2025 World Women's Handball Championship – European qualification

The European qualification for the 2025 World Women's Handball Championship, in Germany and the Netherlands will be played over two rounds.

In the first round of qualification, 12 teams who were not participating at the 2024 European Championship will play a singled round-robin with the winners advancing to the second phase, where the teams will be joined by the remaining ten teams from the European Championship and play play-off games to determine the qualified teams.

Qualification phase 1

Seeding

The draw was held on 30 July in Vienna, Austria. ^{[1] [2]} The winner of each group advance to the play-off round.

Pot 1	Pot 2	Pot 3
Italy   Greece   Kosovo   Finland	Israel   Luxembourg   Lithuania   Bosnia and Herzegovina	Bulgaria   Great Britain   Belgium   Estonia

Groups

Group A

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	Greece	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	Qualification Phase 2
2	Lithuania	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
3	Great Britain	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0

First match(es) will be played: 25 October 2024. Source: EHF
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.

25 October 2024 15:00	Lithuania	v	Great Britain	Šiauliai Arena, Šiauliai
		Report

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26 October 2024 18:00	Great Britain	v	Greece	Šiauliai Arena, Šiauliai
		Report

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27 October 2024 15:00	Greece	v	Lithuania	Šiauliai Arena, Šiauliai
		Report

Group B

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	Kosovo	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	Qualification Phase 2
2	Bosnia and Herzegovina	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
3	Belgium	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0

First match(es) will be played: 25 October 2024. Source: EHF
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.

25 October 2024 20:00	Belgium	v	Kosovo	Sporthal Alverberg, Hasselt
		Report

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26 October 2024 18:00	Kosovo	v	Bosnia and Herzegovina	Sporthal Alverberg, Hasselt
		Report

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27 October 2024 16:00	Bosnia and Herzegovina	v	Belgium	Sporthal Alverberg, Hasselt
		Report

Group C

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	Finland	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	Qualification Phase 2
2	Israel	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
3	Estonia	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0

First match(es) will be played: 25 October 2024. Source: EHF
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 2024 17:00	Estonia	v	Finland	Karis Idrottshall, Karis
		Report

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25 October 2024 17:00	Israel	v	Estonia	Karis Idrottshall, Karis
		Report

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26 October 2024 15:00	Finland	v	Israel	Karis Idrottshall, Karis
		Report

Group D

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	Italy	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	Qualification Phase 2
2	Luxembourg	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
3	Bulgaria	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0

First match(es) will be played: 25 October 2024. Source: EHF
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.

25 October 2024 18:00	Bulgaria	v	Italy	Pala Santa Filomena, Chieti
		Report

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26 October 2024 18:00	Luxembourg	v	Bulgaria	Pala Santa Filomena, Chieti
		Report

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27 October 2024 18:00	Italy	v	Luxembourg	Pala Santa Filomena, Chieti
		Report

Qualification phase 2

The draw will take place on 15 December 2024. ^[2] The four winners of phase 1 will join 18 teams. The games willbe played on 9 and 10 April and 12 and 13 April 2025.

Teams

Teams
Norway   Denmark   Sweden   Montenegro   Spain   Hungary   Slovenia   Romania   Croatia   Czech Republic   Poland   Serbia   Austria    Switzerland   North Macedonia   Ukraine   Iceland   Slovakia   Portugal   Turkey   Faroe Islands

References

1. "12 teams eye path to 2025 Women's World Championship". eurohandball.com. 29 July 2024.
2. "Qualification phase 1 draw outlines World Championship path". eurohandball.com. 30 July 2024.

External links

• Official website