Final Round

Date	Time	Team 1		Team 2
		Final
20.01.2008	15:00	Luxembourg	27	Georgia	28

Reference: [1]

Main Round Tables

	P	W	D	L	F	A	Pts
Group G
*Georgia	3	3	0	0	100	68	6
Moldova	3	2	0	1	91	73	4
Azerbaijan	3	1	0	2	92	62	2
Armenia	3	0	0	3	49	109	0
Group L
*Luxembourg	5	5	0	0	199	95	10
Faroe Islands	5	4	0	1	201	106	8
England	5	3	0	2	107	132	6
Ireland	5	1	1	3	112	168	3
Scotland	5	1	0	4	107	173	2
Malta	5	0	1	4	93	145	1

Reference: [2]

Main round Results

Date	Time	Team 1		Team 2
		Group G
25.10.2007	16:30	Moldova	33	Armenia	17
25.10.2007	18:30	Georgia	36	Azerbaijan	24
26.10.2007	16:30	Azerbaijan	27	Moldova	31
26.10.2007	18:30	Armenia	17	Georgia	35
27.10.2007	12:00	Azerbaijan	41	Armenia	15
27.10.2007	14:00	Georgia	29	Moldova	27
		Group L
24.10.2007	16:00	Scotland	20	England	31
24.10.2007	18:00	Faroe Islands	37	Malta	18
24.10.2007	20:00	Luxembourg	50	Ireland	22
25.10.2007	16:00	Ireland	21	Faroe Islands	46
25.10.2007	18:00	Malta	20	Scotland	21
25.10.2007	20:00	England	13	Luxembourg	41
26.10.2007	16:00	Faroe Islands	58	Scotland	19
26.10.2007	18:00	Ireland	17	England	24
26.10.2007	20:00	Luxembourg	40	Malta	11
27.10.2007	14:00	Malta	25	Ireland	25
27.10.2007	16:00	Faroe Islands	35	England	17
27.10.2007	18:00	Scotland	24	Luxembourg	37
28.10.2007	09:30	England	22	Malta	19
28.10.2007	11:30	Scotland	23	Ireland	27
28.10.2007	13:30	Luxembourg	31	Faroe Islands	25

Reference: [2]

Report

The Men’s Challenge Trophy was the European Handball Federations competition for emerging Nations. Having competed with club sides & countries like Greenland in the mid-1990s, Ireland entered this competition for the first time in 1999.

In Ireland’s fifth time entering the competition in 2007, they eventually finished off the bottom, with a win over Scotland and a draw with Malta in their five matches

The Tournament was doubled in size for 2007, with a separate tournament in Eastern & Western Europe, with the two winners meeting in the final.

The Western Tournament started off like the four previous Challenge Trophy’s for Ireland with three straight defeats, although a much better display was put on by Ireland, with a draw with Malta in their fourth match (25-25) and victory over Scotland in their last match by a score of 27-23 giving Ireland their first points since 1999 in the tournament. Ireland finished off bottom for the first time ever, with fourth place of six in the Western Tournament.

Newcomers Georgia defeated two-time defending Champions Moldova on the way to a narrow 28-27 victory over Luxembourg in the Final.

About

Olympic Handball, sometimes called Team Handball or European Handball, is a team sport similar to Indoor Soccer or Futsal, except hands are used rather than feet.

The object of the sport is to pass the ball using only the hands in order to get into a semi-circle around the opposing teams goal, where a shot may be taken. Each score counts as one goal, and the court is the exact same as a Futsal court indeed Futsal was invented as an Indoor version of Soccer, using the Olympic Handball court.

The sport was invented in Germany & Northern Europe at the end of the 19th Century & beginning of the 20th Century.

References

Websites

[1] European Handball Federation (2018) 2007 Men’s Challenge Trophy Final Round [Internet] Available from: http://www.eurohandball.com/trophy/men/2007/round/1/Final+Round [Accessed 25 October 2018]

[2] European Handball Federation (2018) 2007 Men’s Challenge Trophy Main Round [Internet] Available from: http://www.eurohandball.com/trophy/men/2007/round/2/Main+Round [Accessed 25 October 2018]

Acknowledgements

Thanks to Alan Delaney.

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Last Updated: 26 September 2019

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