On July 4, the 2018 IHF Women’s Junior (U20) World Championship Competition Management received the official notice that the team of Ivory Coast will not participate in the event and in accordance with the corresponding decision of the Competition Management, Ivory Coast – who were supposed to play in Group A – were removed from the match schedule of the event.

For the calculation of the group standings it is considered that Group A is only consisting of five teams, and only the four matches actually played by each team are taken into consideration for the ranking.