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2025 World Men's Handball Championship
Tournament details
Host countries Croatia
 Denmark
 Norway
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The 2025 IHF World Men's Handball Championship, will be the 29th event hosted by the International Handball Federation. It will be held in Croatia, Denmark and Norway in January 2025.[1]

Bidding process

Five nations in expressed interest in hosting the tournament. The awarding of the events took place at the IHF Council meeting in Cairo, Egypt on 28 February 2020.[2][3] Croatia, Denmark and Norway were chosen as the hosts. This will be the second time Croatia will host this tournament, It will also be the third time Denmark will host this tournament, And the first time that Norway will host the tournament.

Qualification

Competition Dates Host Vacancies Qualified
Host nations 28 February 2020 Egypt Cairo 3  Croatia
 Denmark
 Norway
2023 World Championship 29 January 2023  Poland
 Sweden
1
2024 European Men's Handball Championship 12-28 January 2024  Germany 4
2024 African Men's Handball Championship 18-28 January 2024  South Africa 6
2024 Asian Men's Handball Championship TBD Japan Tokyo 4
2024 South and Central American Men's Handball Championship TBD Canada Toronto 3
2024 Nor.ca. Men's Handball Championship TBD TBD 1
European qualification TBD Various 8
Wildcard TBD TBD 1+1

Qualified teams

Country Qualified as Qualified on Previous appearances1, 2
 Croatia Co-Host 28 February 2020 14 (1995, 1997, 1999, 2001, 2003, 2005, 2007, 2009, 2011, 2013, 2015, 2015, 2017, 2019, 2021)
 Denmark Co-Host 28 February 2020 24 (1938, 1954, 1958, 1961, 1964, 1967, 1970, 1974, 1978, 1982, 1986, 1993, 1995, 1995, 1999, 2003, 2005, 2007, 2011, 2013, 2011, 2017, 2019, 2021)
 Norway Co-Host 28 February 2020 15 (1958, 1964, 1967, 1970, 1993, 1997, 2001, 2003, 1978, 1982, 1986, 1990, 1993, 1995, 1997, 1999, 2001, 2005, 2007, 2011, 2017, 2019, 2021)
1 Bold indicates champion for that year
2 Italic indicates host country for that year

References

  1. ^ "IHF Council awards events up to 2027". ihf.info. 28 February 2020.
  2. ^ "World Championships 2025 and 2027". ihf.info. 25 September 2019.
  3. ^ "Norway, Croatia and Denmark chase the handball World Cup in 2025". time24.news. 5 November 2019.