The 2023 IHF Men's U21 Handball World Championship was the 24th edition of the IHF Men's U21 Handball World Championship, held in Germany and Greece under the aegis of the International Handball Federation (IHF) from 20 June to 2 July 2023. It was the second time in history that the championship will be jointly organised by two countries, the first being in 1979.
Germany won their third title after defeating Hungary in the final.
Bidding process Two nations entered bid for hosting the tournament:
Croatia later withdrew their bid. The tournament was awarded to Germany by IHF Council in its meeting held in Cairo, Egypt on 28 February 2020.
In May/June 2021, the Hellenic Handball Federation approached to German Handball Association with request to co-host the 2023 Men's Junior World Handball Championship due to the cancellation of the 2021 Men's Youth World Handball Championship, which was supposed to be hosted by Greece. On 15 July 2021, the IHF Council unanimously approved the request from Germany and Greece to co-host the event.
Qualification Event Host Dates Vacancies Qualified IHF Council Meeting Cairo 28 February 20202 2022 European U-20 Championship Porto 7–17 July 202210 2022 Asian Junior Championship Isa Town 15–24 July 20224 2022 African Junior Championship Kigali 20–27 August 20226 2022 South and Central American Junior Championship Buenos Aires 8–12 November 20224 2022 IHF Trophy Oceania Rarotonga 5–9 December 20221 Mexico City 12–17 December 20222 European qualification tournament Chieti 6–8 January 20232 Reallocation 7 February 20231 2023 IHF Inter-Continental Trophy San José 7–11 March 20231 Replacement 28 March 20231 Greenland replaced Guinea, who withdrew before the tournament, after Mexico declined the invitation.
Draw The draw took place on 17 January 2023 in Katowice.
Pot 1Pot 2Pot 3Pot 4
Referees The referee pairs were selected on 8 May 2023.
Referees Youcef BelkhiriSid Ali Hamidi Denis BolicChristoph Hurich Amar KonjičaninDino Konjičanin Daniel MagalhãesHenrique Godoy Georgi DoychinovYulian Goretsov Xu XiangLiu Yu Ante MikelićPetar Paradina Hamdy Mahmoud
Referees Karim GasmiRaouf Gasmi Titouan PicardPierre Vauchez Christian HannesDavid Hannes Ádám BíróOlivér Kiss Amir GheisarianAhmad Gheisarian Danielo BozhinovskiViktor Nachevski Novica MitrovićMiljan Vešović
Referees Eskil BrasethLeif André Sundet Khamis Al-WahibiOmer Al-Shahi Cristina LovinSimona Stancu Mihai PirvuRadu Potirniche Marko SekulićVladimir Jovandić Andrej BudzákMichal Záhradník Mathías SosaCristian Lemes
Squads
Preliminary round Times in Germany are UTC+2, in Greece UTC+3.
Group A
Group B
Group C
Group D
Group E
Group F
Group G
Group H
President's Cup Points obtained in the matches against the team from the group are taken over.
Group I
Group II
Group III
Group IV
Main round Points obtained in the matches against the team from the group are taken over.
Group I
Group II
Group III
Group IV
Classification games 25th–32nd places
17–24th places
9–16th places
Knockout stage Bracket Championship bracket
5–8th place bracket
Quarterfinals
5–8th place semifinals
Semifinals
Seventh place game
Fifth place game
Third place game
Final
Final ranking RankTeam4567891011121314151617181920212223242526272829303132
Statistics and awards
Top goalscorers RankNameGoalsShots%1 Elias Ellefsen á Skipagøtu55 91 60 Naoki Fujisaka 94 59 3 Miloš Kos 50 88 57 4 Kasper Palmar 49 77 64 5 Maiko Vazques 48 81 59 6 Martin Jung 47 75 63 André Sousa 74 64 8 Saif Al-Dawani 46 81 57 9 Mohamed Rabia 44 60 73 Mattéo Fadhuile-Crepy 65 68 Source: IHF
Top goalkeepers Rank Name % Saves Shots 1 Gonzalo Guerra 40 35 88 2 Jakub Ałaj 40 40 101 3 Quentin Hulot 39 7 18 4 Hans Gran 38 15 39 5 Alexander Lindén 38 63 166 6 Luka Krivokapić 36 93 256 7 Aleksandar Lacok 36 40 112 8 David Späth 35 57 161 9 Marko Mrdović 35 12 34 10 Yousef Gharor 35 7 20
Awards The All-star Team was announced on 2 July 2023.
Position Player Goalkeeper David Späth Right wing Kristófer Máni Jónasson Right back Zoran Ilić Centre back Elias Ellefsen á Skipagøtu Left back Miloš Kos Left wing Pedro Oliveira Pivot Justus Fischer MVP Nils Lichtlein
References
External links Official website IHF website