Officially.. The Asian Handball Championship was withdrawn from Iran and awarded to Saudi Arabia

The Asian Handball Confederation announced that it had given confidence to Saudi Arabia to host the 20th Asian Men’s Handball Championship, which qualifies for the World Cup in Poland and Denmark 2023.


This came after the meeting of the Executive Committee of the Asian Handball Confederation, which resulted in its decisions to withdraw hosting the tournament. From Iran, and granting the right to host to Saudi Arabia, with the 20th edition to be held from January 18 to 31, 2022.


The continent’s teams aspire from the Saudi gate to extract the five cards allocated to the continent of Asia, and qualify for the World Cup Poland and Denmark 2023, including the UAE team Next week, he will launch the stages of preparation for the continental competition with the ambition to repeat the 2015 achievement and reach the World Cup.

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