Rhein-Neckar Löwen

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Rhein-Neckar Löwen

Full name

Rhein-Neckar Löwen

Founded

2002

Arena

SAP Arena, Mannheim

Capacity

14,500^[1]

League

Toyota Handball-Bundesliga

2011–12

5th

Colours

Club colours

Home

Away

Rhein-Neckar Löwen is a handball club from Mannheim, Germany. The club was founded in 2002 as a merger of TSG Kronau and TSG Baden Östringen, competing initially under the name SG Kronau/Östringen. Currently, Rhein-Neckar Löwen competes in the First Division of the German Handball Bundesliga.

Accomplishments

Semi-finalist EHF Champions League 2009
Finalist EHF Cup Winners' Cup 2008
German A Youth Champions 2008
Finalist German Cup 2006, 2007, 2010
Semi-finalist German Cup 2008, 2009
Last 16 of EHF Cup 2007
Promotion to the Bundesliga First Division 2003, 2005

The most popular players of the Rhein-Neckar Löwen are Uwe Gensheimer, Oliver Roggisch, Karol Bielecki, Guðjón Valur Sigurðsson, Ólafur Stefánsson, Børge Lund, Michael Müller, Sergei Schelmenko and Ivan Čupić.

Accomplishments prior to the merger

1982, 1989: Promoted to the Regionalliga South (Östringen)
1993, 1999: Promoted to the Regionalliga South (Kronau)
1995: Promoted to the Bundesliga Second Division (Östringen)
1996: German B Youth Champions (Kronau)
2000: Promoted to the Bundesliga Second Division (Kronau)
2002: Runners-up in the Bundesliga Second Division (Östringen)
2013: Win EHF Cup

Team

Current squad

Squad for the 2012–13 season^[2]

Goalkeepers

Wingers

03 Uwe Gensheimer
08 Denni Djozic
19 Marius Steinhauser
24 Patrick Groetzki

Line players

Back players

02 Andy Schmid
05 Žarko Šešum
06 Isaías Guardiola
10 Matthias Gerlich
23 Nils Kretschmer
32 Alexander Petersson
38 Kevin Bitz
60 Kim Ekdahl Du Rietz

Technical staff

Head Coach: Guðmundur Guðmundsson
Team Doctor: Andreas Klonz, MD

References

↑ "Technische Daten" [Technical Data] (in German). SAP Arena official website. Retrieved 17 January 2012.
↑ "Team" (in German). Rhein-Neckar Löwen official website. Retrieved 3 October 2012.

External links

2013–14 EHF Champions League

Playing in the
group stage

Group A	RK Celje Rhein-Neckar Löwen Saint Petersburg HC MKB Veszprém KC RK Zagreb HC Motor Zaporozhye

Group B	Dunkerque Handball THW Kiel Vive Targi Kielce KIF Kolding F.C. Porto Wisła Płock

Group C	FC Barcelona HC Metalurg HC Dinamo-Minsk Paris Saint-Germain Wacker Thun RK Vardar

Group D	Aalborg Håndbold HK Drott SG Flensburg-Handewitt RK Gorenje HSV Hamburg CB Ciudad de Logroño

Eliminated in the
qualifying stage

v t e DKB Handball-Bundesliga

2013–14 Teams	HBW Balingen-Weilstetten Bergischer HC Füchse Berlin SG Flensburg-Handewitt Frisch Auf Göppingen TV Emsdetten VfL Gummersbach HSV Hamburg TSV Hannover-Burgdorf GWD Minden ThSV Eisenach THW Kiel TBV Lemgo SC Magdeburg MT Melsungen TuS Nettelstedt-Lübbecke Rhein-Neckar Löwen HSG Wetzlar

Seasons	2000–01 2001–02 2002–03 2003–04 2004–05 2005–06 2006–07 2007–08 2008–09 2009–10 2010–11 2011–12 2012–13 2013–14

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