THW Kiel is a team 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 Kiel

Kiel

Kiel is the capital and most populous city in the northern German state of Schleswig-Holstein, with a population of 238,049 .Kiel is approximately north of Hamburg. Due to its geographic location in the north of Germany, the southeast of the Jutland peninsula, and the southwestern shore of the...

, Germany

Germany

Germany , officially the Federal Republic of Germany , is a federal parliamentary republic in Europe. The country consists of 16 states while the capital and largest city is Berlin. Germany covers an area of 357,021 km2 and has a largely temperate seasonal climate...

. Currently, THW Kiel competes in the German First League of Handball

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...

 and is German record champion with 16 titles.

2007 was the most successful year in the club history, as THW completed the treble, winning both the domestic League and Cup along with the 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...

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Accomplishments

• National Championship of Germany
  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...
  
  : 16
  • 1957, 1962, 1963, 1994, 1995, 1996, 1998, 1999, 2000, 2002, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010

• National Cup of Germany
  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 :...
  
  : 7
  • 1998, 1999, 2000, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2011

• German Super Cup: 6
  • 1995, 1998, 2005, 2007, 2008, 2011

• 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...
  
  : 2
  • 2007, 2010
    2009–10 EHF Champions League
    The 2009–10 EHF Champions League was the 50th edition of Europe's premier club handball tournament and the seventeenth edition under the current EHF Champions League format. It was also the first edition under the new qualifying format. Ciudad Real were the defending champions...
    
    

• 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...
  
   Finalists: 3
  • 2000, 2008, 2009

• 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....
  
  : 3
  • 1998, 2002, 2004

• EHF Men’s Champions Trophy: 1
  • 2007

• European Club Championship Finalists: 1
  • 2004

• IHF Super Globe: 1
  • 2011
    2011 IHF Super Globe
    2011 IHF Super Globe will be the IHF Super Globe 5th edition. Its will be held in Doha, Qatar at Al-Gharafa Sports Club Hall.The teams that take part will be the respectives continental champions.-Group A: THW Kiel Al Rayyan Al-Sadd EC Pinheiros...
    
    

Current squad

Squad for the 2011-12 season

Goalkeeper1   Thierry Omeyer

• 12   Andreas Palicka

Wingers6   Henrik Lundström

• 11   Christian Sprenger
• 19   Tobias Reichmann
• 33   Dominik Klein
  Dominik Klein
  Dominik Klein is a German team handball player. He is World champion from 2007 with the German national team...
  
  

Line players7   Milutin Dragićević

• 13   Marcus Ahlm
  Marcus Ahlm
  Marcus Ahlm is an Swedish handballer, playing for German Handball-Bundesliga team THW Kiel.- External links :*...
  
  

Back players5   Kim Andersson

Kim Andersson

Kim Andersson is a Swedish team handball player, playing for the German club THW Kiel and for the Swedish national team. He was voted into the All-Star Team as Best right back at the 2008 European Men's Handball Championship, where Sweden finished 5th.-Club play:Andersson participated on the THW...

• 17   Daniel Kubeš
• 20   Christian Zeitz
  Christian Zeitz
  Christian Zeitz is a German team handball player and World Champion. He received a silver medal at the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens with the German national team. He is World Champion from 2007, and European champion from 2004.-References:...
  
  
• 24   Aron Pálmarsson
  Aron Pálmarsson
  Aron Pálmarsson is an Icelandic handball player, currently playing for THW Kiel in the Toyota-Handball-Bundesliga. He also plays for the Icelandic national handball team and played a big part for the team as they earned a bronze medal in 2010 European handball championship in Austria.He gained...
  
  
• 25   Daniel Narcisse
  Daniel Narcisse
  Daniel Narcisse is a French handball player. His main strength as a field player is his ability to jump very high, to the point of being able to score goals above interfering defense players...
  
  
• 31   Momir Ilić
  Momir Ilić
  Momir Ilić is a Serbian handballer, playing for German Handball-Bundesliga team THW Kiel.- External links :*...
  
  
• 39   Filip Jícha
  Filip Jícha
  Filip Jícha is a Czech team handball player, playing for the German club THW Kiel and for the Czech national team.-References:...
  
  

Notable former players

Henning Fritz

Henning Fritz

Henning Fritz was born on September 21, 1974 in Magdeburg, Germany. He is a German Handball goalkeeper. He is also the first goalkeeper to be named World Player of the Year, in 2004....

 Nikola Karabatić

Nikola Karabatic

Nikola Karabatić ) is a French team handball player, born to a Croatian father and Serbian mother.He was part of the French national handball team that won the bronze medal at the 2008 European Men's Handball Championship. He was top scorer at the championship together with Ivano Balić and Lars...

 Stefan Lövgren

Stefan Lövgren

Lars Stefan Lövgren is a former Swedish handball player. He was born in Gothenburg, Sweden. Making his debut in the national team in , he played a total of 268 games and scored 1138 goals...

 Staffan Olsson

Staffan Olsson

Erik Staffan Olsson is a retired Swedish handball player and recently appointed Swedish national coach. Olsson, who always played with no 13, was a left-handed right wing player with one of the most feared shots of all the elite players. Later in his career he won praise for his great playmaking...

 Magnus Wislander

Magnus Wislander

Hans Einar Magnus Wislander is a Swedish handball player, who has been voted Handball Player of the Century. Since his debut in the national team in he has played over 380 games and scored over 1,000 goals...

 Demetrio Lozano

Demetrio Lozano

Demetrio Lozano Jarque is a Spanish handball player.He participated at the 2008 summer Olympics in Beijing as a member of the Spain national handball team. The team won a bronze medal, defeating Croatia....

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