| Tourney Name: | EHF European Men's Handball Championship |
| Year: | 2020 |
| Other Titles: | Europamästerskapet i handboll för herrar 2020 Handball-Europameisterschaft der Männer 2020 Håndball-EM 2020 for menn |
| Size: | 170px |
| Country: | Austria |
| Country2: | Norway |
| Country3: | Sweden |
| Dates: | 9–26 January |
| Num Teams: | 24 |
| Confederations: | 1 |
| Venues: | 6 |
| Cities: | 6 |
| Champion: | ESP |
| Count: | 2 |
| Second: | CRO |
| Third: | NOR |
| Fourth: | SLO |
| Matches: | 65 |
| Goals: | 3532 |
| Top Scorer: | Sander Sagosen (65 goals) |
| Player: | Domagoj Duvnjak |
| Previous: | 2018 European Men's Handball Championship |
| Next: | 2022 European Men's Handball Championship |
The 2020 EHF European Men's Handball Championship was the 14th edition of the tournament and the first to feature 24 national teams. It was co-hosted for the first time in three countries – Austria, Norway and Sweden – from 9 to 26 January 2020.[1]
Spain won their second consecutive title by defeating Croatia 22–20 in the final.[2] [3]
The interested nations were as follows:
In December 2013, these were announced as the bids:[4]
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.[5] [6] On 20 September 2014, at the EHF Congress in Dublin, Austria, Norway and Sweden were all given the hosting rights.[7]
 Stockholm, Sweden | Malmö, Sweden | Gothenburg, Sweden | |
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| Tele2 Arena Capacity: 19,000 | Malmö Arena Capacity: 13,000 | Scandinavium Capacity: 12,000 | |
 Vienna, Austria | Graz, Austria |  Trondheim, Norway | |
| Wiener Stadthalle Capacity: 12,000 | Graz Messe Arena Capacity: 6,000 | Trondheim Spektrum Capacity: 8,600 | |
See main article: 2020 European Men's Handball Championship qualification.
Note: Bold indicates champion for that year. Italic indicates host for that year.
The official anthem of the competition is "All for us", made and performed by Swedish DJ and producer Wahlstedt.[8]
The draw was held at the Erste Bank Campus in Vienna on 28 June 2019.[9] [10]
The seedings were announced on 17 June 2019.[11]
See main article: 2020 European Men's Handball Championship squads.
On 21 August 2019, 23 couples were announced.[12] 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.[13]
| Preliminary round | ||
|---|---|---|
| Country | Referees | |
| Radojko Brkić Andrej Jusufhodžić | ||
| Dalibor Jurinović Marko Mrvica | ||
| Jesper Madsen Henrik Mortensen | ||
| Charlotte Bonaventura Julie Bonaventura | ||
| Robert Schulze Tobias Tönnies | ||
| Jónas Elíasson Anton Pálsson | ||
| Lars Jørum Håvard Kleven | ||
| Zigmārs Sondors Renārs Līcis | ||
| Michal Baďura Jaroslav Ondogrecula | ||
| Bojan Lah David Sok | ||
| Andreu Marín Ignacio García | ||
| Preliminary and main round | ||
|---|---|---|
| Country | Referees | |
| Václav Horáček Jiří Novotný | ||
| Vaidas Mažeika Mindaugas Gatelis | ||
| Ivan Pavićević Miloš Ražnatović | ||
| Gjorgi Nachevski Slave Nikolov | ||
| Duarte Santos Ricardo Fonseca | ||
| Mirza Kurtagic Mattias Wetterwik | ||
| Arthur Brunner Morad Salah | ||
| Main round | ||
|---|---|---|
| Country | Referees | |
| Matija Gubica Boris Milošević | ||
| Martin Gjeding Mads Hansen | ||
| Stevann Pichon Laurent Reveret | ||
| Lars Geipel Marcus Helbig | ||
| Óscar Raluy Ángel Sabroso | ||
All times are local (UTC+1).
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Points and goals gained in the preliminary group against teams that advance were transferred to the main round.
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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.
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| Team qualified for the 2021 World Men's Handball Championship and the 2020 Summer Olympics | ||
| Team qualified for the 2021 World Men's Handball Championship and the Olympic Qualification Tournament | ||
| Team qualified for the Olympic Qualification Tournament |
The all-star team and awards were announced on 26 January 2020.[14]
| Position | Player | |
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| Goalkeeper | ||
| Right wing | ||
| Right back | ||
| Centre back | ||
| Left back | ||
| Left wing | ||
| Pivot |
| Award | Player | |
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| Best Defence Player | ||
| Topscorer | (65 goals) |
| Rank | Name | Goals | Shots | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Sander Sagosen | 65 | 104 | 63 | |
| 2 | Mikita Vailupau | 47 | 63 | 75 | |
| 3 | Nikola Bilyk | 46 | 64 | 72 | |
| 4 | Jure Dolenec | 42 | 66 | 64 | |
| 5 | Alex Dujshebaev | 37 | 59 | 63 | |
| Artsem Karalek | 50 | 74 | |||
| Ondřej Zdráhala | 59 | 63 | |||
| 8 | Domagoj Duvnjak | 36 | 54 | 67 | |
| Magnus Jøndal | 50 | 72 | |||
| 10 | Robert Weber | 35 | 48 | 73 |
| Rank | Name | Saves | Shots | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Nebojša Grahovac | 40 | 12 | 30 |
| 2 | Johannes Bitter | 35 | 43 | 123 |
| Niklas Landin Jacobsen | 34 | 98 | ||
| 4 | Torbjørn Bergerud | 34 | 90 | 265 |
| Andreas Palicka | 44 | 128 | ||
| 6 | Mikael Appelgren | 33 | 39 | 117 |
| Gonzalo Pérez de Vargas | 66 | 199 | ||
| 8 | Rodrigo Corrales | 32 | 41 | 130 |
| Klemen Ferlin | 86 | 272 | ||
| 10 | Vincent Gérard | 31 | 24 | 77 |
| Adam Morawski | 26 | 83 | ||
| Alfredo Quintana | 84 | 271 | ||
| Nebojša Simić | 32 | 103 |