VfL Gummersbach

VfL Gummersbach is a professional handball club from the German city of Gummersbach, North Rhine-Westphalia. Currently, VfL Gummersbach competes in the Handball-Bundesliga and the DHB-Pokal. The club has seen great success, especially from the late 1960s until the early 1990s.

Gummi – the official mascot of VfL Gummersbach.

VfL Gummersbach
Founded1861 (1861)
ArenaSchwalbe-Arena
Capacity4,132
Head coachGuðjón Valur Sigurðsson
LeagueHandball-Bundesliga
2022–2310th of 18
Club colours   
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Home
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Away
Website
Official site

Crest, colours, supporters

Kits

Accomplishments
  • 1. Handball-Bundesliga: 12
    •  Gold: 1966, 1967, 1969, 1973, 1974, 1975, 1976, 1982, 1983, 1985, 1988, 1991
  • 2. Handball-Bundesliga:
    •  Gold: 2022
  • DHB-Pokal:
    •  Gold: 1977, 1978, 1982, 1983, 1985
  • EHF Champions League:
    •  Gold: 1967, 1970, 1971, 1974, 1983
  • EHF Champions League Finalists:
    •  Silver: 1972
  • EHF Cup Winner's Cup:
    •  Gold: 1978, 1979, 2010, 2011
  • EHF Cup:
    •  Gold: 1982, 2009
  • European Club Championship:
    •  Gold: 1979, 1983
  • European Club Championship Finalists:
    •  Silver: 2006
  • Double
Winners: 1981–82, 1982–83, 1984–85

Team

Current squad
Squad for the 2023–24 season

Transfers
Transfers for the 2024–25 season
Transfers for the 2025–26 season

Notable players
  • Germany Heiner Brand
  • Germany Stefan Kretzschmar
  • Germany Erhard Wunderlich
  • Germany Andreas Dörhöfer
  • Germany Mark Dragunski
  • Germany Frank von Behren
  • Germany Patrick Wiencek
  • Germany Christian Ramota
  • Germany Adrian Pfahl
  • Germany Klaus-Dieter Petersen
  • Germany Jochen Brand
  • Germany Klaus Brand
  • Germany Frank Dammann
  • Germany Joachim Deckarm
  • Germany Jochen Feldhoff
  • Germany Frank Dammann
  • Germany Claus Fey
  • Germany Rudi Rauer
  • Germany Henning Wiechers
  • Germany Klaus Westebbe
  • Germany Andreas Thiel
  • Germany Dirk Rauin
  • Germany Gerd Rosendahl
  • Germany Franz-Josef Salewski
  • Germany Klaus Schlagheck
  • Germany Hansi Schmidt
  • Germany Christian Fitzek
  • Germany Stefan Hecker
  • Germany Holger Löhr
  • Germany Thomas Krokowski
  • Germany Helmut Kosmehl
  • Germany Rüdiger Neitzel
  • Germany Gunnar Jaeger
  • Germany Rolf Jaeger
  • Germany Klaus Kater
  • France Daniel Narcisse
  • France Igor Anić
  • France Kentin Mahé
  • France François-Xavier Houlet
  • Serbia Vladan Krasavac
  • Serbia Aleksandar Stanojević
  • Serbia Momir Ilić
  • Croatia Vjenceslav Somić
  • Croatia Drago Vuković
  • Iceland Kristján Arason
  • Iceland Guðjón Valur Sigurðsson
  • South Korea Kyung-Shin Yoon
  • Montenegro Goran Stojanović
  • North Macedonia Borko Ristovski
  • Slovenia Aljoša Rezar
  • Norway Rune Erland
  • Hungary Nándor Fazekas
  • Austria Hungary Viktor Szilágyi

Coaching history
  • Romania Petre Ivănescu
  • Croatia Velimir Kljaić
  • Bosnia and Herzegovina Sead Hasanefendić
  • Germany Horst Dreischang (1959–1971)[1]

References
  1. "Leseprobe – VFL Gummersbach. Die Chronik by Verlag die Werkstatt – Issuu". 19 November 2015.
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