Steffen Fäth (born 4 April 1990) 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 HSG Goldstein/Schwanheim and the German national team. He was part of the German team that won the

2016 European Men's Handball Championship The 2016 EHF European Men's Handball Championship was the twelfth edition and was held for the first time in Poland from 15–31 January 2016. Croatia and Norway were the other applicants in the bidding process. Poland was awarded the champions ...

2016 European Championship roster
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Career

Fäth made his senior debut for

Rhein-Neckar Löwen Rhein-Neckar Löwen is a professional handball club founded in 2002, based in Mannheim, Germany. The club competes in the German Handball-Bundesliga and continentally in EHF European League. Rhein-Neckar Löwen play their home games in SAP A ...

in the 2008-09 season. In the 2009-10 season he was loaned out to

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 ...

. After returning from loan, he joined

HSG Wetzlar HSG Wetzlar is a professional handball club from Wetzlar, Germany. It competes in the top-tier Handball-Bundesliga and in the DHB-Pokal, German Handball Cup. They have played in the Bundesliga since 1998 without relegation. History The modern ...

. In his first season he proved a good goalscorer, and debuted for the German national team. In 2016 he joined Füchse Berlin. Here he won the

IHF Super Globe The Men's Super Globe is a 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 bal ...

in 2016 and the

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in 2018. In 2018 he returned to

. In 2020 he joined HC Erlangen. On 25 April 2021 in a game against

SC Magdeburg The SC Magdeburg is a professional handball club from Magdeburg, Germany. The team plays in the highest German league, the Handball-Bundesliga and regularly in highest international competitions. They won the EHF Champions League in 1978, 1981, ...

he scored his 1000th Bundesliga goal. In 2023 he joined HSG Goldstein/Schwanheim; the club where he had started his career back in 2007.

Season statistics

Source: Player profile at the Handball-Bundesliga

National team

With the German youth national team Fäth won the 2009 Junior World Championship. At the 2016 European Championship he won Gold medals with the German team, beating Spain in the final 24-17. At the

2016 Olympics The 2016 Summer Olympics (), officially the Games of the XXXI Olympiad () and officially branded as Rio 2016, were an international multi-sport event held from 5 to 21 August 2016 in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, with preliminary events i ...

he won bronze medals with the German team. For this he was awarded the

Silbernes Lorbeerblatt Silbernes Lorbeerblatt (, ), the highest sports award in Germany, was endowed on 23 June 1950 by the German President Theodor Heuss. It is awarded to athletes and teams of exemplary character that have won medals at Olympic and Paralympic Games ...

He participated at the

2019 World Men's Handball Championship The 2019 IHF World Men's Handball Championship was the 26th event hosted by the International Handball Federation and held in Denmark and Germany from 10 to 27 January 2019. It was the first IHF World Men's Handball Championship to include more t ...

, where Germany finished 4th.2019 World Men's Handball Championship roster
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Achievements

Summer Olympics The Summer Olympic Games, also known as the Summer Olympics or the Games of the Olympiad, is a major international multi-sport event normally held once every four years. The inaugural Games took place in 1896 in Athens, then part of the King ...

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2016 2016 was designated as: * International Year of Pulses by the sixty-eighth session of the United Nations General Assembly. * International Year of Global Understanding (IYGU) by the International Council for Science (ICSU), the Internationa ...

European Championship A European Championship is the top level international sports competition between European athletes or sports teams representing their respective countries or professional sports clubs. In the plural, the European Championships also refers t ...

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: **''Winner'': 2018 *

: **''Winner'': 2016 *DHB Supercup: **''Winner'': 2018

References

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Fath, Steffen 1990 births Living people German male handball players Sportspeople from Frankfurt HSG Wetzlar players Rhein-Neckar Löwen players VfL Gummersbach players Handball-Bundesliga players Füchse Berlin Reinickendorf HBC players 21st-century German sportsmen