A day after the Women's EHF EURO 2026 Qualifiers opened, the remaining six matches in round 1 are scheduled for Thursday (16 October) as 12 more teams join the fight for the tickets to the final tournament, which will be played in Poland, Romania, Czechia, Slovakia, and Türkiye. Thursday's schedule includes four teams that have won EHF EURO medas in the past — the Netherlands, Germany, Sweden, and Spain.