After the completion of 60 games and the preliminary round of the 2019 IHF Men’s Youth World Championship in North Macedonia, we take a look at some of the numbers relating to the championship and those playing in it.

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2019 IHF Men's Youth World Championship – North Macedonia

Games played: 60

Games remaining: 32

Total goals scored: 3,304

Highest scoring game: 71 goals – Nigeria vs North Macedonia (34:37)

Lowest scoring game: 43 goals – North Macedonia vs Argentina (20:23) & Portugal vs Serbia (22:21)

Highest team score in one game: 48 goals – Sweden (vs Chinese Taipei 48:18)

Lowest team score in one game: 13 goals – Canada (vs Hungary 13:41)

Preliminary group most goals scored: Group B – 865 goals

Preliminary group least goals scored: Group D – 776 goals

Draws: 2 (Norway vs Spain 28:28, Sweden vs France 32:32)

Top scorer: Nenad Kosteski (MKD) – 40 (8 goals per game)

Most assists: Martin Serafimov (MKD) – 31 (6.2 per game)

Most saves: Asil Namli (TUN) – 54 saves from 162 shots (33% - 10.8 per game)

Most goals scored: Sweden – 176 (35.2 per game)

Least goals scored: Canada – 82 (16.4 per game)

Least goals conceded: Croatia – 101 (20.2 per game)

Most goals conceded: Canada – 200 (40 per game)

Highest % of attempts to goals: Croatia – 72.7% (168 goals from 231 attempts)

Most attempts: Sweden – 259 (51.8 per game)

Squad statistics
*after submission of 16-name squads at pre-competition technical meeting, and all player replacements up to the beginning of the Eighth-Finals/17-14 Placement Round and using data submitted by national federations (not all complete). Nigeria and Canada both have named 14-player squads.

Youngest squad (average): Nigeria (17.29 years)

Oldest squad (average): Sweden (18.64 years)

Youngest player: Faruk Yusuf (NGR) - 15 years old (19/02/2004)

Oldest player: Oliver Larsen (DEN) – 19 years old (03/02/2000)

Tallest player: Julius Meyer-Siebert (GER) – 2,06m

Shortest player: Adeshola Samson Adelakun (NGR) – 1,60m

Tallest squad (average): Denmark (193.6 cm)

Shortest squad (average): Nigeria (175.4 cm)

Lightest squad (average): Nigeria (67.4 kg)

Heaviest squad (average): Germany (96.1kg)

Birthdays during North Macedonia 2019: 

Khaled Saidi (TUN) – 08/08/2000
Mohammed Hassan Alobaidi (KSA) - 09/08/2000
Youssef Alaaeldin Ahmed (EGY) - 10/08/2000
Mohamed Achref Boujezza (TUN) – 11/08/2000
Fran Mileta (CRO) - 14/08/2000
Ante Ivankovic (CRO) - 15/08/2000

All statistics above current as of 0900, 14/08/19