Serie A (men's handball)

Serie A Gold
Current season, competition or edition:
Current sports event 2025–26 Serie A (men's handball)
SportHandball
Founded1969
No. of teams14
CountryItaly
ConfederationEHF
Most recent
champion(s)
Pallamano Conversano
Most titlesPallamano Trieste 1970 (17 titles)
Relegation toSerie A Silver
International cup(s)EHF European Cup
Official websitehttps://www.federhandball.it/

The Italian Serie A, officially named Serie A Gold, is the highest level men's handball league of Italy.

Competition format

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The league has 14 teams playing against each other in a round-robin tournament. The champion is determined by playoffs between the top four teams at the end of the regular season. The team ranked last at the end of the regular season, as well as the losing team of the playouts, are relegated to Serie A2.

2025/26 Season participants

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The following 14 clubs compete in the Serie A during the 2024-25 season.

Team City Arena
Alperia Black Devils Merano Black Devils Arena
SSV Bozen Loacker Bolzano PalaGasteiner
SSV Brixen Bressanone Raffeisen Arena
Metelli Cologne Cologne PalaDante
Cassano Magnago HC Cassano Magnago PalaTacca
Pallamano Conversano Conversano Pala San Giacomo
Junior Fasano Fasano PalaZizzi
Polisportiva Cingoli Cingoli PalaQuaresima
Pallamano Pressano Lavis PaLavis
Pallamano Chiaravalle Chiaravalle Palasport di Via Firenze
Handball Sassari Sassari PalaSantoru
Pallamano Trieste 1970 Trieste PalaChiarbola
ASV Sparer Eppan Appiano sulla strada del vino Raiffeisenhalle
Teamnetwork Albatro Siracusa Siracusa PalaAkradina

Serie A past champions

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Club Titles Year
1. Pallamano Trieste 17 1976, 1977, 1979, 1981, 1982, 1983, 1985, 1986, 1990, 1993, 1994, 1995, 1996, 1997, 2000, 2001, 2002
2. Handball Club Conversano 8 2003, 2004, 2006, 2010, 2011, 2021, 2022, 2025
3. SSV Bozen Loacker 5 2012, 2013, 2015, 2017, 2019
Junior Fasano 5 2014, 2016, 2018, 2023, 2024
5. HC Rovereto 4 1974, 1975, 1978, 1980
6. CC Ortigia Siracusa 3 1987, 1988, 1989
Handball Casarano 3 2007, 2008, 2009
8. SSV Brixen Handball 2 1991, 1992
Pallamano Prato 2 1998, 1999
10. Buscaglione Roma 1 1970
HC Flaminio Genovesi Roma 1 1971
CUS Verona 1 1972
C.S. Esercito Roma 1 1973
HC Scafati 1 1984
SC Merano 1 2005

EHF coefficient ranking

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For the season 2022/2023:[1]

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References

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  1. ^ "EHF announces place distribution for 2022/23 European club competitions". European Handball Federation. 22 October 2021. Archived from the original on 29 December 2022. Retrieved 29 December 2022.