Denmark is in the rare position of having no men’s national-team football to look forward to. The side finished second in its World Cup qualifying group and lost the play-off final, so the summer tournament will happen without them, and the Superliga breaks after 6 December. What fills the gap is handball, and this year it fills it with an actual storyline rather than a default.

The Tournament That Owns December

The Women’s EHF EURO runs from 3 to 20 December, with Denmark in Group C based in Antalya. The team arrives under Helle Thomsen, the first woman to coach the national side in sixty years, who got the job after an eight-wins-from-eight EURO Cup campaign that included a 34-30 win over Norway in the final. Denmark have not won a European title since 2002, which is long enough that the drought is itself the frame for the coverage.

Where To Watch

Handball in Denmark is a television sport in the plainest sense: TV2 carries the national team and does so free-to-air, which is why the audience figures look nothing like those for a comparable sport elsewhere in Europe. The Nations League fixtures are also on TV2. Operator streaming is listed per country in the table at the end of this page, and Danish licensing means the set of operators available here is narrower than in most markets.

November: Braga, Then Norway

Denmark play Portugal away on Saturday 14 November at 19:45 at the Estádio Municipal de Braga, then host Norway on 17 November, closing Nations League Group A4. Portugal have won all four of their matches, hold twelve points and have already reached the quarter-finals; the two sides met at Parken on 1 October and Denmark lost 4-2. The group is therefore about second place and about what the squad looks like after a failed qualifying campaign.

The Date That Changes The Market

A large block of Danish betting and online casino licences expires on 31 December 2026, and the main provisions of Bill L 37 — tabled on 7 October by the minister responsible for gambling — come into force on 1 January 2027. The whistle-to-whistle advertising ban that forms part of the same package follows in July 2027. The operator list and the rulebook therefore change on the same calendar turn, which is unusual and worth watching if you use a Danish-licensed site: the existing obligations already include a ROFUS check at every login, mandatory deposit limits, a bonus cap of 1,000 kroner at ten times wagering and MitID identification. The final parliamentary vote date for L 37 was not published at the time of writing, and the regulator’s own renewal decisions have not been announced.

Two Names In The News This Week

Andreas Christensen. Brian Riemer said the defender was close to tears when told he had not been included for this international break. The decision came from the player’s own assessment that he was not physically ready for international football, and he continues rehabilitation with specialists at Barcelona.

Patrick Dorgu. Riemer confirmed the Manchester United full-back is still working back to full fitness and that his involvement against Portugal is not certain, with his workload managed in consultation with his club. Both cases point the same way: the squad that closes this group is not the squad the coach would have picked.

What To Expect

The Danish winter is three weeks of handball in Turkey, a football group that ends on 17 November, and then a regulatory deadline on 31 December that will matter more to some readers than any result. Nothing domestic runs between 6 December and the new year.