List of European Cup and EHF Champions League top scorers
All-time top scorers ( including qualifying rounds )
Table:
Player

Country

Goals

Years

Clubs

1

Kiril Lazarov[1]

1306

1998-

Pelister, MKB Veszprém, Zagreb, Atlético Madrid, Barcelona, HBC Nantes

2

Nikola Karabatic[2]

1038

2002-

Montpellier, THW Kiel, FC Barcelona, Paris Saint-Germain

3

Momir Ilić[3]

1033

2004-2019

Gorenje, VfL Gummersbach THW Kiel, MKB Veszprém

4

Marko Vujin[4]

898

2006-

MKB Veszprém, THW Kiel

5

Siarhei Rutenka[5]

862

2001-2016

Celje Pivovarna Laško, Ciudad Real, Barcelona

6

Uwe Gensheimer[6]

851

2007-

Rhein-Neckar Löwen, Paris Saint-Germain

7

Timur Dibirov[7]

840

2004-

Chehovski Medvedi, RK Vardar

8

László Nagy[8]

818

2000-2019

Barcelona, MKB Veszprém

9

Mikkel Hansen[9]

780

2007-

GOG Svendborg, Barcelona, AG København, Paris Saint-Germain

10

Vid Kavtičnik[10]

725

2004-

RK Gorenje Velenje, THW Kiel, Montpellier

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Kiril Lazarov ( Macedonian : Кирил Лазаров ) ( born 10 May 1980 in Sveti Nikole , then in SFR Yugoslavia ) is an Macedonian handball player who plays for HBC Nantes and for the Macedonian national team . Hes is also the captain of the Macedonia national handball team . Lazarov holds the records for most goals scored in a single World Men 's Handball Championship ( 92 ) and single European Men 's Handball Championship ( 61 ) . He is also the all-time top scorer in the EHF Champions League and the only player to have scored more than 1,000 goals . Due to his scoring prowess , he is regarded as one of the best handball scorers of all time .
Pelister ( HC Pelister ) ( Macedonian : РК Пелистер ) is a team handball club from Bitola , North Macedonia . It was the most successful Macedonian club in the 1990s having won five league titles and four national cups . Pelister has participated in the EHF Champions League and EHF Cup Winners ' Cup five times and many other times in the EHF Cup and EHF Challenge Cup . They were also the first Macedonian men 's handball team to reach a European final , back in 2002 when they played Skjern Håndbold in the EHF Challenge Cup .
Veszprém KC is a Hungarian handball club from Veszprém , that for sponsorship reasons is called Telekom Veszprém . Veszprém plays in the Hungarian Nemzeti Bajnokság I and are the most successful team in the country , having won the Hungarian Championship a record 26 times and the Hungarian Cup title a record 24 times . Veszprém has also won the regional SEHA League two times . Veszprém are one of the three Hungarian clubs that have won a major European trophy , most recently in 2008 , when they overcame Rhein-Neckar Löwen and were crowned as the EHF Cup Winner 's Cup champions . The main sponsors of the club were the MKB Bank and the MVM Group . In the summer of 2015 , the MKB Bank decided to quit sponsoring after a 10 years interval . Their main focus is now on the younger teams . Currently the main sponsor is Magyar Telekom .
RK Prvo plinarsko društvo Zagreb is a handball club from Zagreb , Croatia . It competes in the Croatian Premier Handball League , Croatian Handball Cup , SEHA League , and in the EHF Champions League . The team was formerly known as Badel 1862 Zagreb , Banka Croatia Zagreb and Croatia Osiguranje Zagreb for sponsorship purposes . Nowadays it 's called Prvo plinarsko društvo Zagreb or PPD Zagreb . Zagreb was 33 times National Champion and won National Cup 27 times . Zagreb was also 2 times European Champion and played another 4 times in the finals and is among top eight most successful handbal clubs in EHF Champions League .
Club Balonmano Neptuno/Atlético Madrid was a Spanish professional handball team based in Madrid , Spain . Part of the Atlético Madrid sports organization . They played two seasons in the Liga ASOBAL and their home court was the Palacio Vistalegre .
Futbol Club Barcelona Handbol , for sponsorship reasons FC Barcelona Lassa , is a Spanish handball team based in Barcelona , Catalonia . It is a part of the FC Barcelona multi sports club , and was founded on 29 November 1942 . The club competes domestically in the Liga ASOBAL and in the European Champions League . It is the most successful handball club in Spain and Europe with a record number of domestic and international titles .
Handball Club Nantes is a team from Nantes , France , that plays in the LNH Division 1 .
Nikola Karabatić ( Serbian Cyrillic : Никола Карабатић ; born 11 April 1984 ) is a male French handball player for Paris Saint-Germain and the French national team . With the French national handball team , he has won two Olympic gold medals ( Summer Olympics of 2008 and 2012 ) , four World Championship gold medals ( 2009 , 2011 , 2015 and 2017 ) as well as three gold medals in the European Championship ( 2006 , 2010 and 2014 ) . He also won L'Équipe Champion of Champions in 2011 . He is regarded as one of the greatest players in handball history , and he was IHF World Player of the Year for a record-tying three times , in 2007 , 2014 , and 2016 .
Montpellier Handball , formerly named Montpellier Agglomération Handball , is a handball club from Montpellier , France . Montpellier is the only French club to ever have won the EHF Champions League .
THW Kiel is a handball club from Kiel , Germany . Currently , they compete in the Handball-Bundesliga and are the record champion with 20 titles . 2007 and 2012 were the most successful years in the club 's history , as THW completed the treble , winning the domestic league , the domestic cup and the EHF Champions League . In 2012 the team won every league game , a first in any top flight German team sports . They ended the 2018-19 season as winners of the DHB-Pokal and the EHF Cup and a second-placed finish in the Handball-Bundesliga .
Paris Saint-Germain Handball , commonly known as Paris Saint-Germain , Paris SG , or simply PSG , is a French professional handball club founded in 1941 , and based in the city of Paris in France . The club is the handball department of Paris Saint-Germain . PSG play in the highest tier of French handball , the LNH Division 1 . Their home ground for LNH matches is Stade Pierre de Coubertin , which has a seating capacity of 3,400 spectators . For EHF Champions League matches , the club play at Halle Georges Carpentier , which has a seating capacity of 4,500 spectators . Initially called Patriotes d'Asnières ( 1941-1942 ) , the club has gone through several name changes : Asnières Sports ( 1942-1987 ) , Paris-Racing-Asnières ( 1987-1988 ) , Paris-Asnières ( 1988-1992 ) , PSG-Asnières ( 1992-2002 ) , and Paris Handball ( 2002-2012 ) . After being bought by Paris Saint-Germain owners Qatar Sports Investments ( QSI ) in 2012 , the club became Paris Saint-Germain Handball . Since its inception , the club has won 19 titles . Domestically , Paris SG have clinched six LNH Division 1 titles , four French Cups , three Coupes de la Ligue , a record four French Super Cups and two LNH Division 2 titles . In international club handball , the capital side finished runners-up in the 2016-17 edition of the Champions League . PSG also have a reserve team that currently play in the Championnat National 1 , which serves as the third tier of French handball . They have played in Nationale 1 since 2017-18 , after clinching the Championnat National 2 title and winning promotion during the 2016-17 season .
Momir Ilić ( Serbian Cyrillic : Момир Илић ; born 22 December 1981 ) is a retired Serbian handball player . Momir Ilić became the first player in the history of EHF Champions League to score more than a 100 goals in three consecutive seasons .
Rokometni klub Gorenje Velenje ( English : Gorenje Velenje Handball Club ) or simply Gorenje Velenje is a Slovenian handball club from Velenje . They play their games at the Red Hall ( Rdeča dvorana ) . The club 's greatest achievements were four republic championship titles ( 1972-73 , 1980-81 , 1984-85 and 1988-89 ) in Yugoslavia . Since the Slovenian independence , the club has won three league titles ( 2008-09 , 2011-12 and 2012-13 ) , and one Slovenian handball cup title ( 2002-03 ) . The club also participated in the EHF competitions for many seasons , including the EHF Cup , the EHF Cup Winners ' Cup , and the EHF Champions League . Currently , Gorenje competes in the Slovenian First League . Together with Celje , they are the only club that have participated in every season of the Slovenian First League since its formation in 1991 . The club was known as RK Šoštanj and ŠRK Velenje in the past .
VfL Gummersbach is a handball club from the German city of Gummersbach . Currently , VfL Gummersbach competes in the 2 . Handball-Bundesliga and the DHB-Pokal . Gummersbach is one of the most successful team-handball club ever .
Marko Vujin ( Serbian Cyrillic : Марко Вујин , born 7 December 1984 ) is a Serbian handball player for Sporting CP and the Serbian national team .
Siarhei Rutenka , also Sergej Rutenka ( Belarusian : Сяргей Рутэнка ; born 29 September 1981 ) is a Belarusian former handball player . Besides Belarusian citizenship , he also acquired Slovenian citizenship in 2003 . In January 2008 , he received the Spanish nationality . His preferred position was outside left , but he was also capable of playing as the pivot and playmaker . He came to prominence while playing for the Slovenian club RK Celje and earlier for RK Gorenje . He has also played for FC Barcelona in Spain . The club acquired him for €1 million in 2009 . Rutenka was the top goalscorer at the 2006 European Men 's Handball Championship , representing Slovenia . In 2013 , he was elected best left-back of the year . He is the older brother of handball player Dzianis Rutenka .
Rokometni klub Celje ( English : Celje Handball Club ) , currently named Celje Pivovarna Laško due to sponsorship reasons , and commonly referred to as RK Celje or simply Celje , is a handball club from Celje , Slovenia . They were the winners of the Champions League in the 2003-04 season , becoming European club champions . The team plays its home matches in the Zlatorog Arena , a 5,191 capacity multi-purpose arena in Celje .
Balonmano Ciudad Real was a Spanish handball team based in Ciudad Real , Castilla La Mancha . BM Ciudad Real plays in Liga ASOBAL . They won the 2009 EHF Champions League by beating THW Kiel in the final . 67:66 on aggregate .
Uwe Gensheimer ( born 26 October 1986 ) is a German handball player for Rhein-Neckar Löwen and the German national team . He made his international debut on 25 November 2005 against Slovenia .
Rhein-Neckar Löwen is a professional handball club founded in 2002 , based in Mannheim , Germany . The club competes in the German Handball-Bundesliga and continentally in EHF Champions League . Rhein-Neckar Löwen play their home games in SAP Arena , with a seating capacity of 14,500 . The club won the German championship two times - in 2016 , and in 2017 .
Timur Magomedovich Dibirov ( Russian : Тимур Магомедович Дибиров ; born 30 July 1983 ) is a Russian handball player for RK Vardar and the Russian national team . He competed at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing , where the Russian team placed sixth . Dibirov is all-time top scorer for RK Vardar in the EHF Champions League having scored 447 goals as of 2018-19 season .
Chekhovskie Medvedi ( Russian : Чеховские Медведи , English : Chekhov Bears ) is a handball club from Chekhov , Moscow Oblast , Russia . Chehovski Medvedi competes in the Russian Handball Super League . The organization was founded in 2001 on the basis of the disbanded CSKA Moscow Handball Club .
RK Vardar ( Macedonian : РК Вардар ) is a handball club from Skopje , North Macedonia . The team is current regional SEHA League and EHF Champions League title holder . Vardar is the most successful handball team in the country , having won thirteen national League and Cup titles .
László Nagy ( born 3 March 1981 ) is a former Hungarian handball player who used to play for Telekom Veszprém , FC Barcelona , Pick Szeged and the Hungarian national team . Among his achievements at club level are several Spanish championships and cup titles and he also won the EHF Champions League , the top continental competition in Europe two times ( 2005 , 2011 ) . With the Hungarian national team , Nagy 's best results are two fourth places from the 2004 Summer Olympics and 2012 Summer Olympics Nagy was voted by the readers of the handball journal Handball Planet as the world 's best male player in 2011 . On 10 May 2019 after 22 years of professional career , Laszló announced his retirement from handball and took over as the sports director of Telekom Veszprém in the summer of 2019 .
Mikkel Hansen ( born 22 October 1987 ) is a Danish handball player for Paris Saint-Germain and the Danish national team . Hansen has been named the IHF World Player of the Year for a record-tying three times .
GOG is a handball club based in the small town of Gudme on Funen , Denmark . The club is one of the most successful in the history of Danish handball having won the Danish Handball Championship 7 times and the Danish Handball Cup a record 9 times . Currently GOG competes in the men 's Danish Handball League .
AG København ( former name : AG Håndbold ) was a Danish handball club from Glostrup and Albertslund , two suburbs of Copenhagen , Denmark . In the season 2010/2011 it plays in the Danish Handball League . Their head coach was former Danish national team player Klavs Bruun Jørgensen in the 2010/11 season . Head coach is former Swedish national team player Magnus Andersson . On 28 April 2012 , they qualified for the Final4-event in Cologne in EHF Champions League after beating FC Barcelona . The club filed for bankruptcy on July 31 , 2012 , after Jesper Nielsen pulled out of the club
Vid Kavtičnik ( born 24 May 1984 ) is a Slovenian handball player for Pays d'Aix UCH and the Slovenian national team . He competed at the 2004 and 2016 Summer Olympics .
Rokometni klub Gorenje Velenje ( English : Gorenje Velenje Handball Club ) or simply Gorenje Velenje is a Slovenian handball club from Velenje . They play their games at the Red Hall ( Rdeča dvorana ) . The club 's greatest achievements were four republic championship titles ( 1972-73 , 1980-81 , 1984-85 and 1988-89 ) in Yugoslavia . Since the Slovenian independence , the club has won three league titles ( 2008-09 , 2011-12 and 2012-13 ) , and one Slovenian handball cup title ( 2002-03 ) . The club also participated in the EHF competitions for many seasons , including the EHF Cup , the EHF Cup Winners ' Cup , and the EHF Champions League . Currently , Gorenje competes in the Slovenian First League . Together with Celje , they are the only club that have participated in every season of the Slovenian First League since its formation in 1991 . The club was known as RK Šoštanj and ŠRK Velenje in the past .