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Beach handball Beach handball is a team sport where two teams pass and bounce or roll a ball, trying to throw it in the goal of the opposing team. The game is similar to standard handball, but it is played on sand instead of on a solid floor. Because the ball ...

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Swiss Olympic Association Swiss Olympic (also known as german: Schweizerischer Olympischer Verband, french: Association Olympique Suisse, it, Associazione Olimpica Svizzera, rm, Assiociaziun Olimpica Svizra) is the National Olympic Committee and the umbrella organisati ...

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European Handball Federation The European Handball Federation (EHF) is the umbrella organisation for European handball. Founded on 17 November 1991, it is made of 50 member federations and two associated federations (England and Scotland), and is headquartered in Vienna, ...

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SHV Competitions

* Swiss Handball League *

Spar Premium League The SPAR Premium League (SPL) is the premier women's handball league in Switzerland, established in 1970. LC Brühl is the championship's most successful club by a large margin with 31 titles including two 11-years winning streaks, followed by AT ...

National teams

Switzerland men's national handball team The Switzerland national handball team is the national handball team of Switzerland. Competitive record Olympic Games World Championship World Outdoor Championship Switzerland is the only country which played at every Field Handb ...

* Switzerland men's national junior handball team * Switzerland men's national youth handball team * Switzerland women's national handball team * Switzerland women's national junior handball team * Switzerland women's national youth handball team

Competitions Hosted

International

1986 World Men's Handball Championship The 1986 World Men's Handball Championship was the 11th team handball World Championship. It was held in Switzerland from February 25 to March 8, 1986. Yugoslavia won the championship. The tournament was played in Aarau, Basel, Bern, La Chaux-d ...

2001 Men's Junior World Handball Championship 1 (one, unit, unity) is a number representing a single or the only entity. 1 is also a numerical digit and represents a single unit of counting or measurement. For example, a line segment of ''unit length'' is a line segment of length 1 ...

Continental

2006 European Men's Handball Championship The 2006 EHF European Men's Handball Championship was the seventh tournamentof the tournament and held in Switzerland from 26 January to 5 February 2006, in the cities of Basel, Berne, Lucerne, St. Gallen and Zürich. France won the tournament, g ...

Affiliated Clubs

Kadetten Schaffhausen Kadetten Schaffhausen is a Swiss handball team located in Schaffhausen. Their home matches are played at the BBC Arena which has a capacity of 3,500. They compete in the Swiss First League of Handball and won the championship 12 times (2005, 2006, ...

LC Brühl Handball LC Brühl Handball is a women's handball club from St. Gallen in Switzerland. LC Brühl Handball competes in the Spar Premium League. Kits Sports Hall information *Name: – Sportanlage Kreuzbleiche *City: – St. Gallen *Capacity: ...

LK Zug LK Zug is a Swiss women's handball club from Zug. They won four national championships between 2010 and 2016.Club profile
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Pfadi Winterthur Pfadi Winterthur is a team handball club from Switzerland. Currently, Pfadi Winterthur competes in the Swiss First League of Handball. The club developed out of an informal handball team which won the competitions during the national jambo ...

RTV 1879 Basel RTV 1879 Basel is a Swiss handball team located in Basel , french: link=no, Bâlois(e), it, Basilese , neighboring_municipalities= Allschwil (BL), Hégenheim (FR-68), Binningen (BL), Birsfelden (BL), Bottmingen (BL), Huningue (FR-68), ...

Spono Eagles Spono Eagles is a Swiss women's handball club from Nottwil founded in 1971. Reaching the Swiss Premium League in 1988, it has been a regular in EHF competitions since the 1990s, and it won three national championships between 2000 and 2006. ...

TSV St. Otmar St. Gallen TSV St. Otmar St. Gallen is a Switzerland, Swiss Team handball, handball team located in St. Gallen. Their home matches are played at the Kreuzbleiche-Halle. They compete in Swiss Handball League. Kits Sports Hall information *Name: – ...

Wacker Thun Wacker Thun is a handball club from Thun, Switzerland. Wacker Thun competes in Nationalliga A of the Swiss Handball League. Kits Achievements *1 EHF Challenge Cup: 2005 *2 Swiss Handball League The Swiss Handball League (SHL) is the n ...

References

External links

Official website

Swiss Handball Association
at IHF site

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1974 establishments in Switzerland

Sports organizations established in 1974 Handball governing bodies {{Switzerland-sport-stub