VfL Gummersbach

VfL Gummersbach is a handball club from the German city of Gummersbach. Currently, VfL Gummersbach competes in the 2. Handball-Bundesliga and the DHB-Pokal.

VfL Gummersbach
Founded	1861
Arena	Schwalbe-Arena
Capacity	4,132
Head coach	Guðjón Valur Sigurðsson
League	2. Handball-Bundesliga
2018–19	Handball-Bundesliga, 17th (relegated)
Club colours
Home Away

Gummersbach is one of the most successful team-handball clubs ever.

Accomplishments

BM Valladolid vs VfL Gummersbach.

• Handball-Bundesliga: 12
  •  Gold: 1966, 1967, 1969, 1973, 1974, 1975, 1976, 1982, 1983, 1985, 1988, 1991
• DHB-Pokal:
  •  Gold: 1978, 1979, 1982, 1983, 1985
• EHF Champions League:
  •  Gold: 1967, 1970, 1971, 1974, 1983
• EHF Champions League Finalists:
  •  Silver: 1972
• EHF Cup Winner's Cup:
  •  Gold: 1978, 1979, 2010, 2011
• EHF Cup:
  •  Gold: 1982, 2009
• European Club Championship:
  •  Gold: 1979, 1983
• European Club Championship Finalists:
  •  Silver: 2006

Team

Current squad

Squad for the 2019–20 season

GK 16 Filip Ivić 21 Matthias Puhle 25 Lasse Hasenforther LW 17 Marvin Sommer 23 Malte Meinhardt RW 02 Tobias Schröter 08 Lukas Blohme LP 09 Tin Kontrec 40 Jonas Stüber 45 Alexander Becker

LB 18 Alexander Hermann 30 Tom Kiesler 32 Robin Haller CB 04 Yonatan Dayan 22 Fynn Herzig 24 Luis Villgrattner RB 07 Florian Baumgärtner 77 Janko Božović

Transfers

Transfers for the 2019–20 season

Joining Filip Ivić (GK) (from PGE Vive Kielce) Robin Haller (LB) (from SG BBM Bietigheim) Alexander Hermann (LB) (from HSG Wetzlar) Janko Božović (RB) (from TV Emsdetten) Lukas Blohme (RW) (from ASV Hamm-Westfalen) Tin Kontrec (P) (from RK Zagreb)

Leaving Carsten Lichtlein (GK) (to HC Erlangen) Joonas Klama (GK) (to Bergischer HC) Stanislav Zhukov (LB) (to HC Motor Zaporozhye) Eirik Køpp (LB) (to Kristiansands IF) Drago Vuković (CB) (retires) Pouya Norouzinejad (CB) (to IK Sävehof) Ivan Martinović (RB) (to TSV Hannover-Burgdorf) Moritz Preuss (P) (to SC Magdeburg)

Notable players

• Heiner Brand
• Stefan Kretzschmar
• Erhard Wunderlich
• Andreas Dörhöfer
• Mark Dragunski
• Frank von Behren
• Patrick Wiencek
• Christian Ramota
• Adrian Pfahl
• Klaus-Dieter Petersen
• Jochen Brand
• Klaus Brand
• Frank Dammann
• Joachim Deckarm
• Jochen Feldhoff
• Frank Dammann
• Claus Fey
• Rudi Rauer
• Henning Wiechers
• Klaus Westebbe
• Andreas Thiel
• Dirk Rauin
• Gerd Rosendahl
• Franz-Josef Salewski
• Klaus Schlagheck
• Hansi Schmidt
• Rüdiger Neitzel
• Christian Fitzek
• Stefan Hecker
• Holger Löhr
• Thomas Krokowski
• Helmut Kosmehl
• Rüdiger Neitzel
• Gunnar Jaeger
• Rolf Jaeger
• Klaus Kater
• Daniel Narcisse
• Igor Anić
• Kentin Mahé
• François-Xavier Houlet
• Vladan Krasavac
• Aleksandar Stanojević
• Momir Ilić
• Vjenceslav Somić
• Drago Vuković
• Kristján Arason
• Guðjón Valur Sigurðsson
• Kyung-Shin Yoon
• Goran Stojanović
• Borko Ristovski
• Aljoša Rezar
• Rune Erland
• Nándor Fazekas
• Viktor Szilágyi

Coaching history

• Petre Ivănescu
• Velimir Kljaić
• Sead Hasanefendić

External links

• Official website