The 2025 World Women's Handball Championship qualification decided who qualified for the 2025 World Women's Handball Championship in Germany and Netherlands. Excluding the previous World Championship, qualifying occurred between October 2024 and April 2025. The championship will feature 32 teams for the third time.
The slot allocation is as follows:
The World Championship hosts will be directly qualified, along with the reigning world champions. In regards to the 12 performance spots, and based on the results of the 2025 Women's World Championship, Europe receives 11 more spots, while South and Central America takes 1.
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. If they reach a certain performance level.
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.
World champion directly qualified for 2025 edition. France won the 2023 World Championship to secure their ticket to the 2025 edition.
Eight teams competed in the Asian Championship, held at the Indira Gandhi Arena in New Delhi, India, from 3 to 10 December 2024. The top 4 reached the world championship. Since Australia withdrew before the competition started, Oceania's spot was made into a second wildcard. Iran, Japan, Kazakhstan and South Korea reached the world championship.
Twelve teams competed in the African Championship, held at the Stade des Martyrs Gymnasium in Kinshasa, DR Congo, from 27 November to 7 December 2024. The top four from the championship qualified. Those teams ended up being Angola, Egypt, Senegal, Tunisia.
The three highest ranked non-qualified teams secure a ticket to the world championship.
From October 2024 to April 2025, the EHF organised a separate qualification for 11 places.
The draw took place on 15 December 2024 in Vienna.
The championship was held from 7 to 12 April 2025 in Mexico City, Mexico. The top winner of the championship qualified. Cuba would finish and advance to the world championship.
Six teams competed in the South and Central American Championship, held at the Colégio Niterói in Niterói, Brazil, from 26 to 30 November 2024. The top three from the championship qualified. Brazil, Argentina and Uruguay would finish in top three and advance to the world championship.
To decide the last qualifier, a last chance tournament was organised in Palmira, Colombia between the 24 to 26 April 2025.
After no Oceanian team achieved a top 5 finish in the Asian Championship, two wildcards were given out by the IHF. On 31 March 2025, China was given the first wildcard due to good performances and country's position, making it a big market for the sport.
The United States were provisionally given a wildcard, so the team could use this opportunity to prepare for the 2028 Summer Olympics which they will be hosting. However, their lack of progress led the IHF to choose a different wildcard. Later on, four countries applied.
After their play off loss to Serbia, Slovenia's coach, Dragan Adà ¾iÃÂ, stated that his team deserved the last wildcard. On 12 May 2025, Croatia was given the second wildcard, with Slovenia as the first standby.