2010 European Men's Handball Championship

2010 EHF European Men's Handball Championship
	Handball-Europameisterschaft 2010
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Tournament details
Host country	Austria
Dates	19–31 January
Teams	16 (from 1 confederation)
Venue(s)	5 (in 5 host cities)
Final positions
Champions	France (2nd title)
Runner-up	Croatia
Third place	Iceland
Fourth place	Poland
Tournament statistics
Matches	47
Goals scored	2676 (56.94 per match)
Attendance	285,400 (6,072 per match)
Top scorer(s)	Filip Jícha (CZE); (53 goals)
Best player	Filip Jícha (CZE)
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File:Logo and mascot of the 2010 European Men's Handball Championship.jpg

Logo and mascot of the 2010 European Men's Handball Championship

The 2010 EHF European Men's Handball Championship (9th tournament) was held in Austria from 19–31 January, in the cities of Vienna, Graz, Innsbruck, Linz and Wiener Neustadt.

Venues

5 Austrian cities have been selected to host the 2010 Championship. The venues in Linz, Graz and Wiener Neustadt were only used during the preliminary round. The fourth venue to be used in this round was located in Innsbruck, and was also one of the two venues in the main round. The other being Wiener Stadthalle in Vienna, which was the only venue to be used in the final round.

Vienna	Linz	Wiener Neustadt
Wiener Stadthalle Capacity: 11,000	Intersport Arena Capacity: 6,000	Arena Nova Capacity: 5,000

Innsbruck	Vienna Innsbruck Linz Graz Wiener Neustadt	Graz
Olympiaworld Innsbruck Capacity: 10,000		Stadthalle Graz Capacity: 5,000
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Qualification

Qualification matches were played in 2008 and in 2009. For the first time, in qualification round all teams are included, except host Austria and defending champion Denmark. Teams were divided in 7 groups and top two teams from each group qualifyd to European Championship.

Qualified teams

Country	Qualified as	Date qualification was secured	Previous appearances in tournament¹
Austria	01Host	005 May 2006	01 (debut)
Denmark	002008 EC winner	0027 January 2008	70 (1994, 1996, 2000, 2002, 2004, 2006, 2008)
Sweden	00Group 1 winner	0011 June 2009	70 (1994, 1996, 1998, 2000, 2002, 2004, 2008)
Poland	00Group 1 runner-up	0020 June 2009	40 (2002, 2004, 2006, 2008)
Russia	00Group 2 winner	0018 June 2009	80 (1994, 1996, 1998, 2000, 2002, 2004, 2006, 2008)
Serbia	00Group 2 runner-up	0018 June 2009	00 (debut)
Iceland	00Group 3 winner	0017 June 2009	50 (2000, 2002, 2004, 2006, 2008)
Norway	00Group 3 runner-up	0017 June 2009	30 (2000, 2006, 2008)
Croatia	00Group 4 winner	0017 June 2009	81 (1994, 1996, 1998, 2000, 2002, 2004, 2006, 2008)
Hungary	00Group 4 runner-up	0021 June 2009	61 (1994, 1996, 1998, 2004, 2006, 2008)
Germany	00Group 5 winner	0013 June 2009	81 (1994, 1996, 1998, 2000, 2002, 2004, 2006, 2008)
Slovenia	00Group 5 runner-up	0021 June 2009	71 (1994, 1996, 2000, 2002, 2004, 2006, 2008)
France	00Group 6 winner	0017 June 2009	81 (1994, 1996, 1998, 2000, 2002, 2004, 2006, 2008)
Czech Republic	00Group 6 runner-up	0017 June 2009	51 (1996, 1998, 2002, 2004, 2008)
Spain	00Group 7 winner	0017 June 2009	81 (1994, 1996, 1998, 2000, 2002, 2004, 2006, 2008)
Ukraine	00Group 7 runner-up	0018 June 2009	41 (2000, 2002, 2004, 2006)

¹ Bold indicates champion for that year

Seeding

The draw for the final tournament took place 19:00 CET on 24 June 2009 at the Liechtenstein Museum in Vienna.^[1]

Pot 1	Pot 2	Pot 3	Pot 4
Denmark Croatia (assigned to A1) France Germany (assigned to C1)	Sweden Spain Iceland Russia	Austria (assigned to B3) Norway Poland Hungary (assigned to D3)	Slovenia Czech Republic Ukraine Serbia

Squads

Group A

Group B

Group C

Group D

Preliminary round

File:Cheerleaders of the 2010 European Men's Handball Championship.jpg

Cheerleaders and mascot of the Championship

In the following tables:

Pld = total games played
W = total games won
D = total games drawn (tied)
L = total games lost
GF = total goals scored (goals for)
GA = total goals conceded (goals against)
GD = goal difference (GF−GA)
Pts = total points accumulated

The teams placed first, second and third (shaded in green) qualified to the main round.

Group A

Venue: Stadthalle, Graz

Team	Pld	W	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts
Croatia	3	3	0	83	76	+7	6
Norway	3	2	1	82	78	+4	4
Russia	3	1	2	89	91	−2	2
Ukraine	3	0	3	87	96	−9	0

All times are Central European Time (UTC+1)

19 January 18:10	Russia	37 – 33	Ukraine	Attendance: 3,000 Referees: Cacador, Nicolau (POR)
	Igropulo 11	(21 – 16)	Burka, Onufriyenko 9
	3× 3×	Report	4× 3×

19 January 20:10	Croatia	25 – 23	Norway	Attendance: 4,000 Referees: Muro, Rodriguez (ESP)
	Vuković 7	(11 – 10)	Tvedten 9
	5× 4×	Report	6× 3×

21 January 18:10	Ukraine	25 – 28	Croatia	Attendance: 4,200 Referees: Canbro, Claesson (SWE)
	Onufriyenko 11	(14 – 12)	Vori 6
	4× 2×	Report	4× 3×

21 January 20:10	Norway	28 – 24	Russia	Attendance: 4,200 Referees: Lazaar, Reveret (FRA)
	Kjelling 8	(16 – 13)	Kovalev, Rastvortsev 4
	5× 3×	Report	4× 3×

23 January 18:10	Croatia	30 – 28	Russia	Attendance: 4,500 Referees: Methe, Methe (GER)
	Čupić 8	(17 – 16)	Igropulo 12
	2× 3×	Report	6× 3×

23 January 20:10	Norway	31 – 29	Ukraine	Attendance: 3,500 Referees: Cacador, Nicolau (POR)
	Tvedten 8	(14 – 16)	Burka 7
	4× 3×	Report	7× 4×

Group B

Venue: Intersport Arena, Linz

Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts
Iceland	3	1	2	0	93	88	+5	4
Denmark	3	2	0	1	83	79	+4	4
Austria	3	1	1	1	103	101	+2	3
Serbia	3	0	1	2	83	94	−11	1

All times are Central European Time (UTC+1)

19 January 18:00	Denmark	33 – 29	Austria	Attendance: 5,500 Referees: Lazaar, Reveret (FRA)
	Mogensen 7	(17 – 15)	Ziura 7
	3× 3×	Report	3× 3×

19 January 20:15	Iceland	29 – 29	Serbia	Attendance: 5,000 Referees: Methe, Methe (GER)
	Sigurðsson 9	(15 – 11)	Ilić 7
	5× 3×	Report	6× 3×

21 January 18:00	Austria	37 – 37	Iceland	Attendance: 6,000 Referees: Dinu, Din (ROU)
	Szilágyi 10	(17 – 20)	Atlason 8
	4× 3×	Report	2× 3×

21 January 20:15	Serbia	23 – 28	Denmark	Attendance: 6,000 Referees: Horacek, Novotny (CZE)
	Ilić, Stanković, Šešum 4	(9 – 15)	Eggert Jensen 10
	6× 3×	Report	3× 3×

23 January 18:00	Austria	37 – 31	Serbia	Attendance: 6,000 Referees: Muro, Rodriguez (ESP)
	Szilágyi 9	(15 – 18)	Sesum 8
	6× 4× 1×	Report	6× 3×

23 January 20:15	Denmark	22 – 27	Iceland	Attendance: 5,500 Referees: Canbro, Claesson (SWE)
	Christiansen 5	(13 – 15)	Sigurðsson 6
	5× 4×	Report	5× 3×

Group C

Venue: Olympiaworld, Innsbruck

Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts
Poland	3	2	1	0	84	79	+5	5
Slovenia	3	1	2	0	91	89	+2	4
Germany	3	1	1	1	89	90	−1	3
Sweden	3	0	0	3	78	84	−6	0

All times are Central European Time (UTC+1)

19 January 18:30	Germany	25 − 27	Poland	Attendance: 6,800 Referees: Olesen, Pedersen (DEN)
	Kaufmann 7	(8 − 12)	Bielecki 6
	4× 2×	Report	4× 3×

19 January 20:30	Sweden	25 − 27	Slovenia	Attendance: 4,800 Referees: Reisinger, Kaschütz (AUT)
	Källman, Karlsson, Ekberg, Doder 5	(13 − 7)	Žvižej 8
	6× 2×	Report	6× 3×

20 January 18:30	Slovenia	34 − 34	Germany	Attendance: 7,200 Referees: Gousko, Repkin (BLR)
	Kavtičnik, Špiler 7	(16 − 11)	Theuerkauf 7
	5× 3×	Report	2× 3×

20 January 20:30	Poland	27 − 24	Sweden	Attendance: 7,500 Referees: Nikolic, Stojkovic (SRB)
	Jurecki, Rosiński 6	(15 − 14)	Andersson 4
	3× 2×	Report	8× 3×

22 January 18:15	Germany	30 − 29	Sweden	Attendance: 8,200 Referees: Nikolic, Stojkovic (SRB)
	Glandorf 8	(21 − 18)	Andersson 7
	4× 3× 1×	Report	2× 2×

22 January 20:15	Poland	30 − 30	Slovenia	Attendance: 7,500 Referees: Abrahamsen, Kristiansen (NOR)
	Lijewski 6	(12 − 13)	Žvižej 9
	7× 4×	Report	7× 3×

Group D

Venue: Arena Nova, Wiener Neustadt

Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts
Spain	3	2	1	0	95	74	+21	5
France	3	1	2	0	74	73	+1	4
Czech Republic	3	1	0	2	78	84	−6	2
Hungary	3	0	1	2	80	96	−16	1

All times are Central European Time (UTC+1)

19 January 18:15	Spain	37 – 25	Czech Republic	Attendance: 2,800 Referees: Din, Dinu (ROU)
	Romero 14	(17 – 10)	Jicha 8
	6× 2×	Report	6× 3×

19 January 20:15	France	29 – 29	Hungary	Attendance: 3,500 Referees: Nikolic, Stojkovic (SRB)
	Karabatić 7	(16 – 16)	Ilyés 7
	3× 3×	Report	8× 3× 1×

20 January 18:15	Czech Republic	20 – 21	France	Attendance: 3,800 Referees: Abrahamsen, Kristiansen (NOR)
	Jicha 6	(10 – 16)	Abalo, Narcisse 4
	3× 3×	Report	1× 3×

20 January 20:15	Hungary	25 – 34	Spain	Attendance: 3,800 Referees: Reisinger, Kaschütz (AUT)
	Gulyás, Krivokapic 5	(9 – 17)	Alberto Entrerríos, González 7
	6× 2×	Report	3× 4×

22 January 18:15	France	24 − 24	Spain	Attendance: 3,800 Referees: Gousko, Repkin (BLR)
	Karabatić 5	(10 – 10)	Aguinagalde, Garcia 6
	4× 4×	Report	3× 3×

22 January 20:15	Hungary	26 − 33	Czech Republic	Attendance: 4,000 Referees: Olesen, Pedersen (DEN)
	Császár 6	(13 – 14)	Jicha 14
	6× 3×	Report	4× 3×

Main Round

	Team advanced to the Semifinals
	Team will compete for the 5th/6th place
	Team is eliminated from the tournament

Group I

Venue: Stadthalle, Vienna

Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts
Croatia	5	4	1	0	134	123	+11	9
Iceland	5	3	2	0	163	149	+14	8
Denmark	5	3	0	2	136	134	+2	6
Norway	5	2	0	3	138	135	+3	4
Austria	5	1	1	3	147	156	−9	3
Russia	5	0	0	5	140	161	−21	0

25 January 16:00	Croatia	26 – 26	Iceland	Attendance: 6,800 Referees: Horacek, Novotny (CZE)
	Čupić 5	(12 – 15)	Stefánsson 7
	5× 3× 1×	Report	9× 3× 1×

25 January 18:00	Norway	30 – 27	Austria	Attendance: 6,800 Referees: Lazaar, Reveret (FRA)
	Myrhol, Tvedten 6	(12 – 11)	Schlinger 6
	2× 3×	Report	7× 3× 1×

25 January 20:15	Russia	28 – 34	Denmark	Attendance: 6,800 Referees: Muro, Rodriguez (ESP)
	Igropulo 6	(13 – 18)	Christiansen, Knudsen 6
	3× 3× 1×	Report	4× 4×

26 January 16:00	Russia	30 – 38	Iceland	Attendance: 4,000 Referees: Lazaar, Reveret (FRA)
	Chipurin 7	(10 – 19)	Guðjónsson, Petersson 7
	6× 3×	Report	6× 3×

26 January 18:00	Croatia	26 – 23	Austria	Attendance: 8,000 Referees: Canbro, Claesson (SWE)
	Čupić 6	(11 – 10)	Schlinger, Szilágy 5
	3× 2×	Report	4× 4× 1×

26 January 20:15	Norway	23 – 24	Denmark	Attendance: 7,000 Referees: Methe, Methe (GER)
	Kjelling 7	(15 – 11)	Eggert Jensen, Hansen, Lindberg 5
	4× 3×	Report	6× 3×

28 January 16:00	Norway	34 – 35	Iceland	Attendance: 7,000 Referees: Muro, Rodriguez (ESP)
	Tvedten 7	(16 – 18)	Atlason 10
	5× 3×	Report	5× 3×

28 January 18:00	Russia	30 – 31	Austria	Attendance: 8,200 Referees: Methe, Methe (GER)
	Chipurin 7	(15 – 17)	Weber, Wilczynski, Schlinger 6
	11× 3×	Report	9× 3×

28 January 20:15	Croatia	27 – 23	Denmark	Attendance: 9,000 Referees: Horacek, Novotny (CZE)
	Buntić 8	(14 – 11)	Hansen, Knudsen 5
	6× 4×	Report	6× 3×

Group II

Venue: Olympiaworld, Innsbruck

Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts
France	5	4	1	0	135	118	+17	9
Poland	5	3	1	1	148	144	+4	7
Spain	5	3	1	1	152	133	+19	7
Czech Republic	5	1	1	3	142	154	−12	3
Germany	5	0	2	3	127	136	−9	2
Slovenia	5	0	2	3	159	178	−19	2

24 January 16:30	Germany	22 – 24	France	Attendance: 8,200 Referees: Din, Dinu (ROU)
	Jansen 5	(10 – 12)	Joli 7
	4× 3×	Report	1× 4×

24 January 18:30	Poland	32 – 26	Spain	Attendance: 7,700 Referees: Olesen, Pedersen (DEN)
	Jurecki 6	(13 – 9)	Romero 8
	5× 3×	Report	2× 2×

24 January 20:30	Slovenia	35 – 37	Czech Republic	Attendance: 5,600 Referees: Kaschütz, Reisinger (AUT)
	Kavtičnik 8	(12 – 21)	Jicha 12
	3× 3×	Report	6× 3×

26 January 16:15	Slovenia	28 – 37	France	Attendance: 4,500 Referees: Olesen, Pedersen (DEN)
	Kavtičnik, Žvižej 6	(18 – 17)	Guigou 10
	4× 3×	Report	3×

26 January 18:15	Germany	20 – 25	Spain	Attendance: 7,000 Referees: Nikolic, Stojkovic (SRB)
	Gensheimer 5	(9 – 14)	Tomás 6
	4× 3×	Report	6× 3×

26 January 20:15	Poland	35 – 34	Czech Republic	Attendance: 5,100 Referees: Abrahamsen, Kristiansen (NOR)
	Bielecki 7	(18 – 19)	Jicha 7
	1× 3×	Report	3× 3×

28 January 16:30	Germany	26 – 26	Czech Republic	Attendance: 5,200 Referees: Abrahamsen, Kristiansen (NOR)
	Kaufmann 7	(16 – 14)	Jicha 6
	2× 2×	Report	4× 3×

28 January 18:30	Slovenia	32 – 40	Spain	Attendance: 6,400 Referees: Din, Dinu (ROU)
	Žvižej 9	(14 – 20)	Entrerrios 11
	2× 3×	Report	4× 3×

28 January 20:30	Poland	24 – 29	France	Attendance: 7,000 Referees: Nikolic, Stojkovic (SRB)
	Bielecki 5	(10 – 15)	Narcisse, Sorhaindo 6
	4× 4×	Report	1× 3×

Final round

Venue: Stadthalle, Vienna

Semifinal			Final

30 January - 14:00 (Vienna)
Iceland	28
France	36

			31 January - 17:30 (Vienna)
			France	25
			Croatia	21


			Bronze Match
30 January - 16:30 (Vienna)		31 January - 15:00 (Vienna)
Croatia	24	Iceland	29
Poland	21		Poland	26

5th/6th Place

30 January 11:30	Denmark	34 – 27	Spain	Attendance: 4,000 Referees: Reisinger, Kaschütz (AUT)
	Laen 8	(18 – 13)	Malmagro 7
	6× 2×	Report	4× 2×

Semifinals

30 January 14:00	Iceland	28 – 36	France	Attendance: 9,000 Referees: Olesen, Pedersen (DEN)
	Pálmarsson 6	(14 – 16)	Karabatić 9
	4× 3×	Report	4× 3×

30 January 16:30	Croatia	24 – 21	Poland	Attendance: 11,000 Referees: Abrahamsen, Kristiansen (NOR)
	Čupić 6	(9 – 10)	Jurecki 7
	4× 3×	Report	3× 3×

Bronze Medal Game

31 January 15:00	Poland	26 – 29	Iceland	Attendance: 9,000 Referees: Lazaar, Reveret (FRA)
	B. Jurecki, M. Jurecki, Tłuczyński 4	(10 – 18)	Sigurðsson 8
	8× 3×	Report	4× 3×

Final

31 January 17:30	Croatia	21 – 25	France	Attendance: 11,000 Referees: Methe, Methe (GER)
	Zrnić 7	(12 – 12)	Karabatić 6
	3× 4× 1×	Report	3× 4×

Ranking and Statistics

File:EHF 2010 Map.png

Results

Final ranking

	France
	Croatia
	Iceland
4	Poland
5	Denmark
6	Spain
7	Norway
8	Czech Republic
9	Austria
10	Germany
11	Slovenia
12	Russia
13	Serbia
14	Hungary
15	Sweden
16	Ukraine

	Team advanced to the 2011 World Men's Handball Championship^[2]
	Sweden and France are already qualified as hosts and reigning champions respectively.

2010 Men's Handball European Champions

France
Second Title

All Star Team

Goalkeeper: Sławomir Szmal (POL)
Left Wing: Manuel Štrlek (CRO)
Left Back: Filip Jicha (CZE)
Playmaker: Nikola Karabatic (FRA)
Pivot: Igor Vori (CRO)
Right Back: Ólafur Stefánsson (ISL)
Right Wing: Luc Abalo (FRA)

Other awards

Best Defence Player : Jakov Gojun (CRO)
Most Valuable Player: Filip Jícha (CZE)

Source: ehf-euro.com

Top goalkeepers

**Total Shots (Top 10)**
Rank	Name	Team	Shots	Saves	%	MP
1	Sławomir Szmal	Poland	316	123	39	8
2	Thierry Omeyer	France	301	113	38	8
3	Mirko Alilović	Croatia	271	98	36	8
3	Mattias Andersson	Sweden	64	23	36	3
5	Thomas Bauer	Austria	58	20	34	6
5	Johannes Bitter	Germany	195	67	34	6
5	Martin Galia	Czech Republic	174	59	34	6
5	Silvio Heinevetter	Germany	56	19	34	6
5	Kasper Hvidt	Denmark	176	59	34	7
5	Gennadiy Komok	Ukraine	83	28	34	3

Source: EHF

Top goalscorers

**Total Goals (Top 10)**
Rank	Name	Team	Shots	Goals	%	MP
1	Filip Jícha	Czech Republic	88	53	60	6
2	Luka Žvižej	Slovenia	64	41	64	6
3	Nikola Karabatic	France	73	40	55	8
4	Arnór Atlason	Iceland	66	39	59	8
4	Guðjón Valur Sigurðsson	Iceland	62	39	63	8
4	Håvard Tvedten	Norway	58	39	67	6
7	Ivan Čupić	Croatia	53	36	68	8
7	Snorri Steinn Guðjónsson	Iceland	56	36	64	8
9	Konstantin Igropulo	Russia	60	35	58	6
10	Róbert Gunnarsson	Iceland	44	34	77	8

Source: EHF

EHF Broadcasting rights

EHF Broadcasting rights
Standard Definition (SDTV)
Austria	ORF1 • ORF Sport Plus
Croatia	HRT2
Czech Republic	ČT4
Denmark	TV 2 • TV 2 Sport
France	Canal+ Sport • Sport+
Germany	ARD • ZDF • DSF
Hungary	Sport TV
Iceland	RÚV
Italy	Sportitalia
Lithuania	Sport1
Norway	TV 2 • TV 2 Zebra • TV 2 Sport
Poland	Polsat • Polsat Sport • Polsat Sport Extra
Serbia	RTS 1 • RTS 2
Slovenia	TVS 2
Spain	Teledeporte TVE • Canal+
Sweden	TV4 • TV4 Sport
High Definition (HDTV)
Austria	ORF1 HB HD
Poland	Polsat Sport HD
Sweden	TV4 HD

References

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2010 European Men's Handball Championship

Contents

Venues

Qualification

Qualified teams

Seeding

Squads

Preliminary round

Group A

Group B

Group C

Group D

Main Round

Group I

Group II

Final round

5th/6th Place

Semifinals

Bronze Medal Game

Final

Ranking and Statistics

Final ranking

All Star Team

Other awards

Top goalkeepers

Top goalscorers

EHF Broadcasting rights

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