Intercontinental Handball Cup

Intercontinental Handball Cup

Sport	handball
First season	1998
Folded	2002
Organising body	International Handball Federation (IHF)
No. of teams	4 to 5
Most titles	Algeria Sweden Russia (each 1 title)

The Intercontinental Handball Cup was a competition between the continental handball champions in the years which were not a World Men's Handball Championship and the host country.

History

The idea of a Intercontinental Cup was first introduced in the 1980s but was delayed because of financial and temporal problems. In 1996 the IHF Congress created the IHF Men's Super Globe and the Intercontinental Handball Cup which takes place for the first time in 1998. After the third edition in 2002, the tournament was cancelled because of a fully packed calendar.

In 2024 the IHF announced they will bring back the tournament for 2025, but no competition has been organised that year.

Tournaments

Year	Host		Final				3rd place match				Teams
			Champions	Points	Runners-up		3rd place	Points	4th place
1998 Details	Qatar		Algeria	5–4	Kuwait		Romania	2–1	Qatar		4
2000 Details	Saudi Arabia		Sweden	6–6 +10 / +10 104 /102	South Korea		Egypt	5–2	Saudi Arabia		5
2002 Details	Russia		Russia	8–6	Sweden		Argentina	4–2	Algeria		5

Medal count

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	Sweden	1	1	0	2
2	Algeria	1	0	0	1
	Russia	1	0	0	1
4	Kuwait	0	1	0	1
	South Korea	0	1	0	1
6	Argentina	0	0	1	1
	Egypt	0	0	1	1
	Romania	0	0	1	1
Totals (8 entries)		3	3	3	9