Classification is crucial for all paralympic sports, hence also for wheelchair handball. During the classification process a team of international classifiers evaluate 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 sporting excellence determines which athlete or team is ultimately victorious. 

In wheelchair handball, players can be classified in the following classes: 1.0, 1.5, 2.0, 2.5, 3.0, 3.5, 4.0 and 4.5.
However, on the field of play all players have a “full” class 1.0, 2.0, 3.0 or 4.0. 

A team is allowed to only have a certain number of points on the field of play, which will be determined through the sport class. 

In wheelchair handball six-a-side, the total number of points allowed on court per team at any time is 17. If a team has less than six players on court, the total number of points is 13.  
In wheelchair handball four-a-side, the four players of one team on the court must not exceed a maximum of 12 points; in case of three players on the court, they must not exceed a maximum of nine points; in case of two players on the court, they must not exceed a maximum of six points on the court. 

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

All players which have participated in an international wheelchair handball competition are allocated a sports class and a sport class status after the evaluation process through the classification panel. The outcomes are available after a wheelchair handball competition in the classification master list on the IHF website.