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IHF World Men's Handball Championship
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International handball tournament for men's national teams
The IHF Men's Handball World Championship has been organized indoor by the International Handball Federation since 1938.
In the twenty-nine tournaments held, twelve national teams have won the title. France is the most successful team with six titles, followed by Sweden, Denmark and Romania with four titles each.
The current champion is Denmark, which won its fourth consecutive title at the 2025 tournament in Croatia, Denmark and Norway.[1]
The first indoor championship took place in Germany in 1938, involving four teams from Europe made up of 7 players who competed in a round robin stage to find a winner. It wouldn't be until sixteen years later where the second World Championship was held in the country of Sweden. Throughout their history, the World Championships have been dominated by European teams, with no medals being won by non-European countries until 2015, by Qatar. Over the years, the organization of the World Championships has changed. Initially, there were group games in both the preliminary and main rounds, but since the 1995 edition a knockout system has been applied after the preliminary round.[2]
Participating nations[edit]
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Legend
- 1st – Champions
- 2nd – Runners-up
- 3rd – Third place
- 4th – Fourth place
- 5th – Fifth place
- 6th – Sixth place
- 7th – Seventh place
- 8th – Eighth place
- 9th – Ninth place
- 10th – Tenth place
- 11th – Eleventh place
- 12th to 24th – Twelfth to twenty-fourth place
- Q — Qualified for upcoming tournament
- •• — Qualified but withdrew
- • — Did not qualify
- × — Did not enter / Withdrew from the World Championship / Banned
- — Hosts
List of hosts by number of championships hosted.
Times
hosted Host Year(s) 9 Germany (including East* and West Germany**) 1938, 1958*, 1961**, 1974*, 1982**, 2007, 2019, (2027, 2029) 5 Sweden 1954, 1967, 1993, 2011, 2023 4 Denmark 1978, 2019, 2025, (2031) France 1970, 2001, 2017, (2029) 2 Croatia 2009, 2025 Czechoslovakia 1964, 1990 Egypt 1999, 2021 Iceland 1995, (2031) Norway 2025, (2031) 1 Japan 1997 Poland 2023 Portugal 2003 Qatar 2015 Spain 2013 Switzerland 1986 Tunisia 2005 All-time table for semi-finalists (1938–2025)[edit] Team Participations Games Nb Titles % Top 4 % Pld W % D % L % Austria 8 0 0,0 % 1 12,5 % 45 17 37,8 % 4 8,9 % 24 53,3 % Croatia 16 1 6,3 % 7 43,8 % 132 95 72,0 % 7 5,3 % 30 22,7 % Czechoslovakia 12 1 8,3 % 5 41,7 % 72 41 56,9 % 7 9,7 % 24 33,3 % Denmark 26 4 15,4 % 14 53,8 % 183 124 67,8 % 8 4,4 % 51 27,9 % East Germany 8 0 0,0 % 4 50,0 % 45 24 53,3 % 6 13,3 % 15 33,3 % Egypt 18 0 0,0 % 1 5,6 % 130 60 46,2 % 8 6,2 % 62 47,7 % France 25 6 24,0 % 15 60,0 % 188 130 69,1 % 7 3,7 % 51 27,1 % Germany[a][b] 20 2 10,0 % 8 40,0 % 152 104 68,4 % 11 7,2 % 37 24,3 % Hungary 23 0 0,0 % 2 8,7 % 164 84 51,2 % 11 6,7 % 69 42,1 % Norway 18 0 0,0 % 2 11,1 % 119 65 54,6 % 7 5,9 % 47 39,5 % Poland 18 0 0,0 % 5 27,8 % 121 66 54,5 % 6 5,0 % 49 40,5 % Portugal 6 0 0,0 % 1 16,7 % 39 20 51,3 % 2 5,1 % 17 43,6 % Qatar 10 0 0,0 % 1 10,0 % 67 24 35,8 % 0 0,0 % 43 64,2 % Romania 14 4 28,6 % 6 42,9 % 92 57 62,0 % 4 4,8 % 31 33,7 % Russia[d] 13 2 15,4 % 3 23,1 % 107 66 61,7 % 8 7,5 % 33 30,8 % Slovenia 11 0 0,0 % 2 18,2 % 79 40 50,6 % 5 6,3 % 34 43,0 % Soviet Union 8 1 12,5 % 4 50,0 % 51 35 68,6 % 2 3,9 % 14 27,5 % Spain 23 2 8,7 % 8 34,8 % 182 124 68,1 % 9 4,9 % 49 26,9 % Sweden 27 4 14,8 % 15 55,6 % 193 131 67,9 % 8 4,1 % 54 28,0 % Switzerland 12 0 0,0 % 2 16,7 % 62 25 40,3 % 5 8,1 % 32 51,6 % Tunisia 17 0 0,0 % 1 5,6 % 116 44 37,9 % 10 8,6 % 62 53,4 % West Germany 7 1 14,3 % 2 28,6 % 44 28 63,6 % 4 9,1 % 12 27,3 % Yugoslavia[e] 10 1 10,0 % 5 50,0 % 59 35 59,3 % 5 8,5 % 19 32,2 % Yugoslavia[f] 5 0 0,0 % 2 40,0 % 42 27 64,3 % 4 9,5 % 11 26,2 %
Draws include knockout matches decided in a penalty shootout.
Most successful players[edit]
Boldface denotes active handball players and highest medal count among all players (including these who are not included in these tables) per type.
Multiple gold medalists[edit] Multiple medalists[edit]
The table shows players who have won at least 6 medals in total at the World Championships.
Top scorers by tournament[edit]
The record-holder for scored goals in a single World Championship is Kiril Lazarov. He scored 92 goals for Macedonia in nine matches at the 2009 World Championship.
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