2010 European Women's Handball Championship qualification

This page describes the qualifying procedure for the 2010 European Women's Handball Championship.

Qualification system

Seeding

The draw for the qualification round was held on 24 March 2009 at the EHF headquarters, in Vienna.^[1] The host countries, Norway and Denmark, are directly qualified. The remaining 29 teams were divided into several pots according to the "EHF Women's National Team Ranking", and were successfully drawn so that each qualification group contained one team from each pot. The two lowest ranked teams, Finland and Great Britain, participated in a pre-qualification tournament to decide the 28th spot.^[2]

Pot 1	Pot 2	Pot 3	Pot 4
Russia  Germany  Spain  Hungary  France  Croatia  Romania	Sweden  Macedonia  Poland  Ukraine  Austria  Serbia  Belarus	Netherlands  Slovenia  Portugal  Turkey  Slovakia  Czech Republic  Iceland	Lithuania  Italy  Montenegro   Switzerland  Azerbaijan  Greece  Finland/ Great Britain

Playing dates

• Pre-qualification: September 2009
• Rounds 1 and 2: 14–18 October 2009
• Rounds 3 and 4: 31 March – 4 April 2010
• Rounds 5 and 6: 26–30 May 2010

Tiebreakers

If two or more teams are equal on points on completion of the group matches, the following criteria are applied to determine the rankings.

1. Higher number of points obtained in the group matches played among the teams in question.
2. Superior goal difference from the group matches played among the teams in question.
3. Higher number of goals scored in the group matches played among the teams in question.
4. If, after applying criteria 1) to 3) to several teams, two or more teams still have an equal ranking, the criteria 1) to 3) will be reapplied to determine the ranking of these teams. If this procedure does not lead to a decision, criteria 5), 6) and 7) will apply.
5. Superior goal difference from all group matches played.
6. Higher number of goals scored in all group matches played.
7. Drawing of lots.

Pre-Qualification

The two pre-qualification matches were played on 23 and 26 September. Great Britain won 41–37 on aggregate score and advanced to qualification group 3.

23 September 2009 19:00	Finland	14 – 17	Great Britain	Pirkkola, Helsinki Attendance: 500 Referees: Rakytina, Tkachuk (UKR)
	Roos, Tallqvist, Wiberg 3	(7-9)	Hegelund, Jensen Cannon 3
		(Report)

26 September 2009 18:00	Great Britain	24 – 23	Finland	Liverpool Echo Arena, Liverpool Attendance: 2000 Referees: van Dijk, Wijtenburg (NED)
	Goodwin 7	(13-8)	Johansson, Tallqvist 5
		(Report)

Groups

The draw for the qualification round defined the groups shown below. A provisional match schedule was elaborated and distributed to all national federations taking part in this round.^[3]

Key:

• Teams highlighted in green qualified for the tournament.

Group 1

Team Pld W D L GF GA GD Pts  Ukraine 6 5 1 0 197 160 +37 11  Romania 6 4 1 1 219 153 +66 9   Switzerland 6 2 0 4 143 184 −41 4  Portugal 6 0 0 6 142 204 −62 0

Romania  – 35–36 37–23 37–26 Ukraine  27–27 – 32–23 33–20 Portugal  23–44 31–36 – 17–27 Switzerland   18–39 24–33 28–25 –

Group 2

Team Pld W D L GF GA GD Pts  Hungary 6 6 0 0 174 134 +40 12  Sweden 6 4 0 2 167 128 +39 8  Czech Republic 6 2 0 4 152 158 −6 4  Azerbaijan 6 0 0 6 114 187 −73 0

Hungary  – 26–24 24–20 35–26 Sweden  26–27 – 31–25 31–11 Czech Republic  23–31 21–28 – 37–25 Azerbaijan  15–31 18–27 19–26 –

Group 3

Team Pld W D L GF GA GD Pts  France 6 6 0 0 191 124 +67 12  Iceland 6 3 0 3 166 146 +20 6  Austria 6 3 0 3 150 145 +5 6  Great Britain 6 0 0 6 104 196 −92 0

France  – 30–22 32–23 34–15 Austria  24–27 – 26–23 30–20 Iceland  24–27 29–25 – 40–20 Great Britain  16–42 17–23 16–27 –

Group 4

Team Pld W D L GF GA GD Pts  Germany 6 6 0 0 205 129 +76 12  Slovenia 6 3 0 3 163 162 +1 6  Belarus 6 3 0 3 166 176 −10 6  Italy 6 0 0 6 137 204 −67 0

Germany  – 35–24 27–17 45–19 Belarus  26–30 – 31–30 32–23 Slovenia  24–35 30–21 – 34–22 Italy  19–33 28–32 26–28 –

Group 5

Team Pld W D L GF GA GD Pts  Spain 6 6 0 0 181 128 +53 12  Serbia 6 4 0 2 179 142 +37 8  Turkey 6 2 0 4 167 156 +11 4  Greece 6 0 0 6 101 202 −101 0

Spain  – 29–25 30–26 39–16 Serbia  20–21 – 28–27 45–18 Turkey  27–30 30–32 – 30–22 Greece  14–32 17–29 14–27 –

Group 6

Team Pld W D L GF GA GD Pts  Montenegro 6 5 1 0 196 160 +36 11  Russia 6 4 1 1 196 155 +41 9  Slovakia 6 1 0 5 156 193 −37 2  Poland 6 1 0 5 151 191 −40 2

Russia  – 35–20 33–26 28–31 Poland  26–35 – 24–23 21–31 Slovakia  24–37 32–28 – 27–32 Montenegro  28–28 35–32 39–24 –

Group 7

Team Pld W D L GF GA GD Pts  Croatia 6 5 0 1 191 138 +53 10  Netherlands 6 3 2 1 161 146 +15 8  Macedonia 6 2 2 2 157 153 +4 6  Lithuania 6 0 0 6 131 203 −72 0

Croatia  – 36–23 32–23 31–22 Macedonia  21–26 – 28–28 32–24 Netherlands  25–24 20–20 – 34–20 Lithuania  24–42 19–33 22–31 –

References