Draw for the 23rd IHF Women’s Junior (U20) Handball World Championship 2022
8 April 2022
The International Handball Federation (IHF) has announced the date and time for the draw of the 23rd IHF Women’s Junior (U20) Handball World Championship, which will take place in Slovenia between June 22 and July 3, 2022.
The draw will take place at Hotel Evropa in Celje on Wednesday, 13 April 2022, at 17:00 CEST, in a historical city for handball, where matches will take place in the Golovec and Zlatorog Arenas, with the latter being the home of RK Celje Pivovarna Lako, the most decorated team in Slovenian history. Matches will also be played in Lako and Velenje, with four venues dedicated to the competition.
The 32 teams that will take part in the competition have been divided into four pots of eight teams each. Asia will be represented by five teams in the championship, i.e., India, the Islamic Republic of Iran, Kazakhstan, the Republic of Korea, and Japan.
The draw will start with the teams in pot 4, followed by the teams which were allocated into pot 3. The teams in pot 1 will be drawn in the eight groups afterwards, while hosts Slovenia, who were allocated to pot 2, have the prerogative to assign a group of their choice.
Finally, the other seven teams from pot 2 will be drawn into their groups, as the ceremony will end.
The reigning champions, Hungary, who secured the gold medal at Hungary 2018, are in pot 1, while the finalists from four years ago, Norway, are in pot 2.
Denmark and Romania, each with two gold medals the most decorated teams in the history of the competition which will play at Slovenia 2022, will also be part of pot 1.
Guinea, India, and the Islamic Republic of Iran will make their debuts at the IHF Women’s Junior World Championship, while the United States of America will make their comeback for the first time since 1981.
2022 IHF Women’s Junior (U20) World Championship draw
POT 1: Hungary, France, India, Sweden, Romania, Denmark, Croatia, Germany
POT 2: Norway, Czech Republic, Argentina, Switzerland, Slovakia, Slovenia, Islamic Republic of Iran, Poland
POT 3: Netherlands, Montenegro, Angola, Brazil, Kazakhstan, Chile, Egypt, Tunisia
POT 4: Republic of Korea, Japan, Paraguay, Guinea, Mexico, United States of America, Austria, Wild Card team
Photo Courtesy: International Handball Federation
