Since hosting the IHF Men's Youth World Championship in 2007, Bahrain have put a great emphasis on creating excellent teams which can feed the senior men's side, but over the last years they simply could not rise to the challenge.

The highlight was winning two titles at the AHF Asian Men's Youth Handball Championship in 2016 and 2018, but they failed to replicate those performances at the IHF Men's Youth World Championship, finishing 22nd in 2017 and 17th in 2019, with only four wins in the past two editions.