Rhein-Neckar Löwen
The Rhein- Neckar Löwen are a team in the Handball - Bundesliga, which emerged in 2002 from the gaming community SG Kronau / Östringen. The Lions are in the Rhine -Neckar at home; their home ground is the SAP Arena in Mannheim.
History
The TV Östringen, one of the two predecessor clubs of the Lions, was founded in 1900 and introduced in 1927 its first handball team. 1926 was the other predecessor association, the DJK Kronau with handball as a major sport. This was 1932 Baden and South German Champion in the field handball. In the semifinals, the German ( DJK ) Championship in Dortmund is subject to before 35,000 spectators - weakened by the injury- related retirement of the goalkeeper - the eventual champions DJK Styrum 06 ( Mülheim ad Ruhr) with 6:11. Three years later, the TSG Kronau arose from fusion of DJK SV Viktoria and 1904. 1946 also merged the TV Östringen and it was born from the merger with DJK Östringen TSV Östringen. This qualified the first time in 1957 for the final round of the Badische Championship, but lost both games and paid just in the game against the SG Leutershausen with a 1:16 learn the hard way. Also the TSG Kronau remained in 1965 at their first participation in the final round of the championship Badische only the twelfth and last place in the following season she improved in the final round of the championship Badische but to eleventh place.
After the season 1966/67, the two-tier Bundesliga was introduced as a top German division and the same year the Oberliga Baden Baden had taken as the highest and second highest German league game its operation, TSG Kronau descended upon their first league season. Five years later they failed in the climb to league games - in the crowded, with 1,100 spectators Red sports hall was lost 9:11 the decider against the SG - Walldorf Astoria. A year later, however, succeeded as champion of the division south to rise again to the Oberliga Baden. In 1978 also the TSV Östringen rose to the Oberliga Baden and four seasons later even in the Regionalliga Süd - two years later, however, followed the descent. In 1985 the TSG Kronau got out of the league, while the TSV Östringen 1989 again rose to the Regionalliga Süd - TSG Kronau managed in the same year for the second time of promotion to the Oberliga Baden, and in 1993 came the TSG Kronau in the Regional South. But two seasons later, the re- descent of the TSG Kronau followed in the Oberliga Baden. In the same year the TSV Östringen reached the 2nd Bundesliga Süd. 1996, the B - youth TSG Kronau with a playoff victory over SC Magdeburg the title of German Champion. The TSG Kronau and the HV Bad Schönborn made in the following year, a gaming community (HSG ), which rose in 1999 in the South Regional and 2000 even reached the 2nd Bundesliga Süd with the second rise in a row. 2002 failed TSV Baden Östringen as runner-up of the 2nd Bundesliga Süd in the relegation games to 1 Bundesliga at the North Vice Wilhelm HV ( 21:25, 24:21 ).
The SG Kronau / Östringen eventually came on 1 July 2002 from the merger of TSG Kronau with the TSV Baden Östringen. Home ground was the Rhein-Neckar -Halle Eppelheim. In the next season of Game of the Community ascent was made in the 1st Bundesliga, but 2004 saw the re- descent, which was addressed in 2005 with the immediate promotion back to the 1st Bundesliga. The home games were played from the 2005/06 season in the newly-built SAP Arena in Mannheim. 2006 reached the SG Kronau / Östringen the final of the DHB Cup, which was lost with 25:26 against HSV Hamburg. In the following season pulled the SG Kronau / Östringen in the final of the DHB Cup and lost again - with 31:33 against THW Kiel, in part because seven out of ten were awarded seven meters and one as a guide 22:18 was out of his hands. After the first men's team was officially renamed Rhein- Neckar Löwen.
2008 Euro Cup final was reached with the finals of the European Cup of Cup Winners' Cup for the first time in which the lions but the Hungarian representative MKB Veszprém KC documents ( 32:37, 28:28 ). In the same season the A- youth of the SG Kronau / Östringen won with a final victory over the JSpG SC Magdeburg / Concordia Staßfurt the German championship title. After completion of the 2008/09 season the Rhein- Neckar Löwen occupied in the Bundesliga in third place - the best ever placement. The first time participating in the games of the Champions League, the club reached the semi-finals. 2010, the final of the DHB Cup was reached again for the third time the Rhein-Neckar- Löwen lost but this time against HSV Hamburg with 33:34 ( nV ).
On 19 May 2013, the Lions won the inaugural EHF European Cup, the successor competition of EHF - Cup and European Cup Winners' Cup. In the finals of the Final Four tournament they won against host HBC Nantes with 26:24, and thus secured the first title in club history.
Squad for the 2013/14 season
Additions 2013/14
- Rúnar Kárason (TV Großwallstadt )
- Nikola Manojlovic (RK Koper)
- Sergei Gorbok ( Medwedi Chekhov )
- Rajko Prodanović (KC Veszprém )
Departures 2013/14
- Nils Kretschmer (TV Großwallstadt )
- Jonas Maier ( cadets Schaffhausen, loan )
- Rúnar Kárason (TSV Hannover -Burgdorf )
Additions 2014/15
- Nikolaj Bredahl Jacobsen ( Aalborg Håndbold )
- Stefan Kneer (SC Magdeburg )
- Mads Mensah Larsen ( Aalborg Håndbold )
- Tim Suton (HG Saarlouis )
- Harald Rein Child ( Fyllingen Håndball )
- Bastian slip man ( HBW Balingen- Weilstetten )
Departures 2014/15
- Guðmundur Guðmundsson ( Danish National Team)
- Oliver Roggisch ( End of career )
- Isaías Guardiola ( Aalborg Håndbold )
- Goran Stojanović (unknown)
- Zarko Šešum ( Frisch Auf Göppingen)
Well-known former players
- Karol Bielecki
- Ivan Čupić
- Henning Fritz
- Róbert Gunnarsson
- Michael Haass
- Chrischa Hanna forest
- Mariusz Jurasik
- Andrej Klimovets
- Krzysztof Lijewski
- Holger Löhr
- Børge Lund
- Michael Müller
- Jackson Richardson
- Ulrich Schuppler
- Christian Schwarzer
- Dmitri Torgowanow
- Oleg Velyky
- Christian Zeitz
Coach
More Teams
In addition to the Bundesliga team are in Kronau and Östringen 22 other teams in operation. The second men's team plays in the 3rd Liga (as of season 2013/14 ), the third in the league Baden and the Fourth and Fifth in the county league. The ladies are represented by two teams, one in the national league, the other is active in the county league. In the youth division play eight male, four female and three mixed teams. The male A-, B- and C- youth play in the top division in each case, as the female B- and C- youth.
Fan
The fanclub is called " Baden -Lions " and describes himself as " Supporters of SG Kronau / Östringen ". Together with the Kiel "Zebra sprats " the " Baden Lions " are considered to be the largest fan club of Handball - Bundesliga. The " Baden -Lions " are the first official fan club of the SG Kronau / Östringen and vermeldeten in April 2010 469 members. You create for every home game the first team parallel to the official home game magazine " lion's roar " a private hall issue, the " yellow fever ".
Best Merits
- Winner of the EHF European Cup 2013
- Reaching the EHF Champions League semi-final 2010/2011, 2008/2009
- Finalist European Cup Winners' Cup in 2008
- DHB Cup finalist in 2006, 2007, 2010
- Semifinalist EHF Cup 2012
- Promotion to the Bundesliga in 2003, 2005
- A German Youth Champion 2008