The International Handball Federation (IHF) announced the list of referees for the 29th IHF Men’s World Championship, which will be held in Croatia, Denmark and Norway from 14 January to 2 February 2025.

24 couples have been nominated for the competition, with four reserve couples also included in the extended list.

Referee nominations

ALG – BELKHIRI Youcef / HAMIDI Sidali

ARG – LOPEZ GRILLO Julian / LENCI Sebastian

ARG – PAOLANTONI Maria Ines / GARCIA Mariana

AUT – BOLIC Denis / HURICH Christoph

BIH – KONJICANIN Amar / KONJICANIN Dino

CRO – MIKELIC Ante / PARADINA Petar

CZE – HORACEK Vaclav / NOVOTNY Jiri (pictured)

DEN – HANSEN Mads / MADSEN Jesper

EGY – EMAM Alaa / HEDAIA Hossam

ESP – GARCIA Ignacio / MARIN Andreu

FRA – GASMI Karim / GASMI Raouf

GER – SCHULZE Robert / TÖNNIES Tobias

HUN – BIRO Adam / KISS Oliver

IRI – GHEISARIAN Ahmad / GHEISARIAN Amir

MDA – COVALCIUC Alexei / COVALCIUC Igor

MKD – NACHEVSKI Gjorgji / NIKOLOV Slave

MNE – PAVICEVIC Ivan / RAZNATOVIC Milos

NOR – KLEVEN Havard / JORUM Lars

ROU – LOVIN Cristina / STANCU Simona

SLO – LAH Bojan / SOK David

SRB – SEKULIC Marko / JOVANDIC Vladimir

SVK – BUDZAK Andrej / ZAHRADNIK Michal

SWE – KURTAGIC Mirza / WETTERWIK Mattias

URU – SOSA Mathias / LEMES Cristian
 

Reserve referees

BRA – MAGALHAES Daniel / GODOY Henrique

CUB – REYES Raymel / ZUÑIGA Alexys

ESP – ALVAREZ Javier / BUSTAMANTE Yon

UZB – ISMOILOV Khasan / ISMOILOV Khusan

The 29th IHF Men's World Championship will be hosted for the first time by three countries - Croatia, Denmark and Norway. Five venues - Zagreb, Porec and Varazdin in Croatia, Herning in Denmark and Oslo in Norway - will host the 112 matches played between 14 January and 2 February 2025.