Match schedule for 2018 Beach Handball World Championships

Handball is a team sport in which two teams of seven players each pass a ball using their hands with the aim of throwing it into the goal of the other team

With a little more than one month left, beach handball fans all over the world are eagerly waiting for the Kazan 2018 IHF Men’s and Women’s Beach Handball World Championships to begin.

The competition schedule sees the teams ranked 1-3 in the preliminary round advance to the main round groups I and II. The two best teams of the respective main round group will then continue on to the knock-out stage, starting with the quarter-finals, followed by the semi-finals and finals. 

For more information on the 2018 IHF Men’s and Women’s Beach Handball World Championships, visit the official event website.  

GROUPS

Men’s competition

Group A: CRO, IRI, URU, ARG

Group B: ESP, HUN, VIE, NZL

Group C: QAT, OMA, AUS, DEN

Group D: BRA, RUS, USA, SWE

Women’s competition

Group A: ESP, AUS, GRE, PAR

Group B: POL, URU, FRA, TPE

Group C: BRA, THA, RUS, USA

Group D: NOR, DEN, VIE, MEX


      (  Modern handball is played on a court of 40 by 20 metres (131 by 66 ft), with a goal in the middle of each end. The goals are surrounded by a 6-meter (20 ft) zone where only the defending goalkeeper is allowed; goals must be scored by throwing the ball from outside the zone or while "diving" into it. The sport is usually played indoors, but outdoor variants exist in the forms of field handball and Czech handball (which were more common in the past) and beach handball. The game is fast and high-scoring: professional teams now typically score between 20 and 35 goals each, though lower scores were not uncommon until a few decades ago. Body contact is permitted by the defenders trying to stop the attackers from approaching the goal.


The game was codified at the end of the 19th century in Denmark. The modern set of rules was published in 1917 in Germany, and had several revisions since. The first international games were played under these rules for men in 1925 and for women in 1930. Men's handball was first played at the 1936 Summer Olympics in Berlin as outdoors, and the next time at the 1972 Summer Olympics in Munich as indoors, and has been an Olympic sport since. Women's team handball was added at the 1976 Summer Olympics.



                 The International Handball Federation was formed in 1946 and, as of 2016, has 197 member federations.[3] The sport is most popular in the countries of continental Europe, which have won all medals but one in the men's world championships since 1938. In the women's world championships, only two non-European countries have won the title: South Korea and Brazil. The game also enjoys popularity in the Far East, North Africa and parts of South America