Final Standings

Place	Country	P	W	D	L	F	A	Pts
1	Cyprus	6	5	0	1	199	88	10
2	Moldova	6	5	0	1	216	97	10
3	Great Britain	6	4	0	2	159	118	8
4	Armenia	6	2	0	4	148	178	4
5	Ireland	6	1	0	5	75	197	2
6	Malta	6	1	0	5	88	207	2

Reference: Compiled from Results & Table in [1]

Group A Results

Date	Time	Team 1		Team 2
14.09.1999	15:00	Moldova	47	Malta	13
14.09.1999	16:30	Great Britain	34	Ireland	11
14.09.1999	19:40	Cyprus	41	Armenia	20
15.09.1999	16:00	Armenia	18	Moldova	47
15.09.1999	18:00	Ireland	6	Cyprus	43
15.09.1999	20:00	Malta	8	Great Britain	34
16.09.1999	16:00	Moldova	47	Ireland	7
16.09.1999	18:00	Great Britain	10	Cyprus	27
16.09.1999	20:00	Malta	18	Armenia	37
17.09.1999	16:00	Moldova	33	Great Britain	22
17.09.1999	17:50	Cyprus	51	Malta	10
17.09.1999	20:00	Armenia	34	Ireland	13
18.09.1999	16:00	Ireland	15	Malta	20
18.09.1999	18:00	Great Britain	29	Armenia	19
18.09.1999	20:00	Cyprus	16	Moldova	22

Reference: [1]

Group A Table

	P	W	D	L	F	A	Pts
*Moldova	5	5	0	0	196	76	10
*Cyprus	5	4	0	1	178	68	8
^Great Britain	5	3	0	2	129	98	6
^Armenia	5	2	0	3	128	148	4
+Malta	5	1	0	4	69	184	2
+Ireland	5	0	0	5	52	178	0

Reference: [1] Note: * Qualify for Final / ^ Qualify for 3rd-4th Place Playoff / + Qualify for 5th-6th Place Playoff

Finals & Placement Matches

Date	Time	Team 1		Team 2
		5th-6th Place
19.09.1999	09:30	Ireland	23	Malta	19
		3rd-4th Place
19.09.1999	11:30	Great Britain	30	Armenia	20
		Final
19.09.1999	17:30	Moldova	20	Cyprus	21

Reference: [1]

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.

They found the level hard-going at first, losing all five group games, before winning their final placement match 23-19 over Malta.

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) 1999 Men’s Challenge Trophy [Internet] Available from: http://www.eurohandball.com/trophy/men/1999/round/1/Finals [Accessed 25 October 2018]

Acknowledgements

Thanks to Alan Delaney.

About this document

Researched, compiled and written by Enda Mulcahy for the

Eirball | Irish, North American & World Sports Archive

Last Updated: 26 September 2019

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