HSV Handball
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| Founded | 1999 |
| Full Name | HSV Handball |
| Arena | Color Line Arena (13.800 seats) Sporthalle Hamburg (3.926 seats) |
| Headcoach | Martin Schwalb |
| Assistant Headcoch | Goran Stojanovic |
| Club Colours | Blue, White & Black |
HSV Handball is a team handball club from Germany, locates in Hamburg. Currently, HSV Handball competes in the German First League of Handball. The full name is Handball Sport Verein Hamburg e.V. but the club is usually called HSV Handball or HSV Hamburg.
HSV Handball is the former handball category of VfL Bad Schwartau and the HSV Lübeck, connected in 1999. In 2002 they were relocated to Hamburg in order to grow and renamed. After the relocation they had financial troubles and almost lost licence for the German First League of Handball. That changed with the arrival of Andres Rudolph as owner and his financial aid.
The Handball Sport Verein Hamburg e.V. is not a category of Hamburger Sportverein, they only have the rights to use their logo and their abbreviation, in order to get more publicity. From 2008 they will connect their junior- and minor teams as SG HSV Handball.
[edit] Accomplishments
- National Cup of Germany: 1
[edit] 2007/08 roster
| NR. | NAME | NATIONALITY | POSITION |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Johannes Bitter |  |
goalkeeper |
| 12 | Per Sandström |  |
goalkeeper |
| 16 | Jürgen Müller | |
goalkeeper |
| 3 | Stefan Schröder | |
right wing |
| 5 | Torsten Jansen | |
left wing |
| 6 | Iwan Ursic |  |
pivot |
| 7 | Matthias Flohr | |
left wing, pivot |
| 8 | Bruno Souza |  |
left back |
| 9 | Jan Schult1 | |
left back |
| 10 | Oleg Velyky2 | / |
left back, central back |
| 11 | Dimitri Torgovanov |  |
pivot |
| 13 | Heiko Grimm3 | |
central back, left wing |
| 14 | Bertrand Gille |  |
pivot |
| 15 | Guillaume Gille | |
central back, team captain |
| 18 | Hans Lindberg |  |
right wing |
| 19 | Krzysztof Lijewski |  |
right back, central back |
| 23 | Pascal Hens | |
left back, team captain |
| 68 | Andreas Rastner | |
pivot |
| 77 | Kyung-Shin Yoon |  |
right back |
1also eligible to play for VfL Bad Schwartau(Division III)
2Oleg Velyky was dealt to HSV Handball in January 2008
3Heiko Grimm was dealt to HSV Handball in January 2008
Michal Jurecki was dealt to TuS Nettelstedt-Lübbecke in January 2008
Additions for the 2008/09 Season
Marcin Lijewski(POL/right back/SG Flensburg-Handewitt, Division I, Germany)
Blazenko Lackovic(CRO/left back/SG Flensburg-Handewitt, Division I, Germany)
Nicklas Grundsten(SWE/pivot/Hammerby IF, Division I, Sweden)
Arne Niemayer(GER/left back/TSV GWD Minden, Division I, Germany)
Leaving after the 2007/08 Season
Iwan Ursic(Kadetten Schaffhausen)
Bruno Souza(Kadetten Schaffhausen)
Kyung-Shin Yoon(South Korea)
Andreas Rastner(retire)
