# 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.

## Kits

HOME :
| 2013-14 | 2014–15 | 2016-17 |
AWAY :
| 2013-14 | 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 |
| 2016–17 | EHF Champions League | Q1 | HC Gomel | 29–18 | 29–18 | 1st place |
| 2016–17 | EHF Champions League | Q1 | Hypo Niederösterreich | 32–30 | 32–30 | | 1st place |
| 2016–17 | EHF Champions League | Group B | Vardar | 22–45 | 24–41 | 4th place |
| 2016–17 | EHF Champions League | Group B | FTC-Rail Cargo Hungaria | 17–30 | 22–26 | 4th place |
| 2016–17 | EHF Champions League | Group B | HC Astrakhanochka | 30–27 | 24–27 | 4th place |
| 2016–17 | EHF Cup | Group B | HC Kuban Krasnodar | 27–33 | 24–32 | 4th place |
| 2016–17 | EHF Cup | Group B | Brest Bretagne Handball | 15–34 | 20–23 | 4th place |
| 2016–17 | EHF Cup | Group B | Alba Fehérvár KC | 21–34 | 27–29 | 4th place |

## Team
### Current squad

    Squad for the 2021–22 season

#### 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

### 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