2025 IHF Men's U21 Handball World Championship

2025 IHF Men's U21 Handball World Championship

Tournament details
Host country	Poland
Dates	18–29 June
Teams	32 (from 6 confederations)

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]

Bidding process

Three nations entered bid for hosting the tournament:

•  North Macedonia
•  Poland
•  Slovenia

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

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	Mexico City	2	Mexico  United States

References

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