Vive Targi Kielce
KS Vive Kielce S. A. is a Polish handball club from Kielce, who plays in the Super League, the top Polish league.
History
The club was founded in 1965. The first promotion to the top Polish league, the Ekstraklasa, succeeded in 1975 under the name " MKS Korona ". In the absence of a separate hall they played in Mielec. The lack of home advantage was mitausschlaggebend for relegation a year later.
Between 1978 and 1983 the club played five years in the Ekstraklasa and could claim as their greatest success in the third place in the 1979/80 season. After a one year interlude in the second league came in 1984 when immediate resurgence. Since then, the club continually playing in the top division. 1985 won the Polish Cup Kielce for the first time, which meant the hitherto biggest success in club history.
In 1991, for cleavage of the existing association in Korona Kielce ( soccer) and Iskra Kielce ( handball). The 90s of the twentieth century should be the most successful of the association. On May 1, 1993 with two games left in the season, Kielce brought against Wisła Płock and Warsaw for the first time the Polish Championship. A year later the title again went to Kielce, in the 1996 another followed. The 1996/97 season they finished in third place, with which you qualified for the EHF Cup. There you saw in the 1997/98 season for a surprise when you THW Kiel beat in their own hall with 28:27 in the quarterfinals. The return match, however, decided the Kiel with 31:26 for themselves and got themselves in the wake of the EHF Cup. 1998 and 1999, followed by the championship four and five, before one in 2000 for the second time secured the Polish Cup. A setback brought the 2001/02 season with fifth place, yielding internationally qualified only for the insignificant Challenge Cup.
2002, the takeover of the club by the Dutch entrepreneur Bertus Servaas, owner of VIVE Textile Recycling. Since then, the association has the words " Vive " in the club name. 2002/ 03 achieved the first double in their history, winning the championship and the Cup. Since Bertus Servaas has taken over the club, one tries to find by obligations of Polish and foreign top players after the top European clubs. As of 2008, the team was coached by Bogdan Wenta. Wenta was until April 2012 at the same time coach of the Polish national team, which was founded in 2007 Vice World Champion and 2009 World Cup bronze medalist. In 2009, the two previously active in the German handball league Mariusz Jurasik (Rhein- Neckar Löwen ) and Rastko Stojkovic (HSG Nordhorn -Lingen ) obliged with which one the the qualifying tournament from 4th to 6th September 2009 in its own hall jump into the Champions League managed where you eliminated in the second round against HSV Hamburg. In the two subsequent years not made the jump to the last eight. In the 2012/13 Champions League season, the club failed only in the semi-final on FC Barcelona, but then sat down in the match for 3rd place with 31:30 against the German champions THW Kiel by. In January 2014 Talant Dujshebaev was, who was out of contract last after the insolvency of BM Atlético de Madrid, successor of Wenta, who moved into management of the association.
KS Vive Kielce since 1993/94
Achievements
- Polish Champion: 1993, 1994, 1996, 1998, 1999, 2003, 2009, 2010, 2012, 2013
- Polish Cup winner: 1985, 2000, 2003, 2004, 2006, 2009-2013
- 3rd place Champions League: 2013
- Eighth finalist in the Champions League: 2010, 2012
- Quarter-finalist in the EHF Cup: 1998, 2006
Hall
From 1986 to 2006, the venue for home games was a hall that had a capacity of about 1,600 seats.
Since 2006, the club has a modern multi-purpose sports hall, Hala Legionów, with 3,030 permanent seats. Capacity can be expanded at any time for other events by putting up chairs in the interior to 4,200 seats.