Handball is an extremely interesting and attractive game that has been constantly changing its models of playing, attack and defence, which leads to the rules of the game being changed frequently. The official handball rules have been modified and supplemented a few times in the past years. The latest significant modifications were made before the Olympic Games in Rio in 2016. One of those changes was also the modification of the passive play rule in attack. This change has been also the basis form diploma thesis. It says that after the warning sign for passive play the team that has been warned can only make 6 more passes before shooting at the goal. If they do not shoot at the goal after 6 passes, one of the referees whistles to call passive play. The aim of a consistent use of the passive play rule is to prevent inactive playing and intentional delay of the game. A team may play passively especially when their team is narrowly in the lead towards the end of the match, when one or more players from the team have been suspended, or when the opponents play very well in the defence. In this diploma thesis I used video recordings to analyse in which phase of the game passive play was most frequently called, how many times a team on the World Championship 2017 was taken the ball away due to passive play in attack, and I measured how much time passed from the referee's warning sign for passive play in attack till the end of the attack. I also analysed the average number of passes in the time from the warning sign till the end of the attack as well as the number of success full endings of these attacks. Finally, I analysed various combinations used by players from the time of the warning sign for passive play till the end of the attack.
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