The Handball-Bundesliga (HBL) is the top German professional handball league. From 2007 onwards, the league was sponsored by Toyota and has officially been called the Toyota Handball-Bundesliga. This lasted until 2012 when the Deutsche Kreditbank AG (DKB) became the new sponsor. From 2024 onwards, the league was sponsored by Daikin. The official name has consequently been changed to Daikin Handball-Bundesliga. The winners of the respective season are the official German handball champions. HBL is headquartered in Dortmund.
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.
Yoon Kyung-shin is a South Korean handball manager and former player.
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.
Nadja Månsson is a German handball player for Borussia Dortmund.
Füchse Berlin is a professional handball club from Berlin, Germany, that currently competes in the Handball-Bundesliga, the highest national league, and in EHF competitions.
Sally Potocki is an Australian beach handball player and a retired indoor handball player who last played professionally for Bayer Leverkusen in 1. Bundesliga and the Australian national team.
Kai Häfner is a German handball player for TVB Stuttgart and the German national team.
Hendrik Pekeler is a German professional handball player for THW Kiel.
Andreas Miroslav Palicka is a Swedish professional handball player for Paris Saint-Germain and the Swedish national team.
Jim Gottfridsson is a Swedish handball player for SG Flensburg-Handewitt and the Swedish national team.
Dinah Eckerle is a German handballer for Team Esbjerg and the Germany national team.
Hampus Wanne is a Swedish professional handballer for FC Barcelona and the Swedish national team.
Magnus Saugstrup Jensen is a Danish handball player for SC Magdeburg and the Denmark national team.
The 2025 IHF World Women's Handball Championship will be 27th edition of the championship to be jointly hosted by Germany and the Netherlands under the aegis of International Handball Federation (IHF) from 27 November to 14 December 2025. It will be fourth time in history that the championship is jointly hosted. Catch the Dream will be the official motto of the competition.
Juri Knorr is a German handball player for Rhein-Neckar Löwen and the German national team.
Cara Hartstock is a German handball player for Buxtehuder SV in the Frauen Handball-Bundesliga.
Johanna Heldmann is a former German handball player. She played for Buxtehuder SV in the Frauen Handball-Bundesliga until her retirement in 2023.
Lea Rühter is a German handball player for Buxtehuder SV in the Frauen Handball-Bundesliga and the German national team.
