2020 European Men's Handball Championship

The interested nations were as follows: • Austria • Norway • Sweden In December 2013, these were announced as the bids: • • • and • After further negotiations, between the three bids and the European Handball Federation, it was decided to merge the three individual bids into one big bid. Due to the decision to merge the bids, the EHF decided to bring forward the expansion of the tournament to 24 teams, which was originally going to start in 2022. On 20 September 2014, at the EHF Congress in Dublin, Austria, Norway and Sweden were all given the hosting rights. == Venues ==

Qualified teams Note: Bold indicates champion for that year. Italic indicates host for that year. == Marketing ==

The official anthem of the competition is "All for us", made and performed by Swedish DJ and producer Wahlstedt. == Draw ==

The draw was held at the Erste Bank Campus in Vienna on 28 June 2019. Seeding The seedings were announced on 17 June 2019. == Squads ==

On 21 August 2019, 23 couples were announced. On 27 December 2019, EHF replaced the Serbian referee pair Nenad Nikolić and Dušan Stojković with the Latvian referee pair Zigmārs Sondors and Renārs Līcis, due to an injury and late recovery of Nikolić in late October. == Preliminary round ==

All times are local (UTC+1). Group A ---- ---- Group B ---- ---- Group C ---- ---- Group D ---- ---- Group E ---- ---- Group F ---- ---- == Main round ==

Points and goals gained in the preliminary group against teams that advance were transferred to the main round. Group I ---- ---- ---- Group II ---- ---- ---- == Knockout stage ==

Bracket Semi-finals ---- Fifth place game Third place game Final == Ranking and statistics ==

Final ranking The teams ranked fourth in each group after the completion of the preliminary round matches were ranked 18 to 24, while teams ranked third in each group after the completion of the preliminary round matches were ranked 13 to 18 according to the number of points won in the preliminary round. Places seven or eight were attributed to the two teams ranked fourth in the groups, places nine and ten were attributed to the two teams ranked fifth in the groups, places eleven and twelve were attributed to the two teams ranked sixth in the group according to the number of points won by the respective teams after completion of the main round matches. Places one to six were decided by play–off or knock–out. All-Star Team The all-star team and awards were announced on 26 January 2020. Awards Statistics Top goalscorers Top goalkeepers == References ==