Handball World Cup 2023 schedule: dates, status and telecast

The 28th World Handball Championship will run from January 11 to January 29, 2023. The tournament will be held in Poland and Sweden. t-online shows you the schedule, mode and where to watch the event on TV.

In Group E, the German national team will face Qatar (January 13), Serbia (January 15) and Algeria (January 17). In the event that the DHB team reaches the main round, potential opponents from the Netherlands, Norway, North Macedonia and Argentina are waiting.

For the second time only, the World Handball Championship is being held with the participation of 32 countries. Four teams play in eight preliminary round groups. The top three teams from each group will advance to the round of 16. This creates four groups of six teams. This main tour will take place in Malmö, Gothenburg, Katowice and Krakow.

After the main round comes the quarter-finals with the first and second place winners in each group. Then the knockout system is applied there. The fourth-place finisher from the preliminary round plays in two groups of four in the Presidents’ Cup 25-30 World Series.

Tor: Andreas Wolf (VIVE Lomza Kielce / POL), Joel Birlehm (Rhein-Neckar Löwen)

Leave the back room: Paul Draux (Berlin Foxes), Philip Weber (SC Magdeburg), Julian Koster (VfL Gummersbach)

Central defense: Juri Knorr (Rhine Neckar-Lewin), Luka Witzke (SC DHfK Leipzig), Simon Ernst (SC DHfK Leipzig)

Right in the back room: Kai Häfner (MT Melsungen), Djibril M’Bengue (Bergischer HC) and Christoph Steinert (HC Erlangen)

Right wing: Patrick Grotzky (Rhine Neckar-Lewin), Lukas Zerbe (TPV Lemgo Lippi)

left wing: Lukas Mertens (SC Magdeburg), Rune Dahmke (THW Kiel)

Chris: Johannes Jula (SG Flensburg-Handewitt), Jannik Kohlbacher (Rhein-Neckar Löwen), Tim Zechel (HC Erlangen)

The tournament will be broadcast live on free-to-air TV. The public broadcasters ARD and ZDF show the matches of the DHB team. Eurosport sports channel also broadcasts 15 matches from other countries without German participation. All Handball World Cup matches are shown by the paid broadcast service Sportdeutschland.tv. You can follow and read about the games live in our t-online live stream.

January 12, 2023 (at 6 pm): Chile – Iran 24:25

January 12, 2023 (6pm CEST): Spain – Montenegro 30:25

January 14, 2023 (6 pm): Spain – Chile 34:26

January 14, 2023 (6pm CEST): Montenegro – Iran 34:31

January 16, 2023 (8:30 PM): Iran-Spain 10:35 PM

January 16, 2023 (6pm): Montenegro – Chile 35:33

January 11, 2023 (8:30 pm): France – Poland 26:24

January 12, 2023 (8:30 PM): Saudi Arabia – Slovenia 7:33 PM

14/01/2023 (6 pm): France – Saudi Arabia 41:23

Jan 14, 2023 (8:30pm): Poland-Slovenia 23:32

January 16, 2023 (6pm CEST): Slovenia-France 31:35

Jan 16, 2023 (8:30pm): Poland-Saudi Arabia 27:24

January 12, 2023 (6pm): Cape Verde – Uruguay 33:25

January 12, 2023 (8:30 pm): Sweden – Brazil 26:18

January 14, 2023 (6pm): Sweden – Cape Verde 34:27

Jan 14, 2023 (8:30pm): Brazil-Uruguay 35:24

January 16, 2023 (6pm): Uruguay-Sweden 12:47

16/01/2023 (8:30pm): BRAZIL-CAPE VERDE 30:28

January 12, 2023 (6pm CEST): Hungary – South Korea 35:27

12/01/2023 (8:30 PM): Iceland – Portugal 30:26

14/01/2023 (6pm): Iceland – Hungary 28:30

January 14, 2023 (8:30pm): Portugal-South Korea 32:24

16/01/2023 (6pm): South Korea-Iceland 25:38

January 16, 2023 (8:30 pm): Portugal – Hungary 27:20

January 13, 2023 (8:30 pm): Serbia – Algeria 36:27

January 13, 2023 (6pm CEST): Germany – Qatar 31:27

January 15, 2023 (6pm CEST): Germany – Serbia 34:33

January 15, 2023 (8:30 pm): Qatar – Algeria 29:24

01/17/2023 (6pm): Algeria-Germany 21:37

January 17, 2023 (8:30 pm): Qatar-Serbia 24:34

13/01/2023 (6pm): Argentina – Netherlands 19:29

Jan 13, 2023 (8:30pm): Norway – North Macedonia 39:27

January 15, 2023 (6pm CEST): North Macedonia – Netherlands 24:34

January 15, 2023 (8:30 pm): Norway – Argentina 32:21

January 17, 2023 (8:30 pm): Netherlands – Norway 26:27

January 17, 2023 (6pm CEST): North Macedonia – Argentina 26:35

01/13/2023 (6pm): Morocco – USA 27:28

January 13, 2023 (8:30 pm): Egypt-Croatia 31:22

15.01.2023 (6 pm): Egypt – Morocco 30:19

Jan 15, 2023 (8:30pm): Croatia-USA 40:22

01/17/2023 (6 PM): USA – Egypt 4:35 PM

January 17, 2023 (8:30 pm): Croatia – Morocco 36:24

13/01/2023 (6 pm): Bahrain – Tunisia 27:27