The 2021 World Women’s Handball Championship, the 25th event by the International Handball Federation, will be held in Spain from 2 to 19 December 2021. On 18 October 2018, at a congress in Doha, Qatar, the IHF announced that the World Championship would be expanded from 24 teams to 32 teams from 2021 onwards. The Netherlands will be the defending champions after winning for the first time in 2019.