Julian Köster (born 16 March 2000) is a German

handball Handball (also known as team handball, European handball, Olympic handball or indoor 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 thr ...

player for

VfL Gummersbach VfL Gummersbach is a professional handball club from the German city of Gummersbach, North Rhine-Westphalia. Currently, VfL Gummersbach competes in the Handball-Bundesliga and the DHB-Pokal. The club has seen great success, especially from the ...

and the German national team.

Career

Club career

Having started at TuS SW Brauweiler, Köster completed his youth team career at TSV Bayer Dormagen, a team he would make his senior handball debut with in 2018, playing in the 2. Bundesliga. In 2020, the German switched to league rivals

, signing a contract until 2024. His team earned promotion to the Bundesliga in the 2022 season, one which automatically triggered a one-year contract extension in Köster's contract. He became captain of the team in 2022, and signed on to play for Gummersbach until 2026 following a tenth-placed finish in the

2022–23 Bundesliga The 2022–23 Bundesliga was the 60th season of the Bundesliga, Germany's premier football competition. It began on 5 August 2022 and concluded on 27 May 2023. Bayern Munich were the ten-time consecutive defending champions and retained their ti ...

campaign.

National team

Köster made his international debut on the German national team on 21 September 2021. He participated at the

2021 World Men's Handball Championship The 2021 IHF World Men's Handball Championship was the 27th event hosted by the International Handball Federation and held in Egypt from 13 to 31 January 2021. Starting with this edition, the World Championship was expanded from 24 teams to 32. I ...

in Egypt. Afterwards, Köster took part in the 2022 European Championship, where he played in all seven matches and became Germany's second-highest scorer with 18 goals. He once again became the second-highest scorer for Germany at the 2024 Euros, where his 31 goals helped Germany finish fourth.

Individual awards

;Best Defender * Best Defender of the IHF Men's Youth World Championship:

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References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Koster, Julian 2000 births Living people German male handball players Sportspeople from Bielefeld VfL Gummersbach players Handball-Bundesliga players Handball players at the 2024 Summer Olympics Olympic handball players for Germany Medalists at the 2024 Summer Olympics Olympic silver medalists for Germany Olympic medalists in handball 21st-century German sportsmen