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Almost a year ago, the Blues of the hand became world champions. Almost three months ago, they won a silver medal at the Paris 2024 Olympic Games.

This Thursday, November 28, 2024, the French women’s handball team begins its Euro 2024 in Austria with the status of favorite, despite the arrival of a new coach in the person of Sébastien Gardillou. What you need to know.

The 19 players selected

For his first selection, Sébastien Gardillou chose to do not call Cléopatre Darleux and Méline Nocandy (injured in one thigh), two silver players in Paris.

For the rest, no surprise, most of the players were there at the world championships and the Olympics:

• Goalkeepers: Floriane André, Laura Glauser, Hatadou Sako;
• Left wingers: Coralie Lassource, Chloé Valentini;
• Left backs: Orlane Kanor, Clarisse Mairot, Estelle Nze Minko (cap.);
• Center halves: Tamara Horacek, Grace Zaadi Deuna;
• Right backs: Laura Flippes, Léna Grandveau, Déborah Lassource;
• Right wingers: Pauline Coatanea, Lucie Granier, Alicia Toublanc;
• Pivots: Sarah Bouktit, Pauletta Foppa, Oriane Ondono.

Where to watch the matches?

Passionate about handball? It will be necessary take out a subscription with BeIN Sports to enjoy the entire competition.

However, the group TF1 acquired the rights for certain matches of our Bleues.

The matches of the French team during the preliminary round

In the first round, France will face three opponents :

• France-Poland: November 28 (8:30 p.m.), watch on BeIN Sports and TFX;
• France-Spain: November 30 (6 p.m.), to watch on BeIN Sports and TMC;
• Portugal-France: December 2 (8:30 p.m.), watch on BeIN Sports.

Concretely, the teams are currently divided into six groups of four. The top two teams from each group qualify for the main round, which is played in two groups of six.

Here again, the top two nations qualify for the semi-finals, while the two third-placed nations play the match for 5th place.

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