2024 European Men's Handball Championship qualification

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This article describes the qualification process for the EHF EURO 2024. In total 36 teams will compete for 20 remaining places at the final tournament.

Format[]

Prior to the qualifiers, four teams will be automatically qualified:[1]

Originally, the qualification process was about to start with Phase 1 in March 2021.[2] The two best-placed teams from this would qualify for the relegation round along with the winner of the 2021 edition of the IHF Emerging Nations Championship. However, after postponing of the Qualification Phase 1 and cancellation of IHF Emerging Nations Championship, both caused by the COVID-19 pandemic, those two tournaments were merged into 2021 Men's IHF/EHF Trophy. The three best-ranked teams from that tournament qualified to the relegation round.

Relegation Round involves eight teams:

The four winners advance to the qualifiers – the latest stage of this qualification campaign.

Qualifiers will involve 32 teams:

  • four teams advanced from the relegation round
  • eight remaining teams from the EHF EURO 2022 qualifiers which failed to qualify for the final tournament
  • twenty teams which participated at EHF EURO 2022, but not directly qualified for EHF EURO 2024

Teams will compete for 20 places at EHF EURO 2024.

Qualification Phase 1[]

Since only four teams would have participated in this round, no draw was needed.[3] This phase was planned to be played in a tournament format.[4] On 15 February 2021 the EHF announced that the tournament was postponed to 30 April to 2 May due to the COVID-19 pandemic.[5]

On 26 March 2021, the Qualification Phase 1 was cancelled and replaced with the IHF/EHF Trophy.[6]

IHF/EHF Trophy[]

Main article: 2021 Men's IHF/EHF Trophy

After the 2021 IHF Emerging Nations Championship was cancelled, the EHF announced in March 2021, that the IHF/EHF Trophy would take place in Tbilisi, Georgia, from 14 to 19 June 2021.[6] The three best teams qualified for the relegation round.[7]

Rank Team
1st place, gold medalist(s)  Georgia
2nd place, silver medalist(s)  Cyprus
3rd place, bronze medalist(s)  Bulgaria
4  Moldova
5  Andorra
 Azerbaijan

Relegation round[]

The four worst-ranked fourth placed teams from the previous cycle join in this round.[8] The draw took place on 19 August 2021, when the teams will be paired in four two-legged ties.[9][10]

Seeding[]

The seeding was announced on 18 August 2021.[11] Teams relegated from the 2022 European Men's Handball Championship qualification were placed into the seeding pot 2.

Pot 1 Pot 2
 Luxembourg
 Georgia
 Cyprus
 Bulgaria 		 Finland
 Belgium
 Turkey
 Latvia

Overview[]

All matches were played in January 2022.

Team 1 Agg. Team 2 1st leg 2nd leg
Turkey  64–54  Cyprus 35–28 29–26
Georgia  45–52  Finland 22–22 23–30
Latvia  72–55  Bulgaria 36–23 36–32
Luxembourg  53–59  Belgium 26–32 27–27

Matches[]

19 January 2022
18:00 		Turkey  35–28  Cyprus Haldun Alagaş Sports Hall, Istanbul
Attendance: 1,230
Referees: Boričić, Marković (SRB)
8 (17–14) 11
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22 January 2022
19:00 		Cyprus  26–29  Turkey Eleftheria Indoor Hall, Nicosia
Attendance: 500
Referees: Baďura, Ondogrecula (SVK)
, 7 (11–14) 12
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Turkey won 64–54 on aggregate.

5 January 2022
16:00 		Georgia  22–22  Finland Olympic Palace, Tbilisi
Attendance: 1,500
Referees: Butskevich, Butskevich (BLR)
7 (8–9) 6
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9 January 2022
15:00 		Finland  30–23  Georgia Energia Areena, Vantaa
Attendance: 0[note 1]
Referees: Leszczyński, Piechota (POL)
Syrjälä 7 (18–12) 5
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Finland won 52–45 on aggregate.

22 January 2022[note 2]
16:40 		Latvia  36–23  Bulgaria , Dobele
Attendance: 750
Referees: Kull, Tint (EST)
Kreicbergs 11 (18–10) , 5
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23 January 2022[note 2]
13:45 		Bulgaria  32–36  Latvia , Dobele, Latvia
Attendance: 260
Referees: Kull, Tint (EST)
9 (17–19) Leja 8
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Latvia won 72–55 on aggregate.

20 January 2022
19:30 		Luxembourg  26–32  Belgium d'Coque, Luxembourg City
Attendance: 531
Referees: Pandžić, Mošorinski (SRB)
8 (12–12) 8
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22 January 2022
20:15 		Belgium  27–27  Luxembourg , Hasselt
Attendance: 0[note 1]
Referees: Andorka, Hucker (HUN)
9 (13–13) 7
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Belgium won 59–53 on aggregate.

Qualifiers[]

Qualifiers will be played between October 2022 and April 2023. Like in previous cycles, 32 teams will be divided into eight groups of four, with the winners and runners-up qualifying for the final tournament, together with the four best third-placed teams which will be determined taking into account only results against top two teams in each group.[1][13]

Participating teams[]

Qualification method Team(s)
Participated at 2022 European Men's Handball Championship

 Austria
 Belarus
 Bosnia and Herzegovina
 Croatia
 Czech Republic
 France
 Hungary
 Iceland
 Lithuania
 Montenegro
 Netherlands
 North Macedonia
 Norway
 Poland
 Portugal
 Russia
 Serbia
 Slovakia
 Slovenia
 Ukraine

Eliminated from the final phase of 2022 European Men's Handball Championship qualification

 Estonia
 Faroe Islands
 Greece
 Israel
 Italy
 Kosovo
 Romania
  Switzerland

Relegation round winners

 Belgium
 Finland
 Latvia
 Turkey

Notes[]

  1. ^ a b The match was played behind closed doors due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
  2. ^ a b The matches, originally scheduled for 6 and 9 January 2022, were postponed after several positive COVID-19 tests by the Bulgarian team.[12]

References[]

  1. ^ a b "What's at stake at EHF EURO 2022?". eurohandball.com. 13 January 2022.
  2. ^ "Journey to Germany 2024 to begin with qualification phase". eurohandball.com. 4 November 2020.
  3. ^ "Draw procedure for the Men's EHF EURO 2024 qualifiers phase 1 released". eurohandball.com. 17 December 2020.
  4. ^ "Georgia with first right to host EHF EURO 2024 qualifiers". eurohandball.com. 19 December 2020.
  5. ^ "Update on EHF EURO 2024 qualification phase 1". eurohandball.com. 15 February 2021.
  6. ^ a b "EHF Executive Committee gathers in Vienna". eurohandball.com. 26 March 2021.
  7. ^ "2021 IHF/EHF Men's Trophy awaits European emerging nations". ihf.info. 29 March 2021.
  8. ^ "Austria, Montenegro, Bosnia Herzegovina, Poland, Lithuania and Ukraine get tickets". eurohandball.com. 2 May 2021.
  9. ^ "Save the date for a trio of international draws". eurohandball.com. 11 August 2021.
  10. ^ "Derbies highlight EHF EURO 2024 relegation round". eurohandball.com. 19 August 2021.
  11. ^ "Pots revealed for draw of EHF EURO 2024 relegation round". eurohandball.com. 18 August 2021.
  12. ^ "Pārceltas EHF EURO 2024 kvalifikācijas spēles pret Bulgāriju". handball.lv. 6 January 2022. Retrieved 6 January 2022.
  13. ^ "Bid brochure EHF EURO 2026 & 2028". eurohandball.com. 2020.
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