2008 European Men's Handball Championship

2008 EHF European Men's Handball Championship
Tournament details
Håndball-EM 2008. (in Norwegian)

Host country	Norway
Dates	17–27 January
Teams	16 (from 1 confederation)
Venue(s)	5 (in 5 host cities)
Final positions
Champions	Denmark (1st title)
Runner-up	Croatia
Third place	France
Fourth place	Germany
Tournament statistics
Matches	47
Goals scored	2633 (56.02 per match)
Top scorer(s)	Ivano Balić (CRO) (44 goals) Nikola Karabatić (FRA) Lars Christiansen (DEN)
Best player	Nikola Karabatić (FRA)
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The 2008 EHF European Men's Handball Championship (8th tournament) was held in Norway from 17–27 January, in the cities of Bergen, Drammen, Lillehammer, Stavanger and Trondheim. Denmark won the tournament with Croatia second and France third.

Qualification round

Qualification matches took place in 2007. According to the EHF rules, the host (Norway) and the top six nations from the 2006 European Championship (France, Croatia, Spain, Denmark, Germany, Russia) were automatically qualified. The other nine places were determined after the play-off matches, held in June; nine teams were seeded, after qualifying for the 2006 Championship, while their opponents qualified through the preliminary group stages.

Venues

City	Stadium	Capacity
Drammen	Drammenshallen	4,000
Stavanger	Stavanger Idrettshall	7,000
Bergen	Haukelandshallen	4,000
Trondheim	Trondheim Spektrum	4,000
Lillehammer	Håkons Hall	10,500

Preliminary round

	Team advanced to the Main Round
	Team is eliminated from the tournament

All times are Central European Time (UTC+1)

Group A (Stavanger)

Team	Pld	W	L	GF	GA	GDIF	Points
Croatia	3	3	0	91	77	+14	6
Poland	3	2	1	93	89	+4	4
Slovenia	3	1	2	85	94	−9	2
Czech Republic	3	0	3	88	97	−9	0


17 January 2008
Slovenia	34 – 32	Czech Republic	18:15
Croatia	32 – 27	Poland	20:15
18 January 2008
Czech Republic	26 – 30	Croatia	18:15
Poland	33 – 27	Slovenia	20:15
20 January 2008
Poland	33 – 30	Czech Republic	15:15
Croatia	29 – 24	Slovenia	17:15

Group B (Drammen)

Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GDIF	Points
Norway	3	3	0	0	86	69	+17	6
Denmark	3	2	0	1	89	79	+10	4
Montenegro	3	0	1	2	71	84	−13	1
Russia	3	0	1	2	74	88	−14	1


17 January 2008
Russia	25–25	Montenegro	17:00
Denmark	26 – 27	Norway	19:15
18 January 2008
Norway	32 – 21	Russia	18:15
Montenegro	24 – 32	Denmark	20:15
20 January 2008
Denmark	31 – 28	Russia	17:15
Norway	27 – 22	Montenegro	19:15

Group C (Bergen)

Team	Pld	W	L	GF	GA	GDIF	Points
Hungary	3	2	1	90	82	+8	4
Spain	3	2	1	94	88	+6	4
Germany	3	2	1	84	80	+4	4
Belarus	3	0	3	83	101	−18	0


17 January 2008
Germany	34 – 26	Belarus	17:15
Spain	28 – 35	Hungary	19:15
19 January 2008
Hungary	24 – 28	Germany	18:15
Belarus	31 – 36	Spain	20:15
20 January 2008
Spain	30 – 22	Germany	16:30
Hungary	31 – 26	Belarus	18:30

Group D (Trondheim)

Team	Pld	W	L	GF	GA	GDIF	Points
France	3	3	0	90	76	+14	6
Sweden	3	2	1	89	72	+17	4
Iceland	3	1	2	68	76	−8	2
Slovakia	3	0	3	78	101	−23	0


17 January 2008
France	32 – 31	Slovakia	18:15
Iceland	19 – 24	Sweden	20:15
19 January 2008
Slovakia	22 – 28	Iceland	18:15
Sweden	24 – 28	France	20:15
20 January 2008
Slovakia	25 – 41	Sweden	16:15
France	30 – 21	Iceland	18:15

Main Round

	Team advanced to the Semifinals
	Team will compete for the 5th/6th place
	Team is eliminated from the tournament

Group I (Stavanger)

Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GDIF	Points
Denmark	5	4	0	1	152	120	+32	8
Croatia	5	3	1	1	138	130	+8	7
Norway	5	2	2	1	130	128	+2	6
Poland	5	2	1	2	149	142	+7	5
Slovenia	5	2	0	3	138	148	−10	4
Montenegro	5	0	0	5	124	163	−39	0


22 January 2008
Slovenia	31 – 29	Montenegro	16:15
Croatia	20 – 30	Denmark	18:15
Poland	24–24	Norway	20:15
23 January 2008
Croatia	34 – 26	Montenegro	16:15
Poland	26 – 36	Denmark	18:15
Slovenia	33 – 29	Norway	20:15
24 January 2008
Poland	39 – 23	Montenegro	16:15
Slovenia	23 – 28	Denmark	18:15
Croatia	23–23	Norway	20:15

Group II (Trondheim)

Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GDIF	Points
France	5	4	0	1	140	126	+14	8
Germany	5	3	0	2	139	136	+3	6
Sweden	5	2	1	2	131	131	0	5
Hungary	5	2	1	2	145	147	−2	5
Spain	5	2	0	3	144	138	+6	4
Iceland	5	1	0	4	129	150	−21	2


22 January 2008
Germany	35 – 27	Iceland	16:20
Spain	27 – 28	France	18:30
Hungary	27–27	Sweden	20:30
23 January 2008
Spain	26 – 27	Sweden	16:15
Germany	23 – 26	France	18:15
Hungary	28 – 36	Iceland	20:15
24 January 2008
Spain	33 – 26	Iceland	15:20
Hungary	31 – 28	France	17:20
Germany	31 – 29	Sweden	19:20

Final round

Semifinal			Final

26 January – 15:30 (Lillehammer)
Croatia	24
France	23

			27 January – 16:00 (Lillehammer)
			Denmark	24
			Croatia	20


			Bronze Match
26 January – 18:00 (Lillehammer)		27 January – 13:30 (Lillehammer)
Denmark	26	Germany	26
Germany	25		France	36

5th/6th Placement Match

26 January 13:00	Norway	34–36 (ET)	Sweden	Håkons Hall, Lillehammer Attendance: 5,840 Referees: Lemme, Ullrich (GER)
	Strand 10	(13–15)	Boquist, Källmann 7
	3× 3×	Report	4× 3×
	FT: 26–26 ET: 30–30, 34–36

Semifinals

26 January 15:30	Croatia	24–23	France	Håkons Hall, Lillehammer Attendance: 6,012 Referees: Baum, Góralczyk (POL)
	Metličić 6	(11–9)	Abalo, Narcisse 7
	1× 4×	Report	2× 4×

26 January 18:00	Denmark	26–25	Germany	Håkons Hall, Lillehammer Attendance: 6,012 Referees: Poladenko, Chernega (RUS)
	Christiansen 6	(10–13)	Kehrmann 6
	2× 3×	Report	4× 3×

Bronze Match

27 January 13:30	Germany	26–36	France	Håkons Hall, Lillehammer Attendance: 7,940 Referees: Vakula, Liudovyk (UKR)
	Jansen 7	(9–18)	Girault 8
	4× 3×	Report	3× 3×

Final

27 January 17:30	Denmark	24–20	Croatia	Håkons Hall, Lillehammer Attendance: 9,052 Referees: Breto, Huelin (ESP)
	Boesen, Christiansen 7	(13–10)	Metličić 5
	5× 2×	Report	6× 4× 1×

Ranking and Statistics

Final ranking

	Denmark
	Croatia
	France
4	Germany
5	Sweden
6	Norway
7	Poland
8	Hungary
9	Spain
10	Slovenia
11	Iceland
12	Montenegro
13	Czech Republic
14	Russia
15	Belarus
16	Slovakia

2008 Men's European Champions

Denmark
First Title

Team Roster

Kasper Hvidt, Mikkel Holm Aagaard, Lasse Boesen, Lars T. Jørgensen, Jesper Jensen, Lars Rasmussen, Lars Christiansen, Lars Møller Madsen, Peter Henriksen, Bo Spellerberg, Michael V. Knudsen, Jesper Nøddesbo, Lars Krogh Jeppesen, Kasper Søndergaard, Joachim Boldsen, Hans Lindberg and Kasper Nielsen.
Head Coach: Ulrik Wilbek.

All-Star Team

Goalkeeper: Kasper Hvidt (DEN)
Left wing: Lars Christiansen (DEN)
Left back: Daniel Narcisse (FRA)
Pivot: Frank Løke (NOR)
Centre back: Ivano Balić (CRO)
Right back: Kim Andersson (SWE)
Right wing: Florian Kehrmann (GER)

Other awards

Most Valuable Player: Nikola Karabatić (FRA)
Best Defence Player: Igor Vori (CRO)
Top Goalscorer: 44 goals
Lars Christiansen (DEN)
Ivano Balić (CRO)
Nikola Karabatić (FRA)

European Handball Championships

Men's

Tournaments	Portugal 1994 Spain 1996 Italy 1998 Croatia 2000 Sweden 2002 Slovenia 2004 Switzerland 2006 Norway 2008 Austria 2010 Serbia 2012 Denmark 2014 Poland 2016 Croatia 2018 Austria / Norway / Sweden 2020
Qualification	1994 1996 1998 2000 2002 2004 2006 2008 2010 2012 2014 2016 2018 2020
Squads	1994 1996 1998 2000 2002 2004 2006 2008 2010 2012 2014 2016

Women's

Tournaments	Germany 1994 Denmark 1996 Netherlands 1998 Romania 2000 Denmark 2002 Hungary 2004 Sweden 2006 Macedonia 2008 Denmark / Norway 2010 Serbia 2012 Hungary / Croatia 2014 Sweden 2016 France 2018 Denmark / Norway 2020
Qualification	1994 1996 1998 2000 2002 2004 2006 2008 2010 2012 2014 2016 2018
Squads	1994 1996 1998 2000 2002 2004 2006 2008 2010 2012 2014 2016

Sport in Lillehammer
Clubs	Faaberg IL Lillehammer FK Lillehammer IF Lillehammer IK Lillehammer Skiklub Lillehammer Skøiteklubb Søre Ål IL
Venues	Balbergbakken (closed) Håkons Hall Kanthaugen Freestyle Arena Kristins Hall Lillehammer Olympic Bobsleigh and Luge Track Lillehammer Stadium (closed) Lysgårdsbakken Stampesletta
Events	World All-Round Speed Skating Championships for Women 1953 World Ice Hockey Championships 1989 (Group B) 1999 World Women's Handball Championship 1993 1999 1994 Winter Olympics 1994 Winter Paralympics 2008 European Men's Handball Championship 2010 European Women's Handball Championship 2016 Winter Youth Olympics

Sport in Trondheim
Clubs	SK Brage • Byåsen IL (football • handball) • Byaasen SK • Charlottenlund SK • SK Falken • SK Freidig • Heimdal IF • Kattem IL • FK Kvik • Leinstrand IL • Nardo FK• Nidaros Futsal • Nidelv IL • NTNUI • Ranheim IL (Fotball) • Revolve NTNU • Rosenborg BK • Rosenborg IHK • Selsbakk IF • SK Nationalkameratene • Strindheim IL • Sverresborg IF • Tiller IL • Trondheim Black Panthers • Trondheim Friidrett • SK Trondheims-Ørn • Trondhjems IF • Trondhjems Skiklubb • Trondhjems Skøiteklub • Trondhjems SL • Trondhjems TF • Utleira IL
Venues	DNB Arena • Granåsen • Lade Anlegget • Leangen Ishall • Leangen Kunstisbane • Leangen Travbane • Lerkendal Stadion • Øya stadion • Trondheim Spektrum
World championships	Allround speed skating (1907 (men) • 1911 (men) • 1926 (men) • 1933 (men) • 1966 (women)) • Sprint Speed Skating (1984) • Nordic skiing (1997) • Women's handball (1993 • 1999)
Events	Norwegian Football Cup Final (1916 • 1924 • 1934) • 2008 European Men's Handball Championship • 2016 UEFA Super Cup • 2018 Winter Olympics bid

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