2024 European Men's Handball Championship

The 2024 EHF European Men's Handball Championship will be the 16th edition of the tournament and the third to feature 24 national teams. It will be hosted in Germany from 10 to 28 January 2024.[1][2]

2024 EHF European Men's Handball Championship
Tournament details
Host country Germany
Dates10–28 January
Teams24 (from 1 confederation)
Venue(s)6
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Bid process

Bidding timeline

The bidding timeline is as follows:[3]

  • 1 May 2017: Bidding nations to provide official expression of interest in the hosting of the tournament
  • 1 July 2017: Bidding manuals sent to all bidding federations
  • 1 November 2017: Deadline for completed bidding and application documentation to be provided to the EHF office
  • 15 December 2017: Applications to be approved at the EHF executive committee in Hamburg
  • 20 June 2018: Appointment of host(s) of EHF Euro 2024 at the 14th ordinary EHF Congress in Glasgow, Scotland

Bids

On 4 May 2017, it was announced that the following countries had sent in an official expression of interest:[4]

However, when the deadline for submitting the final bids expired, the following applications had been received:

Host selection

On 20 June 2018 at the 14th ordinary EHF Congress held in Glasgow, Germany was selected to host the competition.[6]

Voting results[7]
Country
Votes
 Germany 27
 Denmark &  Switzerland 19
 Hungary &  Slovakia -
Total 46

As Hungary and Slovakia were selected as the 2022 hosts their 2024 bid was withdrawn.

Venues

On 10 June 2021, the host cities were announced that will be played in six cities. The opening game will be held in Merkur Spiel-Arena in Düsseldorf and is aiming to break the world record for the largest attendance at an indoor handball game[note 1] and the final will be held in Lanxess Arena in Cologne.[8] On 14 September 2022, it was announced that the classic venue Olympiahalle in Munich (previously hosted handball at the 1972 Summer Olympics main round and medal games and also the group stage games in the 2019 World Men's Handball Championship) would replace the delay-ridden SAP Garden. Due to material and labour shortages, the venue will not be completed in time for the tournament in January 2024, therefore being dropped by the organisers.[9] Both Olympiahalle and the future SAP Garden are located close to each other in the Olympiapark.

Düsseldorf Cologne Berlin
Merkur Spiel-Arena Lanxess Arena Mercedes-Benz Arena
Capacity: 50,000 Capacity: 19,750 Capacity: 14,800
Hamburg Mannheim Munich
Barclaycard Arena SAP Arena Olympiahalle
Capacity: 13 300 Capacity: 13,200 Capacity: 12,150

Qualification
Main article: 2024 European Men's Handball Championship qualification

The qualification for the final tournament will take place between November 2021 and April 2023. Germany as the host team, and the three best placed not already qualified teams from the previous championship, will be automatically qualified, leaving a total of 36 national teams to compete for the remaining 20 places in the final tournament.

The competition consists of two rounds: a relegation round and qualifiers. In the relegation round, three best placed teams from the 2021 Men's IHF/EHF Trophy joined by Luxembourg as best ranked team according EHF which haven't participated in the second round of the previous qualifiers, will face the four worst ranked fourth-placed teams from the second round of the 2022 qualification. The four winners of the two-legged relegation round matches advance to the qualifiers, joining the remaining twenty teams that participated in the 2022 championship and the remaining eight teams that were eliminated in the second round of the 2022 qualification. Those 32 teams will be divided into eight groups by four teams, with top two teams and four best ranked third-teams qualifying.

Qualified nations
CountryQualified asQualified onPrevious appearances in tournament
 GermanyHost20 June 201814 (1994, 1996, 1998, 2000, 2002, 2004, 2006, 2008, 2010, 2012, 2016, 2018, 2020, 2022)
 SpainFinalist of 2022 European Championship28 January 202215 (1994, 1996, 1998, 2000, 2002, 2004, 2006, 2008, 2010, 2012, 2014, 2016, 2018, 2020, 2022)
 Sweden14 (1994, 1996, 1998, 2000, 2002, 2004, 2008, 2010, 2012, 2014, 2016, 2018, 2020, 2022)
 DenmarkThird of 2022 European Championship30 January 202214 (1994, 1996, 2000, 2002, 2004, 2006, 2008, 2010, 2012, 2014, 2016, 2018, 2020, 2022)

Note: Bold indicates champion for that year. Italic indicates host for that year.

Marketing

The official logo and slogan was unveiled on 6 January 2022. The basis for the logo design is the place where everything is decided in handball and where emotions arise: the lines of the court. Those were transformed into the compact shape of a ball that conveys the dynamics of the sport. The logo was designed by and in collaboration with Berlin based agency Styleheads. The heart of the communication is the claim "HERE TO PLAY!" This is activated in several variants in order to convey the different facets of the Men’s EHF EURO 2024 and the individual locations. The following variations of the claim will be used:

  • HERE TO PLAY
  • HERE TO DREAM
  • HERE TO BE LOUD
  • HERE TO CELEBRATE
  • HERE TO RELAX
  • HERE TO CONNECT
  • HERE TO ENJOY
  • HERE TO WATCH
  • HERE TO EXPLORE.[10]

Notes
  1. The record in field handball is 100,000 people. It was established at the last game of the 1936 Summer Olympics.

References
  1. "Vergabe: Handball-Europameisterschaft 2024 in Deutschland". ZDF.de (in German). 20 June 2018. Retrieved 21 June 2018.
  2. "Pots revealed for draw of EHF EURO 2024 relegation round". eurohandball.com. 18 August 2021. Retrieved 17 December 2021.
  3. "EHF EURO - BEYOND 2020". beyond2020.ehfoffice.at.
  4. "These nations want to bid for EHF EUROs in 2022 and 2024". Eurohandball. 4 May 2017. Retrieved 19 June 2018.
  5. "Bid website". A Perfect Partnership. Archived from the original on 9 August 2019. Retrieved 21 June 2020.
  6. "EHF Congress: EHF EURO 2024 to Germany, EURO 2022 in Hungary/Slovakia and Balkans". handball-planet.com. 20 June 2018. Retrieved 17 December 2021.
  7. Trübenbach, Elisabeth (25 June 2018). "'Elis Woche': Deutschland bei WM gegen Frankreich, DHB richtet erstmals EM aus". Handball World (in German).
  8. "Six venues revealed for Men's EHF EURO 2024". eurohandball.com (in German). 10 June 2021. Retrieved 10 June 2021.
  9. "Olympiahalle München als Spielort für die Handball-EM 2024 bestätigt".
  10. "Men's HERE TO PLAY! LOGO AND CLAIM RELEASED FOR EHF EURO 2024". ehf-euro.com. EHF. 6 January 2022.
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