HSG Nordhorn-Lingen

HSG Nordhorn-Lingen

Full name	Handball game community Nordhorn-Lingen
Founded	June 1, 1981
Club colors	Red White
Hall	Euregium, Nordhorn EmslandArena, Lingen
Places	4100 (Euregium) 4300 (EmslandArena)
Trainer	Daniel Kubeš
league	Handball Bundesliga
2018/19
rank	2nd place ( 2nd Bundesliga )
DHB Cup	1 round
Website	www.hsgnordhorn-lingen.de
home Away
Greatest successes
National	German runner-up in 2002
International	EHF Cup Winner 2008

HSG Nordhorn fans during a Bundesliga game in the Kölnarena

The handball game community Nordhorn-Lingen is a handball club from Nordhorn .

history

The club was founded on June 1, 1981 from a merger of the handball departments of Sparta Nordhorn and Eintracht Nordhorn as HSG Nordhorn . After the HSG became champions of the Regionalliga Nord in 1993, they were promoted to the 2nd Bundesliga. Six years later she was also a champion there and rose to the handball Bundesliga of the DHB . Since then she has been there in the upper half of the table and became German runner-up in 2002. The team plays its home games in the Euregium .

Since September 2008, the Bundesliga team has called itself HSG Nordhorn-Lingen due to budget problems and the associated financial contributions from the Emsland and the city of Lingen (Ems) . Thanks to the donations, gaming operations could initially be maintained. On February 16, 2009, HSG Sportmarketing GmbH & Co KG filed for insolvency at the Nordhorn District Court due to impending insolvency , and on March 5, insolvency administrator Ulrich Zerrath finally filed for insolvency proceedings, making HSG the second forced relegation from handball after TUSEM Essen -Bundesliga in the 2008/09 season.

The newly founded HSG Nordhorn-Lingen GmbH has been a licensee of the Bundesliga team since the 2009/2010 season. Since December 2013, the team has played some of their home games in the Emslandarena in Lingen.

2008 saw the first international success with winning the EHF Cup .

On the third last matchday of the 2018/2019 season, the HSG secured a renewed promotion to the handball Bundesliga after a 33:28 away win at EHV Aue and the subsequent defeat of HSC 2000 Coburg.

Sporting record

After the 1992/1993 season, when the HSG won the championship in the Regionalliga Nord, they achieved promotion to the 2nd Bundesliga in relegation . There she was twice (1996 and 1998) runner-up. In 1999 HSG Nordhorn finally became champions of the 2nd Bundesliga North and, after winning the relegation, played in the 1st Bundesliga until 2009. After the forced relegation to the 2nd Bundesliga in 2009, he was promoted to the 1st Bundesliga again in 2019.

Greatest successes

The HSG Nordhorn team on May 30, 2009 before the second leg of the 2008/2009 European Cup Winners' Cup against BM Valladolid in Valladolid (Polideportivo Pisuerga).

• Champion of the Regionalliga Nord 1992/93 (promotion to the 2nd Bundesliga North)
• Champion of the 2nd Bundesliga North 1998/99 (promotion to the handball Bundesliga )
• Participation in the Final Four ( DHB-Pokal ) 2000/01, 2001/02, 2004/05 and 2007/08
• German runner-up 2001/02
• Participation in the EHF Cup 2002/03
• 3rd place at the Final Four in the DHB Cup 2004/05
• Participation in the European Cup Winners' Cup 2005/06, reaching the semi-finals
• 2008 EHF Cup winner
• Reaching the final of the European Cup Winners' Cup 2008/09
• Promotion to the handball Bundesliga 2018/19

2007/2008

In the 2007/08 season the HSG recorded 23 wins, 4 draws and 7 defeats in the Bundesliga. 1065 (Ø 31.3; 113 7-meter) goals were scored and 1018 (Ø 28.6) goals conceded, which led to 5th place in the table (first round 4th). This enabled the HSG to participate in the 2008/2009 EHF Cup .

In its own hall, the HSG only lost once in the entire season, against SG Flensburg-Handewitt . The biggest win was against Wilhelmshavener HV with 32:17 (home game), the biggest defeat against THW Kiel with 24:34 (away). The most successful thrower with 201 goals, 11 of them by seven meters , was Holger Glandorf , who extended his contract by a year until 2010. An average of 3537 spectators saw the home games.

In the DHB Cup , HSG Nordhorn made it to the semi-finals. The biggest success of the season was winning the EHF Cup , which made the HSG the most internationally successful German team in 2008.

Despite this success, the HSG Nordhorn was not financially secure. Many of the players' monthly salaries were still outstanding at the end of the season, which had immediate consequences. Jan Filip , long-time leading player at the HSG, left the club and went to the Rhein-Neckar Löwen . In the further course of the season, other regulars, such as Holger Glandorf and Peter Kukučka , left the club. This enabled the HSG to financially keep the game going until the end of the season. Again the HSG Nordhorn-Lingen reached the final in a European competition despite a decimated squad.

2008/2009

After relegation to the 2nd division due to the initiated insolvency, Maik Machulla and Heiner Bültmann became the new coaching team. Nicky Verjans also signed for the HSG for this season.

Seasonal balances since 1999

season	Division	space	Sp	S.	U	N	Gates	Diff.	Points
1999/00	Handball Bundesliga	05	34	22nd	3	09	0877: 0787	+ 090	47:21
2000/01	Handball Bundesliga	08th	38	18th	5	15th	1010: 0947	+ 063	41:35
2001/02	Handball Bundesliga	02	34	25th	3	06th	0983: 0827	+156	53:13
2002/03	Handball Bundesliga	05	34	21st	1	12	1025: 0973	+ 052	43:25
2003/04	Handball Bundesliga	10	34	12	3	19th	0999: 1024	- 025	27:41
2004/05	Handball Bundesliga	06th	34	19th	3	12	1033: 0984	+ 049	41:27
2005/06	Handball Bundesliga	09	34	18th	0	16	1010: 0981	+ 029	36:32
2006/07	Handball Bundesliga	05	34	23	3	08th	1042: 0960	+ 082	49:19
2007/08	Handball Bundesliga	05	34	23	4th	07th	1065: 0970	+ 095	50:18
2008/09	Handball Bundesliga 1	08th	34	21st	3	10	1071: 0983	+ 088	41:23
2009/10	2. Handball Bundesliga	04th	32	19th	3	10	0978: 0926	+ 052	41:23
2010/11	2. Handball Bundesliga	06th	32	19th	2	11	0926: 0889	+ 037	40:24
2011/12	2. Handball Bundesliga	10	38	19th	0	19th	1103: 1083	+ 020	38:38
2012/13	2. Handball Bundesliga	09	36	18th	1	17th	1013: 1008	+ 500	37:35
2013/14	2. Handball Bundesliga	06th	36	21st	2	13	976: 0920	+ 056	44:28
2014/15	2. Handball Bundesliga	04th	38	24	3	11	1002: 0927	+ 075	51:25
2015/16	2. Handball Bundesliga	08th	40	18th	8th	14th	0964: 0956	+ 800	44:36
2016/17	2. Handball Bundesliga	08th	38	18th	4th	16	1008: 0970	+ 038	40:36
2017/18	2. Handball Bundesliga	07th	38	20th	5	13	0983: 0970	+ 013	45:31
2018/19	2. Handball Bundesliga	02	38	27	3	08th	1083: 0947	+136	57:19

¹ compulsory relegation and deduction of 4 points for license violation

The squad for the 2019/20 season

number	Surname	position	Date of birth	size	nation	since
1	Bart Ravensbergen	TW	03/14/1993	1.90 m		2018
12	Björn Buhrmester	TW	11/03/1984	1.96 m		2009
16	Dennis Bartels	TW	09/22/1987	1.83 m		1999
2	Nicky Verjans	RA / RR	08/27/1987	1.86 m		2012 (again)
4th	Levin Tsare	LA	07/17/1997	1.74 m
5	Lutz Heiny	RL	06/26/1995	1.92 m		2015
7th	Toon Leenders	KM	04/17/1986	2.02 m		2017
8th	Robert Weber	RA	11/25/1985	1.78 m		2019
9	Pavel Mičkal	LA	01/31/1984	1.84 m		2005
10	Patrick Miedema	NOISE	November 19, 1990	1.90 m		2012
18th	Alex Terwolbeck	RM	08/05/1991	1.83 m		1996
19th	Luca de Boer	KM	10/30/1992	2.00 m		2010
22nd	Philipp Vorlicek	RR	05/07/1995	1.98 m		2017
23	Jens Wiese	RL	12/10/1987	1.95 m		2011
24	Anton Prakapenja	RL	09/26/1988	1.96 m		2019
28	Let Seidel	LA	05/11/1993	1.82 m		2016
30th	Johannes van Lengerich	KM	05/11/1994	1.94 m
48	Julian Possehl	RR	December 31, 1992	1.91 m		2018
94	Georg Pöhle	RL / RM	09/28/1994	1.93 m		2018
95	Dominik Kalafut	KM	06/15/1995	1.96 m		2019

Trainer

The trainer is Geir Sveinsson . Ralf Lucas, who used to be active in the reserve team, is assistant coach.

On August 19, 2019, it was announced that Geir Sveinsson will initially be the coach of HSG Nordhorn-Lingen for two years, as a replacement for Heiner Bültmann, who has lost due to illness.

Well-known former players

Frode Scheie (1997–1999) Stein Olaf Sando (1997-2000) Robert Andersson (1998-2003) Jan Filip (2000-2008) Jochen Fraatz (1996-2001 as a player, since 2003 as assistant coach) Guðmundur Hrafnkelsson (1999-2001) Peter Gentzel (2001-2009) Holger Glandorf (1999-2009) Frode Hagen (1998-2002) Torsten Jansen (2001-2003) Tobias Karlsson (2008-2009) Karsten Kohlhaas (1998-2002) Eliodor Voica (1995–1998) Andreas Larsson (1999-2004)

Frank Schumann (2002–2006 and 2013–2018) Jesper Larsson (1997-2002 and 2004-2007) Ola Lindgren (1998–2003 as a player, 2003–2009 as a coach) Børge Lund (2006-2007) Bjarte Myrhol (2006-2009) Johan Petersson (1997-2002) Glenn Solberg (1997-2002) Dragan Škrbić (2000-2002) Ljubomir Vranjes (2001-2006) Steffen Weinhold (2007-2009) Erlend Mamelund (2007-2009) Bobby Schagen (2010-2015) Maik Machulla (2002-2010)

mascot

The HSG's mascot is a tiger with the club's red and white stripes and named Tiga. The mascot was introduced before the start of the game on December 6, 2006, and since then it has supported the 1st team in every game.

Euregium

The Euregium was built especially for the HSG Nordhorn. But it is also used for other cultural events. B. Atze Schröder and Udo Jürgens already performed. Since the Euregium is right next to the district sports hall of the Grafschaft Bentheim district , the three sports halls can be used for major HSG events. The Euregium has been the venue for the Grafschafter Sportgala , which is moderated by Jörg Wontorra , for nine years .
The name is derived from the Euregio .

Tax investigation / bankruptcy

The business premises of HSG Nordhorn were searched by tax investigators on September 2, 2008 . Searches were also carried out on coach Ola Lindgren , player Holger Glandorf and other players. Numerous documents were confiscated .

At the beginning of February 2009, the HSG sold Erlend Mamelund and Peter Kukučka to counter the impending bankruptcy. On February 14, 2009, Holger Glandorf switched to TBV Lemgo with immediate effect and called this step “the best I could do for the club”. On February 16, 2009, HSG Sportmarketing GmbH & Co KG filed for bankruptcy at the Nordhorn District Court, as no more players' salaries were paid due to liquidity bottlenecks.

Web links

Commons : HSG Nordhorn  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• Side of the club
• Radio interview with trainer Ola Lindgren

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Nordhorn files for bankruptcy - no salaries. ( Memento from September 11, 2012 in the web archive archive.today ), FTD-Online from February 14, 2009
2. ↑ Nordhorn wins the EHF Cup. In: www.handball-world.news. May 11, 2008, accessed May 28, 2019 . 
3. ↑ Uli Mentrup: Nordhorn-Lingen has managed to return to the Bundesliga. In: www.noz.de. Neue Osnabrücker Zeitung GmbH & Co. KG, May 26, 2019, accessed on May 28, 2019 . 
4. ↑ Beckedahl S, in Die Welt from September 28, 1999, A front runner like from the Ikea catalog - handball climber Nordhorn leads the table - success with Scandinavian national players
5. ↑ HSG signs coach duo
6. ↑ A coach question at the HSG clarified: Geir Sveinsson takes over. In: gn-online, August 19, 2019
7. ↑ focus.de - Tax raid at HSG Nordhorn
8. ↑ European Cup for Nordhorn incidental - Lemgoer happy - Kiel victory
9. ↑ Insolvency is filed