2022 European Men's Handball Championship

The 2022 EHF European Men's Handball Championship, commonly referred to as the EHF Euro 2022, will be the 15th edition of the EHF European Men's Handball Championship, the biennial international men's Handball championship of Europe organized by EHF and hosted by Hungary and Slovakia. The games will be played in Budapest, Debrecen, Veszprém and Szeged in Hungary and Bratislava and Kosice in Slovakia.

Bid process

The bidding timeline is as follows:^[1]

1 May 2017: Bidding nations to provide official expression of interest in the hosting of the tournament
1 July 2017: Bidding manuals sent to all bidding federations
1 November 2017: Deadline for completed bidding and application documentation to be provided to the EHF office
15 December 2017: Applications to be approved at the EHF executive committee in Hamburg
20 June 2018: appointment of host(s) of EHF Euro 2022 at the 14th ordinary EHF congress in Glasgow, Scotland

On 4 May 2017 it was announced that the following nations had sent in an official expression of interest: ^[2]

However, when the deadline for submitting the final bids was over, the following applications had been received:

20th of June at the 14th ordinary EHF congress held in Glasgow, Hungary and Slovakia were selected to host the competition.^[3]

Country	City	Arena	Capacity
Hungary	Budapest	László Papp Budapest Sports Arena	14,500
	Veszprém	Veszprém Aréna	8,469
	Szeged	Pick Aréna (new arena)	8,143
	Debrecen	Főnix Hall	6,500
Slovakia	Bratislava	Ondrej Nepela Arena	12,500
Slovakia	Kosice	Steel Aréna	8,350

Country	Qualified as	Date qualification was secured	Previous appearances in tournament
Hungary	Co-host	20 June 2018	11 (1994, 1996, 1998, 2004, 2006, 2008, 2010, 2012, 2014, 2016, 2018)
Slovakia	Co-host	20 June 2018	3 (2006, 2008, 2012)

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