Submit a handball picture from your archives of a Maltese Handball player (male/female) in action on court. Competition ends: Sunday 10th of June – 12:00.

Ask to join

https://www.facebook.com/events/462113083803912/463020043713216/?notif_t=plan_mall_activity

How will the judging work?

When the competition ends, the 10 photo’s with the most Facebook-likes will be brought in front of a jury, consisting of 3 persons. They will each assign points (1 to 10) to the individual pictures. The picture with the most points, wins. If this process results in a tie, the jury member designated as the ‘head jury’ will have the deciding vote. What can be won? Our National Team sponsor kindly made available a 50 Euro Voucher. — Thank you, Eurosport! –

Tip: Submit your picture quickly, so you’ll have more time to collect enough ‘likes’ to make it in front of the jury! Have fun, and hope to see you all at the End of Season Awards Party!

Wed 18^th April 2012

@ Marsa Sports Grounds

The MHA in collaboration with the KMS Sport Promotion Unit organised the first ever Primary Schools Handball Festival for boys and girls aged 10 – 11. The venue chosen was the KMS Marsa Sports Grounds. The festival saw the participation of 8 Schools with well over a 100 children actively involved in playing 5 a-side handball games from 0930 to 1230. The participating schools most of which participating with more than one team were Cospicua, Gzira, Marsaxlokk, Msida, Mosta, Zabbar, Zejtun and Xghajra. A number of mini-handballs will be donated to the participating schools in order to encourage further participation in the sport. On noting the enthusiasm for such a festival the MHA and KMS SPU are planning to hold 2 to 3 similar festivals during the next scholastic year.

Follow the link below for photos of the event

http://www.maltahandball.com/technical-area/development/inter-school-leagues/primary-school-festival

The Ladies Handball league came to a close last Saturday. Following a convincing win over Luxol, La Salle Trendi secured their fifth championship title. The team, coached by John Falzon, only lost one match and managed to beat former champions Aloysians in all rounds. Picture shows La Salle Trendi players and officials.

The second course is open for all those over 16 years of age who are interested in coaching handball.  This course is part of the 60 hours Level  1 Course in Coaching Handball which will be continued later on in the year.

Successful participants in both courses will receive a ‘Teaching Handball at School’ certificate issued from the IHF.

More information can be obtained by calling on 21317175 during office hours or email info@maltahandball.com.

Course 1: Teaching Handball at School

Course 2: Level 1 Course in Coaching Handball (part of)

The two referees couples nominated for the six group matches are Dalibor Jurinovic and Marko Mrvica from Croatia, and Igor Covalciuc and Alexei Covalciuc from Moldova.

The draw has been made for Qualification Phase 1 of EHF EURO 2014.

Group A: Ukraine, Cyprus, Finland, Luxembourg. Right to host: Finland

Group B: Greece, Switzerland, Italy, Great Britain Right to host: Italy

Group C: Romania, Israel, Belgium, Ireland. Right to host: Belgium
Qualification will be played in two phases, with Phase 1 to be played in tournament format at one venue from Friday 8 June to Sunday 10 June 2012Group D: Estonia, Latvia, Turkey, Malta: Right to host: Turkey

Phase 2 will be played in a home and away format, seven groups of four teams in six qualification rounds.

Teams are playing for fifteen places, Denmark qualifying by right as organiser. The defending champions, in this case also Denmark, no longer rec

eive a place from 2014.

The ‘fifteenth team’ will be decided from the third best ranked team in the qualifications groups. Only the matches against the first and second placed teams in each group taken into consideration.

A total of 22 teams directly qualified for the Qualification Phase 2, the four teams having qualified directly for the 2013 World Championship final tournament (Serbia, Croatia, Spain and France) and all those teams already qualified for the 2013 World Championship Qualification Europe Play-offs.

These are (in alphabetical order): AUT, BIH, BLR, CRO, CZE, ESP, FRA, GER, HUN, ISL, LTU, MKD, MNE, NED, NOR, POL, POR, RUS, SLO, SRB, SVK, SWE.

The matches will be played in form of tournaments at one weekend at one venue each (Friday 8 June to Sunday 10 June 2012).

The Maltese under 23 women’s national team started off its campaign in this year’s EHF/IHF Challenge Trophy with a very encouraging result against Israel, thanks to a determined first half performance.  It was a thrilling start for the locals where they played some good handball and managed to keep abreast of their opponents with good aggressiveness in defence and some effective movements in attack to end the first half with just a three goal deficit (8-11).  In the second half, the Maltese girls tried to maintain the momentum going and kept fighting for every ball.  However, the more experienced Israeli team opened a 5 goal margin mid-way through this half and ended up winning the match 22-12.  This was the best result against Isreal so far.

MALTA: POLIDANO Marie Claire; SAMMUT Julia; XUEREB Emma; XUEREB Christine; FRIGGIERI Mathilde (1); SCICLUNA Sarah (1); GATT Kristina (1); BONELLO Rebecca; CAMILLERI Roanna; CAMILLERI Kimberly (6); ELLUL Celaine (2); AGIUS Marylyn (1); FARRUGIA Francesca (1); AQUILINA Louise; GRECH Christine; TABONE Dorianne.

Qualification will be played in two phases, with Phase 1 to be played in tournament format at one venue from Friday 8 June to Sunday 10 June 2012

Phase 2 will be played in a home and away format, seven groups of four teams in six qualification rounds.

Teams are playing for fifteen places, Denmark qualifying by right as organiser. The defending champions, in this case also Denmark, no longer receive a place from 2014.

The ‘fifteenth team’ will be decided from the third best ranked team in the qualifications groups. Only the matches against the first and second placed teams in each group taken into consideration.

A total of 22 teams directly qualified for the Qualification Phase 2, the four teams having qualified directly f

or the 2013 World Championship final tournament (Serbia, Croatia, Spain and France) and all those teams already qualified for the 2013 World Championship Qualification Europe Play-offs.

These are (in alphabetical order): AUT, BIH, BLR, CRO, CZE, ESP, FRA, GER, HUN, ISL, LTU, MKD, MNE, NED, NOR, POL, POR, RUS, SLO, SRB, SVK, SWE.

The draw for Phase 1 is scheduled for 27 March 2012 in Vienna, Austria and for Phase 2 on 20 April 2012 in Copenhagen, Denmark.

Procedure for the draw of the Qualification – Phase 1
Date: 27 March 2012 Time: 10:30 hrs. (local time) Venue: “Das Turm”, Vienna

Qualification Phase 1:

The 16 registered teams for the EHF EURO 2014 Qualification Phase 1 are (in alphabetical order):
BEL, CYP, EST, FIN, GBR, GRE, ISR, IRL, ITA, LAT, LUX, MLT, ROU, SUI, UKR, TUR.

Phase 1 will be played in 4 groups of 4 teams.

The winners of each group and the two best ranked second teams of all four groups will qualify for Phase 2 of the EHF EURO 2014 Qualification (in total 6 teams).

The 16 teams are seeded based on the EHF National Team Ranking valid for the EHF EURO 2014 Qualification:
4 Teams in pot 1:  UKR, GRE, ROU, EST

Procedure:

Step 1:  4 teams of pot 4 to row 4
Step 2:  4 teams of pot 3 to row 3
Step 3:  4 teams of pot 2 to row 2
Step 4:  4 teams of pot 1 to row 1

Step 5:  The draw of the teams having the right to organise the qualification tournament.

The matches will be played in form of tournaments at one weekend at one venue each (Friday 8 June to Sunday 10 June 2012).

Results, standings and match reports…visit http://www.eurohandball.com/trophy/women/2012/round/2/Group+Phase

Monday 12^th March will be earmarked as a major milestone in the history of local handball. During an extraordinary general meeting held on the day the new governing structure was officially approved. The new structure saw a reformed MHA Council and the dissolution of the Executive Committee. The role of the executive committee is now being taken up by a professional Management team.  Mr. Louis Borg was confirmed MHA’s President while Mr. Andrew Decelis and Dr. Chris Bonett were both newly elected Vice-Presidents. The president and vice-presidents are the only elected persons on the council and their term expires in September, 2016. The Council is also composed of the club delegates and the chairperson of the Referees’ Board.

The Management is composed of the association’s employed personnel on full and/or part-time basis. Mr. Clyde Borg Conti (full time, government secondment) was confirmed MHA’s Chief Executive Officer heading the management team which encompasses the Technical Manager, Mr Alan Grima and the Marketing Manager who will be announced in the coming days. Both managers are employed on part-time basis. The Management will be employing further personnel as deemed necessary to develop MHA programmes for the forthcoming 3 years. Personnel include national team coaches and assistant coaches, media personnel and clerical staff.

The reform was officially initiated last November when an Infrastructural Support Programme (ISP) agreement was signed between the Malta Handball Association represented by the President Mr. Borg and former Vice-President Mr. Borg Conti and the European Handball Federation in Viennaduring the EHF 20^th Anniversary celebrations. The ISP promises financial assistance to the MHA over a period of 3 years in order to employ part time staff subject to the release of a public officer on full time basis by the local government. The release came into effect on 1^st January 2012 and hence the association started implementing structural changes to adhere to the ISP contract.

New challenges are now on MHA’s agenda. As the new structure is set to pave the way for further development, a one day handball seminar, The Way Forward II,  is being organised this Saturday at the University Residence in Lija so that all stake holders within the handball community may come forward with ideas and suggestions for future growth.