A handball league table that counts itself.
Rankelo is a free handball league app for clubs, schools and regional leagues. Name the teams, and every fixture is generated when the league opens. Scores go in after the match and the table applies two points for a win, one for a draw, and the goal difference.
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Handball on Rankelo
What a handball league looks like here.
Rankelo is built around a sport abstraction: every sport brings its own scoring rules, and the leagues, fixtures and standings work the same whatever you play. This is what handball brings.
Two points for a win, as the federations pay
Domestic handball and the EHF competitions pay 2-1-0, so that is what a new league starts on. Three for a win is one setting away.
Draws are real results
A level score counts and scores. The drawn column is shown from the first fixture rather than appearing the day someone finally draws.
Goals for, against and difference
A handball match runs to fifty-odd goals between the sides, and every one of them is recorded — so goal difference separates level teams without anyone maintaining a column.
League types
- Handball— a named team per side
A team is a name that competes — it carries its own record, and squad size is not modelled.
How it works
From idea to handball standings in four steps.
- 1
Create a league
Pick handball, name the teams, choose 2-1-0 or 3-1-0, and set how many times each pairing meets.
- 2
Add the players
A name is enough — they do not need an account. Add an email too and they link to their own match history automatically the day they register.
- 3
Open the league
Rankelo generates the fixtures for every pairing, once or as many times as you set. If the roster changes later the schedule reconciles — matches already played are kept.
- 4
Play
Someone enters 29-27 after the match. The points, the goals for and against and the difference all update immediately.
Scoring & standings
How handball is scored in Rankelo.
A handball result is the aggregate of two halves: one goal total per side, the higher one wins, and a level score is a draw worth a point. Structurally that is football — and the one difference that matters is the one people notice, because handball pays 2-1-0 rather than 3-1-0, so a draw is worth half a win here instead of a third of one.
One aggregate scoreA single total per side, and the higher one wins — the only family where a level score can count.
The rules handball plays by
- Score recorded as
- A goal count per side
- Winner
- The higher total
- Draws
- Allowed, and worth a point
- Default points system
- 2 for a win, 1 for a draw, 0 for a loss
- Match format
- Full match
- Roster
- Named teams
Match formats you can choose
- Full match — One score for the match. Scores by half are a later addition.
Separating competitors level on points
- 1Head-to-head between the level teams
- 2Goal difference
- 3Goals scored
Points systems a handball league can pick from
Chosen per league, and changeable at any time — switch it and every match already played is re-scored.
- 2 for a win, 1 for a draw, nothing for a loss — the EHF rule (default)
- 3 for a win, 1 for a draw, nothing for a loss
- 1 for a win, nothing for a loss
Two-minute suspensions, seven-metre throws and the empty-goal substitution are not modelled: none of them changes what the final score records, which is a goal count per side.
End the handball season with playoffs.
Any handball league can finish with a knockout phase: once every round is played, the final table seeds a single-elimination bracket — reorder the seeds if you like, byes go to the top seeds, and a third-place match is optional. Or skip the season and run a straight knockout from day one.
Features
Everything a handball league needs.
Standings that follow your rules
Two points for a win and one for a draw by default, then head-to-head, goal difference and goals scored — the handball table as clubs already keep it.
Automatic fixtures
Every pairing × your chosen number of meetings, generated in one click when the league opens.
Players without accounts
Add someone by name and the league can start right away. They register with the same email later and pick up their matches.
Public standings
Share a link and anyone can open the table — no login, no account, nothing to install.
On your phone, in your language
Enter the score where you played it. The app runs in English and Slovenian, light or dark.
Traceable results
Every entry records who submitted it and when. Corrections go through a league admin, so the table never quietly changes.
Playoffs and brackets
End the season with a knockout seeded from the final table, or run a straight bracket from day one — seeding, byes and an optional third-place match included.
Learn moreSingles, doubles and teams
Rank players, named pairs or whole teams. A pair or team is a competitor with its own record, and every sport commonly played in pairs ships a doubles variant.
Pricing
Free. No asterisk.
Rankelo is free to use. There is no paid tier, no per-player charge and no feature held back — everything on this page is what every organiser gets.
- Unlimited leagues and seasons
- Unlimited players and teams
- Every feature included
- No credit card, no seat count
- The only personal data we store is a name and an email
FAQ
Handball leagues, answered.
More sports
Rankelo is not only for handball.
The same fixtures, the same table and the same price, whatever your organisation plays.
One league, every result, one table.
Create a league in a minute, add the competitors, and let Rankelo keep the record.
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