2024 European Men's Handball Championship

2024 EHF European Men's Handball Championship
Handball-Europameisterschaft der Männer 2024
Tournament details
Host country	Germany
Dates	10–28 January
Teams	24 (from 1 confederation)
Venue(s)	6
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The 2024 EHF European Men's Handball Championship will be the 16th edition of the tournament and the third to feature 24 national teams. It will be hosted in Germany from 10 to 28 January 2024.[1][2]

Bid process

Bidding timeline

The bidding timeline is as follows:[3]

1 May 2017: Bidding nations to provide official expression of interest in the hosting of the tournament
1 July 2017: Bidding manuals sent to all bidding federations
1 November 2017: Deadline for completed bidding and application documentation to be provided to the EHF office
15 December 2017: Applications to be approved at the EHF executive committee in Hamburg
20 June 2018: Appointment of host(s) of EHF Euro 2024 at the 14th ordinary EHF Congress in Glasgow, Scotland

Bids

On 4 May 2017, it was announced that the following countries had sent in an official expression of interest:[4]

However, when the deadline for submitting the final bids expired, the following applications had been received:

Host selection

On 20 June 2018 at the 14th ordinary EHF Congress held in Glasgow, Germany was selected to host the competition.[6]

Voting results[7]
Country
Country	Votes
Germany	27
Denmark & Switzerland	19
Hungary & Slovakia	-
Total	46

As Hungary and Slovakia were selected as the 2022 hosts their 2024 bid was withdrawn.

Venues

On 10 June 2021, the host cities were announced where the championship will be played in six cities. The opening game will be held in Merkur Spiel-Arena in Düsseldorf and is aiming to break the world record for the largest attendance at an indoor handball game[note 1] and the final will be held in Lanxess Arena in Cologne.[8] On 14 September 2022, it was announced that the classic venue Olympiahalle in Munich (previously hosted Handball at the 1972 Summer Olympics main round and medal games and also the group stage games in the 2019 World Men's Handball Championship) would replace the delay-ridden SAP Garden. Due to material and labour shortages, the venue would not be completed in time for the tournament in January 2024, therefore being dropped by the organisers.[9] Both Olympiahalle and the future SAP Garden are located close to each other in the Olympiapark.

Düsseldorf	Cologne	Berlin
Merkur Spiel-Arena	Lanxess Arena	Mercedes-Benz Arena
Capacity: 50,000	Capacity: 19,750	Capacity: 14,800

Hamburg	Mannheim	Munich
Barclaycard Arena	SAP Arena	Olympiahalle
Capacity: 13 300	Capacity: 13,200	Capacity: 12,150

Qualification

The qualification for the final tournament has taken place between November 2021 and April 2023. Germany as the host team, and the three best placed not already qualified teams from the previous championship, were automatically qualified, leaving a total of 36 national teams to compete for the remaining 20 places in the final tournament.

The competition consists of two rounds: a relegation round and qualifiers. In the relegation round, the three best placed teams from the 2021 Men's IHF/EHF Trophy joined by Luxembourg as best ranked team according EHF which haven't participated in the second round of the previous qualifiers, faced the four worst ranked fourth-placed teams from the second round of the 2022 qualification. The four winners of the two-legged relegation round matches advance to the qualifiers, joining the remaining twenty teams that participated in the 2022 championship and the remaining eight teams that were eliminated in the second round of the 2022 qualification. Those 32 teams will be divided into eight groups by four teams, with top two teams and four best ranked third-teams qualifying.

Qualified teams

Country	Qualified as	Qualified on	Previous appearances in tournament
Germany	Host	20 June 2018	14 (1994, 1996, 1998, 2000, 2002, 2004, 2006, 2008, 2010, 2012, 2016, 2018, 2020, 2022)
Spain	Top three at 2022 European Championship	28 January 2022	15 (1994, 1996, 1998, 2000, 2002, 2004, 2006, 2008, 2010, 2012, 2014, 2016, 2018, 2020, 2022)
Sweden		28 January 2022	14 (1994, 1996, 1998, 2000, 2002, 2004, 2008, 2010, 2012, 2014, 2016, 2018, 2020, 2022)
Denmark		30 January 2022	14 (1994, 1996, 2000, 2002, 2004, 2006, 2008, 2010, 2012, 2014, 2016, 2018, 2020, 2022)
Austria	Group 4 top-two	11 March 2023	5 (2010, 2014, 2018, 2020, 2022)
France	Group 8 top-two	11 March 2023	15 (1994, 1996, 1998, 2000, 2002, 2004, 2006, 2008, 2010, 2012, 2014, 2016, 2018, 2020, 2022)
Hungary	Group 6 top-two	12 March 2023	13 (1994, 1996, 1998, 2004, 2006, 2008, 2010, 2012, 2014, 2016, 2018, 2020, 2022)
Portugal	Group 1 top-two		7 (1994, 2000, 2002, 2004, 2006, 2020, 2022)
Slovenia	Group 7 top-two		13 (1994, 1996, 2000, 2002, 2004, 2006, 2008, 2010, 2012, 2016, 2018, 2020, 2022)
Croatia	Group 5 top-two	26 April 2023	15 (1994, 1996, 1998, 2000, 2002, 2004, 2006, 2008, 2010, 2012, 2014, 2016, 2018, 2020, 2022)
Norway	Group 2 top-two		10 (2000, 2006, 2008, 2010, 2012, 2014, 2016, 2018, 2020, 2022)
Serbia	Group 2 top-two		7 (2010, 2012, 2014, 2016, 2018, 2020, 2022)
Iceland	Group 3 top-two	27 April 2023	12 (2000, 2002, 2004, 2006, 2008, 2010, 2012, 2014, 2016, 2018, 2020, 2022)
Czech Republic	Group 3 top-two		11 (1996, 1998, 2002, 2004, 2008, 2010, 2012, 2014, 2018, 2020, 2022)
Switzerland	Group 6 top-two		4 (2002, 2004, 2006, 2020)
Poland	Group 8 top-two		10 (2002, 2004, 2006, 2008, 2010, 2012, 2014, 2016, 2020, 2022)
North Macedonia	Group 1 top-two	30 April 2023	7 (1998, 2012, 2014, 2016, 2018, 2020, 2022)
Romania	Group 4 top-two		2 (1994, 1996)
Netherlands	Group 5 top-two		2 (2020, 2022)
Bosnia and Herzegovina	Group 7 top-two		2 (2020, 2022)
Montenegro	One of four-best third-ranked teams		6 (2008, 2014, 2016, 2018, 2020, 2022)
Faroe Islands			0 (debut)
Greece			0 (debut)
Georgia			0 (debut)

Note: Bold indicates champion for that year. Italic indicates host for that year.

Marketing

The official logo and slogan was unveiled on 6 January 2022. The basis for the logo design is the place where everything is decided in handball and where emotions arise: the lines of the court. Those were transformed into the compact shape of a ball that conveys the dynamics of the sport. The logo was designed by and in collaboration with Berlin-based agency Styleheads. The heart of the communication is the claim "HERE TO PLAY!" This is activated in several variants in order to convey the different facets of the Men's EHF EURO 2024 and the individual locations. The following variations of the claim were used:

HERE TO PLAY
HERE TO DREAM
HERE TO BE LOUD
HERE TO CELEBRATE
HERE TO RELAX
HERE TO CONNECT
HERE TO ENJOY
HERE TO WATCH
HERE TO EXPLORE.[10]

Draw

The draw took place on 10 May 2023 in Düsseldorf, Germany.[11][12]

Seeding

The seedings were announced on 1 May 2023.[13]

Pot 1	Pot 2	Pot 3	Pot 4
Sweden (assigned to E1) Spain Denmark (assigned to F1) France Norway (assigned to D1) Iceland (assigned to C1)	Germany (assigned to A2) Netherlands Hungary Slovenia Portugal Austria	Croatia (assigned to B3) Poland Czech Republic Serbia North Macedonia Bosnia and Herzegovina	Montenegro Faroe Islands Greece Georgia Romania Switzerland

Referees

The 18 referee pairs were selected on 25 September 2023.[14]

Referees
Bosnia and Herzegovina	Amar Konjičanin Dino Konjičanin
Czech Republic	Václav Horáček Jiří Novotný
Denmark	Mads Hansen Jesper Madsen
France	Charlotte Bonaventura Julie Bonaventura
France	Karim Gasmi Raouf Gasmi
Germany	Maike Merz Tanja Kuttler
Germany	Robert Schulze Tobias Tönnies
Iceland	Jónas Elíasson Anton Pálsson
Lithuania	Vaidas Mažeika Mindaugas Gatelis

Referees
Moldova	Igor Covalciuc Alexei Covalciuc
North Macedonia	Slave Nikolov Gjorgji Nachevski
Montenegro	Ivan Pavićević Miloš Ražnatović
Norway	Lars Jørum Håvard Kleven
Portugal	Daniel Martins Roberto Martins
Slovenia	Bojan Lah David Sok
Spain	Andreu Marín Ignacio García
Switzerland	Arthur Brunner Morad Salah
Sweden	Mirza Kurtagic Mattias Wetterwik

Preliminary round

The schedule was released on 1 March 2023.[15]

All times are local (UTC+1).[16]

Group A

Pos	Team	Qualification
1	France	Main round
2	Germany	Main round
3	North Macedonia
4	Switzerland

First match(es) will be played: 10 January 2024. Source: EHF
Rules for classification: 1) points; 2) head-to-head points; 3) head-to-head goal difference; 4) head-to-head number of goals scored; 5) goal difference.

10 January 2024 18:00	France	v	North Macedonia	Merkur Spiel-Arena, Düsseldorf
		Report

10 January 2024 20:45	Germany	v	Switzerland	Merkur Spiel-Arena, Düsseldorf
		Report

14 January 2024 18:00	Switzerland	v	France	Mercedes-Benz Arena, Berlin
		Report

14 January 2024 20:30	North Macedonia	v	Germany	Mercedes-Benz Arena, Berlin
		Report

16 January 2024 18:00	North Macedonia	v	Switzerland	Mercedes-Benz Arena, Berlin
		Report

16 January 2024 20:30	France	v	Germany	Mercedes-Benz Arena, Berlin
		Report

Group B

Pos	Team	Qualification
1	Spain	Main round
2	Austria	Main round
3	Croatia
4	Romania

First match(es) will be played: 12 January 2024. Source: EHF
Rules for classification: 1) points; 2) head-to-head points; 3) head-to-head goal difference; 4) head-to-head number of goals scored; 5) goal difference.

12 January 2024 18:00	Austria	v	Romania	SAP Arena, Mannheim
		Report

12 January 2024 20:30	Spain	v	Croatia	SAP Arena, Mannheim
		Report

14 January 2024 18:00	Romania	v	Spain	SAP Arena, Mannheim
		Report

14 January 2024 20:30	Croatia	v	Austria	SAP Arena, Mannheim
		Report

16 January 2024 18:00	Croatia	v	Romania	SAP Arena, Mannheim
		Report

16 January 2024 20:30	Spain	v	Austria	SAP Arena, Mannheim
		Report

Group C

Pos	Team	Qualification
1	Iceland	Main round
2	Hungary	Main round
3	Serbia
4	Montenegro

First match(es) will be played: 12 January 2024. Source: EHF
Rules for classification: 1) points; 2) head-to-head points; 3) head-to-head goal difference; 4) head-to-head number of goals scored; 5) goal difference.

12 January 2024 18:00	Iceland	v	Serbia	Olympiahalle, Munich
		Report

12 January 2024 20:30	Hungary	v	Montenegro	Olympiahalle, Munich
		Report

14 January 2024 18:00	Montenegro	v	Iceland	Olympiahalle, Munich
		Report

14 January 2024 20:30	Serbia	v	Hungary	Olympiahalle, Munich
		Report

16 January 2024 18:00	Serbia	v	Montenegro	Olympiahalle, Munich
		Report

16 January 2024 20:30	Iceland	v	Hungary	Olympiahalle, Munich
		Report

Group D

Pos	Team	Qualification
1	Norway	Main round
2	Slovenia	Main round
3	Poland
4	Faroe Islands

First match(es) will be played: 11 January 2024. Source: EHF
Rules for classification: 1) points; 2) head-to-head points; 3) head-to-head goal difference; 4) head-to-head number of goals scored; 5) goal difference.

11 January 2024 18:00	Slovenia	v	Faroe Islands	Mercedes-Benz Arena, Berlin
		Report

11 January 2024 20:30	Norway	v	Poland	Mercedes-Benz Arena, Berlin
		Report

13 January 2024 18:00	Poland	v	Slovenia	Mercedes-Benz Arena, Berlin
		Report

13 January 2024 20:30	Faroe Islands	v	Norway	Mercedes-Benz Arena, Berlin
		Report

15 January 2024 18:00	Poland	v	Faroe Islands	Mercedes-Benz Arena, Berlin
		Report

15 January 2024 20:30	Norway	v	Slovenia	Mercedes-Benz Arena, Berlin
		Report

Group E

Pos	Team	Qualification
1	Sweden	Main round
2	Netherlands	Main round
3	Bosnia and Herzegovina
4	Georgia

First match(es) will be played: 11 January 2024. Source: EHF
Rules for classification: 1) points; 2) head-to-head points; 3) head-to-head goal difference; 4) head-to-head number of goals scored; 5) goal difference.

11 January 2024 18:00	Netherlands	v	Georgia	SAP Arena, Mannheim
		Report

11 January 2024 20:30	Sweden	v	Bosnia and Herzegovina	SAP Arena, Mannheim
		Report

13 January 2024 18:00	Bosnia and Herzegovina	v	Netherlands	SAP Arena, Mannheim
		Report

13 January 2024 20:30	Georgia	v	Sweden	SAP Arena, Mannheim
		Report

15 January 2024 18:00	Bosnia and Herzegovina	v	Georgia	SAP Arena, Mannheim
		Report

15 January 2024 20:30	Sweden	v	Netherlands	SAP Arena, Mannheim
		Report

Group F

Pos	Team	Qualification
1	Denmark	Main round
2	Portugal	Main round
3	Czech Republic
4	Greece

First match(es) will be played: 11 January 2024. Source: EHF
Rules for classification: 1) points; 2) head-to-head points; 3) head-to-head goal difference; 4) head-to-head number of goals scored; 5) goal difference.

11 January 2024 18:00	Portugal	v	Greece	Olympiahalle, Munich
		Report

11 January 2024 20:30	Denmark	v	Czech Republic	Olympiahalle, Munich
		Report

13 January 2024 18:00	Czech Republic	v	Portugal	Olympiahalle, Munich
		Report

13 January 2024 20:30	Greece	v	Denmark	Olympiahalle, Munich
		Report

15 January 2024 18:00	Czech Republic	v	Greece	Olympiahalle, Munich
		Report

15 January 2024 20:30	Denmark	v	Portugal	Olympiahalle, Munich
		Report

Main round

Points and goals gained in the preliminary group against teams that advance were transferred to the main round.

Group I

Pos	Team	Qualification
1	A1	Semifinals
2	B1	Semifinals
3	C1	Fifth place game
4	A2
5	B2
6	C2

First match(es) will be played: 18 January 2024. Source: EHF
Rules for classification: 1) points; 2) head-to-head points; 3) head-to-head goal difference; 4) head-to-head number of goals scored; 5) goal difference.

18 January 2024	C1	v	B2	Lanxess Arena, Cologne

18 January 2024	A2	v	C2	Lanxess Arena, Cologne

18 January 2024	A1	v	B1	Lanxess Arena, Cologne

20 January 2024	C1	v	B1	Lanxess Arena, Cologne

20 January 2024	A1	v	C2	Lanxess Arena, Cologne

20 January 2024	A2	v	B2	Lanxess Arena, Cologne

22 January 2024	A1	v	B2	Lanxess Arena, Cologne

22 January 2024	A2	v	C1	Lanxess Arena, Cologne

22 January 2024	B1	v	C2	Lanxess Arena, Cologne

24 January 2024	A1	v	C1	Lanxess Arena, Cologne

24 January 2024	A2	v	B1	Lanxess Arena, Cologne

24 January 2024	B2	v	C2	Lanxess Arena, Cologne

Group II

Pos	Team	Qualification
1	D1	Semifinals
2	E1	Semifinals
3	F1	Fifth place game
4	D2
5	E2
6	F2

First match(es) will be played: 17 January 2024. Source: EHF
Rules for classification: 1) points; 2) head-to-head points; 3) head-to-head goal difference; 4) head-to-head number of goals scored; 5) goal difference.

17 January 2024	F1	v	E2	Barclays Arena, Hamburg

17 January 2024	D2	v	F2	Barclays Arena, Hamburg

17 January 2024	D1	v	E1	Barclays Arena, Hamburg

19 January 2024	F1	v	E1	Barclays Arena, Hamburg

19 January 2024	D1	v	F2	Barclays Arena, Hamburg

19 January 2024	D2	v	E2	Barclays Arena, Hamburg

21 January 2024	D1	v	E2	Barclays Arena, Hamburg

21 January 2024	D2	v	F1	Barclays Arena, Hamburg

21 January 2024	E1	v	F2	Barclays Arena, Hamburg

23 January 2024	D1	v	F1	Barclays Arena, Hamburg

23 January 2024	D2	v	E1	Barclays Arena, Hamburg

23 January 2024	E2	v	F2	Barclays Arena, Hamburg

Knockout stage

Bracket

	Semi-finals				Final

	26 January

	I1
					28 January
	II2

	26 January

	II1

	I2
					Third place

					28 January

Semifinals

26 January 2024	I1	v	II2	Lanxess Arena, Cologne

26 January 2024	II1	v	I2	Lanxess Arena, Cologne

Fifth place game

26 January 2024 15:00	I3	v	II3	Lanxess Arena, Cologne

Third place game

28 January 2024 15:00	LSF1	v	LSF2	Lanxess Arena, Cologne

Final

28 January 2024 17:45	WSF1	v	WSF2	Lanxess Arena, Cologne

Final ranking

The teams ranked fourth in each group after the completion of the preliminary round matches will be ranked 18 to 24, while teams ranked third in each group after the completion of the preliminary round matches will be ranked 13 to 18 according to the number of points won in the preliminary round. Places seven or eight will be attributed to the two teams ranked fourth in the groups, places nine and ten to the two teams ranked fifth in the groups, places eleven and twelve to the two teams ranked sixth in the group according to the number of points won by the respective teams after completion of the main round matches. Places one to six will be decided by play–off or knock–out.

Rank	Team



4
5
6
7
8
9
10
11
12
13
14
15
16
17
18
19
20
21
22
23
24

	Team qualified for the 2025 World Men's Handball Championship and the 2024 Summer Olympics
	Team qualified for the 2025 World Men's Handball Championship

Notes

The record in field handball is 100,000 people. It was established at the last game of the 1936 Summer Olympics.

References

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"Pots revealed for draw of EHF EURO 2024 relegation round". eurohandball.com. 18 August 2021. Retrieved 17 December 2021.
"EHF EURO - BEYOND 2020". beyond2020.ehfoffice.at.
"These nations want to bid for EHF EUROs in 2022 and 2024". Eurohandball. 4 May 2017. Retrieved 19 June 2018.
"Bid website". A Perfect Partnership. Archived from the original on 9 August 2019. Retrieved 21 June 2020.
"EHF Congress: EHF EURO 2024 to Germany, EURO 2022 in Hungary/Slovakia and Balkans". handball-planet.com. 20 June 2018. Retrieved 17 December 2021.
Trübenbach, Elisabeth (25 June 2018). "'Elis Woche': Deutschland bei WM gegen Frankreich, DHB richtet erstmals EM aus". Handball World (in German).
"Six venues revealed for Men's EHF EURO 2024". eurohandball.com (in German). 10 June 2021. Retrieved 10 June 2021.
"Olympiahalle München als Spielort für die Handball-EM 2024 bestätigt".
"Men's HERE TO PLAY! LOGO AND CLAIM RELEASED FOR EHF EURO 2024". ehf-euro.com. EHF. 6 January 2022.
"Men's EHF EURO 2024 draw takes place on 10 May; procedure confirmed". eurohandball.com. EHF. 1 March 2023.
"Six groups set for Men's EHF EURO 2024". eurohandball.com. EHF. 10 May 2023.
"EHF EURO 2024: Draw seedings and procedure released". eurohandball.com. EHF. 1 May 2023.
"Referee nominations for Men's EHF EURO 2024". eurohandball.com. 25 September 2023.
"Schedule" (PDF). dhb.de. 1 March 2023. Archived from the original (PDF) on 12 May 2023. Retrieved 8 March 2023.
"Men's EHF EURO 2024 match schedule released". eurohandball.com. 16 May 2023.

External links

Official website

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[8] The record in field handball is 100,000 people. It was established at the last game of the 1936 Summer Olympics.

[1] "Vergabe: Handball-Europameisterschaft 2024 in Deutschland". ZDF.de (in German). 20 June 2018. Retrieved 21 June 2018.

[2] "Pots revealed for draw of EHF EURO 2024 relegation round". eurohandball.com. 18 August 2021. Retrieved 17 December 2021.

[3] "EHF EURO - BEYOND 2020". beyond2020.ehfoffice.at.

[4] "These nations want to bid for EHF EUROs in 2022 and 2024". Eurohandball. 4 May 2017. Retrieved 19 June 2018.

[5] "Bid website". A Perfect Partnership. Archived from the original on 9 August 2019. Retrieved 21 June 2020.

[6] "EHF Congress: EHF EURO 2024 to Germany, EURO 2022 in Hungary/Slovakia and Balkans". handball-planet.com. 20 June 2018. Retrieved 17 December 2021.

[7] Trübenbach, Elisabeth (25 June 2018). "'Elis Woche': Deutschland bei WM gegen Frankreich, DHB richtet erstmals EM aus". Handball World (in German).

[9] "Six venues revealed for Men's EHF EURO 2024". eurohandball.com (in German). 10 June 2021. Retrieved 10 June 2021.

[10] "Olympiahalle München als Spielort für die Handball-EM 2024 bestätigt".

[11] "Men's HERE TO PLAY! LOGO AND CLAIM RELEASED FOR EHF EURO 2024". ehf-euro.com. EHF. 6 January 2022.

[12] "Men's EHF EURO 2024 draw takes place on 10 May; procedure confirmed". eurohandball.com. EHF. 1 March 2023.

[13] "Six groups set for Men's EHF EURO 2024". eurohandball.com. EHF. 10 May 2023.

[14] "EHF EURO 2024: Draw seedings and procedure released". eurohandball.com. EHF. 1 May 2023.

[15] "Referee nominations for Men's EHF EURO 2024". eurohandball.com. 25 September 2023.

[16] "Schedule" (PDF). dhb.de. 1 March 2023. Archived from the original (PDF) on 12 May 2023. Retrieved 8 March 2023.

[17] "Men's EHF EURO 2024 match schedule released". eurohandball.com. 16 May 2023.