Austria Women’s national handball team drives to WM 2025 in Germany and the Netherlands (November 27th to December 14th). The new and rejuvenated selection of team boss Monique Tijsterman in the qualification play-off second leg in Turkey left nothing to burn and fixed the final round with a 30:25. The total score after passing the fire was 66:54.
Thanks to a dominant final quarter of an hour, the ÖHB team had a comfortable seven-goal cushion after starting starts thanks to a dominant final quarter of an hour. In Amasya, around 100 km south of the Black Sea metropolis of Samsun, a newly well -placed goalkeeper Denise Kaufmann, who faced the Turkish initial team in her fourth international game with some parades, needed.
Outsider Türkiye, most recently represented at an EM for the first time, was able to rely on a vocal attachment and a quick switching game, but always offered gaps defensively. The Austrians around captain Katarina Pandza did not have to sweat in addition. In the early phase of the second leg, there was a two-goal lead over long phase, in the finish of the first half the ÖHB-Equipe increased again: the break (14:11) could have been higher.
Austria gradually played its larger class in the second section. Wing player Eleonora Stankovic and Klara Schlegel wrote six goals each as the best Austrian throwers. The hosts did not stop minus five in the meantime and sniffed again in the final phase. The tenth victory in the eleventh duel with Turkey was never in danger.