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World Men’s Handball Championship 2021 Format, Qualification Info

November 21, 2020 By admin Leave a Comment

The 2021 IHF World Men’s Handball Championship will be the 27th event hosted by the International Handball Federation to be held in Egypt from 13 to 31 January 2021. This will be the first Handball Championship with 32 teams instead of 24. This will be the third championship hosted in Africa and second in Egypt. It’s the first championship to be hosted outside of Europe since 2015. Denmark will be the defending champions after winning for the first time in 2019 on home soil.

World Men's Handball Championship 2021 Format, Qualification Info

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  • 1 World Men’s Handball Championship 2021 Format
  • 2 World Men’s Handball Championship 2021 Qualification Info
  • 3 Final Word

World Men’s Handball Championship 2021 Format

The new format will see 32 teams split in eight groups of four teams each. Top three teams from each group will progress to the main round while the teams ranked last in their preliminary round groups play the President’s Cup. The 24 main round teams are divided into four groups of six teams each. The top-two teams from each group will advance to the quarterfinals.

World Men’s Handball Championship 2021 Qualification Info

As is the case until now, the World Championship organizer will be directly qualified, along with the reigning world champions. Following decision about increasing number of participating teams, changes are about to be done in the distribution of places by Continental Confederations. The number of compulsory places awarded to each Continental Confederation is increased as follows: four places each for Africa, Asia, Europe.

Starting from this tournament Pan America will be split into two zones: the North America and Caribbean Zone, having one compulsory place and the South and Central America Zone having three compulsory places. There will also be a South and Central American Men’s Last Chance Qualification Tournament which will provide a space for the winning team.

One additional place was available for Oceania, but only in the case where that national team ranked fifth or higher at the Asian Championship. Since no Oceania team placed among the top five at the Asian Championship, the IHF awarded an additional wild card. In addition, there will be 12 performance places for the Continental Confederations, which are based on the teams ranked 1–12 of the preceding World Championship.

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