Füchse Berlin is a professional 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 from Berlin

Berlin

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, Germany

Germany

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, that currently competes in the Handball-Bundesliga, the highest national league.

History

Until 2005, the club was organized as handball department of Reinickendorfer Füchse

Reinickendorfer Füchse

Reinickendorfer Füchse are a German association football club based in Reinickendorf, a western district of in Berlin. The football side is part of a larger sports association that has departments for basketball, bowling, boxing, gymnastics, handball, ice hockey, swimming, tennis, table tennis, and...

. For the 2005/06 season, the branding was changed to Füchse Berlin, in an effort to establish the club as a leading sports team of Berlin (not only of the Reinickendorf

Reinickendorf

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 borough

Boroughs and localities of Berlin

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), alongside Hertha BSC (football), Eisbären Berlin

Eisbären Berlin

' are a professional ice hockey team based in Berlin, Germany. The team competes in the Deutsche Eishockey Liga , the highest level of play in professional German ice hockey and is also one of the league's founding members...

 (ice hockey) and Alba Berlin

ALBA Berlin

-Depth Chart:* Denotes injured player.-Championships:*German Championships: 8 *German Cups: 6 *Korać Cups: 1 -Notable players:- Season by season :-External links:...

 (basketball). This coincided with the move to Max-Schmeling-Halle

Max-Schmeling-Halle

Max-Schmeling-Halle is a multi-purpose arena, in Berlin, Germany, named after the famous German boxer Max Schmeling. Apart from the Velodrom, it's one of Berlin's biggest sport places and holds from 8,861 people, up to 10,050 people....

 (Berlin's second largest indoor sports hall) as venue for the games, which is dubbed Fuchsbau (burrow in English). Indeed, since then handball has become more popular in the city. In 2007, the Füchse secured the championships in the Zweite Handball-Bundeliga, the second highest German league, thus advancing to Handball-Bundesliga, which the club has stayed in ever since.

Current Squad

No.	Nationality	Name	Position
12		Silvio Heinevetter	Goalkeeper
71		Petr Štochl	Goalkeeper
2		Colja Löffler	Center
3		Stian Vatne Stian Vatne Stian Vatne is a Norwegian handball player, currently playing for the German club Füchse Berlin.He started his club career in Molde HK, and later played for Stavanger IF, Kadetten Schaffhausen, Ademar León, Algeciras BM and CAI BM Aragón....	Left Backcourt
4		Torsten Laen Torsten Laen Torsten Laen is a Danish team handball player. He currently plays for the German club Füchse Berlin.Laen has been a part of the Danish national handball team, winning medals in 2002 and 2004-External links:...	Center
5		Martin Murawski	Left Wing
6		Rúnar Kárason	Right Backcourt
9		Denis Špoljarić Denis Špoljaric Denis Špoljarić is a Croatian handball player. He is World champion from 2003 with the Croatian national team, and Olympic champion from 2004. He received a silver medal at the 2005 World championship, and a silver medal at the 2008 European championship.-References:...	Center Backcourt
10		Michał Kubisztal	Left/Center Backcourt
11		Markus Richwien	Right Wing
17		Konrad Wilczynski	Left Wing
21		Mark Bult	Center Backcourt
22		Fabian Böhm	Right/Center Backcourt
23		Johannes Sellin	Richt Wing
24		Bartłomiej Jaszka	Center Backcourt
27		Ivan Ninčević	Left Wing
30		Alexander Petersson Alexander Petersson Alexander Petersson is a Icelandic handball player of Latvian and Baltic German origin, who currently plays for the Iceland national handball team and Füchse Berlin in The Handball-Bundesliga.Alexander was voted the Icelandic sports person of the year 2010 by the Icelandic Sport Press...	Center Backcourt
66		Sven-Sören Christophersen	Left/Center Backcourt