THW Kiel

THW Kiel is a professional handball club from Kiel, Germany. Currently, they compete in the Handball-Bundesliga and are the record champion with 23 titles.

2007 and 2012 were the most successful years in the club's history, as THW completed the treble, winning the domestic league, the domestic cup, and the EHF Champions League. In 2012, the team won every league game, a first in any top-flight German team sports.

They ended the 2019–20 season as winners of the EHF Champions League and champions of the Handball-Bundesliga.

They have a rivalry with fellow Schleswig-Holstein team SG Flensburg-Handewitt.

Accomplishments

 * Handball-Bundesliga: 23
 * 1957, 1962, 1963, 1994, 1995, 1996, 1998, 1999, 2000, 2002, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015, 2020, 2021, 2023
 * DHB-Pokal: 12
 * 1998, 1999, 2000, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2017, 2019, 2022
 * DHB-Supercup: 13
 * 1995, 1998, 2005, 2007, 2008, 2011, 2012, 2014, 2015, 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023
 * EHF Champions League:
 * 2007, 2010, 2012, 2020
 * 2000, 2008, 2009, 2014
 * 2022, 2024
 * EHF Cup:
 * 1998, 2002, 2004, 2019
 * EHF Men's Champions Trophy:
 * 2007
 * 2004
 * IHF Super Globe:
 * 2011
 * 2012, 2019
 * German Championship: 2 (Field handball)
 * 1948, 1950
 * 1951, 1953
 * Double:
 * 1997–98, 1998–99, 1999–00, 2006–07, 2007–08, 2008–09, 2011–12, 2012–13
 * Triple Crown:
 * 2006–07, 2011–12

Current squad

 * Squad for the 2024–25 season


 * Goalkeepers
 * 16 🇨🇿 Tomáš Mrkva
 * 33 🇩🇪 Andreas Wolff
 * Left wingers
 * 7 Magnus Landin
 * 23 🇩🇪 Rune Dahmke
 * Right wingers
 * 24 🇩🇪 Lukas Zerbe
 * 91 🇭🇺 Bence Imre


 * Line players
 * 11 🇳🇴 Petter Øverby
 * 17 🇩🇪 Patrick Wiencek
 * 61 🇩🇪 Hendrik Pekeler


 * Left backs
 * 21 🇸🇪 Eric Johansson
 * 49 🇸🇪 Karl Wallinius
 * 53 🇦🇹 Nikola Bilyk
 * Central backs
 * 4 Domagoj Duvnjak (c)
 * 71 Elias Ellefsen á Skipagøtu
 * Right backs
 * 6 🇳🇴 Harald Reinkind
 * 45 Emil Wernsdorf Madsen

Transfers

 * Transfers for the 2024–25 season


 * [[File:Arrow-up.gif]] Joining
 * 🇩🇪 Leon Nowottny (GK) (from own youth)
 * 🇩🇪 Andreas Wolff (GK) (from 🇵🇱 Industria Kielce)
 * Emil Wernsdorf Madsen (RB) (from GOG Håndbold)
 * 🇩🇪 Lukas Zerbe (RW) (from 🇩🇪 TBV Lemgo Lippe)
 * 🇭🇺 Bence Imre (RW) (from 🇭🇺 Ferencvárosi TC)


 * [[File:Arrow-down.gif]] Leaving
 * 🇩🇪 Magnus Bierfreund (GK) (to 🇩🇪 HBW Balingen-Weilstetten II)
 * 🇫🇷 Samir Bellahcene (GK) (to ?)
 * 🇩🇪 Ben Levermann (LB) (to 🇩🇪 HSV Hamburg)
 * 🇩🇪 Luca Schwormstede (LB) (to ?)
 * Eduardo Gurbindo (RB) (to 🇹🇷 Beşiktaş)
 * 🇩🇪 Steffen Weinhold (RB) (retires)
 * 🇸🇪 Niclas Ekberg (RW) (to 🇸🇪 Ystads IF)
 * 🇩🇪 Jarnes Faust (RW) (to 🇩🇪 TBV Lemgo Lippe)
 * 🇩🇪 Sven Ehrig (RW) (to TTH Holstebro)

Transfers

 * Transfers for the 2025–26 season


 * [[File:Arrow-up.gif]] Joining
 * Gonzalo Pérez de Vargas (GK) (from 🇪🇸 FC Barcelona)
 * Veron Načinović (P) (from 🇫🇷 Montpellier Handball)
 * 🇫🇷 Nedim Remili (RB/CB) (from 🇭🇺 ONE Veszprém) ?


 * [[File:Arrow-down.gif]] Leaving

Staff

 * Staff for the 2023–24 season

Notable former players

 * 🇩🇪 Heinrich Dahlinger (1936–1966)
 * 🇩🇪 Michael Krieter (1983–1998)
 * 🇩🇪 Wolfgang Schwenke (1996–2001)
 * 🇩🇪 Uwe Schwenker (1980–1992)
 * 🇩🇪 Henning Fritz (2001–2007)
 * 🇩🇪 Dominik Klein (2006–2016)
 * 🇩🇪 Thomas Knorr (1992–1998)
 * 🇩🇪 Tobias Reichmann (2009–2012)
 * 🇩🇪 Christian Sprenger (2009–2017)
 * 🇩🇪 Christian Zeitz (2003–2014, 2016–2018)
 * 🇩🇪 Andreas Wolff (2016–2019)
 * 🇩🇪 Christian Dissinger (2015–2018)
 * 🇩🇪 Dario Quenstedt (2019–2022)
 * 🇸🇪 Stefan Lövgren (1999–2009)
 * 🇸🇪 Staffan Olsson (1996–2003)
 * 🇸🇪 Magnus Wislander (1990–2002)
 * 🇸🇪 Johan Petersson (2001–2005)
 * 🇸🇪 Kim Andersson (2005–2012)
 * 🇸🇪 Marcus Ahlm (2003–2013)
 * 🇸🇪 Peter Gentzel (2009–2010)
 * 🇸🇪 Henrik Lundström (2004–2012)
 * 🇸🇪 Martin Boquist (2003–2005)
 * 🇸🇪 Mattias Andersson (2001–2008)
 * 🇸🇪 Pelle Linders (2005–2007)
 * 🇸🇪 Andreas Palicka (2008–2015)
 * 🇸🇪 Lukas Nilsson (2016–2020)
 * Nikolaj Jacobsen (1998–2004)
 * Rasmus Lauge Schmidt (2013–2015)
 * René Toft Hansen (2012–2018)
 * Lars Krogh Jeppesen (2006–2007)
 * Morten Bjerre (2000–2003)
 * Niklas Landin Jacobsen (2015–2023)
 * 🇫🇷 Nikola Karabatić (2005–2009)
 * 🇫🇷 Daniel Narcisse (2009–2013)
 * 🇫🇷 Thierry Omeyer (2006–2013)
 * 🇫🇷 Jérôme Fernandez (2010–2011)
 * 🇫🇷 Igor Anić (2015–2016)
 * 🇫🇷 Vincent Gérard (2023–2024)
 * 🇳🇴 Børge Lund (2007–2010)
 * 🇳🇴 Frode Hagen (2004–2006)
 * 🇳🇴 Steinar Ege (1999–2002, 2015)
 * 🇳🇴 Sander Sagosen (2020–2023)
 * 🇷🇸 Goran Stojanović (1996–1999)
 * 🇷🇸 Ljubomir Pavlović (2003)
 * 🇷🇸 Momir Ilić (2009–2013)
 * 🇷🇸 Marko Vujin (2012–2019)
 * Davor Dominiković (2002–2003)
 * Ilija Brozović (2016–2017)
 * Blaženko Lacković (2016–2017)
 * 🇵🇱 Marek Panas (1982–1989)
 * 🇵🇱 Daniel Waszkiewicz (1987–1990)
 * 🇵🇱 Piotr Przybecki (2001–2004)
 * Predrag Timko (1977–1980)
 * Nenad Peruničić (1997–2001)
 * Goran Stojanović (1996–1999)
 * 🇮🇸 Guðjón Valur Sigurðsson (2012–2014)
 * 🇮🇸 Aron Pálmarsson (2009–2015)
 * 🇨🇿 Filip Jícha (2007–2015)
 * 🇨🇿 Pavel Horák (2019–2022)
 * Vid Kavtičnik (2005–2009)
 * Miha Zarabec (2017–2023)
 * 🇪🇸 Demetrio Lozano (2001–2004)
 * 🇪🇸 Joan Cañellas (2014–2016)
 * 🇹🇳 Wael Jallouz (2013–2014)
 * 🇩🇪 Zvonimir Serdarušić (1980–1981)
 * 🇺🇦🇪🇸 Andrei Xepkin (2007)
 * 🇨🇺🇪🇸 Julio Fis (2001–2002)

Notable former coaches

 * 🇩🇪 Fritz Westheider (1930–1958)
 * 🇩🇪 Heinrich Dahlinger (1958–1972)
 * 🇩🇪 Kurt Bartels, 🇩🇪 Rolf Krabbenhöft, 🇩🇪 Bernd Struck (1972–1973)
 * 🇩🇪 Adolf Gabriel (1973–1975)
 * 🇩🇪 Werner Kirst (1975)
 * 🇩🇪 Gerd Welz (1975–1977)
 * Željko Seleš (1977–1978)
 * 🇩🇪 Werner Kirst (1978–1979)
 * 🇩🇪 Gerd Welz (1979–1980)
 * Marinko Andrić (1980–1981)
 * 🇩🇪 Herward Wieck (1981–1982)
 * 🇮🇸 Jóhann Ingi Gunnarsson (1983–1986)
 * 🇵🇱 Marek Panas (1987–1989)
 * Josip Milković (1989)
 * 🇩🇪 Holger Oertel (1989–1992)
 * 🇩🇪 Uwe Schwenker (1993)
 * 🇩🇪 Zvonimir Serdarušić (1993–2008)
 * 🇮🇸 Alfreð Gíslason (2008–2019)