Futbol Club Barcelona Handbol is a professional Spanish handball team based in Barcelona, Catalonia. It is a part of the FC Barcelona multi sports club, and was founded on 29 November 1942. The club competes domestically in the Liga ASOBAL and in the European Champions League. It is the most successful handball club in Spain and Europe with a record number of domestic and international titles.
Liga Asobal is the premier professional handball league in Spain. It was founded in 1958 with the name of División de Honor, changing its name to the current name in 1990. The Liga ASOBAL, which is played under EHF rules, currently consists of 16 teams, including famous ones like FC Barcelona, Ademar León, Bidasoa and Granollers.
Jackson Richardson is a retired French handball player. Regarded as one of the best and most influential handball players of his era, Richardson won fourteen titles at club level and the World Championship in 1995 and 2001 with the French national team. He was awarded IHF World Player of the Year in 1995, and voted the most valuable player at the World Championships in 1990 and 1995, and the 2000 European Championship.
Talant Mushanbetovich Dujshebaev is a former handball player, and current coach, who serves as the head coach for Vive Kielce. Dujshebaev is considered by many to be one of the greatest handball coaches of his generation. He successively played for 4 national teams in his playing career: First for the Soviet Union, then the Unified Team, then Russia and finally Spain. His most usual demarcation as a player was centre backcourt. After initially having success with BM Ciudad Real as a coach, he has been coaching Kielce for nearly a decade now.
Arpad Sterbik Capar is a retired handball player who represented the national teams of Yugoslavia and Spain.
Nikola Karabatić is a French former professional handball player. He is regarded as one of the greatest players in handball history.
Mikkel Hansen is a Danish professional handball player for Aalborg Håndbold and the Danish national team.
Patrik Ćavar is a retired Croatian handball player. The legendary left wing played in Croatia for Mehanika Metković, Badel 1862 Zagreb and Agram Medveščak, in Bosnia and Herzegovina for Borac Banja Luka, in Spain for FC Barcelona, BM Granollers, and in France for Saint-Marcel Vernon.
Kiril Lazarov is a retired Macedonian professional handball player and current coach of the North Macedonia national handball team and RK Alkaloid, widely regarded as one of the greatest handball players of all time.
Aron Pálmarsson is an Icelandic handball player for Haukar and the Icelandic national handball team.
Borko Ristovski is a retired Macedonian handball player and current Minister of Sport of North Macedonia.
Cristian Ugalde García is a Spanish professional handball player for Tatabánya KC and the Spain national team.
Lasse Bredekjær Andersson is a Danish handball player for Füchse Berlin and the Danish national team.
Nenad Peruničić is a Serbian handball coach and former player.
Ali Zein Mohamed al-Hawwari is an Egyptian handball player for Romanian side Dinamo București player for Emirati on loan from Sharjah Sports Club and the Egyptian national team.
Hampus Wanne is a Swedish professional handballer for FC Barcelona and the Swedish national team.
Melvyn Richardson is a French professional handball player for FC Barcelona and the French national team.
Alexis Hernandez Borges is a Portuguese handball player for S.L. Benfica and the Portuguese national team.
Luís Diogo Sousa Frade is a Portuguese professional handball player for FC Barcelona and the Portuguese national team.
Emil Nielsen is a Danish professional handball player for FC Barcelona and the Danish national team.
