Scottish Handball News

Changes to COVID Guidance in reference to Handball from 12.03.21.

Full guidance found here 

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. 

Due to the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic and the uncertainty of the next few months the SHA has made a decision regarding the 20/21 competition season.

The SHA's Yellow & Blue Handball Gerflor was moved from NL Leisure's Ravenscraig RSF allowing space for COVID-19 Vaccine storage

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.