Premier Handball League (PHL) stormed onto the Indian sports activities scene with its extremely anticipated inaugural season, held from eighth to twenty fifth June 2023, on the prestigious Sawai Mansingh Indoor Stadium, Jaipur, Rajasthan. 

Because the adrenaline-pumping matches unfolded, the stadium got here alive with roaring crowds and electrifying power, making it a vastly common occasion that captured the hearts of handball fanatics nationwide. The primary season of the PHL set the stage for an exciting new chapter in Indian sports activities, showcasing the immense expertise and keenness among the many nation’s handball gamers and followers.

Handball was originated in Scandinavia and Germany on the finish of the nineteenth century and has since develop into acknowledged globally as a sport of spirit, velocity, health, and talent. Until date Handball is the quickest Olympic Sport. 

Ajay Information, Chairman – Premier Handball League stated, “India started collaborating within the Asian Males’s Handball Championship in 1979 and the Asian Girls’s Handball Championship in 1993. The Indian males’s handball workforce made their Asian Video games debut in 1982 when the occasion was hosted in New Delhi, whereas the ladies’s workforce debuted in 2006 in Doha. The Indian males’s handball workforce has established itself because the second-best workforce within the Asian Video games.”

“Premier Handball League (PHL) was launched to advertise additional and develop the game from Grassroots in India,” Ajay Information added. The league provides a platform for bottom-of-the-pyramid gamers to raise their sport by offering publicity to higher gamers, each Indian and overseas. Just like the Indian Premier League (IPL) in cricket, the PHL goals to widen the pool of high quality handball gamers and probably type format-specific worldwide squads.

The Premier Handball League contains six franchises, every representing a State in India. The franchises embrace Delhi Panzers, Garvit Gujarat, Golden Eagles Uttar Pradesh, Maharashtra Ironmen, Rajasthan Patriots Staff, and Telugu Talons.

The primary public sale for participant acquisitions was held in April 2023 at Mumbai. 116 gamers, together with overseas gamers, India internationals, and home handball abilities, have been up for bidding.