HC TSV Bayer 04 Leverkusen is a
Germany
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women's
handball
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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
TSV Bayer 04 Leverkusen
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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
West Germany
West Germany is the colloquial term used to indicate the Federal Republic of Germany (FRG; german: Bundesrepublik Deutschland , BRD) between its formation on 23 May 1949 and the German reunification through the accession of East Germany on 3 O ...
to reach the
European Cup
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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
Challenge Cup
The Challenge Cup is a knockout rugby league cup competition organised by the Rugby Football League, held annually since 1896, with the exception of 1915–1919 and 1939–1940, due to World War I and World War II respectively. It involves am ...
. In recent years it has won the 2010 German Cup and reached the EHF Cup and
Cup Winners' Cup
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's semifinals.
Record
in EHF's website
Kits
Titles
* Challenge Cup
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** 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 Mareike Thomaier Marijke, sometimes written as Mareike () is a Dutch feminine given name. It is originally a diminutive of Mary. Phonetically, the name is said ''muh-rye´-kah/keh'', preferably with a rolling “r”.Workingwritersandbloggers.comInterview Marijke Du ...
* 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
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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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Handball
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German handball clubs
Women's handball clubs
Women's handball in Germany