TSV Bayer 04 Leverkusen (handball)

HC TSV Bayer 04 Leverkusen is a Germany professional women's handball club from Leverkusen representing TSV Bayer 04 Leverkusen in the Handball-Bundesliga Frauen.

Bayer Leverkusen won six national championships between 1965 and 1980, and six more titles in a row between 1982 and 1987, its most successful period. It was the only team from West Germany to reach the European Cup's final before the country's reunification, in 1984, and seven years later it also played the EHF Women's Cup's final. In 2005 it finally won its first international title, a Challenge Cup. In recent years it has won the 2010 German Cup and reached the EHF Cup and Cup Winners' Cup's semifinals.

Titles

 * Challenge Cup
 * 2005
 * German League
 * 1965, 1966, 1973, 1974, 1979, 1980, 1982, 1983, 1984, 1985, 1986, 1987
 * German Cup
 * 1980, 1982, 1983, 1984, 1985, 1987, 1991, 2002, 2010

Current squad

 * Squad for the 2022–23 season


 * Goalkeepers
 * 1 Lieke van der Linden
 * 21 🇸🇪 Miranda Nasser
 * 95 Nela Zuzic
 * Wingers
 * LW
 * 26 🇩🇪 Loreen Veit
 * 9 🇩🇪 Jennifer Souza


 * RW
 * 18 🇩🇪 Emilia Ronge
 * 20 🇩🇪 Pia Terfloth


 * Line players
 * 8 Fem Boeters
 * 13 🇩🇪 Ariane Pfundstein
 * 37 🇩🇪 Marie Teusch


 * Back players
 * LB
 * 9 🇩🇪 Naina Klein
 * 22 Mariana Ferreira Lopes


 * CB
 * 3 Živilė Jurgutytė
 * 2 🇩🇪 Mareike Thomaier
 * 10 🇩🇪 Sophia Cormann
 * 11 🇩🇪 Marla Mathwig
 * RB
 * 7 🇩🇪 Viola Leuchter
 * 14 Lynn Kuipers

Transfers

 * Transfers for the 2023-24 season


 * Joining
 * 🇩🇪 Michael Biegler (Head coach)
 * 🇩🇪 Christin Kaufmann (RW) (from own rows)
 * 🇩🇪 Johanna Andresen (LB) (from 🇩🇪 TSV Nord Harrislee)


 * Leaving
 * 🇸🇪 Johan Petersson (Head coach)
 * 🇩🇪 Emilia Ronge (RW) (to 🇩🇪 VfL Oldenburg)
 * 🇩🇪 Ariane Pfundstein (P) (to 🇩🇪 VfL Oldenburg)
 * Živilė Jurgutytė (CB) (Retires)

Notable former players

 * Kristine Andersen (1996-1997)
 * 🇦🇿 Valentyna Salamakha (2011-2015)
 * 🇦🇹 Katrin Engel (2009-2010)
 * 🇦🇹 Kristina Logvin (2013-2015)
 * Debbie Klijn (1999-2004)
 * Branka Zec (2016-2018)
 * 🇦🇺 Sally Potocki (2016-2019)
 * 🇩🇪 Sabine Englert (2003-2007)
 * 🇩🇪 Nadine Krause (2001–2007, 2011-2012)
 * 🇩🇪 Anna Loerper (2003-2011)
 * 🇩🇪 Jenny Karolius (2014-2019)
 * 🇩🇪 Jennifer Rode (2014-2020)
 * 🇩🇪 Anne Müller (1999-2010)
 * 🇩🇪 Sabrina Richter (2004–2008)
 * 🇩🇪 Laura Steinbach (2007-2013)
 * 🇩🇪 Clara Woltering (2000-2011)
 * 🇩🇪 Katja Kramarczyk (2016-2018)
 * 🇩🇪 Sabrina Neukamp (2004-2008)
 * 🇩🇪 Kim Naidzinavicius (2011-2016)
 * 🇩🇪 Marlene Zapf (2009-2014)
 * 🇩🇪 Amelie Berger (2016-2019)
 * 🇩🇪 Aimée von Pereira (2018-2019)
 * 🇩🇪 Kim Braun (2014-2018)