Provided are a method and an apparatus for receiving a control channel in a wireless communication system. A user equipment (UE) receives, in the course of configuring a user-centric virtual cell or a cooperation-based cell cluster and performing handover, a physical downlink control channel (PDCCH) and a cell-specific reference signal (CRS) from at least one of an anchor cell or a supporting neighbor cell, and receives data from at least one of the anchor cell or the supporting neighbor cell on the basis of the received PDCCH and CRS.