2025_World_Women's_Handball_Championship

2025 World Women's Handball Championship

2025 World Women's Handball Championship

2025 edition of the World Men's Handball Championship

The 2025 IHF World Women's Handball Championship will be 27th edition of the championship to be jointly hosted by Germany and the Netherlands under the aegis of International Handball Federation (IHF) from 27 November to 14 December 2025. It will be fourth time in history that the championship is jointly hosted.[1] Catch the Dream will be the official motto of the competition.[2]

Quick Facts Tournament details, Host countries ...

France are the defending world champions, having won the 2023 edition.

Bidding process

Only Germany/Netherlands entered a bid for hosting the tournament. The tournament was awarded in its meeting held in Cairo, Egypt, on 28 February 2020.

Qualification

More information Competition, Dates ...

^ 1. To bear in mind the 2028 Summer Olympics, the IHF Council awarded the United States wild cards for the 2025 and 2027 World Championships.[3][4]

^ 2. If countries from Oceania (Australia or New Zealand) participating in the Asian Championships finish within the top 5, they will qualify for the World Championships. If either finishes sixth or lower, the place would have been transferred to the wild card spot.

Qualified teams

More information Country, Qualified as ...
  1. Bold indicates champion for that year, Italics indicates host for that year.

Venues

On 16 May 2022 the German Handball Association (DHB) presented the German venues:[5]

More information Dortmund, Stuttgart ...

On 5 April 2023 the Netherlands Handball Association presented the Dutch venues:[2][6]

More information Rotterdam, 's-Hertogenbosch ...

References

  1. [1]
    "IHF Council awards events up to 2027". IHF. 28 February 2020. Retrieved 26 August 2020.
  2. [2]
    ""Catch the dream" at the 2025 IHF Women's World Championship, as Final venue is announced". International Handball Federation. 5 April 2023. Retrieved 8 April 2023.
  3. [3]
    "Strategic plan | USA" (PDF). IHF.
  4. [4]
    "Council Meeting No. 3" (PDF). Doha, Qatar: IHF. 18 October 2018. pp. 8–9.
  5. [5]
    "Grosse Bühnen für die Frauen-WM 2025" (in German). German Handball Federation. 16 May 2022. Retrieved 23 May 2022.
  6. [6]
    "De organisatie WK Handbal 2025 kiest voor speelsteden Rotterdam en 's-Hertogenbosch" (in Dutch). HandbalNL. 5 April 2023. Retrieved 8 April 2023.


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