2029 World Men's Handball Championship
The 2029 IHF World Men's Handball Championship, will be the 31st event hosted by the International Handball Federation. It will take place in France and Germany in January 2029.
Bidding process
In April 2023, the IHF stated that they were looking for bids. In the end, three bids expressed interest in hosting the tournament.- //
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Venues
The proposed venues are:- Paris – Paris La Défense Arena, capacity 25,000
- Paris – Accor Arena, capacity 14,000
- Lyon – LDLC Arena, capacity 10,000
- Strasbourg – Rhénus Sport, capacity 8,000
- Cologne – Lanxess Arena, capacity 20,000
- Stuttgart – Porsche-Arena, capacity 6,200
- Düsseldorf – PSD Bank Dome, capacity 11,600
- Mannheim – SAP Arena, capacity 15,000
Qualification
Qualification system will still depend on number of compulsory and performance places, as for 2027 World Championship. The World Championship hosts will be directly qualified, along with the reigning world champions.The number of compulsory places awarded to other continental confederation keeps unchanged and is divided as follows: four places each for Europe, Asia and Africa, three places for the South and Central America zone and one place for the North America and Caribbean zone.
One additional place is available for Oceania, but only when that region's national team ranks fifth or higher at the Asian Championship. If no Oceania team places among the top five at the Asian Championship, the IHF will award an additional wild card.
In addition, there will be 12 performance places for the continental confederations, which are based on the teams ranked 1–12 in the preceding World Championship.
According to the new qualification system and taking into consideration the results of the 2027 Men's World Championship, 20 out of 32 places are distributed as follows:
| Competition | Dates | Host | Vacancies | Qualified |
| Host nations | 16 April 2024 |  hb|FRAhb|GERGERPORESPSUIref|N1|note|N1 |