European handball championship

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European handball championships
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Full name European Handball Championship
abbreviation EHF EURO
Association EHF
First edition 1994
Teams 24
Game mode Round tournament

(6 groups of 4 teams each) Intermediate
round : 2 groups of 6 teams knockout system (from semi-finals)

Title holder SpainSpain Spain (2)
Record winner SwedenSweden Sweden (4)
Website EHF-Euro.comTemplate: Infobox handball competition / maintenance / website
Qualification for Handball world championship

The men's handball European championships have been played since 1994. They take place every two years. After qualifying, the best 24 (initially the best 12, from 2002 the best 16) teams of the European Handball Federation (EHF) have met here since 2020 . In addition to determining the best European team, the tournament also serves as a qualification for the handball world championship . The women's and men's handball European championships are always held separately, but always take place in the same year.

The Baltic Sea Cup, which was held from 1968 to 1989, can be seen as the unofficial forerunner of the men's European handball championship .

Tournaments at a glance

year host European champion Result Vice European champion Third
1994 PortugalPortugal Portugal SwedenSweden Sweden 34:21 RussiaRussia Russia CroatiaCroatia Croatia
1996 SpainSpain Spain RussiaRussia Russia 23:22 SpainSpain Spain Yugoslavia Federal Republic 1992Yugoslavia BR Yugoslavia
1998 ItalyItaly Italy SwedenSweden Sweden 25:23 SpainSpain Spain GermanyGermany Germany
2000 CroatiaCroatia Croatia SwedenSweden Sweden 32:31 RussiaRussia Russia SpainSpain Spain
2002 SwedenSweden Sweden SwedenSweden Sweden 33:31 GermanyGermany Germany DenmarkDenmark Denmark
2004 SloveniaSlovenia Slovenia GermanyGermany Germany 30:25 SloveniaSlovenia Slovenia DenmarkDenmark Denmark
2006 SwitzerlandSwitzerland Switzerland FranceFrance France 31:23 SpainSpain Spain DenmarkDenmark Denmark
2008 NorwayNorway Norway DenmarkDenmark Denmark 24:20 CroatiaCroatia Croatia FranceFrance France
2010 AustriaAustria Austria FranceFrance France 25:21 CroatiaCroatia Croatia IcelandIceland Iceland
2012 SerbiaSerbia Serbia DenmarkDenmark Denmark 21:19 SerbiaSerbia Serbia CroatiaCroatia Croatia
2014 DenmarkDenmark Denmark FranceFrance France 41:32 DenmarkDenmark Denmark SpainSpain Spain
2016 PolandPoland Poland GermanyGermany Germany 24:17 SpainSpain Spain CroatiaCroatia Croatia
2018 CroatiaCroatia Croatia SpainSpain Spain 29:23 SwedenSweden Sweden FranceFrance France
2020 NorwayNorway Norway Austria Sweden
AustriaAustria 
SwedenSweden  		SpainSpain Spain 22:20 CroatiaCroatia Croatia NorwayNorway Norway
2022 HungaryHungary Hungary Slovakia
SlovakiaSlovakia 
2024 GermanyGermany Germany

Medal table

Status after 14 European Championships, including 2020.

rank country Gold medals Silver medals Bronze medals total
1 SwedenSweden Sweden 4th 1 - 5
2 FranceFrance France 3 - 2 5
3 SpainSpain Spain 2 4th 2 8th
4th DenmarkDenmark Denmark 2 1 3 6th
5 GermanyGermany Germany 2 1 1 4th
6th RussiaRussia Russia 1 2 - 3
7th CroatiaCroatia Croatia - 3 3 6th
8th SerbiaSerbia Serbia - 1 - 1
SloveniaSlovenia Slovenia - 1 - 1
10 Yugoslavia Federal Republic 1992Yugoslavia BR Yugoslavia - - 1 1
NorwayNorway Norway - - 1 1
IcelandIceland Iceland - - 1 1

Web links

Commons : European Handball Championship  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence