2024 European Men's Handball Championship qualification

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This article describes the qualification process for the EHF EURO 2024 and EHF Euro Cup. In total 32 teams competed for 20 places at the final tournament, while 4 teams contested the EHF Euro Cup.

Prior to the qualifiers, four teams were automatically qualified:[1]

Originally, the qualification process was about to start with Phase 1 in March 2021.[2] The two best-placed teams from that phase would qualify for the relegation round along with the winner of the 2021 edition of the IHF Emerging Nations Championship. However, after postponing the Qualification Phase 1 and cancellation of the IHF Emerging Nations Championship, both caused by the COVID-19 pandemic, those two tournaments were merged into 2021 Men's IHF/EHF Trophy. The three best-ranked teams from that tournament qualified for the relegation round.

Relegation Round involved eight teams:

The four winners advanced to the qualifiers – the latest stage of this qualification campaign.

Qualifiers involved 32 teams:

  • four teams advanced from the relegation round
  • eight remaining teams from the EHF EURO 2022 qualifiers which failed to qualify for the final tournament
  • twenty teams which participated at EHF EURO 2022, but not directly qualified for EHF EURO 2024

Qualification phase 1

Since only four teams would have participated in this round, no draw was needed.[3] This phase was planned to be played in a tournament format.[4] On 15 February 2021 the EHF announced that the tournament was postponed to 30 April to 2 May due to the COVID-19 pandemic.[5]

On 26 March 2021, the Qualification Phase 1 was cancelled and replaced with the IHF/EHF Trophy.[6]

IHF/EHF Trophy

After the 2021 IHF Emerging Nations Championship was cancelled, the EHF announced in March 2021, that the IHF/EHF Trophy would take place in Tbilisi, Georgia, from 14 to 19 June 2021.[6] The three best teams qualified for the relegation round.[7]

RankTeam
1st place, gold medalist(s) Georgia
2nd place, silver medalist(s) Cyprus
3rd place, bronze medalist(s) Bulgaria
4 Moldova
5 Andorra
 Azerbaijan

Relegation round

The four worst-ranked fourth placed teams from the previous cycle join in this round.[8] The draw took place on 19 August 2021, when the teams were paired in four two-legged ties.[9][10]

Seeding

The seeding was announced on 18 August 2021.[11] Teams relegated from the 2022 European Men's Handball Championship qualification were placed into the seeding pot 2.

Pot 1 Pot 2
 Luxembourg
 Georgia
 Cyprus
 Bulgaria
 Finland
 Belgium
 Turkey
 Latvia

Overview

All matches were played in January 2022.

Team 1 Agg.Tooltip Aggregate score Team 2 1st leg 2nd leg
Turkey  64–54  Cyprus 35–28 29–26
Georgia  45–52  Finland 22–22 23–30
Latvia  72–55  Bulgaria 36–23 36–32
Luxembourg  53–59  Belgium 26–32 27–27

Matches

All times are local.

19 January 2022
18:00
Turkey  35–28  Cyprus Haldun Alagaş Sports Hall, Istanbul
Attendance: 1,230
Referees: Boričić, Marković (SRB)
Kanberoğlu 8 (17–14) Argyrou 11
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22 January 2022
19:00
Cyprus  26–29  Turkey Eleftheria Indoor Hall, Nicosia
Attendance: 500
Referees: Baďura, Ondogrecula (SVK)
Argyrou, Demosthenous 7 (11–14) Biçer 12
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Turkey won 64–54 on aggregate.


5 January 2022
16:00
Georgia  22–22  Finland Olympic Palace, Tbilisi
Attendance: 1,500
Referees: V. Butskevich, Y. Butskevich (BLR)
Orjonikidze 7 (8–9) M. Granlund 6
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9 January 2022
15:00
Finland  30–23  Georgia Energia Areena, Vantaa
Attendance: 0[note 1]
Referees: Leszczyński, Piechota (POL)
Syrjälä, Säkkinen 7 (18–12) Dikhaminjia 5
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Finland won 52–45 on aggregate.


22 January 2022[note 2]
16:40
Latvia  36–23  Bulgaria Sports Centre Dobele, Dobele
Attendance: 750
Referees: Kull, Tint (EST)
Kreicbergs 11 (18–10) Dimitrov, Vasilev 5
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23 January 2022[note 2]
13:45
Bulgaria  32–36  Latvia Sports Centre Dobele, Dobele, Latvia
Attendance: 260
Referees: Kull, Tint (EST)
Vasilev 9 (17–19) Leja 8
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Latvia won 72–55 on aggregate.


20 January 2022
19:30
Luxembourg  26–32  Belgium d'Coque, Luxembourg City
Attendance: 531
Referees: Bounouara, Sami (FRA)
Guden 8 (12–12) Glorieux 8
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22 January 2022
20:15
Belgium  27–27  Luxembourg Stedelijke sporthal Alverberg, Hasselt
Attendance: 0[note 1]
Referees: Andorka, Hucker (HUN)
Spooren 9 (13–13) Hoffmann 7
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Belgium won 59–53 on aggregate.

Qualifiers

EHF Euro Cup

Qualified teams

Notes

References

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