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It’s stressful and lonely at the top for referees

02 December 2011

In response to recent tragic incidents involving football and handball referees in Europe, Christer Ahl, former President of the International Handball Federation’s Playing Rules and Referees Commission, calls for new reforms...[more]




German prosecutors investigate handball president

11 November 2011

Swiss authorities searched the International Handball Federation’s (IHF) Basel headquarters and IHF President Hassan Moustafa’s private residence on Wednesday. The search took place at the request of German prosecutors who have...[more]




Team Handball on the brink of insolvency

17 March 2011

New in Knowledge Bank: Despite success for the Danish male national team at the 2011 World Championships in Sweden, the financial development in the Danish men’s and women’s League clubs is worse than ever. Analysis on the...[more]




Handball clubs on the brink of insolvency

16 March 2011

Despite success for the Danish male national team at the 2011 World Championships in Sweden, the financial development in the Danish men’s and women’s Leauge clubs is worse than ever. Talks on financial fair play have to reach...[more]




IHF in the Spotlight during the Men’s World Championship

22 February 2011

Christer Ahl, former head of the International Handball Federation's (IHF) Playing Rules and referees Commission shares his comments on last month's Handball World Championships in Sweden, the choice of Quatar as the 2015 hosts,...[more]




Comment: Conflict of Interest - or worse!?

01 February 2010

Christer Ahl, former head of the International Handball Federation's (IHF) Playing Rules and referees Commission looks into last month's revelation of IHF President Moustafa's personal contract with IHF TV rights owner Sportfive.[more]




IHF Head of Sports Department resigns due to loyalty issues with IHF Director Moustafa

14 January 2010

In a letter to all council members of the International Handball Federation, it was last week announced that the Head of Sports Department of the International Handball Federation (IHF), German Ekke Hoffmann has resigned from his...[more]




Handball referees claim bribes were offered during World Handball Championship

19 March 2009

The Danish referees Mads Hansen and Martin Gjeding report that they were offered bribes before a match in Romania during the World Handball Championship in June 2008. ”We were offered a cash payment of 30.000 Euro. We were...[more]




CAS decision on Handball controversy highlights top-level failings at IHF and AHF

29 July 2008

The Court of Arbitration for Sport’s ruling on the dispute between the International Handball Federation and the Asian Handball Federation over Asian qualification tournaments for the Beijing Olympics highlights a catalogue of...[more]




IHF backs Greenland over continental handball federation membership

07 May 2008

The Greenland Handball Federation has won its year-long dispute with the Pan-American Team Handball Federation over the continental handball federation’s decision to reduce Greenland’s membership status from full to associate.[more]




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