1963 World University Men's Handball Championship

The 1963 World University Men's Handball Championship was the first edition of the indoor World Cup for students.

Preliminary round

Group A

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	Sweden (H)	3	3	0	0	65	38	+27	6	Final
2	Denmark	3	2	0	1	69	45	+24	4	Third place game
3	Spain	3	1	0	2	60	55	+5	2
4	Japan	3	0	0	3	35	91	−56	0

Source: ^[1]
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.
(H) Hosts

1 January 1963	Denmark	24–17	Spain	Lund
	Andersen 9	(13–7)	Alcalde 7
	1×	[2] [3]	1×

1 January 1963	Sweden	26–15	Japan	Lund
		[2]

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3 January 1963	Denmark	34–11	Japan	Lund
		[4]

3 January 1963	Sweden	22–12	Spain	Lund
		[4]

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4 January 1963	Sweden	17–11	Denmark	Lund
		(9–7)
		[1]

4 January 1963	Spain	31–9	Japan	Lund
	Aguirre 8	(14–3)	Adachi 5
		[1] [5]

Group B

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	West Germany	2	2	0	0	30	28	+2	4	Final
2	Romania	2	1	0	1	37	31	+6	2	Third place game
3	Norway	2	0	0	2	28	36	−8	0
4	Bulgaria	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	Withdraw

Source: ^[1]
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.

Bulgaria withdraw from the competition. On the first match day Germany played against the local handball club H43 Lund. ^[2]

1 January 1963	Romania	22–15 or 22–11	Norway	Lund
		[2] [3]

1 January 1963	H43 Lund	28–12	West Germany	Lund
		[2]

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3 January 1963	West Germany	14–13	Norway	Lund
		[4]

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4 January 1963	West Germany	16–15	Romania	Lund
		[1]

Placement games

Third place game

6 January 1963	Romania	27–18	Denmark	Lund
		(15–8)
		[6] [7]

Final

6 January 1963	Sweden	14–11	West Germany	Lund
		(6–8)
		[6] [5]

Final ranking

According to the Romanian Handball Federation following was the final ranking: ^[8]

Rank	Team
	Sweden
	West Germany
	Romania
4	Denmark
5	Norway
6	Spain
7	Japan

Teams

Rumania

Virgil Tale, Ioan Bogolea, Valentin Samungi, Cornel Oțelea, Ion Popescu, Mihai Fabian, Adrian Jianu, Liviu Constantinescu, Mihail Marinescu, Ion Paraschiv, Francisc Pall, Mircea Duca, Gheorghe Gruia, Adrian Jianu

Coach: Eugen Trofin

References

1. "Handball". Der Bund . 114 (6): 11. 7 January 1963.
2. "Handball championnats du monde". Le Nouvelliste (in French). 627: 2. 2 January 1963.
3. "Balonmano – El Campeonato Mundial Universitario de balonmano". Mundo Deportivo (in Spanish): 2. 2 January 1963.
4. "Handball". Der Bund . 114 (4): 4. 5 January 1963.
5. "Ante el Japón (31–9)". Mundo Deportivo (in Spanish): 1. 6 January 1963.
6. "Schweden Studenten-Weltmeister". Die Tat (in German). 28 (7): 11. 8 January 1963.
7. "Balonmano – Suecia se proglamo Campeon Mundial Universitario". Mundo Deportivo (in Spanish): 7. 7 January 1963.
8. Popescu, Constantin C.; Morari, Ileana; Niță, Grigore (2014). ISTORIA HANDBALULUI ROMÂNESC Volumul II SINTEZĂ RETROSPECTIVĂ ANEXA 3 COMPETIŢII MASCULIN [History of Rumanian Handball Volume II Retrospective Synthesis Annex 3 Men's competitions](PDF; 525 KB) (in Romanian). Vol. 2. Romanian Handball Federation. p. 25. Archived (PDF) from the original on 16 December 2018. Retrieved 22 December 2018.