2025 IHF Men's U17 Handball World Championship

2025 IHF Men's U17 Handball World Championship

Tournament details
Host country	Morocco
Venue(s)	1 (in 1 host city)
Dates	24 October – 1 November
Teams	12 (from 5 confederations)

The 2025 IHF Men's U17 Handball World Championship will be the first edition of the IHF Men's U17 Handball World Championship, held from 24 October to 1 November, 2025 in Casablanca, Morocco under the aegis of International Handball Federation (IHF). ^[1]

Qualification

Event	Dates	Host	Vacancies	Qualified
Host nation			1	Morocco
Europe			2	Germany   Spain
2025 Asian Under-17 Championship [2]	15–25 September 2025	Amman	3	Iran   Qatar   South Korea
Africa			2	Egypt   Tunisia
South and Central American			2	Argentina   Brazil
North America and Caribbean			2	Puerto Rico   United States

Draw

The draw took place on 2 October 2025 in the New Administrative Capital, Egypt. ^{[3] [4]}

Seeding

Pot 1	Pot 2	Pot 3	Pot 4
Germany   Spain   Egypt	Morocco   Tunisia   Argentina	Brazil   Iran   South Korea	Puerto Rico   United States   Qatar

Referees

The referee pairs were selected on 19 September 2025. ^[5]

Referees   Brazil Lucas Dezembro Guilherme Gonçalves   Egypt Mohamed Esmail Mohamed Saleh   Germany Lucas Hellbusch Darnel Jansen   Japan Hideki Furukawa Tetsuro Murata   Morocco Zakaria El Malwane Achraf El Mouniri   Nigeria Abubakar Amodu Sumaila Salihu

Referees   Romania Georgiana Murariu Mihaela Paraschiv   Saudi Arabia Mohamed Al-Saqer Ali Al-Suqufi   Slovenia Žan Pukšič Miha Satler   Tunisia Roua Haggui Sahar Haggui   United States Anastasiia Bohoiavlenska Cristina Molina

Preliminary round

All times are local (UTC+1).

Group A

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	Egypt	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	Semifinals
2	Morocco (H)	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	Possible semifinals based on ranking
3	Brazil	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
4	United States	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0

First match(es) will be played: 24 October 2025. Source: IHF
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 October 2025	Egypt	v	Brazil	Salle Mohammed V, Casablanca

24 October 2025	Morocco	v	United States	Salle Mohammed V, Casablanca

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26 October 2025	Morocco	v	Brazil	Salle Mohammed V, Casablanca

26 October 2025	United States	v	Egypt	Salle Mohammed V, Casablanca

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28 October 2025	Brazil	v	United States	Salle Mohammed V, Casablanca

28 October 2025	Egypt	v	Morocco	Salle Mohammed V, Casablanca

Group B

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	Spain	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	Semifinals
2	Tunisia	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	Possible semifinals based on ranking
3	South Korea	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
4	Qatar	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0

First match(es) will be played: 24 October 2025. Source: IHF
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 October 2025	Tunisia	v	Qatar	Salle Mohammed V, Casablanca

24 October 2025	Spain	v	South Korea	Salle Mohammed V, Casablanca

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26 October 2025	Qatar	v	Spain	Salle Mohammed V, Casablanca

26 October 2025	Tunisia	v	South Korea	Salle Mohammed V, Casablanca

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28 October 2025	Spain	v	Tunisia	Salle Mohammed V, Casablanca

28 October 2025	South Korea	v	Qatar	Salle Mohammed V, Casablanca

Group C

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	Germany	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	Semifinals
2	Argentina	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	Possible semifinals based on ranking
3	Iran	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
4	Puerto Rico	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0

First match(es) will be played: 24 October 2025. Source: IHF
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 October 2025	Argentina	v	Puerto Rico	Salle Mohammed V, Casablanca

24 October 2025	Germany	v	Iran	Salle Mohammed V, Casablanca

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26 October 2025	Argentina	v	Iran	Salle Mohammed V, Casablanca

26 October 2025	Puerto Rico	v	Germany	Salle Mohammed V, Casablanca

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28 October 2025	Iran	v	Puerto Rico	Salle Mohammed V, Casablanca

28 October 2025	Germany	v	Argentina	Salle Mohammed V, Casablanca

Second-placed teams ranking

Pos	Grp	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	A	A2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	Semifinals
2	B	B2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	5–8th place semifinals
3	C	C2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0

First match(es) will be played: 24 October 2025. Source: IHF
Rules for classification: 1) points; 2) goal difference; 3) number of goals scored for.

Third-placed teams ranking

Pos	Grp	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	A	A3	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	5–8th place semifinals
2	B	B3	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
3	C	C3	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	9–12th place semifinals

First match(es) will be played: 24 October 2025. Source: IHF
Rules for classification: 1) points; 2) goal difference; 3) number of goals scored for.

Knockout stage

Bracket

Championship bracket

	Semi-finals				Final
	30 October
					1 November
	30 October
					Third place
					1 November

5–8th place bracket

	5–8th place semifinals				Fifth place
	30 October
					1 November
	30 October
					Seventh place
					1 November

9–12th place bracket

	9–12th place semifinals				Ninth place
	30 October
					1 November
	30 October
					Eleventh place
					1 November

9–12th place semifinals

30 October 2025 09:00		v		Salle Mohammed V, Casablanca

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30 October 2025 11:15		v		Salle Mohammed V, Casablanca

5–8th place semifinals

30 October 2025 13:30		v		Salle Mohammed V, Casablanca

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30 October 2025 15:45		v		Salle Mohammed V, Casablanca

Semifinals

30 October 2025 18:00		v		Salle Mohammed V, Casablanca

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30 October 2025 20:30		v		Salle Mohammed V, Casablanca

Eleventh place game

1 November 2025 09:00		v		Salle Mohammed V, Casablanca

Ninth place game

1 November 2025 11:15		v		Salle Mohammed V, Casablanca

Seventh place game

1 November 2025 13:30		v		Salle Mohammed V, Casablanca

Fifth place game

1 November 2025 15:45		v		Salle Mohammed V, Casablanca

Third place game

1 November 2025 18:00		v		Salle Mohammed V, Casablanca

Final

1 November 2025 20:30		v		Salle Mohammed V, Casablanca

Final ranking

Rank	Team
4
5
6
7
8
9
10
11
12

References

1. "Morocco to host inaugural IHF Men's Under-17 World Championship". IHF. 30 March 2025. Retrieved 30 March 2025.
2. "Islamic Republic of Iran win eight in a row to seal crown at the 2025 AHF Asian Men's U-17 Handball Championship". IHF. 26 September 2025. Retrieved 26 September 2025.
3. "Draw for the 2025 IHF Men's Under-17 World Championship announced". IHF. 1 October 2025. Retrieved 2 October 2025.
4. "12 teams find out their fate at the draw for the 2025 IHF Men's Under-17 World Championship". IHF. 2 October 2025. Retrieved 2 October 2025.
5. "Referees for the 2025 IHF Men's U-17 World Championship announced". ihf.info. 19 September 2025.

External links

• Official website