2011 Women’s World Championship Play-Off Europe

The final tournament of the XX Women’s Handball World championship 2011 will take place between 03 and 18 December 2011, in Brazil.

Including title defenders Russia, twelve places are reserved for European teams. The teams ranked first, second and third from the EHF EURO 2010 – Norway, Sweden and Romania – are qualified directly.

The other eight places will be given to the winners of their play-off games. These duels will be decided with a knock-out in a home and an away game.

2011, Women’s World Championship
Play-Off Europe

First leg matches

03 June 2011, 18:00 hrs (local time), Olomouc
Czech Republic vs. Montenegro

04 June 2011, 19:30 hrs (local time), Rotterdam
Netherlands vs. Turkey

04 June 2011, 16:00 hrs (local time), Elche-Alicante
Spain vs. FYR Macedonia

05 June 2011, 18:00 hrs (local time), Pau
France vs. Slovenia

05 June 2011, 18:00 hrs (local time), Varazdin
Croatia vs. Serbia

05 June 2011, 16:30 hrs (local time), Reykjavik
Iceland vs. Ukraine

05 June 2011, 18:30 hrs (local time), Balingen
Germany vs. Hungary

04 June 2011, 14:45 hrs (local time), Elblag
Poland vs. Denmark

Second leg matches

10 June 2011, 20:15 hrs (local time), Pljevlja
Montenegro vs. Czech Republic

11 June 2011, playing time tba, Istanbul
Turkey vs. Netherlands

11 June 2011, 20:15 hrs (local time), Skopje
FYR Macedonia vs. Spain

12 June 2011, 14:00 hrs (local time), Ljubljana
Slovenia vs. France

11 June 2011, 18:00 hrs (local time), Kragujevac
Serbia vs. Croatia

12 June 2011, 17:30 hrs (local time), Uzhgorod
Ukraine vs. Iceland

11 June 2011, 17:30 hrs (local time), Györ
Hungary vs. Germany

12 June 2011, 20:15 hrs (local time), Randers
Denmark vs. Poland

Find all information on the Play-Off Europe here.

Thirteen countries already qualified

From total 24 places, 13 countries already have their places secured. Besides the above mentioned Russia, Norway, Sweden and Romania the other nations already qualified are Angola, Congo and Tunisia from Africa, Korea, Japan, China and Kazakhstan from Asia, Australia from Oceania and Brazil as hosting nation.

Three countries in the Americas still try to obtain their places in the Pan American Championships, which will be held from 28 June to 02 July 2011.

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