According to an official announcement EHF executive Alexander Toncourt passed away today. One of the best of this handball world has gone. He was always available for all members of the handball family – and he was always a friend. ‘Ali’, we will never forget you!
The first seminar for Handball Club Managers will take place in Cologne/Germany from 24.5 to 26.6.2012.
All European club managers, participating in the various European Cups, will be obliged to attend one seminar within the next 3 years. The seminar is based on the ‘Best practice’ system, granting concrete support to increase the number of spectators and sponsors in handball. At the same time concrete information for daily work in handball will be provided.
Clubs are kindly requested to register as quick as possible (hoeritsch@eurohandball.com) due to a limited number of available places. Registration will be on ‘first come – first serve’ basis. Deadline for registration: 20.4.12! GB
The European Club Association (ECA) will send an observer to the 7th General Assembly of Forum Club Handball (FCH). David Frommer is ECA advisor for Public and EU Affairs. During the last week Europe’s top football clubs have opened talks with the world federation FIFA aimed at resolving a long-running dispute over World Cup revenues and other club-versus-country issues. GB
All European Top Clubs are here with invited to the 7th ordinary General Assembly of FORUM CLUB HANDBALL (FCH), taking place on the final weekend of the EHF Euro 2012 in Belgrade/SRB.
This invitation is directed to the
and all National champions of season 2010/11.
Date:
The General Assembly will take place on Saturday, 28.1.2012, 10 – 14:30 hours.
Venue:
Hyatt Regency Belgrad, PO Box 067, Milentija Popovica 5, Belgrad, Serbien 11070, Tel.: +381 11 301 1234 Fax: +381 11 311 2234
The program will be as follows:
27.1.2011: Arrival and check-in at the hotel during the day
Visit of the Semi-Final matches (17:45h and 20:15h) of the EHF Euro 2012
Dinner of the FCH representatives
28.1.2011: 10 – 11:30h Part I, 7th General Assembly
11:30 – 12 hours break
12 – 14:30 hours Part II, 7th General Assembly
14:30 hours Departure
Agenda of the 7th General Assembly:
Part I
Part II
All participants are kindly requested to make proposals for the agenda.
Costs: FCH will cover the costs for one representative per club for hotel (one night, Fr/Sa), one ticket for the Semifinals on Friday
and for the meeting on Saturday.
The participants have to cover their own travel costs.
Deadline for registration:
All clubs are kindly requested to register by e-mail to office@forumclubhandball.com until 23rd December 2011.
Further information will be provided during the next days. Please do not hesitate to contact the FCH office for any question. GB
The assembly of clubs of the TOYOTA Handball-Bundesliga (HBL) decided unanimously on 1st December 2012 that league matches as of season 12/13 will be played basically
on weekends. A re-scheduling of league matches in favor of European Cup matches will ‘basically not possible’.
This information was passed to the European Handball Federation (EHF) with a long list of arguments.
The scheduling of the VELUX EHF Championsleague (CL) matches during the weekend significantly limits the interests of the majority of European clubs. If league matches are scheduled during the week, less tickets are sold and younger people are not able to attend the matches. Sponsors are annoyed about the permanent changes. The sale of the rights for the National league is more difficult due to a lack of clear calendar. On the other hand a clear calendar will raise the TV ratings of Handball in all competitions.
FORUM CLUB HANDBALL (FCH) will discuss this issue during its 7th ordinary General Assembly on 28th Janurary 2012 in Belgrade. GB
The next General Assemblies of GCH and FCH will take place on 3rd (GCH) and 4th (FCH) October 2011 at Sheraton Hotel, Dusseldorf Airport.
The major topic of the FCH assembly will be the registration of the organisation as a Non-Profit-Organisation (NPO). All European Top Clubs (the last 24 clubs of the Velux-EHF Championsleage, last 16 of last seasons EHF-CUP, last 16 of last seasons Cup-Winners-Cup, last 8 of last years Challenge Cup and all reigning National Champions) will have possibility to register and become ordinary member. A copy of the draft of the statutes of the NPO has been sent to all concerned clubs today.
The board of GCH will propose to the GCH General Assembly the dissolution of the organisation – conditioned to the according decisions of FCH.
In the future FCH shall take over the tasks of GCH.
All clubs are requested to register for the meeting at office@forumclubhandball.com. GB
Before todays PHB meeting, the European Professional Handball Players Union (EPHU), represented by Marcus Romminger/GER, signed a Memorandum of Understanding with the European Handball Federation (EHF). As a consequence the players as last interest group became ordinary member of PHB. Hardly welcome! GB
Der deutsche Bundestrainer Heiner Brand hat ins seiner Rücktritts-Pressekonferenz am 18.5.2011 Anschuldigungen gegen GCH Geschäftsführer G. Butzeck erhoben, die wir zurückweisen.
Die GROUP CLUB HANDBALL EEIG (GCH) wurde 2006 aufgrund von Problemen gegründet, die sich aus dem internationalen Spielkalender und der Vermarktung des Europapokals ergeben haben.
In den letzten 5 Jahren hat die GCH für die Europäischen Klubs Folgendes erreicht:
Seit 2008 gibt es eine Klubvertretung in den Gremien der Europäischen Handball Föderation (EHF)
Seit 2008 gibt es eine Klubvertretung in der EHF Marketing GmbH, die den kommerziellen Teil der Europapokale abwickelt
Seit 2008 gibt es eine Fondlösung, die Klubs für die Verletzung von Spieler bei Europameisterschaften entschädigt
Seit 2010 erhalten Klubs eine Entschädigung für die Abstellung von Nationalspielern zur Europameisterschaft
Seit 2010 gibt es ein ‘Memorandum of Understanding’ (MoU) zwischen Klubs und EHF, dass wesentliche Dinge der Zusammenarbeit regelt.
Seit 2010 gibt es das Professional Handball Board (PHB), ein Gremium, in dem Spieler-, Club-, Liga-, Verbands- und EHF-Vertreter erstmals GEMEINSAM die Thematiken des Profihandballs besprechen
Seit 2011 haben die Klubs einen Vertreter in der Exekutive der EHF
Seit 2011 gibt es eine Kommunikation zwischen Klubs und Internationalen Handball Föderation (IHF)
Seit 2011 sind die Spielergehälter bei Weltmeisterschaften zugunsten der Klubs versichert
Seit 2011 erhalten die Klubs eine Abstellungsgebühr für Nationalspieler bei Weltmeisterschaften
Bei der Europameisterschaft 2012 werden die Nationalmannschaften auf Intervention der Klubs 2 Ruhetage mehr haben als bei der Europameisterschaft 2010
Die Deutschen Klubs unterstützen die Nationalmannschaften im Allgemeinen und die Deutsche Nationalmannschaft im Besonderen in dem Wissen, dass sie den Stellenwert der Sportart Handball massgeblich beeinflussen.
Die GCH wird sich allerdings auch weiterhin für Änderungen zugunsten des Handballs und zugunsten der Kernzelle des Handballs – also zugunsten des Europäischen Klubhandballs einsetzen.
Sowohl unser Geschäftsführer Gerd Butzeck als auch alle deutschen Vertreter der in der GCH vertretenen Clubs haben hohen Respekt um die Verdienste von Heiner Brand um den Deutschen Handball und freuen sich auf konstruktiven Austausch in der Zukunft.
gez. Volker Zerbe/TBV Lemgo (Vize-Präsident GCH)
gez. Dierk Schmäschke/HSV Handball (Stellvertr. Vize-Präsident GCH)
Up to today 4 players were seriously injured during the 22nd IHF World Championship in Sweden. These are Thomas Mogensen/DEN (SG Flensburg), Michail Jurecki/POL (Vive Targi Kielce), Mohamed Ibrahin/EGY and David Katzirz/HUN (Pick Szeged). Thanks to the activities of GROUP CLUB HANDBALL EEIG and FORUM CLUB HANDBALL the IHF insured the salaries of the players in favor of the clubs. Now the concerned clubs will benefit from this new regulation. GB
According to handball-world.com (please look for the link on our page Int. Handball Policy) an English Handball Team will participate in the Olympics 2012 in London. This decision of the British organizing committee of Olympics 2012 was announced by Paul Goodwin, CEO of the British Handball Federation. GB