The 2025 IHF Men's U19 Handball World Championship will be the 11th edition of the

IHF Men's U19 Handball World Championship The IHF Men's U19 Handball World Championship (or the IHF Men's Youth World Championship) is the official competition for men's national handball teams under age 19. It has been organized by the International Handball Federation The Internati ...

held from 6 to 17 August in

Egypt Egypt ( , ), officially the Arab Republic of Egypt, is a country spanning the Northeast Africa, northeast corner of Africa and Western Asia, southwest corner of Asia via the Sinai Peninsula. It is bordered by the Mediterranean Sea to northe ...

under the aegis of

International Handball Federation The International Handball Federation (IHF) is the administrative and controlling body for handball and beach handball. IHF is responsible for the organisation of handball's major international tournaments, notably the IHF World Men's Handball C ...

(IHF). It will be first time in history that the championship will be organised by

Egyptian Handball Federation The Egyptian Handball Federation (EHF) (') is the governing body of handball and beach handball in Egypt. EHF was founded in 1957, joined the International Handball Federation in 1960, and the African Handball Confederation in 1973. EHF is also a ...

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are the defending champions.

Bidding process

Three nations entered bid for hosting the tournament: * * * North Macedonia and Poland later withdrew their bid. The tournament was initially awarded to Slovenia by the

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in its meeting held in

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, Egypt on 28 February 2020. However, there were no further details on Slovenia's preparations four years later and were stripped of the hosting rights in September 2024, with Egypt being named the replacement.

Qualification

Draw

The draw took place on 8 April in

Referees

The referee pairs were selected on 20 May 2025.

Preliminary round

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

Placement matches

29th place bracket

25th place bracket

21st place bracket

17th place bracket

13–16th place bracket

9–12th place bracket

Knockout stage

Bracket

Championship bracket 5–8th place bracket

Final ranking

References

External links

Official website
{{Youth World Handball Championship 2025 Youth Men's Youth World Handball Championship

Men's Youth World Handball World Men's Youth