Handball's seven-name team sheet has to communicate three different roles at a glance — back court, wings and pivot — which is exactly what a generic eleven-a-side lineup card was never built to do.
Handball starts seven, not eleven or five, so the layout, player spacing and court proportions are built around that count. Wings, back court players and the pivot sit inside the frame the way they actually line up on a 40×20m court in front of the 6-metre line, so the graphic reads correctly to anyone who follows the sport.