2022 European Men's Handball Championship qualification

This article describes the qualification for the 2022 European Men's Handball Championship.

Qualification system

Teams will compete for 20 places at the final tournament in two distinct Qualification Phases and one Relegation round. In each phase, the teams will be divided into several pots according to their positions in the EHF National Team Ranking.

Qualification Phase 1

Seeding

The draw for the qualification round 1 was held on 28 September 2018 in Vienna, Austria.[1]This qualification will be played in a tournament format, with the teams able to choose whether they want to play either 4 to 6 January 2019 or 11 to 13 January 2019.

Pot 1 Pot 2 Pot 3 Pot 4
 Cyprus
 Luxembourg		  Great Britain
 Georgia		  Azerbaijan
 Ireland		  Bulgaria
 Malta

Groups

Group A

The tournament will be played in a tournament format.

Pos Team Pld W D L GF GA GD Pts Qualification
1  Luxembourg 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 Relegation round
2  Great Britain 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
3  Ireland 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
4  Bulgaria 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
First match(es) will be played on unknown. Source: Eurohandball
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.
Luxembourg  v  Great Britain
Report
Bulgaria  v  Luxembourg
Report
Ireland  v  Bulgaria
Report
Ireland  v  Great Britain
Report
Luxembourg  v  Ireland
Report
Great Britain  v  Bulgaria
Report


Group B

The tournament will be played in a tournament format.

Pos Team Pld W D L GF GA GD Pts Qualification
1  Cyprus 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 Relegation round
2  Georgia 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
3  Azerbaijan 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
4  Malta 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
First match(es) will be played on unknown. Source: Eurohandball
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.
Cyprus  v  Georgia
Report
Azerbaijan  v  Malta
Report
Malta  v  Cyprus
Report
Azerbaijan  v  Georgia
Report
Cyprus  v  Azerbaijan
Report
Georgia  v  Malta
Report

Relegation round

The winners of each group will qualify for the EHF EURO Qualifiers ‘relegation round’. The three lowest ranked teams among the 4th ranked teams in the Men’s EHF EURO 2020 Qualifiers are relegated to this ‘relegation round’. It will be played between these three teams and the winners of the Men’s EHF EURO 2022 Qualifiers Phase 1 as well as the winning team of the Emerging Nations Championship

IHF Emerging Nations Championship

The first placed team of this tournament will qualify to Relegation round.

RankTeam
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Qualification Phase 2

Pre-qualified teams will join the qualified teams from previous rounds. Those teams will be split into eight groups, with the winners and runner-ups qualify for the final tournament, as well as the four-best third placed teams.

References

  1. ↑ "Phase 1 qualifiers for Men's EHF EURO 2022 drawn in Vienna". eurohandball.com. 28 September 2018.
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