The European Handball Federation has made a decision on the field for the Women’s Champions League 2025/26. DVSC SCHAEFFLER is among the teams that received a wild card.

19 clubs applied for the 16-team group stage, nine of which were automatically qualified. Two Danish teams, Team Esbjerg and Odense Handbold, French Metz, German HB Ludwigsburg, Hungarian gold medalist Győri Audi ETO KC, Montenegrin OTP Group Buducsnost, Norwegian champion Storhamar Handball Elite, Romanian first team CSM Bucuresti and Slovenian RK Krim Mercator qualified automatically for the CL. Of the applicants for the wild card, DVSC SCHAEFFLER received the right to start, so we are back in the elite league after the 2023/24 season!

The following teams have been given free cards: FTC–Rail Cargo Hungaria, DVSC SCHAEFFLER, Podravka Koprivnica (Croatia), Ikast HB (Denmark), Brest Bretagne (France), Borussia Dortmund (Germany), Gloria Bistrita-Nasaud (Romania).
The group stage draw will be held on Friday at 3 p.m. in Vienna.
“This is a great honor for both the club and the city,” said our head coach, Zoltán Szilágyi. The participation in the Champions League is a serious opportunity that we can benefit from in the long term. It is positive that we already have experience in the elite league, and in the 2023/24 season we established ourselves among the best on the continent. I expect the team in formation to prove that it did not receive the opportunity undeservedly. It is important that this also means serious motivation for the players from the beginning of the preparation.”