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2005-2006 Senior Handball. Important dates

September 11th
Clubs to Submit Hall availability for the 2005-2006 season
National Cup teams and Players Registration
National League teams Pre-registration
September 21st
Referee refresh meeting
September 25th
National Cup opening matches.
October 8th
Beginning of Women's League
October 12th
Proposed date for National. League scheduling
October 11th
National League Teams Registration, Division 1
October 23rd
National League Players Registration, Division 1
National League teams Registration, Division 2
November 1st
National League Players registration, Division 2
November 6th
National League Opening Matches

Posted by 53 at 5:06 pm 4 comments  

Senior League-preseason club meeting.
Yesterday, Monday the 22nd, a meeting was held with representative from Lughnasa, DIT, UCD, DCU.
With this meeting it has been decided to propose the following schedule for the 2005-2006 handball season.

Here the main topics discussed, full rule and regulation handbook will be available at the official IOHA web site.

League will start the 6th of November. Round robin matches home and away.
The winner will be the team that at the end of the two round robins will have the highest number of points. (Eventual final in case of equal number of points)
Club shall communicate to the IOHA point of contact (ME!!) the number of teams participating at the League by the 11th of October. Communication shall occur through this web site.
Team registration deadline is October 16th send forms to IOHA, and public communication through this web site
Players registration deadline is October 23rd send forms to IOHA, and public communication through this web site
A Draw of the league table will occur on Monday October the 12th Representative from all teams are invited and strongly encouraged to participate.

A National Cup will be played before the beginning of the League with knock out.
Starting with the week end of 25th of September
Club shall communicate to the IOHA point of contact (ME!!) the number of teams participating at the National Cup . Communication shall occur through this web site.
Team and Players registration deadline is September 11th send forms to IOHA, and public communication through this web site

Other Rule and Regulation briefly discussed:
-all teams will have to provide two referees
-referees table will be schedule by the organizing committee
-Referee will provide match report sheet
-Home Team will have to guarantee the presence of Table officials
-communication of results and scorers will occur through this web site (anyone), also via SMS to IOHA (result only- Home team), match report sheet will be sent to the IOHA for confirmation of results (Referees).


A meeting with the IOHA competition committee is schedule for Wednesday the 24th of August. At this meeting the above format will be proposed and eventually confirmed.

Posted by 53 at 5:06 pm 14 comments  

2005/2006 Senior League
A few weeks ago the senior competition committee met for the first time this year to discuss the organization of the 2005/2006 senior league.
It has been asked to the committee to suspend any competition till the end of the Challenge Trophy were the Irish National squad is called to participate next November.
Personally I refused such idea because I could not see how this would be beneficial to the Irish players, and I find it quite damaging for all the other players not involved in the competition.

The senior league should regularly start late September early October.

The structure is still under discussion and any idea is welcome.

Even better would be if people are taking responsibility and decide to participate in the organization and running of the league.....Put your name down!

You are welcome to add your comment

Posted by 53 at 9:51 pm 12 comments  

Welcome to this big discussion board.

Hi All.
I hope this will give new life to the Senior Handball in Ireland.
You are all welcome to put your note and suggest the best way to use this space

Posted by 53 at 5:43 pm 1 comments