Final

Date	Time	Team 1		Team 2
		Final
21.01.2012	14:00	Faroe Islands	28	Moldova	30

Reference: [1]

Group Phase Tables

	P	W	D	L	F	A	Pts
Group A
*Faroe Islands	3	3	0	0	93	63	6
Georgia	3	2	0	1	89	69	4
England	3	1	0	2	76	95	2
Ireland	3	0	0	3	65	96	0
Group B
*Moldova	3	3	0	0	122	71	6
Azerbaijan	3	2	0	1	96	76	4
Scotland	3	1	0	2	71	110	2
Malta	3	0	0	3	70	102	0

Reference: [2]

Group Phase Results

Date	Time	Team 1		Team 2
		Group A
04.11.2011	17:15	Georgia	31	England	25
04.11.2011	20:00	Faroe Islands	30	Ireland	20
05.11.2011	14:00	England	22	Faroe Islands	40
05.11.2011	16:00	Ireland	21	Georgia	37
06.11.2011	14:00	Georgia	21	Faroe Islands	23
06.11.2011	16:00	England	29	Ireland	24
		Group B
04.11.2011	17:30	Moldova	47	Scotland	30
04.11.2011	20:00	Azerbaijan	29	Malta	23
05.11.2011	17:00	Scotland	19	Azerbaijan	36
05.11.2011	19:00	Malta	20	Moldova	41
06.11.2011	16:00	Moldova	34	Azerbaijan	31
06.11.2011	18:00	Scotland	32	Malta	27

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 seventh time entering the competition in 2012, they were placed in the tougher Group with previous winners Georgia, Faroe Islands & England.

Ireland lost all three group games, finishing last, which was a disappointment following the promise shown in the two previous Challenge Cups.

Moldova won the tournament for the third time, beating Faroe Islands 30-28 in a close encounter 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) 2012 Men’s Challenge Trophy Final Round [Internet] Available from: http://www.eurohandball.com/trophy/men/2012/round/1/Final [Accessed 25 October 2018]

[2] European Handball Federation (2018) 2012 Men’s Challenge Trophy Group Phase[Internet] Available from: http://www.eurohandball.com/trophy/men/2012/round/2/Group+Phase [Accessed 25 October 2018]

Acknowledgements

Thanks to Alan Delaney.

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Last Updated: 26 September 2019

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