2023 World Women's Handball Championship

The 2023 IHF World Women's Handball Championship will be 26th edition of the championship, organised by the International Handball Federation (IHF), to be jointly hosted by Denmark, Norway and Sweden. It will be third time in handball history that the championship is jointly hosted, the first in Sweden, and also the first to be played in three countries.[1]

2023 World Women's Handball Championship
Tournament details
Host countries Denmark
 Norway
 Sweden
DatesDecember 2023
Teams32 (from 5 confederations)
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Bidding process

After Russia's withdrawal, Denmark/Norway/Sweden and Hungary entered their bids for hosting the tournament, which was awarded to the three Nordic countries by IHF Council at its meeting held in Paris, France on 28 January 2017.[2]

Venues

The Nordic joint bid included the following six host cities and venues:

Herning Kolding Oslo
Jyske Bank Boxen
Capacity: 12,500		 Sydbank Arena
Capacity: 5,000		 Nye Jordal Amfi
Capacity: 5,500
Trondheim Malmö Gothenburg
Trondheim Spektrum
Capacity: 8,800		 Malmö Arena
Capacity: 13,000		 Scandinavium
Capacity: 12,000

The Hungarian bid included the same cities and venues as the bid that was presented for the 2021 championship.

Qualification
Competition Dates Host Vacancies Qualified
Host nations 28 January 2017 Paris 3  Denmark
 Norway
 Sweden
2021 World Championship  Spain 1
2022 European Championship  Montenegro
 North Macedonia
 Slovenia		 1–4
2022 Asian Championship 4–5
2022 South and Central American Championship 3
2022 African Championship 7
European qualification 7–10
2023 Nor.Ca. Women's Championship 1
Wild card 1–2[1]

^ 1. If countries from Oceania (Australia or New Zealand) participating in the Asian Championships finish within the top 5, they will qualify for the World Championships. If either finishes sixth or lower, the place would have been transferred to the wild card spot.

Qualified teams
CountryQualified asQualification datePrevious appearances in tournament[lower-alpha 1]
 DenmarkCo-host28 January 201721 (1957, 1962, 1965, 1971, 1973, 1975, 1990, 1993, 1995, 1997, 1999, 2001, 2003, 2005, 2009, 2011, 2013, 2015, 2017, 2019, 2021)
 NorwayCo-host28 January 201721 (1971, 1973, 1975, 1982, 1986, 1990, 1993, 1995, 1997, 1999, 2001, 2003, 2005, 2007, 2009, 2011, 2013, 2015, 2017, 2019, 2021)
 SwedenCo-host28 January 201710 (1957, 1990, 1993, 1995, 2001, 2009, 2011, 2015, 2017, 2019)
  1. Bold indicates champion for that year, Italics indicates host for that year.

References
  1. "2021 and 2023 IHF Women's World Championships awarded". IHF. 28 January 2017. Retrieved 14 December 2020.
  2. "Council Meeting No. 10" (PDF). IHF. 28 January 2017. pp. 18–20.
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