European national wheelchair handball tournament

European national wheelchair handball tournament
Full name	European Wheelchair Handball Nations' Tournament
Association	EHF
founding	2015
Last event	2019
Teams	6th
Game mode	Round-robin tournament (2 groups of 3 teams each) →  Ko-System
Title holder	Croatia (1)
Record winner	Netherlands (2)
Record player	16 games each: Martijn Dokkum Joyce van Haaster João Jerónimo Etelvina Vieira
Record scorer	Iderlindo Gomes (48 goals)

The European Wheelchair Handball Nations 'Tournament (officially European Wheelchair Handball Nations' Tournament ) was the unofficial European Wheelchair Handball Championship or its forerunner. The tournament was played annually - except in 2017 - from 2015 to 2019. Although it has been organized by the European Handball Federation (EHF) since the beginning , there will only be an official European championship under the name European Wheelchair Handball Championships from 2020 .

The record titleholders are the Netherlands with two wins in the first two events in 2015 and 2016. Portugal made it to the final every time, but could only win the tournament in 2018.

Tournaments at a glance

year	host	European champion	Result	Vice European champion	Third
2015	Austria	Netherlands	14:11 (6: 6)	Portugal	Norway
2016	Sweden	Netherlands	19:10 (9: 2)	Portugal	Sweden
2018	Portugal	Portugal	20: 7 (10: 2)	Croatia	Netherlands
2019	Croatia	Croatia	9: 8 (3: 4)	Portugal	Hungary

Medal table

rank	country
1	Netherlands	2	0	1	3
2	Portugal	1	3	0	4th
3	Croatia	1	1	0	2
4th	Norway	0	0	1	1
	Sweden	0	0	1	1
	Hungary	0	0	1	1

Player Statistics

Record player

rank	nation	player	Calls
1		Martijn Dokkum	16
		Joyce van Haaster	16
		João Jerónimo	16
		Etelvina Vieira	16
5		William van den Ende	12
		Iderlindo Gomes	12
		Diana Machado	12
		Serghei Mitrofan	12
		Bart Neeft	12
		Maria Relvas	12
11		Vera Enthoven	11
As of December 15, 2019

Record goal scorers

rank	nation	player	Gates	Calls	∅
1		Iderlindo Gomes	48	12	4th
2		Martijn Dokkum	45	16	2.81
3		João Jerónimo	43	16	2.69
4th		Ante Štimac	41	8th	5.13
5		Bart Neeft	37	12	3.08
6th		Ademir Demirović	36	6th	6th
		Serghei Mitrofan	36	12	3
		Ricardo Queirós	36	8th	4.5
9		William van den Ende	27	12	2.25
10		Frank Hooning	25th	8th	3.13
11		Kevin Johannesson	21st	8th	2.63
As of December 15, 2019

Individual evidence

1. ^ First official European championships in wheelchair handball in Sweden. In: handball-world.news. redsport UG, January 31, 2020, accessed on May 15, 2020 .