Scottish Handball News

Iain chats to JJ Rowland (Director Business Development & Marketing at EHF) about his past, his links to handball in Britain, the EHF Masterplan and how Scotland (the rest of the UK British Handball) can work together to continue to develop grassroots handball across the country

It was a long 15 months with no indoor handball allowed in Scotland... However last weekend, youth teams finally got to return to competition!

Beyond Winning and Losing; Collaborating for more important results

28th - 29th April - 3pm BST (catch-up available) 

The British Handball Association is to receive up to £375,000 over the four-year Paris 2024 Olympic Games cycle (2021-2024) from the UK Sport ‘National Squads Support Fund’.

Minister for Sport, Mairi Gougeon, and leading figures from Scottish sport have met to discuss the ongoing response to COVID-19 and the role sport and physical activity will play in the nation’s recovery. 

The EHF have launched a new online International Transfer system, which makes the international player transfer process more efficient. Therefore, we now require all players who do not have a British Passport and who have not done so already, to be transferred to the Scottish Handball Association. 

We stepped up our involvement with the Scottish Women & Girls in Sport Week (24th to 30th October) this year. We profiled prominent female figures in the Scottish Handball community and ran a social media competitions to spread awareness of the sport and to encourage schools to give handball a shot. We wanted to share female handball players' experiences to showcase what can  be achieved as a female handball player in scotland whilst also opening up a dialogue regarding views on current barriers to women participating in the sport.

We threw back to 1 year ago, when we held the first European Handball matches in Scotland for over 25 years! This was a proud occasion highlighting the progress of Livingston Handball and other Scottish clubs in recent years.