2024 European Men's Handball Championship qualification

[2] The two best-placed teams from that phase would qualify for the relegation round along with the winner of the 2021 edition of the IHF Emerging Nations Championship.

However, after postponing the Qualification Phase 1 and cancellation of the IHF Emerging Nations Championship, both caused by the COVID-19 pandemic, those two tournaments were merged into 2021 Men's IHF/EHF Trophy.

Relegation Round involved eight teams: The four winners advanced to the qualifiers – the latest stage of this qualification campaign.

[6] After the 2021 IHF Emerging Nations Championship was cancelled, the EHF announced in March 2021, that the IHF/EHF Trophy would take place in Tbilisi, Georgia, from 14 to 19 June 2021.

[11] Teams relegated from the 2022 European Men's Handball Championship qualification were placed into the seeding pot 2.

[14] Austria Belarus1 Bosnia and Herzegovina Croatia Czech Republic France Hungary Iceland Lithuania Montenegro Netherlands North Macedonia Norway Poland Portugal Russia2 Serbia Slovakia Slovenia Ukraine Estonia Faroe Islands Greece Israel Italy Kosovo Romania Switzerland Belgium Finland Georgia (replacement)3 Latvia Luxembourg (replacement)3 Turkey 1 Belarus was excluded due to their involvement in the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine.

[15] 3 Georgia and Luxembourg, as two teams with the best records among the relegation round losers, replaced Belarus and Russia.