European Wheelchair Handball Nations' Tournament

The European Wheelchair Handball Nations’ Tournament is the official competition for senior national Wheelchair handball teams of Europe and takes place every year since 2015 (except 2017).

European Wheelchair Handball Nations' Tournament
Current season, competition or edition:
Current sports event 2019 European Wheelchair Handball Nations’ Tournament
Sportwheelchair handball
Founded2015
First season2015
No. of teams6
ContinentEHF (Europe)
Most recent
champion
 Portugal (3rd title)
Most titles Portugal (3rd title)

Portugal are record champions with 3 continuous titles which came in 2018 and 2022 and 2026.

Tournaments

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Year Host Final 3rd place match Teams
Champions Score Runners-up 3rd place Score 4th place
2015[1]
Details
Austria
Austria

Netherlands
14–11
Portugal

Norway
15–12
Sweden
4
2016[2]
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Sweden
Sweden

Netherlands
19–10
Portugal

Sweden
13–7
Italy
4
2017 No tournament
2018[3]
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Portugal
Portugal

Portugal
20–7
Croatia

Netherlands
13–5
Hungary
4
2019
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Croatia
Croatia

Croatia
9–8
Portugal

Hungary
6–3
Netherlands
6
2022
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Portugal
Portugal

Portugal
18-10
Netherlands

Norway
15–14
India
9
2025
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Lithuania
Lithuania

Portugal
2-1
France

Lithuania
2–1
Croatia
9

Medal count

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RankNationGoldSilverBronzeTotal
1 Portugal3306
2 Netherlands2114
3 Croatia1102
4 France0101
5 Norway0022
6 Hungary0011
 Lithuania0011
 Sweden0011
Totals (8 entries)66618

Participation details

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Locations of the Tournaments and best result of each team
Legend
  • 1st – Champions
  • 2nd – Runners-up
  • 3rd – Third place
  • 4th – Fourth place
  •    – Did not enter
  •    – Hosts

For each tournament, the number of teams in each finals tournament (in brackets) are shown.

Team 2015
(4)
2016
(4)
2018
(4)
2019
(6)
2025
(9)
Participations
 Croatia2nd1st 4th3
 Hungary4th3rd 8th3
 Italy4th 1
 Netherlands1st1st3rd4th 9th5
 Norway3rd 6th2
 Portugal2nd2nd1st2nd 1st5
 Romania5th 7th2
 Slovenia6th 1
 Sweden4th3rd 2
 Lithuania 3rd 1
 France 2nd 1
 Spain 5th 1

Statistics

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Total hosts

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HostsNations (Year(s)
1 Austria (2015)
Sweden (2016)
Portugal (2018)
Croatia (2019)

Top scorers by tournament

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The record-holder for scored goals in a single Nations’ Tournament is Ademir Demirovic. He scored 26 goals for Croatia at the 2018 European Wheelchair Handball Nations’ Tournament that took place in Portugal.

Year Player Goals
2015 Portugal Serghei Mitrofan 17
2016 Portugal Iderlindo Gomes 22
2018 Croatia Ademir Demirovic 26

All-time top scorers

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Record
RankNationalityPlayerGoalsTournaments⌀TGames⌀G
1st place, gold medalist(s) PortugalJoao Jeronimo43314.33123.58
2nd place, silver medalist(s) NetherlandsBart Neeft37312.33123.08
3rd place, bronze medalist(s) PortugalIderlindo Gomes3621884.5
4 PortugalSerghei Mitrofan36312123
5 NetherlandsMartijn Dokkum35311.67122.92
6 CroatiaAdemir Demirovic2612646.5
7 NetherlandsFrank Hooning25212.583.125
8 SwedenKevin Johannessen21210.582.625
9 PortugalHelder Farroba182982.25
10 PortugalRicardo Queiros1611644
 CroatiaAnte Stimac

Ranked: 1) Goals; 2) Average goals per tournament

Sources:[4][5] & [6]

References

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  1. "2015 European Wheelchair Handball Nations' Tournament". eurohandball. 2018-12-02. Archived from the original on 2018-12-04. Retrieved 2018-12-04.
  2. "2016 European Wheelchair Handball Nations' Tournament". eurohandball. 2018-12-02. Archived from the original on 2018-12-04. Retrieved 2018-12-04.
  3. "2018 European Wheelchair Handball Nations' Tournament". eurohandball. 2018-12-02. Archived from the original on 2018-12-04. Retrieved 2018-12-04.
  4. "2015 European Wheelchair Handball Nations' Tournament - Top Scorers". eurohandball. 2018-12-02. Archived from the original on 2018-12-14. Retrieved 2018-12-14.
  5. "2016 European Wheelchair Handball Nations' Tournament - Top Scorers". eurohandball. 2018-12-02. Archived from the original on 2018-12-14. Retrieved 2018-12-14.
  6. "2018 European Wheelchair Handball Nations' Tournament - Top Scorers". eurohandball. 2018-12-02. Archived from the original on 2018-12-04. Retrieved 2018-12-04.
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See also

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