SC Magdeburg

SC Magdeburg
File:Magdeburg handball club.png
Full name	Sportclub Magdeburg e.V.
Short name	SCM
Founded	1 March 1955 (1955-03-01)
Arena	GETEC Arena
Capacity	8,071
President	Dirk Roswandowicz
Head coach	Bennet Wiegert
League	Handball-Bundesliga
2019–20	3rd
Club colours
Home Away
Website Official site

SC Magdeburg is a German multi-sports club located in the city of Magdeburg, which offers athletics, canoeing, gymnastics, rowing, swimming and handball. Historically, the club has also had a water polo section as well as a football section that was separated as 1. FC Magdeburg in 1965. The club is most famous for its handball team which has won the Champions League and preceding competitions three times, as well as the Cup Winners' Cup twice and EHF Cup twice. The club also won the East German handball championship ten times from 1970 to 1991. The handball side is the only team to have won the all titles in East Germany and the unified country after 1990.

Accomplishments

Domestic

• Handball-Bundesliga:
  •  Gold: 2001
• DHB-Pokal:
  •  Gold: 1996, 2016
  •  Silver: 2002, 2019
• DHB-Supercup:
  •  Gold: 1996, 2001
• Oberliga: 10
  •  Gold: 1970, 1977, 1980, 1981, 1982, 1983, 1984, 1985, 1988, 1991
  •  Silver: 1971, 1974, 1975, 1976, 1978, 1979, 1986, 1989
• FDGB-Pokal:
  •  Gold: 1977, 1978, 1984, 1990

International

• EHF Champions League:
  •  Gold: 1978, 1981, 2002
• EHF Cup Winners' Cup:
  •  Silver: 1977, 1979
• EHF Confederation Cup:
  •  Gold: 1999, 2001, 2007
  •  Silver: 2005
• EHF Super Cup:
  •  Gold: 1981, 2001, 2002
  •  Silver: 1999, 2005
• IHF Super Globe:
  •  Silver: 2002

European record

Season	Competition	Round	Club	1st leg	2nd leg	Aggregate
2019–20	EHF Cup	R3	NMC Górnik Zabrze	37–25	37–26	74–51

Team

Current squad

Squad for the 2020–21 season

Goalkeepers

• 12 Tobias Thulin
• 16 Jannick Green

Left wingers

• 06 Matthias Musche
• 22 Lukas Mertens

Right wingers

• 11 Daniel Pettersson
• 17 Tim Hornke

Line players

• 02 Željko Musa
• 21 Magnus Gullerud
• 95 Moritz Preuss

Left backs

• 03 Piotr Chrapkowski
• 34 Michael Damgaard

Central backs

• 10 Gísli Þorgeir Kristjánsson
• 24 Christian O'Sullivan
• 25 Marko Bezjak

Right backs

• 08 Christoph Steinert
• 14 Ómar Ingi Magnússon

Transfers

Transfers for the 2021–22 season

Joining

• Mike Jensen (GK) (from HBW Balingen-Weilstetten)
• Philipp Weber (LB) (from SC DHfK Leipzig)
• Kay Smits (RB) (from TTH Holstebro)
• Magnus Saugstrup (P) (from Aalborg Håndbold)

Leaving

• Tobias Thulin (GK) (to TV Bittenfeld)
• Christoph Steinert (RB) (to HC Erlangen)
• Željko Musa (P) (to RK Zagreb)

Notable former players

• Henning Fritz
• Stefan Kretzschmar
• Silvio Heinevetter
• Dario Quenstedt
• Joël Abati
• Christian Gaudin
• Karol Bielecki
• Bartosz Jurecki
• Grzegorz Tkaczyk

• Sigfús Sigurðsson
• Ólafur Stefánsson
• Robert Weber
• Oleg Kuleshov
• Nenad Peruničić
• Renato Vugrinec

External links

• Official website