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The 2022–23 EHF Champions League knockout stage began on 22 March with the playoffs and ended on 18 June 2023 with the final at the Lanxess Arena in Cologne, Germany, to decide the winners of the 2022–23 EHF Champions League. A total of twelve teams competed in the knockout phase.

Format

In the playoffs, the eight teams ranked 3th–6th in Groups A and B played against each other in two-legged home-and-away matches. The four winning teams advanced to the quarterfinals, where they were joined by the top-two teams of Groups A and B for another round of two-legged home-and-away matches. The four quarterfinal winners qualified for the final four tournament at the Lanxess Arena in Cologne, Germany.^[1]

Qualified teams

The top six teams from Groups A and B qualified for the knockout stage.

Group	Qualified for quarterfinals		Qualified for playoffs
Group	First place	Second place	Third place	Fourth place	Fifth place	Sixth place
A	Paris Saint-Germain	SC Magdeburg	Telekom Veszprém	GOG Håndbold	Dinamo București	Orlen Wisła Płock
B	Barça	Barlinek Industria Kielce	HBC Nantes	THW Kiel	Aalborg Håndbold	OTP Bank - Pick Szeged

All times are UTC+2 (matches on 22 and 23 March are UTC+1).

Playoffs

Overview

Team 1	Agg.Tooltip Aggregate score	Team 2	1st leg	2nd leg
OTP Bank - Pick Szeged	56–74	Telekom Veszprém	23–36	33–38
Orlen Wisła Płock	57–57 5–4 (p)	HBC Nantes	32–32	25–25
Aalborg Håndbold	54–60	GOG Håndbold	30–28	24–32
Dinamo București	60–72	THW Kiel	28–41	32–31

Matches

22 March 2023 18:45	OTP Bank - Pick Szeged	23–36	Telekom Veszprém	Pick Aréna, Szeged Attendance: 7,700 Referees: Elíasson, Pálsson (ISL)
	Radivojević 6	(7–20)	Marguč 11
	1× 2×	Report	1× 4× 1×

30 March 2023 18:45	Telekom Veszprém	38–33	OTP Bank - Pick Szeged	Veszprém Aréna, Veszprém Attendance: 5,000 Referees: Bonaventura, Bonaventura (FRA)
	Lauge 9	(17–16)	Garciandia 10
	3×	Report	1× 4×

Telekom Veszprém won 74–56 on aggregate.

22 March 2023 20:45	Orlen Wisła Płock	32–32	HBC Nantes	Orlen Arena, Płock Attendance: 4,500 Referees: Nikolov, Nachevski (MKD)
	Lučin, Zhitnikov 6	(14–18)	Rivera Folch 10
	1× 3×	Report	3×

29 March 2023 20:45	HBC Nantes	29–30	Orlen Wisła Płock	H Arena, Nantes Attendance: 5,902 Referees: Kurtagic, Wetterwik (SWE)
	Minne 9	(14–11)	Kosorotov, Lučin 5
	1× 5×	Report	1× 4×
	FT: 25–25 Pen: 4–5

57–57 on aggregate. Orlen Wisła Płock won 5–4 on penalties.

23 March 2023 18:45	Aalborg Håndbold	30–28	GOG Håndbold	Gigantium, Aalborg Attendance: 5,020 Referees: Konjičanin, Konjičanin (BIH)
	Munk 6	(16–12)	Madsen 9
	3×	Report	2×

30 March 2023 20:45	GOG Håndbold	32–24	Aalborg Håndbold	Arena Fyn, Odense Attendance: 4,000 Referees: Jørum, Kleven (NOR)
	Pytlick 8	(15–11)	Claar 7
	3× 1×	Report	1× 6× 1×

GOG Håndbold won 60–54 on aggregate.

22 March 2023 18:45	Dinamo București	28–41	THW Kiel	Polyvalent Hall, Bucharest Attendance: 4,503 Referees: Horáček, Novotný (CZE)
	Kašpárek, Kuduz 6	(11–19)	three players 6
	1×	Report	3×

29 March 2023 18:45	THW Kiel	31–32	Dinamo București	Wunderino Arena, Kiel Attendance: 5,621 Referees: Jurinović, Mrvica (CRO)
	Ekberg 9	(16–17)	Kuduz 5
	1×	Report	1×

THW Kiel won 72–60 on aggregate.

Quarterfinals

Overview

Team 1	Agg.Tooltip Aggregate score	Team 2	1st leg	2nd leg
THW Kiel	56–63	Paris Saint-Germain	27–31	29–32
GOG Håndbold	61–73	Barça	30–37	31–36
Orlen Wisła Płock	50–52	SC Magdeburg	22–22	28–30
Telekom Veszprém	56–60	Barlinek Industria Kielce	29–29	27–31

Matches

10 May 2023 20:45	THW Kiel	27–31	Paris Saint-Germain	Wunderino Arena, Kiel Attendance: 9,821 Referees: Mažeika, Gatelis (LTU)
	Sagosen 9	(12–13)	four players 6
	2× 5× 1×	Report	1× 6× 1×

17 May 2023 20:45	Paris Saint-Germain	32–29	THW Kiel	Stade Pierre de Coubertin, Paris Attendance: 3,185 Referees: Hansen, Madsen (DEN)
	Krištopāns 6	(17–15)	Ekberg, Øverby 5
	4×	Report	3×

Paris Saint-Germain won 63–56 on aggregate.

11 May 2023 20:45	GOG Håndbold	30–37	Barça	Arena Fyn, Odense Attendance: 4,000 Referees: Brunner, Salah (SUI)
	Madsen 9	(15–19)	Cindrić 9
	2× 3×	Report	2×

18 May 2023 20:45	Barça	36–31	GOG Håndbold	Palau Blaugrana, Barcelona Attendance: 4,000 Referees: Schulze, Tönnies (GER)
	Frade 6	(20–13)	Madsen 5
		Report	1× 2×

Barça won 73–61 on aggregate.

10 May 2023 18:45	Orlen Wisła Płock	22–22	SC Magdeburg	Orlen Arena, Płock Attendance: 5,460 Referees: Gubica, Milošević (CRO)
	Kosorotov, Mihić 4	(9–12)	Damgaard 8
	3×	Report	1× 3×

17 May 2023 18:45	SC Magdeburg	30–28	Orlen Wisła Płock	GETEC Arena, Magdeburg Attendance: 6,300 Referees: Pavićević, Ražnatović (MNE)
	Smits 14	(13–13)	Kosorotov 8
	1× 5×	Report	3×

SC Magdeburg won 52–50 on aggregate.

11 May 2023 18:45	Telekom Veszprém	29–29	Barlinek Industria Kielce	Veszprém Aréna, Veszprém Attendance: 5,221 Referees: Marín, García (ESP)
	El-Deraa, Štrlek 6	(13–16)	A. Dujshebaev 6
	5×	Report	1× 2×

18 May 2023 18:45	Barlinek Industria Kielce	31–27	Telekom Veszprém	Hala Legionów, Kielce Attendance: 4,200 Referees: Lah, Sok (SLO)
	A. Dujshebaev, Sićko 6	(18–12)	Remili 7
	4×	Report	1× 5× 1×

Barlinek Industria Kielce won 60–56 on aggregate.

Final four

The final four was held at the Lanxess Arena in Cologne, Germany on 17 and 18 June 2023.^[2] The draw took place on 23 May 2023.^[3]^[4]

Bracket

Semi-finals		Final

17 June

SC Magdeburg (pen.)	38 (2)
		18 June
Barça	38 (1)
		SC Magdeburg (ET)	30
17 June
		Barlinek Industria Kielce	29
Paris Saint-Germain	24

Barlinek Industria Kielce	25
		Third place

		18 June

		Barça	37

		Paris Saint-Germain	31

Semifinals

17 June 2023 15:15	SC Magdeburg	40–39 (ET)	Barça	Lanxess Arena, Cologne Attendance: 19,450 Referees: Elíasson, Pálsson (ISL)
	Smits 12	(16–18)	N'Guessan 9
	2× 7× 1×	Report	1× 3×
	FT: 31–31 ET: 7–7 Pen: 2–1

17 June 2023 18:00	Paris Saint-Germain	24–25	Barlinek Industria Kielce	Lanxess Arena, Cologne Attendance: 19,750 Referees: Horáček, Novotný (CZE)
	Steins 6	(14–16)	A. Dujshebaev 6
	3×	Report	3×

Third place game

18 June 2023 15:15	Barça	37–31	Paris Saint-Germain	Lanxess Arena, Cologne Attendance: 19,450 Referees: Jørum, Kleven (NOR)
	Janc 7	(22–13)	N'Tanzi, Syprzak 7
		Report

Final

18 June 2023 18:00	SC Magdeburg	30–29 (ET)	Barlinek Industria Kielce	Lanxess Arena, Cologne Attendance: 19,750 Referees: Lah, Sok (SLO)
	Smits 8	(13–15)	A. Dujshebaev 8
	2× 5× 1×	Report	1× 4×
	FT: 26–26 ET: 4–3