Ladies and gentlemen, get ready to meet a team that shows that in handball, as in life, experience is a degree (and cold beer, a great incentive). Since 2018, the guys from CD Másters Balonmano Almería have shown that passion for the sport has no age... but it is a good excuse to travel, sweat a little and celebrate a lot.
Arriving from different lands in the sunny province of Almería, this group of brave people decided to join forces, leaving speed and youthful reflexes aside to concentrate on what is important: enjoying handball (and what comes after the game). What better way to keep sporting passion alive than turning each championship into an adventure among friends?
Now heading to the European Championship: With luggage full of hope, knee pads (just in case) and some ibuprofen, we headed out to conquer Europe. But don't worry, our priorities are clear:
1. Make friends in every game.
2. Compete as if we were young (and survive as veterans).
3. Leave a good taste in your mouth... and bring good stories to tell in Almería!
In short, the CD Masters Balonmano Almería are more than a team: we are a family, a group of dreamers and, above all, a group of friends who never miss an opportunity to show that handball and fun do not understand age. See you on the court (or in the third period)!

In 1981, a group of friends from Banyoles founded the Banyoles Handbol Club, and in the absence of a pavilion they also built the playing court in the courtyard of the city institute.
40 years later, in 2021, the Masters team was formed for the first time to be able to continue enjoying handball, with players from the club's entire life but also bringing together people from other clubs in Girona where that Masters team did not exist.
In its first participation in the Catalan Masters League, the team won the title.

The idea was to create a space where players, who were no longer competing at the federated level, could continue enjoying handball, maintain their physical fitness and, above all, strengthen bonds of friendship.
The adventures of the Veterans section began in March 2010 when a series of friendlies were scheduled by fifteen former players of the club, thanks to the announcement by the Galician Federation of the possibility of creating the Galician Championship through the concentration sector system.
The first result was a 23-19 victory against Balonmán Ourense de Veteranos.
As the years passed, the team gained experience in competing in concentration tournaments, becoming a benchmark when it came to receiving invitations from other Galician, Asturian and Portuguese teams to participate in tournaments in their towns.
In 2012, the team achieved its first sporting success by winning the Castrillón tournament in Asturias, which would be followed by others in Lugo or Bueu and podium positions in Corvera or Ourense.
The arrival of the pandemic truncated the stability that was achieved over time and at the moment the competitive level of the team is being resumed (the fun was never lost) achieving, in recent seasons, once again, podium positions in Ribadavia.
The players and former players are part of the different generations of youth players who have passed through the Club and the veterans include in our team, for the dispute of this tournament, all the former players who cannot form their own team and want to enjoy the event... Fura Lalín!

It began its journey in 1995 with meetings and friendly matches organized by former club players. In 2005, the club's veterans legally established themselves as an independent entity and moved to the neighboring town of Matadepera, where the Matadepera Veterans Handball Club was founded, comprised solely of one handball team, the masters team.
Handbol Veterans Matadepera quickly established itself as one of the pioneering clubs in the Catalan Masters League of the Catalan Handball Federation (FCH). Throughout its history, the club was crowned champion of the Catalan Masters League twice: in the 2013-14 and 2015-16 seasons, and also finished runner-up in the 2014-15 and 2016-17 seasons. He also won the Catalan Masters Cup in the 2007-08 season.
At the international level, Handbol Veterans Matadepera participated in more than 10 editions of the European Masters Handball Championship organized by the EHF (European Masters Handball Championship).
The club also participated in several national and international friendly tournaments, one of the most important being the Ciudad de Sevilla International Tournament, where it always competed in the +35 category.
Throughout its recent history, Handbol Veterans Matadepera was primarily comprised of former Handbol Terrassa players, which fostered a relationship of friendship and collaboration between the two entities.
This relationship led, in 2021, to a unanimous agreement for all Handbol Veterans Matadepera members to join Club Handbol Terrassa.
Thus, starting in the 2021-2022 season, the veteran team began its journey as Handbol Terrassa Veterans and began competing in the Catalan Masters League of the Catalan Handball Federation and other competitions, marking the beginning of a new era for veteran handball in the city.

Veteranos BM P.A.N. Moguer started this crazy thing back in 2016. Upon hearing about a veterans' team, especially BM Veteranos Sevilla, people from Moguer, mostly former PAN players, said, "Why don't we keep enjoying this?" And so it was, here we are.
The truth is that being a small town, there are years when it's hard to field a team (some get injured, others have a lot of respect for it), but we've been going for 10 years. We've also managed to recruit people from Nerva and some from outside. We believe one of the things that gets us hooked is playing in tournaments, and not too close together.
We hope to have a great time at the next European Championship, that there are no injuries, and if we can even achieve something, even better. Good luck and congratulations to Balonmano Veteranos de Sevilla for holding this European Championship close to home so we can enjoy it.
Best regards. 💪💪