Metz Handball

Metz Handball
Metz Handball
Full name	Metz Handball
Short name	Metz
Founded	1967
Arena	Metz Arena
Capacity	5,000
President	Thierry Weizman
Head coach	Emmanuel Mayonnade
League	French Women's First League
2018-2019	1st
Club colours
Home	Away
	Website ; Official site

Metz HB (Metz Handball) is a French handball club from Metz, capital of Lorraine. The club has teams for both women and men, but especially the professional women's team is the most successful in French handball since the beginning of the 1990s. This team currently competes in the French Women's Handball First League.

The women's team have won a total of 23 French Championships (all-time record), nine French Cup Championships (all-time record), eight French League Cup Championships (all-time record), and was European Women's EHF Cup runner-up in 2013.

History

The club was established in 1967 under the name of ASPTT Metz, but it was not until 1986 the women's team was promoted to the best league in France. Manager of the team at that time was French Olivier Krumbholz, who later became national manager for France. The club was renamed twice as Handball Metz Métropole in 2002 and later as Metz Handball in 2009 (current name).

Since the promotion, Metz HB has had overwhelming success with 23 National Championships from 1989–2019, which is the all-time record in the French Women's First League Championship.

Name

1967–2002: ASPTT Metz
2002–2005: Handball Metz Métropole
2005–2009: Handball Metz Moselle Lorraine
2009–: Metz Handball

Results

French Women's First League Championship:
- Winners (23): 1989, 1990, 1993, 1994, 1995, 1996, 1997, 1999, 2000, 2002, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2011, 2013, 2014, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019
- Runner-up (6): 1991, 1992, 1998, 2001, 2003, 2012, 2015
French Women's Cup Championship:
- Winners (9): 1990, 1994, 1998, 1999, 2010, 2013, 2014, 2017, 2019
- Runner-up (7): 1987, 1992, 1993, 2001, 2005, 2009, 2018
French Women's League Cup Championship:
- Winners (7): 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2014
- Runner-up (1): 2004
European Women's EHF Cup:
- Silver: 2013
European Women's EHF Cup Winners' Cup:
- Bronze: 1999, 2004, 2010, 2011
European EHF Women's Champions League:
- Quarterfinalists: 2012, 2017, 2018
- Fourth place: 2019

European record

Record^[1]
Season	Competition	Round	Club	1st leg	2nd leg

2020–21	Champions League	Group stage (Group A)	Rostov-Don	26–30	27–26
			Vipers Kristiansand	28–29
			Team Esbjerg	31–29	28–25
			Ferencvárosi TC
			CSM București	26–31
			SG BBM Bietigheim	36–27
			RK Krim	33–27	26–22

Team

Current squad

Squad for the season 2020-21^[2]

Goalkeepers

Wingers
LW

11 Manon Houette
21 Laura Kanor
29 Maud-Éva Copy

RW

PV

Back players
LB

08 Ćamila Mičijević
17 Orlane Kanor

CB

RB

05 Emma Jacques
19 Louise Burgaard
25 Marie-Hélène Sajka

Transfers

Transfers for the 2021–22 season

Joining

Bruna de Paula (RB) (from Nantes Atlantique Handball)
Chloé Valentini (LW) (from ES Besançon)

Leaving

Technical staff

Staff for the 2018-19 season.

Head coach: Emmanuel Mayonnade
Assistant coach: Yekaterina Andryushina
Team Leader: Dragan Majstorovic
Goalkeeping coach: Alexandra Hector
Physicak coach: Bertrand Barbier
Physiotherapist: : Jacques Levy

Individual awards in the EHF Champions League

Season	Player	Award
2018–19^[3]	Manon Houette	All–Star Team (Best Left Wing)
2018–19^[3]	Emmanuel Mayonnade	All–Star Team (Best Coach)
2019–20^[4]	Emmanuel Mayonnade	All–Star Team (Best Coach)