MT Melsungen

MT Melsungen

Full name	Melsunger Turngemeinde 1861 e. V.
Abbreviation (s)	MTM
Nickname (s)	The Reds
Founded	1861
Club colors	Red White
Hall	Rothenbach Hall
Places	4,300 seats
Trainer	Guðmundur Guðmundsson
league	Handball Bundesliga
2018/19
rank	5th place
DHB Cup	Quarter finals
Website	www.mt-melsungen.de
home Away
Greatest successes
National	two promotion to the Bundesliga

Old logo

The MT Melsungen (Melsunger Turngemeinde 1861 eV) is a German handball club from the north Hessian city ​​of Melsungen . The first men's team rose to the second division in 1992 and the first division in 2005 . In 1996, 2013, 2014 and 2020 the team reached the Final Four of the DHB Cup .

The team of MT Melsungen in July 2015 with children running in

Until Christmas 2007, the team's home games were played in the Meirotels hall in Rotenburg an der Fulda, which can hold around 2,400 spectators . Since then, the home games have been played in the 4300-seat Rothenbach-Halle in Kassel . The first game in the new hall took place on December 26, 2007 with the sold out match against THW Kiel .

The main club

The Melsunger Turngemeinde was founded in 1861 by 38 Melsunger citizens. In addition to the handball department founded in 1921, the club also has the departments of basketball, bridge, sport for all, judo, athletics, cycling, rehab, rope skipping, ski inline biathlon, swimming, sports badges, taekwon-do, triathlon, gymnastics and volleyball. The entire club has around 1,800 members, the handball department around 300 members.

successes

In 1992, MT Melsungen was promoted to the 2nd Bundesliga. In 2005 the promotion to the 1st Bundesliga was completed, which ended in 12th place at the end of the season. In 1996, 2013 and 2014, the team in the DHB Cup advanced to the Final Four in Hamburg and failed there in the semi-finals. In the 2014/15 season , MT played for the first time internationally in the EHF Europa Cup , where they were eliminated in the quarter-finals due to the away goals rule against the Danish club Skjern Håndbold . In the 2015/16 season , the club reached 4th place in the Bundesliga. In the 2016/17 season, MT made it to the quarter-finals of the EHF Cup again.

The successes since 1992 at a glance:

1992: Promotion to the 2nd Bundesliga

1996: DHB Cup semi-finals (Final Four in Hamburg)

2005: Promotion to the 1st Bundesliga

2006: 12th place, 1st Bundesliga

2007: 12th place, 1st Bundesliga

2008: 10th place, 1st Bundesliga

2009: 11th place, 1st Bundesliga

2010: 12th place, 1st Bundesliga

2011: 13th place, 1st Bundesliga

2012: 10th place, 1st Bundesliga

2013: 10th place, 1st Bundesliga and DHB Cup semi-finals (Final Four in Hamburg)

2014: 6th place, 1st Bundesliga and DHB-Pokal semi-finals (Final Four in Hamburg); qualified for participation in the EHF Cup 2014/15

2015: 6th place, 1st Bundesliga, quarter-finalist EHF-Pokal 2014/15

2016: 4th place, 1st Bundesliga, qualified for participation in the EHF Cup 2016/17

2017: 7th place, 1st Bundesliga, quarter-finalist EHF-Pokal 2016/17

2018: 7th place, 1st Bundesliga

2019: 5th place, 1st Bundesliga, qualified for participation in the EHF Cup 2019/20

Squad for the 2019/20 season

No.	nationality	Surname	position	birthday	size
1		Johan Sjöstrand	TW	02/26/1987	1.95 m
16		Nebojša Simić	TW	01/19/1993	1.94 m
96		Glenn-Louis Eggert	TW	04/05/2000	2.00 m
3		Marino Marić	KM	06/01/1990	1.96 m
5		Julius Kühn	RL	04/01/1993	2.00 m
6th		Finn Lemke	RL	04/30/1992	2.10 m
9		Tobias Reichmann	RA	May 27, 1988	1.88 m
11		Dimitri Ignatov	RA	11/30/1998	1.74 m
13		Yves Kunkel	LA	05/13/1994	1.84 m
15th		Leave Mikkelsen	RM	May 19, 1988	1.97 m
17th		Felix Danner	KM	07/24/1985	1.98 m
19th		Timm Schneider	RM	06/15/1988	1.96 m
22nd		Michael Allendorf	LA	09/16/1986	1.90 m
27		Roman Sidorowicz	RL	08/08/1991	1.88 m
34		Kai Häfner	RR	07/10/1989	1.92 m
41		Fin backs	LA	04/22/1998	1.81 m
55		Stefan Salger	RR	08/15/1996	2.07 m
94		Domagoj Pavlović	RM	03/21/1993	1.90 m
98		Jonah Gruber	RL	05/19/2000	1.92 m
		Guðmundur Guðmundsson	Trainer	December 23, 1960
		Arjan Haenen	Assistant coach	07/12/1987	1.78 m
	nationality	Surname	function
		Florian Sölter	Athletics coach
		Jennifer Perlwitz	Physioth.
		René Kagel	Physioth.
		Matthias Horn	supervisor
		Sandor Balogh	Team Responsible
		Gerd Rauch	Orthopedist
		Bernd Sostmann	General practitioner
		Karl-Friedrich Appel	Cardiologist
		Petra Rauch	dentist

	nationality	Surname	function
		Axel Geerken	Board
		Martin Lüdicke	Board
		Barbara Braun-Lüdicke	Chairman of the Supervisory Board

Additions 2019/20 Stefan Salger ( TSG Friesenheim ) Kai Häfner ( TSV Hannover-Burgdorf ) Glenn-Louis Eggert (own youth) Jona Gruber (own youth)

Departures 2019/20 Michael Müller ( Foxes Berlin ) Philipp Müller ( SC DHfK Leipzig Handball ) Simon Birkefeldt ( IFK Kristianstad ) Tomáš Piroch ( HC Kriens-Luzern , November 2019)

Additions 2020/21 Silvio Heinevetter ( Foxes Berlin ) Timo Kastening ( TSV Hannover-Burgdorf ) Arnar Freyr Arnarsson ( GOG Håndbold )

Departures 2020/21 Johan Sjöstrand ( Bjerringbro-Silkeborg ) Timm Schneider ( VfL Gummersbach ) Roman Sidorowicz ( Pfadi Winterthur )

Well-known former players

• Predrag Dačević
• Luděk Drobek
• Alexander Fölker
• Savas Karipidis
• Mario Kelentric
• Grigorios Sanikis
• Milan Torbica
• Daniel Valo
• Andrei Lavrov
• Ivan Majstorović
• Petr Hazl
• Petr Hrubý
• Gediminas Bucys
• Erik Wudtke
• Markus Huett
• Dalibor Anušić
• Sándor Balogh
• Zoran Đorđić
• Vitali Feshchanka
•  France Franck Junillon
•  Denmark Thomas Klitgaard
• Radek Musil
• Jens Schöngarth
• Goran Sprem
• Vadica Stojanovic
• Daniel Kubeš
• Alexandros Vasilakis
• Nenad Vuckovic
• Mike Hairston
•  Austria Harald Beilschmied
• Marcus Hock
• Anton Månsson
• Mikael Appelgren
• Johannes Sellin
• Andrei Klimovets
• Mario Kelentric
• Momir Rnic
• Patrik Fahlgren
•  Netherlands Jeffrey Boomhouwer
• Michael Mueller
• Per Sandström

Development of audience numbers

season	Average audience
2012/13	2,840
2013/14	3.215
2014/15	3,039
2015/16	3,855
2016/17	3,869
2017/18	4,168
2018/19	3,980
2019/20	4,056

youth

From the C-youth the youth teams appear as mJSG Melsungen / Körle / Guxhagen, a cooperation of the clubs MT Melsungen, TSV Körle and TuSpo Guxhagen. The A-youth team plays in the A-youth handball Bundesliga . The full-time youth coordinator is Axel Renner.

The club's second team plays as MT Melsungen II in the Oberliga Hessen.

mascot

The mascot of the MT Bundesliga handball players, a dragon, is called "Henner". His birthday is November 11, 2009. The name "Henner" - the North Hessian short form of Heinrich - came about through suggestions from the fans. They submitted proposals at the time, and the name was drawn from among them. The motto at the time was: "Fire and Flame for the MT", so a dragon was the perfect mascot. Henner supports the team at every home game and represents the Bundesliga team at promotional events as well as at social events. The person in the dragon costume is only a few people, u. a. the team and the board.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ thw-provinzial.de of December 24, 2007, Christmas fairy tale in Kassel: THW on Wednesday against Melsungen
2. ↑ History - Melsunger Turngemeinde 1861 e. V. In: melsunger-turngemeinde.com. Retrieved July 17, 2015 . 
3. ↑ Departments - Melsunger Turngemeinde 1861 e. V. In: melsunger-turngemeinde.com. Retrieved July 17, 2015 . 
4. ↑ ^{a b} MT Melsungen. In: mt-melsungen.de. Retrieved April 30, 2019 . 
5. ↑ handball-world.com: "We are extremely happy" - Melsungen before the premiere in the European Cup on July 2, 2014, accessed on May 25, 2015
6. ↑ handball-world.com: Away goal rule: Melsungen missed Final Four in the EHF Cup on April 19, 2015, accessed on May 25, 2015
7. ↑ handball-world.news: Who is coming in summer - and who is going? The large exchange exchange of the DKB Handball Bundesliga on February 12, 2019, accessed on February 12, 2019
8. ↑ handball-world.news: MT Melsungen and TSV Hannover-Burgdorf agree on an early Häfner change on May 6, 2019, accessed on May 6, 2019
9. ↑ handball-world.news: Michael Müller joins Füchse Berlin from March 18, 2019, accessed on March 18, 2019
10. ↑ handball-world.news: Leipzig signed Philipp Müller on March 18, 2019, accessed on March 18, 2019
11. ↑ handball-world.news: IFK Kristianstad secures backcourt player from MT Melsungen on April 6, 2019, accessed on April 6, 2019
12. ↑ handball-world.news: Melsungen confirms Piroch departure: "Other MT talents now with a new perspective" from November 1, 2019, accessed on November 1, 2019
13. ↑ handball-world.news: Transfer coup confirmed: Silvio Heinevetter will switch to MT Melsungen on April 8, 2019, accessed on April 8, 2019
14. ↑ handball-world.news: MT Melsungen announces Timo Kastening's commitment , accessed on September 27, 2019
15. ↑ "Fits exactly to our strategic direction": MT Melsungen grabs Icelandic circular talent from November 8, 2019, accessed on November 9, 2019
16. ↑ handball-world.news: Johan Sjöstrand leaves Bundesliga after the season on September 7, 2019, accessed on September 8, 2019
17. ↑ handball-world.news: "Impresses with its versatility": VfL Gummersbach secures Melsungen all-rounder Timm Schneider on February 17, 2020, accessed on February 17, 2020
18. ↑ handball-world.news: Who is coming in summer - and who is going? The big exchange exchange of the Liqui-Moly Handball Bundesliga from April 5, 2020, accessed on April 10, 2020
19. ↑ My handball ticket: DKB Handball Bundesliga - spectators 2017/18 accessed on September 18, 2018

Web links

• Homepage

literature

• Pfeiffer, Peter, Melsungen - a handball fairy tale comes true. Six decades of handball chronicle, 1st edition 2005, Agon Sportverlag & Herkules Verlag Kassel ( ISBN 3-937924-27-2 ).