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FORUM CLUB HANDBALL

Forum Club Handball (FCH) is the representation of Europeans Top Handball Clubs. The organization was incorporated as non-profit-organisation (NPO) - German: eingetragener Verein - on 4th October 2011.The predecessor GROUP CLUB HANDBALL EEIG (GCH) was dissolved on 3rd October 2012.

FCH represents the interests of European Top Clubs in face of European Handball Federation (EHF), International Handball Federation (IHF) European Union and others.

European Top Clubs are the ·      top 24 teams of the VELUX EHF Championsleague (CL)

·      top 16 teams of the EHF Cup

·      top 16 teams of the Cup Winners Cup

·      top 16 teams of the Challenge Cup and

·      all National Champions

The highest body of FCH is the General Assembly, which gathers usually twice a year. The first assembly takes place on the final weekend of the European or World Championship, the second at the weekend of the VELUX EHF Championsleague (CL) Final4 tournament.

The General Assembly determines the guidelines of the policy of FCH. Championsleague clubs have 3 voting rights, EHF Cup and Cup Winners Cup clubs have two voting rights, all other clubs do have one vote.

Elections are carried out once in two years.

During the General Assembly the business is determined by the 5 board members. They are elected according to the ranking of European Handball Clubs. Every one of them has a deputy. The nations ranked 1 (GER) delegates one board member, the nation ranked 2 (ESP) delegates one board member, the nations ranked 3-6 delegate one board member, the nations ranked 6-12 delegate one board member and the nations ranked 13-50 delegate one board member,

The General Assembly elects the club representatives for the various bodies of EHF (Professional Handball Board (PHB)) and EHFM (Club Marketing Board (CMB)).

The office of FCH is situated in Cologne/Germany.

The President of FCH is Tomaz Jersic/Celje/SLO, the two Vice-Presidents are Joan Marin/Madrid/ESP and Dirk Schmaeschke/Flensburg/GER, the two further board members are Jens Boesen/Kolding/DEN and Radek Wasiak/POL.

The Managing Director of FCH is Dr. Gerd Butzeck.

FCH major targets are Governance, compensation for release of players to the National team, insurance of player salaries for international competitions in favor of the clubs and Calendar questions.

The targets of FCH are similar to the targets of European Club Association (ECA), the brother organization of FCH in Football.

In May 2010 clubs and European Handball Federation (EHF) signed a 'Memorandum of Understanding' (MoU), regulating basic questions between EHF and FCH.

For the time being FCH has no agreement with IHF. IHF argues that – according to the IHF bylaws - clubs are not established as stakeholders.