Handball: Les Bleus will challenge Germany at Euro 2024

The men's handball France team inherited a complicated group for the first round of Euro 2024 (10-18 January). The Blues will find on their way the host country, Germany, as well as North Macedonia and Switzerland, according to the draw made this Wednesday in Düsseldorf.

The BLEUS group for @EHFEURO 2024!
The France team will start the competition against North Macedonia on January 📆
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— Handball France teams (@FRAHandball) May 10, 2023

Les Bleus, European champions in 2006, 2010 and 2014, will start their Euro on Wednesday, January 10 in Düsseldorf against North Macedonia. They will then head to Berlin to face Switzerland four days later and finish against Germany on January 16, for the poster at the top of this first round.

Guillaume Gille's players will have to finish in one of the first two places in their group to reach the main round in Cologne, where they will meet with Group B, where Spain, finalist of the last four Euros (crowned in 2018 and 2020), and Group C with Iceland and Hungary, will play. Sweden are the defending champions.

The top two finishers from each group in the main round will advance to the semi-finals in Cologne. The winner of this Euro 2024 will validate his ticket for the Olympic Games in Paris, for which the France team has already qualified as the host country.

Composition of groups

Group A (in Düsseldorf/Berlin): France, Germany, North Macedonia, Switzerland; Group B (in Mannheim): Spain, Austria, Croatia, Romania; Group C (in Munich): Iceland, Hungary, Serbia, Montenegro; Group D (in Berlin): Norway, Slovenia, Poland, Faroe Islands; Group E (in Mannheim): Sweden, Netherlands, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Georgia; Group F (in Munich): Czech Republic, Denmark, Portugal, Greece.