2022 Asian Women's Handball Championship

2022 Asian Women's Handball Championship
Tournament details
Host country	South Korea
Dates	24 November – 4 December
Venue(s)	2 (in 2 host cities)
Final positions
Champions	South Korea (16th title)
Runner-up	Japan
Third place	China
Fourth place	Iran
Tournament statistics
Matches	29
Goals scored	1,684 (58 per match)
Best player	Natsuki Aizawa
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Last updated October 11, 2023

The 2022 Asian Women's Handball Championship was the 19th edition of the Asian Women's Handball Championship, which took place from 24 November to 4 December 2022 in South Korea.^[1] The tournament was held under the aegis of Asian Handball Federation and acted as the Asian qualifying tournament for the 2023 World Women's Handball Championship, with the top five teams qualifying. If countries from Oceania (Australia or New Zealand) participating in the Asian Championships finished in the top 5, they would have qualified for the World Championships. However, as Australia finished in tenth place, the place was transferred to the wild card spot.

Draw

The draw was held in Bahrain on 27 August 2022.^[3]^[4]

Seeding

Pot 1	Pot 2	Pot 3	Pot 4
South Korea Japan	Iran Kazakhstan	Uzbekistan Hong Kong	China Thailand India Australia

Venues

Incheon		Seoul
Namdong Gymnasium Capacity: 8,830		SK Olympic Handball Gymnasium Capacity: 6,500

Incheon Seoul

Preliminary round

All times are local (UTC+9).^[5]

Group A

Pos	Team	Pld	W	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	South Korea (H)	4	4	0	168	49	+119	8	Semifinals
2	Iran	4	3	1	132	123	+9	6	Semifinals
3	India	4	2	2	113	133	−20	4	5–8th place semifinals
4	Uzbekistan	4	1	3	111	130	−19	2	5–8th place semifinals
5	Australia	4	0	4	80	169	−89	0	Ninth place game

Source: AHF
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

24 November 2022 14:00	India	35–43	Iran	Namdong Gymnasium, Incheon Attendance: 300 Referees: Kawai, Usui (JPN)
	Menika 10	(14–24)	four players 6
	6×	Report	6×

24 November 2022 18:00	Australia	9–48	South Korea	Namdong Gymnasium, Incheon Attendance: 1,000 Referees: Hideki, Tetsuro (JPN)
	Fallah 3	(4–22)	Seo 8
	6× 1×	Report	1×

25 November 2022 14:00	Uzbekistan	32–35	Iran	Namdong Gymnasium, Incheon Referees: Xu, Liu (CHN)
	Obidjonova 12	(16–15)	Merikh 10
	1× 8×	Report	1× 7×

25 November 2022 18:00	India	8–38	South Korea	Namdong Gymnasium, Incheon Referees: Al-Wahibi, Al-Shahi (OMA)
	Menika, Sonika 3	(4–18)	Seo 8
	2× 1×	Report	4×

27 November 2022 12:00	India	28–22	Uzbekistan	Namdong Gymnasium, Incheon Referees: Mohamed, Al-Aradi (BHR)
	Menika 8	(13–7)	Khudoykulova 5
	3× 1×	Report	1× 3×

27 November 2022 14:00	Iran	43–15	Australia	Namdong Gymnasium, Incheon Referees: Nawaf, Al-Naseem (KUW)
	Oshaghi 8	(19–9)	C. Wan 4
	2× 1×	Report	7× 1×

28 November 2022 12:00	Australia	30–42	India	Namdong Gymnasium, Incheon Referees: Faraj, Taqi (KUW)
	Buckett 11	(13–22)	Bhawana 16
	3×	Report	6×

28 November 2022 18:00	Uzbekistan	21–41	South Korea	Namdong Gymnasium, Incheon Referees: Xu, Liu (CHN)
	Obidjonova, Ruzieva 4	(8–21)	Seo 8
	3×	Report	1× 6×

30 November 2022 14:00	Australia	26–36	Uzbekistan	Namdong Gymnasium, Incheon Referees: Ali, Al-Aradi (BHR)
	Mouncey 11	(11–19)	Khudoykulova 9
	7×	Report	2×

30 November 2022 18:00	South Korea	41–11	Iran	Namdong Gymnasium, Incheon Referees: Hideki, Tetsuro (JPN)
	Song J. 10	(19–5)	Merikh 5
	4×	Report	1× 3× 1×

Group B

Pos	Team	Pld	W	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	Japan	4	4	0	148	63	+85	8	Semifinals
2	China	4	3	1	126	89	+37	6	Semifinals
3	Kazakhstan	4	2	2	105	109	−4	4	5–8th place semifinals
4	Thailand	4	1	3	70	130	−60	2	5–8th place semifinals
5	Hong Kong	4	0	4	72	130	−58	0	Ninth place game

Source: AHF
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.

24 November 2022 12:00	China	28–26	Kazakhstan	Namdong Gymnasium, Incheon Attendance: 300 Referees: Nawaf, Al-Naseem (KUW)
	Li, Liu C. 7	(12–11)	Khardina 8
	6×	Report	1× 2×

24 November 2022 16:00	Thailand	9–44	Japan	Namdong Gymnasium, Incheon Attendance: 300 Referees: Marzieh, Hassanzadah (IRI)
	Sripho 3	(4–16)	Hattori 9
	2×	Report	1× 3×

25 November 2022 12:00	Hong Kong	24–28	Kazakhstan	Namdong Gymnasium, Incheon Referees: Mozafarivanani, Mazaheri (IRI)
	Wu 7	(7–9)	Malysheva 5
	1×	Report	3×

25 November 2022 16:00	China	26–29	Japan	Namdong Gymnasium, Incheon Referees: Ismoilov, Ismoilov (UZB)
	Jin 7	(16–18)	Hattori 11
	4×	Report	1×

27 November 2022 16:00	China	36–21	Hong Kong	Namdong Gymnasium, Incheon Referees: Marzieh, Hassanzadah (IRI)
	Zhou 10	(19–6)	Cheung 6
	1× 3×	Report	1× 3× 1×

27 November 2022 18:00	Kazakhstan	30–24	Thailand	Namdong Gymnasium, Incheon Referees: Kim, Kwon (KOR)
	Seitkassym 10	(16–14)	Wichaisang 10
	4×	Report	3×

28 November 2022 14:00	Thailand	13–36	China	Namdong Gymnasium, Incheon Referees: Gheisarian, Gheisarian (IRI)
	Sopharak 4	(8–23)	Gong 6
	1×	Report	1×

28 November 2022 16:00	Hong Kong	7–42	Japan	Namdong Gymnasium, Incheon Referees: Mozafarivanani, Mazaheri (IRI)
	Cheung, Chong 2	(4–25)	Kinjo 9
	2×	Report

30 November 2022 12:00	Thailand	24–20	Hong Kong	Namdong Gymnasium, Incheon Referees: Kim, Kwon (KOR)
	Wichaisang 9	(12–9)	Ip 4
	1× 5×	Report	4×

30 November 2022 16:00	Japan	33–21	Kazakhstan	Namdong Gymnasium, Incheon Referees: Al-Wahibi, Al-Shahi (OMA)
	Aizawa 7	(12–11)	Khardina 5
		Report	1× 1×

Knockout stage

Ninth place game

2 December 2022 11:00	Australia	26–28	Hong Kong	Namdong Gymnasium, Incheon Referees: Ismoilov, Ismoilov (UZB)
	Buckett 12	(10–14)	Wong K. 7
	5×	Report	1×

5–8th place bracket

5–8th place semifinals		Fifth place

2 December

India	37
		3 December
Thailand	25
		India	31
2 December
		Kazakhstan	42
Kazakhstan	30

Uzbekistan	28
		Seventh place

		3 December

		Thailand	39

		Uzbekistan	35

5–8th place semifinals

2 December 2022 13:00	India	37–25	Thailand	SK Olympic Handball Gymnasium, Seoul Referees: Kawai, Usui (JPN)
	P. Thakur, S. Thakur 9	(18–16)	Wichaisang 12
	4×	Report	5×

2 December 2022 15:00	Kazakhstan	30–28	Uzbekistan	SK Olympic Handball Gymnasium, Seoul Referees: Xu, Liu (CHN)
	Khardina 7	(14–12)	Vosiljonova 7
	1× 1×	Report	1× 3×

Seventh place game

3 December 2022 14:00	Thailand	39–35	Uzbekistan	SK Olympic Handball Gymnasium, Seoul Referees: Marzieh, Hassanzadah (IRI)
	Wichaisang 15	(20–17)	Obidjonova 8
	2×	Report	4×

Fifth place game

3 December 2022 16:00	India	31–42	Kazakhstan	SK Olympic Handball Gymnasium, Seoul Referees: Hideki, Tetsuro (JPN)
	Bhawana 8	(11–18)	Khardina 7
	1×	Report	1×

Championship bracket

Semi-finals		Final

2 December

Japan	43
		4 December
Iran	19
		Japan	29
2 December
		South Korea (ET)	34
South Korea	34

China	16
		Third place

		4 December

		Iran	24

		China	39

Semifinals

2 December 2022 17:00	Japan	43–19	Iran	SK Olympic Handball Gymnasium, Seoul Referees: Nawaf, Al-Naseem (KUW)
	Nakayama 6	(21–7)	Merikh 7
	4×	Report	3×

2 December 2022 19:00	South Korea	34–16	China	SK Olympic Handball Gymnasium, Seoul Referees: Al-Shahi, Al-Wahibi (OMA)
	three players 6	(16–9)	Li 4
	1× 1×	Report	4× 1×

Third place game

4 December 2022 14:00	Iran	24–39	China	SK Olympic Handball Gymnasium, Seoul Attendance: 200 Referees: Ismoilov, Ismoilov (UZB)
	Merikh 9	(11–20)	Lin 6
	2×	Report	3×

Final

4 December 2022 16:00	Japan	29–34 (ET)	South Korea	SK Olympic Handball Gymnasium, Seoul Attendance: 1,000 Referees: Gheisarian, Gheisarian (IRI)
	Sasaki 7	(16–10)	Ryu 19
	4×	Report	5×
	FT: 27–27 ET: 2–7

Final standing

Rank	Team
	South Korea
	Japan
	China
4	Iran
5	Kazakhstan
6	India
7	Thailand
8	Uzbekistan
9	Hong Kong
10	Australia

	Qualified for the 2023 World Women's Handball Championship

All-Star team

Position	Player
Goalkeeper	Lu Chang
Right wing	Song Ji-young
Right back	Ryu Eun-hee
Centre back	Song Hye-soo
Left back	Veronika Khardina
Left wing	Hadiseh Norouzi
Pivot	Mika Nagata
Most valuable player	Natsuki Aizawa

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[2] "Republic of Korea won the Asian Women's Handball Championship after a thrilling final". Asian Handball Federation. Retrieved 4 December 2022.

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