The main round of the European Handball Championship is underway. The draw against Austria on Saturday hurt the German handball players. The chances of reaching the semi-finals at the home European Championship are still intact. The DHB selection will play against Hungary on Monday and then against Croatia on Wednesday.
The games in the main round will be played in Cologne (Group 1) and Hamburg (Group 2). The final round will take place in Cologne. All games of the German team are broadcast on free TV by ARD or ZDF. In addition, some other matches without German participation can also be seen in the streams of the ARD and ZDF media libraries.
The live broadcast of the draw against Austria was the most successful broadcast of the day. An average of 7.701 million people watched the fourth game of the home European Championship on ARD in the evening. According to AGF Videoforschung, this resulted in a market share of 27.1 percent.
The DHB selection last won the title at the European Men’s Handball Championship in 2016. Now the team around national coach Alfred Gislason wants to write a winter fairy tale in their own country. Two victories in the preliminary round had fueled the enthusiasm for handball in the country
Alexander Bommes moderates for ARD, supported by commentator Florian Naß and former world champion Johannes Bitter. Yorck Polus is the presenter at ZDF. In the second, Christoph Hamm comments together with former world champion Markus Baur.
All 65 games of this Handball World Cup will also be broadcast on the new paid streaming platform Dyn and also on the European Handball Federation’s YouTube channel, EHF TV. According to its own information, Dyn has at least 31 games exclusively in its program.
Germany plays in the main round games in the evening, either from 6 p.m. or 8:30 p.m.
If Germany plays in the semi-finals, this game would be shown on ZDF. These are the other games of the European Handball Championship and you can see them here:
Main round group 1
3.30 p.m., Croatia – Iceland, Dyn, EHF TV
6 p.m., France – Austria, ZDF, Dyn, EHF TV
8.30 p.m., Germany – Hungary, ZDF, Dyn, EHF TV
Main round group 2
3.30 p.m., Netherlands – Portugal, Dyn, EHF TV
6 p.m., Slovenia – Denmark, ARD, Dyn, EHF TV
8.30 p.m., Norway – Sweden, ARD, Dyn, EHF TV
Main round group 1
3.30 p.m., Austria – Iceland, Dyn, EHF TV
6 p.m., France – Hungary, Dyn, EHF TV
8.30 p.m.: Germany – Croatia, ARD, Dyn, EHF TV
3 p.m.: Game for 5th place, Dyn, EHF TV
5.45 p.m., semi-final 1, Dyn, EHF TV
8.30 p.m., semi-final 2, Dyn, EHF TV
3 p.m., game for third place, Dyn, EHF TV
5.45 p.m.: Final of the 2024 European Handball Championship, ARD, Dyn, EHF TV
Sources: DAZN.com, Sport1.de “Augsburger Allgemeine”, “Eurohandball.com”, “Eurosport.de”, “Dazn.com” / with material from dpa
