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21.11.2017, 11:25
Groups drawn for Women's 20 World Championship Qualification

NEWS: 26 teams will be vying for nine spots when the qualification to the Women's U20 World Championship takes place from 23 to 25 March 2018

Groups drawn for Women's 20 World Championship Qualification

26 teams are vying for nine open spots at the Women's U20 World Championship in Hungary and they all got to know their respective opponents as the qualification draw took place at the EHF Office in Vienna on Tuesday.

France, Russia and Denmark – the teams ranked 1 to 3 at the Women’s 19 EHF EURO 2017 – and Hungary as organisers of the final tournament are already qualified which brings the total number of European participants at the 24-nation event to 13.

In the qualification the first two teams will qualify from groups 1 and 2. From groups 3 to 7, only the respective first ranked team earns a spot at the World Championship.

The qualification tournaments will be played from 23 to 25 March 2018

	Group 1	Group 2	Group 3	Group 4	Group 5	Group 6	Group 7
Row 1	Portugal	Croatia	Netherlands	FYR Macedonia	Norway	Slovenia	Montenegro
Row 2	Spain	Romania	Sweden	Germany	Serbia	Turkey	Switzerland
Row 3	Austria	Ukraine	Poland	Iceland	Slovakia	Faroe Islands	Greece
Row 4	Bulgaria	Georgia	Czech Republic	Lithuania	Kosovo	xxx	xxx

The hosting rights for the qualification tournaments have been drawn in the following order. The first right has gone to row 3, the second to row 2, the third right to 1 and the fourth right to 4

Greece and Slovakia already hosted a qualification tournament of the Women's 19 EHF EURO 2017 and are therefore not eligible to organise the tournament again. The right to organise will therefore goes to Serbia in Group 5 and Switzerland in Group 7.

The Women’s U20 World Championship in Hungary is scheduled from 1 to 15 July 2018.

TEXT: EHF / ts