HC Kriens-Lucerne

HC Kriens-Lucerne

Full name	Handball club Kriens
Nickname (s)	Kriens
Founded	1966
Hall	Mourning Hall
Places	1,300 seats
president	Nick Christen (HC Kriens-Luzern AG)
Trainer	Goran Perkovac
league	National League A
2017/18
rank	5th place
Nat. Cup	SHV Cup : semi-finals
Website	www.hckriens.ch
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The handball club Kriens is a Swiss handball club from Kriens near Lucerne, which was founded in 1966 . Competitive sport was spun off into HC Kriens-Luzern AG in 2009. With the SG Pilatus-Handball, the club also has a youth development organization, which is run together with the partner clubs Borba Luzern and TV Horw.

For a long time, HC Kriens was a club that made an excellent name for itself in the Swiss handball scene through excellent work with young talent. With the top team, however, the connection to the national top did not succeed. Talented young handball players from the club were repeatedly drawn to the large teams in the neighborhood, who at the time were able to offer far better sporting perspectives, which in turn blocked HC Kriens' chances of developing them themselves.

The club cut this Gordian knot with an enormously broad environment in 2006. At that time, it was promoted to the National League (2nd highest division), and a year later was promoted directly to National League A. Ironically, HC Kriens benefited from the withdrawal of the SG Central Switzerland, one of the neighboring clubs. This had decided to withdraw from the National League A due to a lack of economic foundations.

With the first promotion to the National League A, the Kriens handball players made the breakthrough. After a tough first year, the club is gradually making its way to the top of the national league. After Rolf Dobler (SUI) and Torben Winther (DEN), the German European Champion Heiko Grimm took over the management of the team in the summer of 2013. Since then, the association has been working with the clear objective of building a team with perspectives and very close ties to Switzerland.

In 2011 he qualified for the European Cup for the first time and made it to the quarterfinals. In the summer of 2014, the team qualified again for the European Cup and made it into the playoffs of the top four teams in the league, which have now been reintroduced. With the youngest team in the final round and the highest percentage of Swiss players as well as very strong roots in the region, HC Kriens-Luzern successfully set a development in motion for handball in Central Switzerland.

The SG Pilatus Handball youth teams achieved great success in parallel and repeatedly fought for national youth titles at various levels of ability.

2018/19 season

(As of September 16, 2018)

No.	Nat.	Surname		Date of birth	size	position
goal
16		Kayoum	Eicher	1998	192	TH
28		Paul	bar	1990	188	TH
46		André	Willimann	1985	188	TH
field
3		Marcel	Lengacher	1992	188	FL
6th		Adrian	Leafs	1994	172	FL
7th		Luca	Engler	1993	190	RL
8th		Luca	Spengler	1992	200	RL
9		Claudio	Vögtli	1996	193	FR
13		Filip	Gavranovic	1991	199	KL
14th		Amine	Yousefinezhad	1996	197	RL
15th		Moritz	Oertli	2001	187	RM
19th		Severin	Ramseier	1989	177	FR
20th		Aleksander	Radovanovic	1994	192	RR
21st		Basil	Gnos	1999	194	RL
23		Gino	Delchiappo	1998	195	KL
38		Thomas	Hofstetter	1990	190	RM

Well-known former players

• Tobias Baumgartner (SUI)
• Nicolas Raemy (SUI)
• Roman Schelbert (SUI)
• Benjamin Steiger (SUI)
• Carlos Lima Fuentes (SUI)
• Chen Pomeranz (ISR)
• Bojan Beljanski (SRB)
• Roman Schelbert (SUI)