Classification is crucial for all paralympic sports, hence also for wheelchair handball. During the classification process a team of international classifiers evaluates the motoric capacity of the players. Thus, classification serves to define who is eligible to compete in wheelchair handball and groups athletes into sport classes which aim to ensure that the impact of impairment is minimised, and only sporting excellence determines which athlete or team is ultimately victorious. 

In wheelchair handball, players can be classified in the following classes: 1, 2, 3 and 4.

A team is allowed to only have a certain number of points on the field of play: 17 points in wheelchair handball six-a-side, and 12 points in wheelchair handball four-a-side. These maximum numbers of points per team may be adjusted according to different factors such as the number of female players, fouls, etc. Please refer to the Rules of the Game for more details.

All players who have participated in an international wheelchair handball competition are allocated a sport class and a sport class status after the evaluation process through the classification panel. The outcomes are available after international wheelchair handball competitions in the Classification Master List on the IHF website. 

For further information about classification, please refer to the IHF Wheelchair Handball Classification Rules and Regulations Six-a-Side and Four-a-Side.