Team Handball (indoors) Field Handball (outdoors)

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Team Handball(indoors)Field Handball(outdoors)

• Not the one you play against a wall!

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Ancient Handball?

• The games that were precursors of handball can
  only said to be distantly related to it in terms
  of their structure and rules of play.
  Nonetheless, the games of "Urania" played by the
  Ancient Greeks (and described by Homer in the
  Odyssey) and "Harpaston" played by the Romans
  (and described by the Roman doctor Claudius
  Galenus in 130 to 200 A.D.) all contained certain
  features that can be described as ancient forms
  of handball.

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History of Team Handball

• The team handball game as we know it today was
  formed by the end of the 19th century in northern
  Europe, primarily Denmark, Germany, Norway and
  Sweden.
• Holger Nielsen drew up the rules for modern
  handball (håndbold) in 1898 (and published them
  in 1906).
• Men's field handball was played at the 1936
  Summer Olympics in Berlin at the special request
  of Adolf Hitler.

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History of Team Handball Cont

• Women's team handball was added as an Olympic
  discipline at the 1976 Summer Olympics.
• As of February 2007, the International Handball
  Federation reports to have 159 member federations
  representing approximately 1,130,000 teams and a
  total of 31 million players, trainers, officials
  and referees .

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What is Team Handball?

• Combines elements of soccer and basketball and is
  similar to waterpolo on land.
• The fast-paced play of 7- or 11-person teams has
  as its object the hurling of a cantaloupe-sized
  ball into a goal.
• Players may run or dribble with the ball, but
  most advancement comes from passing.
• Fouls result in free throws and penalty throws.

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Fast Paced Action!
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Playing Surface

• Team Handball can be played both indoors and
  outdoors.
• Typically indoor plays with 7 players and plays
  on a court about the size of a basketball court.
• The outdoor version of the game is called Field
  Handball and is played on grass on a field about
  the size of a football field. There are 11
  players on each team.

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The Goals

• The goals are 9 feet wide and 6 feet tall.
• Goal Line the goals are surrounded by a
  near-semicircular line that is generally six
  meters (6m) away from the goal.
• Free Throw Line there is also a dashed
  near-semicircular line that is nine meters (9m)
  away from the goal.

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Game play

• A standard match duration consists of two periods
  of 30 minutes each during which each team may
  call one time out.
• The game is quite fast and includes body and
  contact as the defenders try to stop the
  attackers from approaching the goal.
• Only frontal contact by the defenders is allowed.
  When a defender stops an attacker with his or her
  arms instead of his or her torso, the play is
  stopped and restarted from the spot of the
  infraction or on the Free Throw Line (9m), with
  the attacking team in possession.

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Game play cont

• Penalties are given to players, in progressive
  format, if the contact between the players is
  particularly rough, the referees may award a 9m
  free throw to the attacking team, or if the
  infraction was during a clear scoring
  opportunity, a 7m penalty shot is given.

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Game play cont

• Ball movement and possession is similar to
  basketball. If the attacker commits an
  infraction, such as charging, the possession of
  the ball can be awarded to the defending team.
• Players will lose possession if they take more
  than three steps without dribbling or after
  stopping their dribble. The player may take three
  steps instead of two (pivoting on one foot is
  considered a step) and the ball must be "patted"
  down instead of the more controlled basketball
  method.
• Double Dribble is not allowed. Once two hands
  touch the ball, the player has three steps and/or
  three seconds to pass the ball.

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Game play cont

• A player may only hold the ball for three seconds
  and may only take three steps with the ball in
  hand. After taking three steps the player will
  have to make a dribble with one hand in order to
  continue moving forward, but if the ball is held
  in both hands after making a dribble and the
  player makes another dribble, a free throw will
  be given to the other team for a double dribble.

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Game play cont

• Goals are much more common in handball than in
  most other sports usually, both teams score at
  least 20 goals.
• Only the defending goalkeeper is allowed to step
  inside the Goal Line (6m perimeter), though any
  player may attempt to catch and touch the ball in
  the air within it.
• If a player should find him/herself inside the
  goal perimeter he/she must immediately take the
  most direct path out of it.
• Players may not use their feet to contact the
  ball or it will be an automatic turnover.

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Game play cont

• Should a defender make contact with an attacker
  while in the goal perimeter, their team is
  penalized with a direct attempt at the goal, with
  only one attacker on the Penalty Line (7m line)
  and the defending goalkeeper.
• A penalty throw, can also be given, if a defender
  is blocking the attacker's way to goal, while
  standing inside the goal perimeter.

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