VfL Gummersbach

VfL Gummersbach
Founded	1861 (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

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.

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