Lars Krogh Jeppesen

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Lars Krogh Jeppsen
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Personal information
Full name Lars Krogh Jeppesen
Born (1979-03-05) 5 March 1979 (age 46)
Hvidovre, Denmark
Height 2.00 m (6 ft 7 in)
Playing position Left back
Youth career
Team
 Avedøre IF
Senior clubs
YearsTeam
1987–1997
 Avedøre IF
1997–2000
 Team Helsinge
2000–2004
 SG Flensburg-Handewitt
2004–2006
 FC Barcelona
2006–2007
 THW Kiel
2007–2010
 Bjerringbro-Silkeborg
2010–2011
 KIF Kolding
2011-2012
 HC Fyn
2013-2014
 KIF Kolding
National team
YearsTeamApps(Gls)
1998–2008
 Denmark 123 (356)
Teams managed
2012-2014
 KIF Kolding (assistant)
2014-2017
 Team Esbjerg (assistant)
2017
 SønderjyskE (assistant)
Medal record
European Championships
Gold medal icon (G initial).svg 2008 Norway
Bronze medal icon (B initial).svg 2002 Sweden
Bronze medal icon (B initial).svg 2004 Slovenia

Lars Krogh Jeppesen (born 5 March 1979) is a former Danish handball left back, coach and administrator, who played for KIF Kolding and previous Danish national team. He has won the 2008 European Men's Handball Championship [1] along with two bronze medals in 2004 and 2002.

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Career

Lars Krogh Jeppesen started playing handball in Avedøre IF, before joining Team Helsinge, where he played for 3 years.

He joined German top club SG Flensburg-Handewitt in 2000, where he played for four years, scoring more than 500 goals in 138 games for the club. He won the Bundesliga once and the German Cup twice with the club. He then played two seasons for Spanish FC Barcelona. Here he won both the Liga ASOBAL and the EHF Champions League. In 2006 he returned to Germany and joined THW Kiel. With them he won the treble in his only season at the club.

He then returned to Denmark and joined Bjerringbro-Silkeborg. In 2010 he joined league rivals KIF Kolding. [2] After a single season he joined HC Fyn in the 1st Division, where he acted as both player and sporting director. [3]

After his playing career he became the sporting director at the club. [4] In the summer of 2012 he became the assistant coach at KIF Kolding. [5] In February 2013 he made a comeback as a played for KIF Kolding in the EHF Cup. [6] He was however not cleared to play in the Danish league as he had not been registrered in time. [7] He then retired once again, but returned for a third time in November 2013, when KIF Kolding had several key players injured. [8]

After the 2013-14 season he retired once again, and left KIF Kolding. [9] He then became the assistent coach at the Danish women's team Team Esbjerg. [10] For the 2017/18 season he became the assistant coach at SønderjyskE Herrehåndbold. [11] He decided to quit this position already in November 2017, due to disagreements with head coach Kasper Christensen on the sporting dispositions. [12]

In July 2018 he entered the administration at KIF Kolding, but he left the position already in September the same year. [13] [14]

Trophies

Club team

National team

References

  1. ↑ "Denmark" Archived 2008-01-29 at the Wayback Machine –European Handball Federation (2008) (Retrieved on February 3, 2008)
  2. ↑ "kif.dk: Pressemøde den 24 juni 2010". Archived from the original on 18 January 2017. Retrieved 21 June 2025.
  3. ↑ www.hbold.dk: Spielerprofil
  4. ↑ www.faaborghk.dk: Spielerporträt HC Fyn
  5. ↑ www.handball-world.com: Kolding bindet Krogh Jeppesen an den Klub
  6. ↑ history.eurohandball.com: Comeback for Krogh Jeppesen
  7. ↑ "DHF stopper Lars Kroghs comeback" (in Danish). hbold.dk. Archived from the original on 17 October 2014.
  8. ↑ "Lars Krogh gør comeback på banen" (in Danish). hbold.dk. Archived from the original on 2 December 2013. Retrieved 21 June 2025.
  9. ↑ "Lars Krogh Jeppesen verlässt KIF Kolding Kopenhagen" (in German). handball-world.com. 22 June 2014. Retrieved 22 June 2014.
  10. ↑ "Lars Krogh Jeppesen til Team Esbjerg" (in Danish). tvsyd.dk. Retrieved 12 October 2014.
  11. ↑ "SönderjyskE löst Trainerfrage: neuer Job für Lars Krogh Jeppesen" (in German). handball-world.com. 16 January 2017. Retrieved 17 January 2017.
  12. ↑ Ernst Møller (16 November 2017). "Lars Krogh Jeppesen går fra Sønderjyske" (in Danish). tv2syd. Retrieved 21 June 2025.
  13. ↑ "Kolding mit ehemaligen HBL-Profis in Administration" (in German). handball-world.news. Retrieved 22 June 2018.
  14. ↑ "Lige begæret konkurs: Nu siger eks-landsholdsspillere op i KIF Kolding" (in Danish). tv3sport.dk. Retrieved 7 July 2022.
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