The Qualification for the Women’s EHF EURO 2010 in Denmark and Norway will begin on 14 October. The teams playing for a place at the EURO in December 2010 were drawn to seven groups earlier in March this year. The only question mark left was Group 3 with France, Austria and Iceland waiting for the winner of a pre-qualification game between Finland and the Great Britain.

These pre-qualification games took place last week with the first leg played in Finland on Wednesday. The British team won that match by 14:17 and had a fair chance to book their place in Group 3 at home in Liverpool on Saturday.

The website of the BBC dedicated a seven-minute video summary to the event that can be regarded as a breakthrough for British handball (check it out at http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport2/hi/handball/8277090.stm). The game in the splendid Echo Arena was followed by a crowd of 2,000 people.

At the end the home team could celebrate a 24:23 victory together with the fans. This success - in addition to giving a big boost for handball promotion in the country - means that Team GB will continue playing for the EURO at the qualification games in 2009 and 2010.

Eurohandball.com and ehf-euro.com will give extensive coverage for the EURO Qualification coming up in two weeks.