The men’s Forum Club Handball announced the call for nomination today. The period for nomination of FCH Board members closes on 1st June 2025. For details go to MEN FORUM CLUB HANDBALL and then MEN Next General Assembly.
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During the 31st FCH General Assembly, celebrated in Oslo on the fringes of the IHF World Championship, the clubs dealt with the IHF Regulations for Transfers between Federations, Article 9, § 2: … A player may only conclude a contract with another club if the player’s contract with his/her existing club has twelve months or less remaining. …
The Clubs discussed the regulation and regard it to be neither legal, nor realistic. Accordingly FCH will approach EHF/IHF to delete this regulation.
Former Champions League winner Vipers Kristiansand anounced bankruptcy. The club will no longer participate in EHF Chamions League. EHF will deal with the matter and inform on further procedure. FCH received direct information from the EHF Leadership.
For the first time ever Forum Club Handball will celebrate a General Assembly with participants from 5 continents. The fist non-European club to enter FCH was ‘The worlds Handball club New York City’ (America), followed by Detroit, Zeekstar Tokyo (Asia), CalHeats San Francisco, University Sydney (Australia). For the first time ever an African Club will join the meeting: Famous SC Zamalek from Egypt will be confirmed as new member during the meeting on 9th June in Cologne.
Radmila Petrovic is no longer President of Buducnost. Accordingly she was withdrawn as member of the EHF Women Handball Board. FCH thanks Radmila for her contribution to European Club Handball. A replacement for Radmila Petrovic will be elected during the next 20th General Assembly of Forum Club Handball in Budapest on 2nd June 2024.
Forum Club Handball is an organization, representing the interests of European Top Handball clubs vis-a-vis European Handball Federation EHF, International Handball Federation IHF, European Union and others.
FCH is registered as an NPO (registered club, eingetragener Verein) in Cologne/Germany. Potentially the office can be everywhere in Europe.
The Managing Director of Forum Club Handball organizes the meetings and is the first contact person for member clubs, EHF and IHF. The ideal candidate should have a strong Handball background/network, good knowledge of English and Microsoft Office.
The new FCH Managing Director has to coordinate and balance the interests of the various stakeholders in Handball. He will be appointed in October 2024 and start working in June 2025.
Short-form applications with CV shall be addressed to office@forumclubhandball.com until 1st of May 2024.
On invitation of FCH the leadership of FCH and EHF will meet on 9th October 2023. EHF will be represented by President M. Wiederer, the 2 Vice-President P. Boskovic and H. La Cour, Secretary General M. Hausleitner, CSO M. Glaser and CFO B. Binder. EHFM will be represented by Managing Director D. Szlezak and his Deputy N. Kernmayer.
All Board members (men and women) of FCH will be present.
The major topic of the meeting will be the long-term cooperation with agency partner INFRONT and the future alignment of the European Cup competitions.
EHFM will organize the EHF F4 Business Weekend on Friday/Saturday 16./17.6.2023. The program contains presentations and discussions, starting on Friday afternoon and finishing Saturday around noon. Details will be announced by EHFM in the near future. Save the date!
Zeekstar Tokyo is the first Asian club to become member of Forum Club Handball. This decision was taken during the 27th General Assembly of FCH which took place in Stockholm, Sweden today.
FCH welcomed also Kanji Wakunaga, the President of the Japanese Handball Association. The visit of the Japanese delegation is part of the Japan project of FCH.
FCH intends to invite further members from Asia, Africa and America in the future.
Bin Moustafa, chairman of the World’s Handball Club New York City, represents the non-European member clubs as Vice-President in the FCH Board.
The Japanese club Zeekstar from Tokyo will attend the 27th General Assembly of Forum Club Handball, taking place on the fringes of the IHF World Championship in Stockholm on 28th January 2023. Potentially Zeekstar will become the first Asian member club of FCH.
Futher none-European club representatives in the meeting will be the presidents from ‘The World’s Handball Club’ from New York City and Detroit HC.
At the beginning of the meeting the IHF President Dr. Hassan Moustafa and FCH President Xavier O’Callaghan will sign the new Partnership agreement between FCH and IHF.
Further topics on the agenda will be marketing of EC competitions, rules and refereeing, players’ agents, resin-free ball and others.