2009 Womens World Championship 29 November to 13 December 2009 in China
From 25 to 30 December 2008 the qualification Europe - phase 1 - for the 2009 Women's World Championship in China will take place. The qualification phase 1 will be played in three qualification tournaments with two groups of six teams and one group of five teams. Group 1 will be organised by the Netherlands (playing venue: Emmen), group 2 by Montenegro (playing venue: Pljevlja) and group 3 by Poland (playing venue: Dabrowa Gornicza):
The first ranked team of each group will qualify for the play-off matches (qualification phase 2) taking place on 6/7 June and 13/14 June 2009. The draw for the play-off matches will be held on 14 December 2008 at 12:30hrs on the occasion within the framework of the EHF EURO 2008 in Skopje, FYR Macedonia.