HC Midtjylland

HC Midtjylland
Full name	HC Midtjylland
Short name	HCM
Founded	2005
Arena	Sportcenter Herning
Capacity	1700
President	Peter Andersen
Head coach	Mads Hjortshøj
League	Herrehåndboldligaen
2021-2022	1st (promoted)
Club colours
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Website Official site

HC Midtjylland is a handball club based in the town of Herning in Jutland, Denmark. They play in Danish top flight Herreligaen.

History

HC Midtjylland where founded in 2005 based on the local teams Hauge G/F and Herning FH. ^[1] In the 2008/2009 season they finished 2nd Danish 1st Division and thus reaching the promotion playoff for the first time. They did however lose to top flight team TMS Ringsted. Promotion came in the 2009/2010 season after finishing 3rd and going up through the playoffs.

Only the season after they were however relegated again. In the 2013/2014 season they gained promotion by winning the 1st Division. In 2015 they won the Danish Handball Cup despite struggling against relegation.

In 2018 they went bankrupt because of financial problems. ^[2] The club resurrected, shortly after it went bankrupt, but was forced into the Danish 2nd Division. ^[3]

In the first season they gained promotion from the 2nd division, and in 2021/2022 they were once again promoted to the top flight in Denmark

European record

Season	Competition	Round	Club	1st leg	2nd leg	Aggregate
2016–17	EHF Cup	R3	Dinamo Astrakhan	29–29	36–25	64–55
		Group Stage	Fraikin Granollers	24–27	32–34	4th place
			FC Porto	29–26	25–33
			Frisch Auf Göppingen	23–31	22–25

Accomplishments

• Danish Handball Cup: ^[4] 1
  •  Gold: 2015

Team

Current squad

Goalkeepers 01 Simon Egtved 16 Rasmus Døssing Wingers LW 14 Christian Højgaard Brandt 35 Kasper Søndergaard Kvist RW 40 Laurits Kristensen 90 Magnus Møland Sønnichsen Line players 05 Silas Krabbe 06 Valdemar Hermansen 54 Rasmus Mørup

Back players LB 04 Rasmus Graffe 08 Matias Damgaard 10 Emil Vestergaard Larsen CB 18 Matias Helt Jepsen RB 09 Livio Klausen 13 Oscar von Oettingen

Transfers

Transfers for the 2024–2025 season

Joining Simon Egtved (GK) (from Lemvig-Thyborøn Håndbold) Rasmus Døssing (GK) (from KIF Kolding) Christian Højgaard Brandt (LW) (from own rows) Matias Damgaard (LB) (from Skive fH) Matias Helt Jepsen (CB) (from IFK Kristianstad) Livio Klausen (RB) (from TM Tønder) Rasmus Mørup (P) (from Istres Provence Handball) Silas Krabbe (P) (from Aarhus HC)

Leaving Arne Damgaard (Assistant Coach) Kim Sonne (GK) (to Lemvig-Thyborøn Håndbold) Hans-Christian Borg Hansen (GK) (to ?) Shadrach Nsoni (GK) (to Skive fH) Frederik Sass (LW) (to ?) Hector Villadsen (LW) (to TTH Holstebro Youth) Sebastian Jensen (LB) (to Aarhus HC) Bjarke Nybo Jørgensen (LB) (to Grindsted GIF Håndbold) Bertram Simonsen (LB) (to Lemvig-Thyborøn Håndbold) Jonas Jepsen (CB) (to Odder Håndbold) Christopher Ekmann (CB) (to Bergsøy Handball) Rasmus Madsen (RB) (to Mors-Thy Håndbold) Markus Falk Ibesen (RB) (to HC Odense) Jonathan Havndrup Sørensen (RW) (to Skjern Håndbold) Søren Tau Sørensen (P) (retires) Mathias Porsholdt (P) (to ?)

Technical staff

Staff for the 2023–2024 season

• Head coach: Claus Uhrenholt
• Assistant Coach: Martin Hansen
• Physical Trainer: Steffan Storgaard Espersen
• Physiotherapist: Gabriel Zaar Jensen
• Team Leader: Henrik Andersen

References

1. "Ny træner i HC Midtjylland". Danmarks Radio. 1 January 2013. Retrieved 5 August 2016.
2. "HC Midtjylland er gået konkurs". DR. Ritzau. 23 April 2018.
3. "Konkursramt klub på vej til at genopstå". TV Midtvest. 29 May 2018.
4. "Danish Cup Winners Men". DHF. Archived from the original on 16 September 2018. Retrieved 13 March 2015.