Section · Team Sport
Handball
Everything the paper holds for Handball: game reports built from the signed-off box score, the schools that field the sport, the athletes who have chosen to be public, and the season calendar.
From the Scorebook
Handball Game Reports
No Handball reports published yet
A report lands in this section as soon as both teams' books agree, the box score is signed off, and the recap is published from the game page.
The Season
Season Calendar
Season Calendar · 2026-27
Handball · International Handball Federation (IHF)
| Phase | Starts | Ends | Note |
|---|---|---|---|
| European club season | — | — | Club handball is an autumn-to-spring winter sport in Europe, its heartland. EHF regulations define the season as starting 1 July and ending 30 June of the following year, with actual play from early September to mid-June. |
| EHF Champions League Men 2026/27 | Sep 9, 2026 | Jun 13, 2027 | New format with 24 teams in six groups of four. Group phase 9 September - 29 October 2026, main round 18 November 2026 - 4 March 2027, quarter-final legs 24-25 March and 31 March/1 April 2027, FINAL4 in Cologne with final weekend 12-13 June 2027. Secondary sources. |
| EHF Champions League Women 2026/27 | Sep 5, 2026 | Sep 6, 2026 | Resumes 5-6 September 2026; group phase ends February, playoffs end of March, EHF FINAL4 Women 29-30 May 2027 at MVM Dome, Budapest. |
| IHF Men's & Women's Beach Handball World Championship | Jun 23, 2026 | Jun 28, 2026 | 12th edition, Zagreb. Beach handball is a separate June summer discipline. Secondary source. |
| IHF Men's Club World Championship | Sep 25, 2026 | Oct 1, 2026 | 19th edition, Egypt. Secondary source. |
| US Collegiate National Championships | Apr 24, 2026 | Apr 26, 2026 | Raleigh, NC, men's and women's college divisions, run by USA Team Handball. Collegiate club play runs through the academic year with an April championship. |
| 30th IHF Men's Handball World Championship | Jan 13, 2027 | Jan 31, 2027 | Germany - Munich, Stuttgart, Kiel and Magdeburg for the preliminary round; Cologne and Hanover for the main round |
IHF Competitions · checked Jul 31, 2026
Not Yet Confirmed
4 parts of the Handball year are still unsourced
These are gaps, not blanks. Each names what is missing and who would confirm it. Nothing is estimated to fill the shape of the table above.
- Season window
- Season months for South American and Oceania domestic leagues — the South and Central American Handball Confederation (SCAHC) and Oceania Handball Federation would confirm. IHF Competitions · Asian Handball Federation calendar
- Elite calendar
- 2027 Women's World Championship dates on an IHF page (28th IHF Women's Handball World Championship, reported as 30 November - 19 December 2027 in Hungary by a secondary source) — IHF media would confirm. Asian Handball Federation calendar
- High school season
- Whether any individual state association sanctions team handball — USA Team Handball's development staff would confirm. NFHS Activities & Sports
- Club, youth and academy
- Standard European academy tryout months; European youth handball follows the club season, September to June — the EHF or a national federation such as the DHB would confirm. USA Team Handball events
Around The Season
- High school
- Not an NFHS sport - team handball does not appear on the NFHS list of activities and sports for which it writes rules. Where it exists in U.S. schools it is a physical-education or club activity, not a sanctioned interscholastic season. NFHS Activities & Sports
- College
- Not an NCAA sport - handball is absent from the NCAA future-championship dates summary and is not among the four current emerging sports for women. Collegiate competition is run by USA Team Handball, which staged the US Collegiate National Championships in Raleigh, NC on 24-26 April 2026. NCAA Future Dates Summary
- Olympic and major games
- Handball is on the LA28 Olympic programme. It is also on the Youth Olympic Games programme (Dakar 2026), the Asian Games (Nagoya 2026), Asian Indoor & Martial Arts Games (Riyadh, December 2026), South Asian Games (2027) and Pan Arab Games (2027). Not listed among LA28 Paralympic sports. LA28 Games Plan
- Club, youth and academy
- The U.S. club season runs winter to spring: CalCup in February, Men's Blue Cup 13-14 February 2027 and Women's Blue Cup 20-21 February 2027 in Chapel Hill, NC, the CPT Scott Pace Invitational at West Point, the Milwaukee Spring Classic 25-26 April 2026, and USA Team Handball Nationals, historically a May event. National-team training camps are scheduled in January and March. European youth handball follows the club season, September to June.
- Busiest months
- January, May, June, November, December
Results data · Results published in structured form and freely reachable - IHF and EHF both publish full competition results and fixture lists publicly.
Programs
Schools Fielding Handball
No Handball programs in the directory yet
This list is built from the school directory the roster work already produced. Schools appear as soon as a program for this sport is sourced.
Athletes
Public Handball Pages
Athlete records are private by default. Only athletes who have claimed their record and chosen to make it public appear here.
No public athlete pages in this section yet
An athlete appears here only after they have claimed their record and set it public. Nothing is listed on their behalf.
Bylines
Reporting on Handball
No filed stories on Handball yet
Stories from named reporters covering this sport appear here, each carrying that reporter's page and their podcast, channel and social links.