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Rhein-Neckar Löwen is 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 from Mannheim

Mannheim

Mannheim is a city in southwestern Germany. With about 315,000 inhabitants, Mannheim is the second-largest city in the Bundesland of Baden-Württemberg, following the capital city of Stuttgart....

, Germany

Germany

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. The club was founded in 2002 as a merger of TSG Kronau and TSG Baden Östringen, competing initially under the name SG Kronau/Östringen. Currently, Rhein-Neckar Löwen competes in the First Division of the German Handball Bundesliga

Bundesliga (handball)

The Handball-Bundesliga is the top German professional handball league. The league has been sponsored by Toyota since 2007 and therefore the league is called the Toyota Handball-Bundesliga...

Accomplishments

Semi-finalist EHF Champions League
EHF Champions League
The EHF Champions League is the most important professional club handball competition in Europe . The competition was started in the 1956–57 season, and is administered by the European Handball Federation.The most successful teams are from Germany and Spain...

2009
Finalist EHF Cup Winners' Cup 2008
German A Youth Champions 2008
Finalist German Cup
DHB-Pokal
The DHB-Pokal is an elimination handball tournament held annually. It is the second most important national title in German handball after the Bundesliga championship.- DHB-Pokal Champions :- Finals :...

2006, 2007, 2010
Semi-finalist German Cup
DHB-Pokal
The DHB-Pokal is an elimination handball tournament held annually. It is the second most important national title in German handball after the Bundesliga championship.- DHB-Pokal Champions :- Finals :...

2008, 2009
Last 16 of EHF Cup
EHF Cup
The EHF Cup is an official competition for men's handball clubs of Europe and takes place every year. From 2012/13 it will be merged with EHF Cup Winners' Cup to EHF European Cup....

2007
Promotion to the Bundesliga First Division 2003, 2005

The most popular players of the Rhein-Neckar Löwen

Rhein-Neckar Löwen

Rhein-Neckar Löwen is a handball club from Mannheim, Germany. The club was founded in 2002 as a merger of TSG Kronau and TSG Baden Östringen, competing initially under the name SG Kronau/Östringen...

are Uwe Gensheimer, Oliver Roggisch

Oliver Roggisch

Oliver Roggisch is a German team handball player. He is World champion from 2007 with the German national team. He participated on the German team that finished 4th at the 2008 European Men's Handball Championship.-References:...

, Guðjón Valur Sigurðsson

Guðjón Valur Sigurðsson

Guðjón Valur Sigurðsson is an Icelandic handball player who plays for AG København in the Danish Handball League.-Biography:...

and Ólafur Stefánsson

Ólafur Stefánsson

Ólafur Indriði Stefánsson is an Icelandic handball player who currently plays for AG_København in Denmark. He is the current captain for the Iceland national handball team. His demarcation is right back...

Accomplishments prior to the merger

1982, 1989: Promoted to the Regionalliga South (Östringen)
1993, 1999: Promoted to the Regionalliga South (Kronau)
1995: Promoted to the Bundesliga Second Division (Östringen)
1996: German B Youth Champions (Kronau)
2000: Promoted to the Bundesliga Second Division (Kronau)
2002: Runners-up in the Bundesliga Second Division (Östringen)

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