The European Handball Federation (EHF) It has already revealed the matches of the 14 days of the group stage of the Champions 2025-26although without still specifying the day and the schedules of the meetings, details that it plans to publish at the end of July. Be that as it may, the road to the Final Four of Colonia (June 13-14, 2026) It is already marked for the 16 participating teams.
Wednesdays and Thursdays will continue to be the days of competition of the best club handball tournament and there are also no changes in the schedules, 18.45 and 20.45 h. The system does not vary this season and, at the end of the league, the first two of each group will pass directly to the rooms, from the third to the sixth classified will pass to the eighths and the last two will be eliminated.
Framed in group B, the Barça will debut at the Champions League receiving GOG Danish, new destination of Was the mittulthe young 20 -year -old who has just made history leading the Faroe Islands (country of only 55,000 inhabitants) to the bronze in the Mundial sub-21. Mittun, the greatest scorer (73) and assistant (56), was chosen the logical MVP of the tournament and replaces the GOG A Tobias Grondahlsigned by the Füchse Berlin.
The Barca ones will also play in the Palau His second game, the Barça-Magdeburgothe two teams that have distributed the last five titles, three Catalans (2021, 2022, 2024), two the Germans (2023, 2025). It is a new handball classic, eight clashes already in the stage of Carlos Ortegawith six victories for Magdeburg, considered the main 'black beast' of current Barça.
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The team of Bennet Wiegert He eliminated the Barça a month ago in the last semifinals (30-31), marked by an unfortunate arbitration that very difficult for Barça to get into the final. The Magdeburg also won the final to Füchse (26-32) to crowned champion with two Spaniards in their template, Antonio Serradilla y Sergey Hernándezwhich will visit the Palau again as a rival before joining Barça in 2026 as a substitute for Emil Nielsensigned by the Veszprem Hungarian.
Barça's first departure will be Zagreb (Croatia)theoretically next to the Eurofarm Pelister Macedonio the most affordable rival of Group B, where the Barca ones also wait for the Pick Szegedhe Orlen Wisla Pick and the Paris Sg.
Handball Champions
Calendar 2025-26
1st day (September 10-11)
Group a
HBC Nantes-Füchse Berlín
Industrya Kielce-Kolstad Handball
Dinamo Bucarest-Sporting CP
Aalborg Handball-One Veszprem
Group b
SC Magdeburg-Paris Sg
OTP Bank Pick Szeged-Orlen Wisla Plock
HC Eurofarm Pelister-HC Zagreb
Barça-Gog
The Barça group stage
2025
1st day (September 10-11)
Barça-Gog
2nd day (September 17-18)
Barça-Magdeburgo
3rd day (September 24-25)
Zagreb-Barça
4th day (October 8-9)
Barça-Pick Szeged
5th Day (October 15-16)
Eurofarm Pelister-Barça
6th day (October 22-23)
Orlen Wisla Plock-Barça
7th day (November 12-13)
Barça-Ollen Wisla Pick
8th Day (November 19-20)
Paris SG-Barça
9th day (November 26-27)
Gog-Barça
10th day (December 3-4)
Barça-Paris SG
2026
11th Day (February 18-19)
Pick Szeged-Barça
12th day (February 25-26)
Barça-Zagreb
13th day (March 4-5)
Magdeburgo-Barça
14th Day (March 11-12)
BARÇA-EUROFARM PELISTER
Like the Magdeburg, the Pick Szegg, which will visit the Palau on the 4th day), maintains the solid block of the past year, when he already pressed the Barça at the crossroads of the end: the three goals of rent of the first leg in Hungary (24-27) neutralized the victory by the minimum of the SzeGed in Barcelona (29-30).
Melvyn Richardson, a new Wisla Pock player, will return to Palau on November 12 or 13
Barça will then have two movements in a row to measure two adversaries led by Spanish technicians, the movie of Raúl Alonso And the Orlen Wisla PLOCK of Xavi Sabaté. In Poland It will be time for the reunion with Melvy's RichardsonBarca until June, and the goalkeeper Viktor Hallgrimsson. The substitute for Gonzalo Pérez de Vargasnew player of Tw kielhe played last season in the Plock.
The Polish team will return the visit to the Palau on the 7th day, even before the Barca ones face their seventh and last group rival, the Paris Sgone of the peculiarities this year of the Barça calendar, which will travel to the French capital on November 19 or 20 (8th day).
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The French team is, next to Veszprem, the club with more urgencies in the Champions, still prohibited fruit for them despite a very strong investment for many years in their templates, with many millions of euros. The Danish Stefan Madsen take this season the relay of Raúl Gonzálezat the head of the PSG the last seven years and now new coach of Serbia.
The PSG presents enough changes (it comes Karl konanloses a Andreas Palicka), but keeps pillars as Elohim Prandi, Luc Steins, Yahia Omar o Kamil Syprzak. The PSG will come to Palau to play the last 2025 Champions match, on December 3 or 4, on the 10th day. After the break by the European January, the last four days of the group stage will already be played in February and March 2026.
