Handball Club Leipzig
HC Leipzig is a women's handball club based in Leipzig, Germany. They play in Handball-Bundesliga Frauen and are often competing in the EHF Women's Champions League, the now defunct EHF Women's Cup Winners' Cup, which merged with the Women's EHF Cup and are internationally regarded as one of the best German women's handball clubs.
| Handball Club Leipzig | |||
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| Full name | Handball Club Leipzig | ||
| Short name | HCL | ||
| Founded | 1893 | ||
| Arena | Arena Leipzig | ||
| Capacity | 7,000[1] | ||
| President | Torsten Brunnquell | ||
| Head coach | Fabian Kunze | ||
| League | 2. Handball-Bundesliga | ||
| 2021–2022 | 2. Handball-Bundesliga, 12th | ||
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| Website  Official site  | |||
Kits
    
| HOME | |||||
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2014–15  | 
2016-17  | |||
| AWAY | |||||
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2016-17  | ||||
Honours
    
    Domestic competitions
    
- Handball-Bundesliga Frauen:
 Champions (6): 1998, 1999, 2002, 2006, 2009, 2010
 - German Cup:
 Winners (7): 1996, 2000, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2014, 2016
 - German Supercup:
 Winners (1): 2008
 - DDR-Oberliga:
 Champions (15): 1953, 1957, 1965, 1968, 1969, 1970, 1971, 1972, 1973, 1975, 1976, 1978, 1984, 1988, 1991
 - FDGB-Pokal:
 Winners (3): 1971, 1983, 1987
 
European competitions
    
 EHF Women's Champions League:
 Winners (2): 1966, 1974
 Runners-Up (4): 1967, 1970, 1972, 1977
 EHF Women's Cup Winners' Cup:
 Runners-Up (2): 1978, 1997
 Women's EHF Cup:
 Winners (2): 1986, 1992
 Runners-Up (1): 2009
European record
    
| Season | Competition | Round | Club | 1st leg | 2nd leg | Aggregate | 
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| 2016–17 | EHF Champions League | Q1 | 29–18 | 1st place | ||
| 32–30 | ||||||
| Group B | 22–45 | 24–41 | 4th place | |||
| 17–30 | 22–26 | |||||
| 30–27 | 24–27 | |||||
| EHF Cup | Group B | 27–33 | 24–32 | 4th place | ||
| 15–34 | 20–23 | |||||
| 21–34 | 27–29 | |||||
Team
    
    Current squad
    
- Squad for the 2021–22 season[2]
 
Goalkeeper
    
- 16 Anna Kröber
 - 26 Annabell Krüeger
 
Fields
    
- 2 Pauline Uhlmann
 - 3 Lara Seidel
 - 7 Julia Weise
 - 10 Emely Theilig
 - 14 Hanna Ferber-Rahnhöfer
 - 20 Sharleen Greschner
 - 22 Emily Glimm
 - 23 Tyra Bessert
 - 24 Lotta Röpcke
 - 25 Lilli Röpcke
 - 33 Christin Conrad
 - 36 Stefanie Hummel
 - 35 Jacqueline Hummel
 - 41 Wiebke Meyer
 - 99 Nina Reißberg
 
Technical Staff
    
- Club Manager: Torsten Brunnquell
 - Head Coach: Fabian Kunze
 - Assistant Coach: Philip Brommann
 - Goalkeeping Coach: Wieland Schmidt
 - Physiotherapist: Sophie Höpfner
 
Squad for the 2017–18 season
 
 
 
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Technical staff
    
- Club Manager: Kay-Sven Hähner
 - Head Coach: Norman Rentsch
 - Assistant Coach: Max Berthold
 - Goalkeeping Coach: Wieland Schmidt
 - Fitness and Athletics Coach: Isabelle Kellmann
 - Physiotherapist: Christian Markus
 - Physiotherapist: Danilo Menge
 - Team Doctor: Dr. Gotthard Knoll
 
Notable former players
    
 Natalie Augsburg
 Nora Reiche
 Ulrike Stange
 Katja Schülke
 Luisa Schulze
 Susann Müller
 Anne Müller
 Katja Langkeit
 Nina Müller
 Grit Jurack
 Anne Hubinger
 Saskia Lang
 Franziska Mietzner
 Shenia Minevskaja
 Sara Eriksson
 Sara Holmgren
 Karolina Kudlacz
 Karolina Szwed
 Debbie Bont
 Maura Visser
 Jessy Kramer
 Rikke Nielsen
 Louise Lyksborg
 Chana Masson
 Idalina Borges Mesquita
 Else Marthe Sörlie Lybekk
 Renate Urne
 Ionica Munteanu
References
    
- "Handball Arenen Deutschland" (in German). Stadionwelt. Retrieved 25 August 2011.
 - "Kaderlist 2014/2015" [Squadlist for the 2014/2015 season] (in German). HC Leipzig official website. Retrieved 18 October 2014.
 
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