DHB-Team live
The German games at the European Handball Championship are taking place here
The group games of the DHB team at the European Handball Championship are tough. All German games can be followed live and free of charge. These channels show the duels.
A mammoth task awaits the German handball players at the 2026 European Championships in Denmark, Norway and Sweden. Some DHB players emphasized this in advance of the tournament. National coach Alfred Gislason, who has looked after the team since March 2020, said before the European Championships that “with this constellation of opponents it will probably be the most difficult tournament so far”.
The preparation for the European Championships was successful with two friendly wins against Croatia (32:29 in Zagreb and 33:27 in Hanover). “We have now arrived in tournament mode,” said DHB captain Johannes Golla. However, Gislason’s team cannot rest on their laurels. There are already three cracking duels in the preliminary round of the European Championship: Austria, Serbia and Spain.
Nevertheless, national coach Gislason is confident: “Our goal is ambitious, that means semi-finals. But this is the best German national team that I have coached.”
Handball European Championship: DHB games on free TV
All group games of the DHB selection take place in Herning, Denmark. The European Championship kicks off against Austria on Thursday at 8:30 p.m., a mistake is forbidden given the following opponents. ARD will broadcast the game live from 8:15 p.m. The other group games will take place at the same time. On Saturday, ARD will again show the duel with Serbia, while ZDF will take over the game against Spain on the following Monday, January 19th.
The public broadcasters show all final round games of the DHB selection. Both the German games and all other European Championship games can be seen on the pay channel Dyn. For 15 euros you can buy a European Championship pass and watch each of the 65 matches in the tournament live.
These are the TV experts
The ARD is relying on the expertise of two handball world champions from 2007: Dominik Klein and Johannes Bitter are in action for the first. ZDF is once again using ex-national player Sven-Sören Christophersen as an expert.
Well-known handball players also rate the performances of the DHB team and the events surrounding the tournament at Dyn: icon Stefan Kretzschmar, the former national players Pascal Hens, Michael Kraus (both also world champions from 2007), Tobias Reichmann and Silvio Heinevetter as well as France’s world and European champion Kentin Mahé.
New to the team of experts are the still active Bundesliga professionals Fabian Wiede, Timo Kastening and Leif Tissier, the newly crowned vice world champion Antje Döll and Florian Kehrmann, coach of the Bundesliga third-place team TBV Lemgo.
lw / with material from the DPA news agency
