The month of April sees important moments throughout the handball world for both national and club teams, with plenty of high class handball on display throughout the next days, ready to deliver some important answers.

The highlight is undoubtedly the European Qualification for the 2025 IHF Women’s World Championship, with 11 doubleheaders ready to deliver the teams which will join the previously 18 qualified teams for the world handball flagship competition, due to take place between 26 November and 14 December in Germany and the Netherlands.

The draw for the 11 doubleheaders, which will take place on 9/10 April and 12/13 April was conducted in Vienna, on 15 December 2024, and the winning side in each doubleheader will secure their tickets for the 2025 IHF Women’s World Championship.

The most balanced ties look to be the ones between Slovenia and Serbia, and between Croatia and Spain, as another two ties featuring Poland and North Macedonia on one hand, and Switzerland and Slovakia on the other hand, looking close on paper.

The only team which qualified for all the previous editions of the IHF Women’s World Championship, Romania, will be favoured against Italy. Big favourites Sweden will aim to beat Kosovo over the course of the doubleheader, as Austria are also the favourites against Türkiye.

Iceland will host both matches against Israel, automatically seeing them as favourites to secure back-to-back appearances at the world handball flagship competition for the first time in history, while the Faroe Islands are looking close to secure their debut appearance at the IHF Women’s World Championship when they face Lithuania.

Czechia, with a new coaching pair on their bench, will take on Ukraine, while Portugal face Montenegro, in another potentially crunch clash.

Another qualification event for the 2025 IHF Women’s World Championship will take place at the Olympic Training Centre in Mexico, as the winner of the 2025 NACHC Women’s Handball Championship will progress to the world handball flagship competition.

The 2025 NACHC Women’s Handball Championship will take place between 7 and 12 April.

Moving over to Africa and Asia, three IHF Trophies Women will take place in the month of April.

The Zone 3 women's youth and junior tournaments of the IHF Trophy Africa will be staged in Abidjan, Ivory Coast from 20 to 24 April 2025, the Zone 6 tournaments scheduled between 29 April and 3 May in Harare, Zimbabwe, while the Zone 3 tournaments in Asia are due to take place between 22 and 26 April in Faisalabad, Pakistan.

At club level, the EHF Champions League Women will see the quarter-finals played on 19/20 April and 26/27 April, with the doubleheaders deciding the qualified teams for the EHF FINAL4.

CSM București take on Team Esbjerg, a French team will surely be in the final as Brest Bretagne Handball face Metz Handball, while the other two qualified sides are due to be decided in the ties between Gyori Audi ETO KC and HB Ludwigsburg and Odense Handbold and FTC-Rail Cargo Hungaria respectively.

The EHF Champions League Men is also scheduled to deliver its EHF FINAL4 participants, as the quarter-finals are due to be played on 23/24 April and 30 April/1 May respectively. Telekom Veszprem, Barca, Sporting CP and Aalborg Handbold are the teams already qualified for this phase of the competition.

Moving over to the beach, the third edition of the GCC Beach Games will take place between 5 and 11 April, in Muscat, Oman. Six teams will be at the start, with Bahrain, Kuwait, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, United Arab Emirates and Oman taking part.