Men’s Handball World Cup 2025: the main round program for the Blues

Mens Handball World Cup 2025 the main round program for

Handily qualified for the main round, the French team is entering the main round with fangs.

It is now the moment of truth for the Blues. After a well-conducted preliminary round with three convincing victories against Qatar, Kuwait and Austria, the Blues will now have to move up a notch in the main round against Hungary, the Netherlands and North Macedonia. “We always take for granted the fact that the French team will win everything, we work, we had an easier group than others, but the matches, we have to prepare for them, we have to play them, we have been very serious and we are really happy with this first round. In the main round. (from Tuesday in Varazdin)these are going to be very intense matches. We will be far from 43-goal matches (like the 43-19 against Kuwait on Thursday). But in any case, we expect great teams,” explained Dika Mem.

Calendar and results of the World Handball Championship

The preliminary round takes place from January 14 to January 21 with three matches on the program for the France teamThe main round will be played from January 21 to 25 for Group I (3 qualifiers from Groups A and B) and II (3 qualifiers from Groups C and D) and from January 22 to 26 for Group III (3 qualifiers from Groups E). and F) and IV (3 qualified from groups G and H).

World Handball World Cup groups and rankings

Discover the rankings from the preliminary round to the main round with an update at the end of the matches.

The selected players

Here is the list of French players for the World Handball Championship.

  • Guardians: Samir BELLAHCENE (TVB Stuttgart) – Charles BOLZINGER (Montpellier HB) – Rémi DESBONNET (Montpellier HB)
  • Left wingers: Mathieu GREBILLE (Paris Saint Germain HB) – Dylan NAHI (Industria Kielce)
  • Left backs: Thibaud BRIET (HBC Nantes) – Romain LAGARDE (PAUC Handball) – Élohim PRANDI (Paris Saint Germain HB)
  • Center halves: Aymeric MINNE (HBC Nantes) – Nedim REMILI (Telekom Veszprém)
  • Pivots: Ludovic FABREGAS (Cap, Telekom Veszprém) – Luka KARABATIC (Paris Saint Germain HB) – Karl KONAN (Montpellier HB) – Nicolas TOURNAT (HBC Nantes)
  • Right backs: Dika MEM (FC Barcelona) – Melvyn RICHARDSON (FC Barcelona)
  • Right wingers: Julien BOS (HBC Nantes) – Benoît KOUNKOUD (Industria Kielce)

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