South and Central America Handball Confederation

The South and Central America Handball Confederation (SCAHC) (Spanish: Confederación Sur y Centro Americana de Balonmano (COSCABAL)) 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 (IHF).

South and Central America Handball Confederation (SCAHC) Spanish: Confederación Sur y Centro Americana de Balonmano (COSCABAL)
Sport	Handball
Other sports	Beach handball
Official website	handballsca.com/es/
History
Preceding organisations	Pan-American Team Handball Federation (1977 – 2019)
Year of formation	April 5, 2019; 6 years ago (2019-04-05) at Cali, Colombia
Demographics
Membership size	19 members
Affiliations
International federation	International Handball Federation (IHF)
IHF member since	2019
Governance
President	Marcel Guido Mancilla Bravo
Secretariat
Address	Bombero Ossa 1010 of 302 Santiago Metropolitan Region
Country	Chile
Secretary General	Blas César Garcete Argüello
Managing Director	Salvio Sedréz
Number of staff	6
Regions
South America Central America

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 (Colombia). The SCAHC headquarter is located in Santiago de Chile (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.^[1] 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.^[2]

At the Extraordinary IHF Congress 2019 the IHF statues were revised to add the new federations.^[3][4]

SCAHC Presidents

No.	Name	Country	Tenure
1	Marcel Guido Mancilla Bravo	Chile	1 July 2019 – Till date

SCAHC Secretaries General

No.	Name	Country	Tenure
1	Blas César Garcete Argüello	Paraguay	1 July 2019 – Till date

SCAHC Managing Director

No.	Name	Country	Tenure
1	Sálvio Sedréz [5]	Brazil	1 July 2019 – Till date

SCAHC Council

Following are the members serving 2019 – 2023 term.

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

SCAHC members

South America

• Argentina
• Bolivia
• Brazil
• Chile
• Colombia
• Ecuador
• French Guiana
• Guyana ✝
• Paraguay
• Peru
• Uruguay
• Venezuela

Central America

• Belize ✝
• Costa Rica
• El Salvador
• Guatemala
• Honduras
• Nicaragua
• Panama

• ✝ means non-active member

Tournaments

National teams

• South and Central American Men's Handball Championship
• South and Central American Women's Handball Championship
• South and Central American Men's Junior Handball Championship
• South and Central American Women's Junior Handball Championship
• South and Central American Men's Youth Handball Championship
• South and Central American Women's Youth Handball Championship
• Central American Handball Championship

Club

• South and Central American Men's Club Handball Championship
• South and Central American Women's Club Handball Championship
• South and Central American Junior Club Handball Championship

Beach

• South and Central American Beach Handball Championship
• South and Central American Club Beach Handball Championship
• South and Central American Youth Beach Handball Championship

Current champions

	Men's	Women's
Senior Handball	Brazil (2024) (2*)	Brazil (2024) (4*)
Junior Handball	Argentina (2024) (2*)	Argentina (2023) (2*)
Youth Handball	Brazil (2024) (2*)	Brazil (2023) (2*)
Beach Handball	Brazil (2024) (3*)	Brazil (2024) (2*)
Club Handball	Handebol Taubaté (2024) (3*)	EC Pinheiros (2024) (3*)

(Titles) (*) Record titles