2017–18 Women's EHF Cup


The 2017–18 Women's EHF Cup was the 37th edition of EHF's second-tier women's handball competition. It started on 8 September 2017.
SCM Craiova defeated Vipers Kristiansand 52–51 in the final to win their first title.

Overview

Team allocation

The labels in the parentheses show how each team qualified for the place of its starting round:
The schedule of the competition is as follows :

Qualification stage

Round 1

There is 28 teams participating in round 1.

Round 2

There is 32 teams participating in round 2.
14 teams who qualified from round 1 and 18 teams joining the draw.

Round 3

Group stage

The seedings were announced on 23 November 2017.
Teams in the draw will be protected against meeting teams from the same country in the same group. In each group, teams played against each other in a double round-robin format, with home and away matches.

Group A

Group B

Group C

Group D

Knockout stage

The draw event was held at the EHF Office in Vienna on Tuesday 13 February at 11:00 hrs. The draw had determined the quarter-final and also the semi-final pairings.

Quarterfinals

Seeding

Pot 1Pot 2

Brest Bretagne Handball

Larvik HK

Lada

Kastamonu Belediyesi
Viborg HK

Vipers Kristiansand

HC Zalău

SCM Craiova

The first quarter-final leg was scheduled for 3 March, while the second leg followed one week later.

Matches

SCM Craiova won 49–48 on aggregate.
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Kastamonu Belediyesi won 55–53 on aggregate.
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Vipers Kristiansand won 55–51 on aggregate.
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Viborg HK won 55–47 on aggregate.

Semifinals

The semi-finals were played in the first half of April.

Matches

SCM Craiova won 41–40 on aggregate.
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Vipers Kristiansand won 60–57 on aggregate.

Final

Matches

SCM Craiova won 52–51 on aggregate.

Top goalscorers

RankPlayerClubGoals
1 Linn Jørum Sulland Vipers Kristiansand78
2 Cristina Florianu SCM Craiova69
3 Ann Grete Nørgaard Østerballe Viborg HK65