2031 World Men's Handball Championship
The 2031 IHF World Men's Handball Championship, will be the 32nd event hosted by the International Handball Federation. It will take place in Denmark, Iceland and Norway in January 2031.
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:- Copenhagen – Royal Arena, capacity 12,500
- Herning – Jyske Bank Boxen, capacity 15,000
- Reykjavík – Laugardalshöll, capacity 8,600
- Bærum – Unity Arena, capacity 15,000
- Trondheim – Trondheim Spektrum, capacity 8,960
Qualification
Qualification system will still depend on number of compulsory and performance places, as for 2029 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 2029 Men's World Championship, 20 out of 32 places are distributed as follows:
| Competition | Dates | Host | Vacancies | Qualified |
| Host nations | 16 April 2024 |  hb|DENhb|ISLhb|NOR |