Bidding procedures
Regarding the bids for the organisation of the Younger Age Category European Championships in 2014 and 2015 the below mentioned time schedule applies.
As a next step all bidding documents will be analysed and completions, changes or adoptions will be requested. Parallel site visits of all venues which are not known to the EHF from former bids will be scheduled for the period October to December 2011.
Based on the additional input and the outcome of the site visits a final evaluation and completion of the bids will take place by February/March 2012.
In March/April 2012, all bids for the Younger Age Category Events in 2014 and 2015 will be checked by the EHF Executive with regard to the EHF Congress presentation.
On 23 June 2012, the events will be awarded at the EHF Congress 2012.
The tournament is planned to be carried out from 14 to 24 August 2014.
After the Women’s EHF EURO 2008, the national federation of FYR Macedonia are planning to bring back European Championship flair to Boris Trajkovski Sports Hall in Skopje and Biljanini Izvori Sports Hall in Ohrid. They have also bidded for the 2015 Women's 17 European Championship.
Two times the Polish federation have already hosted Younger Age Category events, the 1996 Women’s 20 and the 2002 Men’s 20 European Championship. For the 2014 Men's 18 European Championship they plan to play the matches in AWFiS Hall (Gdańsk) and Hala Sportowo-Widowiskowa (Gdynia). Poland is also bidding for the Men’s EHF EURO 2016.
The tournament is planned to be carried out from 24 July to 3 August 2014.
The only bid to host the 2014 Men's 20 European Championship comes from the federation of Austria, who already organised three European tournaments before, the 1997 Women’s 18 and the 2005 Women’s 17 European Championship as well as the Men’s EHF EURO 2010. Planned venues for the event are Tips Arena in Linz and HAKA Arena in Traun. In 2012, Austria will be staging the Men's 18 European Championship.
The tournament is planned to be carried out from 13 to 23 August 2015.
For this tournament, only one federation has placed a bid. FYR Macedonia, hosts of the Women’s EHF EURO 2008 have proposed to organise the 2015 Women's 17 European Championship in two venues, Boris Trajkovski Sports Hall (Skopje) and Biljanini Izvori Sports Hall (Ohrid). They have also bidded on staging the 2014 Men's 18 European Championship.
The tournament is planned to be carried out from 23 July to 2 August 2015.
The Turkish federation has placed the only bid on this tournament. They have experience from having organised two Younger Age Category events before, the 2001 Women’s 18 and the 2007 Women’s 19 European Championship. The matches are planned to be played in Selcuklu Bld. Uluslararasi Spor Salonu and Yasir Sports Hall, both in Konya. Turkey, who also have bid on the Women’s EHF EURO 2016 will be organising the Men’s 20 European Championship in 2012.
