Athletes in general and fans of handball in particular are waiting for one of the most important handball tournaments in the world, the 15th Super Globe Club World Championship, hosted by the Kingdom for the third time in a row, namely in the Eastern Province. from 18 to 23 October With the participation of 12 clubs.
This tournament, in which all world champions from world handball clubs participate, in addition to the host country team and the title holder of the last edition of the same tournament, while 3 teams selected by the International Handball Federation are nominated, in addition to the Arab champion, who for the first time in history tournament will take part. Officially, the Arab Championship has qualified for the Super Globe tournament, which is the largest in terms of the number of participating teams, with 12 clubs participating. The Spanish team “Barcelona” is ahead of the participating teams as European champion, and the most crowning title (five times), next to it are: Saudi Mudar “host team”, German “Magdeburg” “title holder”, Kuwait “Kuwait” champion of the Asian continent”, Al-Ahly from Egypt, “continental champion” of Africa, Taobati of Brazil (champion of South and Central America), Minesteros (champion of North America and the Caribbean), University of Sydney Australia (champion of Oceania), Saudi Gulf (team of the country- organizer), Kelche from Poland (FIH 1 candidate), Benfica Portugal “International Handball Federation candidate 2”, Tunisian Esperance “Arab countries champion”.
The Kingdom Teams, as the hosts of the Super Globe, represent Mudar Club, which won the league title last season, which is its third participation in this tournament after the first participation in Qatar 2012 and Dammam 2019, while the Persian Gulf Club, the Cup champion and Saudi Arabia Super Cup, won the confidence of the International Handball Federation, which for the first time in its history granted him participation as a “candidate”.
It is noteworthy that the Super Globe Club World Cup started in 1997, when it was hosted by Australia with the participation of 8 clubs from all continents of the world, and the Spanish team Cantabria Santander won the title. The International Federation officially approved the establishment of the tournament every 5 years, where Doha organized the championship in 2002 AD, and only 5 clubs participated, with the first place taken by the Qatari club Al-Sadd, before the tournament moved to the capital of Egypt. Cairo in June 2007 AD and then Spain’s Real Ciudad won the title.
After the end of the tournament in the Arab Republic of Egypt, the International Handball Federation decided to hold a tournament every year, on the condition that the members of the General Assembly of the International Handball Federation vote for the organizational file, and the tournament is approved in the file of the winning country by voting for 4 years in a row, and that is returned the tournament to Qatar, which hosted 9 consecutive editions from 2010 to 2018 and held the title in these tournaments in a row: Real Ciudad of Spain, Kiel of Germany, Atlético Madrid of Spain (former Real Ciudad), Barcelona of Spain (two consecutive editions), Fuchs Berlin from Germany (two titles in a row) and Barcelona, Spain, two titles in a row.
On November 27, 2018, the International Handball Federation announced that the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia had won the right to host the Super Globe World Club Handball Championship for a period of four years. which took place in 2021 AD in Jeddah, “the western part of Saudi Arabia”.
All clubs participating in the Super Globe tournament are the strongest in the world, but the Spanish clubs dominate the Super Globe title with 9 titles out of 13 copies. level of the continent of Europe and others, except for the presence of professional players of the first level.
The participating teams were divided into four groups, 3 teams each: the first group included the German “Magdeburg”, the Australian “Sydney” and “Saudi Gulf”, the second group included “Saudi Mudar”, “Al-Ahly” from Egypt and Benfica from Portugal. the third group included the teams of the Polish Kelsey, the Kuwait Kuwait and the Brazilian Taobati, and the fourth group included the teams: Barcelona (Spain), Minestros (Mexico), Esperance (Tunisia).