The 2014 EHF European Men's Handball Championship was the 11th edition of the tournament and held in Denmark from 12–26 January.
Denmark was automatically qualified as hosting nation, and as defending champions as well. After the final, at total of 316,390 spectators had visited the stadiums. An all time EHF record.
France won the title after defeating defending champions and hosts Denmark in the final. Spain captured the bronze medal, after defeating Croatia.
Bidding process The bids were as follows: Denmark Croatia and Hungary Denmark was awarded the championship on the EHF Congress in Copenhagen 25 September 2010, narrowly defeating their rivals by two votes. +Voting results Country Votes 24 and 22Total 46
Venues
Aalborg Aarhus GigantiumCapacity: 6,500 NRGi ArenaCapacity: 5,001 Brøndby HerningBrøndby HallCapacity: 4,950 Jyske Bank BoxenCapacity: 15,000
Referees On 23 October 2013, 12 couples were announced in Vienna.
Country Referees Andrei GouskoSiarhei Repkin Matija GubicaBoris Milošević Václav HoráčekJiří Novotný Martin GjedingMads Hansen Thierry DentzDenis Reibel Lars GeipelMarcus Helbig
Country Referees Zigmārs StoļarovsRenārs Līcis Gjorgi NachevskiSlave Nikolov Bogdan StarkRomeo Ştefan Nenad NikolićDušan Stojković Nenad KrstićPeter Ljubič Óscar RaluyÁngel Sabroso
Qualification
Qualified teams Country Qualified asQualified onPrevious appearances in tournament1 00Host (and Defending Champion) 0025 September 2010 90 (1994, 1996, 2000, 2002, 2004, 2006, 2008, 2010, 2012) 00Group 3 winner 006 April 2013 102 (1994, 1996, 1998, 2000, 2002, 2004, 2006, 2008, 2010, 2012) 00Group 1 winner 007 April 2013 102 (1994, 1996, 1998, 2000, 2002, 2004, 2006, 2008, 2010, 2012) 00Group 6 winner 007 April 2013 72 (2000, 2002, 2004, 2006, 2008, 2010, 2012) 00Group 5 winner 0012 June 2013 92 (1994, 1996, 1998, 2000, 2002, 2004, 2008, 2010, 2012) 00Group 4 runner-up 0012 June 2013 82 (1994, 1996, 1998, 2004, 2006, 2008, 2010, 2012) 00Group 3 runner-up 0012 June 2013 50 (2000, 2006, 2008, 2010, 2012) 00Group 5 runner-up 0012 June 2013 60 (2002, 2004, 2006, 2008, 2010, 2012) 00Group 2 runner-up 0012 June 2013 10 (2008) 00Group 4 winner 0012 June 2013 100 (1994, 1996, 1998, 2000, 2002, 2004, 2006, 2008, 2010, 2012) 00Group 7 winner 0012 June 2013 20 (2010, 2012) 00Group 2 winner 0015 June 2013 72 (1996, 1998, 2002, 2004, 2008, 2010, 2012) 00Group 6 runner-up 0016 June 2013 22 (1994, 2008) 00Group 7 runner-up 0016 June 2013 12 (2010) 00best third placed team 0016 June 2013 102 (1994, 1996, 1998, 2000, 2002, 2004, 2006, 2008, 2010, 2012) 00Group 1 runner-up 0016 June 2013 22 (1998, 2012) 1 Bold indicates champion for that year. Italics indicates host.
Squads
Seeding The draw was held on 21 June 2013 in Herning at 18:00 local time. The seeding was announced on 18 June 2013.Draw Procedure
Pot 1Pot 2Pot 3Pot 4 (assigned to A1)
(assigned to C2) (assigned to D2)
(assigned to B4)
Group stage All times are local (UTC+1).
Team advance to the Main Round
Group A Venue: Jyske Bank Boxen, Herning
Group B Venue: Gigantium, Aalborg
Group C Venue: NRGi Arena, Aarhus
Group D Venue: Brøndby Hall, Brøndby
Main round Team advance to the semifinals Team advances to the placement game
Group I Venue: Jyske Bank Boxen, Herning
Group II Venue: NRGi Arena, Aarhus
Knockout stage Venue: Jyske Bank Boxen, Herning
Bracket
Semifinals
Fifth place game
Third place game
Final
Ranking and statistics
Final ranking The final ranking for places 7 to 16 were determined by the team's group stage record.
Legend for qualification typeQualified for the 2015 World Championship based on this tournamentQualified for the 2015 World Championship as defending title holder
RankTeam45678910111213141516
2014 Men's Handball European Champions FranceThird Title
All Star Team The All-star team and award winners were announced on 26 January 2014.
Position Player Goalkeeper Right wing Right back Centre back Left back Left wing Pivot
Other awards Award Player Most Valuable Player Best Defence Player Topscorer (50 goals)
Top goalscorers +RankNameGoalsShots 1 50 64 78 8 2 44 60 73 7 3 39 60 65 8 4 38 74 51 65 36 64 56 8 36 48 75 8 7 34 62 55 6 8 33 45 73 8 9 32 51 63 810 31 43 72 8 31 54 54 7 31 45 69 8 Source: EHF.com
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