2024 Men's U-20 EHF Championship

International handball competition

2024 Men's U-20 EHF Championship
Tournament details
Host country	Kosovo
City	Pristina
Venue(s)	1 (in 1 host city)
Dates	13–21 July 2024
Teams	12 (from 1 confederation)
Final positions
Champions	Slovakia
Runner-up	Latvia
Third place	Finland
Fourth place	Luxembourg
Tournament statistics
Matches played	30
Top scorer(s)	Sadik Emre Herseklioglu (45 goals)
Official website
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The 2024 Men's U-20 EHF Championship was held in Pristina, Kosovo from 13 to 21 July 2024. Slovakia won the tournament by defeating Latvia in the final.

Teams

Venue

As the larger arena is being renovated, the tournament was held in the smaller arena.

Pristina		Pristina
		Palace of Youth and Sports (smaller arena)
		Capacity: 2,800

Draw

The draw was held on 29 February 2024 in Vienna at 15:00 (CET). Prior to the draw, Belgium, Estonia and Georgia, who all had the same EHF ranking, would be placed into a separate draw to determine each team's position in the draw. Later on, Georgia won the draw and were placed in pot 2.

Pot 1	Pot 2	Pot 3
Luxembourg Finland Latvia Lithuania	Slovakia Turkey Kosovo Georgia	Belgium Estonia Bulgaria Great Britain

Referees

Referees
Czech Republic	Jakub Uhlir Vojtech Benus
Croatia	Matija Brodic Matija Hodzic
Denmark	Nichlas Nygaard Jonas Primdahl
Germany	Lucas Hellbusch Darnel Jansen

Referees
Kosovo	Genc Bujupi Getoar Bujupi
Montenegro	Milica Pavicevic Sladana Martinovic
Switzerland	Linus Hardegger Simon Hardegger
Ukraine	Mykola Shnyt Volodymyr Filonenko

Preliminary round

Group A

Pos	Team	Pld	W	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	Finland	2	2	0	81	46	+35	4	Quarterfinals
2	Kosovo (H)	2	1	1	50	61	−11	2	Quarterfinals
3	Bulgaria	2	0	2	41	65	−24	0	9–12 placement group

Source: EHF
Rules for classification: 1) points; 2) head-to-head points; 3) head-to-head goal difference; 4) head-to-head number of goals scored; 5) goal difference.
(H) Hosts

13 July 2024 19:15	Kosovo	23–22	Bulgaria	Palace of Youth and Sports, Pristina Referees: Hellbusch, Jansen (GER)
	Mulaj 9	(15–13)	Marev 7
	1× 6×	Report	3×

14 July 2024 14:30	Bulgaria	19–42	Finland	Palace of Youth and Sports, Pristina Referees: Uhlir, Benus (CZE)
	Marev 5	(9–21)	von Troil 11
	5×	Report	1× 5×

15 July 2024 19:00	Finland	39–27	Kosovo	Palace of Youth and Sports, Pristina Referees: Nygaard, Primdahl (DEN)
	Sjöstedt 8	(20–9)	Mulaj 8
	1×	Report	1× 2×

Group B

Pos	Team	Pld	W	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	Luxembourg	2	2	0	67	48	+19	4	Quarterfinals
2	Turkey	2	1	1	59	61	−2	2	Quarterfinals
3	Belgium	2	0	2	52	69	−17	0	9–12 placement group

Source: EHF
Rules for classification: 1) points; 2) head-to-head points; 3) head-to-head goal difference; 4) head-to-head number of goals scored; 5) goal difference.

13 July 2024 12:15	Turkey	37–26	Belgium	Palace of Youth and Sports, Pristina Referees: Brodic, Hodzic (CRO)
	Herseklioglu 15	(17–13)	Dubuc, Riske 6
	3×	Report	2× 3×

14 July 2024 12:15	Belgium	26–32	Luxembourg	Palace of Youth and Sports, Pristina Referees: Hardegger, Hardegger (SUI)
	Dubuc 6	(14–17)	Etute 8
	3×	Report	1×

15 July 2024 12:15	Luxembourg	35–22	Turkey	Palace of Youth and Sports, Pristina Referees: Hellbusch, Jansen (GER)
	Etute 9	(18–11)	Herseklioglu 6
	1× 8× 1×	Report	4×

Group C

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	Estonia	2	1	1	0	54	50	+4	3	Quarterfinals
2	Lithuania	2	1	0	1	59	58	+1	2	Quarterfinals
3	Georgia	2	0	1	1	56	61	−5	1	9–12 placement group

Source: EHF
Rules for classification: 1) points; 2) head-to-head points; 3) head-to-head goal difference; 4) head-to-head number of goals scored; 5) goal difference.

13 July 2024 14:30	Georgia	26–26	Estonia	Palace of Youth and Sports, Pristina Referees: Nygaard, Primdahl (DEN)
	Pantskhava 7	(13–12)	Vare 6
	1× 6×	Report	2× 3×

14 July 2024 16:45	Estonia	28–24	Lithuania	Palace of Youth and Sports, Pristina Referees: Bujupi, Bujupi (KOS)
	Koks 7	(12–9)	Draksas, Cesna 4
	7×	Report	4×

15 July 2024 14:30	Lithuania	35–30	Georgia	Palace of Youth and Sports, Pristina Referees: Pavicevic, Martinovic (MNE)
	Draksas 7	(16–15)	Pantskhava 10
	5×	Report	1× 7× 1×

Group D

Pos	Team	Pld	W	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	Latvia	2	2	0	76	47	+29	4	Quarterfinals
2	Slovakia	2	1	1	65	44	+21	2	Quarterfinals
3	Great Britain	2	0	2	35	85	−50	0	9–12 placement group

Source: EHF
Rules for classification: 1) points; 2) head-to-head points; 3) head-to-head goal difference; 4) head-to-head number of goals scored; 5) goal difference.

13 July 2024 16:45	Slovakia	39–14	Great Britain	Palace of Youth and Sports, Pristina Referees: Pavicevic, Martinovic (MNE)
	Fenár 7	(18–4)	Leavey 4
	3×	Report	9× 1×

14 July 2024 19:00	Great Britain	21–46	Latvia	Palace of Youth and Sports, Pristina Referees: Shnyt, Filonenko (UKR)
	Persson 6	(7–22)	Vaškevicš 6
	3×	Report	5×

15 July 2024 16:45	Latvia	30–26	Slovakia	Palace of Youth and Sports, Pristina Referees: Brodic, Hodzic (CRO)
	Bors 8	(11–13)	Fenár 6
	1× 6×	Report	10× 1×

9–12 placement group

Pos	Team	Pld	W	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts
1	Belgium	3	3	0	95	63	+32	6
2	Georgia	3	2	1	100	86	+14	4
3	Great Britain	3	1	2	68	96	−28	2
4	Bulgaria	3	0	3	74	92	−18	0

Source: EHF
Rules for classification: 1) points; 2) head-to-head points; 3) head-to-head goal difference; 4) head-to-head number of goals scored; 5) goal difference.

16 July 2024 16:45	Bulgaria	31–34	Georgia	Palace of Youth and Sports, Pristina Referees: Bujupi, Bujupi (KOS)
	Dimitrov 10	(10–17)	Khelisupali 17
	7×	Report	1× 4×

16 July 2024 19:00	Belgium	30–20	Great Britain	Palace of Youth and Sports, Pristina Referees: Shnyt, Filonenko (UKR)
	Dubuc Maes 5	(14–13)	Chigozie 6
	3×	Report	1×

18 July 2024 16:45	Georgia	25–34	Belgium	Palace of Youth and Sports, Pristina Referees: Brodic, Hodzic (CRO)
	Meliava 9	(14–16)	Verbeke 6
	1×	Report	1× 1×

18 July 2024 19:00	Great Britain	27–25	Bulgaria	Palace of Youth and Sports, Pristina Referees: Shnyt, Filonenko (UKR)
	Johnson 10	(8–13)	Dimitrov 11
		Report	5×

20 July 2024 15:00	Georgia	41–21	Great Britain	Palace of Youth and Sports, Pristina Referees: Uhlir, Benus (CZE)
	Pantskhava 9	(21–8)	Persson, Wellbelove 4
	2×	Report	2×

20 July 2024 17:30	Bulgaria	18–31	Belgium	Palace of Youth and Sports, Pristina Referees: Hardegger, Hardegger (SUI)
	Petkov 8	(8–18)	Dubuc 10
	2×	Report	2×

Knockout stage

Quarter-finals		Semi-finals		Final

17 July

Finland	45
		19 July
Turkey	35
		Finland	31
17 July
		Latvia	36
Latvia	43
				21 July
Lithuania	31
				Latvia	25
17 July
				Slovakia	31
Luxembourg	27
		19 July
Kosovo	22
		Luxembourg	24
17 July
		Slovakia	36	Third place
Estonia	27
				21 July
Slovakia	28
				Finland	36

				Luxembourg	35

5–8 classification bracket

Semifinals		5th place match

19 July

Turkey	35
		21 July
Lithuania	34
		Turkey	28
19 July
		Estonia	30
Kosovo	18

Estonia	28
		7th place match

		21 July

		Lithuania	38

		Kosovo	32

Quarterfinals

17 July 2024 12:15	Latvia	43–31	Lithuania	Palace of Youth and Sports, Pristina Referees: Nygaard, Primdahl (DEN)
	Serafimovics 11	(19–14)	Kairys 12
	5×	Report	2× 4×

17 July 2024 14:30	Estonia	27–28	Slovakia	Palace of Youth and Sports, Pristina Referees: Pavicevic, Martinovic (MNE)
	Vare 7	(12–15)	Fenár, Jurkovic 7
	1× 6×	Report	4×

17 July 2024 16:45	Luxembourg	27–22	Kosovo	Palace of Youth and Sports, Pristina Referees: Uhlir, Benus (CZE)
	Etute, Richard 6	(14–10)	Mulaj 7
	7×	Report	1× 5×

17 July 2024 19:00	Finland	45–35	Turkey	Palace of Youth and Sports, Pristina Referees: Hardegger, Hardegger (SUI)
	Reenpää 8	(20–15)	Yildiz 10
	2×	Report	3×

5–8th place semifinals

19 July 2024 12:15	Turkey	35–34	Lithuania	Palace of Youth and Sports, Pristina Referees: Bujupi, Bujupi (KOS)
	Herseklioglu 12	(19–17)	Kairys 8
	1× 4×	Report	1×

19 July 2024 14:30	Kosovo	18–28	Estonia	Palace of Youth and Sports, Pristina Referees: Hellbusch, Jansen (GER)
	Mulaj 4	(8–15)	Koks, Kosmirak 4
	2×	Report	2× 3×

Semifinals

19 July 2024 16:45	Finland	31–36	Latvia	Palace of Youth and Sports, Pristina Referees: Pavicevic, Martinovic (MNE)
	von Troil 12	(12–15)	Kalnins, Serafimovics 9
	1× 5×	Report	1× 5× 1×

19 July 2024 19:00	Luxembourg	24–36	Slovakia	Palace of Youth and Sports, Pristina Referees: Nygaard, Primdahl (DEN)
	Kaysen 6	(11–17)	Fenár, Mital 8
	4× 1×	Report	4×

Seventh place game

21 July 2024 12:00	Lithuania	38–32	Kosovo	Palace of Youth and Sports, Pristina Referees: Brodic, Hodzic (CRO)
	Janušonis 6	(15–18)	Mulaj 8
	1× 2×	Report	3×

Fifth place game

21 July 2024 14:15	Turkey	28–30	Estonia	Palace of Youth and Sports, Pristina Referees: Nygaard, Primdahl (DEN)
	Herseklioglu 6	(11–15)	three players 6
	1× 3×	Report	2×

Third place game

21 July 2024 16:30	Finland	36–35	Luxembourg	Palace of Youth and Sports, Pristina Referees: Hardegger, Hardegger (SUI)
	Leppänen 9	(10–14)	Etute, Meunier 6
	1× 3×	Report	5× 2×

Final

21 July 2024 18:45	Latvia	25–31	Slovakia	Palace of Youth and Sports, Pristina Referees: Hellbusch, Jansen (GER)
	Serafimovics 7	(11–14)	Jurkovic 7
	1× 2×	Report	4×