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A handball match lasts 60 minutes
It is played in two halves of 30 minutes with a short interval Each team has seven players on court, including a goalkeeper, and may use rolling substitutions. If the scores are level at the end, the match goes to two five-minute periods of extra time and then penalties. The clock can be stopped by the timekeeper for injuries and other delays. It sits in Mondo's sports collection, one of 200 facts that each trace back to the reference below.
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International Handball Federation
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A handball match lasts 60 minutes: the short answers
- Where does this come from, and can I check it?
- It is played in two halves of 30 minutes with a short interval. The figure is taken from International Handball Federation, which is linked in full on this page. Every fact on Mondo Knows names its source rather than repeating an unsourced claim.
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