Bjerringbro-Silkeborg is the name of a handball

Team handball

Handball is a team sport in which two teams of seven players each pass a ball to throw it into the goal of the other team...

 club, based in the two Danish

Denmark

Denmark is a Scandinavian country in Northern Europe. The countries of Denmark and Greenland, as well as the Faroe Islands, constitute the Kingdom of Denmark . It is the southernmost of the Nordic countries, southwest of Sweden and south of Norway, and bordered to the south by Germany. Denmark...

 cities of Bjerringbro

Bjerringbro

Bjerringbro is a railway town at the railway between Viborg and Randers lying on both sides of the Gudenå . Until 1st January 2007 it was the municipal seat of the former Bjerringbro Municipality and today, with a population of 7,530 , it is the second largest town of Viborg Municipality, Central...

 and Silkeborg

Silkeborg

Silkeborg is a city in central Denmark. Located in Silkeborg municipality in Jutland, the city has a population of 42,724 . The development of Silkeborg as a modern city may be traced to the foundation of the paper mill by Michael Drewsen on the Gudenaa in 1844...

. Currently, Bjerringbro-Silkeborg competes in the men's Danish Handball League

Danish Handball League

The Danish Handball League, officially known as Jack & Jones Ligaen due to sponsorship reasons, is the men's top Danish professional handball league. The winners of the Danish Handball League are recognised as the Danish handball champions...

. The home arena of the team is Silkeborg-Hallerne

Silkeborg-Hallerne

Silkeborg-Hallerne is a complex of indoor sports arenas in Silkeborg, Denmark used for several sports, but primarily handball. The arena is home to Danish Handball League team Bjerringbro-Silkeborg....

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History

The club was founded in 2005, when Bjerringbro FH and Silkeborg-Voel KFUM merged their first teams to create the new club. The mother club Bjerringbro FH won the silver medal of the Danish Handball League in 2002.

External links

• Bjerringbro-Silkeborg