The first official Defence Services Handball Championship was worked off at the Jayatilleke Indoor Stadium in Nawalapitiya on the 25th and 26th of April 2014.  The SLAF Men met the Army in the opening game worked off on the morning of the 25th of April.  The SLAF Men playing one of their best games in their short Handball history of four years and outplayed the thus far unbeaten Army team.  Incidentally the Army are the current National Champions and had not lost a single Handball game up to this match.  The game was played at a rapid pace with each attack being followed by an immediate counter attack.  The SLAF men won this closely contested game 28 - 27.  All fourteen players contributed exceptionally and finally defeated the much fancied Army.  The game being played for 60 minutes the scores display how hard fought the game was.  

The SLAF Women then met the Navy who failed to match the relentless attack and the solid defence of the SLAF Women.  SLAF Women won the game 20 - 7.  Both men and women went straight into the finals as the Army men were eliminated by the Navy and the Navy women were defeated by the Army.

In the women’s final the SLAF women who are the currant National Champions displayed exceptional skill in both attack and defence to defeat the Army women 15 -7 and become the Defence Services Women's Handball Champions for 2014.  In this game the SLAF Goal Keeper, LAC Dias, played superbly defeating a large number of goal shoots and specially three penalty shoots. LAC Ranaweera, Lac Hettiarachchi, LAC Chaturangi LAC Maduwanthi, and LAC Perera stood out in both attack and defence.

The men's final commenced with the SLAF shocking the sailors with five goals within the first five minutes of the game and putting the Navies well rehearsed plans to no avail.  The continuous assault on the Navy defence saw it failing repeatedly with the SLAF leading 22 - 12 at half time.  The second half saw an immediate turnaround by the Navy who assaulted the stoic SLAF defence and managed to reduce the margin to 22 - 20 within the first fifteen minutes, but the SLAF was still leading.  The Navy assault failed to make any further impression on the game with the SLAF extending their lead to 30 - 25, at the final whistle.  For the SLAF Men it was sweet revenge as they lost to both the Army and Navy in the 2011 games.  For the SLAF Cpl Ratnayake the goalie had a great game saving a large number of goal shoots including two penalty shoots.  Cpl Amerasinghe, LAC's Perera, Singhasooriya, Peiris, Navaratne, Liyanarachchi, Palihakkara, Kosta and Kumara played a great game of solid defence and relentless attack to crown the SLAF, Defence Services Men's Champions 2014.  Both teams were managed by Cpl Mahesh Kumara, while the men were coached by Cpl Amerasingha and the women were coached by AW Cpl Gajanayake.  Both Cpl Amarasinghe and AW Cpl Gajanayake played in all games as members of the respective teams. 

The teams were provided tactical and technical advice and mentoring by Mr Daniel Cochard of Switzerland. The championship was hosted by the SL Army, and Rear Admiral S Dissanayake was the Chief Guest and gave presented the awards. The SLAF Handball team cards are as follows.



Airmen
29075    Cpl    Amarasinghe HIAIP
29677    Cpl    Rathnayake RMRN
34783      LAC    Dissanayake BGIB
36166      LAC   Sanathrathne RD
39001      LAC    Liyanarachchi LAST
40187      LAC     Perera MMDRN
020649  LAC    Nimalsiri HDL
022949   AC    Ekanayake RMGS
022950   AC    Peiris LHHT
022951   AC    Singhasooriya MKBCV
022952   AC    Palihakkara SPP
023203   AC    Nawarathna NMAN
025055    AC    Kosta PPM
025056   AC    Kapuwaththa KKM
025057   AC    Udayantha PRD
025058   AC    Kumara GWSK
025286   AC    Pradeep JS
025438   AC    Bandara PHMNR
025439   AC    Udagedara DMDA



Airwomen
AW/2679    Cpl    Gajanayake HGNDH
VAW/01494    LAC    Chathurangi KWN
VAW/01495    LAC    Chathurani MAG
VAW/01496    LAC    Sewwandi KADC
VAW/01537    LAC    Ranaweera KDC
VAW/01561    LAC      Nishari JAS
VAW/01563    LAC    Perera HARD
VAW/01564    LAC    Madurangi KKD
VAW/01565    LAC     Shanika H
VAW/01601    LAC    Hettiarachchi HARD
VAW/01870    AC    Dias NWGJD
VAW/01874    AC    Dharmawardana HDD
VAW/01881    AC    Jansa WASSS
VAW/01882    AC    Erandi WP
VAW/01883    AC    Maduwanthi WGHU
VAW/01884    AC    Vivanthika AWD