The International Handball Federation (IHF) has announced the list of referees for the 2025 IHF Men’s Youth (U19) World Championship, which will be staged from 6 to 17 August in Egypt.

According to the updated Regulations for International and Continental Referees and Regulations for Official IHF Referee Courses, the IHF Playing Rules and Referees Commission has nominated five continental referee couples to officiate in the event. 

The 2025 IHF Men’s Junior (U19) World Championship in Egypt will serve as official IHF Referee assessment for these continental couples.
 
The 22 referee couples nominated for the event are as follows:

IHF Referees

ARG – Santiago CORREA / Agustín CONBERSE

BRA – Henrique GODOY / Daniel MAGALHAES (pictured)

CHN – Yufeng CHENG / Yunlei ZHOU

CRO – Ante MIKELIC / Petar PARADINA

CUB – Raymel REYES / Alexys ZUÑIGA

EGY – Mahmoud ELBELTAGY / Hamdy Nasser MAHMOUD

EGY – Heidy ELSAIED / Yasmina ELSAIED

FRA – Titouan PICARD / Pierre VAUCHEZ

KSA – Mohammed ALSAQER / Ali ALSUQUFI

KUW – Maali ALENEZI / Dalal ALNASEEM

MDA – Alexei COVALCIUC / Igor COVALCIUC

MKD – Ismailj METALARI / Nenad NIKOLOVSKI

MNE – Andjelina KAZANEGRA / Jelena VUJACIC

OMA – Omer Al-SHAHI / Khamis AL WAHIBI

ROU – Mihai PIRVU / Radu-Mihai POTIRNICHE

URU – German ARAUJO / Nicolas PERDOMO

UZB – Khasan ISMOILOV / Khusan ISMOILOV
 

Continental Referees (IHF Candidates)

CIV – Abdoulaye KONE / Joel YAPO

ESP – Raul OYARZUN / Aritz ZARAGUETA

KOR – Changhwan CHA / Hyunjin PAK

NOR – Andreas BORGE / Magnus NYGREN

POR – Ruben MAIA / Andre NUNES