Three of the head coaches who steered their teams to the Maschinensucher EHF Finals 2025 in Hamburg have won the EHF Champions League. The coaches of the semi-final opponents SG Flensburg-Handewitt and MT Melsungen even won the trophy together with the same team: Spanish side Ciudad Real. And Flensburg’s Aleš Pajovič and Melsungen's Roberto Parrondo beat the third Champions League winner, Filip Jicha, in their last mutual final. Jicha was playing for THW Kiel when they lost against Ciudad Real on aggregate in 2009, and now he is Kiel coach.