Football vs. Handball — What's the Difference?

Incorporates techniques like dribbling, passing, and shooting to control and advance the ball.

A high-speed team sport where players pass and bounce a ball to throw it into the opposing team's goal.

Features various playing positions including forwards, midfielders, defenders, and a goalkeeper.

Includes positions such as wings, backs, a pivot, and a goalkeeper, each with specific roles.

Played in numerous leagues and tournaments worldwide, highlighting its global appeal.

Emphasizes teamwork and quick passing to outmaneuver the opposing defense.

Governed by a set of rules known as the Laws of the Game, ensuring fair play and sportsmanship.

Features international competitions like the Olympic Games, showcasing its competitive nature.

A team sport played on a rectangular field where players aim to score by driving a ball into the opposing team's goal.

Requires players to exhibit agility, coordination, and tactical understanding.

Association football: a game in which two teams each contend to get a round ball into the other team's goal primarily by kicking the ball. Known as soccer in Canada, the United States, Australia, and New Zealand.

Handball (also known as team handball, European handball or Olympic handball) is a team sport in which two teams of seven players each (six outcourt players and a goalkeeper) pass a ball using their hands with the aim of throwing it into the goal of the other team. A standard match consists of two periods of 30 minutes, and the team that scores more goals wins.

Football is a family of team sports that involve, to varying degrees, kicking a ball to score a goal. Unqualified, the word football normally means the form of football that is the most popular where the word is used.

A game similar to fives, in which the ball is hit with the hand in a walled court.

Any of various forms of team game involving kicking (and in some cases also handling) a ball, in particular (in the UK) soccer or (in the US) American football

Touching of the ball with the hand or arm, constituting a foul

A ball used in football, either round (as in soccer) or oval (as in rugby and American football) and typically made of leather or plastic and filled with compressed air.

A game that is played, often on a four-walled court, by two or more players who alternately hit a small rubber ball against the front wall with the hand, with play stopping if the ball bounces twice on the floor or does not reach the front wall.

A briefcase containing authentication codes and other items that allow the US president to authorize a nuclear strike at any time

The ball used in this game.

A game played by two teams of 11 players each on a rectangular, 100-yard-long field with goal lines and goalposts at either end, the object being to gain possession of a ball and advance it in running or passing plays across the opponent's goal line or kick it through the air between the opponent's goalposts.

Team handball.

The inflated oval ball, slightly pointed at both ends, that is used in this game.

Often hand ball A violation of the rules in soccer in which a player other than the goalie inside the penalty area carries, strikes, or propels the ball with the hand or arm. A hand ball is usually called when the hand or arm is away from the body and touches the ball.

Soccer.

(uncountable) A team sport where two teams of seven players each (six players and a goalkeeper) pass and bounce a ball trying to throw it in the goal of the opposing team.

Rugby.

(countable) The medium-sized inflated ball used in this sport.

The ball used in soccer or rugby.

The offence of a player other than the goalkeeper touching the ball with the hand or arm on the field during play.

(Informal) A problem or issue that is discussed among groups or persons without being settled

A sport in which players alternately strike the ball against a wall with their hand. Irish and American variants have slightly different rules.

(general) A sport played on foot in which teams attempt to get a ball into a goal or zone defended by the other team.

The small rubber ball used in this sport.

American football: a game played on a field of 100 yards long and 53 1/3 yards wide in which two teams of 11 players attempt to get an ovoid ball to the end of each other's territory.

An act of passing a football by holding it with one hand and hitting it with the other.

Canadian football: a game played on a field of 110 yards long and 65 yards wide in which two teams of 12 players attempt to get an ovoid ball to the end of each other's territory.

A schoolyard game in which a tennis ball is struck with the hand, played on a improvised court on the asphalt or pavement.

Australian rules football.

To manually load or unload a container, trailer, or to otherwise manually move bulk goods (often on pallets) from one type of transport receptacle to another.

Gaelic football: a field game played with similar rules to hurling, but using hands and feet rather than a stick, and a ball, similar to, yet smaller than a soccer ball.

(soccer) To illegally touch the ball with the hand or arm.

Rugby league.

(Australian rules football) To (legally) pass a football by holding it with one hand and hitting it with the other.

Rugby union.

To insert a hand into someone's anus.

(countable) The ball used in any game called "football".

A small ball, usually made of rubber, thrown or struck with the hand in various games.

(uncountable) Practice of these particular games, or techniques used in them.

A game played with such a ball, as by players striking it to and fro between them with the hands, or, when played in a walled court or against a single wall, striking it in turns against a wall, until one side or the other fails to return the ball.

An item of discussion, particularly in a back-and-forth manner

A small rubber ball used in the game of handball

The leather briefcase containing classified nuclear war plans which is always near the US President.

A game played in a walled court or against a single wall by two or four players who strike a rubber ball with their hands

To play football.

An inflated ball to be kicked in sport, usually made in India rubber, or a bladder incased in Leather.

The game played with a football{1}, by two opposing teams of players moving the ball between goals at opposite ends of a rectangular playing field. Outside the United States football refers to soccer, and in England, also to rugby, but in the United States the shape of the ball and the rules of the game are different.

Soccer or rugby.

Something which is treated in a rough manner, usually as part of a dispute; as, a political football.

Any of various games played with a ball (round or oval) in which two teams try to kick or carry or propel the ball into each other's goal

The inflated oblong ball used in playing American football

A standard football match lasts 90 minutes, divided into two halves.

Major competitions include the FIFA World Cup and the UEFA Champions League.

A handball team consists of 7 players, including a goalkeeper.

Only the goalkeeper is allowed to use their hands, and only within their penalty area.

Handball emphasizes throwing, catching, and agility.

Unique positions in football include midfielders, forwards, and defenders.

Football is primarily played on a grassy outdoor field.

A standard handball court is 40 by 20 meters.

Football enjoys a higher global popularity and following compared to handball.

Scoring in handball is achieved by throwing the ball into the opponent's goal.

Yes, handball is included in the Olympic Games.

A handball match is 60 minutes long, divided into two halves.

A standard football field is about 105 by 68 meters.

Handball defense strategies often involve high agility and coordination to block shots and interrupt passing lanes.

The football is spherical and larger, while the handball is smaller and designed for hand gripping.