CLUB HISTORY & ACHIEVEMENTS

Great Dane Handball Club was founded by the danish Anne-Marie Thrysoe and Andrew Ferguson and established in 1976 by a group of Danish girls involved with the
Anglo Danish Society Students Club, thereof the name of the club "Great Dane".

The club started playing handball in 1976 as a Womens team only but with a mixed bag of men coming to practice. They started training 2 days a week at Ruislip Eagles Sport Centre but soon moved to the new (at the time), Wapping Sport Centre in East London.

From 1976 to 1986, the club was heavily involved in the development of Handball in London with at one stage two sub venues spun off including Croydon and West London. We also merged with another club at one stage run by Paul Bray.

Around 1980 members of the club formed the Greater London & South East Handball Association together with Asford Tanners, Ruislip, Ipswich and other clubs in East London.

In 1980, Great Dane started to get some success in both Womens and Mens Handball and from then on the club was always in the top four clubs in the country.

Along the years the club has grown bigger and bigger, running very successful Men and Women's teams with players from many different nations.

In 2005 the club participated in its first official European Competition by playing in round 2 of the men's Challenge Cup.

In 1986, the club womens team were Cup and League champions, since then, these are some of the titles the club has achieved over the recent years:

MEN'S TEAM



WOMEN'S TEAM