The 2022 European Women's Handball Championship bidding process entails the bids for the 2022 European Women's Handball Championship. The winners were Slovenia, Macedonia and Montenegro.
Bidding timeline[edit]
The bidding timeline was as follows:[1]
- 1 May 2017: Bidding nations to provide official expression of interest in the hosting of the tournament
- 1 July 2017: Bidding manuals sent to all bidding federations
- 1 November 2017: Deadline for completed bidding and application documentation to be provided to the EHF office
- 15 December 2017: Applications to be approved at the EHF executive committee in Hamburg
- 20 June 2018: appointment of host(s) of EHF Euro 2022 at the 14th ordinary EHF Congress in Glasgow, Scotland
Bids[edit]
On 4 May 2017 it was announced that the following nations had sent in an official expression of interest:[2]
However, when the deadline for submitting the final bids was over, the following applications had been received:[3]
Slovenia, Macedonia and Montenegro[edit]
Macedonia tried to bid by themselves originally, but would later join up with their Balkan neighbors from Slovenia and Montenegro.[4][5][6][7] President of the Macedonian federation, Zhivko Mukaetov, was quoted saying:[8]
"I am also optimistic about the 2022 European championship organisation. The idea is to perform together and try to bring the championship to Skopje, Ljubljana and Podgorica. I think the performance together, regionally, obviously produces results and I think we have not good chances, but great chances to organize it. It will be a big plus for Macedonia, I think we will affirm the country and handball in a very positive way. Women's handball is currently has lower development than the male counterpart, so this will be an injection to get a level at least close to men's handball."
Throughout early 2018, they further promoted their bid, including going to Croatia for the 2018 European Men's Handball Championship.[9][3] Their slogan is We Can Handball.[10]
In April 2018, concerns were brought up about their bid as the venues in Celje and Podgorica were deemed to have needed a lot of renovation for the championship.[11]
The main round would be in Skopje and Ljubljana, with the final weekend at the Arena Stožice in Ljubljana.
Proposed venues | |
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Ljubljana | Celje |
Arena Stožice | Zlatorog Arena |
Capacity: 12,480 | Capacity: 5,191 |
Skopje | Podgorica |
Boris Trajkovski Sports Center | Morača Sports Center |
Capacity: 6,173 | Capacity: 6,000 |
Withdrawn bids[edit]
Russia had originally stated an interest in bidding for the event,[12] but decided to bid for 2024 instead.[13] Although they would withdraw their interest from that event also.
Host selection[edit]
On the 20 June 2018, Slovenia, Macedonia and Montenegro won the hosting rights.[14][15]
Bids | |
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Votes[16] | |
Slovenia, Macedonia & Montenegro | 41 |
Votes against the bid | 1 |
Total | 42 |
References[edit]
- ^ "EHF EURO – BEYOND 2020". beyond2020.ehfoffice.at.
- ^ "These nations want to bid for EHF EUROs in 2022 and 2024". www.eurohandball.com (in Macedonian).
- ^ a b "Шилегов и Мукаетов на презентација на заедничката кандидатура за ЕП 2022". Екипа.
- ^ "Crna Gora domaćin Evropskog prvenstva 2022.godine za rukometašice?". September 6, 2017.
- ^ "Македонија, Словенија и Црна Гора со заедничка кандидатура за ЕП 2022". Екипа.
- ^ "ЕХФ ги претстави кандидатурите: Скопје и „Борис Трајковски", за домаќини на ЕП 2022!". Gol.mk. February 15, 2018.
- ^ L, M. "Sloveniji žensko evropsko prvenstvo 2022?". rtvslo.si.
- ^ П, Ј. (January 13, 2018). "Промовирана кандидатурата на Македонија за ЕП жени 2022 - SPORTM.mk". sportm.mk/.
- ^ "Vsak dan prvi - 24ur.com". www.24ur.com.
- ^ "Can we handball? Yes we can!". www.eurohandball.com.
- ^ https://www.handball.no/globalassets/nhf-sentralt/om-oss/organisasjon/protokoller/ehf-og-ihf/ehf-competitions-commission/20180628ehf-cc-minutes-apr.pdf
- ^ "These nations want to bid for EHF EUROs in 2022 and 2024". www.eurohandball.com.
- ^ "Four nations intend to bid for Women's EHF EUROs in 2022 and 2024". www.eurohandball.com.
- ^ "Trio of nations awarded with Women's EHF EURO 2022". www.eurohandball.com.
- ^ "Žensko evropsko prvenstvo leta 2022 v Sloveniji!". ROKOMET.net. June 20, 2018.
- ^ Minutes to the 14th Ordinary Congress of the European Handball Federation (EHF) handball.no