On 1 -14 July Brno and Ostrava, Czech Republic, will play host to the 24 best women’s junior teams from all over the world.
The Czech Republic qualified directly as host and Denmark and the Netherland qualifying as winners and runners-up of the EHF Women’s 19 European Championship 2011 respectively.
The 24 teams will be split into 4 groups of six teams:
| Group A | Group B | Group C | Group D |
| DEN | KOR | AUT | NED |
| SRB | SWE | RUS | ROU |
| HUN | CZE | FRA | CRO |
| CHN | CGO | POL | BRA |
| URU | KAZ | ANG | NOR |
| ESP | ARG | JPN | TUN |
