Larvik HK
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| Full name | Larvik Håndballklubb |
| Founded | May 31, 1990 |
| Club colors | White-red |
| Hall | Arena Larvik |
| Places | 4,500 seats |
| Trainer | Lars Wallin Andresen |
| league | Elite series |
| 2019/20 | |
| rank | 1st place (1st divisjon) |
| Website | www.larvikhk.no |
Larvik Håndballklubb is a Norwegian women's handball club from Larvik . The first team plays in the Norwegian Elite Series and has won it fourteen times. In 2000 the association had 250 members.
history
Larvik Håndballklubb (Larvik HK) was founded on May 31, 1990 when the two clubs Larvik Turn & IF and Halsen IF merged.
With Marit Breivik , who later coached the successful Norwegian women's handball team, and later under Gunnar Pettersen , former coach of the Norwegian men's handball team , Larvik HK quickly rose to become the center of Norwegian women's handball. In 1994 the team won the Norwegian championship for the first time.
After the turn of the millennium, Larvik HK benefited from the increasing shift in strength in European women's handball in favor of the Danish league. Scandinavian women's handball gained in importance and Larvik HK also caused a stir in the European Cup. With the European Cup Winners' Cup in 2005 , the team was the first ever women's handball team to bring a European Cup to Norway. In 2008 Larvik HK was able to win the European Cup Winners' Cup again. The greatest success so far came in the 2010/11 season by winning the EHF Champions League .
Due to financial problems, Larvik HK lost most of the previous top players before the 2017/18 season, and Linn-Kristin Riegelhuth Koren was absent for almost the entire season due to pregnancy. The squad was filled with young and internationally inexperienced players, but Larvik surprisingly finished the season in the league in second place behind Vipers Kristiansand and was eliminated in the quarter-finals against Viborg HK after losing the Champions League in the EHF Cup . This was the first time since the 2003/04 season another team than Larvik HK champion of the Norwegian elite series. For the 2019/20 season, Larvik did not receive a license for the Eliteserien, so the women's team had to be relegated in the second highest division, the 1st division. A year later, the team succeeded in direct promotion.
For a long time Larvik HK had the specialty of not arranging youth teams according to age groups; It was not until 2005 that the association decided to adapt to modern standards.
successes
Elite series
- Winner: 1993/94, 1996/97, 1999/2000, 2000/01, 2001/02, 2002/03, 2004/05, 2005/06, 2006/07, 2007/08, 2008/09, 2009/10, 2010/11, 2011/12, 2012/13, 2013/14, 2014/15, 2015/16, 2016/17
- Second: 1994/95, 2017/18
- Third: 1995/96, 1997/98, 2003/04
Norgesmesterskap
- Winner: 1995/96, 1997/98, 1999/2000, 2002/03, 2003/04, 2004/05, 2005/06, 2006/07, 2008/09, 2009/10, 2010/11, 2011/12, 2012/13, 2013/14, 2014/15, 2015/16, 2016/17
- Runner-up: 1993/94, 1996/97, 1998/99, 2007/08
Sluttspill
The Sluttspill was not held from 1997/98 - 2003/04.
- Winner: 1994/95, 1995/96, 1996/97, 2004/05, 2005/06, 2006/07, 2007/08, 2008/09, 2009/10, 2010/11, 2011/12, 2012/13, 2013/14, 2014/15, 2015/16, 2016/17
- Third: 1993/94
EHF Champions League
- Winner: 2010/11
- Finalist: 2012/13
- Semi-finals: 2001/02, 2003/04, 2009/10, 2011/12
- Quarter-finals: 2000/01, 2002/03, 2006/07
UEFA Cup Winners' Cup
- Winner: 2004/05, 2007/08
- Finalist 2008/09
- Semi-finals: 1996/97, 2005/06
EHF Cup
- Final: 1995/96
Well-known former players
- Karoline Dyhre Breivang
- Gro Hammerseng-Edin
- Kari Mette Johansen
- Tonje Larsen
- Heidi Løke
- Nora Mørk
- Katja Nyberg
- Lene Rantala
- Amanda Kurtović
- Marit Malm Frafjord
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ sport.tv2.dk: Larvik tvangsnedrykkes , accessed on May 16, 2019
- ↑ handball-world.news: Former Champions League winner Larvik HK back in Norway's upper house , accessed on April 8, 2020