2008 European Men's Handball Championship

The 2008 EHF European Men's Handball Championship (8th tournament) was held in Norway from 17 to 27 January, in the cities of Bergen, Drammen, Lillehammer, Stavanger and Trondheim. Denmark won the tournament with Croatia second and France third.

Qualification
Qualification matches took place in 2007. According to the EHF rules, the host (Norway) and the top six nations from the 2006 European Championship (France, Croatia, Spain, Denmark, Germany, Russia) were automatically qualified. The other nine places were determined after the play-off matches, held in June; nine teams were seeded, after qualifying for the 2006 Championship, while their opponents qualified through the preliminary group stages.

Qualified teams
Note: Bold indicates champion for that year. Italic indicates host for that year.

Draw
The draw was held on 22 June 2007 in the TV2 Studio in Oslo.

Seeding
The seedings were announced on 19 June 2007.

Preliminary round
All times are local (UTC+1).

All-Star Team
Source: EHF
 * Goalkeeper: Kasper Hvidt
 * Left wing: Lars Christiansen
 * Left back: 🇫🇷 Daniel Narcisse (FRA)
 * Pivot: 🇳🇴 Frank Løke (NOR)
 * Centre back: Ivano Balić
 * Right back: 🇸🇪 Kim Andersson (SWE)
 * Right wing: 🇩🇪 Florian Kehrmann (GER)

Other awards

 * Most valuable player: 🇫🇷 Nikola Karabatić (FRA)
 * Best Defence Player: Igor Vori

Top goalscorers
Source: EHF

Top goalkeepers
(minimum 20% of total shots received by team)