2025 World Handball Championship Predictions & Betting tips
Find our free prediction on the 2025 World Handball Championship, as well as our expert predictions on the men's World Handball matches. Lots of information for your sports betting!
Presentation and predictions for the Handball World Championship 2025
The Handball World Cup is one of the biggest sporting events of the new year! Held from 14 January to 2 February 2025 in Norway, Denmark and Croatia, the World Cup will once again bring together the best nations in the world with a common goal: to be crowned champions.
After Denmark, the three-time defending champions (2019, 2021 and 2023), who will stand out at the 29th edition? What predictions should you make during the competition? Our handball specialists have the answers on this page!
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Our prediction for the winner of the 2025 World Handball Championship
Three-time defending World Champions Norway are, unsurprisingly, the bookmakers' favourites to win the trophy before the competition kicks off. Even with Mikkel Hansen's retirement after the Paris Olympics, the Danes still have a top-quality squad, and will also have the chance to play some of their games on home soil.
If Denmark wins this World Championship, they will go down in the history of handball as Romania and Sweden, both with 4 titles, just behind France with 5. And the Danes have every intention of riding the wave of success they are currently enjoying, having just won the 2024 Olympic Games 6 months ago.
Just behind them, France are the second big favourites, far ahead of the other contenders, who have direct odds of close to 10.00! And yet Les Bleus are coming off a very disappointing home Olympic Games... Eliminated by Germany in the quarter-finals, we were obviously hoping for much better from this team, who will have the opportunity to make up for it at this World Cup. However, we're not sure that will be enough to overcome the Danes... Our prediction for the winner of the 2025 World Handball Championship: victory for Denmark!
The odds for the title
- Denmark - 1.80
- France - 4.33
- Sweden - 9.00
- Norway - 10.00
- Spain - 11.00
- Croatia - 19.00
- Germany - 21.00
- Iceland - 26.00
- Egypt - 26.00
- Slovenia - 41.00
- Portugal - 67.00
- Hungary - 67.00
- Poland - 126.00
- Austria - 201.00
- Brazil - 301.00
- Netherlands - 401.00
- Czechia - 501.00
- Switzerland - 501.00
- Qatar - 501.00
- Japan - 501.00
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The preliminary groups of the 2025 Handball World Championship
The World Handball Championship is divided into several stages, starting with the preliminary phase, which of course includes the 32 qualifying nations. They are divided into 8 groups of 4, and will have to do their utmost to finish among the top three in their group and qualify for the next round.
Here is the composition of the groups for the 2025 World Handball Championship:
- Group A | Germany - Czech Republic - Poland - Switzerland
- Group B | Denmark - Italy - Algeria - Tunisia
- Group C | France - Austria - Qatar - Kuwait
- Group D | Hungary - Netherlands - Northern Macedonia - Guinea
- Group E | Norway - Portugal - Brazil - United States
- Group F I Sweden - Spain - Japan - Chile
- Group G I Slovenia - Iceland - Cuba - Cape Verde
- Group H I Egypt - Croatia - Argentina - Bahrain
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Beginners - How does the Handball World Cup 2025 work?
If you want to bet on the World Handball Championship, it's very important to understand how it works. Let's take a look at the organisation of the tournament, which is divided into three fairly different phases.
We start with the preliminary round, played over the first six days of the competition. This preliminary phase takes the 32 nations and divides them into 8 groups of 4 teams (A, B, C, D, E, F, G and H). The teams then play each other once, and will have to finish in the top three places to see out the rest of the competition. As you may have guessed, every last-place team (8 in total) will be eliminated and will play in a ranking tournament, known as the President's Cup. Note that in this World Championship, a win earns 2 points, a draw 1 point and a defeat 0 points.
In the second phase (21 to 26 January 2025), the 24 remaining nations are then divided into 4 groups of 6, with the top two teams from each group advancing to the quarter-finals, while the bottom four are eliminated. The third and final part of the tournament is then a phase with knockout matches (quarter-finals, semi-finals, match for 3rd place and the grand final).
To sum up, we have :
- Preliminary round (14 to 20 January 2025) - 8 groups of 4 nations (top 3 qualifiers)
- Main round (21 to 26 January 2025) - 4 groups of 6 nations (top 2 qualifiers)
- Final round (28 January to 2 February 2025) - knockout matches
All in all, a superb programme arranged for just over 2 weeks.
Tournament details
- The venues: Oslo (Norway) - Herning (Denmark) - Zagreb, Varaždin and Poreč (Croatia)
- The dates: 14 January to 2 February 2025
- The last winner: Norway (2023)
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How can I make a good World Handball prediction?
Would you like to make a prediction on the Handball World Cup 2025? Take a look at our experts' betting tips to help you prepare your bets:
- Check the teams' form
- Check the results of recent head-to-head matches
- Take into account the teams' records
- Find out about any absentees
- Check what's at stake in the match
If you take into account the main points suggested by our experts, you'll have every chance of making the best possible predictions for the 2025 World Handball Championship. All our tips are detailed below:
Check the teams' form
The first piece of advice to apply to this Handball World Cup 2025 is to observe the dynamics of the different nations. To help you, you can use the results from the qualification phases. Percentage of wins, offensive or defensive strength? All these details should be taken into account when analysing a match at this World Handball Championship.
To make your analysis more effective, you'll even need to look at who the matches were played against to get a realistic idea of the teams' form. For example, you should avoid betting on a team priced at 1.10 if it has lost its last four warm-up matches against average teams, especially if its rival on the day is in good form.
Check the results of recent head-to-head matches
Once you've got a good idea of the recent level of play between the teams, you'll need to take a look at the encounters between these nations. If possible, you should pay particular attention to the most recent head-to-heads, those played in recent months or years. There is little point in taking into account a duel from 10 years ago, given that the squad is no longer the same and the level of the team has probably evolved.
France, for example, have won all four of their encounters with Austria since 2015, including the last Euro and the last World Cup, and will have a clear advantage going into the next match. By following these first two tips, you should have a good idea of each team's chances of victory.
Take into account the teams' track records
The third piece of advice from our handball specialists is to look at the performances of the various teams at previous editions of the World Cup. For example, only three different teams have been World Champions since 2009. France have won the title 4 times, Spain just once, and Denmark are three-time defending champions.
These are teams that we're used to seeing go far at every international tournament. So before making your predictions for the 2025 World Cup, you need to take a look at how each team has fared at past tournaments. A team that has always reached the quarter-finals in the last three editions will have a better chance of reaching this stage than one that has never made it past the preliminary round.
Find out about any absentees
Since handball is played 7 against 7, each absence can have a big impact on a match. Are several of a nation's key players absent for a match? Avoid betting on that team's victory. Whether through injury or suspension, the absence of a major player will inevitably affect his team's chances of winning. Take this advice into account when analysing a match at the 2025 World Cup.
Confirm what's at stake in the match
Finally, one last important tip: avoid betting on a match where the teams have nothing at stake. If a nation that is certain of finishing first plays a nation that will be eliminated from the competition in any case, there is a good chance of a surprise result.
A team that has already secured top spot in its group and will qualify for the finals will certainly rotate its star players in order to keep them fresh for the next match. Fixtures with little at stake are very difficult to predict, which is why we advise you to avoid betting on this type of match.
World Handball Cup 2025 statistics you need to know
If you want to place successful sports bets on the 2025 World Handball Championship, it's also important to know the key statistics for the competition, especially if you want to place alternative bets at online sports betting sites.
Here are the key statistics from the last tournament to bear in mind when placing your bets:
- Average goals per game: 57.8 goals per game
- Average goal difference: 5.7 goals
- Draws: 3% of matches
- Matches with +50.5 goals : 82%
- Matches with +52.5 goals : 78%
- Matches with +54.5 goals : 68%
- Matches with +56.5 goals : 60%
- Matches with +58.5 goals : 45%
- Matches with +60.5 goals : 32%
- Matches with +62.5 goals: 23%
If you want to place bets on other types of markets, you can see at a glance which ones to try at the 2025 World Handball Championship. Great odds await you on bets such as ‘Over 54.5’ or ‘Over 56.5’, which you can try throughout the tournament. And, for your information, these Over stats have increased significantly compared to the previous edition (2021).
In a nutshell: how do you predict the 2025 Handball World Cup?
To sum up, if you want to make the best possible predictions for the matches at the 2025 World Handball Championship, there are a few things you need to bear in mind before you start betting. For a start, it's very important to have sufficient knowledge of the tournament and how it works in general, but you also need to have in mind the favourites and outsiders in the competition.
It's also very important to consult the major statistics (given above) before placing a bet. If you can, don't hesitate to closely follow the matches and results of the warm-up fixtures for this World Cup. Finally, take note that all this information is and will be available free of charge throughout the World Cup on this page, right here. So don't deprive yourself of it to make the most of your bets with the bookmakers!
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