Jan Filip (handball player)

Jan Filip

Jan Filip before a game on May 12, 2007
Player information
Nickname	"Honza"
birthday	June 14, 1973
place of birth	Prague , Czechoslovakia
citizenship	Czech
height	1.88 m
Playing position	Right winger
Throwing hand	Left
Club information
society	Career ended
Clubs in the youth
from ... to	society
1985-1992	Dukla Prague
Clubs as active
from ... to	society
1992-1997	Dukla Prague
1997-1998	HSG Düsseldorf
1998-1999	Dukla Prague
1999-2000	Pallamano Conversano
2000-2008	HSG Nordhorn
2008-2009	Rhine-Neckar lion
2009-2011	Cadets Schaffhausen
2011-2015	TSV St. Otmar St. Gallen
National team
	Games (goals)
Czech Republic	200 (991)
Clubs as coaches
from ... to	society
2011-2015	TSV St. Otmar St. Gallen (player-coach)
2014–	Czech Republic
As of April 11, 2020

Jan Filip (born June 14, 1973 in Prague ) is a Czech handball player . From 2011 to January 2015 he worked as a player- coach in Switzerland for TSV St. Otmar St. Gallen . The playing position of the left-hander is on the right winger . In the summer of 2014, he and Daniel Kubeš took on the role of coach of the Czech national handball team . For the Czech national team, the 1.88 m long and 88 kg heavy Filip played 200 international matches in which he scored 991 goals. Although he is left-handed in handball, he writes with his right hand.

Filip, who is nicknamed "Honza", is married to Hanka and has a son and a daughter.

Jan Filip in the game against VfL Gummersbach in the Kölnarena on May 12, 2007

Jan Filip in the same game

successes

• German runner-up in 2002
• Top scorer of the European Championship 1998
• Third in the Bundesliga scorers list in the 2003/2004 season
• Second in the Bundesliga goalscorer list in the 2004/2005 season
• Appointment to the IHF world selection
• EHF Cup 2008

Bundesliga record

season	society	Division	Games	Gates	7 meters	Field gates
2001/02	HSG Nordhorn	Bundesliga	62	344	63	281
2002/03	HSG Nordhorn	Bundesliga	34	246	44	202
2003/04	HSG Nordhorn	Bundesliga	34	232	73	159
2004/05	HSG Nordhorn	Bundesliga	34	249	71	178
2005/06	HSG Nordhorn	Bundesliga	34	226	50	176
2006/07	HSG Nordhorn	Bundesliga	34	203	53	150
2007/08	HSG Nordhorn	Bundesliga	32	191	58	133
2008/09	Rhine-Neckar lion	Bundesliga	32	101	20th	81
2000-2009	total	Bundesliga	296	1792	432	1360

Web links

• Jan Filip in the database of the European Handball Federation
• Report about Jan Filip on the website of SG Flensburg-Handewitt

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b} Portrait on reprezentace.chf.cz , accessed on April 11, 2020
2. ↑ Jan Filip becomes player-coach at St. Otmar
3. ↑ handball-world.com: St. Otmar releases ex-Bundesliga player as a player-coach with immediate effect , accessed on February 3, 2015
4. ↑ handball-world.com: Melsung player becomes coach of the Czech national team