Handball
There are 392,761 licensed handball players in France as of 2009.
The France national handball team is the current Olympic and World Champion. The team also won the World Championships in 1995, 2001, and 2009, and the European Championships in 2006 and 2010.
Men's national professional competitions are supervised by the Ligue nationale de handball with the top division being the Championnat de France de handball. Montpellier Agglomération Handball is the most successful team in French first division history with 13 titles from 1995 to 2011. The team is also the only French team to have won the EHF Champions League in 2003.
The France women's national handball team won the 2003 World Women's Handball Championship.
Women's main national professional competition is the Championnat de France de handball féminin. Metz Handball is the most successful team in French first division history with 17 titles from 1989 to 2011. No French team has reached the semi-finals at the EHF Women's Champions League so far.
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