Men's Handball World Championship 2013 / Qualification

This page describes the qualification for the Men's Handball World Championship 2013 .

Africa

Africa provides 3 participants who were determined at the 2012 African Championship . The championship took place from January 11 to 20, 2012 in Morocco as a tournament. The three first placed qualified for the world championship.

Preliminary round

Group A

Pl.	team	Sp.	S.	U	N	Gates	Diff.	Pt.
1.	Tunisia	5	5	0	0	155: 092	+63	10
2.	Morocco	5	4th	0	1	128: 117	+11	08th
3.	Democratic Republic of Congo	5	3	0	2	123: 127	- 04th	06th
4th	Senegal	5	2	0	3	134: 132	+ 02	04th
5.	Republic of the Congo	5	1	0	4th	110: 148	-38	02
6th	Gabon	5	0	0	5	108: 140	-32	00

Group B

Pl.	team	Sp.	S.	U	N	Gates	Diff.	Pt.
1.	Egypt	5	4th	1	0	154: 101	+53	9
2.	Algeria	5	4th	1	0	149: 103	+46	9
3.	Angola	5	3	0	2	118: 093	+25	6th
4th	Cameroon	5	2	0	3	118: 119	- 01	4th
5.	Ivory Coast	5	1	0	4th	112: 146	-34	2
6th	Burkina Faso	5	0	0	5	069: 160	-91	0

Main round

	Quarter finals				Semifinals				final
	Tunisia	26th
	Cameroon	17th
					Tunisia	28
					Morocco	16
	Morocco	24
	Angola	22nd
									Tunisia	23
									Algeria	20th
	Algeria	33
	DR Congo	31
					Algeria	26th			3rd place
					Egypt	25th
	Senegal	19th							Morocco	15th
	Egypt	31							Egypt	29

World Cup participant

Qualified for the 2013 World Cup are:

•  Tunisia (Africa Champion 2012)
•  Algeria (2nd at Africa Cup of Nations 2012)
•  Egypt (3rd at Africa Cup of Nations 2012)

America

The three participants from America were determined at the 2012 Pan American Championship . The championship took place from June 18 to 24, 2012 in Argentina as a tournament. The three first placed qualified for the world championship.

Preliminary round

Group A

Pl.	team	Sp.	S.	U	N	Gates	Diff.	Pt.
1.	Argentina	4th	3	1	0	127: 069	+58	7th
2.	Chile	4th	3	1	0	123: 095	+28	7th
3.	Greenland	4th	2	0	2	123: 117	+ 06	4th
4th	United States	4th	1	0	3	102: 132	-30	2
5.	Venezuela	4th	0	0	4th	103: 165	-62	0

Group B

Pl.	team	Sp.	S.	U	N	Gates	Diff.	Pt.
1.	Brazil	3	3	0	0	118: 039	+79	6th
2.	Uruguay	3	2	0	1	067: 071	- 04th	4th
3.	Paraguay	3	1	0	2	049: 080	-31	2
4th	Mexico	3	0	0	3	041: 085	-44	0

Main round

	Semifinals				final
	Argentina	28
	Uruguay	13
					Argentina	22nd
					Brazil	21st
					3rd place
	Brazil	35			Chile	37
	Chile	33			Uruguay	27

World Cup participant

Qualified for the 2013 World Cup are:

•  Argentina
•  Brazil
•  Chile

Asia

Asia provided three participants who were determined at the 2012 Asian Cup . The championship took place from January 26th to February 4th 2012 in Saudi Arabia as a tournament. The three first placed qualified for the world championship.

Preliminary round

Group A

Pl.	team	Sp.	S.	U	N	Gates	Diff.	Pt.
1.	South Korea	4th	4th	0	0	106: 087	+19	8th
2.	Japan	4th	2	0	2	117: 104	+13	4th
3.	Iran	4th	2	0	2	099: 095	+ 04	4th
4th	Kuwait	4th	2	0	2	111: 111	± 00	4th
5.	Jordan	4th	0	0	4th	080: 116	−36	0

Group B

Pl.	team	Sp.	S.	U	N	Gates	Diff.	Pt.
1.	Qatar	4th	3	1	0	120: 090	+ 030	7th
2.	Saudi Arabia	4th	2	2	0	120: 080	+ 040	6th
3.	Bahrain	4th	2	1	1	131: 084	+ 047	5
4th	United Arab Emirates	4th	1	0	3	109: 104	+ 005	2
5.	Uzbekistan	4th	0	0	4th	068: 180	−112	0

Main round

	Semifinals				final
	South Korea	27
	Saudi Arabia	26th
					South Korea	23
					Qatar	22nd
					3rd place
	Qatar	33			Saudi Arabia	25th
	Japan	28			Japan	21st

World Cup participant

Qualified for the 2013 World Cup are:

•  South Korea (Asian Champion 2012)
•  Qatar (2nd at the 2012 Asian Cup)
•  Saudi Arabia (3rd in the 2012 Asian Cup)

Europe

Europe has 14 participants in the World Cup. Spain as hosts and France as defending world champions are automatically qualified . The three best teams of the European Championship 2012 qualify directly . Since Spain had already qualified as hosts, Serbia, Croatia and the eventual European champions Denmark were already certain to participate in the World Cup before the semi-finals.

Qualification groups

The teams not represented at the European Championship competed in a qualifying round from November 2, 2011 to January 15, 2012 in group matches. The seven group winners and the teams that did not qualify for the European Championship then play the nine other European teams in a play-off round.

Group 1

Pl.	team	Sp.	S.	U	N	Gates	Diff.	Pt.
1.	Austria	4th	4th	0	0	148: 099	+49	8th
2.	Israel	4th	2	0	2	111: 117	- 06	4th
3.	United Kingdom	4th	0	0	4th	092: 135	−43	0

Group 2

Pl.	team	Sp.	S.	U	N	Gates	Diff.	Pt.
1.	Portugal	4th	4th	0	0	121: 095	+26	8th
2.	Ukraine	4th	2	0	2	105: 096	+ 09	4th
3.	Turkey	4th	0	0	4th	092: 127	−35	0

Group 3

Pl.	team	Sp.	S.	U	N	Gates	Diff.	Pt.
1.	Montenegro	4th	4th	0	0	135: 118	+17	8th
2.	Latvia	4th	2	0	2	126: 120	+ 06	4th
3.	Belgium	4th	0	0	4th	117: 140	−23	0

Group 4

Pl.	team	Sp.	S.	U	N	Gates	Diff.	Pt.
1.	Netherlands	4th	3	1	0	119: 112	+ 07	7th
2.	Estonia	4th	1	1	2	121: 119	+ 02	3
3.	Finland	4th	1	0	3	104: 113	- 09	2

Group 5

Pl.	team	Sp.	S.	U	N	Gates	Diff.	Pt.
1.	Lithuania	4th	2	2	0	111: 100	+11	6th
2.	Switzerland	4th	2	1	1	114: 106	+ 08	5
3.	Italy	4th	0	1	3	104: 123	−19	1

Group 6

Pl.	team	Sp.	S.	U	N	Gates	Diff.	Pt.
1.	Bosnia and Herzegovina	4th	4th	0	0	124: 097	+27	8th
2.	Greece	4th	2	0	2	112: 094	+18	4th
3.	Cyprus	4th	0	0	4th	086: 131	−45	0

Group 7

Pl.	team	Sp.	S.	U	N	Gates	Diff.	Pt.
1.	Belarus	4th	3	0	1	120: 099	+21	6th
2.	Romania	4th	3	0	1	109: 092	+17	6th
3.	Luxembourg	4th	0	0	4th	093: 131	−38	0

Play-off games

Participants in the play-offs are:

Place 4th-16th of the European Championship 2012 :

 North Macedonia , Slovenia , Germany , Hungary , Poland , Iceland , Sweden , Norway , Czech Republic , Russia , Slovakia          

Qualifying group winners:

 Austria , Portugal , Montenegro , Netherlands , Lithuania , Bosnia and Herzegovina , Belarus      

The draw for the play-offs took place on January 29, 2012.

The following games were played on 9./10. June (first leg) and on 16./17. June (second leg) played:

	total		First leg	Return leg
Germany	60:57	Bosnia and Herzegovina	36:24	24:33
Lithuania	39:50	Poland	17:24	22:26
Russia	54:49	Czech Republic	23:22	31:27
Slovenia	58:52	Portugal	31:26	27:26
Slovakia	49:50	Belarus	24:26	25:24
Macedonia	53:51	Austria	26:21	27:30
Hungary	54:52	Norway	27:21	27:31
Iceland	73:51	Netherlands	41:27	32:24
Sweden	40:41	Montenegro	22:21	18:20

World Cup participant

Qualified for the 2013 World Cup are from Europe:

•  Spain (hosts)
•  France (defending champion)
•  Denmark (European Champion 2012)
•  Serbia (2nd at European Championships 2012)
•  Croatia (3rd at European Championship 2012)
•  Germany
•  Iceland
•  Hungary
•  Slovenia
•  North Macedonia
•  Montenegro
•  Russia
•  Poland
•  Belarus

Oceania

Oceania provides a participant who was determined in June 2012 with a return leg between Australia and New Zealand. Australia won both games by 31:10 each.

	total		First leg	Return leg
Australia	62:20	New Zealand	31:10	31:10

Qualified for the 2013 World Cup is:

•  Australia

Individual evidence

1. ↑ http://www.handballargentina.org/
2. ^ [1] IHF: On the road to Spain, accessed June 15, 2012