This club has had many famous players, among them Magnus Andersson, Ola Lindgren, Bengt Johansson and Göran Bengtsson.

In 1939 the football part of the club lost a number of key players to their larger local rivals, the same year the handball section successfully filed for entrance to both the Swedish Sports Confederation and Swedish Handball Federation, and the club participated in Division 3.

In 1940 it was decided to shut down the football section completely and on 20 September the same year the name was changed from Fotbollsklubben, F.C., to Handbollsklubben Drott.

In 1949 Hasse Carlsson became the new chairman and after some intensive work both he and the teams in the club were able to establish a long term stable economy.

Drott yet again traveled abroad to play a friendly tournament, this time in Germany and Denmark, while the club ended up in 5th place in the 1951–52 season.

In 1956–57 both the senior and youth teams traveled to Berlin and Germany to play a friendly tournament, the club then ended up in 4th place in the league.

1958–59 saw new friendly tournaments abroad, the seniors visiting Berlin again, while the youth team played matches in Paris and Amsterdam.

The club arranged two World Men's Handball Championship games, Japan against Spain and West Germany against Romania.

The supporters however returned strongly in 1965–66, with about 1,000 per game, and a new attendance record was set against local rivals HBP with 2,831 spectators.

HK Drott won the 1967–68 season 9 points ahead of IF Hallby after the league system had been remodeled yet again and again return to Allsvenskan.

The club reached a 3rd place in Allsvenskan in the 1971–72 season, however Hellas turned out to be too strong yet again in the playoffs, but not until a third decisive game had been played.

Drott became runners-up in the 1972–73 season Allsvenska and were yet again defeated in the playoff semifinals by Hellas; the club lost only 4 of 18 matches in the league.

The 1974–75 season started badly for Drott, with Bengt Johansson as playing head coach, following injury to last season's top goal-scorer Bengt Hansson; the club found itself second from last by the end of the year with only five points, however after a strong spring the club was able to gain a playoff position in the final game of the league.

Drotts attempt to follow up the previous season's success in 1975–76 with Karl-Erik Einerth as head coach, resulted in a complete failure due to injuries on key players.

Drott just barely missed out on the league title in 1977–78, even after scoring the most goals (547 in total), but eventually won the playoffs and became Swedish champions for the second time in four seasons.

The club moved its playoff matches to Sannarpshallen, the local ice hockey rink, which became a major success with spectators, exceeding 12,000, coming to see the games.

Drott ended up in fifth place in 1980–81, but won Svenska Cupen; in the European Cup the club was directly kicked out by Hungarian team PLER KC.

Drott struggled to reach third place in the 1983–84 season; however, the club was able to win the playoffs to become Swedish champions for the fourth time.

The club won Svenska Cupen, however they rejected play in the European Cup due to economical shortage.

The team ended up in second place in the league after conceding the fewest goals, in the playoffs Redbergslid became too strong again over four matches.

Drott was defeated in Svenska Cupen as well by IFK Skövde and CSKA Moscow from the Soviet Union proved too strong in the European Cup.

The 1987–88 league season ended as the years before, Redbergslids IK won Allsvenskan with HK Drott in second place.

Drott was again defeated in international play by Romanian HC Minaur, and lost the Svenska Cupen to RIK.

Barcelona's first defeat at home in international competition for six years, Steaua București then proved too strong in the semifinals.

Yet again the 1989–90 league season ended with RIK in first place and Drott second, however Drott were able to reach the playoff finals in which they defeat IF Saab claiming their sixth Swedish championship title, the club participated in the Cup Winners Cup and reached the final after defeating UHF Stjarnan from Iceland, Ionikos Aten from Greece, GKS Wybrzeze from Poland and Gummersbach from West Germany, the club face Teka Santander from Spain in the final, Santander however proved too strong, Sweden won the 1990 World Men's Handball Championship in Czechoslovakia with Ola Lindgren and Magnus Andersson from the club in the team, the national team was also coached by Bengt Johansson.

Drott shows good play in the 2003–04 season before injuries yet again caused problem and the club ended up in 4th place in the league and in the quarterfinals Ystad proved too strong, in the Cup Winners' Cup Drott first defeated Forst Brixen from Italy, Kopavogs from Iceland and then HC Karvina from the Czech Republic before Oberhausen Essen from Germany proved too strong.