2021 World Women's Handball Championship – European qualification

The European qualification for the 2021 World Women's Handball Championship, in Spain, will be played over two rounds.

In the first round of qualification, 17 teams who were not participating at the 2020 European Championship will be split into two groups of four and three groups of three teams. The top two teams of each group will advance to the second phase, where the teams will join the remaining 10 teams from the European Championship and play play-off games to determine the qualified teams.

Qualification phase 1

Seeding

The draw was held on 8 July 2020 in Vienna, Austria.[1][2] The top two teams of each group advance to the play-off round. Each group will play their matches in a mini-tournament at a pre-selected location.

Pot 1	Pot 2	Pot 3	Pot 4
Austria  Belarus  Slovakia  Turkey  North Macedonia	Ukraine  Italy   Switzerland  Iceland  Portugal	Lithuania  Faroe Islands  Kosovo  Israel  Finland	Greece  Luxembourg

On 13 November 2020, the EHF decided to postpone the matches, scheduled for December 2020, to March 2021 due to the COVID-19 pandemic.[3]

Group 1

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	Slovakia	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	Play-offs
2	Ukraine	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
3	Israel	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
4	Luxembourg (H)	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0

First match(es) will be played on 19 March 2021. Source: EHF
Rules for classification: 1) points; 2) head-to-head points; 3) head-to-head goal difference; 4) head-to-head number of goals scored; 5) goal difference.
(H) Host.

	Slovakia	v	Ukraine
		Report

	Israel	v	Luxembourg
		Report

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	Ukraine	v	Luxembourg
		Report

	Slovakia	v	Israel
		Report

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	Ukraine	v	Israel
		Report

	Luxembourg	v	Slovakia
		Report

Group 2

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	North Macedonia (H)	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	Play-offs
2	Iceland	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
3	Lithuania	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
4	Greece	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0

First match(es) will be played on 19 March 2021. Source: EHF
Rules for classification: 1) points; 2) head-to-head points; 3) head-to-head goal difference; 4) head-to-head number of goals scored; 5) goal difference.
(H) Host.

	North Macedonia	v	Iceland
		Report

	Lithuania	v	Greece
		Report

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	North Macedonia	v	Lithuania
		Report

	Iceland	v	Greece
		Report

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	Iceland	v	Lithuania
		Report

	Greece	v	North Macedonia
		Report

Group 3

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	Turkey (H)	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	Play-offs
2	Portugal	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
3	Finland	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0

First match(es) will be played on 19 March 2021. Source: EHF
Rules for classification: 1) points; 2) head-to-head points; 3) head-to-head goal difference; 4) head-to-head number of goals scored; 5) goal difference.
(H) Host.

	Finland	v	Turkey
		Report

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	Portugal	v	Finland
		Report

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	Turkey	v	Portugal
		Report

Group 4

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	Austria (H)	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	Play-offs
2	Italy	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
3	Kosovo	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0

First match(es) will be played on 19 March 2021. Source: EHF
Rules for classification: 1) points; 2) head-to-head points; 3) head-to-head goal difference; 4) head-to-head number of goals scored; 5) goal difference.
(H) Host.

	Kosovo	v	Austria
		Report

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	Italy	v	Kosovo
		Report

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	Austria	v	Italy
		Report

Group 5

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	Belarus (H)	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	Play-offs
2	Switzerland	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
3	Faroe Islands	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0

First match(es) will be played on 19 March 2021. Source: EHF
Rules for classification: 1) points; 2) head-to-head points; 3) head-to-head goal difference; 4) head-to-head number of goals scored; 5) goal difference.
(H) Host.

	Faroe Islands	v	Belarus
		Report

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	Switzerland	v	Faroe Islands
		Report

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	Belarus	v	Switzerland
		Report

Qualification phase 2

The teams will play a home-and away series to determine the participants for the final tournament.

Seedings

Pot 1 (10 best ranked teams from the 2020 European Championship not already qualified for World Championship)	Pot 2 (10 teams from the qualification round)
Czech Republic  Germany  Hungary  Montenegro  Poland  Romania  Russia  Serbia  Slovenia  Sweden

References

1. "Road to Spain 2021 begins with qualification phase 1 draw". eurohandball.com. 7 July 2020.
2. "17 teams learn first opponents on road to Spain 2021". eurohandball.com. 8 July 2020.
3. "EHF postpones Women's World Championship 2021 Qualification". eurohandball.com. 13 November 2020.