Today it is nearly two months before Partille Cup starts for the 43rd year and the planning for the tournament has started. There´s a lot to do when we want to satisfy 20.000 participants. Of course we want to give everyone good memories.   Partille Cup Heden Center will this year be an even greater place to meet new people and be a part the “Partille Cup-feeling”.  We have discussions with partners and companies about exciting activities and we hope that many people wants to visit the Center.  This place will be the natural meeting point for all participants.

The food is of course an important part of the week and the chefs is now preparing the menu. It´s difficult to satisfy everyone with different backgrounds and food cultures, but we think we are getting there. It is important that all leaders report any special diets among the players. This information can be reported at MyTeamInfo.

During following weeks every field and school shall be inspected so they are safe and clean.  This year the players will live in 35 different schools in the county of Gothenburg, Partille and Mölndal.  In every school you have your own host and he or she will be at your assistance during the week.

The manuscript for the Opening Ceremony is finished and the artists and the dancers have started to rehearse.  Prepare yourself for a fabulous show!

We are getting ready, are you?

Partille Cup’s Opening Ceremony is one of the most popular events of the tournament, and also the most unique. Participants from around the world are given a show where each participating nation is represented with spectacular performance, dance, music and cool beats that succeed each other at a rapid rate in one and a half hours.

Now is your chance to contribute to the Opening show. We are looking for movie clips and / or images from the entire world of handball. It could be pictures of a handball court, a clip from a game, a picture of your favorite team or yourself, from a tournament that you played or something totally wacky. As long as it involves handball, we would love to take part of your material.

The best, funniest or weirdest videos and photos representing handball from your country or team will be displayed during the Opening Ceremony. All entries will also be posted on our website and Facebook after the tournament.

We want your materials sent to us no later than May 15. Send by mail to our address or email info@partillecup.com The higher the resolution it is in the pictures or movies, the better it is.

Is the material you send heavier than 10 mb, please send via ftp program such as www.yousendit.com , www.dropsend.com or www.transferbigfiles.com . The recipient’s mail is info@partillecup.com and please write Opening Ceremony as subject, where the clip came from and your name.

Together we create an Opening Ceremony out of the ordinary!

Many thanks from Partille Cup team!

One of the national holidays in Sweden, is Easter. Therefore, we at the Partille Cup office, like most other organizations, will go on holiday.

We are back on Tuesday April 10.

Have a nice Easter everyone!

During Partille Cup there are about 220 referees working to make the matches as fair as possible. We have talked to two of them about their experiences from Partille Cup and why they choose to participate as referees, year after year.

- Partille Cup is one of the greatest tournaments I have ever taken part of. Every single moment during Partille Cup makes great lifelong memories, says Natalja Nikolajeva from Estland who will participate for the fourth time this summer.

Paul Geraets from Holland has been at Partille Cup five times and is impressed by the atmosphere in Gothenburg:

- The best thing about Partille cup is that the entire city of Goteborg breathes handball. Everywhere you look, you see players, referees and spectators. You whistle teams from all over the world. Also, you get the chance to referee a lot of matches on the highest level, with different handball styles which I think is amazing.

The days are filled with matches with your referee colleagues and in-between the matches there is lots of entertainment for the referees. And it is a great place to meet and exchange experiences with referees from all over the world.

- We always keep in touch after Partille Cup. I have made such strong connection with some referees from entire Europe thanks to Partille Cup, continues Natalja.

- Partille Cup is really a great place to learn and develop as a referee, there is no other place where you can find this many talented referees, players and coaches, says Paul.

And when we asked Natalja why she would recommend other referees to participate in Partille Cup we got this answer:

- Do you want to try something you have never tried before? Do you want to be a part when the entire world gets together at one place during one week? Do you want to referee games between teams from countries you have never refereed before, with teams from the United States, Kenya, Russia, Canada and China? Do you want to feel part of largest handball family? Come to Partille Cup, I would be happy to see you there!

Paul, Natalja and Partille Cup wish all referees welcome to apply for Partille Cup 2012!

To the application form

We at the Partille Cup office are extremely happy now when we can say that 2012 will again be a record year in the number of participating teams. We are not sure exactly where we will end yet when it is still a few days left before the deadline (April 1) is here.

There is still space in all categories but these coming days usually are packed with registrations. To avoid space restrictions, we urge everyone not to wait too long with the registration.

Registration for the 2012, you can do here: Register 2012

If you have any wonderings all is to find on the web. Otherwise, you can reach us by mail: info@partillecup.com or telephone +46 (0) 31 340 07 90.   Please feel free to live chat with us when we are in place at the office. You will see a chat window at the bottom right of the page when we are online.

Most likely we will reach our goal of at least 60% of the participating teams coming from abroad. It makes Partille Cup, not only the largest but also, the most international youth tournament in handball. That’s why we call Partille Cup for A World of Handball.

You are all welcome!

Right now it is high pressure in the office. Much thanks to more teams than ever before are registered.
And also the interest from countries that have never participated before is giant

We are so happy for the interest and feel that the phrase ”A World of Handball” really serves it rights.

To help you in the best way we have now also started a chat feature on the website. When we are online a box pops up in the right corner.
There you can ask any question to us and get an instant response.
Otherwise it is fine to email your questions to info@partillecup.com or call us at +46 31 340 07 90.When you are registered please use your login to ”My Team Info” to adjust the number of participants, book beds or transfer, notify food allergies and more.

We do our best to give you the best service possible.

Welcome to Partille Cup 2012!

Greetings from Partille Cup team

Partille Cup has just finished the training course in Kenya. About 40 leaders have taken the course with focus on handball training in practice and theory.

Two swedish leaders from the club IK Sävehof – Lisette Norén and Håkan Drath have lived together with the leaders in the city of Nyeri in Kenya during two weeks. There, Partille Cup together with the company Pandox has a project with the aim to strenghten the handball association (MSG) Mt Kenya Sports Group. The goal is not only that handball will grow but also that the association with the help from sports can create change in society and a togetherness that fosters the members and supports the general development in the area.

- It has been an amazing trip and Nyeri feels like my second city, says Lisette, who usually lives in Partille and then she continues:

- To us in Sweden, much is taken for granted, but here in Nyeri things are very different. Through sports we are unified and can create an understanding for eachother. That is so cool!

During thier stay in Nyeri, the tournament Partille Cup Kenya Trophy has also been played. MSG are the organisers and this year they bet the record in participating teams. 1230 young people in 82 teams participated. Håkan Drath says:

- To see all these young people, many from hard circumstances being unified at a place similar to Heden in Gothenburg during Partille Cup gives me goosebumps. It really felt like Partille Cup – but in the middle of Africa.

The tournament was started in 2009 and has been growing for every year and is one of the largest in Africa. Maybe even the largest – according to MSG. The only thing missing is international teams particpating, which are now invited by MSG. All the information needed is on their web page.

Lisette hopes that their wishes will come true and is already planning to participate with a team from IK Sävehof in 2013. In other words, the adventure in Africe is continuing and there will definately be more reports from MSG before that!

Read more about the MSG at: www.msgkenya.com

Partille Cup has, in a unique partnership with the hotel property company Pandox AB, started a 3-year project with Mt Kenya Sports Group (MSG). The project known as Pandox Youth Handball Movement is in the context of Pandox CSR work and aims at creating better prospects for children and young people in the town of Nyeri.

Today MSG trains 600 children and youths aged 4-18 years in the town of Nyeri, located north-east of Nairobi.  MSG are well organized and handball is developing and prosperous, but in danger of losing interest when financial resources are lacking. Pandox see an opportunity to contribute by ensuring the club’s existence, financially and through its network in the world of handball and will create conditions for further development.  This will be done by training courses for the coaches, ensure club facilities and providing necessary equipment. The overall objective is that the cooperation should provide young people with meaningful recreation, educational support, advice and information about diseases, as well as opportunities to implement other social projects around the town of Nyeri.

Partille Cup will be the implementers of the project and as a first step a handball training course for 100 leaders will be made in February. Two trainers from IK Sävehof will be on place in Nyeri and instruct leaders in fundamental handball knowledge, leadership and to support the organization.
During their presence the annual handball tournament Partille Cup Kenya Trophy will be played and nearly 100 teams and 1600 participants are expected to participate.

- For Partille Cup this engagement is in line with our mission to spread handball internationally and use Partille Cup to create understanding and knowledge of different cultures and ways of living among the world´s young handball players, says Fredrik Andersson, General Secretary of Partille Cup.

You can follow the project and its development on MSG’s website www.msgkenya.com
More about Kenya Partille Cup Trophy can be read here.

About Mt Kenya Sports Group (MSG)
MSG is trying to start up handball in Nyeri. By jointly doing a sport together the youth of Nyeri can for a moment think of only happy things. Through handball, they can get to know each other, exchange experiences and give each other hope for the future. The club also helps with food and education for the most vulnerable children. The education is very important to even have a chance to move forward.

Many of the players come from very difficult family circumstances. They may be orphans, live with their old grandparents or even be homeless. During the days the youth´s are often looking for temporary jobs, which is not easy to find. When they do get a job, there is usually not enough money for food for the day. MSG gives these youth´s hope for a better future.

Club: Mt Kenya Sports Group, MSG
Founded: 2003
Location: Nyeri, Kenya
Number of members: 600

Partille Kenya Cup Trophy
In 2003, Kenya for the first time participated in Partille Cup, the world’s largest and most international handball tournament for youth’s. The team was MSG and its leader, Julius M Ndirangu, had planned this trip for many years.
Julius had worked long to start up handball in the villages in Kenya and frequently played friendly matches between the villages. After the visit at Partille Cup, Julius was filled with motivation and in 2006, when more villages had begun to play handball, a tournament with 29 teams was organized and at least one team from each village participated.
In 2007, turbulence broke out in the country after the presidential election. Violence was spread in the country and those who lived in the villages didn’t receive food and other necessities that they needed. Julius then asked Partille Cup for help since there is close collaboration between MSG and Partille Cup. Together they started the handball tournament called Partille Kenya Cup Trophy. The idea is that the tournament will be the highlight of the year, especially for those players who are not able to go to the “real” Partille Cup played in Sweden.

Partille Cup wish you all a Merry Christmas and Happy New Year.
Today, the office is closed and we will open again on January 2.
Between Christmas and New Year, we have only sporadically open.

We have high hopes for Partille Cup 2012. More registered teams than ever tells you that there will be a festival we will never forget.

In the office we work really hard to prepare the best tournament possible. Do you have any thoughts or concerns, please feel free to contact us.

Until we meet, we wish you all a very nice Christmas!

Now you have the chance to win a pair of adizero shoes, either CC7-model (for boys) or the CC3- model (for girls).

We will give a pair of shoes to 10 lucky winners. To compete you must upload a video with Partille Cup content either at our Facebook page or YouTube Channel. The title of the video has to be named “Partille Cup Video Contest” in order to qualify. Please also send an e-mail to info@partillecup.com to verify your contribution.

The jury will judge the videos and give them a score by the funniest, best quality, most original, best story, most handball and how much Partille Cup related the videos are. The video with highest total score wins.

The contest end April 1st. The winner will be notified by e-mail. The jury will consist of a spokes person from Partille Cup and adidas.

Just shortly after St. Nicholas’ Day the guys from IHF Handball Challenge 12 got a nice gift for you. The first update for the PC video game is now available for free download directly from within the game. It includes some very nice features, for example a new statistic screen with in-game statistics, the Kadetten Schaffhausen are now part of the World League, an info screen will keep you up to date during the game regarding goals and fouls and the passing system was also optimized. So maybe you are still looking for a nice Christmas present? Then check out the special offers for IHF Handball Challenge 12.

Check out the features here.

Check out the Christmas offers here.

The largest playing center of Partille Cup, Heden, with 30 playing fields and the Partille Cup Center will be rebuilt in 2012. It is part of the planned improvement of the infrastructure in Gothenburg when the city is growing and want to be attractive to visit and live in. For Partille Cup the new Heden looks great, the number of fields will be the same, the area will be renovated and cleaned up and the number of parking spaces will be the same.

The largest opportunity for Partille Cup will be the development of the activity center – Partille Cup Center, the tournament’s heart and great meeting place, that moves to the other side of Heden, close to the Avenue. We are currently working to fill the center with exciting events and plenty to do.

Welcome to the new Heden in 2012!

Partille Cup are in grief. Gunnar Quist, whose idea in 1962 was to start the world´s largest youth handball tournament, has died in a traffic accident, 78 years old.

Partille Cup became and still is that meeting place for all young handball players in the world that Gunnar dreamt of. When Partille Cup celebrated 40 years, two years ago, Gunnar told us how it all started:

- The first tournament was held in 1970 but to find the roots of Partille Cup you have to get back in time a few more years. In 1962 Sävehof got 5 000 SEK from the municipality of Partille to organize a youth tournament in handball.

Everything would have been fine but from an unexpected direction – the Swedish Handball Federation – the plans were stopped.

Gunnar Quist explained:

– We didn’t get any sanction to realize the tournament. ”No team will apply such a tournament. Rejected!” the federation told us.

But Gunnar Quist didn’t give up, and in 1963 he made a model for Partille Cup. The matches were held at Vallhamra sports ground.

– It was raining every day. A municipal commissioner came by and told us to stop playing, we ruined the fields. But the games continued.

After a few more years the cooperation grew stronger with the municipality of Partille and eventually the tournament became reality. The idea of using schools for location and restaurant aroused curiosity and astonishment, but it was also the essence of the tournament. The fields were supplied with asphalt thanks to the good contact between the organizer and the top of the municipality. Goals were made of iron bars from Mässhallen.

Before Sävehof finally got sanctions to arrange Partille Cup they had been rejected twice more. Gunnar Quist who ran the project shook his head and could not understand how they could stop a youth tournament. But the most obstinate part won the fight. Gunnar Quist made sure that Sävehof got their sanction. 140 teams from eight nations participated in the first tournament. And Partille Cup became more and more international, and that’s something surprisingly since Gunnar Quist only speaks Swedish. Yet he succeeded to tempt foreign guests and make them feel the attractiveness of Partille Cup.

– When it comes to languages I’ve completely trusted other persons, Gunnar admitted.
But his capability to create confidence could be taken anyhow.

- When you’re from another culture, it’s not always so simple to know how to do things. This time spaghetti and mincemeat sauce were served with a dessert of chocolate pudding and whipped cream. The guests helped themselves and placed spaghetti at the bottom of the plate, then mincemeat sauce followed by chocolate pudding. On the top of it all they put a pat of cream. Gunnar never tried that dish himself.

Rest in Peace Gunnar!

Today Partille Cup released the brochure for 2012. It is a magazine of 24 pages containing everything you need to know to participate in the tournament. The tournament information is available in 5 languages​​: English, Swedish, Spanish, German and French.

The magazine also contains an exciting video contest. Upload your Partille Cup video on our YouTube channel or Facebook page. Nice prizes from adidas to the most original, funniest and best movies. Complete contest rules can be found in the brochure.

You can choose to read the brochure online or download it as pdf. If you want the printed version, send us a message we will send it to you by post.

Read Online
Download PDF
Send us a message

On Saturday October 1 at 12:00 we open the registration for Partille Cup 2012.

The tournament will be played July 2 - 7.

Partille Cup is now working hard on planning next year’s tournament. Several areas will be developed and become even better, everything to make the experiences during the tournament to memories of a lifetime. This year´s tournament 1052 teams from 46 nations and 19 513 players and leaders participated.

The following age classes can participate in Partille Cup 2012:
(B = boys, G = girls) Register in the age class that is valid for your team the summer 2012:

Class B21 - Boys born 1/1 1991 and later.
Class B18 – Boys born 1/1 1994 and later.
Class B16 – Boys born 1/1 1996 and later.
Class B15 – Boys born 1/1 1997 and later.
Class B14 – Boys born 1/1 1998 and later.
Class B13 - Boys born 1/1 1999 and later.
Class B12 - Boys born 1/1 2000 and later.
Class B11 – Boys born 1/1 2001 and later.
Class B10 - Boys born 1/1 2002 and later.

Class G21 – Girls born 1/1 1991 and later.
Class G18 - Girls born 1/1 1994 and later.
Class G16 – Girls born 1/1 1996 and later.
Class G15 - Girls born 1/1 1997 and later.
Class G14 – Girls born 1/1 1998 and later.
Class G13 – Girls born 1/1 1999 and later.
Class G12 - Girls born 1/1 2000 and later.
Class G11 – Girls born 1/1 2001 and later.
Class G10 – Girls born 1/1 2002 and later.