2022 European Men's Handball Championship


The 2022 EHF European Men's Handball Championship will be the 15th edition of the tournament and the second to feature 24 national teams. It will be co-hosted in two countries – Hungary and Slovakia – from 13 to 30 January 2022.

Bid process

Bidding timeline

The bidding timeline is as follows:
On 4 May 2017 it was announced that the following nations had sent in an official expression of interest:
However, when the deadline for submitting the final bids was over, the following applications had been received:
On 20 June at the 14th ordinary EHF Congress held in Glasgow, Hungary and Slovakia were selected to host the competition.
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Denmark and Switzerland withdrew their bid shortly before the vote.

Venues

Following is a list of all venues and host cities which will be used.

Qualification

The qualification for the final tournament will take place between January 2019 and May 2021. The two host teams, Hungary and Slovakia, and the two best placed teams from the previous championship, Spain and Croatia, are automatically qualified, leaving a total of 44 national teams to compete for the remaining 20 places in the final tournament.
The competition consists of three rounds: two qualification phases and a relegation round. The first qualification phase involves teams that did not participate in the second round of the 2020 qualification tournament. The two best teams advance to a relegation round, where they are joined by the best European team from the 2019 IHF Emerging Nations Championship and the three worst ranked fourth-placed teams from the second round of the 2020 qualification. The three winners of the two-legged relegation round matches advance to the second and last qualifying phase, joining the remaining 21 teams that participated in the 2020 championship and the remaining eight teams that were eliminated in the second round of the 2020 qualification.

Qualified nations

Note: Bold indicates champion for that year. Italic indicates host for that year.

Marketing

The official logo and slogan was unveiled on 25 January 2020 at the EHF Extraordinary Congress In Stockholm. The logo includes the national colours of both host nations – red, green, white and blue, forming the handball and a eye, relates closely to the event’s motto "Watch Games, See More", highlighting the many opportunities for fans around the six venues.