EHF Congress & Conference of Presidents

The EHF Extraordinary Congress and Conference of Presidents took place on 14 December in Vienna.

At the Conference of Presidents, the delegates received an overview concerning key events and developments for European handball in 2025 and beyond, including a look ahead to the EHF EUROs in 2026 and 2028 and a preview of the EHF activities for next year.

Following the opening words from EHF President Michael Wiederer, EHF Secretary General Martin Hausleitner provided an overview of the Master Plan activities. Wiederer emphasised two important events in 2025: The EHF Competitions Conference for men’s competitions on 9–10 April 2025 and for women’s competitions on 12–13 May 2025.

The Conference of Presidents closed with Jörgen Holmqvist, Per Otto Furuseth, Andrzej Krasnicki and Miguel Roca Mas being named EHF Honorary Members. A fifth award was posthumously given to Danish Handball Federation President Morten Stig Christensen.

One of the main items on the agenda at the Extraordinary Congress was the awarding of future EHF EURO competitions, with votes for the Men’s EHF EURO 2030, Men’s EHF EURO 2032 and Women’s EHF EURO 2032 taking place. Five nations — Czechia, Denmark, France, Germany, and Poland — will host the flagship events.

The Men’s EHF EURO 2030, on 10–27 January 2030, will be co-hosted by Czechia, Poland and Denmark. Germany and France will co-host the Men’s EHF EURO 2032, on 15 January–1 February 2032.

Germany, Denmark and Poland will co-host the Women’s EHF EURO 2032, to be played on 1–19 December 2032. As co-hosts of both the Men’s and Women’s events in 2032, Germany will be only the second nation after Serbia in 2012 to organise two EHF EUROs in one year.

No applications for the Women’s EHF EURO 2030 were admitted, therefore, the right to award the event will revert to the EHF Executive Committee.

In addition, ten motions related to the EHF Statutes were tabled at the Extraordinary Congress; an additional four related to changes to the EHF Legal Regulations. Topics touched included among others the division of responsibilities within the EHF Statutes, the suspension of membership rights, the competence for the catalogue of administrative sanctions, amending the conditions for damage compensation claims and the possible omission of the hearing obligation in legal proceedings. All motions tabled received the required majority by the Congress.

The Extraordinary Congress closed with the signing of new Master Plan agreements for Czechia, Serbia, Faroe Islands and Israel.