World Womens Handball Championship

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Name
World Womens Handball Championship

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Poster

Established
1938 (86 years old)

First Recorded Event
2021-03-19

Current Season
2025

API Football ID
154

Sport
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Handball

Location
Worldwide

Gender
Female

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Results
17/12	France Handb	31 - 28	Norway Handb
17/12	Sweden Handb	27 - 28	Denmark Hand
17/12	Germany Hand	26 - 30	Netherlands
17/12	Czech Republ	24 - 28	Montenegro H
15/12	Sweden Handb	28 - 37	France Handb
15/12	Denmark Hand	28 - 29	Norway Handb
15/12	Montenegro H	25 - 28	Netherlands
15/12	Germany Hand	32 - 26	Czech Republ
13/12	Iceland Hand	30 - 28	Congo Handba
13/12	Denmark Hand	26 - 24	Montenegro H

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The IHF World Women's Handball Championship has been organized by the International Handball Federation since 1957. European teams have won every time except 1995 where South Korea won as the first team outside Europe and 2013 where Brazil won as the first American team. The biggest winner is Russia with four titles.

Nine teams participated in the first championship, this number has grown in steps to 32 (from 2021). In 1977 a B-tournament was introduced and later in 1986 a C-tournament which served as qualification for the real championship or A-tournament. The B- and C-tournament qualifications were replaced by the present qualification system based on continental confederations in 1993.

From 1993 it has been held every other year. Between 1978 and 1990 it was held every fourth alternating with the Olympic tournament (introduced for women handball in 1976). The first five tournaments were held in the summer or early fall whereas the rest has been held in November or December.

Seasons

2023

2022-2023

2021

Teams

Angola Handball	Argentina Handb	Austria Handbal	Belarus Handbal
Brazil Handball	Cameroon Handba	China Handball	Congo Handball
Croatia Handbal	Czech Republic	Denmark Handbal	Faroe Islands H
France Handball	Germany Handbal	Greece Handball	Greenland Handb
Hungary Handbal	Iceland Handbal	Iran Handball W	Israel Handball
Italy Handball	Japan Handball	Kazakhstan Hand	Kosovo Handball
Lithuania Handb	Luxembourg Hand	Mexico Handball	Montenegro Hand
Netherlands Han	North Macedonia	Norway Handball	Paraguay Handba
Poland Handball	Portugal Handba	Puerto Rico Han	Romania Handbal
Russia Handball	Serbia Handball	Slovakia Handba	Slovenia Handba
South Korea Han	Spain Handball	Sweden Handball	Switzerland Han
Tunisia Handbal	Turkey Handball	Ukraine Handbal	USA Handball Wo
Uzbekistan Hand