Norges Håndballforbund

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Norges Håndballforbund (NHF)
founding May 2, 1937
IHF membership 1946
EHF accession 1991
President Kåre Geir Lio
National teams Men's
national team
Women's
national team
Clubs (approx.) 714 (as of 2011)
Members (approx.) 107,670 (as of 2011)
Teams (approx.) 7,500 (as of 2011)
Seat Ullevaal Stadium
Sognsveien 75 A
0840 Oslo
Website www.handball.no

Norges Håndballforbund (NHF for short) is the national sports association for handball in Norway . The association, founded in 1937, is based at the Ullevaal Stadium in Oslo . It is the umbrella organization for 714 clubs (as of December 31, 2011), which are spread across seven regions. Around two thirds of its 107,000 members are female, as handball established itself as a women's sport in Norway from the very beginning.

The NHF is one of around 54 sports federations of the Norwegian Sports Federation, Norges idrettsforbund og olympiske og paralympiske komité , and a founding member of the International Handball Federation (IHF) from 1946 and its European continental federation, the EHF from 1991.

history

While initially only a handball game dominated by football was played in schools, the serious sport of handball only gained importance in Norway after the 1936 Olympic handball tournament in Berlin. The following year, when Norges Håndballforbund was founded on May 2, 1937, handball was only played in two clubs: the Arild sports club and the Ullern skiklubb from Oslo- Ullern . In order to promote awareness of the sport in the country, a game was previously organized in an Oslo tennis hall on October 11, 1936, in which two teams formed from the successful Swedish club Redbergslids IK competed against each other . The game delighted both the 200 spectators and the press people who were present, who saw handball as a “real mass sport, especially for girls and women”. Even before the men, the first Norwegian handball championship for women was held in 1938, in which the team from Nordstrand Idrettsforening from Oslo emerged as the winners. A year later, the team of the Oslo club Sports Club Arild won the first men's championship. One of the central figures who helped establish handball as a women's sport in Norway was the top athlete Laila Schou Nilsen . The Norwegian media played a further central role, with the headline in 1939 that they had finally found the right sport for women ( Tidens Tegn ) with “Handball, women's football” (Urd) .

With the advent of television in the early 1960s, another opportunity arose to increase the popularity of the increasingly commercialized sport of handball in the country. It became the beginning of the otherwise advertizing free station NRK that that until the introduction of commercial television had the monopoly on radio, shirt advertising the clubs a problem. The field handball , which was always played in Norway in contrast to, for example Germany in the 7-team, gave the association in 1955 in favor of indoor handball.

Norges Håndballforbund as host of the Handball World Cup and European Championship

In 1993 Norway hosted the women's handball world championship for the first time. This World Cup took place a second time together with Denmark in 1999 . The country also hosted the 2008 European Men's Handball Championship, along with Austria and Sweden in 2020 . Together with Denmark, it will host the women's handball European championships in 2010 and 2020 . The 2009 European men's beach handball championship was also held in Larvik .

Greatest successes

Regional associations

Norges Håndballforbund is divided into seven regions:

See also

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d e Norges Håndballforbund: Om Norges Håndballforbund , accessed on May 4, 2012 (Norwegian)
  2. ↑ International Handball Federation: Norges Handball forbund , accessed on May 4, 2012 (English)
  3. ↑ a b c Norges Håndballforbund: Historikk , accessed on May 4, 2012 (Norwegian)


Coordinates: 59 ° 56 '55 "  N , 10 ° 43' 50.8"  E