2024 Women's Junior World Handball Championship

24th Women's Junior World Handball Championship 2024

Tournament details
Host country	North Macedonia
Dates	19–30 June
Teams	32 (from 6 confederations)

The 2024 IHF Women's Junior World Championship will be 24th edition of the championship to be held in North Macedonia from 19 to 30 June 2024 under the aegis of International Handball Federation (IHF).

Bidding process

Two nations entered bid for hosting the tournament:

• North Macedonia
• Slovenia

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

Qualification

Qualification	Dates	Host	Vacancies	Qualified
Host			1	North Macedonia
2023 Asian Junior Championship	30 June – 9 July 2023	Tsim Sha Tsui	5	China Chinese Taipei Iran Japan South Korea
2023 U-19 European Championship	6–16 July 2023	Romania	13	Czech Republic Denmark France Germany Hungary Iceland Montenegro Netherlands Norway Portugal Romania Sweden Switzerland
2023 African Junior Championship	7–14 September 2023	Monastir	5	Algeria Angola Egypt Guinea Tunisia
IHF Trophy U19 – Oceania	16–20 October 2023	Nouméa	1	New Zealand
2023 South and Central American Junior Championship	14–18 November 2023	Buenos Aires	3	Argentina Brazil Chile
European qualification	21–26 November 2023	Vrnjačka Banja	1	Spain
2023 IHF Trophy U19 – North America and the Caribbean	9–13 December 2023	Mexico City	2	Mexico United States
2024 IHF Inter-Continental Trophy	28 February – 3 March 2024	Tashkent	1	Uzbekistan

• New Zealand withdrew before the tournament and a replacement nation will be announced.

Draw

The draw was held on 13 April 2024 in Ulm, Germany.

Seeding

Pot 1	Pot 2	Pot 3	Pot 4
Hungary Denmark Romania Portugal Sweden Angola France Switzerland	South Korea Montenegro Netherlands Norway North Macedonia Germany Czech Republic Egypt	Guinea Iceland Spain China Argentina Tunisia Brazil Japan	Chile Chinese Taipei Iran Mexico United States Algeria TBD Uzbekistan

• The spot for Oceania was left unoccupied and a replacement nation will be named.

Referees

The referees were announced on 26 April 2024.

Referees
Argentina	Mariana García María Paolantoni
Bosnia and Herzegovina	Vesna Balvan Tatjana Praštalo
Brazil	Bruna Correa Renata Correa
Croatia	Ante Mikelić Petar Parađina
Cuba	Raymel Reyes Alexis Zuñiga
Denmark	Jacob Pagh Karl Thygesen
Egypt	Heidy El-Saied Yasmina El-Saied
France	Yann Camaux Julien Mursch
Germany	Ramesh Thiyagarajah Suresh Thiyagarajah
Hungary	Rita Dáné Zsófia Marton
Iran	Marzieh Ghofli Mozhgan Hassanzadeh

Referees
Iran	Amir Gheisarian Ahmad Gheisarian
Kuwait	Maali Al-Enezi Dalal Al-Nassem
Montenegro	Novica Mitrović Miljan Vešović
North Macedonia	Danielo Bozhinovski Viktor Nachevski
Norway	Eskil Braseth Leif Andre Sundet
Romania	Cristina Lovin Simona Stancu
Saudi Arabia	Mohammed Al-Saqer Ali Al-Suqufi
Serbia	Marko Sekulić Vladimir Jovandić
Slovakia	Andrej Budzák Michal Záhradník
Slovenia	Žan Pukšič Miha Satler
Spain	Jesús Álvarez Miguel Soria

Preliminary round

Group A

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	Romania	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	Main round
2	Netherlands	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
3	Brazil	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	Presidents Cup
4	Iran	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0

First match(es) will be played: 19 June 2024. Source: IHF
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.

Group B

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	Switzerland	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	Main round
2	Egypt	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
3	Tunisia	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	Presidents Cup
4	Chile	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0

First match(es) will be played: 19 June 2024. Source: IHF
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.

Group C

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	Hungary	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	Main round
2	South Korea	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
3	Argentina	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	Presidents Cup
4	Mexico	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0

First match(es) will be played: 19 June 2024. Source: IHF
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.

Group D

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	Denmark	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	Main round
2	Norway	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
3	Japan	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	Presidents Cup
4	Chinese Taipei	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0

First match(es) will be played: 19 June 2024. Source: IHF
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.

Group E

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	Sweden	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	Main round
2	Czech Republic	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
3	China	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	Presidents Cup
4	Algeria	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0

First match(es) will be played: 19 June 2024. Source: IHF
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.

Group F

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	France	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	Main round
2	Germany	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
3	Spain	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	Presidents Cup
4	Wildcard	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0

First match(es) will be played: 19 June 2024. Source: IHF
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.

Group G

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	Portugal	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	Main round
2	Montenegro	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
3	Guinea	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	Presidents Cup
4	Uzbekistan	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0

First match(es) will be played: 19 June 2024. Source: IHF
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.

Group H

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	Angola	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	Main round
2	North Macedonia (H)	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
3	Iceland	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	Presidents Cup
4	United States	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0

First match(es) will be played: 19 June 2024. Source: IHF
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.
(H) Hosts

See also

• 2024 Women's Youth World Handball Championship

External links

• IHF website