The first of the 48 in total games to be played in the men’s and women’s beach handball competitions of The World Games Chengdu 2025 will throw-off on Thursday 7 August.

Here is how you can watch and follow the global spectacular over the next week.

Watch live and free on the official The World Games Live Streaming Platform

All 48 beach handball games from The World Games Chengdu 2025 will be streamed live and free on The World Games Live Streaming Platform.

Click for the live schedule and watch HERE.

Official The World Games Chengdu 2025 App

You can download the Chengdu 2025 app via the Apple App and Google Play stores.

IHF The World Games Chengdu 2025 mini-sites

The IHF.info Chengdu 2025 men’s and women’s competition mini-sites will have all the match previews, reviews, statistics, nominations, photos and much more. 

For the men’s competition, click HERE. For the women’s competition, click HERE.

You can also visit the official The World Games Chengdu 2025 website at https://www.theworldgames2025.com/en.

IHF Facebook, IHF TikTok, IHF Instagram, IHF X
Like us! Interact with the event, go behind-the-scenes, see the very best images, read interviews, features and much more.

IHF App
Download! Chengdu 2025 at your fingertips: Follow your favourite teams, read all the match previews, reviews and features. Download for IOS and Android.

Hashtags
Along with tagging all your posts with #beachhandball, you can also follow The World Games via their official hashtags: #RoadtoChengdu #TWG2025 #WeareTheWorldGames

About The World Games

The World Games is a multi-sport event staged every four years by the IWGA, organised with the support of the International Olympic Committee.
 
Chengdu 2025 will be the 12th edition of The World Games, the most recent being held in Birmingham, USA in 2022, with 3,600 athletes from 34 sports and 100 countries taking part.

Beach handball has been part of The World Games since it was introduced as a demonstration/invitational sport in Japan in 2001. It followed in Germany (2005) and Chinese Taipei (2009), before becoming a full sport at the 2013 edition in Colombia and then continuing in Poland (2017), before the USA (2022), where Croatia (men) and Germany (women) won the beach handball titles.

The 12th edition of The World Games will take place from 7 to 17 August 2025 in Chengdu, People’s Republic of China with Beach Handball one of over 30 sporting disciplines on the event programme. 

For further information, visit www.theworldgames.org.