2025-06-30 15:15Pressrelease

Partille World Cup - the facts

Partille World Cup

54th Tournament
Dates: June 30 – July 5

Participating teams: 1,267
Participants: 23,000
Number of nations: 35 (all inhabited continents represented)

National teams in the European Open Championship M19: 11 nations
Group A: Iceland, Spain, Poland, Lithuania, Estonia, and Egypt
Group B: Sweden, Croatia, Faroe Islands, Netherlands, and Finland

Number of schools: 40
Number of hotels: 15

Age groups: 8–21 years
Average age: 15 years
Largest category: Girls 16 (114 teams)
Boys' teams: 609 (48%)
Girls' teams: 654 (52%)
Swedish teams: 651 (51%)
International teams: 616 (49%)

Matches played: 4,309
Livestreamed matches: 2,600
Referees: 260, of which 99 are women (35%)
Total staff/volunteers: 1,780

PARTILLE CUP since its inception in 1970
Total teams: 34,931
Total participants: 616,000
Nations represented: 97
Continents: 6

Presenting Partner: Fristads
Official Partners: Toyota, Hummel, NEH, Kopparbergs Brewery, Liseberg, Triumf Glass, Cilia, Norrmejerier, Samsung

Visitors to Heden Center 2024: Approximately 360,000 people
Tourism industry revenue in Gothenburg: SEK 300 million
*/ Source: Göteborg & Co, 2022.


About Partille Cup

We create the world’s largest meeting place for young handball players.
A meeting place that is independent of etnicity, culture, or gender.
A place where mutual respect and understanding are the foundation, and where playing handball with thousands of other young people is the tool we use to fulfill our dreams


Contacts

Linn Ohlsson
Press Officer
Linn Ohlsson