Men's U21 WCh Qualification Europe

Europe has 12 places at the Men’s U21 World Championship in Egypt (IHF Event). The Final Tournament will be played from 6 to 19 August 2009.

Denmark (winner of the 2008 M20 European Championship), Germany (runner-up of the 2008 M20 ECh) and France (3rd at the 2008 M20 ECh) were already qualified. Therefore, 9 further European teams could qualify via the qualification Europe for the Final Tournament. The qualification was played in 8 groups of 4 teams with the following results:

Group 4 (2 teams qualified, as decided by draw): Netherlands, Iceland
Group 1, 2, 3, 5, 6, 7, 8 (1 team qualified from each group): Sweden, Portugal, Spain, Slovenia, Estonia, Czech Republic, Belarus

Substitutes:

No. 1: Norway (2nd Group 1)
No. 2: Poland (2nd Group 3)
No. 3: Switzerland (2nd Group 6)

For the match results and rankings of the M-U21 World Championship Qualification Europe, please click here.