Sweden

The road to Sweden

Thu Feb 11 2010

Eleven teams are qualified for Men's Handball World Championship 2011 in Sweden:

France, as reigning champions; Sweden, as host nation and Iceland, Poland and Croatia from EURO 2010 in Austria.

By February 19 three more tickets were played out. Top three teams of the Asian Championship; Korea, Bahrain and Japan qualified.

The day after, February 20, the medal winners from the African Championship: Tunisia, Egypt and Algeria got their tickets to Sweden.

The rest of the European qualification will take place in June (12/13 and 19/20), with knockout games as following:

  • Austria-Netherlands
  • Norway-Lithuania
  • Slovenia-Hungary
  • Germany-Greece
  • Slovakia-Ukraine
  • Serbia-Czech Republik
  • Romania-Russia
  • Denmark-Switzerland
  • Portugal-Spain

The winners will make it to Sweden.

At the same time the Pan-American continent will play their qualification matches.

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One year to go today

Wed Jan 13 2010

Today, we are only one year away from the great party. One year away from the opening match of the Men’s World Handball Championship in Sweden.

January 13, 2011, is the opening of the Handball World Championship in Sweden. There are 365 days left for preparations.

– Now every day is important for us if Men’s Handball World Championship will be the Championship for the world that we want it to be. Everything has to be prepared and nothing to be neglected. This is a big challenge for everyone involved, says Arne Elovsson, Director of the Men’s Handball World Championship 2011.

Today, only two teams are qualified for the championships 2011: Sweden, as host nation and France as defending champions. At the European Championship, which starts on Tuesday, three more nations qualifies. Then the audience in this three countries becomes interesting target groups wich gives more opportunities in ticket sales.

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Playing schedule is set

Mon Nov 30 2009

409 days to go now. Only a little more than a year before the Men’s Handball World Championship 2011 is here! We just know two teams: France and Sweden, but the game schedule is set now – and further down there are a couple of small news on Facebook.

Men’s Handball World Championship 2011 begins 13 January with an opening match in Göteborg, where Sweden is one of the two teams.
The other 23 teams enter the tournament 14 January.
The WCh starts with Preliminary Round with four groups of six teams each: One group playing in Gothenburg, one in Linköping/Norrköping, one in Malmö/Lund and one in Kristianstad/Lund.
Preliminary Round ends 20 January.
The top three teams in each group proceed to the Main Round, which is played in two groups of six teams. One group is to be played in Jönköping and the other in Malmö/Lund, starting 22 January.

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