18.11.2011, 11:26
WU20 2012 Qualification Europe Groups

The draw for the IHF Event in the Czech Republic took place on 18 November 2011.

WU20 2012 Qualification Europe Groups

The Women’s Under 20 World Championship is an event for players born 1992 or younger. The IHF event will be carried out in the Czech Republic between 1 and 15 July 2012.

Qualification Europe was drawn on 18 November 2011 in the Eventpyramide Vösendorf, south of Vienna (AUT) on the occasion of the Conference for Secretaries General, at the 20th anniversary of the European Handball Federation.

Three European nations are already qualified for the event: organisers Czech Republic as well as Denmark and the Netherlands as winners and runners-up at the 2011 W19 European Championship.

24 other European nations will battle to qualify for the ten remaining European spots at the final tournament through qualification that will be carried out between 6 and 8 April 2012.

The draw gave us six groups of four teams. From the groups 1 to 4 the top two teams will qualify, in the groups 5 and 6 only the group winner will qualify.

Group 1

• Austria
• France
• Switzerland
• Montenegro

Group 2

• Serbia
• Croatia
• Ukraine
• Bulgaria

Group 3

• Sweden
• Norway
• Slovenia
• Slovakia

Group 4

• Romania
• Russia
• Turkey
• Iceland

Group 5

• Spain
• Portugal
• Hungary
• Israel

Group 6

• Germany
• Poland
• Great Britain
• Italy

Organisation Rights

A separate draw determined the right to organise the qualification tournament to the teams in row 3. If the national federation does not take advantage of the right to organise the tournament in their home country, the right will be passed on to the teams in row 2, then row 4 and otherwise row 1.

Teams which were already awarded with the right to organise the 2010 Women’s U20 WCh qualification groups do not have the right to be the organiser of a 2012 Women’s U20 WCh qualification group.

This applies to Austria, Spain, Romania, Serbia, Slovakia and the Ukraine.

TEXT: EHF