Handball
In preparation
Three suspensions per team on the board, each with the player’s number. The control panel runs on the laptop, the board on the projector, both in the browser and with no internet in the hall.
We name no date while we cannot keep one.
A preview: three slots per team, each with the player’s number and the time left (IHF rule 18:2).
Each with the player’s number and the time left. Where an installation cannot do that, the timekeeper has to put out a slip per suspension carrying the number and the re-entry time (IHF rule 18:2). This board can do it.
Playing times, suspensions, time-outs: the numbers come from the IHF rules of the game and the SHV competition regulations, and every one of them names its article.
No account, no cookies, no analytics. The hall needs no internet, and what you type never leaves the computer.
Everything the timekeeper needs at the table, and nothing that belongs to the secretary.
Two minutes, with the player’s number, and several run at the same time. Because the app keeps the numbers, it also spots the same player’s third suspension: that one is a disqualification as well (rule 16:5).
The place may be filled again afterwards (rule 16:8). The four cases that cost four minutes are booked by SHV as two two-minute suspensions with the same start time, and that is how they appear on the board (rule 16:9).
Exactly four cases stop the playing time (rule 2:8), and a goal is not one of them. A suspension is: it stops the clock, because a suspension is a time-out.
Ten minutes of half-time, fifteen in QHL, NLB, SPL1 and SPL2, where it must also be shown on the clock (SHV art. 18). A suspension that has not expired resumes after the break, and likewise into extra time (rule 16:5).
Horn on the whistle, horn after fifty seconds to tell both benches that play resumes in ten, and horn at the end (explanation 3 to rule 2:10). There is none in extra time.
In championship play a draw stands, with no extra time and no throws (SHV art. 26). Play-off, play-out and Cup games run the whole sequence: 2×5, another 2×5, then the 7-metre throws (rule 2:2).
The app runs the rounds and says which team starts. A player whose suspension is still running may not throw, and the app knows which player that is (rule 16:5).
That is the home club’s choice, and the rules prescribe neither: they are written for both. The one place a direction is fixed is kids’ handball, where the clock runs down to 00:00 (SHV art. 37.4).
One click on “Open board”, drag the second window onto the projector, go full screen. The board fits any resolution by itself, and there is no font to install.
The secretary has to watch for a player’s second warning and a team’s fourth, so the panel counts them. The cards themselves belong on the match report: no rule asks for them on the board.
Enter the games once, and the app moves from one to the next: the running game on the board, the following one in the panel. Meant for the match days where eight games run back to back.
Panel and board speak all four, and the handball vocabulary comes from the IHF rules and the SHV regulations. Once installed, the app starts from the desktop like any other program and no longer needs the network.
One click, and the app sets the times itself.
Plus times set by hand where a league plays differently. The SHV Weisung overrides the IHF youth times: in SHV play U13 and U15 also play 2×30 minutes rather than 2×25. In kids’ handball the two-minute penalty is personal only and the child may be replaced; in school handball it lasts one minute.
Not the official installation. In QHL, NLB and SPL1 the buzzer has to be wired into the official scoreboard installation, and the club provides a licensed Liveticker timekeeper plus a second person on the hall clock (SHV art. 20 and 20.1). A browser on a laptop is not that installation and does not pretend to be. It can be the reserve clock those halls are required to keep ready: when the match clock fails, the game has to be stopped immediately.
It reports no result. Since the 2025/26 season the result is the Liveticker, which the referees close after the final whistle with a personal PIN. There is no form and no interface a scoreboard could call. This app is the timekeeper’s clock, the Liveticker is the secretary’s report; the rules of the game divide the work that way themselves (rule 18:1).
The rules have been read and written down, every number with its article. What is being built right now is the clock, the sanctions and the board. What is missing is the rest of the panel and a first evening in a real hall.
Until then the floorball scoreboard of the same family is running and free to use: unihockey.swiss-scoreboard.ch. It is no good for handball, because it works out penalties handball does not have.
The test version is running. Write to us if you would like to try it in your hall.
info@swiss-scoreboard.ch