Handball Club Leipzig

Handball Club Leipzig
Full nameHandball-Club Leipzig e. V.
Short nameHCL
Founded1893 (1893)
as SC Lokomotive Leipzig
1999 (1999)
as HC Leipzig
ArenaArena Leipzig
Capacity7,000[1]
PresidentTorsten Brunnquell
Head coachFabian Kunze
League2. Handball-Bundesliga
2024–252. Handball-Bundesliga, 3rd
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Handball-Club Leipzig e. V., normally called HC Leipzig or just HCL, is a women's handball club based in Leipzig, Germany. They currently play in the 2nd Bundesliga, but have historically been considered one of the best German women's handball clubs with many domestic and international titles.

History

The roots to HC leipzig goes a long way back. In 1963 the handball sections of SC Lokomotive Leipzig and BSG Rotation Leipzig-Mitte fused to become SC Leipzig. Prior to the formation, both clubs had each won the East German Championship once. After the formation they won 13 East German Championships as well as the European Cup in 1966 and 1974.[2][3]

SC Leipzig was dissolved in 1993, and various sections of the clubs joined different clubs from Leipzig. The women's handball section joined VfB Leipzig. However, VfB Leipzig ran into to economical difficulty in the late 1990s, and to preserve the handball team, the independent club HC Leipzig was formed.[4][3] In their first season under the new name, the club won the DHB Pokal.

In the second half of the 2016-17 season it was revealed that HCL had accumulated a debt of €1.3 million, and therefore had to file for insolvency, for which they were deducted four points.[5] The following summer the team lost their Bundesliga license due to the debt, and was thus relegated to the 3. Liga.[6] The decision was appealed by the club, but later rejected by the Bundesliga.[7] The case was then taken to the board of the German Handball Association, which ruled that HCL could keep their license, subject to the condition that an irrevocable payment of an equity increase of €600,000 be made by July 14, 2017, and that all outstanding wages be paid up to and including June 2017.[8][9][10] Despite the favourable ruling, the club could not pay the amount in time, and the club subsequently filed for insolvency, and had to restart in the 3. Liga on the license of their former second team.[11]

In 2019 the club was promoted to the 2. Bundesliga.[12]

Kits

Honours

Domestic competitions

  • Handball-Bundesliga Frauen:
    • Champions (6): 1998, 1999, 2002, 2006, 2009, 2010
  • German Cup:
    • Winners (7): 1996, 2000, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2014, 2016
  • German Supercup:
    • Winners (1): 2008
  • DDR-Oberliga:
    • Champions (15): 1953, 1957, 1965, 1968, 1969, 1970, 1971, 1972, 1973, 1975, 1976, 1978, 1984, 1988, 1991
  • FDGB-Pokal:
    • Winners (3): 1971, 1983, 1987

European competitions

  • EHF Women's Champions League:
    • Winners (2): 1966, 1974
    • Runners-Up (4): 1967, 1970, 1972, 1977
  • EHF Women's Cup Winners' Cup:
    • Runners-Up (2): 1978, 1997
  • Women's EHF Cup:
    • Winners (2): 1986, 1992
    • Runners-Up (1): 2009

European record

Season Competition Round Club 1st leg 2nd leg Aggregate
2016–17 EHF Champions League Q1 Belarus HC Gomel 29–18 1st place
Austria Hypo Niederösterreich 32–30
Group B North Macedonia Vardar 22–45 24–41 4th place
Hungary FTC-Rail Cargo Hungaria 17–30 22–26
Russia HC Astrakhanochka 30–27 24–27
EHF Cup Group B Russia HC Kuban Krasnodar 27–33 24–32 4th place
France Brest Bretagne Handball 15–34 20–23
Hungary Alba Fehérvár KC 21–34 27–29

Team

Current squad

Squad for the 2021–22 season[13]

Goalkeeper

  • 16 Anna Kröber
  • 26 Annabell Krüeger

Fields

  • 2 Pauline Uhlmann
  • 3 Lara Seidel
  • 7 Julia Weise
  • 10 Emely Theilig
  • 14 Hanna Ferber-Rahnhöfer
  • 20 Sharleen Greschner
  • 22 Emily Glimm
  • 23 Tyra Bessert
  • 24 Lotta Röpcke
  • 25 Lilli Röpcke
  • 33 Christin Conrad
  • 36 Stefanie Hummel
  • 35 Jacqueline Hummel
  • 41 Wiebke Meyer
  • 99 Nina Reißberg

Technical Staff

  • Club Manager: Torsten Brunnquell
  • Head Coach: Fabian Kunze
  • Assistant Coach: Philip Brommann
  • Goalkeeping Coach: Wieland Schmidt
  • Physiotherapist: Sophie Höpfner

Squad for the 2017–18 season

Technical staff

  • Club Manager: Kay-Sven Hähner
  • Head Coach: Norman Rentsch
  • Assistant Coach: Max Berthold
  • Goalkeeping Coach: Wieland Schmidt
  • Fitness and Athletics Coach: Isabelle Kellmann
  • Physiotherapist: Christian Markus
  • Physiotherapist: Danilo Menge
  • Team Doctor: Dr. Gotthard Knoll

Notable former players

  • Germany Natalie Augsburg
  • Germany Nora Reiche
  • Germany Ulrike Stange
  • Germany Katja Schülke
  • Germany Luisa Schulze
  • Germany Susann Müller
  • Germany Anne Müller
  • Germany Katja Langkeit
  • Germany Nina Müller
  • Germany Grit Jurack
  • Germany Anne Hubinger
  • Germany Saskia Lang
  • Germany Franziska Mietzner
  • Germany Shenia Minevskaja
  • Sweden Sara Eriksson
  • Sweden Sara Holmgren
  • Poland Karolina Kudlacz
  • Poland Karolina Szwed
  • Netherlands Debbie Bont
  • Netherlands Maura Visser
  • Netherlands Jessy Kramer
  • Denmark Rikke Nielsen
  • Denmark Louise Lyksborg
  • Brazil Chana Masson
  • Brazil Idalina Borges Mesquita
  • Norway Else Marthe Sörlie Lybekk
  • Norway Renate Urne
  • Romania Ionica Munteanu

See also

References

  1. ^ "Handball Arenen Deutschland" (in German). Stadionwelt. Archived from the original on 30 September 2011. Retrieved 25 August 2011.
  2. ^ List of East German Champions in ddr-handball.de
  3. ^ a b "Handball-Club Leipzig e.V." (in German). Bildlexikon Leipzig. Retrieved 27 April 2026.
  4. ^ "Die handballchronik des HC Leipzig" (in German). HC Leipzig. Retrieved 27 April 2026.
  5. ^ "Punktabzug beim HC Leipzig - Klub muss Bedingung erfüllen". mdr.de (in German). Archived from the original on 2017-09-11. Retrieved 27 April 2026.
  6. ^ "Quo vadis HC Leipzig? Neuanfang oder Absturz in Bedeutungslosigkeit" (in German). handball-world.news. Retrieved 4 June 2017.
  7. ^ "Vorstand der HBF weist Beschwerde des HC Leipzig zurück" (in German). handball-world.news. Retrieved 9 June 2017.
  8. ^ "Lizenzverweigerung: HC Leipzig zieht vor Schiedsgericht". lvz.de (in German). Retrieved 2017-06-12.
  9. ^ "HC Leipzig reicht Schiedsklage ein" (in German). handball-world.news. Retrieved 2017-06-16.
  10. ^ "Pressemitteilung der Handball Bundesliga Frauen vom 7. Juli 2017" (in German). German Handball Association. Retrieved 2017-07-07.
  11. ^ "HC Leipzig muss Insolvenz anmelden" (in German). Leipziger Volkszeitung. Retrieved 2017-07-15.
  12. ^ "HC Leipzig steigt in die zweite Bundesliga auf" (in German). Archived from the original on 2022-02-25. Retrieved 2019-09-07.
  13. ^ "Kaderlist 2014/2015" [Squadlist for the 2014/2015 season] (in German). HC Leipzig official website. Archived from the original on 27 February 2015. Retrieved 18 October 2014.
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