# IHF Congress

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The **IHF Congress** is the supreme legislative body of the **[International Handball Federation](/source/International_Handball_Federation)** (French: ***Fédération Internationale de Handball***), commonly known by the [acronym](/source/Acronym) **[IHF](/source/International_Handball_Federation)**. IHF is the international [governing body](/source/Sport_governing_body) of [handball](/source/Handball), [beach handball](/source/Beach_handball) and [wheelchair handball](/source/Wheelchair_handball).

The congress may be **ordinary** or **extraordinary**. Ordinary congress shall place every two years (odd years) after the [IHF World Men's Handball Championship](/source/IHF_World_Men's_Handball_Championship). Each congress shall determine the date and place of the following ordinary congress. IHF bodies including the President, [IHF Council](/source/IHF_Council) and [IHF Executive Committee](/source/IHF_Executive_Committee) shall be elected every four years at the congress taking place the year after the [Summer Olympic Games](/source/Summer_Olympic_Games). [\[1\]](http://ihf.info/files/Uploads/NewsAttachments/0_01%20-%20Statutes_GB.pdf)

Each of the 204 members of IHF has one vote in the congress. The members of IHF can propose candidates for the presidency of IHF and for [IHF Council](/source/IHF_Council). The IHF Presidential election takes place at the congress in the year following the [Summer Olympic Games](/source/Summer_Olympic_Games).

The extraordinary congress shall be convened by the [IHF Council](/source/IHF_Council) upon the written request of a simple majority of the member federations or Council members. Extraordinary congress must be convened within three months of the receipt of the request.[1]

## History

The IHF congress has been held since 1946. Before 31st Ordinary Congress 2007 in [Madrid](/source/Madrid) (Spain), the congresses were held in the even years.

IHF Presidential elections have taken place at every congress until the 14th IHF Congress 1972 in [Nuremberg](/source/Nuremberg), [West Germany](/source/West_Germany), where the delegates decided to vote the elections to be held every four years in the Olympic rhythm.

## List of congresses

Congress Number Year City Member Federations Attending Total No. of Member Federations 1st 1946 Copenhagen 8 14 2nd 1948 Paris 6 18 1st Extraordinary Congress 1948 Paris 14 18 3rd 1950 Vienna 13 21 4th 1952 Saarbrücken 16 22 5th 1954 Opatija 15 25 6th 1956 Stockholm 18 26 7th 1958 Garmisch-Partenkirchen 17 27 8th 1960 Liège 21 30 9th 1962 Madrid 24 34 10th 1964 Budapest 27 38 11th 1966 Copenhagen 26 39 12th 1968 Amsterdam 28 41 13th 1970 Madrid 36 54 14th 1972 Nuremberg 43 54 15th 1974 Jesolo 43 65 16th 1976 Estoril 41 68 17th 1978 Reykjavik 43 74 18th 1980 Moscow 52 80 19th 1982 London 53 86 20th 1984 San Diego 48 95 21st 1986 Dakar 49 98 22nd 1988 Seoul 69 101 23rd 1990 Madeira 47 106 24th 1992 Barcelona 62 123 25th 1994 Noordwijk 59 133 26th 1996 Hilton Head Island 79 138 27th 1998 Yamoussoukro 62 143 28th 2000 Estoril 122 146 29th[2] 2002 Saint Petersburg 92 147 2nd Extraordinary Congress 2003 Basel 67 147 30th 2004 El Gouna 134 150 31st 2007 Madrid 120 159 32nd 2009 Cairo 139 171 3rd Extraordinary Congress 2010 Rome Cancelled due to eruptions in Eyjafjallajökull volcano in Iceland. 171 33rd 2011 Marrakech 109 181 34th 2013 Doha 163 192 35th 2015 Sochi 141 198 4th Extraordinary Congress 2015 Sochi 124 198 36th 2017 Antalya 152 201 5th Extraordinary Congress 2019 Gothenburg 146 201 37th 2019 Gothenburg 151 201 38th 2021 It was held through videoconferencing at IHF Head Office in Basel (SUI) due to COVID-19 pandemic. It was previously scheduled to be held in Antalya (TUR). Future event 201 39th[3] 2023 Katowice Future event 201

## Presidential elections

Following table shows the results of election of the President of International Handball Federation in recent decades.

Election of the President of International Handball Federation Year Venue Candidate 1 Candidate 2 2000 Estoril 'Hassan Moustafa ' Erwin Lanc Withdrew before election 2004[4] El Gouna 'Hassan Moustafa ' Staffan Holmqvist ' 2009[5][6] Cairo 'Hassan Moustafa ' Jean Kaiser ' 2013[7] Doha 'Hassan Moustafa ' Unopposed 2017[8][9] Antalya 'Hassan Moustafa ' Unopposed 2021[10] Antalya 'Hassan Moustafa ' Unopposed

## References

1. ["IHF Congress"](http://ihf.info/en-us/thegame/statutesandregulations.aspx). IHF.

1. Kozhukhov, Alexander. ["XXIX ORDINARY CONGRESS OF INTERNATIONAL HANDBALL FEDERATION IN SAINT-PETERSBURG ORGANIZATIONAL COMMITTEE"](https://web.archive.org/web/20021204213240/http://www.rushandball.ru/congress%20IHF.html). [Handball Federation of Russia](/source/Handball_Federation_of_Russia). Archived from [the original](http://www.rushandball.ru/congress%20IHF.html) on 4 December 2002. Retrieved 28 January 2022.

1. ["XXXVIII Ordinary Congress comes to an end"](https://www.ihf.info/media-center/news/xxxviii-ordinary-congress-comes-end). *ihf.info*. 6 November 2021.

1. [*Handball – Fascination for thousands of years, Volume 1: History and stories*](https://archive.ihf.info/upload/Book/issue0001/offline/download.pdf). December 2013. pp. 108–109. Retrieved 10 June 2021.

1. ["Hassan Moustafa wins poll to lead handball federation 4 more years"](https://dailynewsegypt.com/2009/06/07/hassan-moustafa-wins-poll-to-lead-handball-federation-4-more-years/). *dailynewsegypt.com*. 7 June 2009. Retrieved 10 June 2021.

1. ["Handball: Hassan Moustafa herrscht weiter"](https://www.tagesspiegel.de/sport/wahlen-handball-hassan-moustafa-herrscht-weiter/1529148.html) (in German). *Der Tagesspiegel*. 6 June 2009. Retrieved 10 June 2021.

1. ["NEW-OLD IHF President: Hassan Moustafa re-elected with 91% of all votes!"](https://www.handball-planet.com/new-old-ihf-president-hassan-moustafa-re-elected-with-91-of-all-votes/). *Handball Planet*. 26 October 2013. Retrieved 10 June 2021.

1. ["Hassan Moustafa re-elected as IHF president"](https://www.sportspromedia.com/movers-and-shakers/hassan-moustafa-re-elected-as-ihf-president). *sportspromedia.com*. 14 November 2017. Retrieved 10 June 2021.

1. ["13.1 Election of the IHF president"](https://www.handball.no/globalassets/nhf-sentralt/om-oss/organisasjon/protokoller/ehf-og-ihf/ihf-congress/2017-ihf-congress.pdf). *XXXVI ordinary congress of the IHF*. Antalya. 10-13 November 2017. Retrieved 10 June 2021.

1. ["Moustafa set for unopposed re-election as International Handball Federation President"](https://www.insidethegames.biz/articles/1111621/moustafa-to-be-relected-ihf-president). *insidethegames.biz*. 14 August 2021. Retrieved 14 September 2021.

## External links

- [IHF Congress](https://www.ihf.info/about/congress)

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