2023 World Women's Handball Championship

2023 World Women's Handball Championship
Tournament details
Host countries	Denmark; Norway; Sweden
Dates	December 2023
Teams	32 (from 5 confederations)
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The 2023 IHF World Women's Handball Championship will be 26th edition of the championship, organised by the International Handball Federation (IHF), to be jointly hosted by Denmark, Norway and Sweden. It will be third time in handball history that the championship is jointly hosted, the first in Sweden, and also the first to be played in three countries.^[1]

Bidding process

After Russia's withdrawal, Denmark/Norway/Sweden and Hungary entered their bids for hosting the tournament, which was awarded to the three Nordic countries by IHF Council at its meeting held in Paris, France on 28 January 2017.^[2]

Venues

The Nordic joint bid included the following six host cities and venues:

Herning	Kolding	Oslo
Jyske Bank Boxen Capacity: 12,500	Sydbank Arena Capacity: 5,000	Nye Jordal Amfi Capacity: 5,500

Trondheim	Malmö	Gothenburg
Trondheim Spektrum Capacity: 8,800	Malmö Arena Capacity: 13,000	Scandinavium Capacity: 12,000

The Hungarian bid included the same cities and venues as the bid that was presented for the 2021 championship.

Qualification

Competition	Dates	Host	Vacancies	Qualified
Host nations	28 January 2017	Paris	3	Denmark Norway Sweden
2021 World Championship		Spain	1
2022 European Championship		Montenegro North Macedonia Slovenia	1–4
2022 Asian Championship			4–5
2022 South and Central American Championship			3
2022 African Championship			7
European qualification			7–10
2023 Nor.Ca. Women's Championship			1
Wild card			1–2^[1]

^ 1. If countries from Oceania (Australia or New Zealand) participating in the Asian Championships finish within the top 5, they will qualify for the World Championships. If either finishes sixth or lower, the place would have been transferred to the wild card spot.

Qualified teams

Country	Qualified as	Qualification date	Previous appearances in tournament^[a]
Denmark	Co-host	28 January 2017	21 (1957, 1962, 1965, 1971, 1973, 1975, 1990, 1993, 1995, 1997, 1999, 2001, 2003, 2005, 2009, 2011, 2013, 2015, 2017, 2019, 2021)
Norway	Co-host	28 January 2017	21 (1971, 1973, 1975, 1982, 1986, 1990, 1993, 1995, 1997, 1999, 2001, 2003, 2005, 2007, 2009, 2011, 2013, 2015, 2017, 2019, 2021)
Sweden	Co-host	28 January 2017	10 (1957, 1990, 1993, 1995, 2001, 2009, 2011, 2015, 2017, 2019)

^ Bold indicates champion for that year, Italics indicates host for that year.

References

^ "2021 and 2023 IHF Women's World Championships awarded". IHF. 28 January 2017. Retrieved 14 December 2020.
^ "Council Meeting No. 10" (PDF). IHF. 28 January 2017. pp. 18–20.

External links

International Handball Federation

[3] Bold indicates champion for that year, Italics indicates host for that year.

[1] "2021 and 2023 IHF Women's World Championships awarded". IHF. 28 January 2017. Retrieved 14 December 2020.

[2] "Council Meeting No. 10" (PDF). IHF. 28 January 2017. pp. 18–20.

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