2008 European Men's Handball Championship qualification

Qualification matches for the 2008 European Men's Handball Championship took place in 2007. According to the EHF rules host (Norway), and the top six nations from the 2006 European Championship (France, Croatia, Spain, Denmark, Germany, Russia) were automatically qualified. The other nine places will be determined in play-offs in June; nine teams are seeded after qualifying for the 2006 Championship, while their opponents qualified through the preliminary group stages.

Summary

Below is a table containing all seven qualifying groups. Teams that have secured a place in the final tournament are highlighted in green. The order of teams is by play off position.

Group 1	Group 2	Group 3	Group 4	Group 5	Group 6	Group 7
Belarus  Slovakia	Serbia  North Macedonia	Romania  Latvia	Montenegro  Netherlands	Switzerland  Lithuania	Portugal	Sweden
Cyprus  Moldova	Israel  Luxembourg	Bulgaria  Georgia	Austria  Finland	Italy  Turkey	Greece  Estonia	Bosnia and Herzegovina  Belgium

Group stage

Final standings (as of 30 January 2007)

Group 1

Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts
Belarus	3	3	0	0	100	74	+26	6
Slovakia	3	2	0	1	100	74	+26	4
Cyprus	3	1	0	2	71	86	−15	2
Moldova	3	0	0	3	73	110	−37	0

Source:

Group 2

Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts
Serbia	6	4	1	1	220	164	+56	9
Macedonia	6	4	1	1	185	179	+6	9
Israel	6	3	0	3	172	174	−2	6
Luxembourg	6	0	0	6	149	209	−60	0

Source:

Group 3

Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts
Romania	6	6	0	0	203	153	+50	12
Latvia	6	4	0	2	187	167	+20	8
Bulgaria	6	1	0	5	140	170	−30	2
Georgia	6	1	0	5	140	179	−39	2

Source:

Group 4

Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts
Montenegro	6	5	1	0	200	178	+22	11
Netherlands	6	3	1	2	186	186	0	7
Austria	6	3	0	3	183	178	+5	6
Finland	6	0	0	6	165	199	−34	0

Source:

Group 5

Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts
Switzerland	6	6	0	0	186	151	+35	12
Lithuania	6	3	0	3	186	188	−2	6
Italy	6	2	0	4	173	187	−14	4
Turkey	6	1	0	5	167	186	−19	2

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Group 6

Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts
Portugal	4	3	0	1	115	94	+21	6
Greece	4	3	0	1	107	98	+9	6
Estonia	4	0	0	4	95	125	−30	0

Source:

Group 7

Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts
Sweden	4	4	0	0	139	106	+33	8
Bosnia and Herzegovina	4	2	0	2	143	121	+22	4
Belgium	4	0	0	4	95	125	−30	0

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Play-off

The play-off draw was made in Vienna on 26 January 2007. The matches were two-legged affairs, and were played in the second and third weekends of June.

Team 1	Result	Team 2	1st Leg	2nd Leg
Poland	72 - 47	Netherlands	31 – 20	41 - 27
Lithuania	53 - 59	Hungary	23 – 28	30 - 31
Ukraine	48 – 63	Slovakia	29 – 28	19 - 35
Slovenia	66 – 60	Macedonia	33 – 28	33 - 32
Latvia	56 – 64	Czech Republic	30 – 31	26 - 33
Belarus	61 – 54	Switzerland	33 – 24	28 - 30
Sweden	69 – 59	Romania	36 – 25	33 - 34
Portugal	55 – 63	Montenegro	28 – 30	27 - 33
Serbia	70 – 71	Iceland	30 – 29	40 - 42