Bid process
Bidding timeline
The bidding timeline was as follows: * 4 June 2020 – Invitation to National Federations to provide a letter of intent to the EHF for hosting the EHF EUROs 2026 & 2028 * 1 October 2020 – Deadline for submitting the letter of intent and request for the bidding documents by the interested federations * 1 November 2020 – Dispatch of the manual for staging the EHF EUROs 2026 & 2028 together with the relevant specifications and forms by the EHF * 1 May 2021 – Applications available at the EHF Office * May/June 2021 – Evaluation of bids by the EHF * June 2021 – Approval of applications by EHF EXEC * June–September 2021 – Site inspections * September 2021 – Further evaluation after inspections * September 2021 – Confirmation of bids for the EHF EUROs 2026 & 2028 * 17/18 November 2021 – Allocation at the EO EHF Congress 2021Bids
On 11 May 2021 it was announced that the following nations sent in an official expression of interest: * * & * , & On 20 October the final bids were presented. The Scandinavian bid was withdrawn and the two others were mixed together. * , &Host selection
As only the Spain/Portugal/Switzerland bid was remaining it was unanimously selected at the 14th EHF Extraordinary Congress on 20 November 2021.Qualification
Qualified teams
Note: Bold indicates champion for that year. ''Italic'' indicates host for that year.References
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