2025 IHF Men's U21 Handball World Championship

The 2025 IHF Men's U21 Handball World Championship will be 25th edition of the IHF Men's U21 Handball World Championship to be held in Poland under the aegis of International Handball Federation (IHF). from 18 to 29 June 2025. It will be first time in history that the championship will be organised by Poland Handball Federation.[1]

2025 IHF Men's U21 Handball World Championship
Tournament details
Host country Poland
Dates18–29 June
Teams32 (from 6 confederations)
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Bidding process

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Three nations entered bid for hosting the tournament:

North Macedonia and Slovenia later withdrew their bid. The tournament was awarded to Poland by the IHF Council in its meeting held in Cairo, Egypt on 28 February 2020.

Qualification

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Event Dates Host Vacancies Qualified
IHF Council Meeting 28 February 2020   Cairo 1   Poland
2024 U-20 European Championship 10–21 July 2024   Celje 15   Austria
  Croatia
  Denmark
  France
  Germany
  Hungary
  Iceland
  North Macedonia
  Norway
  Portugal
  Romania
  Serbia
  Slovenia
  Spain
  Sweden
2024 Asian Junior Championship 14–25 July 2024   Amman 4   Bahrain
  Japan
  Saudi Arabia
  South Korea
2024 African Junior Championship 9–16 September 2024   Tunisia 6   Algeria
  Egypt
  Guinea
  Morocco
  Rwanda
  Tunisia
2024 South and Central American Junior Championship 29 October – 2 November 2024   Managua 3   Argentina
  Brazil
  Uruguay
2024 North America and Caribbean Junior Championship 4–8 December 2024   2

References

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  1. ^ "IHF Council awards events up to 2027". ihf.info. 28 February 2020. Retrieved 26 August 2020.