Montpellier Agglomération Handball

Full name

Founded

1982

Arena

Arena Montpellier

Capacity

9,000

Head coach

Patrice Canayer

League

LNH Division 1

2013–14

LNH Division 1, 3rd

Colours

Club colours

Home

Away

Website
Official site

Montpellier Agglomération Handball, formerly Montpellier HB, is a handball club from Montpellier, France. In 2003, Montpellier won the biggest prize in European club handball, the EHF Champions League, rallying from an eight-goal deficit after the first leg. They are the only French team ever to win the title. In 2009 Montpellier got the best player in the world Nikola Karabatić.

Old club logo.

Accomplishments

LNH Division 1 : (14)
- Champions : 1994–95, 1997–98, 1998–99, 1999–00, 2001–02, 2002–03, 2003–04, 2004–05, 2005–06, 2007–08, 2008–09, 2009–10, 2010–11, 2011–12.
EHF Champions League : (1)
- Champions : 2002–03
Coupe de France : (11)
- Champions : 1998–99, 1999–00, 2000–01, 2001–02, 2002–03, 2004–05, 2005–06, 2007–08, 2008–09, 2009–10, 2011–12,2012-2013
Coupe de la Ligue : (8)
- Champions : 2003−04, 2004−05, 2005−06, 2006−07, 2007−08, 2009−10, 2010−11, 2011–12, 2013-2014.
Trophée des Champions (2)
- Champions : 2009–10, 2010–11.
Championnat de France N1B (1)
- First : 1991–92.
Championnat de France Nationale 2 (1)
- First : 1988–89.
Championnat de France Nationale 3 (1)
- First : 1987–88.

Current squad

Squad for the 2014–15 season^[1]

Goalkeepers

01 Venio Losert
12 Kevin Mesnard
91 Arnaud Siffert

Wingers

14 Michaël Guigou
18 Felipe Borges
19 Antoine Gutfreund
30 Dragan Gajić

Line players

06 Issam Tej
20 Vincent Thouvenot
22 Matej Gaber
27 Ludovic Fabregas

Back players

04 Diego Simonet
10 Mathieu Grebille
11 Jure Dolenec
17 Balázs Laluska
21 Alexandre Saidani
23 Vid Kavtičnik
24 Baptiste Bonnefond
25 Jean Loup Faustin
51 Borut Mačkovšek

Notable Players

Michaël Guigou
Samuel Honrubia
Patrick Cazal
Frédéric Dole
Semir Žužo
Andrej Golić
Igor Anić
Branko Karabatić
Mladen Bojinović ("Baka,Dugi")
Petar Metličić
David Juříček
Rastko Stefanović
Thomas Werner
Geir Sveinsson
Uroš Vilovski
Erlend Mamelund
Cristian Malmagro
Jan Sobol
Adrien Di Panda
Mickaël Robin

References

↑ "Team". EHF. Retrieved 22 March 2015.

External links

Official website

Ligue Nationale de Handball Division 1 · 2012–13

Division 1	Aix Billère Cesson-Rennes Chambéry Créteil Dunkerque Ivry Montpellier Nantes PSG Handball Saint-Raphaël Sélestat Toulouse Tremblay en France

Seasons	1969–70 1970–71 1971–72 1972–73 1973–74 1974–75 1975–76 1976–77 1977–78 1978–79 1979–80 1980–81 1981–82 1982–83 1983–84 1984–85 1985–86 1986–87 1987–88 1988–89 1989–90 1990–91 1991–92 1992–93 1993–94 1994–95 1995–96 1996–97 1997–98 1998–99 1999–00 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 2014–15

Handball in France

FFHB

League competitions

men:	LNH Division 1 Division 2

women:	Division 1 Division 2

Cup competitions

men:	Coupe de France Coupe de la Ligue Trophée des champions

women:	Coupe de France Coupe de la Ligue

National teams

National team (women team)
Beach
- men
- women

European Cup and EHF Champions League winners

European Cup	1956–57: Dukla Prague 1958–59: Redbergslids IK 1959–60: Frisch Auf Göppingen 1961–62: Frisch Auf Göppingen 1962–63: Dukla Prague 1964–65: Dinamo București 1965–66: DHfK Leipzig 1966–67: VfL Gummersbach 1967–68: Steaua București 1969–70: VfL Gummersbach 1970–71: VfL Gummersbach 1971–72: Partizan Bjelovar 1972–73: MAI Moscow 1973–74: VfL Gummersbach 1974–75: ASK Frankfurt/Oder 1975–76: Borac Banja Luka 1976–77: Steaua București 1977–78: Magdeburg 1978–79: TV Großwallstadt 1979–80: TV Großwallstadt 1980–81: Magdeburg 1981–82: Budapest Honvéd 1982–83: VfL Gummersbach 1983–84: Dukla Prague 1984–85: Metaloplastika 1985–86: Metaloplastika 1986–87: SKA Minsk 1987–88: CSKA Moscow 1988–89: SKA Minsk 1989–90: SKA Minsk 1990–91: Barcelona 1991–92: Zagreb 1992–93: Zagreb

EHF Champions League	1993–94: TEKA Santander 1994–95: Bidasoa Irún 1995–96: Barcelona 1996–97: Barcelona 1997–98: Barcelona 1998–99: Barcelona 1999–2000: Barcelona 2000–01: Portland San Antonio 2001–02: Magdeburg 2002–03: Montpellier 2003–04: Celje 2004–05: Barcelona 2005–06: Ciudad Real 2006–07: THW Kiel 2007–08: Ciudad Real 2008–09: Ciudad Real 2009–10: THW Kiel 2010–11: Barcelona 2011–12: THW Kiel 2012–13: HSV Hamburg 2013–14: Flensburg-Handewitt 2014–15: