Handball in Germany

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Association: German Handball Federation
Founding: 1949
IHF membership: 1950
EHF membership: 1991
German men's national handball team
1st international match: September 13, 1925 in Halle (Saale) against Austria (3: 6)
1st  EM participation: 1994
1st  World Cup participation: 1938
1st  OL participation: 1936
Medals won:
EM: 2 × gold, 1 × silver, 1 × bronze

WM: 3 × gold, 2 × silver, 1 × bronze

OL: 1 × gold, 2 × silver, 1 × bronze

1st  championship : 1921
1st national champion: TSV 1860 Spandau
Record champions: THW Kiel (22 ×)

In terms of popularity, handball ranks second in team sports after football in Germany .

The German Handball Federation , based in Dortmund, is the largest handball association in the world. By moving several clubs from small, old sports halls to more modern multifunctional halls , the attractiveness was further increased. The number of viewers in the first division is considered the highest in the world.

Modern handball reached a high point of audience popularity with the 2007 World Cup in Germany, which the German team won on February 4, 2007. This was the third time that Germany won the world championship title after 1938 and 1978. The marketing of handball as a whole was also strongly promoted as a result.

Recently, there has been a particular lack of television broadcasts of Bundesliga handball games.

Positioning and successes

German handball enjoys a high reputation at club level. Handball is popularly different in the various regions within Germany. Handball enjoys special attention. B. in Schleswig-Holstein ( THW Kiel , SG Flensburg-Handewitt and others), Ostwestfalen-Lippe ( TuS N-Lübbecke , GWD Minden , TBV Lemgo and others), Württemberg ( Frisch Auf Göppingen , HBW Balingen , TVB Stuttgart , SG BBM Bietigheim, VfL Pfullingen ), North and Central Hesse ( MT Melsungen , HSG Wetzlar , TV Hüttenberg ) or in the Bergisches Land ( VfL Gummersbach , Bergischer HC and others).

The German clubs are among the best in Europe. In 2007, 2010 and 2012, German clubs won all three of the most important European cup competitions: EHF Cup , EHF Champions League and the European Cup Winners' Cup . Previously, only the Spanish league had managed to win all competitions in one year. The THW Kiel even won the triple in 2007 and 2012: Champions League, DHB Cup and German championship.

In the 16 years from 1997 to 2012, the EHF Cup was won 14 times by German clubs.

Bayer 04 Leverkusen have won most of the women's titles as twelve-time German champions and eight-time cup winners. The most successful men's team is THW Kiel with 18 German championships .

German handball experienced an important high point when the German national team under coach Vlado Stenzel won the world championship in 1978 . In 1980 the team of the German Democratic Republic won the gold medal in Moscow , four years later at the Olympic Summer Games in Los Angeles the German national team won the silver medal in handball . In the following two decades, German handball did not achieve great success on an international level. However, German handball made a name for itself at club level in European competitions.

At the international level, the German team achieved successes again for the first time under Heiner Brand , one of the 1978 world champions. In 2002 Germany became vice European champion and 2003 vice world champion. The team won their first title by winning the European Championship in 2004 . In the same year, the German selection took second place at the Olympic Games in Athens . At the 2006 European Championships in Switzerland , the German selection came in 5th. In 2007, Germany, as the host, won the handball world championship for the third time in the final against Poland . Denmark came third. In the same year, German handball clubs won all three European club competitions (THW Kiel the Champions League, SC Magdeburg the EHF Cup, HSV Hamburg the European Cup Winners' Cup).

On January 31, 2016, Germany became European champions for the second time .

Well-known German players

See also

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Goethe Institute
  2. ↑ cf. Harald Schumacher: A very big hit. The World Cup title brings handball forward in Germany - and more business for sporting goods manufacturers. In: WirtschaftsWoche issue 7/2007, p. 76.
  3. ↑ Stefan Bottler: Away from the crowd. In: Advertising and Selling , Issue 21/2011, p. 29.