The Scottish Handball League Championship Campaign commenced in October 2009. All league games will be played at Blackburn, West Lothian. This year seven teams from across central Scotland will be taking part in the league campaign, for full details of results and fixtures see the Scottish Handball Season 2009/10 page. The Scottish Cup Competition will be contested by 7 sides from across Scotland, with Ayr HC being replaced by Glasgow University HC. The 2009/10 season fixtures and results can be view on the SHA Cup page.
The Scottish National squad have competed in the European Handball Federation Men's Challenge Trophy since 2005, and will enter a team into this year's tournament at the end of October 2009.
EHF Challenge Trophy
The Challenge Trophy is an International Handball Tournament held by the EHF for developing Handball Nations.
2005 EHF Men's Challenge Trophy
The 2005 tournament was held in Dublin, Ireland. Scotland finished in a respectable third place beating England in the play-offs.
The final standings after all group matches were completed was as follows
Team
P
W
D
L
F
A
GD
Pts
Moldova
5
5
0
0
185
82
103
10
Azerbaijan
5
4
0
1
156
82
74
8
England
5
2
0
3
98
121
-23
4
Scotland
5
2
0
3
87
110
-23
4
Malta
5
2
0
3
90
133
-43
4
Ireland
5
0
0
5
85
173
-88
0
Third and fourth place play-off
Final standings
2007 EHF Men's Challenge Trophy
The 2007 Challenge Trophy took on a different format. There were 2 groups this time around, one with 4 teams with the group matches taking place in Georgia, and the other with 6 teams and the group matches taking place in Luxembourg. The winner of the two groups then faced each other in the Final, in Drammen, Norway. Scotland were drawn in Group L, and played their matches in Luxembourg.
Group L
Scotland's fixtures were as follows:
Home Team
Away Team
Score
Scotland
England
20:31
Malta
Scotland
20:21
Faroe Islands
Scotland
58:19
Scotland
Luxembourg
24:37
Scotland
Ireland
23:27
Group L table
The final standings after all group matches were completed was as follows
Team
P
W
D
L
F
A
GD
Pts
Luxembourg
5
5
0
0
199
95
104
10
Faroe Islands
5
4
0
1
201
106
95
8
England
5
3
0
2
107
132
-25
6
Ireland
5
1
1
3
112
168
-56
3
Scotland
5
1
0
4
107
173
-66
2
Malta
5
0
1
4
93
145
-52
1
2009 EHF Men's Challenge Trophy
Scotland will again compete in the EHF Men's Challenge Trophy with the group phase taking place between 30 October and 1 November 2009. This year's tournament consists of two groups, Group G1 being based in Moldova and Group G2 based in Malta, of 4 teams playing each other once in a round robin format with the winners of the group stages facing each other in the Final to be held in Linz, Austria.
