Coupe de la Ligue (men's handball)

The Coupe de la Ligue was an annual League cup competition for French men's handball professional clubs. Organized by the Ligue Nationale de Handball, it first took place in 2002. He was run by the French Handball Federation for the two first years, and in 2004 the Ligue Nationale de Handball took over until it was cancelled in 2022.^[1]

Montpellier Handball is the competition's most successful club as of 2019 with ten titles, followed by Paris Saint-Germain Handball with three.^[2]

In the 2019-2020 the tournament was cancelled at the semifinals, and in the 2020-2021 season, it was cancelled outright.^[3] It came back for a single season in 2021-2022, but was ultimately scrapped to lighten the schedule in French handball.^[1]

Champions

Winners by season

Year	Champion	Runner-up	Score	Location
2001-2002 [fr]	SO Chambéry	Dunkerque HBGL	25 – 19	Cosec Eugène Griesmar, Sélestat
2002-2003 [fr]	US Créteil	Montpellier Handball	27 – 23	Palais des Sports, Besançon
2003-2004 [fr]	Montpellier Handball	US Créteil	26 – 23	Stade des Flandres, Dunkerque
2004-2005 [fr]	Montpellier Handball (2)	Paris Handball	27 – 21	Le Parnasse, Nîmes
2005-2006 [fr]	Montpellier Handball (3)	Paris Handball	31 – 30	Gymnase Pierre Charpy, Paris
2006-2007 [fr]	Montpellier Handball (4)	US Ivry	34 – 33	Les Arènes, Metz
2007-2008 [fr]	Montpellier AHB (5)	US Créteil	26 – 23	Halle olympique, Albertville
2008-2009 [fr]	Istres OPH	Montpellier AHB	22 – 20	AmericanAirlines Arena, Miami
2009-2010 [fr]	Montpellier AHB (6)	Saint-Raphaël VHB	37 – 25	Palais des Sports de Beaulieu, Nantes
2010-2011 [fr]	Montpellier AHB (7)	Chambéry SH	32 – 29	Palais des Sports, Pau
2011-2012 [fr]	Montpellier AHB (8)	Saint-Raphaël VHB	28 – 27	Palais des Sports de Beaulieu, Nantes
2012-2013 [fr]	US Dunkerque HBGL	HBC Nantes	28 – 24	Palais des sports André-Brouat, Toulouse
2013-2014 [fr]	Montpellier AHB (9)	Saint-Raphaël VHB	34 – 21	Le Phare, Chambéry
2014-2015 [fr]	HBC Nantes	Fenix Toulouse	23 – 20	Kindarena, Rouen
2015-2016 [fr]	Montpellier Handball (10)	Paris Saint-Germain Handball	31 – 26	Arena Montpellier, Montpellier
2016-2017 [fr]	Paris Saint-Germain (1)	HBC Nantes	31 – 27	Complexe René-Tys, Reims
2017-2018 [fr]	Paris Saint-Germain (2)	Fenix Toulouse Handball	40 – 30	Les Arènes, Metz
2018-2019 [fr]	Paris Saint-Germain (3)	Montpellier Handball	31 – 25	Antarès, Le Mans
2019-2020 [fr]	cancelled in semi-finals due to COVID-19 pandemic
2020-2021	cancelled due to COVID-19 pandemic
2021-2022 [fr]	HBC Nantes (2)	Chambéry Savoie	28 – 21	Les Arènes, Metz

Performances

#	Club	Winner		Runner-up
		Nb	Years	Nb	Years
1	Montpellier Handball	10	2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2010, 2011, 2012, 2014, 2016	3	2003, 2009, 2019
2	Paris Saint-Germain Handball	3	2017, 2018, 2019	3	2005, 2006, 2016
3	HBC Nantes (T)	2	2015, 2022	2	2013, 2017
4	US Créteil Handball	1	2003	2	2004, 2008
	Chambéry Savoie Mont-Blanc Handball	1	2002	2	2011, 2022
6	Dunkerque Handball Grand Littoral	1	2013	1	2002
7	Istres Ouest Provence Handball	1	2009	0	-
8	Saint-Raphaël Var Handball	0	-	3	2010, 2012, 2014
9	Fenix Toulouse Handball	0	-	2	2015, 2018
10	US Ivry Handball	0	-	1	2007
-	Cancelled	2	2020, 2021	2	2020, 2021
Total		21	2002-2022	21	2002-2022

Legend : 10 cups won; (T) : title holder