2010 European Women's Handball Championship qualification

This page describes the qualifying procedure for the 2010 European Women's Handball Championship.

Qualification system

Seeding

The draw for the qualification round was held on 24 March 2009 at the EHF headquarters, in Vienna.[1] The host countries, Norway and Denmark, are directly qualified. The remaining 29 teams were divided into several pots according to the "EHF Women's National Team Ranking", and were successfully drawn so that each qualification group contained one team from each pot. The two lowest ranked teams, Finland and Great Britain, participated in a pre-qualification tournament to decide the 28th spot.[2]

Pot 1	Pot 2	Pot 3	Pot 4
Russia  Germany  Spain  Hungary  France  Croatia  Romania	Sweden  North Macedonia  Poland  Ukraine  Austria  Serbia  Belarus	Netherlands  Slovenia  Portugal  Turkey  Slovakia  Czech Republic  Iceland	Lithuania  Italy  Montenegro   Switzerland  Azerbaijan  Greece  Finland/ Great Britain

Playing dates

• Pre-qualification: September 2009
• Rounds 1 and 2: 14–18 October 2009
• Rounds 3 and 4: 31 March – 4 April 2010
• Rounds 5 and 6: 26–30 May 2010

Tiebreakers

If two or more teams are equal on points on completion of the group matches, the following criteria are applied to determine the rankings.

1. Higher number of points obtained in the group matches played among the teams in question.
2. Superior goal difference from the group matches played among the teams in question.
3. Higher number of goals scored in the group matches played among the teams in question.
4. If, after applying criteria 1) to 3) to several teams, two or more teams still have an equal ranking, the criteria 1) to 3) will be reapplied to determine the ranking of these teams. If this procedure does not lead to a decision, criteria 5), 6) and 7) will apply.
5. Superior goal difference from all group matches played.
6. Higher number of goals scored in all group matches played.
7. Drawing of lots.

Pre-Qualification

The two pre-qualification matches were played on 23 and 26 September. Great Britain won 41–37 on aggregate score and advanced to qualification group 3.

23 September 2009 19:00	Finland	14 – 17	Great Britain	Pirkkola, Helsinki Attendance: 500 Referees: Rakytina, Tkachuk (UKR)
	Roos, Tallqvist, Wiberg 3	(7-9)	Hegelund, Jensen Cannon 3
		(Report)

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26 September 2009 18:00	Great Britain	24 – 23	Finland	Liverpool Echo Arena, Liverpool Attendance: 2000 Referees: van Dijk, Wijtenburg (NED)
	Goodwin 7	(13-8)	Johansson, Tallqvist 5
		(Report)

Groups

The draw for the qualification round defined the groups shown below. A provisional match schedule was elaborated and distributed to all national federations taking part in this round.[3]

Key:

• Teams highlighted in green qualified for the tournament.

Group 1

Main article: 2010 European Women's Handball Championship qualification – Group 1

Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts		UKR	ROU	SUI	POR
Ukraine	6	5	1	0	197	160	+37	11		—	27–27	33–20	32–23
Romania	6	4	1	1	219	153	+66	9		35–36	—	37–26	37–23
Switzerland	6	2	0	4	143	184	−41	4		24–33	18–39	—	28–25
Portugal	6	0	0	6	142	204	−62	0		31–36	23–44	17–27	—

Source:

Group 2

Main article: 2010 European Women's Handball Championship qualification – Group 2

Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts		HUN	SWE	CZE	AZE
Hungary	6	6	0	0	174	134	+40	12		—	26–24	24–20	35–26
Sweden	6	4	0	2	167	128	+39	8		26–27	—	31–25	31–11
Czech Republic	6	2	0	4	152	158	−6	4		23–31	21–28	—	37–25
Azerbaijan	6	0	0	6	114	187	−73	0		15–31	18–27	19–26	—

Source:

Group 3

Main article: 2010 European Women's Handball Championship qualification – Group 3

Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts		FRA	ISL	AUT	GBR
France	6	6	0	0	191	124	+67	12		—	32–23	30–22	34–15
Iceland	6	3	0	3	166	146	+20	6		24–27	—	29–25	40–20
Austria	6	3	0	3	150	145	+5	6		24–27	26–23	—	30–20
Great Britain	6	0	0	6	104	196	−92	0		16–42	16–27	17–23	—

Source:

Group 4

Main article: 2010 European Women's Handball Championship qualification – Group 4

Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts		GER	SLO	BLR	ITA
Germany	6	6	0	0	205	129	+76	12		—	27–17	35–24	45–19
Slovenia	6	3	0	3	163	162	+1	6		24–35	—	30–21	34–22
Belarus	6	3	0	3	166	176	−10	6		26–30	31–30	—	32–23
Italy	6	0	0	6	137	204	−67	0		19–33	26–28	28–32	—

Source:

Group 5

Main article: 2010 European Women's Handball Championship qualification – Group 5

Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts		ESP	SRB	TUR	GRE
Spain	6	6	0	0	181	128	+53	12		—	29–25	30–26	39–16
Serbia	6	4	0	2	179	142	+37	8		20–21	—	28–27	45–18
Turkey	6	2	0	4	167	156	+11	4		27–30	30–32	—	30–22
Greece	6	0	0	6	101	202	−101	0		14–32	17–29	14–27	—

Source:

Group 6

Main article: 2010 European Women's Handball Championship qualification – Group 6

Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts		MNE	RUS	SVK	POL
Montenegro	6	5	1	0	196	160	+36	11		—	28–28	39–24	35–32
Russia	6	4	1	1	196	155	+41	9		28–31	—	33–26	35–20
Slovakia	6	1	0	5	156	193	−37	2		27–32	24–37	—	32–28
Poland	6	1	0	5	151	191	−40	2		21–31	26–35	24–23	—

Source:

Group 7

Main article: 2010 European Women's Handball Championship qualification – Group 7

Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts		CRO	NED	MKD	LTU
Croatia	6	5	0	1	191	138	+53	10		—	32–23	36–23	31–22
Netherlands	6	3	2	1	161	146	+15	8		25–24	—	20–20	34–20
North Macedonia	6	2	2	2	157	153	+4	6		21–26	28–28	—	32–24
Lithuania	6	0	0	6	131	203	−72	0		24–42	22–31	19–33	—

Source:

References

1. "EURO 2010 Qualification Draw". EHF. Archived from the original on 18 October 2009. Retrieved 14 July 2009.
2. "Qualification groups". EHF. 24 March 2009. Archived from the original on 21 July 2009. Retrieved 14 July 2009.
3. "Draw and Basic Playing Schedule 2010 Women's EHF EURO Qualification" (PDF). EHF. 24 March 2009. Archived from the original (PDF) on 24 November 2013. Retrieved 14 July 2009.