Ajax København is a
handball
Handball (also known as team handball, European handball or Olympic handball) is a team sport in which two teams of seven players each (six outcourt players and a goalkeeper) pass a ball using their hands with the aim of throwing it into the g ...
club based in southwestern
Copenhagen
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, consisting of both a women's and a men's team. As of the 2022-23 season, the women's team compete in
Damehåndboldligaen
The Danish Women's Handball League ( da, Damehåndboldligaen) is the top professional league for Danish women's handball clubs. It is administered by the Danish Handball Federation, and the winners are recognized as Danish champions. The league i ...
, the highest women's league in Denmark. The men’s team went bankrupt in 2022, and therefore were relegated to the 3rd division.
Ajax København play their home matches in
Bavnehøj-Hallen
Bavnehøj-Hallen is an indoor sports arena in Copenhagen, Denmark primarily used for Team handball, handball. The arena is home to Danish Handball League side Ajax Heroes.
Handball venues in Denmark
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History
The club was founded as IF Ajax in 1934. In the following decades, the men’s team took home 9 Danish championships – the most recent in 1964.
In 2022 the men’s team went bankrupt and were relegated to the 3rd division.
Women's team
Kits
Current squad
:''Squad for the 2022–23 season''
;Goalkeepers
* 1 Sarah Nørkilt Lønborg (
c)
* 12
Natasja Clausen
* 20 Rakul Wardum
;Wingers
;LW
* 2
Matilde Kondrup Nielsen
* 27 Anna Grundtvig
;RW
* 11
Lív Sveinbjørnsdóttir Poulsen
* 18 Rosa Skovlund Schmidt
;Line players
* 7 Simone Monsrud Pedersen
* 15 Amanda Loft Hansen
;Back players
;LB
* 6
Chantal Wick
Chantal Wick (born 24 February 1994) is a Swiss female handballer for Ajax København in the Damehåndboldligaen and the Switzerland women's national handball team, Swiss national team.
Wick made her official debut on the Swiss national team on 2 ...
* 8 Súna Krossteig Hansen
* 21 Maja Eiberg Jørgensen
* 29 Amanda Poulsen
* 34 Katrine Jacobsen
;CB
* 4
Olivia Black
* 8
Emma Kiellberg
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* Emma (given name)
Film
* Emma (1932 film), ''Emma'' (1932 film), a comedy-drama film by Clarence Brown
* Emma (1996 theatrical film), ''Emma'' (1996 theatrical film), a film starring Gwyneth Paltrow
* Emma (1996 TV film), '' ...
* 33 Emma Rose Penny Laursen
;RB
* 22 Anne With Johansen
* 28 Cecilie Specht
Transfers
:''Transfers for the season 2023-24''
;Joining
;Leaving
* Emma Caroline Petersen (P) (immediately as of december 2022)
Staff
Men's team
Accomplishments Men
*
Danish Handball League
The Danish Men's Handball League, formerly known as Herrehåndboldligaen is the men's top Danish professional handball league. The winners of the Danish Men's Handball League are recognised as the Danish men's handball champions. The current cham ...
: 9
**1937, 1942, 1944, 1948, 1949, 1950, 1952, 1953, 1964
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Double
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Double, The Double or Dubble may also refer to:
Film and television
* Double (filmmaking), someone who substitutes for the credited actor of a character
* Th ...
: Winners (1): 1963–64
References
External links
Ajax Heroes
Danish handball clubs
Sports clubs in Copenhagen
Vesterbro, Copenhagen
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