Handball is a fast flowing game where players mainly use their hands to pass, dribble and throw the ball. To score, players will shoot with powerful throws to beat the opponent’s goalkeeper. Players can only stand stationary for 3 seconds, making the game thrilling to play and watch. With a guarantee of goals, the game is never short of excitement.

The first recognised handball game was first played in 1928 as a field sport, gaining popularity in Germany and across Scandinavia. Handball started to gain a larger audience when the game became an indoor sport. Due to this new audience, handball was integrated into the Olympics at the 1972 Munich games, where Yugoslavia took home the gold medal.

Where to Bet on Handball

Handball is most popular in Europe, where the world's best male and female handball players reside. With LiveScore Bet, we offer handball betting across all the major European handball leagues, including the German Bundesliga, the French Division 1 and the Swedish Elitserian. There are also leagues across Spain, Denmark, Hungary and Iceland. Handball is even popular in South Korea, with leagues for both men and women.

Every year, the EHF Champions League brings the best clubs across Europe together to battle it out for the title of the best handball club. In recent years, Barcelona has dominated the competition; with their 11 EHF titles. Due to this dominance, Barcelona is the world's highest ranked men's handball team. However, Paris Saint Germain are closing in on their dominance, along with Telekom Veszprem and Flensburg-Handewitt are teams to watch out for. In the women's division, Gyor Audi ETO KC, Vipers Kristiansand and Team Esbjerg are the top teams to bet on.

How to Bet on Handball

At LiveScore Bet, we offer tons of handball betting markets to enjoy. Each betting market has the latest odds, which change as the teams play through the season.

Winner Bets

Also known as 1X2 bets, these types of bets are very popular within handball betting. The 1X2 betting structure is simple to bet on. You have three options to put your money on, the home team (1), the away team (2) and a tie (X).

Handicap Betting

Handicap betting allows you to bet on a team, and even if they lose, you can still win your bet. This type of betting gives you an advantage when betting on the underdog, allowing you to use your handball knowledge and beat the bookmakers by predicting an upset. Handicap betting works by goals and is presented in a similar way to the following example:

Team A -4.5
Team B 4.5

In this example, Team A are the expected winner. If you put your money on team A winning, they would need to win the game by five goals or more for the bet to win. Alternatively, if you put money on Team B to win, but they ended up losing by four goals, you would still win the bet due to the handicap advantage. However, you would lose the bet if they lost by more than four goals. The number of goals in the handicap can vary depending on the teams playing. The handicap can be as many as 11.5 goals, especially if the top of the league table is playing the lowest-placed team.

Betting on goals

You can always expect goals when watching a handball game. Many games can surpass 50 goals across the 60 minutes of play. At LiveScore Bet, we offer many betting markets to bet on the number of goals across a handball game. The most popular bets include over/under, the number of goals in each half and the race to a certain number of goals. Keep an eye on a team's top goal scorers; you can expect to see many goals if they are playing.

Betting on Outright & Specials

Outright bets are available with the most popular handball leagues. The most popular type of outright bet is betting on the league winner. This type of bet is available for the Danish Handboldigaen, the Swedish Eliteserien and the Spanish Liga Aobal across the men's and women's divisions.

Handball Betting Odds

With LiveScore Bet, we provide tons of markets for your handball bets, adding to the excitement of watching handball. You can get more out of betting on handball with LiveScore Bet with our in play betting options.

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