Inaugural Women’s Junior Handball Cup
Game 1: Australia Juniors vs Quake/Otago mix
Game 2:Australia Juniors vs NZ Juniors
Game 3: Australia Juniors vs NZ Juniors
The 2025 IHF Trophy Oceania Youth & Junior Women’s Championship is hosted by Handball Cook Islands.
Games are live-streamed at the IHF Competition YouTube channel of the IHF. A big thank you to Pasifica TV for covering the games.
New Zealand always has a strong level of commitment at this event.
This is only here for notification for more information we will provide the link to the event when made available.
This will be the third time New Zealand will compete at the Asian Mens Handball Championship. They were not able to participate during the 2022 tournament due to Covid-19 travel restrictions.
The tournament will be held in Bahrain, 11 - 25 January 2024. The competition will serve as a qualification tournament for the World Championship. The top four teams from the event will qualify for the 29th IHF Men’s Handball World Championship, scheduled to be held in Croatia, Denmark, and Norway from January 14 to February 2, 2025. New Zealand will have the chance to qualify by achieving a ranking of fifth or higher.
The preliminary groups are:
Martyr Fahad Al-Ahmad Al-Sabah Cup (placement rounds)
CHANGES TO THE ABOVE SCHEDULE:
Hong Kong - New Zealand is now 15:00 while the Kazakhstan - China game is 13:00
Saudi Arabia - Chinese Taipei is 19:00 while the India - Oman is 17:00
Video of game from Aqmar4k.handball YouTube channel
Video of game embedded from Aqmar4k.handball YouTube channel
Video of game embedded from Aqmar4k.handball YouTube channel
Results will also be posted in our Facebook, Instagram and X accounts. Post game interviews and highlights will be posted in YouTube NZ Handball Live and NZ Handball Korero.
YouTube channel - Aqmar4k.handball (no scheduled events, they livestream the games as they happen)
Web channel - Alkass Digital (you need to login in via Apple, Google or email/password)
Game 2 - NZ vs South Korea album
Game 4 - NZ vs Saudi Arabia album
Game 5 - NZ vs Hong Kong album
Game 6 - NZ vs Chinese Taipei album
21st Asian Mens Handball Championship
Give a Little fundraising page
‘Handball is made for our people’: The Māori out to make history in a game with similarities to kī-o-rahi, article by Kelvin McDonald of Te Ao Maori News
16 teams to compete for the title at the 2024 AHF Asian Men’s Handball Men’s Championship, IHF News
‘We’ll leave everything on the court’: NZ lose handball opener to Iran, article by Kelvin McDonald of Te Ao Maori News
‘Crunch time’: NZ excited by chance to make history, article by Kelvin McDonal of Te Ao Maori News
‘I’ll tell you the story about Adam’: The young boy who tapped two Māori on the shoulder to say he loves haka, article by Kelvin McDonald of Te Ao Maori News
The young Bahrain boy who tapped two Māori on the shoulder to say he loves haka, Kelvin McDonald’s article shared by NZ Herald
Croatia hosts the 10th IHF Men’s Youth World Championship. New Zealand is placed in group B with Hungary, Slovenia and Morocco.
Australia hosts the 2023 Oceania Beach Handball Championship at Coolangatta Beach, Queensland. Winners of this championship will represent Oceania for the ANOC Beach Games and 2024 IHF Beach Handball World Championships
(kindly provided by Handball Australia)
Facebook Event: 2023 Oceania Beach Handball Championships
Livestream: NZ Handball Live
Photos: Handball Australia album
Round-Robin Game Results
(kindly provided by Handball Australia)
Round-Robin Team Standings
NZ Team Results by Day
Final Day Results
(kindly provided by Handball Australia)
Final Results for New Zealand Teams
Men - Second Place
photo courtesy of Chris Seen
Women - Second Place
photo courtesy of Chris Seen
The IHF Trophy Oceania is a handball competition for Under 18 & 20 year old men organised by the Oceania Continent Handball Federation. The winner of this competition qualifies for the 2023 IHF Men's Youth & Junior World Handball Championships as well as the 2023 Inter Continental Championships.
For more details of the tournament - IHF Trophy Oceania
Livestream provided by Polynesian Media
Day 1 (includes Opening Ceremony)
Select game to view match results
The New Zealand Men’s Beach Handball Team have Qualified for the 2022 World Games.
See Website for more details
This is the first time New Zealand Men’s Beach team played in the World Championship as the Oceania representative. New Zealand finished in 14th place.
Group Matches: NZ vs Brazil NZ vs Qatar NZ vs Portugal NZ vs Ecuador
Placement : NZ vs Puerto Rico NZ vs Egypt NZ vs USA
Final Placement: NZ vs Egypt NZ vs Ecuador
Select game to view match results (links to IHF)
For overall statistics of the team - Team Statistics ( links to IHF)
New Zealand Qualifies for World Championship
The Squads, coached by Timothy Rayner, represented New Zealand in Coolangatta at the Oceania Championships with historic results for both sides. The Women’s side beat Australia for the first time in an international match, but just fell short in the other two games, eventually settling for 2nd. The Men took Aussie the distance and in a thrilling penalty shootout beat the Australian side to take out first place. This is the first time that a NZ side has qualified for the World Championships by right.
The NZHF wishes to thank Handball Australia for hosting the event. Keep a sharp eye on our socials to follow the boys along their World Champs Journey.
Annual Australian State Championships - final date and locations still TBC
Australian Beach Handball championships in Adelaide. NZ national teams will be competing at this championships.
The NZ Men's Senior team will compete at these championships in Suwon, South Korea in 2018. We wish them all the best.
