VfL Engelskirchen is a German

sports club A sports club or sporting club, sometimes an athletics club or sports society or sports association, is a group of people formed for the purpose of playing sports. Sports clubs range from organisations whose members play together, unpaid, and ...

from Engelskirchen,

Cologne Cologne ( ; german: Köln ; ksh, Kölle ) is the largest city of the German western States of Germany, state of North Rhine-Westphalia (NRW) and the List of cities in Germany by population, fourth-most populous city of Germany with 1.1 m ...

established in 1883. It is best known for its women's

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 ...

team, which reached the

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in 1979. Engelskirchen was the 1982 Bundesliga's runner-up and three years later it reached the final of the 1985

DHB-Pokal The DHB-Pokal (English: German Handball Federation Cup) is an elimination handball tournament held annually in Germany. It is the second most important handball national title in the country after the Handball-Bundesliga The Handball-Bund ...

. The following year was the team's most successful season as it won the DHB-Pokal for the first time, was the championship's runner-up and also reached the final of the 1986 EHF Cup Winners' Cup, lost to Radnicki Belgrade. In 1988 Engelskirchen won its second national championship,List of champions
in sporthelden.de but the following year it had to renounce to top-flight for financial reasons. Nowadays it plays in regional categories.

Titles

** 1986, 1988

Notable former coaches

* Risto Buha

References

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