2025 World Women's Handball Championship

2025 World Women's Handball Championship
Tournament details
Host countries	Germany; Netherlands
Dates	27 November – 14 December
Teams	32 (from 5 confederations)
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The 2025 IHF World Women's Handball Championship will be 27th edition of the championship to be jointly hosted by Germany and the Netherlands under the aegis of International Handball Federation (IHF) from 27 November to 14 December 2025. It will be fourth time in history that the championship is jointly hosted.^[1] Catch the Dream will be the official motto of the competition.^[2]

France are the defending world champions, having won the 2023 edition.

Bidding process

Only Germany/Netherlands entered a bid for hosting the tournament. The tournament was awarded in its meeting held in Cairo, Egypt, on 28 February 2020.

Qualification

Competition	Dates	Host	Vacancies	Qualified
Host nations	28 February 2020	Cairo	2	Germany Netherlands
2023 World Championship	17 December 2023	Denmark Norway Sweden	1	France
2024 African Championship	27 November – 7 December 2024	Kinshasa	4+?
2024 European Championship	28 November – 15 December 2024	Austria Hungary Switzerland	3
European qualification	24 October 2024 – 13 April 2025		11
2024 South and Central American Championship	26–30 November 2024	Rio de Janeiro	3+?
2024 Asian Championship	1–12 December 2024	New Delhi	4+?
2025 Nor.Ca. Women's Championship			1+?
Wild card	18 October 2018	Doha	2^[1]^[2]	United States

^ 1. To bear in mind the 2028 Summer Olympics, the IHF Council awarded the United States wild cards for the 2025 and 2027 World Championships.^[3]^[4]

^ 2. If countries from Oceania (Australia or New Zealand) participating in the Asian Championships finish within the top 5, they will qualify for the World Championships. If either finishes sixth or lower, the place would have been transferred to the wild card spot. As New Zealand didn't registered and Australia withdrew before the draw, the place is transferred.

Qualified teams

Country	Qualified as	Qualification date	Previous appearances in tournament^[a]
Germany	Co-host	28 February 2020	15 (1993, 1995, 1997, 1999, 2003, 2005, 2007, 2009, 2011, 2013, 2015, 2017, 2019, 2021, 2023)
Netherlands	Co-host	28 February 2020	14 (1971, 1973, 1978, 1986, 1999, 2001, 2005, 2011, 2013, 2015, 2017, 2019, 2021, 2023)
United States	Wild card	18 October 2018	5 (1975, 1982, 1986, 1993, 1995)
France	Defending champion	17 December 2023	16 (1986, 1990, 1997, 1999, 2001, 2003, 2005, 2007, 2009, 2011, 2013, 2015, 2017, 2019, 2021, 2023)

^ Bold indicates champion for that year, Italics indicates host for that year.

Venues

On 16 May 2022 the German Handball Association (DHB) presented the German venues:^[5]

Dortmund	Stuttgart	Trier
Westfalenhalle Capacity: 12,000	Porsche-Arena Capacity: 6,200	Trier Arena Capacity: 5,400

On 5 April 2023 the Netherlands Handball Association presented the Dutch venues:^[2]^[6]

Rotterdam	's-Hertogenbosch
Rotterdam Ahoy Capacity: 16,000	Maaspoort Capacity: 3,500

References

^ "IHF Council awards events up to 2027". IHF. 28 February 2020. Retrieved 26 August 2020.
^ ^a ^b ""Catch the dream" at the 2025 IHF Women's World Championship, as Final venue is announced". International Handball Federation. 5 April 2023. Retrieved 8 April 2023.
^ "Strategic plan | USA" (PDF). IHF.
^ "Council Meeting No. 3" (PDF). Doha, Qatar: IHF. 18 October 2018. pp. 8–9.
^ "Grosse Bühnen für die Frauen-WM 2025" (in German). German Handball Federation. 16 May 2022. Retrieved 23 May 2022.
^ "De organisatie WK Handbal 2025 kiest voor speelsteden Rotterdam en 's-Hertogenbosch" (in Dutch). HandbalNL. 5 April 2023. Retrieved 8 April 2023.

External links

Official website

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[5] Bold indicates champion for that year, Italics indicates host for that year.

[1] "IHF Council awards events up to 2027". IHF. 28 February 2020. Retrieved 26 August 2020.

[Motto_and_Dutch_venues-2] ""Catch the dream" at the 2025 IHF Women's World Championship, as Final venue is announced". International Handball Federation. 5 April 2023. Retrieved 8 April 2023.

[3] "Strategic plan | USA" (PDF). IHF.

[4] "Council Meeting No. 3" (PDF). Doha, Qatar: IHF. 18 October 2018. pp. 8–9.

[6] "Grosse Bühnen für die Frauen-WM 2025" (in German). German Handball Federation. 16 May 2022. Retrieved 23 May 2022.

[7] "De organisatie WK Handbal 2025 kiest voor speelsteden Rotterdam en 's-Hertogenbosch" (in Dutch). HandbalNL. 5 April 2023. Retrieved 8 April 2023.

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