Monday, 28. October 2024 | SAP Garden venue for the 2027 Handball World Cup
SAP Garden venue for the 2027 Handball World Cup - Ticket sales start date confirmedThe German national team is playing the preliminary round in Munich// NEWSThe new multifunctional SAP Garden sports arena in Munich's Olympic Park is one of six venues hosting the 30th Men's Handball World Championship. Advance ticket sales start on December 15, 2025.**The German national handball team will kick off the tournament in Munich, which will take place from January 13 or 14 to 31, 2027 with 32 national teams in the north, south, east and west of Germany. Stuttgart, Magdeburg, Kiel, Hanover and Cologne are other venues where the best handball players in the world will compete for the World Championship title. Advance ticket sales begin on Monday, December 15 at 12:00 noon. Further information on ticket sales can be found here.
Lord Mayor Reiter: ''A sporting event that we very much welcome''
Dieter Reiter, Lord Mayor of the Bavarian capital Munich: "Another major international sporting event in Munich, which we very much welcome. We are delighted to see handball in our city again. We have already proven several times that we can manage major events in Munich."
"We are touching the whole of Germany with this tournament," says Andreas Michelmann, President of the German Handball Federation. "These venues combine many of the things that make us special: they are centers of the Bundesliga, they stand for tradition, but - like Munich with the new SAP Garden - also for modernity. With this great infrastructure, we are ready for another highlight in the decade of handball."
The World Championship will begin in the SAP Garden, which opened just a few weeks ago, as well as in the Porsche Arena in Stuttgart, the Wunderino Arena in Kiel and the GETEC Arena in Magdeburg. Two preliminary groups of four teams will be played at each venue. The final schedule is still being agreed with the IHF. The top three teams will advance to the main round, which will be played in two groups of six teams each in the LANXESS arena in Cologne and the ZAG arena in Hanover. The quarter-finals and semi-finals as well as the placement and medal matches will also take place in Cologne, where the new world champion will be crowned on January 31, 2027, 20 years after the German handball team's World Cup triumph.
Framework data for the 2027 World Cup:
Preliminary round: January 13 or 14 to 19 in Munich, Stuttgart, Kiel and Magdeburg.
Main round: January 20-25 in Cologne and Hanover.
Final round: January 26 to 31 in Cologne.
*Foto: DHB / Christina Pahnke
**Report updated on July 16, 2025
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