1994 European Men's Handball Championship

Template:Short description Template:Use dmy dates Template:Infobox international handball competition The 1994 European Men's Handball Championship was the inaugural edition of the tournament, held in Portugal from 3 to 12 June 1994,<ref>Template:In lang (ed) Arvid Eriksen Sportsboken 1994, p. 291, Schibsted. Template:ISBN.</ref> in the cities of Porto and Almada. Sweden won the tournament after defeating Russia in the final 34–21, Russia's heaviest loss in their international history, while Croatia finished third.<ref name=EMGeschichte>Template:In lang Von Porto bis Ljubljana Template:Webarchive, from Handballworld.com, retrieved 7 February 2006</ref>

Teams

Group A	Group B
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Venues

City	Stadium	Capacity
Almada	Complexo Desportivo de Almada	4.000
Porto	Pavilhão Rosa Mota	5.400

Preliminary round

All times are local (UTC+1).

Group A

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Group B

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Knockout stage

Bracket

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Ranking and statistics

Final ranking

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Top player awards

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• Top Scorer : Template:Flagathlete, 50 goals<ref name="Euro1994">Template:Cite web</ref>

All Star Team

• Goalkeeper: Template:Flagathlete
• Right wing: Template:Flagathlete
• Right back: Template:Flagathlete
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• Left back: Template:Flagathlete
• Left wing: Template:Flagathlete
• Pivot: Template:Flagathlete

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References

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