After a little over five weeks’ break, the national teams are back in full fledge, with 36 sides getting ready for another batch of matches in the EHF EURO 2024 Qualifiers or the EHF EURO Cup 2024.

For plenty, the prize at stake is a place in the final tournament, which will take place in January 2024 in Germany, while four other sides – four of the top five teams at the 2023 IHF Men’s World Championship – are playing in the EHF EURO Cup 2024, having already punched their tickets to the top European competition.

After some debating between the eurohandball.com journalists, we have finalised a list and are basing our power rankings on the form displayed by the sides and their results in the past months.