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.
THW Kiel is a professional handball club from Kiel, Germany. Currently, they compete in the Handball-Bundesliga and are the record champion with 23 titles.
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.
Mirza Džomba is a Croatian former professional handball player, World champion in 2003 and Olympic champion in 2004.
Alfreð Gíslason is an Icelandic handball coach and former player who is currently the head coach of the German men's national team. He won titles in Iceland, Germany and Spain as a player before starting his coaching career in 1991 with Icelandic team KA as a player-coach. He later coached German club SC Magdeburg, where he won the Bundesliga and the EHF Champions League, the Icelandic men's national team and German club THW Kiel, where he won six Bundesliga, six DHB-Pokal and two EHF Champions League titles. Alfreð was the Icelandic Sportsperson of the Year in 1989 and inducted into the National Olympic and Sports Association of Iceland Hall of Fame in 2019.
Veselin Vujović is a Montenegrin handball coach and former professional player. He is the current head coach of RK Nexe Našice
Petar Metličić is a Croatian former handball player. He was captain of the Croatian national team from 2006 to 2009, after the departure of Slavko Goluža. He won the gold medal at the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens as well as at the 2003 World Championship in Portugal.
Nikola Karabatić is a French former professional handball player. He is regarded as one of the greatest players in handball history.
Blaženko Lacković is a retired Croatian handball player.
Niklas Landin Jacobsen is a Danish handballer for Aalborg Håndbold.
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.
Aron Pálmarsson is an Icelandic handball player for FH and the Icelandic national handball team.
Marko Vujin is a former Serbian handball player who plays for SC Pick Szeged and the Serbian national team.
Cristian Ugalde García is a Spanish professional handball player for Tatabánya KC and the Spain national team.
Joan Cañellas Reixach is a Spanish former handball player.
Hussain Zaki Said is an Egyptian handball player who competed in the 2000 Summer Olympics, in the 2004 Summer Olympics, and in the 2008 Summer Olympics.
Jakov Gojun is a Croatian handball player who plays for RK Zagreb and Croatian national team.
Nenad Peruničić is a Serbian handball coach and former player.
Tobias Reichmann is a German handball player for Rhein-Neckar Löwen.
Hampus Wanne is a Swedish professional handballer for FC Barcelona and the Swedish national team.
