South and Central America Handball Confederation

The South and Central America Handball Confederation is the governing body of the Olympic sport of Handball and Beach handball in South America and Central America. It is affiliated to the International Handball Federation.
SCAHC has 19 members countries located within the South America and Central America. One of IHF's six continental confederations, the SCAHC was formed officially on 5 April 2019 in Cali . The SCAHC headquarter is located in Santiago de Chile .

History

On 14 January 2018, during the IHF Council meeting, Pan-American Team Handball Federation was suspended by International Handball Federation and was divided into two continental confederations namely the North America and the Caribbean Handball Confederation and the South and Central America Handball Confederation. The IHF Council decision was taken on the facts that there are no signs of development in the level of handball and beach handball in the North American, Central American and the Caribbean countries. There was some development in South American level but that was also not comparable to the other continents like Europe, Asia and Africa. No team from Americas had ever reached to the semifinal stage of the IHF World Men's Handball Championship and the IHF Men's Junior World Championship till date. The PATHF appealed to the Court of Arbitration for Sport, and it annulled IHF's decision.
At the Extraordinary IHF Congress 2019 the IHF statues were revised to add the new federations.

Following are the members serving 2019 – 2023 term.

Designation	Name	Country
President	Marcel Mancilla Bravo
1st Vice-president	Ricardo Souza
2nd Vice-president	Juan Carlos Gutiérrez Vargas
Secretary General	Blas César Garcete Argüello
Treasurer	Victor Manuel Ramos Vergara
Chairman of Technical and Development Commission	Cecilia Hernández
Chairman of Competitions Commission	Martín Chilaca
Managing Director	Sálvio Sedréz

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