Al-Anabi lost to Austria with great difficulty, with a score of 28-26, in its second match in the preliminary round in the third group competitions of the 29th World Championship for Men, which is hosted by Croatia, Denmark, and Norway currently until the second of next month, and the Kuwait match tomorrow remains the last opportunity for Al-Anabi to achieve its victory. First in the tournament and qualified for the main round by placing third in the group.
The start of the match was strong and fast, and the Austrian team advanced, but the response came quickly from Franckes, but Austria returned and scored again, and the score reached 3-1 for Austria, and the first half ended 16-14 for Austria.
At the beginning of the second half of the match, Al-Anabi’s performance improved and it was able to reduce the difference to one goal, with a score of 17-16. Al-Anabi returned in the final minutes and reduced the difference, so that the match ended with Austria winning with a score of 28-26.
France defeats Kuwait within our group
Kuwait lost to France with a score of 43-19 yesterday evening in its second match in the preliminary round of the third group, which includes Annabi and Austria alongside them. The Kuwaiti team had lost its first match against the Austrian team with a score of 37-26, and thus the Kuwaiti team’s balance remains devoid of points, while The French team now has 4 points from two consecutive victories over Al-Annabi and Kuwait, and it becomes the first team in Group Three to guarantee qualification to the main round of the tournament. France will play its last match in the preliminary round tomorrow against Austria, while Kuwait will play its last match in the same round against Al-Annabi tomorrow at 10:30 Doha time.
At the end of the preliminary round
Al-Anabi is preparing to face Kuwait tomorrow
Under the slogan “No Time to Rest,” today the technical staff of our national handball team opens the file for the Kuwait match, which will be held tomorrow at exactly eight-thirty local time and ten-thirty pm Doha time at the conclusion of the preliminary round of the third group of the 29th World Men’s Handball Championship 2025, which is currently being held in Croatia. Denmark and Norway until February 2.
The technical staff of our team, led by Veselin Vujovic, closed the match against Austria, which was held yesterday evening in the second round of the preliminary round of the tournament, in order to focus on the decisive match with Kuwait, in which Al-Anabi is looking forward to achieving a positive result at the end of the preliminary round and qualifying for the main round of the tournament.
The team is expected to perform recovery training today in the gym in the morning, and to perform light training in the evening in the match hall, as happened the next day in the match against France in the first round, in order to remove the effects of fatigue from yesterday’s match, which ended late.
Qualification system for the main round of the tournament
The current system of the World Handball Championship stipulates that the first 3 teams from each group in the preliminary round qualify for the main round, which will be divided into 4 groups, each group containing 6 teams.
Each team will play 3 matches in the main round, as it will not play with the same teams that it played with in the preliminary round that qualified for the same round.
The first and second from each of the four groups advance to the quarter-finals, while the tournament bids farewell to the rest of the teams in each group. The main round matches will be held during the period from January 21 to 26.
As for the fourth-place group in the preliminary round, he will play in the President’s Cup, which will be held from the 21st to the 26th of this month.
If the Annabi group qualifies for the main second round, it is scheduled to include the first 3 teams from the fourth group, which includes the teams of Hungary, the Netherlands, Guinea and North Macedonia.