South and Central America Handball Confederation


The South and Central America Handball Confederation Confederación Sur y Centro Americana de Balonmano is the governing body of the Olympic sport of Handball and Beach handball in south america and central america. It is affiliated to the International Handball Federation.
SCAHC has 19 members countries located within the South America and Central America. One of IHF's six continental confederations, the SCAHC was formed officially on 5 April 2019 in Cali . The SCAHC headquarter is located in Santiago de Chile .

History

On 14 January 2018, during the IHF Council meeting, Pan-American Team Handball Federation was suspended by International Handball Federation and was divided into two continental confederations namely the North America and the Caribbean Handball Confederation and the South and Central America Handball Confederation. The IHF Council decision was taken on the facts that there are no signs of development in the level of handball and beach handball in the North American, Central American and the Caribbean countries. There was some development in South American level but that was also not comparable to the other continents like Europe, Asia and Africa. No team from Americas had ever reached to the semifinal stage of the IHF World Men's Handball Championship and the IHF Men's Junior World Championship till date. The PATHF appealed to the Court of Arbitration for Sport, and it annulled IHF's decision.
At the Extraordinary IHF Congress 2019 the IHF statues were revised to add the new federations.

SCAHC Presidents

SCAHC Secretary Generals

SCAHC Managing Director

SCAHC Council

Following are the members serving 2019 – 2023 term.
DesignationNameCountry
PresidentMarcel Mancilla Bravo
1st Vice-PresidentRicardo Souza
2nd Vice-PresidentJuan Carlos Gutiérrez Vargas
Secretary GeneralBlas César Garcete Argüello
TreasurerVictor Manuel Ramos Vergara
Chairman of Technical and Development CommissionCecilia Hernández
Chairman of Competitions CommissionMartín Chilaca
Managing DirectorSalvio Sedrez

Affiliated members

South America

National teams

Record titles