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
 North 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: 1418 October 2009
  • Rounds 3 and 4: 31 March 4 April 2010
  • Rounds 5 and 6: 2630 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

Pos Team Pld W D L GF GA GD Pts  UKR  ROU   SUI  POR
1  Ukraine 6 5 1 0 197 160 +37 11 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

Pos Team Pld W D L GF GA GD Pts  HUN  SWE  CZE  AZE
1  Hungary 6 6 0 0 174 134 +40 12 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

Pos Team Pld W D L GF GA GD Pts  FRA  ISL  AUT  GBR
1  France 6 6 0 0 191 124 +67 12 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

Pos Team Pld W D L GF GA GD Pts  GER  SLO  BLR  ITA
1  Germany 6 6 0 0 205 129 +76 12 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

Pos Team Pld W D L GF GA GD Pts  ESP  SRB  TUR  GRE
1  Spain 6 6 0 0 181 128 +53 12 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

Pos Team Pld W D L GF GA GD Pts  MNE  RUS  SVK  POL
1  Montenegro 6 5 1 0 196 160 +36 11 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

Pos Team Pld W D L GF GA GD Pts  CRO  NED  MKD  LTU
1  Croatia 6 5 0 1 191 138 +53 10 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

  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.
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