The International Handball Federation (IHF) has announced the list of referees for the 2022 IHF Women’s Youth (U18) World Championship, which will be staged from 30 July to 10 August in North Macedonia.

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 eight continental referee couples to officiate in the event. 

Following the IHF Council decision of 4 March 2022, the 2022 IHF Women’s Youth (U18) World Championship in North Macedonia will serve as official IHF Referee assessment for these continental couples.
 
The 21 referee couples nominated for the event are as follows:

IHF Referee couples

ALG – Youcef Belkhiri / Sid Ali Hamidi
ARG – Ruben Burgos / Gonzalo Delgado
BUL – Georgi Doychinov / Yulian Goretsov
CHN – Yufeng Cheng / Yunlei Zhou
CRO – Davor Loncar / Zoran Loncar
CUB – Raymel Reyes / Alexys Zuñiga
EGY – Alaa Emam / Hossam Hedaia
IRQ – Khalid Hussein / Fadhil Imran
JPN – Kiyoshi Hizaki / Tomokazu Ikebuchi
POR – Marta Sa / Vania Sa
SEN – Fadel Diop / Abdoulaye Faye
SRB – Vanja Antic / Jelena Jakovljevic
URU – German Araujo / Nicolas Perdomo

Continental Referee couples (IHF Candidates)

AUT – Ana Vranes / Marlis Wenninger
BRA – Daniel Magalhães* / Henrique Godoy
IRI – Ahmad Gheisarian / Amir Gheisarian
HUN – Kristof Altmar / Marton Horvath
MAR – Mohamed Chouraki / Achraf El Mouniri
MKD – Danielo Bozhinovski / Viktor Nachevski
UKR – Marina Duplii / Olena Pobedrina
UZB – Khasan Ismoilov / Khusan Ismoilov

*IHF Referee