Men's field handball world championship

The field handball World Cup men was a field handball tournament for national teams, which in 1938 by the International Amateur Handball Federation (IAHF) and from 1948 to 1966 by the International Handball Federation was organized (IHF), a total of seven times. For the first time in 1938 world championships for men in field handball were held. After the end of World War II, the tournament took place at irregular intervals, usually every three or four years. The last field handball world championship was held in Austria in 1966.

The tournaments at a glance

year	Host country	World Champion	Result	Vice world champion	Third
1938	German Reich NS Germany	German Reich NS Germany	23: 0	Switzerland Switzerland	Hungary 1918 Hungary
1948	France France	Sweden Sweden	11: 4	Denmark Denmark	Switzerland Switzerland
1952	Switzerland Switzerland	Germany Germany ¹	19: 8	Sweden Sweden	Switzerland Switzerland
1955	Germany Federal Republic BR Germany	Germany Germany ¹	25:13	Switzerland Switzerland	Czechoslovakia Czechoslovakia
1959	Austria Austria	Germany Germany ¹	14:11	Romania 1952 Romania	Sweden Sweden
1963	Switzerland Switzerland	Germany Democratic Republic 1949 GDR	14: 7	Germany Federal Republic BR Germany	Switzerland Switzerland
1966	Austria Austria	Germany Federal Republic BR Germany	no endgame ²	Germany Democratic Republic 1949 GDR	Austria Austria

¹ joint team of the Federal Republic of Germany and GDR

² At the 1966 World Cup, the title was not decided in a final game, but in a group of six teams - each against each other.

Medal table

rank	country
1	German Reich NS/ Germany (thereof GDR ) (thereof BR Germany )Germany Germany Democratic Republic 1949 Germany Federal Republic	6 (1) (1)	2 (1) (1)	- (-) (-)	8 (2) (2)
2	Sweden Sweden	1	1	1	3
3	Switzerland Switzerland	-	2	3	5
4th	Denmark Denmark	-	1	-	1
	Romania 1952 Romania	-	1	-	1
6th	Hungary 1918 Hungary	-	-	1	1
	Czechoslovakia Czechoslovakia	-	-	1	1
	Austria Austria	-	-	1	1

Participant overview

Eternal table

The eternal table of the men's field handball world championships is a statistical listing of all the games of the men's field handball world championship in its seven matches between 1938 and 1966. The calculation is based on the two-point rule (two points for a win, one point for a draw).

The table is pre-sorted according to the number of points won. The German national team came first , followed by Switzerland and Sweden . Switzerland was the only team to take part in all world championships ( 1938 , 1948 , 1952 , 1955 , 1959 , 1963 and 1966 ) and has played more games than any other team. In terms of outcomes, Germany (most wins, most draws and most goals scored), the German Democratic Republic , France , Austria (all most draws) and the Netherlands (most defeats and highest number of goals conceded) are in the lead. The team of the German Democratic Republic did not lose any of their nine World Cup games, while Luxembourg was unable to celebrate four participations and a total of six games.

rank	team	Participation	Games	S.	U	N	Gates	Goals conceded	Points
01.	Germany	6th	27	25th	1	01	538	215	51
02.	Switzerland	7th	30th	19th	0	11	364	312	38
03.	Sweden	5	22nd	15th	0	07th	261	160	30th
04th	Austria	6th	26th	12	1	13	329	369	25th
05.	GDR	2	09	08th	1	00	161	084	17th
06th	Czechoslovakia	2	09	07th	0	02	092	082	14th
07th	Romania	2	07th	05	0	02	091	071	10
08th.	Denmark	5	16	05	0	11	152	191	10
09.	Poland	5	14th	05	0	09	143	184	10
10.	Netherlands	6th	23	05	0	18th	209	350	10
11.	France	3	13	04th	1	08th	121	150	09
12.	Saarland	2	09	04th	0	05	103	095	08th
13.	Yugoslavia	2	07th	04th	0	03	078	074	08th
14th	Hungary	4th	09	03	0	06th	080	091	06th
15th	Portugal	2	03	01	0	02	021st	020th	02
16.	Israel	1	04th	01	0	03	037	061	02
17th	Finland	2	03	01	0	02	018th	049	02
18th	Spain	2	04th	00	0	04th	029	058	00
19th	Belgium	3	04th	00	0	04th	027	060	00
20th	Norway	2	03	00	0	03	012	048	00
21st	United States	1	04th	00	0	04th	020th	067	00
22nd	Luxembourg	4th	06th	00	0	06th	020th	125	00