Women's EHF Euro 2022

2022 Rendez-vous with Handball Women

What a year for European handball! Following Sweden’s men team victory in Budapest earlier this year, women are meeting in November. “Handball has always been a key sport for our statistics. That is why we are now looking at covering handball women official results soon too.” Clas Glenning, Sport Stats Chief Handball is very popular a sports around the world. And always a delight to watch during the Olympic Games. We put together the Handball Olympic All Time tables for…

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Banner for the Ballon d'Or changes in 2022

Why is the Ballon d’Or changing and that is for the best

Football is back with a vengeance, dare I say? All leagues are in full swing and the fans are back in the stadia too. Enjoying the beautiful game. All together, at long last. “Meanwhile, we carried on updating our Football Club Database with all the games during and since the pandemic.” Clas Glenning, Sport Stats Chief Indeed, we kept the beautiful game going, our way, the SportStatsGuru way. And there are interesting & topical examples on the blog. You might…

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Untold Tales, our pick of sports history

As you all know, we love our sports, we love our stats. Hence the name Sport Stats Guru. We are also very fond of sports history, so we decided to pick the best stories and share those hidden gems with you all. “For the love of sports” Clas Glenning, Sport Stats Chief, covers all the best untold tales via a brand new Youtube series. We kick off this series with a look at the marathon race of the 1904Olympic Games…

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Tokyo 2021

Summer Olympics postponement – Tokyo 2021?

With all major competitions on hold, it is not a surprise that Tokyo 2020 has also been postponed. But whilst the organising committee has announced the new dates for Tokyo 2021, a virology expert from Germany is being cautious. Indeed, the pandemic could be lingering until the summer of 2021, Alexander Kekulé warned. With that in mind, the IOC should really wait until March 2021 to confirm the July – August 2021 dates. If herd immunity has not been reached…

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Women’s Football just as exciting as Men’s

More than 1 Billions viewers during France 2019 could only agree. The most popular women’s football world cup so far with 152 goals! An exciting final between the USA and the Netherlands. You can expect far more again in 2023 when the 32 teams reconvene. And just like men’s football, there is far more than the World Cup. This week alone you can watch international women’s football: Algarve Cup in Portugal SheBelieves Cup in the USA Euro 2021 Qualifiers Here…

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The return of French flair in Rugby Union

And it was about time! Incidentally, we have also been working on rugby union records for all the sport stats fans out there. We are proud to announce that the Rugby Union Edition of our renowned Team Stats Database is nearly ready. Timely indeed as the World Cup in Japan is well past, and the 6 Nations are now roaring. With a surprising French team under the leadership of new head coach Fabien Galthié too. But we will come to…

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Spanish handball

Los Hispanos, the European kings of Handball

The EHF Euro 2020 Tournament was a first in many respects. To start with, Sweden, Norway and Austria were all hosting. This decision by EHF simply echoes the fact that Handball is getting traction all over Europe. Indeed there were 24 teams competing for the title this year. We will go over the teams and highlight where results can be found on our Handball edition of the National Team Stats database, a service by SportStatsGuru. But before we do, a…

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handball féminin

Qui sont les nouvelles championnes de handball féminin?

Les bleues, championnes du monde en titre n’ont malheureusement pas pu passer le cap des phases préliminaires. Toutefois ce mondial au Japon fut plein de surprises. Revoyons donc ensemble les points marquants de ce rendez-vous sportif. Le handball féminin plait tant aux français. Nous sommes mordus aussi et à ce propos, nous avons une petite surprise en fin d’article. Mais avant tout, nous irons visiter Kumamoto et vous parlerons également du maintenant célèbre Emmanuel Mayonnade. Le coach des bataves championnes…

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handball records

New Sport Statistics: handball preview

Coming soon on your favourite Sport Statistics Database: handball records! We love handball at SportStatsGuru and we cannot wait for the EH Euro 2020 but it is true that this sport was also a popular request amongst fans and journalists. After soccer, or football, basketball and ice hockey, we are very proud to be announcing that Handball records are about to become available under our Team Stats section. For our new readers, Team Stats includes any national team statistics for…

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Real Madrid - Galatasaray

Le sursaut madrilène

Oublié le Real Madrid 2019 qui semblait perdu aux fin-fonds de la galaxie qu’il contrôlait jadis. Le club en perdition revient de loin et devrait aller loin, en Liga comme en Champions League. Le choc au Bernabeu face au bon dernier du groupe A, c’est ce mercredi: Real Madrid – Galatasaray. Analyse d’une remontée, pronostics bien sûr mais pas avant une petite leçon d’histoire fooballistique, c’est parti. Un palmarès historique pour le Real Le saviez-vous? Ce n’est pas l’UEFA qui,…

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