With the preliminary round now in the history books, IHF.info looked through all the results and the 32 definitive squad lists of the players showcasing the best of global handball at the 2023 IHF Women’s World Championship in Denmark, Norway and Sweden to pull out some interesting numbers for you as the President’s Cup and main round get underway.

Find even more statistics from the championship on the official mini-site here.

Goals

Total matches played so far: 58

Total goals scored: 2,614

Average goals per game: 54.5

Most goals scored in a game: 73 (Austria vs Norway, 28:45)

Least goals scored in a game: 36 (Montenegro vs Cameroon, 25:11)

Total goals scored in first half: 1,294 (average: 27)

Total goals scored in second half: 1,320 (27.5)

Most goals scored in first half (total): 37 (Islamic Republic of Iran vs Germany 12:25)

Least goals scored in first half (total): 15 (Montenegro vs Cameroon 13:2)

Most goals scored in second half (total): 40 (Austria vs Norway 16:24)

Least goals scored in second half (total): 18 (Senegal vs Sweden 6:12)

Most goals scored in first half (team): 25 – Romania (vs Chile), Brazil (vs Kazakhstan), Germany (vs Iran)

Least goals scored in first half (team): 2 – Cameroon (vs Montenegro)

Most goals scored in second half (team): 26 – Denmark (vs Chile)

Least goals scored in second half (team): 4 – Greenland (vs Norway)

Players

Total teams: 32

Total players: 550

Shortest player: Belinda Bobadilla Pereira (Paraguay) 1.53m

Tallest player: Camila Micijevic (Croatia) 1.95m

Youngest player: Yishan Jiang (People’s Republic of China) 22/03/2006 (17 Years, 8 Months, 14 Days)

Oldest player: Katrine Lunde (Norway) 30/03/1980 (43 Years, 8 Months, 6 Days)

Current squad sizes:
18 players: Argentina, Brazil, Congo, Denmark, France, Greenland, Hungary, Iceland, Japan, Montenegro, Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Romania, Slovenia, Sweden, Ukraine

17: Angola, People’s Republic of China, Croatia, Czechia, Germany, Serbia, Spain

16: Austria, Chile, Islamic Republic of Iran, Kazakhstan, Republic of Korea, Senegal

15: Paraguay

14: Cameroon

Club teams with most players
(with a minimum of six players, countries of players in squad represented in brackets)

15 players
Győri Audi ETO KC – Hungary (BRA, DEN, FRA, HUN, KOR, NED, NOR, SLO, SWE)

14
RK Krim Mercator – Slovenia (BRA, CGO, MNE, SLO)

12
Odense Handbold – Denmark (DEN, NED, NOR, SWE)

10
CS Rapid Bucuresti – Romania (ANG, ESP, FRA, NED, ROU, SRB)
Metz HB – France (CRO, DEN, FRA, GER)
SG BBM Bietigheim – Germany (BRA, CRO, CZE, ESP, GER, NED, SWE)

9
GSS – Greenland (GRL)
Ikast Handbold – Denmark (CZE, DEN, NOR, SWE)

8
Clube Desportivo Primeiro de Agosto – Angola (ANG)
CS Gloria 2018 Bistrita Nasaud – Romania (BRA, CRO, MNE, ROU)
CSM Bucuresti – Romania (DEN, FRA, NOR, POL, ROU, SWE)
HC Dunarea Braila – Romania (ANG, BRA, CRO, ESP, GER, ROU)
Hokkoku Bank – Japan (JPN)

7
DGSP – Direction Generale de la Securite Presidentielle – Congo (CGO, CMR)
FTC Kezilabdasport Nonprofit KFT – Hungary (HUN, MNE, NED)
Galychanka – Ukraine (UKR)
RK Podravka – Croatia (AUT, CRO)
SCM Gloria Buzau – Romania (CRO HUN, POL, ROU, SEN)
Team Esbjerg HK – Denmark (DEN, NOR)
Women Handball Club Buducnost – Montenegro (BRA, MNE)

6
Brest Bretagne HB – France (CZE, FRA, GER, SWE)
BVB 09 Dortmund – Germany (ESP, GER, JPN, NED)
Debreceni VSC Kezilabda KFT. – Hungary (BRA, HUN, NED, SRB)
Kaysar Club – Kazakhstan (KAZ)
MKS Zaglebie Lubin S.A – Poland (BRA, POL, SRB)
Sang Ahan Bafgh – Islamic Republic of Iran (IRI)
SCM Craiova – Romania (CRO, ESP, MNE, ROU, SRB)
Valur – Iceland (ISL)

Birthdays
(Number is age they will be)

6 December
Sejin Kim (KOR) 18
Kateryna Kozak (UKR) 21

7 December
Annika Lott (GER) 24

8 December
Boeun Gim (KOR) 26

9 December
Nina Bulatovic (MNE) 27

10 December
Constanza Paz Paul Gomez (CHI) 18
Mina Vatan Parast Tootoonsiz (IRI) 34
Adrianna Placzek (POL) 30

11 December
Jelena Vukcevic (MNE) 19
Alja Varagic (SLO) 33

12 December
Andriyana Naumenko (UKR) 25

13 December
Dragan Adzic (MNE – Slovenia coach) 54

14 December
Adela Striskova (CZE) 23

15 December
Mirela Dedic (AUT) 32
Oceane Sercien-Ugolin (FRA) 26

16 December
Sarah Wachter (GER) 24
Nada Corovic (MNE) 23

* All information correct as of 6 December