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The Men’s Handball World Championship is played 13-30 January 2011.
24 teams from all the world's continents are participating.
The Championship begins with pool – four groups of six teams each.
Continuing are two main round groups.
Finals, and one of two semi-finals, are going to be hosted in Malmö Arena in the southernmost of Sweden. The other semi-final is to be played in Kristianstad.
One of the objectives of the championship is to create a multi-cultural party, which extends far outside the handball arenas.
The WCh-cities are Malmö, Lund, Kristianstad, Göteborg, Skövde, Jönköping, Linköping and Norrköping.
The first ticket release took place in October 2009, when a number of tickets to the finals and to Sweden's matches were been sold. The next ticket release is March, 25, 2010, when more tickets to the final and a number of ’follow your team’ tickets will be sold. The remainder of the tickets are released immediately after the draw takes place in mid-2010.
During the last men's World Championship in Croatia in 2009, was 1 568 media representatives accredited. Television broadcasts reached over 1.5 billion viewers in 150 countries.
The Men’s Handball World Championship is the largest event in Scandinavia in 2011.