Handball Club Leipzig Explained

HC Leipzig is a women's handball club based in Leipzig, Germany. They play in Handball-Bundesliga Frauen and are often competing in the EHF Women's Champions League, the now defunct EHF Women's Cup Winners' Cup, which merged with the Women's EHF Cup and are internationally regarded as one of the best German women's handball clubs.

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	HC Gomel	29–18		1st place
			Hypo Niederösterreich	32–30
		Group B	Vardar	22–45	24–41	4th place
			FTC-Rail Cargo Hungaria	17–30	22–26
			HC Astrakhanochka	30–27	24–27
	EHF Cup	Group B	HC Kuban Krasnodar	27–33	24–32	4th place
			Brest Bretagne Handball	15–34	20–23
			Alba Fehérvár KC	21–34	27–29

Team

Current squad

Squad for the 2021–22 season^[2]

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

Goalkeeper

• 12 Helen Keller
• 16 Anna Kröber
• 28 Anja Kreitzick

Fields

• 2 Pauline Uhrmann
• 3 Anna Ansorge
• 5 Isabell Hurst
• 6 Celina Matthey
• 7 Julia Weise
• 8 Beatrix Kerestely

• 9 Antonia Herzig
• 10 Emely Thellig
• 13 Anna Lena Plate
• 15 Johanna Schierbok
• 17 Lea Guderian
• 20 Sharleen Greschner
• 22 Lucie-Marie Kretzschmar
• 23 Francisca Buth
• 25 Lilli Röpcke
• 27 Leonie Rauschenbach

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

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

Notes and References

1. Web site: Handball Arenen Deutschland. Stadionwelt. 25 August 2011. de. 30 September 2011. https://web.archive.org/web/20110930025749/http://www.stadionwelt.de/sw_stadien/index.php?folder=sites&site=arena_ligen&sportart=handball&land=Deutschland. dead.
2. Web site: Kaderlist 2014/2015. Squadlist for the 2014/2015 season. HC Leipzig official website. 18 October 2014. de. 27 February 2015. https://web.archive.org/web/20150227101334/http://www.hc-leipzig.de/content/kaderliste-2014-15. dead.