European Wheelchair Handball Nations' Tournament

European Wheelchair Handball Nations' Tournament

Current season, competition or edition: 2019 European Wheelchair Handball Nations’ Tournament
Sport	wheelchair handball
Founded	2015
First season	2015
No. of teams	6
Continent	EHF (Europe)
Most recent champion(s)	Croatia (1st title)
Most titles	Netherlands (2 titles)

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).

The Netherlands are record champions with two continuous titles which came in 2015 and 2016.

Tournaments[edit]

Year	Host		Final				3rd place match				Teams
			Champions	Score	Runners-up		3rd place	Score	4th place
2015[1] Details	Austria		Netherlands	14–11	Portugal		Norway	15–12	Sweden		4
2016[2] Details	Sweden		Netherlands	19–10	Portugal		Sweden	13–7	Italy		4
2017	No tournament
2018[3] Details	Portugal	Portugal	20-7	Croatia	Netherlands	13-5	Hungary	4
2019 Details	Croatia	Croatia	9-8	Portugal	Hungary	6-3	Netherlands	6

Medal count[edit]

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	Netherlands	2	0	1	3
2	Portugal	1	3	0	4
3	Croatia	1	1	0	2
4	Hungary	0	0	1	1
	Norway	0	0	1	1
	Sweden	0	0	1	1
Totals (6 entries)		4	4	4	12

Participation details[edit]

2015 St. Pölten

2016 Sölvesborg

2018 Leira

2019 Zagreb

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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)	Participations
Croatia	•	•	2nd	1st	2
Hungary	•	•	4th	3rd	2
Italy	•	4th	•	•	1
Netherlands	1st	1st	3rd	4th	4
Norway	3rd	•	•	•	1
Portugal	2nd	2nd	1st	2nd	4
Romania	•	•	•	5th	1
Slovenia	•	•	•	6th	1
Sweden	4th	3rd	•	•	2

Statistics[edit]

Total hosts[edit]

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

Most valuable player[edit] Year Player 2015 5 players 2016 5 players 2018 Ricardo Queiros

Best Goalkeeper[edit] Year Player 2015 Joyce Van Haaster (1) 2016 Joyce Van Haaster (2) 2018 Joyce Van Haaster (3)

Top scorers by tournament[edit]

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	Serghei Mitrofan	17
2016	Iderlindo Gomes	22
2018	Ademir Demirovic	26

All-time top scorers[edit]

Rank	Nationality	Player	Goals	Tournaments	⌀T	Games	⌀G
	Portugal	Joao Jeronimo	43	3	14.33	12	3.58
	Netherlands	Bart Neeft	37	3	12.33	12	3.08
	Portugal	Iderlindo Gomes	36	2	18	8	4.5
4	Portugal	Serghei Mitrofan	36	3	12	12	3
5	Netherlands	Martijn Dokkum	35	3	11.67	12	2.92
6	Croatia	Ademir Demirovic	26	1	26	4	6.5
7	Netherlands	Frank Hooning	25	2	12.5	8	3.125
8	Sweden	Kevin Johannessen	21	2	10.5	8	2.625
9	Portugal	Helder Farroba	18	2	9	8	2.25
10	Portugal	Ricardo Queiros	16	1	16	4	4
	Croatia	Ante Stimac

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

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

References[edit]

External links[edit]

• Official homepage of the European Handball Federation

See also[edit]

• Wheelchair handball
• IHF Wheelchair Handball World Championship
• Pan American Wheelchair Handball Championship