Handball competition at the 2023 Central American and Caribbean Games are scheduled to be held from 24 June to 7 July 2023. The venue for the competition is the Multigimnasio Don Bosco located in Soyapango.
A total of eight men's and eight women's teams (each consisting up to 14 athletes) will compete in each tournament. This means a total of 224 athletes are scheduled to compete.
The winner and runner-up of each competition will qualify for the 2023 Pan American Games in Santiago, Chile. The third place teams will play against the third-placed teams of the 2022 South American Games playoffs.
Qualification.
Eight men's teams and eight women's teams will qualify to compete at the games in each tournament. The host nation (El Salvador) received automatic qualification in both tournaments, along with seven other teams. For both genders five places for Caribbean were planned bot only four teams per gender participated at the Caribbean Handball Cup. Therefor one spot is still not awarded. Central America has two spots per gender.
Participating nations.
The following countries qualified handball teams. The numbers of participants qualified are in parentheses.
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Women's tournament.
Preliminary round.
Group A.
"All times are local ()."
Men's tournament.
Preliminary round.
Group A.
"All times are local ()."
References.
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