The summer of 2025 saw Alanya, Türkiye, host both the men’s and women’s EHF Beach Handball EUROS and YAC17 EHF Beach Handball EUROs

Germany claimed the title in both the men’s events, while Spain lifted the senior and YAC women’s trophies. Spain also took silver in the men’s competitions, with Norway twice runners-up on the women’s side.

In the senior competitions, history was made for both the German men and Spanish women as neither had ever won the EHF Beach Handball EURO previously.

Germany shone throughout the tournament, losing one match to Croatia in the main round after a clean preliminary round. In the final Spain took the first set, but Germany took the second to force the shootout. They won that in dramatic fashion, 12:10, winning 2:1 overall to add gold to their previous silver medals from 2023 and 2004. Croatia took bronze after beating Hungary.

Spain’s gold adds to their bronze medals from 2017, 2021 and 2023. They had lost two matches on the way to the final, but victory over France and Spain in the quarter and semi-finals took them to the clincher against Norway. As in the men’s final, this went to a shootout, which Spain won 9:6.

The bronze medallists were Germany, after winning against the Netherlands in the placement match.

Both MVPs of the tournament were Spanish: Pablo Martin Ruiz on the men’s side, and Sara Hernandez on the women’s.

Germany’s Oliver Middell and Dutch player Lisanne Bakker were named best goalkeepers; Valentino Valentakovic (Croatia) and Elisabeth Hammerstad (Norway) best defenders. Czechia and Poland, respectively, won the men’s and women’s fair play awards. Lucian Bura (Croatia) was the top men’s scorer with 143 points, and Meike Kruijer (Netherlands), scored 148 points in the women’s tournament.

The Spanish women’s team were flawless in their final of the YAC 17 EURO against Norway, winning 2:0 comfortably. Germany also won 2:0 in the men’s YAC 17 EURO final against Spain, ending Spanish hopes of taking both YAC 17 gold medals.

Czechia beat Hungary for the men’s bronze medal, and France took third place in the women’s tournament.

The tournament MVPs were both Spanish: Hugo Guerrero and Carlota Bravo. Bjarne Rollmann and Milena Grimm of Germany won the best goalkeeper awards, while the best defenders were Bence Habda (Hungary) and Petra Gudelj (Croatia). Croatia took the fair play awards on both the men’s and women’s sides. Czech player Matouš Khek was the men’s top scorer with 168 points, and Serbian Jelena Mirkovic topped the women’s scoring with 141 points.