The National Men’s Handball Team took first place in the first qualifying group, so it will face one of the teams ranked between 16th and 24th in the ongoing European Championship, namely Austria, Bosnia, Belarus, Lithuania, Northern Macedonia, , Ukraine, Slovenia, Slovakia.
In the second capacity group, apart from the National, are Estonia, Belgium, Faroe Islands, Finland, Israel, Italy, Romania and Switzerland.
The matches of the first round of the playoffs are scheduled for March 16 or 17 (first match) and March 19 or 20 second match.
The teams that will qualify from the first round of the playoffs will continue in the second round. There they will face nine teams that will emerge from the ranking of places 4-15 in the European Championship, with the exception of Denmark and Sweden and Poland.
Already, in the second round of the playoffs, the Czech Republic, Serbia and Hungary were placed in the group of the strong.
This leaves six vacancies, which will be filled in the coming days by some from France, Spain, the Netherlands, Montenegro, Croatia, Iceland, Germany, Russia and Norway.
Apart from Denmark, Sweden and Poland, the teams that will win the first three places in the ongoing European Championship will also qualify directly for the World Cup.
The matches of the second round of the playoffs are scheduled for April 13 or 14 (first match) and April 16 or 17 (second match).
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