2024 Women's Junior World Handball Championship

The 2024 IHF Women's Junior World Championship will be 24th edition of the championship to be held in North Macedonia from 19 to 30 June 2024 under the aegis of International Handball Federation (IHF).^[1]

24th Women's Junior World Handball Championship 2024

Tournament details
Host country	North Macedonia
Dates	19–30 June
Teams	32 (from 6 confederations)
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Bidding process

Two nations entered bid for hosting the tournament:

•   North Macedonia
•   Slovenia

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

Qualification

Qualification	Dates	Host	Vacancies	Qualified
Host			1	North Macedonia
2023 Asian Junior Championship^[2]	30 June – 9 July 2023	Tsim Sha Tsui	5	China   Chinese Taipei   Iran   Japan   South Korea
2023 U-19 European Championship^[3]	6–16 July 2023	Romania	13	Czech Republic   Denmark   France   Germany   Hungary   Iceland   Montenegro   Netherlands   Norway   Portugal   Romania   Sweden    Switzerland
2023 African Junior Championship	7–14 September 2023	Monastir	5	Algeria   Angola   Egypt   Guinea   Tunisia
IHF Trophy U19 – Oceania^[4]	16–20 October 2023	Nouméa	1	New Zealand
2023 South and Central American Junior Championship	14–18 November 2023	Buenos Aires	3	Argentina   Brazil   Chile
European qualification^[5]^[6]	21–26 November 2023	Vrnjačka Banja	1	Spain
2023 IHF Trophy U19 – North America and the Caribbean^[7]	9–13 December 2023	Mexico City	2	Mexico   United States
2024 IHF Inter-Continental Trophy^[8]^[9]	28 February – 3 March 2024	Tashkent	1	Uzbekistan

• New Zealand withdrew before the tournament and a replacement nation will be announced.^[10]

Draw

The draw was held on 13 April 2024 in Ulm, Germany.^[10][11]

Seeding

Pot 1	Pot 2	Pot 3	Pot 4
Hungary   Denmark   Romania   Portugal   Sweden   Angola   France    Switzerland	South Korea   Montenegro   Netherlands   Norway   North Macedonia   Germany   Czech Republic   Egypt	Guinea   Iceland   Spain   China   Argentina   Tunisia   Brazil   Japan	Chile   Chinese Taipei   Iran   Mexico   United States   Algeria TBD   Uzbekistan

• The spot for Oceania was left unoccupied and a replacement nation will be named.

Referees

The referees were announced on 26 April 2024.^[12]

Referees
Argentina	Mariana García María Paolantoni
Bosnia and Herzegovina	Vesna Balvan Tatjana Praštalo
Brazil	Bruna Correa Renata Correa
Croatia	Ante Mikelić Petar Parađina
Cuba	Raymel Reyes Alexis Zuñiga
Denmark	Jacob Pagh Karl Thygesen
Egypt	Heidy El-Saied Yasmina El-Saied
France	Yann Camaux Julien Mursch
Germany	Ramesh Thiyagarajah Suresh Thiyagarajah
Hungary	Rita Dáné Zsófia Marton
Iran	Marzieh Ghofli Mozhgan Hassanzadeh

Referees
Iran	Amir Gheisarian Ahmad Gheisarian
Kuwait	Maali Al-Enezi Dalal Al-Nassem
Montenegro	Novica Mitrović Miljan Vešović
North Macedonia	Danielo Bozhinovski Viktor Nachevski
Norway	Eskil Braseth Leif Andre Sundet
Romania	Cristina Lovin Simona Stancu
Saudi Arabia	Mohammed Al-Saqer Ali Al-Suqufi
Serbia	Marko Sekulić Vladimir Jovandić
Slovakia	Andrej Budzák Michal Záhradník
Slovenia	Žan Pukšič Miha Satler
Spain	Jesús Álvarez Miguel Soria

Preliminary round

Group A

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	Romania	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	Main round
2	Netherlands	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
3	Brazil	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	Presidents Cup
4	Iran	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0

First match(es) will be played: 19 June 2024. Source: IHF
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.

Group B

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	Switzerland	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	Main round
2	Egypt	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
3	Tunisia	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	Presidents Cup
4	Chile	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0

First match(es) will be played: 19 June 2024. Source: IHF
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.

Group C

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	Hungary	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	Main round
2	South Korea	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
3	Argentina	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	Presidents Cup
4	Mexico	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0

First match(es) will be played: 19 June 2024. Source: IHF
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.

Group D

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	Denmark	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	Main round
2	Norway	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
3	Japan	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	Presidents Cup
4	Chinese Taipei	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0

First match(es) will be played: 19 June 2024. Source: IHF
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.

Group E

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	Sweden	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	Main round
2	Czech Republic	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
3	China	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	Presidents Cup
4	Algeria	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0

First match(es) will be played: 19 June 2024. Source: IHF
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.

Group F

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	France	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	Main round
2	Germany	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
3	Spain	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	Presidents Cup
4	Wildcard	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0

First match(es) will be played: 19 June 2024. Source: IHF
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.

Group G

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	Portugal	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	Main round
2	Montenegro	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
3	Guinea	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	Presidents Cup
4	Uzbekistan	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0

First match(es) will be played: 19 June 2024. Source: IHF
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.

Group H

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	Angola	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	Main round
2	North Macedonia (H)	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
3	Iceland	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	Presidents Cup
4	United States	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0

First match(es) will be played: 19 June 2024. Source: IHF
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) Hosts

See also

• 2024 Women's Youth World Handball Championship

References

1. "IHF Council awards events up to 2027". ihf.info. 28 February 2020. Retrieved 25 August 2020.
2. "Golden generation wins another gold for the Republic of Korea at the AHF Asian Women's Junior Handball Championship". ihf.info. 11 July 2023. Retrieved 11 July 2023.
3. "Magnificent Hungary claim third W19 EHF EURO title in a row". ihf.info. 17 July 2023. Retrieved 17 July 2023.
4. "IHF Trophy U19 – Oceania – Continental Phase". IHF. Retrieved 12 March 2024.
5. "Women's 19 teams gear up for EHF EURO 2023". eurohandball.com. 4 July 2023. Retrieved 4 July 2023.
6. "2024 WU20 World Championship". EHF. Retrieved 26 November 2023.
7. "IHF Trophy U19 – North America and the Caribbean – Continental Phase". IHF. Retrieved 12 March 2024.
8. "Kosovo and Uzbekistan triumph at IHF Trophy Women InterContinental Phase". .info. 4 March 2024. Retrieved 4 March 2024.
9. "IHF Trophy U20 – InterContinental Phase". IHF. Retrieved 12 March 2024.
10. "Draws for the 2024 IHF Women's Junior World Championship and 2024 IHF Women's Youth World Championship scheduled for 13 April". IHF. 12 April 2024. Retrieved 12 April 2024.
11. "64 teams learn their fate in the draws for the for the 2024 IHF Women's Junior World Championship and 2024 IHF Women's Youth World Championship". IHF. 13 April 2024. Retrieved 13 April 2024.
12. "Referees appointed for the 2024 IHF Women's Junior World Championship". ihf.info. 26 April 2024.

External links

• IHF website