2025 IHF Men's U21 Handball World Championship

International handball competition
2025 IHF Men's U21 Handball World Championship
Tournament details
Host country Poland
DatesJuly/August
Teams32 (from 6 confederations)
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The 2025 IHF Men's U21 Handball World Championship will be 25th edition of the IHF Men's U21 Handball World Championship to be held in Poland under the aegis of International Handball Federation (IHF). It will be first time in history that the championship will be organised by Poland Handball Federation.[1]

Bidding process

Three nations entered bid for hosting the tournament:

  •  North Macedonia
  •  Poland
  •  Slovenia

North Macedonia and Slovenia later withdrew their bid. The tournament was awarded to Poland by the IHF Council in its meeting held in Cairo, Egypt on 28 February 2020.

Qualification

Event Dates Host Vacancies Qualified
IHF Council Meeting 28 February 2020 Egypt Cairo 1  Poland
2024 U-20 European Championship 10–21 July 2024 Slovenia Celje 15  Austria
 Croatia
 Denmark
 France
 Germany
 Hungary
 Iceland
 North Macedonia
 Norway
 Portugal
 Romania
 Serbia
 Slovenia
 Spain
 Sweden
2024 Asian Junior Championship 14–25 July 2024 Jordan Amman 4  Bahrain
 Japan
 Saudi Arabia
 South Korea
2024 African Junior Championship 9–16 September 2024  Tunisia
2024 South and Central American Junior Championship
2024 North America and Caribbean Junior Championship

References

  1. ^ "IHF Council awards events up to 2027". ihf.info. 28 February 2020. Retrieved 26 August 2020.
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