2016–17 Women's EHF Cup
The 2016–17 Women's EHF Cup is the 36th edition of EHF's second-tier women's handball competition. It started on 9 September 2016.
Overview
Team allocation
The labels in the parentheses show how each team qualified for the place of its starting round:- TH: Title holders
- CWC: EHF Women's Cup Winners' Cup holders
- 1st, 2nd, 3rd, 4th, 5th, 6th, etc.: League position
- CW: Domestic cup winners
- CR: Domestic cup runners-up
- CL QT: Losers from the Champions League qualification stage.
- CL Group: Losers from the Champions League group stage.
Round and draw dates
Qualification stage
Round 1
There is 42 teams participating in round 2.Round 2
There is 32 teams participating in round 2.21 teams who qualified from round 1 and 11 teams joining the draw.
Round 3
There is 24 teams participating in round 3.16 teams who qualified from round 2 and 8 teams joining the draw.
Group stage
There is 16 teams participating in the group phase.12 teams who qualified from round 3 and 4 teams joining the draw.
Seedings
The seedings were announced on 21 November 2016Teams in the draw will be protected against meeting teams from the same country in the same group.
| Pot 1 | Pot 2 | Pot 3 | Pot 4 |
 HC Leipzig Glassverket IF Rostov-Don IK Sävehof |  Nykøbing Falster HK SG BBM Bietigheim VfL Oldenburg HC Kuban Krasnodar | Randers HK Brest BH TuS Metzingen Érd NK | Nantes LAH Alba Fehérvár KC Byåsen HE WHC Lada Togliatti |
The first round of the group phase was scheduled for 7–8 January and the last round took place on 11–12 February.
Only the top two teams of each group made it to the quarter-finals.