Handball Club Leipzig

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Handball Club Leipzig
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Full nameHandball Club Leipzig
Short nameHCL
Founded1893
Arena Arena Leipzig
Capacity7,000 [1]
PresidentTorsten Brunnquell
Head coachFabian Kunze
League2. Handball-Bundesliga
2021–20222. Handball-Bundesliga, 12th
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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.

Contents

Kits

Honours

Domestic competitions

European competitions

European record

SeasonCompetitionRoundClub1st leg2nd legAggregate
2016–17 EHF Champions League Q1 Flag of Belarus.svg HC Gomel 29–181st place
Flag of Austria.svg Hypo Niederösterreich 32–30
Group B Flag of North Macedonia.svg Vardar 22–4524–414th place
Flag of Hungary.svg FTC-Rail Cargo Hungaria 17–3022–26
Flag of Russia.svg HC Astrakhanochka 30–2724–27
EHF Cup Group B Flag of Russia.svg HC Kuban Krasnodar 27–3324–324th place
Flag of France.svg Brest Bretagne Handball 15–3420–23
Flag of Hungary.svg Alba Fehérvár KC 21–3427–29

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

Technical staff

Notable former players

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References

  1. "Handball Arenen Deutschland" (in German). Stadionwelt. Archived from the original on 30 September 2011. Retrieved 25 August 2011.
  2. "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.