Handball Club Leipzig
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HC Leipzig is a women's handball club based in Leipzig, Germany. They play in Handball-Bundesliga Frauen and are often competing in the EHF Women's Champions League, the now defunct EHF Women's Cup Winners' Cup, which merged with the Women's EHF Cup and are internationally regarded as one of the best German women's handball clubs.
Kits
| HOME | ||
|---|---|---|
| 2013-14 | 2014–15 | 2016-17 |
| AWAY | |
|---|---|
| 2013-14 | 2016-17 |
Honours
Domestic competitions
- Handball-Bundesliga Frauen: Champions (6): 1998, 1999, 2002, 2006, 2009, 2010
- German Cup: Winners (7): 1996, 2000, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2014, 2016
- German Supercup: Winners (1): 2008
- DDR-Oberliga: Champions (15): 1953, 1957, 1965, 1968, 1969, 1970, 1971, 1972, 1973, 1975, 1976, 1978, 1984, 1988, 1991
- FDGB-Pokal: Winners (3): 1971, 1983, 1987
European competitions
- EHF Women's Champions League: Winners (2): 1966, 1974 Runners-Up (4): 1967, 1970, 1972, 1977
- EHF Women's Cup Winners' Cup: Runners-Up (2): 1978, 1997
- Women's EHF Cup: Winners (2): 1986, 1992 Runners-Up (1): 2009
European record
| Season | Competition | Round | Club | 1st leg | 2nd leg | Aggregate |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2016–17 | EHF Champions League | Q1 | Belarus HC Gomel | 29–18 | 1st place | |
| Austria Hypo Niederösterreich | 32–30 | |||||
| Group B | North Macedonia Vardar | 22–45 | 24–41 | 4th place | ||
| Hungary FTC-Rail Cargo Hungaria | 17–30 | 22–26 | ||||
| Russia HC Astrakhanochka | 30–27 | 24–27 | ||||
| EHF Cup | Group B | Russia HC Kuban Krasnodar | 27–33 | 24–32 | 4th place | |
| France Brest Bretagne Handball | 15–34 | 20–23 | ||||
| Hungary Alba Fehérvár KC | 21–34 | 27–29 |
Team
Current squad
Squad for the 2021–22 season
Goalkeeper
- 16 Anna Kröber
- 26 Annabell Krüeger
Fields
- 2 Pauline Uhlmann
- 3 Lara Seidel
- 7 Julia Weise
- 10 Emely Theilig
- 14 Hanna Ferber-Rahnhöfer
- 20 Sharleen Greschner
- 22 Emily Glimm
- 23 Tyra Bessert
- 24 Lotta Röpcke
- 25 Lilli Röpcke
- 33 Christin Conrad
- 36 Stefanie Hummel
- 35 Jacqueline Hummel
- 41 Wiebke Meyer
- 99 Nina Reißberg
Technical Staff
- Club Manager: Torsten Brunnquell
- Head Coach: Fabian Kunze
- Assistant Coach: Philip Brommann
- Goalkeeping Coach: Wieland Schmidt
- Physiotherapist: Sophie Höpfner
Squad for the 2017–18 season
| Goalkeeper 12 Germany Helen Keller 16 Germany Anna Kröber 28 Germany Anja Kreitzick Fields 02 Germany Pauline Uhrmann 03 Germany Anna Ansorge 05 Germany Isabell Hurst 06 Germany Celina Matthey 07 Germany Julia Weise 08 Germany Beatrix Kerestely | 09 Germany Antonia Herzig 10 Germany Emely Thellig 13 Germany Anna Lena Plate 15 Germany Johanna Schierbok 17 Germany Lea Guderian 20 Germany Sharleen Greschner 22 Germany Lucie-Marie Kretzschmar 23 Germany Francisca Buth 25 Germany Lilli Röpcke 27 Germany Leonie Rauschenbach |
Technical staff
- Club Manager: Kay-Sven Hähner
- Head Coach: Norman Rentsch
- Assistant Coach: Max Berthold
- Goalkeeping Coach: Wieland Schmidt
- Fitness and Athletics Coach: Isabelle Kellmann
- Physiotherapist: Christian Markus
- Physiotherapist: Danilo Menge
- Team Doctor: Dr. Gotthard Knoll
Notable former players
- Germany Natalie Augsburg
- Germany Nora Reiche
- Germany Ulrike Stange
- Germany Katja Schülke
- Germany Luisa Schulze
- Germany Susann Müller
- Germany Anne Müller
- Germany Katja Langkeit
- Germany Nina Müller
- Germany Grit Jurack
- Germany Anne Hubinger
- Germany Saskia Lang
- Germany Franziska Mietzner
- Germany Shenia Minevskaja
- Sweden Sara Eriksson
- Sweden Sara Holmgren
- Poland Karolina Kudlacz
- Poland Karolina Szwed
- Netherlands Debbie Bont
- Netherlands Maura Visser
- Netherlands Jessy Kramer
- Denmark Rikke Nielsen
- Denmark Louise Lyksborg
- Brazil Chana Masson
- Brazil Idalina Borges Mesquita
- Norway Else Marthe Sörlie Lybekk
- Norway Renate Urne
- Romania Ionica Munteanu