St Petersburg Handball Club

In 1938, the first indoor handball  world championship  was played within the Deutschlandhalle  in Berlin , Germany  on 5 February and 6 February. This primary Tournament was held with only 4 taking part groups and played as a Single-Group-Event without a knockout-system.  Germany became the champion by defeating each of its opponents, one in all which was Austria which would turn out to be part of Germany only a month later. 

The other opponents were Sweden and Denmark, which despatched the membership staff of Ajax Kobenhavn  to the championship. Indoor handball was spread only in Scandinavia at this cut-off date and there had only been one single official international match played indoor earlier than the Championship. In Germany, where the Tournament took place, the indoor sport was practically unknown to this point. However the Deutschlandhalle was attended by 18,000 spectators in the two days, who had been reportedly very pleased by the fast and exciting mannequin of handball. The first World Championship will be mentioned to have been an obscure spectaculum for pure entertaining purposes. Matches lasted only 20 minutes (10 per half-time) and the gamers had been recruited from area handball teams which sought an opportunity to carry out their sport throughout winter. A primary area handball WC was held in July of the same 12 months in Berlin and different German cities, which was additionally gained by Germany who have been then olympic champions (in 1936) and twin world champions. Both WC tournaments had been administered by the IAHF (Worldwide Newbie Handball Federation), the forerunner organisation of 1946 founded IHF, which was founded in 1928, and meant to be celebrational occasions for the tenth "birthday" of the Organisation.

In 1946, at the initiative and invitation of Denmark  and Sweden, France , the Netherlands , Norway, Poland, Sweden and Switzerland founded the International Handball Federation (IHF). The IHF's official birthday is eleven July.

Five months after the IHF was based, the first official international match was played underneath its aegis, with Sweden beating Denmark 9-7 in Gothenburg  on 6 November 1946. In these days, the basic eleven-a-facet out of doors game of subject handball , so dear to the central Europeans, and the still-up-and-coming sport of seven-a-facet handball, played indoors on a small court the form most well-liked in Scandinavia, had been equally popular. Each disciplines had their fans: in 1955, 50,000 spectators watched the final of the sector handball World Championships between Germany and Switzerland (25-13) in Berlin, however the indoor final between Sweden  and Czechoslovakia  in East Berlin  in 1958, which ended 22-12, was additionally played in a packed corridor in entrance of 6,500 spectators.