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:
- Denmark
- France
- Germany
- Croatia
- Norway
- Sweden
- Egypt
- Hungary
- Spain
- Slovenia
- Czech Republic
- Netherlands
- Portugal
- Iceland
- Poland
- Qatar
- Austria
- Japan
- Italy
- Bahrain
- Brasil
- North Macedonia
- Tunisia
- Capo Verde
- Switzerland
- Argentina
- Algeria
- Chile
- Kuwait
- USA
- Cuba
- 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).

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Rakesh Saha
13. January 2025. at 02:23
My favourite team is Germany