The match schedule for the third and final stage of the 2024 IHF Beach Handball Global Tour has been released with some big matchups taking place at the season finale.

Stage 3 – the final stage – will take place in Doha, Qatar, from 6 to 7 November and includes four men’s and four women’s national teams from six countries playing a total of 16 games (eight each in the men’s and women’s competitions).

Teams in each competition will battle it out to be crowned the ‘2024 IHF Beach Handball Global Tour Champions’, with Brazil and Germany fielding teams in both the men’s and women’s events, joined by Qatar and Croatia in the men’s competition and Portugal and Spain in the women’s competition.

Three continents will be showcased in Qatar, with South America, Europe and Asia all represented at the Al-Gharafa Beach Venue, one of the venues which hosted beach handball at the 2019 ANOC World Beach Games and which also hosted the 2023 IHF Beach Handball Global Tour: Finals exactly a year previously, won by Qatar (men) and Brazil (women).

Both 2023 champions return to defend their titles against those teams who qualified either as winners of 2024 IHF Beach Handball Global Tour stages, as the host nation or as current IHF Men’s and Women’s Beach Handball World Championship title-holders. Portugal replaced Qatar in the women’s competition, as the hosts do not currently have a women’s team.

The first three sessions of the four-session event next month will see the four teams in each competition play each other once, in the afternoon and evening on Wednesday 6 November and afternoon on Thursday 7 November.

After the preliminary stage, the top two teams in each group will play-off directly in the final for the gold medal, and title, while the third and fourth-placed teams will do battle for bronze.

The evening session on Thursday will feature the medal matches, with the men’s bronze-medal match taking place at 19:45 and final at 21:15, while the women’s bronze-medal match will be played at 19:00 and final at 20:30.

2024 IHF Beach Handball Global Tour – Stage 3: Finals
Date: 6 – 7 November
Location: Doha, Qatar
Men's teams: Brazil (BRA), Croatia (CRO), Germany (GER), Qatar (QAT)
Women's teams: Brazil (BRA), Germany (GER), Portugal (POR), Spain (ESP)

Match Schedule

Wednesday 6 November

Men’s Competition
15:15    CRO vs GER
16:45    BRA vs QAT
19:45    GER vs BRA
21:15    QAT vs CRO

Women’s Competition
14:30     ESP vs BRA
16:00     GER vs POR
19:00     POR vs ESP
20:30     BRA vs GER

Thursday 7 November

Men’s Competition
16:00     QAT vs GER
16:45     BRA vs CRO
19:45     3/4 Placement/Bronze-Medal Match
21:15     Final/Gold-Medal Match

Women’s Competition
14:30     BRA vs POR
15:15     ESP vs GER
19:00     3/4 Placement/Bronze-Medal Match
20:30     Final/Gold-Medal Match

*All times local (Qatar) / Competition Management has the right to change the order and the time of the matches.

About the IHF Beach Handball Global Tour

The IHF Beach Handball Global Tour was launched at the 2022 IHF Men’s and Women’s Beach Handball World Championships in Greece and debuted in Gdansk, Poland with Croatia winning the men’s tournament and Spain taking the top spot in the women’s tournament.

The 2023 IHF Beach Handball Global Tour visited Brazil, Tunisia and Poland before the Finals Stage was held in Doha, Qatar in November, with Qatar’s men and Brazil’s women taking the overall titles.

The 2024 IHF Beach Handball Global Tour commenced in May with Stage 1 in Maricá, Brazil. The host nation won both the men’s and women’s competitions. Stage 2 took place in Cádiz, Spain, with the host nation winning the women’s tournament and the men’s tournament won by Germany.