The International Handball Federation (IHF) has announced the list of referees for the 2023 IHF Men’s Youth (U19) World Championship, which will be staged from 2 to 13 August in Croatia.

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 four continental referee couples to officiate in the event. 

Following the IHF Council decision of 4 March 2022, the 2023 IHF Men’s Youth (U19) World Championship in Croatia will serve as official IHF Referee assessment for these continental couples.
 
The 22 referee couples nominated for the event are as follows:

ARG – Santiago CORREA / Agustin CONBERSE
ARG/EGY – Mariana GARCIA / Heidy ELSAIED
BRA – Bruna CORREA / Renata CORREA
CHN – Yunlei ZHOU / Yufeng CHENG
CRO – Davor LONCAR / Zoran LONCAR
CUB – Raymel REYES / Alexys ZUÑIGA
EGY – Alaa EMAM / Hossam HEDAIA
FRA – Yann CARMAUX / Julien MURSCH
HUN – Kristof ALTMAR / Marton HORVATH
IRQ – Khalid HUSSEIN / Fadhil IMRAN
KOR – Gaeul LEE / Eunha LEE
KUW – Maali ALENEZI / Dalal ALNASEM
MAR – Mohamed CHOURAKI / Achraf EL MOUNIRI
MDA – Alexei COVALCIUC / Igor COVALCIUC
MNE – Jelena VUJACIC / Andjelina KAZANEGRA
SEN – Fadel DIOP / Abdoulaye FAYE
URU – German ARAUJO / Nicolas PERDOMO
UZB – Khasan ISMOILOV / Khusan ISMOILOV

Continental Referees (IHF Candidates):

BIH – Tatjana PRASTALO / Vesna BALVAN
GER – Ramesh THIYAGARAJAH / Suresh THIYAGARAJAH
JPN – Hideki FURUKAWA / Tetsuro MURATA
MKD – Nenad NIKOLOVSKI / Ismailj METALARI