After an action-packed summer, which saw the Paris 2024 Olympic Games and two younger age category editions of the IHF Women’s World Championship – the Junior and Youth – played, the calendaristic autumn throws off in style, with plenty of events in the month of September.

The highlight of the month will surely be the 17th edition of the IHF Men’s Club World Championship – the world handball club flagship competition – which underwent a rebrand, boasting a new name, a new host and a new format.

The competition, due to be played between 27 September and 3 October,  will be hosted in the New Administrative Capital in Egypt, with nine teams at the start, which will be divided into three groups of three teams each.

The reigning champions, SC Magdeburg, who won the last three editions of the competition, will feature in Group C, alongside Saudi side Khaleej Club, and debutants California Eagles, the winners of the NACHC Qualifier.

Al-Ahly chose to play in Group B, alongside the most decorated team in the history of the IHF Men’s Club World Championship, FC Barcelona, and Australian side Sydney Uni, who will feature for the 11th time in the competition.

In Group A, Hungarian champions, Veszprém HC, who received a wild card for this edition of the competition, will play against Egyptian side Zamalek SC, and Brazilian side Handebol Taubaté, the winners of the 2024 South and Central American Men's Club Handball Championship.

The preliminary round will take place in a round robin system, between 27 and 29 September, with the teams from Pot 1 – FC Barcelona, SC Magdeburg and Veszprem HC – playing on 28 and 29 September.

Egypt will be the focal point of handball over the next weeks, as the 3rd IHF Wheelchair Handball World Championship will take place in Cairo, from 16 to 21 September 2024.

Two teams from Europe, Asia and South and Central America, plus one each from Africa and the North America and Caribbean will be vying for the coveted trophy, as several powerhouses return, while other sides make their debut.

The reigning champions of the IHF Four-a-Side Wheelchair Handball World Championship, Brazil, as well as the reigning champions of the World and European Wheelchair Handball Championship Six-a-Side, Portugal, will be at the start.

Hosts Egypt, who finished second at the 2022 IHF Four-a-Side Wheelchair Handball World Championship, will return to this edition of the competition. France, an up and coming team in wheelchair handball, are also part of the line-up, as well as two Asian representatives, Japan and India. Joining Brazil from the South and Central America are Chile, who, alongside India, have featured at the 2022 IHF Four-a-Side Wheelchair Handball World Championship.

A team that will make their debut at the 3rd IHF Wheelchair Handball World Championship are the United States of America, who have been awarded a wild card, with teams from five continents now taking part in the competition for the first time in history.

Moving over to continental competitions, the 31st CAHB African Men's Junior Championship will take place in Tunisia from 9 to 16 September.  Eight teams – Egypt, Morocco, Guinea, Mali, Algeria, Tunisia, Libya and Rwanda – will take part in the competition.

Also in Tunisia, between 19 and 26 September, the CAHB African Men’s Youth Championship will take place, with seven teams – Egypt, Morocco, Algeria, Tunisia, Libya, Guinea and Burundi – at the start.

The 7th Asian Women’s Club League Handball Championship is scheduled to take place from 20 to 29 September 2024, in Almaty, Kazakhstan. Five teams are at the start, with hosts HC Dostyk and Kaysar Club joined by Uzbekistan’s Uzbechka HC, India’s Golden Eagles Bharat and Kuwait’s Al-Qurain SC.

In Europe, the EHF Champions League, the club premium competition, will throw off too. In the women’s competition, 16 teams are ready to deliver their best performances, with the throw off scheduled for 7 and 8 September.

With powerhouses like title holders Gyori Audi ETO KC, Vipers Kristiansand, Metz Handball or Team Esbjerg at the start, the competition also sees debuts from the likes of Nykøbing Falster Håndboldklub and Gloria Bistrița.

The top 16 men’s teams will also take part in the European premium competition, which throws off on 11 and 12 September, with all three teams that are a part of the IHF Men’s Club World Championship, also being at the start.