2024 IHF Men's Club World Championship

‌The 2024 IHF Men’s Club World Championship is the 18th edition of the yearly club world championship in handball, held from 27 September to 3 October in New Administrative Capital, Egypt under the aegis of the International Handball Federation (IHF).^[2]

2024 IHF Men’s Club World Championship

Tournament details
Host country	Egypt
Venue(s)	1 (in 1 host city)
Dates	27 September – 3 October[1]
Teams	9 (from 6 confederations)
Final positions
Champions	Telekom Veszprém (1st title)
Runners-up	SC Magdeburg
Third place	Al Ahly
Fourth place	Barcelona
Tournament statistics
Matches played	18
Goals scored	1,163 (64.61 per match)
Attendance	9,595 (533 per match)
Top scorer(s)	Mojtaba Al-Salem (34 goals)
Awards
Best player	Nedim Remili
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Telekom Veszprém secured their first title after a 34–33 win over SC Magdeburg in the final.^[3]

Host

The contract with the Saudi Arabian Handball Federation was not extended.^[4] Instead the Egyptian Handball Federation received a contract for three editions. The tournament will be held in the New Capital Sports Hall in New Administrative Capital.^[5]

Format

The nine teams will be split into three groups of three teams. The group winners and the best second-placed team advance to the semifinals. The remaining sides will play in placement games.^[1]

Teams

Nine teams compete in the tournament: the winners of the continental tournaments, the defending champion, a host teams and a wild card team. On 10 July 2024, seven teams were named.^[6]

Team	Qualified as
SC Magdeburg[7]	Defending champion
Zamalek SC	Runner-up of African Handball Super Cup
Khaleej Club	Winner of Asian Club League Championship
Sydney Uni HC[8]	Winner of Oceania Handball Champions Cup
California Eagles	Winner of North American and Caribbean Senior Club Championship
Handebol Taubaté	Winner of South and Central American Men's Club Handball Championship
Barcelona	Winner of EHF Champions League
Al Ahly[9]	Host
Telekom Veszprém	Wildcard

• As Al-Ahly qualified as the host team, Zamalek took their place after placing second in the African qualification.

Draw

The draw was held on 21 August 2024.^[1][10]

Seeding

Pot 1	Pot 2	Pot 3
SC Magdeburg Barcelona Telekom Veszprém	Al Ahly Zamalek SC Khaleej Club	Handebol Taubaté California Eagles Sydney Uni HC

Referees

The referee pairs were announced on 15 August 2024.^[11]

Referees
Bosnia and Herzegovina	Amar Konjičanin Dino Konjičanin
Denmark	Mads Hansen Jesper Madsen
Egypt	Heidy El-Saied Yasmina El-Saied
France	Karim Gasmi Raouf Gasmi

Referees
North Macedonia	Gjorgji Nachevski Slave Nikolov
Montenegro	Ivan Pavićević Miloš Ražnatović
Uruguay	Cristian Lemes Mathías Sosa
Uzbekistan	Khasan Ismoilov Khusan Ismoilov

Preliminary round

All times are local (UTC+3).^[12]

Group A

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	Telekom Veszprém	2	2	0	0	77	44	+33	4	Semifinals
2	Zamalek SC	2	1	0	1	57	59	−2	2
3	Handebol Taubaté	2	0	0	2	42	73	−31	0

Source: IHF
Rules for classification: 1) points; 2) head-to-head points; 3) head-to-head goal difference; 4) head-to-head number of goals scored; 5) goal difference.

27 September 2024 21:00	Handebol Taubaté	25–30	Zamalek SC	New Capital Sports Hall, New Administrative Capital Attendance: 200 Referees: Konjičanin, Konjičanin (BIH)
	G. Da Silva, Perin 6	(6–18)	Omar 5
	1× 5×	Report	5×

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28 September 2024 15:00	Telekom Veszprém	43–17	Handebol Taubaté	New Capital Sports Hall, New Administrative Capital Attendance: 95 Referees: Gasmi, Gasmi (FRA)
	Descat 10	(22–6)	Andrade, E. Da Silva 4
	1× 1×	Report	1× 7×

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29 September 2024 17:30	Zamalek SC	27–34	Telekom Veszprém	New Capital Sports Hall, New Administrative Capital Attendance: 800 Referees: Hansen, Madsen (DEN)
	El-Ahmar, Yosri 4	(15–18)	Grahovac, Sandell 5
	1× 7× 1×	Report	5×

Group B

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	Barcelona	2	2	0	0	84	46	+38	4	Semifinals
2	Al Ahly	2	1	0	1	72	46	+26	2
3	Sydney Uni HC	2	0	0	2	38	102	−64	0

Source: IHF
Rules for classification: 1) points; 2) head-to-head points; 3) head-to-head goal difference; 4) head-to-head number of goals scored; 5) goal difference.

27 September 2024 18:30	Sydney Uni HC	15–49	Al Ahly	New Capital Sports Hall, New Administrative Capital Attendance: 500 Referees: Lemes, Sosa (URU)
	three players 3	(6–20)	Dahroug 9
	1× 6×	Report	3×

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28 September 2024 20:00	Barcelona	53–23	Sydney Uni HC	New Capital Sports Hall, New Administrative Capital Attendance: 350 Referees: Ismoilov, Ismoilov (UZB)
	Ortega 9	(27–12)	Messerschmidt 7
	6×	Report	2×

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29 September 2024 20:00	Al Ahly	23–31	Barcelona	New Capital Sports Hall, New Administrative Capital Attendance: 1,000 Referees: Pavićević, Ražnatović (MNE)
	Adel 6	(10–17)	Gómez 6
	1× 2×	Report	4×

Group C

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	SC Magdeburg	2	2	0	0	92	49	+43	4	Semifinals
2	Khaleej Club	2	1	0	1	76	60	+16	2
3	California Eagles	2	0	0	2	46	105	−59	0

Source: IHF
Rules for classification: 1) points; 2) head-to-head points; 3) head-to-head goal difference; 4) head-to-head number of goals scored; 5) goal difference.

27 September 2024 15:00	California Eagles	25–48	Khaleej Club	New Capital Sports Hall, New Administrative Capital Attendance: 700 Referees: Ismoilov, Ismoilov (UZB)
	Damm 6	(16–22)	Al-Salem 11
	4× 1×	Report	1× 3×

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28 September 2024 17:30	SC Magdeburg	57–21	California Eagles	New Capital Sports Hall, New Administrative Capital Attendance: 1,000 Referees: El-Saied, El-Saied (EGY)
	Mertens 16	(28–14)	Vagset 7
	1×	Report	1× 5×

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29 September 2024 15:00	Khaleej Club	28–35	SC Magdeburg	New Capital Sports Hall, New Administrative Capital Attendance: 350 Referees: Nachevski, Nikolov (MKD)
	A. Al-Ibrahim 7	(14–15)	Persson 9
	3×	Report	1× 4×

Second-placed teams ranking

Pos	Grp	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	B	Al Ahly	2	1	0	1	72	46	+26	2	Semifinals
2	C	Khaleej Club	2	1	0	1	76	60	+16	2
3	A	Zamalek SC	2	1	0	1	57	59	−2	2

Source: IHF
Rules for classification: 1) points; 2) goal difference.

Placement round

Standings

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts
1	Zamalek SC	2	2	0	0	71	47	+24	4
2	Khaleej Club	2	2	0	0	76	54	+22	4
3	Sydney Uni HC	2	1	0	1	62	77	−15	2
4	Handebol Taubaté	2	0	0	2	51	59	−8	0
5	California Eagles	2	0	0	2	53	76	−23	0

Source: IHF
Rules for classification: 1) points; 2) head-to-head points; 3) head-to-head goal difference; 4) head-to-head number of goals scored; 5) goal difference.

Results

1 October 2024 11:00	Khaleej Club	29–27	Handebol Taubaté	New Capital Sports Hall, New Administrative Capital Attendance: 250 Referees: Konjičanin, Konjičanin (BIH)
	Moj. Al-Salem 7	(13–13)	Perin 6
	2× 1×	Report	5×

1 October 2024 14:00	California Eagles	23–41	Zamalek SC	New Capital Sports Hall, New Administrative Capital Attendance: 100 Referees: Lemes, Sosa (URU)
	Vagset 6	(11–21)	Saad 6
	3×	Report	3×

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2 October 2024 16:00	Sydney Uni HC	35–30	California Eagles	New Capital Sports Hall, New Administrative Capital Attendance: 50 Referees: El-Saied, El-Saied (EGY)
	three players 6	(18–15)	Raff 7
	1× 4×	Report	4×

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3 October 2024 11:00	Khaleej Club	47–27	Sydney Uni HC	New Capital Sports Hall, New Administrative Capital Attendance: 150 Referees: Ismoilov, Ismoilov (UZB)
	Al-Salem, Al-Sayyaf 11	(19–11)	Delpire 8
	1×	Report	1×

3 October 2024 14:00	Handebol Taubaté	24–30	Zamalek SC	New Capital Sports Hall, New Administrative Capital Attendance: 150 Referees: Pavićević, Ražnatović (MNE)
	Perin 7	(9–17)	Sadek 6
	4×	Report	2×

Knockout stage

Bracket

	Semi-finals				Final
	1 October
	SC Magdeburg	28
					3 October
	Al Ahly	24
					SC Magdeburg	33
	1 October
					Telekom Veszprém (ET)	34
	Barcelona	34
	Telekom Veszprém (ET)	39
					Third place
					3 October
					Al Ahly	32
					Barcelona	29

Semifinals

1 October 2024 17:00	Barcelona	34–39 (ET)	Telekom Veszprém	New Capital Sports Hall, New Administrative Capital Attendance: 500 Referees: Nachevski, Nikolov (MKD)
	Gómez 10	(13–15)	Descat 9
	1× 1× 1×	Report	2× 3×
	FT: 29–29 ET: 5–10

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1 October 2024 20:00	SC Magdeburg	28–24	Al Ahly	New Capital Sports Hall, New Administrative Capital Attendance: 500 Referees: Gasmi, Gasmi (FRA)
	Zehnder 9	(12–15)	Hassan 6
	3×	Report	1× 7×

Third place game

3 October 2024 17:00	Al Ahly	32–29	Barcelona	New Capital Sports Hall, New Administrative Capital Attendance: 3,000 Referees: Konjičanin, Konjičanin (BIH)
	Ramadan 7	(18–15)	Janc 6
	4×	Report	1×

Final

3 October 2024 20:00	SC Magdeburg	33–34 (ET)	Telekom Veszprém	New Capital Sports Hall, New Administrative Capital Attendance: 3,000 Referees: Hansen, Madsen (DEN)
	Magnússon 7	(14–13)	Fabregas 9
	2×	Report	1× 2×
	FT: 28–28 ET: 5–6

Final ranking

Rank	Team[13]
	Telekom Veszprém
	SC Magdeburg
	Al Ahly
4	Barcelona
5	Khaleej Club
6	Zamalek SC
7	Sydney Uni HC
8	Handebol Taubaté
9	California Eagles

All-Star Team

The All-Star Team was announced on 12 November 2023.^[14]

Position	Player	Club
Goalkeeper	Rodrigo Corrales	Veszprém KC
Right wing	Aleix Gómez	FC Barcelona
Right back	Ómar Ingi Magnússon	SC Magdeburg
Centre back	Luka Cindrić	Veszprém KC
Left back	Gísli Þorgeir Kristjánsson	SC Magdeburg
Left wing	Hugo Descat	Veszprém KC
Pivot	Ahmed Adel	Al Ahly
MVP	Nedim Remili	Veszprém KC