VfL Hameln

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VfL Hameln
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Founded: 1849
Club colors: Blue White
Members: 2800 (handball department approx. 240)
Address: VfL Hameln from 1849 eV
Fahlte 4–6
31787 Hameln
League: Handball Oberliga Lower Saxony
Venues: Hall North, Hameln Pied Piper Hall, Hameln Sports Hall Afferde, Afferde
Placement of the last season: 9th place Oberliga Niedersachsen
Greatest successes of the handball team:

The VfL Hameln is a German sports club from the Lower Saxony town of Hameln . The club is best known for its handball department , which played a total of ten seasons in the first handball league between 1986 and 2002.

Departments

The handball department

Bundesliga team

The first men's team rose as champions of the second Bundesliga North in 1986 for the first time in the first handball Bundesliga . There, however, the team could not hold and rose after only one season as table fourth again from the second division. In 1990, the record national player Frank-Michael Wahl switched to the team from the Pied Piper City, which was to change its club name several times over the next few years. Thus, from the VfL Hameln by the entry of a sponsor , the SG VfL / BHW Hameln .

The "BHW" was officially the abbreviation for the VfBHW, the "Club for Ball Sports Hameln / Weser", which is still active in volleyball today and still takes part in handball games with a women's team after the SG Hameln was dissolved. At the same time, the BHW was also a reference to the main sponsor at the time, BHW , but not officially, as name sponsoring is not allowed in German handball. VfL Gummersbach sued against the designation VfL / BHW Hameln, but was unsuccessful.

Before the completion of the Pied Piper Hall in Hameln in 1988, which holds 2,400 spectators, VfL played a number of point games in the stadium sports hall (today: Swiss Life Hall ) in Hanover.

With election, the promotion to the highest German league succeeded after just one year. In the first year, the 1991/92 season ended with fourth place. A fifth place followed in the 1992/93 season , until the club's greatest success to date was celebrated in the 1993/94 season with the runner-up behind the THW Kiel .

In the 1992/93 and 1993/94 seasons, the semi-finals were reached in the DHB Cup . In the two final four tournaments, however, VfL lost in both years to the later winner SG Wallau-Massenheim (in the 1993 semi-finals in Frankfurt with 17:24 and in the 1994 semi-finals in Hamburg with 21:26). This was previously only achieved in the 1983/84 season with reaching the semi-finals against the eventual winner TV Großwallstadt (16:21 defeat).

In the following season, the club reached the semi-finals of the European Cup EHF Cup and narrowly failed there at the eventual winner and Spanish top club BM Granollers . The first leg was won in the local Pied Piper Hall with 26:24, the second leg was lost 21:28. In the 1995/96 season, the club even reached the European Cup final for the Euro City Cup . Before you switched u. a. in the semifinals from the top Hungarian club Pick Szeged . There they lost with 21:22 and 21:27 against Drammen HK from Norway.

But the club was unable to maintain this level for long. A fifth , a tenth and a thirteenth place followed in the following seasons . In the 1997/98 season , the club had to relegate back to the second division in fifteenth. Bad luck for the club was that the team had four points - which would have meant relegation - from two games (SG Hameln - TUSEM Essen 32:30, SG Hameln - VfL Gummersbach 23:19), because of the use of a player who was not eligible to play ( Finur Johanesson), were counted as lost.

Hameln failed to rise again in 1998/99 in the first round of relegation against TV 08 Willstätt (24:27 (H), 21:24 (A)) and in the second round of relegation, only because of fewer goals scored away from home, against TuS Schutterwald ( 16:21 (A), 23:18 (H)). But the ascent should succeed in the following year. The 2000/01 season closed the climber in fifteenth. But 2001/02 came as bottom of the table relegation. There were significant financial problems with this descent. In April 2002 a shareholders' meeting decided to return the Bundesliga license. The club was heavily in debt with 1.3 million euros. In November 2001 an application for bankruptcy was filed. Since many creditors waived a large part of their claims, this could be averted.

Regional and major leagues

From the 2002/03 season the SG Hameln played (again as VfL Hameln from the 2006/07 season) in the Regionalliga Nord. At the end of the season, the team reached positions in the table in the range of five to eight. Furthermore, the games were no longer played in the Pied Piper Hall , but in the North Hall (also known as Hell North). In the 2007/2008 season the team reached a 10th place. In the following season, a 13th rank was achieved, which meant relegation to the league with the relegation of OHV Aurich and TSV Bremervörde . However, since the entire team could be held, VfL went as one of the promotion favorites in the 2009/2010 season of the Lower Saxony handball league. However, due to poor results, especially in his own hall, he was unable to live up to this expectation. The result was thus winning the runner-up, which, however, did not entitle to promotion to the new four-track third division . Master and VfL's strongest competitor throughout the season was Lehrter SV, who was able to prove himself a class higher in the following season. The coach remained the former national handball player Hajo Wulff, who was active as a player at VfL Hameln, GWD Minden and Frisch Auf Göppingen . Due to the personal bloodletting, a placement in the upper third of the league was sought and almost reached with 6th place.

After Hajo Wulff's resignation, Sönke Koß took over as coach in the 2011/2012 season. Under his direction, VfL reached 3rd, 4th and 2nd place in the Lower Saxony Oberliga in the next three seasons. In the following years, the team was able to confirm the league membership despite personnel changes and achieve further single-digit positions in the table.

youth

The club celebrated the greatest success of the youth department in 1983, when the female A-youth of VfL with successes a. a. won the German championship through VfL Oldenburg and Reinickendorfer Füchse Berlin with a final victory over Vorwärts Wettringen.

The club's male A-Youth rose to the A-Youth Bundesliga (East Season) after the 2012/2013 season . Relegation was missed, however.

successes

  • German champion female A-youth 1983
  • Semi-final participation in the DHB Cup in 1993 and 1994
  • German runner-up in 1994
  • Semifinals EHF Cup 1995
  • Final Euro City Cup 1996
  • Champion of the 2nd national handball league in 1986, 1991, 2000

Well-known former players

Well-known former coaches

statistics

First handball Bundesliga

season rank Points Gates Audience rate Top scorer (Goals / 7M) Trainer
1986/87 14th 9:43 475: 550 1092 Martin Baumann (90/14) Fritz Spannuth
1991/92 4th 35:17 578: 499 2323 Matthias Hahn (116/12) Peter Kovacs
1992/93 5. 37:31 737: 716 2494 Stephan Hauck (141/35) Nicola Beslac
1993/94 2. 46:22 797: 722 2382 Pepi Manaskov (137/16) Sead Hasanefendić
1994/95 5. 35:25 696: 682 2133 Pepi Manaskov (144/21) Sead Hasanefendić
1995/96 10. 30:30 743: 755 2093 Pepi Manaskov (147/18) Urs Mühlethaler
1996/97 13. 20:40 723: 756 2047 Pepi Manaskov (119/3) Urs Mühlethaler (matchday 1 to 9), Paul Tiedemann (10 to 30)
1997/98 15th 14:41 672: 743 2043 Dragan Škrbić (157/29) Alfreð Gíslason
2000/01 15th 30:46 916: 982 1674 Damir Radončić (174/15) Michael Biegler (matchday 1 to 11), Jürgen Kloth (12 to 21), Nicola Beslac (22 to 38)
2001/02 18th 9:59 803: 981 1221 Jovan Kovačević (171/27) Nikola Beslač (matchday 1 to 10), Volker Mudrow (11 to 34)

In the current "Eternal Table" of the 1st handball Bundesliga, VfL Hameln is in 26th place after ten years of membership in the Bundesliga with 310 games and 265 points (as of the 2015/2016 season).

Second handball Bundesliga

season rank Points Gates Trainer
1990/91 1. 47: 5 617: 456
1998/99 2. 64: 4 894: 686 Alfreð Gíslason (matchday 1. to 34.), Frank-Michael Wahl (relegation games)
1999/2000 1. 52:12 790: 561 Frank-Michael Wahl (matchdays 1st to 19th), Michael Biegler (20th to 34th)

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ DHB-Pokal results for the 1992/93 season
  2. ↑ DHB-Pokal results season 1993/94
  3. ↑ European cup dates of SG VfL / BHW Hameln season 94/95 on the website of the European Handball Federation (EHF)
  4. ↑ European cup dates of SG VfL / BHW Hameln season 95/96 on the website of the European Handball Federation (EHF)
  5. ^ Squad of SG VfL / BHW Hameln in the 1997/98 season ( Memento from November 4, 2005 in the Internet Archive )
  6. ↑ Relegation games of the handball Bundesliga from bundesligainfo.de
  7. ↑ handballdaten.de: Oberliga Niedersachsen archive , accessed on August 17, 2014
  8. ↑ hvn-online.com: History from 1980-89
  9. ^ THW-provinzial.de, opponent data SG Hameln
  10. ↑ Statistics 2. Bundesliga, final table 1986/1987 season
  11. ↑ Statistics 2. Bundesliga, final table for the 1990/1991 season
  12. ↑ Statistics 2. Bundesliga, final table 1999/2000 season

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