2024 European Women's Handball Championship

Originally, there were two bids for the EHF Women's Euro 2024.^[3]

• Macedonia
• Russia

On 5 September 2017, Russia's bid was the only bid left.^[4]

• Russia

However, later on, when the bids were announced for the 2022 and 2024 EHF Euros, Russia's bid was withdrawn and thus there were no applications left. On 20 June 2018, the day the host was supposed to be confirmed, the EHF voted to delay the awardment of the hosting rights.^[5][6]

In April 2019, the EHF reopened the bidding process. On 20 September 2019, there were 3 new bids.^[7]

• Austria, Hungary and Switzerland
• Czech Republic, Poland and Slovakia
• Russia

The host announcement took place on 25 January 2020 at the EHF Extraordinary Congress in Stockholm. The winners were Austria, Hungary and Switzerland, who defeated the Czech Republic, Poland and Slovakia bid, 28–21, in the second round.^[1][8]

Bids	Rounds
	Round one	Round two
Austria, Hungary and Switzerland	Advanced	28
Czech Republic, Poland and Slovakia	Advanced	21
Russia	Eliminated	–

On 12 January 2023, the Hungarian government's chancellery minister, Gergely Gulyás, announced that Hungary would withdraw as hosts due to financial reasons.^[9] A few days prior, the Austrian Handball Federation was informed by the Hungarians about the decision to withdraw. The other co-hosts, Austria and Switzerland, now wanted to negotiate with the EHF about how the tournament will be held.^[10] On 28 January, the European Handball Federation released a statement concerning the issue, and said that they were amazed and surprised with the decision to potentially withdraw as co-hosts.^[11] On 16 March 2023, the EHF announced a change to the organisation structure of the championships. Hungary remained as a co-host, but played a reduced part in the hosting of the competition, including the whole portion of the tournament at the MVM Dome in Budapest (one Main Round group and the Final Weekend) being axed and replaced by Vienna.^[12] During all the uncertainty, Romania had stated that they would be able to host the tournament if the original hosts could not.^[13]

The final weekend was scheduled to be held at the MVM Dome in Budapest, Hungary, but later it was replaced with the Wiener Stadthalle in Vienna, Austria.^[14][15]

Innsbruck, Austria	Innsbruck Basel Debrecen Vienna	Debrecen, Hungary
Olympiahalle Capacity: 8,000		Főnix Aréna Capacity: 4,163
Basel, Switzerland		Vienna, Austria
St. Jakobshalle Capacity: 6,500		Wiener Stadthalle Capacity: 8,785

Expanding the competition, to 20 or 24 teams, was first considered on 30 August 2018. The idea was proposed by the Euro Delegation, but the EHF competitions commission strongly opposed the proposal, due to the fact that:

• It would dilute the quality of the event
• Trying to find a host would be more difficult because of a bigger tournament
• Not many countries, who don't already qualify for the EHF Euro, would create a lasting legacy by qualifying^[16]

Despite the opposition from the competitions commission, the EHF received positive feedback from their new commercial partners, Infront and DAZN about the possible expansion. On 15 December, at the EHF Executive Committee in Paris, the EHF decided to examine to proposed expansion further.^[17] In January 2019, they had introduced a working group to oversee the possible enlargement.^[18] On 5 April 2019, based on the recommendations by the working group, the EHF officially decided to expand the tournament to 24 teams.^[18][19]

The draw was held at 18:00 CEST on 18 April 2024 in Vienna, Austria.^[21] The guests for the draw were Norwegian goalkeeper Silje Solberg, Austrian goalkeeper Petra Blazek, Swiss goalkeeper Lea Schüpbach and right wing for the Hungarian national team Viktória Győri-Lukács. The draw started with the teams from pot one being drawn followed by pots two, three and four.^[22]

The pots were announced on 8 April 2024.^[23]

18 referee pairs were selected on 2 July 2024.^[24] It was updated on 4 September 2024, when the Danish pair replaced the Turkish pair.^[25] It was updated a second time on 7 November 2024, when the Austrian pair was replaced by another Austrian pair and the Polish pair replaced the German pair.^[26]

Referees  Austria Radojko Brkić Andrei Jusufhodžić  Bosnia and Herzegovina Vesna Balvan Tatjana Praštalo  Bulgaria Georgi Doychinov Yulian Goretsov  Denmark Line Hansen Josefine Jensen  France Yann Carmaux Julien Mursch  Hungary Kristóf Altmár Márton Horváth  Italy Gianna Merisi Andrea Pepe  Lithuania Tomas Barysas Povilas Petrušis  Moldova Igor Covalciuc Alexei Covalciuc

Referees  Montenegro Anđelina Kažanegra Jelena Vujačić  Netherlands William Weijmans Rick Wolbertus  Norway Eskil Braseth Leif Sundet  Poland Małgorzata Lidacka Urszula Lesiak  Romania Cristina Lovin Simona Stancu  Serbia Vanja Antić Jelena Jakovljević  Slovenia Ozren Backović Mirko Palačković  Spain Javier Álvarez Ion Bustamante  Ukraine Marina Duplii Olena Pobedrina

Rank Team  Norway  Denmark  Hungary 4  France 5  Sweden 6  Netherlands 7  Germany 8  Montenegro 9  Poland 10  Slovenia 11  Romania 12   Switzerland 13  Spain 14  Austria 15  Czech Republic 16  Iceland 17  Faroe Islands 18  North Macedonia 19  Croatia 20  Türkiye 21  Serbia 22  Portugal 23  Ukraine 24  Slovakia

2024 Women's European Champions Norway Tenth title Team roster[30]: Anniken Obaidli, Maren Nyland Aardahl, Stine Skogrand, Live Rushfeldt Deila, Silje Solberg-Østhassel, Kari Brattset Dale, Kristine Breistøl, Katrine Lunde, Marit Røsberg Jacobsen, Ingvild Bakkerud, Camilla Herrem, Sanna Solberg-Isaksen, Henny Reistad, Emilie Hovden, Thale Rushfeldt Deila, Eli Marie Raasok, Ane Høgseth. Head Coach: Þórir Hergeirsson.

The All Star Team and awards were announced on 15 December 2024.^[31][32]

Position	Player
Goalkeeper	Anna Kristensen
Left wing	Emma Friis
Left back	Tjaša Stanko
Centre back	Henny Reistad
Right back	Katrin Klujber
Right wing	Viktória Győri-Lukács
Pivot	Tatjana Brnović
Best defense player	Pauletta Foppa
Best young player	Petra Simon
Most valuable player	Anna Kristensen