2020 Women's Youth World Handball Championship

The 2020 Women's Youth World Handball Championship (U-18) will be the eighth edition of the tournament and takes place in Croatia.[1]

2020 Women's Youth World Handball Championship
Tournament details
Host country Croatia
DatesTBD
Teams24 (from 4 confederations)
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On 7 February 2020, the IHF decided to move the tournament to another country due to concerns about the COVID-19 pandemic.[2] Originally scheduled for 18 to 30 August 2020, the tournament was rescheduled to 29 September to 11 October 2020, due to the coronavirus pandemic.[3] On 17 July 2020. the event was postponed.[4]

Qualification
Competition Dates Host Vacancies Qualified
1  China[2]
IHF Council Meeting (host nation) 27 February 2020 Cairo 1  Croatia
2019 European Women's U-17 Handball Championship 1–11 August 2019 Celje 9  Hungary
 Sweden
 France
 Denmark
 Russia
 Norway
 Germany
 Austria
 Montenegro
2019 Women's U-17 EHF Championship 3–11 August 2019 Lignano Sabbiadoro 1  Czech Republic
Tbilisi 1   Switzerland
2019 Oceania Women's Youth Handball Championship 11–16 August 2019 Païta 1  New Zealand
2019 Asian Women's Youth Handball Championship 21–30 August 2019 Jaipur 4  South Korea
 Japan
 Kazakhstan
 Uzbekistan
2019 African Women's Youth Handball Championship 16–24 September 2019 Niamey 3  Egypt
 Angola
 Tunisia
IHF Trophy – North America and Caribbean[5] 15–20 October 2019 Montreal 1  Canada
2020 South and Central American Women's Youth Handball Championship 4–10 May 2020 Sorocaba 3  Brazil
 Argentina
 Chile

New Zealand will make their Women's Youth World Handball Championship debut.

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References
  1. "2020 IHF Women's Youth (U18) World Championship". ihf.info. 18 November 2019.
  2. "2020 Women's Youth World Championship to be moved". ihf.info. 7 February 2020.
  3. "IHF events to be re-scheduled". ihf.info. 24 April 2020.
  4. "2020 Men's Super Globe and Women's Youth World Championship postponed". International Handball Federation. 18 July 2020. Retrieved 18 July 2020.
  5. "Martinique and Mexico qualify for IHF Trophy – Intercontinental Phase". IHF. 23 October 2019. Retrieved 12 February 2020.
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