Supercup – Play Handball

Highlighting how PLAY HANDBALL supports the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) in action. On Saturday, 20 September 2025, the 6th PLAY HANDBALL Supercup took place at the German International School Cape Town — bringing together over 200 participants – including 176 learners and coaches – from more than 10 schools across Cape Town and beyond, from local […]

Supercup Cape Town 2025 – Sport, Sustainability and Youth in Action

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Highlighting how PLAY HANDBALL supports the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) in action.

On Saturday, 20 September 2025, the 6th PLAY HANDBALL Supercup took place at the German International School Cape Town — bringing together over 200 participants – including 176 learners and coaches – from more than 10 schools across Cape Town and beyond, from local communities all the way to Piketberg.

This year’s theme, aligned with SDG 14: Life Below Water – “Let’s Keep It Alive”, showed once again what PLAY HANDBALL stands for: sport as a platform for learning, responsibility, and community.

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PLAY HANDBALL partnered with the “Go For Goals” Sports Centre to host an exciting two-day handball and education tournament on August 30 and 31, 2024, inspired by the spirit of the Play Handball SuperCup. The theme, “UMOJA NI NGUVU,” meaning “Stronger Together” in Swahili, resonated throughout the event.

PLAY HANDBALL supports successful “Go For Goals” Tournament in Tanzania

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PLAY HANDBALL partnered with the “Go For Goals” Sports Centre to host an exciting two-day handball and education tournament on August 30 and 31, 2024, inspired by the spirit of the Play Handball SuperCup. The theme, “UMOJA NI NGUVU,” meaning “Stronger Together” in Swahili, resonated throughout the event. (more…)

On August 17, 2024, the PLAY HANDBALL Kenya team hosted an incredible Supercup tournament at SOS School in Buruburu, Nairobi. This event brought together 200 enthusiastic participants representing 21 teams from various regions, including Thika, Juja, Machakos, Korogocho, and Buruburu. With the support of 35 leaders, including the talented Strathmore University professional handball team, the […]

Exciting Highlights from the PLAY HANDBALL Supercup in Nairobi

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On August 17, 2024, the PLAY HANDBALL Kenya team hosted an incredible Supercup tournament at SOS School in Buruburu, Nairobi. This event brought together 200 enthusiastic participants representing 21 teams from various regions, including Thika, Juja, Machakos, Korogocho, and Buruburu. With the support of 35 leaders, including the talented Strathmore University professional handball team, the day was filled with energy, teamwork, and fun! (more…)

More than 300 young people from 16 different schools experienced a day full of handball, education, inspiration and empowerment at the PlayHandball Supercups in South Africa. Another series of the unique PlayHandball Supercups kicked off in Johannesburg on 24 February, shortly followed by the Cape Town counterpart on 9 March. In the Supercup series, the […]

Supercup inspires more than 300 youth for sustainable behaviours and handball

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More than 300 young people from 16 different schools experienced a day full of handball, education, inspiration and empowerment at the PlayHandball Supercups in South Africa.

Another series of the unique PlayHandball Supercups kicked off in Johannesburg on 24 February, shortly followed by the Cape Town counterpart on 9 March. In the Supercup series, the 11 to 14-year-old girls and boys not only competed in exciting handball matches, but also learnt about recycling and how waste can pollute our soil and thus affect the quality of our food.

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For the close of the weltwärts year of our volunteers, Play Handball Kenya and Angaza organised a Handball Supercup in Thika.

Play Handball Supercup in Kenya

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For the close of the weltwärts year of our volunteers, Play Handball Kenya and Angaza organised a Handball Supercup in Thika. (more…)

PLAY HANDBALL ZA (PHZA) inspired over 150 children at the 4th SuperCup to be fair on the field and beyond. 15 school and community teams from Cape Town all the way to Piketberg and Franschhoek took part in this educational tournament. Mr M. Hansen the German Consul in Cape Town, Mr R. Larney from the […]

Take action for the future – the 4th SuperCup in Cape Town inspires 150 kids to take action for climate change

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PLAY HANDBALL ZA (PHZA) inspired over 150 children at the 4th SuperCup to be fair on the field and beyond. 15 school and community teams from Cape Town all the way to Piketberg and Franschhoek took part in this educational tournament. Mr M. Hansen the German Consul in Cape Town, Mr R. Larney from the Western Cape Education Department (WCED) and Mr A. Pole the President of the South African Handball Federation (SAHF) honoured the tournament with their presence and an opening speech.

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Friday-for-Future in Europe –Using Sport to raise awareness for Climate Change in Cape Town! The PLAY HANDBALL Supercup is unique in its kind and is the first Handball & Environmental Tournament Series in South Africa. The aim is to ENHANCE ENVIRONMENTAL AWARENESS AMONG OUR YOUTH. Since 2016 Play Handball has reached over 1400 youth. On […]

Press Release – Play Handball SuperCup 2019 in Cape Town

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Friday-for-Future in Europe –Using Sport to raise awareness for Climate Change in Cape Town! The PLAY HANDBALL Supercup is unique in its kind and is the first Handball & Environmental Tournament Series in South Africa. The aim is to ENHANCE ENVIRONMENTAL AWARENESS AMONG OUR YOUTH. Since 2016 Play Handball has reached over 1400 youth.

On Saturday, 30th of November 2019, from 9am-5pm, PLAY HANDBALL ZA is hosting the 4th Annual PLAY HANDBALL SuperCup in Cape Town.

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Play Handball Supercup series in its third year – With Handball active for the sustainable development goal 13 “Climate Action” of the United Nations Germany is co-organiser of the Handball World Championship in January. Two years later, in 2021, the World Championship will be hosted on the African continent. After 1999 in Egypt and 2005 […]

Supercup inspires over 450 children in Africa

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Play Handball Supercup series in its third year – With Handball active for the sustainable development goal 13 “Climate Action” of the United Nations

Germany is co-organiser of the Handball World Championship in January. Two years later, in 2021, the World Championship will be hosted on the African continent. After 1999 in Egypt and 2005 in Tunisia, Egypt will host the World Cup for the second time.

The Play Handball Supercup series is still a long way from such a big tournament, but this year, there was a new pleasing development. In 2018, the tournament was played not only in South Africa but also for the first time in Kenya. The basic orientation has not changed. The Play Handball Supercup is and remains the first tournament series in Africa that combines sport with education and environmental protection. The motto is: More than handball! (more…)

Using Sport to raise awareness for Climate Change! The PLAY HANDBALL Supercup is unique in its kind and is the first Handball & Environmental Tournament Series in South Africa. After two successful annual events in 2016 & 2017, with over a thousand children reached from both Cape Town and Johannesburg, PLAY HANDBALL ZA (PHZA), in […]

With Handball active for a climate change – Play Handball Supercup 2018 in Delft, Cape Town

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Using Sport to raise awareness for Climate Change! The PLAY HANDBALL Supercup is unique in its kind and is the first Handball & Environmental Tournament Series in South Africa.

After two successful annual events in 2016 & 2017, with over a thousand children reached from both Cape Town and Johannesburg, PLAY HANDBALL ZA (PHZA), in partnership with the Konrad Adenauer Foundation (KAS), hosted the PLAY HANDBALL Supercup 2018 on the 27^th of October 2018 at Hindle Road Primary School, Delft, Cape Town, South Africa. (more…)

Play Handball Supercup 2018 in Benoni

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Using Sport to raise awareness for Climate Change! The PLAY HANDBALL Supercup is unique in its kind and is the first Handball & Environmental Tournament Series in South Africa.

After two successful annual events in 2016 & 2017, with over a thousand children reached from both Cape Town and Johannesburg, PLAY HANDBALL ZA (PHZA), in partnership with the Konrad Adenauer Foundation (KAS), hosted the PLAY HANDBALL Supercup 2018 on the 20^th of October 2018 at the Sinaba Sports Stadium, Daveyton, Gauteng. (more…)

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