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Guide to IHF Men’s World Handball Championship 2025

IHF Men’s World Handball Championship 2025 begins on January 14. As before every big competition, Handball-Planet.com TEAM presenting a short guide about the most prestigious event on the beginning of Olympic cycle to Los Angeles 2028.

Let’s start with POWER RANKING of the TEAMS. Three of four teams who have the biggest chances to qualify for the medal’s battles played for them at Men’s EHF EURO 2024 last January, while Denmark and Germany shared court at Olympic 2024 Final match.

Croatia should use the chance of home court to go all the way to Oslo.

The first non-European team is Egypt on 7th place ahead of Qatar at 16th and Japan on 18th place.

The lowest chances to make something special has the only newcomers team of Guinea.

WCH 2025 POWER RANKING:

  1. Denmark
  2. France
  3. Germany
  4. Croatia
  5. Norway
  6. Sweden
  7. Egypt
  8. Hungary
  9. Spain
  10. Slovenia
  11. Czech Republic
  12. Netherlands
  13. Portugal
  14. Iceland
  15. Poland
  16. Qatar
  17. Austria
  18. Japan
  19. Italy
  20. Bahrain
  21. Brasil
  22. North Macedonia
  23. Tunisia
  24. Capo Verde
  25. Switzerland
  26. Argentina
  27. Algeria
  28. Chile
  29. Kuwait
  30. USA
  31. Cuba
  32. Guinea
  • Group A, Herning (DEN): Germany, Czechia, Poland, Switzerland.
  • Group B, Herning (DEN): Denmark, Italy, Algeria, Tunisia.
  • Group C, Porec (CRO): France, Austria, Qatar, Kuwait.
  • Group D, Varazdin (CRO): Hungary, Netherlands, North Macedonia, Guinea.
  • Group E, Oslo (NOR): Norway, Portugal, Brazil, United States.
  • Group F, Oslo (NOR): Sweden, Spain, Japan, Chile.
  • Group G, Zagreb (CRO): Slovenia, Iceland, Cuba, Cabo Verde.
  • Group H, Zagreb (CRO): Egypt, Croatia, Argentina, Bahrain.
  • Preliminary Round: 14-20 January
  • President’s Cup: 21-28 January
  • Main Round: 21-26 January
  • Knockout Stage: 28 January – 2 February

VENUES:

Arena Zagreb Capacity: 15,200
Arena Varazdin Capacity: 5,200
Zatika Porec Capacity: 3,500
Jyske Bank Boxen Capacity: 15,000
Unity Arena Capacity: 13,000

TOP 5  MATCHES OF THE PRELIMINARY ROUND:

Algeria – Tunisia (January 18)
Norway – Portugal (January 19)
Egypt – Croatia (January 19)
Slovenia – Iceland (January 20)
Sweden – Spain (January 20)

TOP 5 QUESTIONS:

Danish path to the 4th gold?
Domagoj Duvnjak „Last dance“ moment?
„Pharaons“ finally ready?
Germany 2024 dream or reality?
France in „post Karabatic“ era?

TOP 5 MVP FAVORITES:

Mathias Gidsel (Denmark)
Nedim Remili (France)
Emil Nielsen (Denmark)
Andreas Wolff (Germany)
Dika Mem (France)

Final Day will be played in Oslo on February 2. Semi-finals will be played in Oslo (January 31) and Zagreb (January 30).

2 Comments

2 Comments

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  2. Rakesh Saha

    13. January 2025. at 02:23

    My favourite team is Germany

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