The 2022

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Bidding process

Bidding timeline

The bidding timeline was as follows: * 1 May 2017: Bidding nations to provide official expression of interest in the hosting of the tournament * 1 July 2017: Bidding manuals sent to all bidding federations * 1 November 2017: Deadline for completed bidding and application documentation to be provided to the EHF office * 15 December 2017: Applications to be approved at the EHF executive committee in Hamburg * 20 June 2018: appointment of host(s) of EHF Euro 2022 at the 14th ordinary EHF Congress in

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Bids

On 4 May 2017 it was announced that the following nations had sent in an official expression of interest: *

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However, when the deadline for submitting the final bids was over, the following applications had been received: *

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On the 20 June 2018, Slovenia, Macedonia and Montenegro won the hosting rights.

Venues

The four proposed venues were the venues for the event.

Qualification

Qualified teams

¹ Bold indicates champion for that year. ''Italic'' indicates host for that year.

Draw

The draw was held on 28 April 2022 in

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, Slovenia.

Seedings

The pots were announced on 25 April 2022.

Referees

Twelve referee pairs were selected on 13 June 2022. Two pairs were replaced in October 2022.

Squads

Each squad consisted of 20 players, and 16 players were selected on the day of each match. There was a maximum of six players who can be replaced during the tournament. However, in regard to the

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and the potential risk of several players from the same team testing positive, there was no limit to the number of replacements for players testing positive.

Preliminary round

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Group A

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Group B

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Group C

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Group D

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Main round

Group I

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Group II

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Knockout stage

Bracket

Fifth place game

Semifinals

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Third place game

Final

Final ranking and awards

Final ranking

All Star Team

The All Star Team and awards were announced on 20 November 2022.

Statistics

Top goalscorers

Top goalkeepers

Marketing

The official logo was unveiled on 25 March 2021 the same day as the qualifiers draw in

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, The colours in the tournament logo and branding take inspiration from various elements connected to host cities in nations, Slovenia, North Macedonia and Montenegro.

References

External links

EHF Euro 2022 at eurohandball.com
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