2020 European Men's Handball Championship

The 2020 EHF European Men's Handball Championship was the 14th edition of the tournament and the first to feature 24 national teams. It was co-hosted for the first time in three countries Ã¢ÂÂ Austria, Norway and Sweden Ã¢ÂÂ from 9 to 26 January 2020.

Spain won their second consecutive title by defeating Croatia 22Ã¢ÂÂ20 in the final, while co-hosts Norway won the bronze match against Slovenia. Other hosts Austria finished 8th and Sweden 7th.

Sander Sagosen's 65 goals was at the time a record for a single player at any European Championship, until Mathias Gidsel's 68 goals at the 2026 European Men's Handball Championship.

Bidding process

The interested nations were as follows:

In December 2013, these were announced as the bids:

and

After further negotiations, between the three bids and the European Handball Federation, it was decided to merge the three individual bids into one big bid. Due to the decision to merge the bids, the EHF decided to bring forward the expansion of the tournament to 24 teams, which was originally going to start in 2022. On 20 September 2014, at the EHF Congress in Dublin, Austria, Norway and Sweden were all given the hosting rights.

Venues

Qualification

Qualified teams

Note: Bold indicates champion for that year. Italic indicates host for that year.

Marketing

The official anthem of the competition is "All for us", made and performed by Swedish DJ and producer Wahlstedt.

Draw

The draw was held at the Erste Bank Campus in Vienna on 28 June 2019.

Seeding

The seedings were announced on 17 June 2019.

Squads

Match officials

On 21 August 2019, 23 couples were announced. On 27 December 2019, EHF replaced the Serbian referee pair Nenad NikoliÃÂ and DuÃÂ¡an StojkoviÃÂ with the Latvian referee pair ZigmÃÂrs Sondors and RenÃÂrs LÃÂ«cis, due to an injury and late recovery of NikoliÃÂ in late October.

Preliminary round

All times are local (UTC+1).

Group A

Group B

Group C

Group D

Group E

Group F

Main round

Points and goals gained in the preliminary group against teams that advance were transferred to the main round.

Group I

Group II

Knockout stage

Bracket

Semi-finals

Fifth place game

Third place game

Final

Ranking and statistics

Final ranking

The teams ranked fourth in each group after the completion of the preliminary round matches were ranked 18 to 24, while teams ranked third in each group after the completion of the preliminary round matches were ranked 13 to 18 according to the number of points won in the preliminary round. Places seven or eight were attributed to the two teams ranked fourth in the groups, places nine and ten were attributed to the two teams ranked fifth in the groups, places eleven and twelve were attributed to the two teams ranked sixth in the group according to the number of points won by the respective teams after completion of the main round matches. Places one to six were decided by playÃ¢ÂÂoff or knockÃ¢ÂÂout.