{"id":494747,"date":"2025-10-12T23:42:22","date_gmt":"2025-10-12T23:42:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/494747\/"},"modified":"2025-10-12T23:42:22","modified_gmt":"2025-10-12T23:42:22","slug":"bulgaria-join-great-britain-and-cyprus-in-2028-promotion-round","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/494747\/","title":{"rendered":"Bulgaria join Great Britain and Cyprus in 2028 promotion round"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"x_MsoNormal\">Great Britain and Cyprus confirmed their places in the round in January, having finished as the top two teams in <a rel=\"noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.eurohandball.com\/en\/competitions\/national-team-competitions\/men\/ehf-euro-2028-1\/\" target=\"_blank\">qualifiers phase 1<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"x_MsoNormal\">One place was also reserved for the best European team at the Emerging Nations tournament in Varna, Bulgaria. Great Britain beat the host nation 29:25 in the final on Sunday 16 March, but with Great Britain&#8217;s place in the promotion round already confirmed, the berth went to runners-up Bulgaria.<\/p>\n<p class=\"x_MsoNormal\">The trio will be joined in the promotion round, scheduled for January 2026, by the three lowest-ranked teams from phase 2 of the <a rel=\"noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/ehfeuro.eurohandball.com\/men\/2026\/standings\/R-saEwRJFutIKedhnRuDpg\/QualifiersPhase2\/\" target=\"_blank\">Men\u2019s EHF EURO 2026 Qualifiers<\/a>, due to be completed on Sunday 11 May 2025.<\/p>\n<p class=\"x_MsoNormal\">As with previous editions, the promotion round will see the teams play two-legged ties, with the aim of advancing to phase 2 based on an aggregate victory.<\/p>\n<p class=\"x_MsoNormal\">Great Britain and Cyprus will be hoping for better this time around, having lost to Kosovo and Belgium, respectively, in the EHF EURO 2026 Qualifiers Promotion Round.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"x_MsoNormal\"><a rel=\"noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.eurohandball.com\/en\/competitions\/national-team-competitions\/men\/ehf-euro-2028-1\/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Men&#8217;s EHF EURO 2028 Promotion Round<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Great Britain<\/li>\n<li>Cyprus<\/li>\n<li>Bulgaria<\/li>\n<li>three lowest-ranked teams from the Men\u2019s EHF EURO 2026 Qualifiers Phase 2<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Photo \u00a9\u00a0MSVPhotographers<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Great Britain and Cyprus confirmed their places in the round in January, having finished as the top two&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":494748,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5018,3,4],"tags":[748,393,4884,1144,712,16,15,1764],"class_list":{"0":"post-494747","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-britain","8":"category-uk","9":"category-united-kingdom","10":"tag-britain","11":"tag-england","12":"tag-great-britain","13":"tag-northern-ireland","14":"tag-scotland","15":"tag-uk","16":"tag-united-kingdom","17":"tag-wales"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115363849439604042","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/494747","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=494747"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/494747\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/494748"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=494747"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=494747"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=494747"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}