Svenska Handbollförbundet

Svenska Handbollförbundet (SHF)
founding	1931
IHF membership	1946
EHF accession	1991
President	Fredrik Rapp
Secretary General	Robert Wedberg
National teams	Men national team U21 U19 U17 Women national team U19 U17
Clubs (approx.)	approx. 510
Members (approx.)	approx. 110,000
Seat	Idrottens Hus 114 73 Stockholm
Website	www.svenskhandboll.se

The Svenska Handbollförbundet (SHF for short, German: Swedish handball association) is the national umbrella organization for handball in Sweden. The handball federation, which has around 110,000 members in around 510 clubs, was founded in 1931 and is a founding member of the International Handball Federation (IHF) and its European continental federation, the European Handball Federation (EHF). The association's headquarters are in Stockholm .

history

Svenska Handbollförbundet emerged in 1931 from the Svenska Lekförbundet , an association that was founded in 1918 to promote various outdoor games and was a founding member of the International Amateur Handball Federation (IAHF) in 1928 .

Handball World Cup and European Championship in Sweden

The Swedish Association is a regular host of the men's handball world championship . So in 1954 , 1967 , 1993 , 2011 and again in 2023 , then together with Poland . In the same year , the country will host the women's handball world championship for the first time , along with Denmark and Norway . For the first time a European men's championship was held in Sweden in 2002 , the next one will be in 2020 , together with Norway and Austria . The Women's EM has already been a guest twice, in 2006 and 2016 .

Greatest successes

• The Swedish men's national handball team has been world champion four times ( 1954 in its own country, 1958 in the GDR , 1990 in Czechoslovakia , 1999 in Egypt ) and four times European champion ( 1994 in Portugal , 1998 in Italy , 2000 in Croatia , 2002 at home) . There are also four Olympic silver medals ( 1992 in Barcelona , 1996 in Atlanta , 2000 in Sydney , 2012 in London ).
• The Swedish women's national handball team achieved second place as the best place at the EM 2010 among the neighbors in Norway and Denmark.

Web links

• www.svenskhandboll.se - Official website of the SHF (Swedish)

Individual evidence

1. ^ Swedish Handball Federation visits Basle. In: International Handball Federation. March 16, 2017. Retrieved December 15, 2018 (Swedish). 
2. ↑ Contact. In: Svenska Handbollförbundet. Retrieved December 15, 2018 . 
3. ↑ International Handball Federation (Ed.): Handball - Fascination for Thousands of Years . 2nd Edition. Basel 2013, p. 26 ( ihf.info [ Flash ; accessed on March 16, 2019]).
4. ↑ European Handball Federation (Ed.): HeartBeat HandBall - 20 Years of the European Handball Federation . Vienna 2011, p. 54 ( eurohandball.com [PDF; accessed on March 16, 2019]).
5. ↑ Björn Persson: Svenska Handbollförbundets historia. In: svenskhandboll.se. Svenska Handbollförbundet, November 22, 2018, accessed on March 17, 2019 . 
6. ↑ EM 2020. In: Svenska Handballförbundet. Retrieved December 15, 2018 (Swedish).