2022 European Men's Handball Championship qualification

The 2022 European Men's Handball Championship qualification is a handball competition organised by the European Handball Federation (EHF) to determine 20 of the 24 men's national teams competing in the 2022 European Men's Handball Championship final tournament. They will join the other four teams already qualified: Hungary and Slovakia, as final tournament co-hosts, and Spain and Croatia, who finished in the top two positions in the previous championship.

This qualification competition is being disputed by a total of 44 national teams in three phases between January 2019 and May 2021.

Qualification system

The campaign is split into two distinct qualification phases and a relegation round.

Qualification phase 1 comprises teams which didn't participate at the 2020 EHF Euro qualification Phase 2. The two best teams advance to the relegation round.

In the relegation round, the two teams that advance from phase 1 are joined by the highest ranked European team at the 2019 IHF Emerging Nations Championship and they will face the three lowest ranked fourth-placed teams from the 2020 EHF Euro qualification. Three winners of those elimination matches advance to the qualification phase 2.

Qualification phase 2 comprises three winners from the relegation round along with 29 teams which participated at either the 2020 EHF Euro or the qualification phase 2.

Qualification Phase 1

Seeding

The draw for the qualification round 1 was held on 28 September 2018 in Vienna, Austria.[1] This qualification was played in a tournament format, with the teams able to choose whether they wanted to play on 4 to 6 January or 11 to 13 January 2019.

Pot 1	Pot 2	Pot 3	Pot 4
Cyprus Luxembourg	Great Britain Georgia	Azerbaijan Ireland	Bulgaria Malta

Groups

Group A

Pos	Team	Pld	W	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	Luxembourg (H)	3	3	0	100	54	+46	6	Relegation round
2	Bulgaria	3	2	1	76	84	−8	4
3	Great Britain	3	1	2	71	79	−8	2
4	Ireland	3	0	3	72	102	−30	0

Source: Eurohandball
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.
(H) Host.

11 January 2019 17:00	Great Britain	20–24	Bulgaria	Centre National Sportif d'Coque, Luxembourg City Attendance: 250 Referees: Fremstad, Pedersen (NOR)
	Da Silva, Negrete 6	(7–10)	Balchev 5
	1× 3× 1×	Report	3× 7×

11 January 2019 20:00	Luxembourg	35–18	Ireland	Centre National Sportif d'Coque, Luxembourg City Attendance: 550 Referees: Ivanović, Vujisić (MNE)
	four players 4	(14–7)	J. Grace 7
	2× 2×	Report	3× 3×

12 January 2019 15:00	Ireland	26–32	Great Britain	Centre National Sportif d'Coque, Luxembourg City Attendance: 200 Referees: Fremstad, Pedersen (NOR)
	Meyer 9	(14–17)	Da Silva, Negrete 7
	2× 6×	Report	1× 5×

12 January 2019 18:00	Bulgaria	17–36	Luxembourg	Centre National Sportif d'Coque, Luxembourg City Attendance: 1,150 Referees: Ivanović, Vujisić (MNE)
	Balchev 6	(8–15)	Wirtz 11
	1× 7×	Report	2× 8×

13 January 2019 14:00	Ireland	28–35	Bulgaria	Centre National Sportif d'Coque, Luxembourg City Attendance: 200 Referees: Fremstad, Pedersen (NOR)
	J. Grace 10	(13–17)	Dzhempereiev 9
	1× 6×	Report	6×

13 January 2019 17:00	Luxembourg	29–19	Great Britain	Centre National Sportif d'Coque, Luxembourg City Attendance: 1,000 Referees: Ivanović, Vujisić (MNE)
	three players 5	(15–6)	Edgar 7
	2× 3×	Report	2× 4× 1×

Group B

Pos	Team	Pld	W	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	Cyprus	3	3	0	88	61	+27	6	Relegation round
2	Georgia	3	2	1	102	71	+31	4
3	Azerbaijan	3	1	2	69	79	−10	2
4	Malta (H)	3	0	3	65	113	−48	0

Source: Eurohandball
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.
(H) Host.

11 January 2019 17:00	Cyprus	25–17	Azerbaijan	Cottonera Sports Complex, Cospicua Attendance: 80 Referees: Bozhinovski, Nachevski (MKD)
	Argyrou 7	(13–10)	Askerov, Nazaraliyev 3
	3× 6×	Report	1× 2×

11 January 2019 19:30	Georgia	48–21	Malta	Cottonera Sports Complex, Cospicua Attendance: 350 Referees: Carmaux, Mursch (FRA)
	Tskhovrebadze 11	(29–9)	Di Pilato 5
	2× 3×	Report	2× 2×

12 January 2019 16:00	Azerbaijan	25–30	Georgia	Cottonera Sports Complex, Cospicua Attendance: 100 Referees: Bozhinovski, Nachevski (MKD)
	Aydamirov 9	(15–16)	Chanturia, Tskhovrebadze 6
	3× 5×	Report	3× 5× 1×

12 January 2019 18:30	Malta	20–38	Cyprus	Cottonera Sports Complex, Cospicua Attendance: 400 Referees: Carmaux, Mursch (FRA)
	Mifsud 7	(7–17)	Ioannou 7
	2× 5×	Report	3× 4×

13 January 2019 15:00	Cyprus	25–24	Georgia	Cottonera Sports Complex, Cospicua Attendance: 150 Referees: Carmaux, Mursch (FRA)
	Argyrou 9	(14–12)	Tskhovrebadze 11
	1× 6×	Report	3× 3×

13 January 2019 17:30	Azerbaijan	27–24	Malta	Cottonera Sports Complex, Cospicua Attendance: 450 Referees: Bozhinovski, Nachevski (MKD)
	Aydamirov 9	(16–11)	Di Pilato 6
	2× 3×	Report	3× 3×

IHF Emerging Nations Championship

Unlike previous editions, single participation at this tournament was not possible. Only teams participating at the qualification phase 1, failed to advance, earned a right to play. The best ranked European team qualified for the relegation round.

Rank	Team
	Georgia
2	Bulgaria
3	Great Britain
4	Azerbaijan
5	Ireland
6	Malta

Note: Ranking of exclusively European teams is displayed.

Relegation from the previous qualification cycle

The three lowest ranked among fourth-placed teams in the 2020 European Men's Handball Championship qualification, apart from Slovakia as co-host nation, will play in the relegation round. Other four teams will enter qualification phase 2.

Pos	Grp	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Promotion, qualification or relegation
1	3	Greece	6	1	1	4	145	168	−23	3	Qualification Phase 2
2	1	Kosovo	6	1	1	4	118	172	−54	3
3	6	Romania	6	1	0	5	129	157	−28	2
4	8	Faroe Islands	6	0	1	5	131	171	−40	1
5	2	Belgium	6	0	1	5	144	186	−42	1	Relegation Round
6	7	Slovakia	6	0	0	6	129	155	−26	0	Final tournament (co-host)
7	4	Estonia	6	0	0	6	142	185	−43	0	Relegation Round
8	5	Finland	6	0	0	6	131	185	−54	0	Relegation Round

Source: Eurohandball
Rules for classification: 1) points; 2) goal difference; 3) number of goals scored.

Relegation round

Seeding

The draw for EHF EURO 2022 Relegation Round took place at the EHF Office on 23 July 2019.[2] Three lowest ranked sides from EHF EURO 2020 Qualification Phase 2 were seeded teams while qualification phase 1 participants were unseeded teams.[3]

Pot 1	Pot 2
Cyprus Georgia Luxembourg	Belgium Estonia Finland

Overview

The first legs were played on 15 and 16 January and the second legs on 19 January 2020.

Team 1	Agg.	Team 2	1st leg	2nd leg
Georgia	45–61	Finland	24–24	21–37
Luxembourg	53–69	Estonia	33–38	20–31
Belgium	55–23	Cyprus	24–7	31–16

Matches

16 January 2020 18:00	Georgia	24–24	Finland	Tbilisi Sports Palace, Tbilisi Attendance: 850 Referees: Ben-Dan, Faran (ISR)
	Tskhovrebadze 8	(11–10)	Tamminen 6
	2× 4×	Report	3× 6×

19 January 2020 16:00	Finland	37–21	Georgia	Cocks Areena, Riihimäki Attendance: 800 Referees: Hofer, Schmidhuber (AUT)
	Rönnberg 8	(14–12)	Orjonikidze, Tskhovrebadze 7
	2× 4× 1×	Report	2× 5×

Finland won 61–45 on aggregate.

16 January 2020 19:30	Luxembourg	33–38	Estonia	d'Coque, Luxembourg City Attendance: 500 Referees: Martins, Martins (POR)
	Wirtz 11	(17–18)	Toom 10
	2× 3×	Report	1× 2×

19 January 2020 13:45	Estonia	31–20	Luxembourg	Mesikäpa Hall, Pölva Attendance: 600 Referees: Bounouara, Sami (FRA)
	four players 5	(14–13)	Wirtz 6
	2× 3×	Report	1× 4×

Estonia won 69–53 on aggregate.

15 January 2020 20:10	Belgium	24–7	Cyprus	Sporthal Alverberg, Hasselt Attendance: 1,450 Referees: Čerņavskis, Bogdanovs (LAT)
	D'Hanis 6	(13–3)	And. Ioannou 3
	2× 6×	Report	1× 2×

19 January 2020 19:00	Cyprus	16–31	Belgium	Eleftheria Stadium, Nicosia Attendance: 300 Referees: Di Domenico, Fornasier (ITA)
	Paraskeva 8	(8–11)	Denert 7
	3× 4×	Report	3× 5× 1×

Belgium won 55–23 on aggregate.

Qualification Phase 2

In this round, pre-qualified teams from the EHF EURO 2020 qualification and final tournaments join the three winners from the relegation round. The 32 teams will be split into eight groups of four, with the winners and runners-up qualifying for the final tournament, together with the four best third-placed teams.[4]

The draw was initially scheduled to take place at the EHF Executive Committee meeting in Bratislava on 23 April 2020.[5] On 13 March 2020, the EHF announced that the draw would be postponed due to the COVID-19 pandemic across Europe,[6] with the new date set for 16 June 2020.[7][8]

Seeding

On 2 June 2020, the EHF revealed the seeding pots and the draw procedure. The 32 teams qualified for this stage were seeded in four pots, according to the EHF men's national team ranking. The draw allocated successively the eight teams from Pot 3, followed by the eight teams from Pot 2, Pot 1 and finally Pot 4. For political reasons, Kosovo (Pot 4) was drawn to a group not containing Serbia (Pot 2).[9]

Pot 1	Pot 2	Pot 3	Pot 4
Norway Sweden Denmark Germany France Slovenia Czech Republic Iceland	Austria Belarus Portugal North Macedonia Serbia Russia Montenegro Netherlands	Switzerland Lithuania Romania Bosnia and Herzegovina Ukraine Latvia Poland Belgium	Finland Italy Turkey Israel Estonia Greece Kosovo Faroe Islands

All times are local.

Group 1

Pos	Team	Qualification
1	France	Final tournament
2	Serbia	Final tournament
3	Belgium	Final tournament if among four best third-placed teams
4	Greece

First match(es) will be played on 4 November 2020. Source: Eurohandball
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.

4–5 November 2020	France	v	Belgium
		Report

4–5 November 2020	Serbia	v	Greece
		Report

7–8 November 2020	Greece	v	France
		Report

7–8 November 2020	Belgium	v	Serbia
		Report

6–7 January 2021	Serbia	v	France
		Report

9–10 January 2021	France	v	Serbia
		Report

10–11 March 2021	Greece	v	Belgium
		Report

13–14 March 2021	Belgium	v	Greece
		Report

28–29 April 2021	Belgium	v	France
		Report

28–29 April 2021	Greece	v	Serbia
		Report

2 May 2021 16:00	France	v	Greece
		Report

2 May 2021 16:00	Serbia	v	Belgium
		Report

Group 2

Pos	Team	Qualification
1	Germany	Final tournament
2	Austria	Final tournament
3	Bosnia and Herzegovina	Final tournament if among four best third-placed teams
4	Estonia

First match(es) will be played on 4 November 2020. Source: Eurohandball
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.

4–5 November 2020	Germany	v	Bosnia and Herzegovina
		Report

4–5 November 2020	Austria	v	Estonia
		Report

7–8 November 2020	Estonia	v	Germany
		Report

7–8 November 2020	Bosnia and Herzegovina	v	Austria
		Report

6–7 January 2021	Austria	v	Germany
		Report

9–10 January 2021	Germany	v	Austria
		Report

10–11 March 2021	Estonia	v	Bosnia and Herzegovina
		Report

13–14 March 2021	Bosnia and Herzegovina	v	Estonia
		Report

28–29 April 2021	Bosnia and Herzegovina	v	Germany
		Report

28–29 April 2021	Estonia	v	Austria
		Report

2 May 2021 16:00	Germany	v	Estonia
		Report

2 May 2021 16:00	Austria	v	Bosnia and Herzegovina
		Report

Group 3

Pos	Team	Qualification
1	Czech Republic	Final tournament
2	Russia	Final tournament
3	Ukraine	Final tournament if among four best third-placed teams
4	Faroe Islands

First match(es) will be played on 4 November 2020. Source: Eurohandball
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.

4–5 November 2020	Czech Republic	v	Ukraine
		Report

4–5 November 2020	Russia	v	Faroe Islands
		Report

7–8 November 2020	Faroe Islands	v	Czech Republic
		Report

7–8 November 2020	Ukraine	v	Russia
		Report

10–11 March 2021	Russia	v	Czech Republic
		Report

10–11 March 2021	Faroe Islands	v	Ukraine
		Report

13–14 March 2021	Czech Republic	v	Russia
		Report

13–14 March 2021	Ukraine	v	Faroe Islands
		Report

28–29 April 2021	Ukraine	v	Czech Republic
		Report

28–29 April 2021	Faroe Islands	v	Russia
		Report

2 May 2021 16:00	Czech Republic	v	Faroe Islands
		Report

2 May 2021 16:00	Russia	v	Ukraine
		Report

Group 4

Pos	Team	Qualification
1	Iceland	Final tournament
2	Portugal	Final tournament
3	Lithuania	Final tournament if among four best third-placed teams
4	Israel

First match(es) will be played on 4 November 2020. Source: Eurohandball
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.

4–5 November 2020	Iceland	v	Lithuania
		Report

4–5 November 2020	Portugal	v	Israel
		Report

7–8 November 2020	Israel	v	Iceland
		Report

7–8 November 2020	Lithuania	v	Portugal
		Report

6–7 January 2021	Portugal	v	Iceland
		Report

9–10 January 2021	Iceland	v	Portugal
		Report

10–11 March 2021	Israel	v	Lithuania
		Report

13–14 March 2021	Lithuania	v	Israel
		Report

28–29 April 2021	Lithuania	v	Iceland
		Report

28–29 April 2021	Israel	v	Portugal
		Report

2 May 2021 17:00	Portugal	v	Lithuania
		Report

2 May 2021 18:00	Iceland	v	Israel
		Report

Group 5

Pos	Team	Qualification
1	Slovenia	Final tournament
2	Netherlands	Final tournament
3	Poland	Final tournament if among four best third-placed teams
4	Turkey

First match(es) will be played on 4 November 2020. Source: Eurohandball
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.

4–5 November 2020	Slovenia	v	Poland
		Report

4–5 November 2020	Netherlands	v	Turkey
		Report

7–8 November 2020	Turkey	v	Slovenia
		Report

7–8 November 2020	Poland	v	Netherlands
		Report

6–7 January 2021	Netherlands	v	Slovenia
		Report

9–10 January 2021	Slovenia	v	Netherlands
		Report

10–11 March 2021	Turkey	v	Poland
		Report

13–14 March 2021	Poland	v	Turkey
		Report

28–29 April 2021	Poland	v	Slovenia
		Report

28–29 April 2021	Turkey	v	Netherlands
		Report

2 May 2021 16:00	Slovenia	v	Turkey
		Report

2 May 2021 16:00	Netherlands	v	Poland
		Report

Group 6

Pos	Team	Qualification
1	Norway	Final tournament
2	Belarus	Final tournament
3	Latvia	Final tournament if among four best third-placed teams
4	Italy

First match(es) will be played on 4 November 2020. Source: Eurohandball
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.

4–5 November 2020	Norway	v	Latvia
		Report

4–5 November 2020	Belarus	v	Italy
		Report

7–8 November 2020	Italy	v	Norway
		Report

7–8 November 2020	Latvia	v	Belarus
		Report

6–7 January 2021	Belarus	v	Norway
		Report

9–10 January 2021	Norway	v	Belarus
		Report

10–11 March 2021	Italy	v	Latvia
		Report

13–14 March 2021	Latvia	v	Italy
		Report

28–29 April 2021	Latvia	v	Norway
		Report

28–29 April 2021	Italy	v	Belarus
		Report

2 May 2021 15:00	Belarus	v	Latvia
		Report

2 May 2021 16:00	Norway	v	Italy
		Report

Group 7

Pos	Team	Qualification
1	Denmark	Final tournament
2	North Macedonia	Final tournament
3	Switzerland	Final tournament if among four best third-placed teams
4	Finland

First match(es) will be played on 4 November 2020. Source: Eurohandball
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.

4–5 November 2020	Denmark	v	Switzerland
		Report

4–5 November 2020	North Macedonia	v	Finland
		Report

7–8 November 2020	Finland	v	Denmark
		Report

7–8 November 2020	Switzerland	v	North Macedonia
		Report

10–11 March 2021	North Macedonia	v	Denmark
		Report

10–11 March 2021	Finland	v	Switzerland
		Report

13–14 March 2021	Denmark	v	North Macedonia
		Report

13–14 March 2021	Switzerland	v	Finland
		Report

28–29 April 2021	Switzerland	v	Denmark
		Report

28–29 April 2021	Finland	v	North Macedonia
		Report

2 May 2021 16:00	Denmark	v	Finland
		Report

2 May 2021 16:00	North Macedonia	v	Switzerland
		Report

Group 8

Pos	Team	Qualification
1	Sweden	Final tournament
2	Montenegro	Final tournament
3	Romania	Final tournament if among four best third-placed teams
4	Kosovo

First match(es) will be played on 4 November 2020. Source: Eurohandball
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.

4–5 November 2020	Sweden	v	Romania
		Report

4–5 November 2020	Montenegro	v	Kosovo
		Report

7–8 November 2020	Kosovo	v	Sweden
		Report

7–8 November 2020	Romania	v	Montenegro
		Report

6–7 January 2021	Montenegro	v	Sweden
		Report

9–10 January 2021	Sweden	v	Montenegro
		Report

10–11 March 2021	Kosovo	v	Romania
		Report

13–14 March 2021	Romania	v	Kosovo
		Report

28–29 April 2021	Romania	v	Sweden
		Report

28–29 April 2021	Kosovo	v	Montenegro
		Report

2 May 2021 16:00	Sweden	v	Kosovo
		Report

2 May 2021 16:00	Montenegro	v	Romania
		Report

Ranking of third-placed teams

The four highest ranked third-placed teams from the groups directly qualify for the tournament. Matches against the fourth-placed teams in each group will be discarded.

Pos	Grp	Team	Qualification
1	1	Belgium	Final tournament
2	2	Bosnia and Herzegovina
3	3	Ukraine
4	4	Lithuania
5	5	Poland
6	6	Latvia
7	7	Switzerland
8	8	Romania

First match(es) will be played on 4 November 2020. Source: Eurohandball
Rules for classification: 1) points; 2) goal difference; 3) number of goals scored.

References

"Phase 1 qualifiers for Men's EHF EURO 2022 drawn in Vienna". eurohandball.com. 28 September 2018.
"15 nations discover EHF EURO and World championship qualification fate". eurohandball.com. 23 July 2019.
"Next stop on the road to Hungary/Slovakia". eurohandball.com. 22 July 2019.
"European Handball Federation – Qualifiers draw complete for Men's EHF EURO 2022". eurohandball.com.
"EHF Executive Committee meets at EHF EURO 2020 in Stockholm". men2020.ehf-euro.com. 24 January 2020.
"Information on EHF Secretaries General Conference". eurohandball.com. 13 March 2020.
"EHF Executive Committee gathers via video conference". eurohandball.com. Retrieved 1 May 2020.
"Qualifiers draw complete for Men's EHF EURO 2022". eurohandball.com. Retrieved 16 June 2020.
"European Handball Federation – Draw procedure for EHF EURO 2022 Qualification released". eurohandball.com. Retrieved 3 June 2020.

External links

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[1] "Phase 1 qualifiers for Men's EHF EURO 2022 drawn in Vienna". eurohandball.com. 28 September 2018.

[2] "15 nations discover EHF EURO and World championship qualification fate". eurohandball.com. 23 July 2019.

[3] "Next stop on the road to Hungary/Slovakia". eurohandball.com. 22 July 2019.

[4] "European Handball Federation – Qualifiers draw complete for Men's EHF EURO 2022". eurohandball.com.

[5] "EHF Executive Committee meets at EHF EURO 2020 in Stockholm". men2020.ehf-euro.com. 24 January 2020.

[6] "Information on EHF Secretaries General Conference". eurohandball.com. 13 March 2020.

[7] "EHF Executive Committee gathers via video conference". eurohandball.com. Retrieved 1 May 2020.

[8] "Qualifiers draw complete for Men's EHF EURO 2022". eurohandball.com. Retrieved 16 June 2020.

[9] "European Handball Federation – Draw procedure for EHF EURO 2022 Qualification released". eurohandball.com. Retrieved 3 June 2020.