HC TSV Bayer 04 Leverkusen is a

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women's

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club from

Leverkusen Leverkusen () is a city in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany, on the eastern bank of the Rhine. To the south, Leverkusen borders the city of Cologne, and to the north the state capital, Düsseldorf. With about 161,000 inhabitants, Leverkusen is on ...

representing

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in the

Handball-Bundesliga Frauen Handball-Bundesliga, is the top women's professional handball league in Germany. 2022-23 season teams *Thüringer HC *SG BBM Bietigheim * TuS Metzingen * Borussia Dortmund Handball * Buxtehuder SV * VfL Oldenburg *HSG Blomberg-Lippe *Bad Wildun ...

. Bayer Leverkusen won six national championships between 1965 and 1980, and six more titles in a row between 1982 and 1987, its most successful period. It was the only team from

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to reach the

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's final before the country's reunification, in 1984, and seven years later it also played the EHF Women's Cup's final. In 2005 it finally won its first international title, a

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. In recent years it has won the 2010 German Cup and reached the EHF Cup and

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's semifinals.Record
in EHF's website

Kits

Titles

** 2005 * German League ** 1965, 1966, 1973, 1974, 1979, 1980, 1982, 1983, 1984, 1985, 1986, 1987 *

German Cup The DFB-Pokal ( is a German knockout football cup competition held annually by the German Football Association (DFB). Sixty-four teams participate in the competition, including all clubs from the Bundesliga and the 2. Bundesliga. It is considered ...

** 1980, 1982, 1983, 1984, 1985, 1987, 1991, 2002, 2010

Team

Current squad

:''Squad for the 2022–23 season'' ;Goalkeepers * 1 Lieke van der Linden * 21 Miranda Nasser * 95 Nela Zuzic ;Wingers ;LW * 26 Loreen Veit * 9 Jennifer Souza ;RW * 18 Emilia Ronge * 20 Pia Terfloth ;Line players * 8 Fem Boeters * 13 Ariane Pfundstein * 37 Marie Teusch ;Back players ;LB * 9 Naina Klein * 22 Mariana Ferreira Lopes ;CB * 3 Živilė Jurgutytė * 2

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* 10 Sophia Cormann * 11 Marla Mathwig ;RB * 7 Viola Leuchter * 14 Lynn Kuipers

Transfers

:''Transfers for the 2023-24 season'' ;Joining * Christin Kaufmann (RW) (from own rows) ;Leaving * Emilia Ronge (RW) (to

VfL Oldenburg VfL Oldenburg is a German sports club from the town of Oldenburg, Lower Saxony which is best known for its football team, which plays in the Niedersachsenliga, the fifth level of the German football league system. The club has over 2,000 me ...

)

Notable former players

Kristine Andersen Kristine Andersen (born April 2, 1976) is a former Denmark, Danish team handball player and two times Olympic champion. She won a gold medal with the Danish national team at the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta,

(1996-1997) *

Valentyna Salamakha Valentyna Salamakha (Ukrainian: Валентина Саламаха born 23 April 1986) is an Azerbaijani professional handball goalkeeper who plays for SG BBM Bietigheim. Career Arriving from Bayer Leverkusen, Salamakha signed a two-year contra ...

(2011-2015) *

Katrin Engel Katrin Engel (born 2 May 1984, in Mistelbach) is an Austrian team handball, handballer playing for Thüringer HC and the Austria women's national handball team, Austrian national team. She has been the 2009 World Women's Handball Championship top ...

(2009-2010) *

Kristina Logvin Kristina may refer to: Places *the Swedish name of Ristiina, a town in Finland People *the Swedish name of Christina of Sweden * Kristina (born 1987), Slovak singer *Kristina Adolphson (born 1937), Swedish actress *Kristina Apgar (born 1985), Amer ...

(2013-2015) *

Debbie Klijn Debbie (or Debby or Deb) is a feminine given name, commonly but not always short for Deborah (or Debra and related variants). Notable people *Debbie Allen, American actress, choreographer and film director *Debbie Armstrong, American athlete *De ...

(1999-2004) *

Branka Zec Branka Zec (born 31 October 1986) is a Slovenian female handball player for VfL Waiblingen and the Slovenian national team. She participated at the 2018 European Women's Handball Championship The 2018 European Women's Handball Championship was ...

(2016-2018) * Sally Potocki (2016-2019) * Sabine Englert (2003-2007) *

Nadine Krause Nadine Krause (born 25 March 1982, in Waiblingen) is a former German handballer who last played for Bayer Leverkusen as a left back. She made her debut on the German A-Team in 1999, at the age of 17. She was top scorer at the 2005 World Champions ...

(2001–2007, 2011-2012) *

Anna Loerper Anna Loerper (born 18 November 1984) is a German handball player for SG BBM Bietigheim and the German national team. She represented Germany at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing, where Germany placed 11th. She participated at the 2009 World W ...

(2003-2011) *

Jenny Karolius Jenny Karolius (born 24 May 1986) is a retired German handball player who most recently played for Bayer Leverkusen and the German national team. She was part of the team at the 2016 European Women's Handball Championship The 2016 European Wo ...

(2014-2019) *

Jennifer Rode Jennifer Rode (born 3 August 1995) is a German handball player for Borussia Dortmund Ballspielverein Borussia 09 e. V. Dortmund, commonly known as Borussia Dortmund (), BVB (), or simply Dortmund (), is a German professional sports club base ...

(2014-2020) *

Anne Müller Anne Müller (born 5 July 1983) is a Retired German handball player, who last played for Borussia Dortmund Handball, until 2019. She won a bronze medal with the German national team at the 2007 World Women's Handball Championship. She participa ...

(1999-2010) * Sabrina Richter (2004–2008) *

Laura Steinbach Laura Steinbach-Romero (born 2 August 1985) is a former German handball player for the German national team. Since summer of 2016 she is married with former Spanish handball player Iker Romero. Career She represented Germany at the 2008 Summer ...

(2007-2013) *

Clara Woltering Clara Woltering (born 2 March 1983) is a retired German handball goalkeeper, who played on the German women's national handball team. International career Woltering made her debut on the German team in 2003, finished fifth within the 2004 Eur ...

(2000-2011) * Katja Kramarczyk (2016-2018) *

Sabrina Neukamp Sabrina Richter (née Neukamp; born 10 May 1982) is a German team handball, handball player. She plays for the club ProVital Blomberg-Lippe and for the Germany women's national handball team, German national team. She represented Germany at the B ...

(2004-2008) *

Kim Naidzinavicius Kim Naidzinavicius (born 6 April 1991) is a German handball player for SG BBM Bietigheim and the German national team. Achievements *EHF European League: **''Winner'': 2022 *Bundesliga The Bundesliga (; ), sometimes referred to as the Fuß ...

(2011-2016) *

Marlene Zapf Marlene Kalf (previously Zapf; born 6 January 1990) is a German handball player for TuS Metzingen and the German national team. She made her international debut on 28 November 2010 against Austria Austria, , bar, Östareich official ...

(2009-2014) *

Amelie Berger Amelie Berger (born 22 July 1999) is a German handball player for Borussia Dortmund and the German national team. She participated at the 2018 European Women's Handball Championship The 2018 European Women's Handball Championship was held in F ...

(2016-2019) *

Aimée von Pereira Aimée von Pereira (born 16 February 2000) is a German handball player who plays for Nykøbing Falster Håndboldklub. In September 2018, she was included by EHF in a list of the twenty best young handballers to watch for the future. Achievem ...

(2018-2019) * Kim Braun (2014-2018)

References

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