The group draw has been scheduled to take place at the Via Vittorio Veneto in Besnate, during an Italian Powerchair Hockey League match between the Skorpions Varese and Leoni Sicani.

Fans will be able to follow a live stream from the draw via the IWAS Powerchair Hockey Facebook page at 3pm CET.

As the top seeded teams, Belgium and hosts The Netherlands will avoid each other during the group stage of the competition.

The Netherlands have been placed into Group A, while Belgium will start as the favourites to emerge from Group B.

Denmark, Finland, Germany, Italy, Spain and Switzerland will complete the draw, with four teams due to compete in each group.

Competition is scheduled to take place from July 11 to 18 in De Rijp, with the Dutch province of North Holland having stepped in as replacement hosts.

It followed the Spanish city Alcobendas pulling out of staging the event in February, having been awarded hosting rights last May.

The IPCH, the umbrella group for the sport under the auspices of IWAS, claimed they had tried to resolve problems surrounding the Spanish venue.

It was claimed that organisational issues, communication misunderstanding and political issues had led to the withdrawal.

The Netherlands will be seeking to defend the title they claimed in 2012, when they defeated Belgium in the final.

Under its former name, electric wheelchair hockey, powerchair hockey was one of nine new sports or disciplines to apply for inclusion at the Tokyo 2020 Paralympics, only to fail to make it through to the final stage.

It was eliminated along with powerchair football, 3x3 intellectually impaired basketball, amputee football, one person multi-hull sailing, blind match racing sailing and 3-on-3 wheelchair basketball.

Only badminton and taekwondo were ultimately approved by the International Paralympic Committee Governing Board.