Dirk Leun

Dirk Leun

Dirk Leun 2019
Player information
birthday	April 11, 1964
place of birth	Lich , Germany
citizenship	German
height	1.89 m
Club information
society	Buxtehuder SV
Clubs as coaches
from ... to	society
1999-2004	TV Mainzlar
2004-2006	TGS Walldorf
2008–	Buxtehuder SV
Status: July 22, 2014

Dirk Leun during a team time-out (2015)

Dirk Leun (born April 11, 1964 in Lich ) is a German handball trainer and former handball player .

Dirk Leun played handball at TV Hüttenberg until 1996 . The journalist then trained the women's team there, which became Hesse champions under his leadership, and the men's team playing in the 2nd Bundesliga . With the youth teams of TV Hüttenberg, he won the German championship and runner-up in the A and B youth. He worked as a Hessian selection trainer. When TV Lützellinden he worked as a youth coordinator.

Between 1999 and 2004 Leun coached the Bundesliga club TV Mainzlar , with whom he won the DHB Cup in 2001. Then Leun moved to the regional division TGS Walldorf . In the first year the team was promoted to runner-up, as the master TV Lützellinden did not get a Bundesliga license. After a year in the second Bundesliga , the Walldorf women were relegated to the regional league as bottom of the table and Leun left the club.

The father of four later worked as a DHB trainer for the German U20 women. In addition, Leun was employed by the Hessian Handball Association as a teaching officer for state selection teams .

Leun has been coaching Bundesliga club Buxtehuder SV since July 1, 2008 . Later he also took over the A youth team at Buxtehuder SV, which won the German championship in 2016 under his leadership. In 2019 the Buxtehude B-youth he trained also won the German championship.

He is married to Claudia.

Success as a trainer

• DHB Cup final 2000 (TV Mainzlar), 2011 (Buxtehuder SV)
• DHB-Pokal 2001 (TV Mainzlar), 2015 and 2017 (Buxtehuder SV)
• German runner-up 2011, 2012 (Buxtehuder SV)
• Promotion to the 2nd handball league (TGS Walldorf)
• U20 world champion 2008
• EHF Challenge Cup 2010 (Buxtehuder SV)
• Participation in the group stage of the Champions League 2012, 2013 (Buxtehuder SV)

Web links

• Portrait of Dirk Leun at Buxtehuder SV

Individual evidence

1. ↑ alt.tv-mainzlar.de: Profile TV Mainzlar , accessed on April 7, 2018
2. ↑ alt.tv-mainzlar.de: Chronicle TV Mainzlar , accessed on April 7, 2018
3. ^ Abendblatt.de: Deficits in attack and in goal
4. ↑ bsv-live.de: A-Jugend des Buxtehuder SV is German Champion 2016 , accessed on September 2, 2019
5. ↑ tageblatt.de: B-Jugend: BSV wins German championship , accessed on July 18, 2019