The tournament takes place at the end of November. The red-white-red selection plays its group games in the Innsbruck Olympic Hall.
The Austrian ones Handball players meet at the Home EC (November 28th to December 15th) in Group E against the defending champions Norway, Slovenia and the Slovakia. This was the result of the draw that took place on Thursday in Vienna Hungary and the Switzerland organized tournament.
The team boss’s red-white-red selection Monique Tijsterman plays their group games in the Innsbruck Olympic Hall. The eventual main round would take place in the Vienna City Hall deny.
For Austria’s women it is ninth European Championship participation the first since 2008. At the home tournament Catherine Panda and Co. are aiming for an improvement under Neo team boss Tijsterman. The first four games under the successor of Herbert Müller However, they lost to their current group opponents Norway (twice), Hungary and Switzerland.
The total 24 EM-Teams were drawn into six groups of four, two each will be played in Innsbruck, Debrecen and Basel. The best two nations from preliminary round groups A, B and C will play their main round matches in Debrecen, those from groups D, E and F in Vienna, where the final weekend also takes place.
“It will be difficult, but I think all groups are strong. I was hoping that Norway wouldn’t be in pot 1, because I would have had a favorite in the Netherlands. “I see us on equal terms with Slovakia and Slovenia,” said Tijsterman and stated that reaching the main round was his goal.