Throughout the 2021 IHF Men’s World Championship Main Round which started on Wednesday 20 January and finished on Monday 25 January, a total of 36 matches were played with some impressive individual and team performances, statistically-speaking.

24 teams battled it out in the main round, with 20 winning at least one 'hummel Player of the Match' award. 

Half of the quarter-finalists; Denmark, Egypt, Spain and Sweden took the award in all three of their games, with Switzerland also having a 100% record of awarding.

France, who topped their group and have a perfect record at Egypt 2021 so far, did not win one in the second phase.

Every single match - like all at Egypt 2021 - saw fans have the opportunity to help decide the ‘hummel Player of the Match’ award, via the IHF Official App with the IHF Analyst on site nominating a shortlist of three influential players with five minutes remaining and getting fans to vote.

Hummel Player of the Match awards – Egypt 2021
(Main Round, 36 games played)

Per Team

3 – Denmark (DEN), Egypt (EGY), Spain (ESP), Switzerland (SUI), Sweden (SWE) – 5 teams

2 – Croatia (CRO), Hungary (HUN), Norway (NOR), Poland (POL), Portugal (POR), Qatar (QAT) – 6 teams

1 – Algeria (ALG), Argentina (ARG), Brazil (BRA), Germany (GER), Iceland (ISL), Japan (JPN), North Macedonia (MKD), Russian Handball Federation (RHF), Slovenia (SLO) – 9 teams 

0 – Bahrain (BRN), Belarus (BLR), France (FRA), Uruguay (URU) – 4 teams

Per Position

9 – Goalkeeper
7 – Left Back
6 – Left Wing
6 – Right Back
5 – Centre Back
2 – Line Player (Pivot)
1 – Right Wing

Per Player

2 – Emil JAKOBSEN (DEN), Nikola PORTNER (SUI)

1 – (32 players)

Per Shirt Number

4 – #16

3 – #7, #9

2 - #5, #15, #27, #66

Per Game
 

Game	Player	Country	Position	Shirt #
SUI vs ISL	Nikola Portner	SUI	Goalkeeper	16
MKD vs SLO	Urban Lesjak	SLO	Goalkeeper	90
FRA vs ALG	Messaoud Berkous	ALG	Left back	6
RHF vs EGY	Ahmad El-Ahmar	EGY	Right back	66
POR vs NOR	Humberto Gomes	POR	Goalkeeper	16
SWE vs BLR	Hampus Wanne	SWE	Left wing	15
URU vs POL	Szymon Sicko	POL	Left back	9
JPN vs ARG	Federico Pizarro	ARG	Right back	3
HUN vs BRA	Roland Mikler	HUN	Goalkeeper	16
CRO vs BRN	Marin Sego	CRO	Goalkeeper	55
ESP vs GER	Raul Entrerrios	ESP	Centre back	9
DEN vs QAT	Mathias Gidsel	DEN	Right back	33
SUI vs POR	Andy Schmid	SUI	Centre back	2
MKD vs RHF	Igor Soroka	RHF	Left wing	44
ISL vs FRA	Bjarki Mar Elisson	ISL	Left wing	8
EGY vs BLR	Ahmed Hesham	EGY	Centre back	15
NOR vs ALG	Sander Sagosen	NOR	Left back	5
SLO vs SWE	Jim Gottfridsson	SWE	Centre back	24
URU vs ESP	Aitor Arino Bengoechea	ESP	Left wing	29
QAT vs BRN	Rafael Capote	QAT	Left back	9
POL vs HUN	Mate Lekai	HUN	Centre back	66
ARG vs CRO	Ivan Cupic	CRO	Right wing	27
GER vs BRA	Johannes Golla	GER	Line Player	4
JPN vs DEN	Emil Jakobsen	DEN	Left wing	7
ALG vs SUI	Nikola Portner	SUI	Goalkeeper	16
BLR vs MKD	Kiril Lazarov	MKD	Right back	7
ISL vs NOR	Goran Johannessen	NOR	Left back	23
SLO vs EGY	Yahia Omar	EGY	Right back	5
POR vs FRA	Andre Gomes	POR	Left back	27
RHF vs SWE	Andreas Palicka	SWE	Goalkeeper	12
BRA vs URU	Rogerio Morais	BRA	Line Player	13
BRN vs JPN	Tatsuki Yoshino	JPN	Left back	31
ESP vs HUN	Gonzalo Perez de Vargas Moreno	ESP	Goalkeeper	1
ARG vs QAT	Frankis Marzo	QAT	Right back	10
POL vs GER	Adam Morawski	POL	Goalkeeper	94
DEN vs CRO	Emil Jakobsen	DEN	Left wing	7

To view the stats from the Preliminary Round, click HERE.

Tomorrow (Thursday 28 January), IHF.info will bring you an overall review of all hummel Player of the Match awarding, including the President’s Cup and quarter-finals.

All information use data supplied by national federations at their pre-championship technical meetings. In-depth statistics can be found on the IHF Egypt 2021 mini-site HERE.