2019 Women's WCh (Japan)

[Wbk]

The playing dates are 29 November to 15 December 2019. The hosting area is Kumamoto region.

Winner of the tournament qualify for the 2020 Olympic Games as World champion. If Japan is the winner, then the 2nd ranked team will take the World Championships' olympic spot.

The next 6 best teams, which are not qualified neither for the 2020 Olympics nor for the 2020 Olympic Qualification Tournaments at that time, qualify for the Olympic Qualification Tournaments.

Moreover, the tournament's final ranking may retroactively change the consequences of the four olympic continental qualification events (2018 European Championships, 2018 African Nations Cup, 2019 Panamerican Games & 2019 Asian Olympic Qualification) relating to olympic qualification system. More exact correspoding details will be known and presented later.

Winner of the tournament qualify for the 2021 WCh.

The minimum age of 16 is fixed for the participation, meaning that players eligible to participate have to turn 16 years on the day of her first match at the latest.

[Wbk]

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[Wbk]

Qualification Europe - Phase 1 - draw

16 teams participate in this qualification phase, and they have been seeded in the following pots:

Pot 1: Belarus, Macedonia, Switzerland, Slovakia, Turkey
Pot 2: Faroe Islands, Iceland, Italy, Kosovo, Lithuania, Portugal, Ukraine
Pot 3: Azerbaijan, Finland, Greece, Israel

They will be drawn to four groups of four teams each. The winners of groups 1 to 4 as well as the best second ranked team from all groups will qualify for the Phase 2 [play-offs].

The draw will take place on 19 June 2018 (today) at 14:30 CET.

Draw procedure: http://cms.eurohandball.com/PortalData/ ... 180615.pdf

Draw livestream: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cDl414QDF2g

Source: EHF

[Wbk]

Qualification Europe - Phase 1 - draw

[swarthofole]

very interesting group 3.

[Joana]

What's truly interesting is how Kosovo keeps getting drawn together with countries that don't recognize it.

[Wbk]

Qualification Europe - Phase 1 - draw

Gr. 1 (SVK, UKR, KOS, ISR) to be played with a tournament format in Šaľa (SVK) on 30 Nov - 2 Dec 2018.

https://slovakhandball.sk/v-sali-turnaj ... o-ms-2019/

[Wbk]

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[mikh]

Quick update from the European qualifying round.

Belarus already made it to the play-off, by easily winning their preliminary group last week.
Slovakia beat Ukraine 36:32 yesterday and probably secured its play-off spot as well. Hard to believe they'll have problems with Israel or Kosovo. So, congratulations @Wbk!
Group 2 will probably be the most balanced.
Group 4 should come down to the match between Macedonia and Iceland (today at 18h CET).

[Wbk]

■ 9 teams: successfull teams from the European qualification, Phase 2 [play-offs] (scheduled for 31 May - 6 Jun 2019)

Qualification Europe - Phase 1 - draw

So the teams advancing from the Qualification Europe Phase 1 to Phase 2 (Play-offs) are:

BLR
ISL - the most notable case: There was a scoring issue to determine the best second placed team in the final matchday. Ukraine needed to outclass Israel with the biggest possible difference to put Iceland into the worst possible position. But Ukrainian team decided for a completely sabotaged 2nd half (+12 at HT, +10 at FT). After that match, Iceland was positioned to trash Azerbaijan by +27 goals to advance, and therefore eliminate UKR, in a match that is going to be judged by the Ukrainian refs. Nevertheless, Icelandic girls showed courage and heart, devastated Azeris with +31, so we can welcome them to the playoffs! On the other side, Ukraine waving goodbye, a deserved payment for a stupid own mistake.
MKD
SUI
SVK

AUT was initially seeded for the Phase 2.

The final list of 18 play-offs participants will be completed with the dozen of teams from the EURO 2018. These 12 teams will be:
● teams ranked 4th-16th excluding France (if France is not ranked among top 4)
or
● teams ranked 5th-16th (if France is ranked among top 4)

[Wbk]

List of already qualified teams (5 out of 24):

JAPAN (qualified as: organiser)
FRANCE (winner of the 2017 WCh)
SOUTH KOREA (between the 3 first of Asia CH
KAZAHKSTAN(between the 3 first of Asia CH)
CHINA (between the 3 first of Asia CH)

Well, the Asian trio aren't already qualified yet, if we are strict and precise, Japan must reach the semifinals first and Korea has to earn their third victory in the preliminary group. So it will be officially valid only after the Japanese tomorrow's victory against Iran and the Korea's against Hongkong

[Cmsnpsi]

List of already qualified teams (7 out of 24):

JAPAN (qualified as: organiser)
FRANCE (winner of the 2017 WCh)
SOUTH KOREA (between the 3 first of Asia CH
KAZAHKSTAN(between the 3 first of Asia CH)
CHINA (between the 3 first of Asia CH)
BRAZIL (between the 2 first of Central and South America)
ARGENTINA (between the 2 first of Central and South America)

[Wbk]

There's the update on the qualified after 5 teams secured their spots for Japan 2019 in the last hours:


List of the already qualified teams (7 out of 24):

JAPAN (qualified as: organiser)

FRANCE (winner of the 2017 WCh)

ARGENTINA (top two team at the 2018 South & Central American Championship)
BRAZIL (top two team at the 2018 South & Central American Championship)

CHINA (semifinalist of the 2018 Asian Championship)
KAZAKHSTAN (semifinalist of the 2018 Asian Championship)
SOUTH KOREA (semifinalist of the 2018 Asian Championship)

[Wbk]

■ 1 team: Oceania earns the place if its representative (the top one in case of multiple) is ranked 1st-5th at the 2018 Women's Asian Championship (currently ongoing in Kumamoto region, Japan). In case an Oceanian team is not reaching top 5 at the event, the IHF will award this place as a wild card.

Yay! Oceania back on the world handball map, as Aussies complete their mission successfully, congrats The eight qualified team for next year's WCh they are.



List of the already qualified teams (8 out of 24):

JAPAN (qualified as: organiser)

FRANCE (winner of the 2017 WCh)

BRAZIL (winner of the 2018 South & Central American Championship)
ARGENTINA (runner up of the 2018 South & Central American Championship)

SOUTH KOREA (winner of the 2018 Asian Championship)
CHINA (3rd place at the 2018 Asian Championship)
KAZAKHSTAN (4th place at the 2018 Asian Championship)
AUSTRALIA (5th place at the 2018 Asian Championship)

[Wbk]

■ 3 teams: ranked 1st-3rd at the 2018 Women's African Nations Cup (currently ongoing in Brazzaville, Congo)

Update on qualification after all three participants from Africa are known. It will be Senegal's premiere at Worlds, DR Congo will be there for the third time (after Serbia 2013 and Denmark 2015).



List of the already qualified teams (11 out of 24):

JAPAN (qualified as: organiser)

FRANCE (winner of the 2017 WCh)

BRAZIL (winner of the 2018 South & Central American Championship)
ARGENTINA (runner-up of the 2018 South & Central American Championship)

SOUTH KOREA (winner of the 2018 Asian Championship)
CHINA (3rd place at the 2018 Asian Championship)
KAZAKHSTAN (4th place at the 2018 Asian Championship)
AUSTRALIA (5th place at the 2018 Asian Championship)

ANGOLA (winner or runner-up of the 2018 Women's African Nations Cup)
SENEGAL (winner or runner-up of the 2018 Women's African Nations Cup)
DR CONGO (3rd place at the 2018 Women's African Nations Cup)

[mikh]

I found an article talking about 6 teams to take part at the Nor.Ca Championship, originally scheduled for Dec this year. In the end, it will take part next year in May. The expected teams are USA, Mexico, Dominican R, Greenland. Let's see who will make it from Puerto Rico, Cuba , Canada. Martinique and Guadeloupe would also be eligible to take part, but I suppose they cannot qualify for the WCh.

[Wbk]

■ 3 teams: best three teams at the 2018 Women's EURO (currently ongoing in France), excluding France

Time for another update, as all of the advancing teams via the current EURO are known.



List of the already qualified teams (14 out of 24):

JAPAN (qualified as: organiser)

FRANCE (winner of the 2017 WCh)

BRAZIL (winner of the 2018 South & Central American Championship)
ARGENTINA (runner-up of the 2018 South & Central American Championship)

SOUTH KOREA (winner of the 2018 Asian Championship)
CHINA (3rd place at the 2018 Asian Championship)
KAZAKHSTAN (4th place at the 2018 Asian Championship)
AUSTRALIA (5th place at the 2018 Asian Championship)

ANGOLA (winner of the 2018 African Nations Cup)
SENEGAL (runner-up of the 2018 African Nations Cup)
DR CONGO (3rd place at the 2018 African Nations Cup)

NETHERLANDS (semifinalist of the 2018 European Championship)
ROMANIA (semifinalist of the 2018 European Championship)
RUSSIA (semifinalist of the 2018 European Championship)


Road for remaining (10) teams to qualify:

■ 1 team: winner of the 2019 Women's North American & Caribbean Championship (preliminarly scheduled for May 2019, possible hosting nations: United Stats or Dominican republic, Mexico is a backup alternative).

■ 9 teams: successfull teams from the European qualification, Phase 2 [play-offs] (scheduled for 31 May - 6 Jun 2019)

[Wbk]

And here is the full list of participants + draw seedings for the Qualification Europe - Phase 2 (play-offs):

Pot 1: NOR, SWE, MNE, HUN, DEN, GER, SRB, ESP, SLO
Pot 2: CRO, CZE, POL, AUT, BLR, SVK, MKD, SUI, ISL

The draw should take place during the final weekend of the current EURO.

[mikh]

And if I didn't make any mistakes, these will be the pots for the WCh draw:

1: FRA, ROU, NED, RUS
2: NOR, DEN, SWE, HUN
3: MNE, GER, SRB, ESP
4: JPN, KOR, SLO, CHN
5: KAZ, BRA, ANG, SEN
6: AUS, ARG, Nor.Ca, RDC

Of course, for now, only the European teams in pot 1 are fixed, the others have to qualify first. If one fails, the team defeating it will get its in that respective pot.
Also, it could happen that Japan is allocated to pot 3, in which case the winner of the play-off involving Spain will be in pot 4.
And finally, all this could be disproved by God knows what criteria IHF establishes until then.

[Wbk]

And here is the full list of participants + draw seedings for the Qualification Europe - Phase 2 (play-offs):

Pot 1: NOR, SWE, MNE, HUN, DEN, GER, SRB, ESP, SLO
Pot 2: CRO, CZE, POL, AUT, BLR, SVK, MKD, SUI, ISL

The draw should take place during the final weekend of the current EURO.

Saturday, 15 December 2018 at 16:30 CET

http://eurohandball.com/article/031865/ ... +confirmed

[Wbk]

And here is the full list of participants + draw seedings for the Qualification Europe - Phase 2 (play-offs):

Pot 1: NOR, SWE, MNE, HUN, DEN, GER, SRB, ESP, SLO
Pot 2: CRO, CZE, POL, AUT, BLR, SVK, MKD, SUI, ISL

The draw should take place during the final weekend of the current EURO.

[aletem]

I am pretty happy with the performance that the Macedonian girls displayed during the qualification tournament against Azerbaijan, Iceland and Turkey. Azerbaijan was knocked with 41:22, followed by 29:21 over Iceland (was quite convincing, surprisingly given that Iceland had some extra experienced players this time round, at some point was +11). And then with Turkey it was a routine 30:23 where the girls played just enough.
With that kind of a play, there is a good chance to see them at the World Cup. The draw is ideal, as we got the "easiest" opponent. There wasn't an easy opponent, but they could've played Norway or Hungary (I feel bad for Belarus and Austria now). Anyhow, it would be an interesting play-off between Macedonia and Slovenia without a doubt. And if it's meant to be, it will be.
And this could be an easier tournament too, as we have Australia this time round, Kazakhstan, also a team from North America and finally Argentina.

I found an article talking about 6 teams to take part at the Nor.Ca Championship, originally scheduled for Dec this year. In the end, it will take part next year in May. The expected teams are USA, Mexico, Dominican R, Greenland. Let's see who will make it from Puerto Rico, Cuba , Canada. Martinique and Guadeloupe would also be eligible to take part, but I suppose they cannot qualify for the WCh.

My guess would be Canada and probably Cuba (due to their experience)

[Wbk]

South Korea and North Korea will not field a joint team at this year's women's world handball championships

https://en.yna.co.kr/view/AEN2019032200 ... ction=news

[Wbk]

Road for remaining teams to qualify:

■ 1 team: winner of the 2019 Women's North American & Caribbean Championship (preliminarly scheduled for May 2019, possible hosting nations: United Stats or Dominican republic, Mexico is a backup alternative).

From 28 May to 2 June 2019, seven women’s teams from North America and the Caribbean will compete in Mexico for a ticket to the 2019 IHF Women’s World Championship. The draw for the event was staged.

DRAW RESULTS
Group A: Dominican Republic, Puerto Rico, Mexico
Group B: USA, Cuba, Canada, Greenland


http://www.ihf.info/en-us/mediacentre/n ... px?ID=6461

[masch1]

Denmark’s team in the matches against Switzerland:

GKs
Sandra Toft, Team Esbjerg
Althea Reinhardt, Odense Håndbold
Amalie Milling, København Håndbold

LPs
Kathrine Heindahl, Odense Håndbold
Stine Bodholdt, Viborg HK
Sarah Iversen, Herning-Ikast Håndbold

Wings
Fie Woller, SG Bietigheim
Lærke Nolsøe, Nykøbing Falster Håndbold
Freja Cohrt, Odense Håndbold
Trine Østergaard, Odense Håndbold
Simone Böhme, Siófok KC

Backs
Stine Jørgensen, Odense Håndbold
Anne Mette Hansen, Győri ETO
Kristina Jørgensen, Viborg HK
Mie Højlund, Odense Håndbold*
Nadia Offendal, Odense Håndbold
Lotte Grigel, Debreceni VSC
Helena Elver Hagesø, Aarhus United
Louise Burgaard, Herning-Ikast Håndbold
Celine Lundbye, Aarhus United

*Simone Petersen, Aarhus United, (will be selected if Mie Højlund is not ready)

Program
1. juni klokken 16.10: Danmark-Schweiz
5. juni klokken 18.15: Schweiz-Danmark

https://www.dhf.dk/nyheder-og-presse/ny ... ikationen/