HSG Wetzlar

The HSG Wetzlar is a German handball club from the Hessian town of Wetzlar. The first men's team of the HSG plays since 1998 continuously in the first handball league, which is considered one of the strongest handball leagues in the world.

  • 6.1 Arrivals 2013/14
  • 6.2 Disposals 2013/14
  • 6.3 Arrivals 2014/15
  • 6.4 Disposals 2014/15

History

1904 TSV Dutenhofen and 1909 the TV Münchholzhausen was founded. From the traditional Handball departments of these two Wetzlar district associations the Handball Game Community Dutenhofen / Münchholzhausen was formed in 1992, the home club of the HSG Wetzlar. Since the 1999/2000 season, the Bundesliga team of the club starts under the name " HSG D / M Wetzlar ", which was changed in spring 2004 in " HSG Wetzlar ".

Second Bundesliga, European Cup and promotion to the 1st League

In the eighties, the team still rose, then known as TSV Dutenhofen, in the 2nd Bundesliga. The backbone of the ascent team consisted of players who came from their own youth teams and were able to win with these three times ( 1979/80, 82 and 84), the German youth championship. The most famous players of the time were county runners Wolfgang Klimpke and director Ralf Kraft, both since 1973 in the club.

Under coach Rainer Dotzauer, who moved into management later, the club established in the upper third of the table (5th place 1986/87, 3rd place 1987/88 ) of the 2nd Bundesliga. Almost succeeded early in the season 1991/92, the rise in the excellence. The team led by Wolfgang Klimpke, Ola Lindgren and the twins and Ralf Uwe Indian Thal finished second - because of the poorer by only a single goal on goal difference behind the same point Eintracht Hagen.

1996 and 1997, missed the now functioning under the name HSG Dutenhofen / Münchholzhausen club again with each second places only just the climb. 1997 turned the HSG in the first introduced Relegation first VfL Bad Schwartau, ultimately failed but the Bundesliga side TSV Bayer Dormagen.

1997 pulled the team as a second division sensational to the final of the DHB Cup and had to be there until the German champions TBV Lemgo beaten. But when Vice Cup winners the team reached the qualifying for the European Cup.

1997/98 HSG achieved their greatest success when they could advance to the final after a victory in the European Cup Winners' Cup. The HSG -known teams like Steaua Bucharest, Sporting Lisbon, Elektromos Budapest and in the semifinals Polyot Chelyabinsk turned off so. Even if she failed in the Spanish team from Santander in the final, the team wrote handball history as the first second division side in a European Cup final. Semifinals and finals had to be postponed to Rotenburg To meet the then European Cup euphoria righteous, no Hall of sufficient size was available in Wetzlar at this time.

In the 1997/98 season of HSG also finally succeeded the long awaited promotion to the Bundesliga. As with the second division promotion twelve years before Wolfgang Klimpke and Ralf Kraft played a decisive role in the success again. Klimpke played a total of 30 consecutive years for the club.

The era Petković: Successful years in the Bundesliga

Under coach Velimir Petkovic, who coached the team six years old, that first started as underdogs club quickly established itself in the premier league. Equipped with one of the lowest budgets in the league, the team managed to director Markus Baur 1998/99 certain relegation. The following year, it took another step up: 34:34 With points landed the team in midfield, one place ahead of the Hessian rivals SG Wallau mass home.

2001 succeeded the Petković troupe again the finals of the DHB Cup.

In the 2001/2002 season, the HSG could handle the disposal of national players and leading figure Markus Baur unexpectedly excellent and push forward even reach the European Cup places. With the 8th place, she won her until then best finish in the Bundesliga, where they had a whole lot more than previously -ranked team behind it. The performers of surprise team of the season were goalkeeper Axel Geerken, right wing Bjorn Monnberg, the back player Gennady Chalepo and Sigurdur Bjarnason and the Bosnian national team Nebojša Golić as Baur 's successor. Golić coined five years as a game designer Wetzlar Handball. The home games of HSG D / M Wetzlar were held at that time still in the narrow, dreaded the enemy gymnasium Dutenhofen, while the plans for a modern, large arena already anliefen.

Difficult years to near- relegation in 2007

2004 left the Petković regarded as the father of the success the club. Frequent change of coach dominated the following years. The 2004/05 season was also due to the move to the big Rittal Arena a year of change. Despite a sporty little successful second half ultimately could the minimum goal relegation be secured.

Since 2003, it went in the Bundesliga from season to season gradually downhill. The low point was reached in 2007 when the club on the final day of the season stood before the descent. Won only by one, with great power militant, 30:29 victory against SC Magdeburg was still at the last second, the class will be held.

Upward trend with young players in the region

For some years, but intensified since 2008, put the HSG on the use of young German players, some of which come from the region Wetzlar. Players like Kevin Schmidt, Michael Allendorf, Timo Salzer or Nikolai Weber were to guide players to the team and managed to partially make the leap into the national team. The concept not only led to greater identification of the fans, even the sporty downward trend could be stopped. Since 2007, the HSG improved gradually from season to season. After a bad start to the season took over 2010/11 Gennady Chalepo the team as coach and led them first time since 2003 at a mid-table. In March 2012, Gennady Chalepo was made redundant after a miserable return half kick-off. For now it sits quay wall Schneider on the bench of the HSG.

In the 2012/13 season the best ever result since promotion to the Bundesliga. The team led by goalie Nikolai Weber with the twins Philip and Michael Müller in the backcourt and the three young German national Tobias Reichmann, Kevin Schmidt and Steffen Faeth played an outstanding first round in which it was phased placed third. After a small drop in performance at the beginning of the season, the team began again and reached the end with 37:31 points to seventh place in the standings.

Fans and rivalries

The HSG Wetzlar is considered traditional club and has in Hesse for years the highest average attendance of all handball clubs. The home games at the Rittal Arena are visited by an average of 4,000 spectators. There are several fan clubs, the greatest of these is now the established in 2003, "Fan - Club Grün -Weiss ".

A pronounced sporting rivalry between the traditional HSG Wetzlar and the old rivals TV hut mountain. The " Mittelhessen Derby " was regularly especially in the 80s and 90s crowd puller and still has a high symbolic importance in the handball fans in the region. After Hüttenberger rise took place in the Bundesliga season 2011/12 back to Derby games. These, however, were decided by the HSG Wetzlar clearly for itself.

Brisant is also the derby against MT Melsungen, since this 2005 promotion to the Bundesliga. Especially after the departure of former HSG coach Michael Roth to the north of Hesse, the games run repeatedly with special voltage. A highlight of the Derby history was created on 23 December 2010, when about 650 supporters of the HSG Wetzlar supported their team in an away game immediately after the coaching change loudly.

Mascot of Central Hesse Biber is Carlie, who replaced 2011 Wetzi ( see picture).

Women's teams

The first women's team succeeded in the 2012/13 season of climbing out of the league in the 3rd league.

Youth teams

The club operates a very successful youth work, through which a number of titles could be won on Hessian, southwest German and federal levels. The fourth German Championship won the male B- Youth 2002 against SC Magdeburg. 2013 missed the B- youth fifth national title only the narrowest of margins after a seven-meter throw in the final against the foxes Berlin.

The A youth of the HSG qualified since the founding of the A- youth league every year for this highest division. The club currently owns the youth certificate DKB Handball - Bundesliga.

Echo

Rittal Arena

As a home ground for the Bundesliga is the 4,400 -seat Rittal Arena Wetzlar, who was among others also the venue of the World Handball Championship 2007. The newly built Rittal Arena was completed in spring 2005.

Sports hall Dutenhofen

The 1,750 -seat sports hall Dutenhofen is now training hall of the first team, venue for DHB Cup games as well as a venue for the reserve and youth teams of HSG. Before the completion of the Rittal Arena and the Bundesliga home games of the HSG were held in the hall.

Squad 2013/14 season

Additions 2013/14

  • Ivano Balic (Atlético Madrid)
  • Sebastian Weber (TV mountain hut )
  • Florian Laudt (TV mountain hut )
  • Robin Kent Tønnesen ( IK Sävehof )
  • Kristian Bliznac ( IK Sävehof )
  • Evars Klešniks ( GWD Minden )
  • Andreas Wolff (TV Großwallstadt )
  • Dennis Krause ( VfL Gummersbach )
  • Magnus Dahl (Atlético Madrid)
  • Carlos Prieto ( cadets Schaffhausen )

Departures 2013/14

  • Michael Müller (MT Melsungen )
  • Philipp Müller (MT Melsungen )
  • Nikola Marinovic ( Frisch Auf Göppingen)
  • Alois Mráz (TV mountain hut )
  • Nikolai Weber ( TSV Hannover -Burgdorf )
  • Fannar Þór Fridgeirsson (TV Großwallstadt )
  • José Javier Hombrados (unknown)

Additions 2014/15

  • Maximilian Holst (TV Großwallstadt )
  • Guillaume Joli ( Dunkerque HBGL )

Departures 2014/15

  • Tobias Reichmann (KS Kielce )
  • Daniel Valo (unknown)

Well-known former players

  • Ola Lindgren, former Swedish national team, World and European Champion
  • Markus Baur, former German international, world and European champion
  • Gennady Chalepo, former Belarusian national team
  • Sindre Walstad, former Norwegian national team
  • Volker Michel, former German national team
  • Zoran Đorđić, Former Yugoslav national team
  • Axel Geerken, former German national team
  • January Eiberg Jørgensen, former Danish national team
  • Petar Đorđić, Serbian national team
  • Sigurdur Bjarnason, former Icelandic national team
  • Savas Karipidis, Greek national team
  • Nebojša Golić, former Bosnian national team
  • Christian Caillat
  • Wolfgang Klimpke, played 30 years for the club
  • Avishay Smoler, Israeli national team
  • Krešimir Ivankovic, former Croatian national team
  • Timm Schneider
  • José Javier Hombrados, Spanish national team and world champion
  • Lars Kaufmann, German national team and 2007 World Champion
  • Sven- Soeren Christophersen, German national team
  • Valter Matošević, Croatian national team, Olympic champion and world champion
  • Alexandros Alvanos, Greek national team
  • Michael Allendorf, former German national team
  • Gregor Werum
  • Vlatko Mitkov, Macedonian national team
  • Timo Salzer, former German national team
  • Chen Pomeranz, Israeli national team
  • Julián Duranona, former Cuban national team and World Cup top scorer in 1990
  • Mirko Bernau, former German national team
  • Alyosha Schmidt
  • Vladan Krasavac, former Serbian national team
  • Milan Vučićević, former Serbian national team
  • Björn Monnberg, Finnish record for national team
  • Georgios Chalkidis, Greek record for national team
  • Andrej Klimovets, former German national team and world champion
  • Blažo Lisicic, Former Yugoslav national team

Coach

  • Kai wall Schneider (since March 2012)

Former coach:

  • ENYI Okpara (1997-1998)
  • Horst Spengler ( 1998)
  • Velimir Petkovic (1998-2004)
  • Holger Schneider (2004-2005)
  • Martin Schwalb (2005)
  • Dragan Marković (2005-2006)
  • Róbert Sighvatsson (2006-2007)
  • Volker Mudrow (2007-2009)
  • Zoran Đorđić (2009)
  • Michael Roth (2009-2010)
  • Gennady Chalepo (2010-2012)
DHB-Pokal CSA Steaua București (handball) Portugal 2009–10 Handball-Bundesliga 2010–11 Handball-Bundesliga 2011–12 Handball-Bundesliga 2012–13 Handball-Bundesliga SG Wallau-Massenheim Handball-Bundesliga Carlos Prieto (handballer) Kadetten Schaffhausen Dunkerque Handball Grand Littoral Vive Targi Kielce Michael Roth (handball) 2013–14 Handball-Bundesliga HSV Hamburg THW Kiel
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