the new German champions from Berlin clearly defeated Aalborg, while Nantes prevailed against Sporting Lisbon.
Barcelona had to fight hard against Pick Szeged, but in the end they made it to the Champions League semifinals, as did SC Magdeburg, who won by one goal against MKB Veszprem.
Who will win the 2025 Handball Champions League? In Bet365’s betting odds, Füchse Berlin are the favorites to win the title before the start of the final tournament.
After winning their first championship title and completely dominating Aalborg in the CL quarterfinals, the German capital club is the strongest of the last four teams in terms of form.
In the semifinals, they also face what is considered the easiest task in the tournament. HBC Nantes is the clear underdog against the three big names from Germany and Spain.
According to the betting provider’s predictions, the biggest rival for the tournament victory is last year’s winner, FC Barcelona.
The Spanish champions will face SC Magdeburg in the EHF Final Four semifinals and will definitely have to stretch themselves here. SCM now knows exactly how to approach and win a final tournament.
This is how they ultimately succeeded in their Champions League victory against Kielce in 2023. Could there possibly be an all-German final in the premier class of handball in 2025?
