2025 World Women's Handball Championship – European qualification

The European qualification for the 2025 World Women's Handball Championship, in Germany and the Netherlands will be played over two rounds.

In the first round of qualification, 12 teams who were not participating at the 2024 European Championship will play a singled round-robin with the winners advancing to the second phase, where the teams will be joined by the remaining ten teams from the European Championship and play play-off games to determine the qualified teams.

Qualification phase 1

Seeding

The draw was held on 30 July in Vienna, Austria. The winner of each group advance to the play-off round.

Pot 1	Pot 2	Pot 3
Italy Greece Kosovo Finland	Israel Luxembourg Lithuania Bosnia and Herzegovina	Bulgaria Great Britain Belgium Estonia

Groups

Group A

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	Greece	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	Qualification Phase 2
2	Lithuania	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
3	Great Britain	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0

First match(es) will be played: 25 October 2024. Source: EHF
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.

25 October 2024	Great Britain	v	Greece
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26 October 2024	Lithuania	v	Great Britain
		Report

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27 October 2024	Greece	v	Lithuania
		Report

Group B

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	Kosovo	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	Qualification Phase 2
2	Bosnia and Herzegovina	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
3	Belgium	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0

First match(es) will be played: 25 October 2024. Source: EHF
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.

25 October 2024	Belgium	v	Kosovo
		Report

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26 October 2024	Bosnia and Herzegovina	v	Belgium
		Report

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27 October 2024	Kosovo	v	Bosnia and Herzegovina
		Report

Group C

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	Finland	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	Qualification Phase 2
2	Israel	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
3	Estonia	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0

First match(es) will be played: 25 October 2024. Source: EHF
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.

25 October 2024	Estonia	v	Finland
		Report

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26 October 2024	Israel	v	Estonia
		Report

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27 October 2024	Finland	v	Israel
		Report

Group D

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	Italy	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	Qualification Phase 2
2	Luxembourg	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
3	Bulgaria	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0

First match(es) will be played: 25 October 2024. Source: EHF
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.

25 October 2024	Bulgaria	v	Italy
		Report

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26 October 2024	Luxembourg	v	Bulgaria
		Report

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27 October 2024	Italy	v	Luxembourg
		Report

Qualification phase 2

The draw will take place on 15 December 2024. The four winners of phase 1 will join 18 teams. The games willbe played on 9 and 10 April and 12 and 13 April 2025.

Teams

Teams
Norway Denmark Sweden Montenegro Spain Hungary Slovenia Romania Croatia Czech Republic Poland Serbia Austria Switzerland North Macedonia Ukraine Iceland Slovakia Portugal Turkey Faroe Islands

External links

• Official website