IHF Emerging Nations Championship
Appearance
Current season, competition or edition: 2023 IHF Emerging Nations Championship | |
Sport | Handball |
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Founded | 2015 |
No. of teams | 16 |
Most recent champion(s) | Cuba (1st title) |
Most titles | Faroe Islands (2 titles) |
The IHF Emerging Nations Championship is a men's handball tournament organized by the International Handball Federation since 2015, directed to play with emerging teams. Its first edition was held in Kosovo from June 20 to 26.[1][2]
Countries that currently participate are those in the “Four-year plan” of the European Handball Federation and the best ranked countries from other continents that did not qualify for the World Men's Handball Championship.
Tournaments
Year | Host country | Gold medal game | Bronze medal game | ||||||
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Gold | Score | Silver | Bronze | Score | Fourth place | ||||
2015 | Kosovo |
Faroe Islands |
27–24 | Latvia |
Kosovo |
28–16 | Uruguay | ||
2017 | Bulgaria |
Faroe Islands |
26–25 | Turkey |
Kosovo |
32–25 | Cyprus | ||
2019 | Georgia[3] |
Georgia |
31–21 | Cuba |
Bulgaria |
47–31 | Great Britain | ||
2021 | Cancelled due to the COVID-19 pandemic[4] | Cancelled due to the COVID-19 pandemic[4] | |||||||
2023 | Bulgaria[5] |
Cuba |
28–18 | Cyprus |
Bulgaria |
47–18 | India |
Medal count
Rank | Nation | Gold | Silver | Bronze | Total |
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1 | Faroe Islands | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
2 | Cuba | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 |
3 | Georgia | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
4 | Cyprus | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
Latvia | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | |
Turkey | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | |
7 | Bulgaria | 0 | 0 | 2 | 2 |
Kosovo | 0 | 0 | 2 | 2 | |
Totals (8 entries) | 4 | 4 | 4 | 12 |
Participation details
Team | 2015 |
2017 |
2019 |
2023 |
Total |
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Albania | 14th | 15th | 2 | ||
Andorra | 15th | 14th | 8th | 3 | |
Armenia | 16th | 16th | 2 | ||
Australia | 12th | 6th | 2 | ||
Azerbaijan | 10th | 10th | 12th | 3 | |
Bulgaria | 11th | 5th | 3rd | 3rd | 4 |
Cameroon | 7th | 1 | |||
China | 10th | 6th | 6th | 3 | |
Colombia | 8th | 1 | |||
Cuba | 2nd | 1st | 2 | ||
Cyprus | 4th | 2nd | 2 | ||
Estonia | 5th | 1 | |||
Faroe Islands | 1st | 1st | 2 | ||
Georgia | 8th | 1st | 2 | ||
Great Britain | 9th | 11th | 4th | 5th | 4 |
Guatemala | 10th | 1 | |||
India | 9th | 4th | 2 | ||
Ireland | 13th | 12th | 11th | 3 | |
Kosovo | 3rd | 3rd | 2 | ||
Latvia | 2nd | 1 | |||
Luxembourg | 7th | 1 | |||
Malta | 8th | 13th | 12th | 11th | 4 |
Moldova | 6th | 9th | 9th | 3 | |
Nigeria | 7th | 7th | 2 | ||
Turkey | 2nd | 1 | |||
United States | 5th | 1 | |||
Uruguay | 4th | 1 | |||
Total | 16 | 16 | 12 | 12 |
References
- ^ "It has launched the World Handball Championship in developing countries today in our capital". Kosovo Handball Federation. 20 June 2015. Archived from the original on 23 June 2015. Retrieved 22 June 2015.
- ^ "IHF Emerging Nations Men's Championship". Handball Australia. Archived from the original on 20 February 2017. Retrieved 19 June 2017.
- ^ "2019 IHF Men's Emerging Nations Championship". ihf.info. 8 April 2019.
- ^ a b "EHF Executive Committee gathers in Vienna". ihf.info. 26 March 2021.
- ^ "IHF | 4th IHF Men's Emerging Nations Championship". www.ihf.info. Retrieved 2023-03-09.