Doha, Qatar: Qatar handball team have been placed in tough Group C of the 2025 IHF Men’s World Championship facing reigning Olympic champions France, Austria and Kuwait in the first stage. Croatia, Denmark and Norway will co-host the 29th edition of the world handball flagship competition which will take place from 14 January to 2 February 2025. Qatar’s matches will take place in Porec, Croatia.
The Vatroslav Lisinski Concert Hall in Zagreb, Croatia, was the venue for the glitzy draw of the tournament on Wednesday night, when the 32 participating teams learnt their fate for the preliminary round of the 29th edition of the world handball flagship competition. The 32 sides, which were divided into four pots of eight teams each, were drawn starting from Pot 4 to Pot 1, with eight groups set for the preliminary round of the 2025 IHF Men’s World Championship, as the top three teams in each group progress to the main round. Co-hosts Croatia had their coach, Dagur Sigurdsson draw their opponent from Pot 1, while goalkeeper Dominik Kuzmanovic assigned the teams in the draw from Pot 4 and the co-hosts will face Egypt, Argentina and Bahrain in the preliminary round in Group H, in Zagreb.
“I am not sure about luck, both Egypt and France were tough opponents from the first pot. We played Argentina a few weeks ago, I know Bahrain from my previous job as the Japan national team head coach, therefore I think it will be a tough group,” said Croatia’s coach, Dagur Sigurdsson. Eigh.
