2010 European Women's Handball Championship qualification

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

Qualification system

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Seeding

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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

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  • 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

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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

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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

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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

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Pos Team Pld W D L GF GA GD Pts Qualification  UKR  ROU   SUI  POR
1   Ukraine 6 5 1 0 197 160 +37 11 Final tournament 27–27 33–20 32–23
2   Romania 6 4 1 1 219 153 +66 9 35–36 37–26 37–23
3    Switzerland 6 2 0 4 143 184 −41 4 24–33 18–39 28–25
4   Portugal 6 0 0 6 142 204 −62 0 31–36 23–44 17–27
Source: EHF

Group 2

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Pos Team Pld W D L GF GA GD Pts Qualification  HUN  SWE  CZE  AZE
1   Hungary 6 6 0 0 174 134 +40 12 Final tournament 26–24 24–20 35–26
2   Sweden 6 4 0 2 167 128 +39 8 26–27 31–25 31–11
3   Czech Republic 6 2 0 4 152 158 −6 4 23–31 21–28 37–25
4   Azerbaijan 6 0 0 6 114 187 −73 0 15–31 18–27 19–26
Source: EHF

Group 3

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Pos Team Pld W D L GF GA GD Pts Qualification  FRA  ISL  AUT  GBR
1   France 6 6 0 0 191 124 +67 12 Final tournament 32–23 29–22 34–15
2   Iceland 6 3 0 3 166 146 +20 6 24–27 29–25 40–20
3   Austria 6 3 0 3 150 145 +5 6 24–27 26–23 30–20
4   Great Britain 6 0 0 6 104 196 −92 0 16–42 16–27 17–23
Source: EHF

Group 4

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Pos Team Pld W D L GF GA GD Pts Qualification  GER  SLO  BLR  ITA
1   Germany 6 6 0 0 205 129 +76 12 Final tournament 27–17 35–24 45–19
2   Slovenia 6 3 0 3 163 162 +1 6 24–35 30–21 34–22
3   Belarus 6 3 0 3 166 176 −10 6 26–30 31–30 32–23
4   Italy 6 0 0 6 137 204 −67 0 19–33 26–28 28–32
Source: EHF

Group 5

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Pos Team Pld W D L GF GA GD Pts Qualification  ESP  SRB  TUR  GRE
1   Spain 6 6 0 0 181 128 +53 12 Final tournament 29–25 30–26 39–16
2   Serbia 6 4 0 2 179 142 +37 8 20–21 28–27 45–18
3   Turkey 6 2 0 4 167 156 +11 4 27–30 30–32 30–22
4   Greece 6 0 0 6 101 202 −101 0 14–32 17–29 14–27
Source: EHF

Group 6

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Pos Team Pld W D L GF GA GD Pts Qualification  MNE  RUS  SVK  POL
1   Montenegro 6 5 1 0 196 160 +36 11 Final tournament 28–28 39–24 35–32
2   Russia 6 4 1 1 196 155 +41 9 28–31 33–26 35–20
3   Slovakia 6 1 0 5 156 193 −37 2 27–32 24–37 32–28
4   Poland 6 1 0 5 151 191 −40 2 21–31 26–35 24–23
Source: EHF

Group 7

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Pos Team Pld W D L GF GA GD Pts Qualification  CRO  NED  MKD  LTU
1   Croatia 6 5 0 1 191 138 +53 10 Final tournament 32–23 36–23 31–22
2   Netherlands 6 3 2 1 161 146 +15 8 25–24 20–20 34–20
3   Macedonia 6 2 2 2 157 153 +4 6 21–26 28–28 32–24
4   Lithuania 6 0 0 6 131 203 −72 0 24–42 22–31 19–33
Source: EHF

References

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  1. ^ "EURO 2010 Qualification Draw". EHF. Archived from the original on 18 October 2009. Retrieved 14 July 2009.
  2. ^ "Qualification groups". EHF. 24 March 2009. Archived from the original on 21 July 2009. Retrieved 14 July 2009.
  3. ^ "Draw and Basic Playing Schedule 2010 Women's EHF EURO Qualification" (PDF). EHF. 24 March 2009. Archived from the original (PDF) on 24 November 2013. Retrieved 14 July 2009.