Saudi Arabia are appearing at their first-ever IHF Men’s Youth World Championship after finishing in fourth spot at the 8th AHF Men’s Asian Youth Championship in Amman, Jordan last September.

However, the competition had to be reconfigured after both Iraq and Republic of Korea were disqualified from the competition after their preliminary match was, according to the Asian Handball Federation, “suspended permanently due the fact that both the teams intentionally wanted to lose the match.”