2025 IHF Men's U19 Handball World Championship

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2025 IHF Men's U19 Handball World Championship
Tournament details
Host country	Egypt
Dates	6–17 August
Teams	32 (from 6 confederations)
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The 2025 IHF Men's U19 Handball World Championship will be the 11th edition of the IHF Men's U19 Handball World Championship to be held in Egypt under the aegis of International Handball Federation (IHF). It will be first time in history that the championship will be organised by Egyptian Handball Federation.^[1]

Spain are the defending champions.

Bidding process

Three nations entered bid for hosting the tournament:

North Macedonia and Poland later withdrew their bid. The tournament was initially awarded to Slovenia by the IHF Council in its meeting held in Cairo, Egypt on 28 February 2020.^[2] However, there were no further details on Slovenia's preparations four years later and were stripped of the hosting rights in September 2024, with Egypt being named the replacement.

Qualification

Event	Dates	Host	Vacancies	Qualified
Host nation			1	Egypt
2024 U-18 European Championship	7–18 August 2024	Podgorica	14	Croatia Czech Republic Denmark France Germany Hungary Iceland Norway Portugal Serbia Spain Sweden Slovenia Switzerland
2024 Asian Youth Championship	3–14 September 2024	Amman	5	Bahrain Japan Kuwait Saudi Arabia South Korea
2024 African Youth Championship	19–26 September 2024	Tunisia	6	Algeria Guinea Kenya Libya Morocco Tunisia
2024 South and Central American Youth Championship	5–9 November 2024	Managua	4	Argentina Brazil Chile Uruguay
2024 North America and Caribbean Youth Championship	20–24 November 2024	Toa Baja	2	Mexico United States

References

^ "2025 IHF Men's Youth World Championship to be hosted by the Egyptian Handball Federation". IHF. 13 September 2024. Retrieved 16 September 2024.
^ "IHF Council awards events up to 2027". ihf.info. 28 February 2020. Retrieved 25 August 2020.

v t e Youth World Handball Championship (men's U19 and women's U18)
Men's U19	Qatar 2005 Bahrain 2007 Tunisia 2009 Argentina 2011 Hungary 2013 Russia 2015 Georgia 2017 North Macedonia 2019 ~~Greece 2021~~ Croatia 2023 Egypt 2025
Women's U18	Canada 2006 Slovakia 2008 Dominican Republic 2010 Montenegro 2012 Macedonia 2014 Slovakia 2016 Poland 2018 ~~Croatia 2020~~ North Macedonia 2022 China 2024

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