2022 European Women's Handball Championship

The 2022 European Women's Handball Championship was held in Slovenia, North Macedonia and Montenegro from 4 to 20 November 2022. The tournament was advanced a month in order not to coincide with the 2022 FIFA World Cup in Qatar.

The top three team qualified for the 2023 World Championship and the winner will also qualify for the 2024 Summer Olympics.

Norway won their ninth title after defeating Denmark in the final. Bronze went to Montenegro, who defeated France at the extra time.

Bidding timeline
The bidding timeline was as follows:
 * 1 May 2017: Bidding nations to provide official expression of interest in the hosting of the tournament
 * 1 July 2017: Bidding manuals sent to all bidding federations
 * 1 November 2017: Deadline for completed bidding and application documentation to be provided to the EHF office
 * 15 December 2017: Applications to be approved at the EHF executive committee in Hamburg
 * 20 June 2018: appointment of host(s) of EHF Euro 2022 at the 14th ordinary EHF Congress in Glasgow, Scotland

Bids
On 4 May 2017 it was announced that the following nations had sent in an official expression of interest:


 * 🇲🇰 Macedonia

However, when the deadline for submitting the final bids was over, the following applications had been received:
 * Slovenia, 🇲🇰 Macedonia & 🇲🇪 Montenegro

On the 20 June 2018, Slovenia, Macedonia and Montenegro won the hosting rights.

Venues
The four proposed venues were the venues for the event.

Qualified teams

 * 1 Bold indicates champion for that year. Italic indicates host for that year.

Draw
The draw was held on 28 April 2022 in Ljubljana, Slovenia.

Seedings
The pots were announced on 25 April 2022.

Referees
Twelve referee pairs were selected on 13 June 2022. Two pairs were replaced in October 2022.

Squads
Each squad consisted of 20 players, and 16 players were selected on the day of each match. There was a maximum of six players who can be replaced during the tournament. However, in regard to the COVID-19 pandemic and the potential risk of several players from the same team testing positive, there was no limit to the number of replacements for players testing positive.

Preliminary round
All times are UTC+1.

All Star Team
The All Star Team and awards were announced on 20 November 2022.

Marketing
The official logo was unveiled on 25 March 2021 the same day as the qualifiers draw in Vienna, Austria, The colours in the tournament logo and branding take inspiration from various elements connected to host cities in nations, Slovenia, North Macedonia and Montenegro.