THW Kiel is a professional handball club from Kiel, Germany. Currently, they compete in the Handball-Bundesliga and are the record champion with 23 titles.
Alfreð Gíslason is an Icelandic handball coach and former player who is currently the head coach of the German men's national team. He won titles in Iceland, Germany and Spain as a player before starting his coaching career in 1991 with Icelandic team KA as a player-coach. He later coached German club SC Magdeburg, where he won the Bundesliga and the EHF Champions League, the Icelandic men's national team and German club THW Kiel, where he won six Bundesliga, six DHB-Pokal and two EHF Champions League titles. Alfreð was the Icelandic Sportsperson of the Year in 1989 and inducted into the National Olympic and Sports Association of Iceland Hall of Fame in 2019.
Lars Krogh Jeppesen is a former Danish handball left back, who played for KIF Kolding and previous Danish national team. He has won the 2008 European Men's Handball Championship along with two bronze medals in 2004 and 2002. He played for German top clubs SG Flensburg-Handewitt and THW Kiel. He also played two seasons for Spanish FC Barcelona.
Nikola Karabatić is a French former professional handball player. He is regarded as one of the greatest players in handball history.
Kim Andersson is a Swedish handball player for Ystads IF.
Niklas Landin Jacobsen is a Danish handballer for Aalborg Håndbold.
Domagoj Duvnjak is a Croatian professional handball player for THW Kiel and the Croatia national team. Duvnjak is regarded as one of the best handball players of all time alongside fellow Croatian Ivano Balić.
Rhein-Neckar Löwen is a professional handball club founded in 2002, based in Mannheim, Germany. The club competes in the German Handball-Bundesliga and continentally in EHF European League. Rhein-Neckar Löwen play their home games in SAP Arena, with a seating capacity of 14,500.
Aron Pálmarsson is an Icelandic handball player for Haukar and the Icelandic national handball team.
Marko Vujin is a former Serbian handball player who plays for SC Pick Szeged and the Serbian national team.
René Toft Hansen is a Danish professional handballer for Bjerringbro-Silkeborg Håndbold and the Denmark national team. He is the oldest of 5 siblings, all of which are handball players: His brother Henrik, who also plays for the Denmark national team, and the three younger siblings: Allan Toft Hansen of Mors-Thy Håndbold, Majbritt Toft Hansen of Viborg HK and Jeanette Toft Hansen. All five siblings play on the pivot position.
Marcus Ahlm is a Swedish handballer. He retired from handball in 2013 after playing for German Handball-Bundesliga team THW Kiel.
Christian Sprenger is a German former handball player. Currently he is the assistant coach of THW Kiel.
Eduardo Gurbindo Martínez is a Spanish handball player who plays for THW Kiel and the Spain national team.
Andreas Wolff is a German handball player for THW Kiel and the German national team.
Hendrik Pekeler is a German professional handball player for THW Kiel.
Nenad Peruničić is a Serbian handball coach and former player.
Nikolaj Bredahl Jacobsen is a Danish professional handball coach and former handball wing player and currently the coach of the Danish national team. He was named World Coach of the Year in 2021 by IHF. He is the first manager for a national team to win three world championships in a row (2019-2023).
Andreas Miroslav Palicka is a Swedish professional handball player for Paris Saint-Germain and the Swedish national team.
The 2018–19 EHF Cup was the 38th edition of the EHF Cup, the second most important European handball club competition organised by the European Handball Federation (EHF), and the sixth edition since the merger with the EHF Cup Winners' Cup.
