2024 European Men's Handball Championship

2024 EHF European Men's Handball Championship
Tournament details
Host country  Germany
Dates 12–28 January
Teams 24 (from 1 confederation)
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The 2024 EHF European Men's Handball Championship, commonly referred to as the EHF Euro 2024, will be the 16th edition of the EHF European Men's Handball Championship, the biennial international men's Handball championship of Europe organized by EHF and hosted by Germany. Proposed host cities are Berlin, Cologne, Düsseldorf, Hamburg, Hanover, Mannheim or Frankfurt and Munich or Stuttgart[1]

Bid process

Bidding timeline

The bidding timeline is as follows:[2]

  • 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 2024 at the 14th ordinary EHF congress in Glasgow, Scotland

Bids

On 4 May 2017 it was announced that the following nations had sent in an official expression of interest: [3]

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

Host Selection

20th of June at the 14th ordinary EHF congress held in Glasgow, Germany was selected to host the competition.

Voting results[4]
Country
Votes
 Germany 27
 Denmark &   Switzerland 19
 Hungary &  Slovakia -
Total 46

As Hungary and Slovakia were selected as the 2022 hosts their 2024 bid was withdrawn.

Venues

Main Proposal

Following is a list of all venues and host cities which is in the main proposal for the bid. The opening game will be held in Esprit Arena in Düsseldorf and is aiming to break the world record for number of spectators during a handball game and the final will be held in Lanxess Arena in Cologne.

Düsseldorf Cologne Berlin
Esprit Arena Lanxess Arena Mercedes-Benz Arena
Capacity: 50,000 Capacity: 19,603 Capacity: 14,800
Hamburg
Barclaycard Arena
Capacity: 13 300
Mannheim
SAP Arena
Capacity: 13 200
Munich Hanover
Olympiahalle TUI Arena
Capacity: 12,500 Capacity: 10,000

Alternative Venues

In edition to the main proposed venues a couple of alternative venues have been presented, their selection is depending on if they will be ready in time (Munich and Frankfurt) or if the Olympiahalle is to run-down or demolished (Stuttgart).

Munich Stuttgart Frankfurt
New Munich Arena Porsche-Arena New Frankfurt Arena
Capacity: 10,000-12,000 Capacity: 6,500 Capacity: 10,000-14,000
Considered instead of Olympiahalle Concidered instead of Olympiahalle Concidered instead of SAP Arena

References

  1. ↑ "Vergabe: Handball-Europameisterschaft 2024 in Deutschland" (in German). Retrieved 2018-06-21.
  2. ↑ "EHF EURO - BEYOND 2020". beyond2020.ehfoffice.at.
  3. ↑ "European Handball Federation - These nations want to bid for EHF EUROs in 2022 and 2024 / Article".
  4. ↑ http://www.handball-world.news/o.red.r/news-1-1-1-105563.html
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