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The whole schedule – on its own page

Now another title is in its place on handball2011.com: SCHEDULE.

There are all the matches and venues posted.

However, it is not clear at what time - and in what order - the matches are to be played. This is determined sometime in the fall. The proposed start times are 18:00 and 20:00 when it is played two matches in an arena and also 16:00 if three matches are to be played.

 

Schedule: Main round, Placement matches and Finals

Main round I, Jönköping (from Group A and Group B):
22/1 A2-B3
        A3-B1
        A1-B2
23/1 REST DAY
24/1 B1-A2
        B3-A1       
        B2-A3
25/1 A3-B3
        A2-B2
        A1-B1

Two best teams to the semi finals, the other four to Placement Matches

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Match Schedule Group D preliminary round

13/1 SWE-CHI (Gothenburg)

14/1 POL-SVK (Gothenburg)

14/1 KOR-ARG (Gothenburg)

15/1 SVK-SWE (Gothenburg)

15/1 ARG-POL (Gothenburg)

15/1 CHI-KOR (Gothenburg)

17/1 POL-CHI (Gothenburg)

17/1 SWE KOR (Gothenburg)

17/1 SVK-ARG (Gothenburg)

18/1 SWE-ARG (Gothenburg)

18/1 KOR-POL (Gothenburg)

18/1 CHI-SVK (Gothenburg)

20/1 ARG-CHI (Gothenburg)

20/1 KOR-SVK (Gotheburg)

20/1 POL-SWE (Gothenburg)
 

Picture (Bildbyran): Sweden vs. Slovakia earlier this year.

The draw is finished – here's the groups

Group A (Kristianstad/Lund): France, Spain, Germany, Tunisia, Egypt, Bahrain

Group B (Linköping/Norrköping): Island, Norway, Austria, Hungary, Brasil, Japan

Group C (Malmö/Lund): Croatia, Denmark, Serbia, Romania, Algeria, Australia

Group D (Gothenburg): Poland, Sweden, Korea, Slovakia, Argentina, Chile

 

Official draw in Gothenburg

This friday, July 9th will the official final draw take place in the Scandinavium Arena in Gothenburg. The draw will be televised on Swedish TV4 Sport.

The ceremony will take place on the occasion of the Leader's Party for the Partille Cup. Partille Cup is the world's largest handball tournament, more than 1.000 teams are coming to Gothenburg this week to play handball.

Stay tuned on our website and on facebook.com/handball2011 for live coverage from the draw on friday

All 24 teams are qualified

Welcome Argentina!

Welcome Brasil!

And welcome Chile that – together with the two more experienced teams from South America – have qualified for their first World Championship ever.

Now we know which 24 teams that will come to Sweden in January, 200 days from now.

It is Sweden, as host nation.

France, as reigning champions.

Poland, Iceland and Croatia, that qualified during EURO 2010.

Austria, Norway, Hungary, Germany, Slovakia, Serbia, Romania, Denmark and Spain from the European qualification matches.

Australia from the Oceanian qualifcation.

Japan, Korea and Bahrain from Asia.

Tunisia, Algeria and Egypt from Africa.

And, finally, the three teams from Panamerica that qualified during the weekend.

Very welcome, all nations!

(Picture: Argentina qualified this weekend)

We welcome nine more teams!

We welcome another nine teams to Sweden in January next year.

After the European qualification matches this weekend the nations in bold text have won their tickets to Men's Handball World Championship 2011.

Austria - Nehterlands 31-15, 28-34
Norway - Lithuania 27-19, 24-21
Slovenia - Hungary 27-25, 25-28
Germany - Greece 25-20, 27-20
Slovakia - Ukraine 25-30, 30-21
Serbia - Czech Republic 27-23, 22-25
Romania - Russia 28-32, 37-32
Denmark - Switzerland 32-27, 34-29
Portugal - Spain 26-27, 25-33

Now 21 of 24 teams are qualified. The three last nations will qualifiy during the Pan American qualification in Chile 22-26 June.

Picture: The Danish fans, and another eight nation's fans, are celebrating their team's ticket to Sweden 2011.

European qualification matches

This is the result of the first leg of the European qulification matches:

Denmark - Switzerland 32-27

Norway - Lithuania 27-19

Austria - Netherlands 31-15

Germany - Greece 25-20

Slovakia - Ukraine 25-30

Serbia - Czech Republic 27-23

Romania - Russia 28-32

Portugal - Spain 26-27

Slovenia - Hungary 27-25

 

Re-matches are played next weekend.

 

 

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We welcome team no 12!

This weekend team number twelve qualified for Men's Handball World Championship 2011 in Sweden. Australia beated New Zealand and Cook Island twice in the Oceanian Championships.

New Zealand managed to take the second place, by beating Cook Island in two matches.

We congratulate Australia and welcome the Australian team warmly to Sweden in January 2011!

(Picture: Sweden's Andreas Larsson shoots against Australia in the 2000 Olympics.)

Now we release more tickets!

Anyone who wants to see the final or the semi-finals of the Men’s Handball World Championship – or Sweden’s matches – may now have a new chance to buy tickets.
 
On Thursday, March 25, we release 2.000 new tickets for the final in Malmö Arena. In addition, 2 000 tickets to each semi-final in Malmö and Kristianstad are to be sold.
You can buy these tickets through Ticnet, www.ticnet.se
 
From 25 March also Sweden's matches in Gothenburg can be purchased, in two new packages:
Sweden's opening match and Sweden's second match in preliminary round (13 and 15 January)
Sweden's final three games in preliminary round (17, 18 and 20 January)
These tickets are sold through www.ticnet.se or Scandinavium ticket office by phone +46 31-81 10 20.
 

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