2025 Men's Youth World Handball Championship

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2025 Men's Youth World Handball Championship
Tournament details
Host country Slovenia
Dates2025
Teams32 (from 6 confederations)
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The 2025 IHF Men's Youth World Championship will be the 11th edition of the championship to be held in Slovenia under the aegis of International Handball Federation (IHF). It will be first time in history that the championship will be organised by Handball Federation of Slovenia.[1]

Spain are the defending champions.

Bidding process[edit]

Three nations entered bid for hosting the tournament:

North Macedonia and Poland later withdrew their bid. The tournament was awarded to Slovenia by the IHF Council in its meeting held in Cairo, Egypt on 28 February 2020.

Qualification[edit]

Event Host Dates Vacancies Qualified
IHF Council Meeting 28 February 2020 Egypt Cairo 1  Slovenia
2024 Asian Youth Championship 25 August – 3 September 2024[2] Iran Tehran
2024 U-18 European Championship
2024 African Youth Championship
2024 South and Central American Youth Championship
2024 North America and Caribbean Youth Championship

References[edit]

  1. ^ "IHF Council awards events up to 2027". ihf.info. 28 February 2020. Retrieved 25 August 2020.
  2. ^ "Saudi Arabia and I.R. Iran to host 2024 Asian Junior & Youth Handball Championships". asianhandball.org. 14 December 2023. Retrieved 14 December 2023.