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.



Accomplishments

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

Current squad

 * Squad for the 2024–25 season


 * GK
 * 1 Dominik Kuzmanović
 * 16 Bertram Obling
 * LW
 * 5 Tilen Kodrin
 * 6 🇲🇪 Miloš Vujović
 * RW
 * 8 🇩🇪 Lukas Blohme
 * 11 🇩🇪 Mathis Häseler
 * LP
 * 4 🇮🇸 Elliði Snær Viðarsson
 * 40 🇩🇪 Jonas Stüber
 * 66 🇨🇿 Štěpán Zeman
 * 27 Kristjan Horžen


 * LB
 * 7 🇩🇪 Julian Köster
 * 15 🇩🇪 Miro Schluroff
 * CB
 * 30 🇩🇪 Tom Kiesler
 * 22 🇫🇷 Kentin Mahé
 * RB
 * 19 Giorgi Tskhovrebadze
 * 14 🇮🇸 Teitur Örn Einarsson

Transfers

 * Transfers for the 2024–25 season


 * Joining [[File:Arrow-up.png]]
 * Bertram Obling (GK) (from 🇩🇪 HC Erlangen)
 * Dominik Kuzmanović (GK) (from RK Nexe Našice)
 * 🇫🇷 Kentin Mahé (CB) (from 🇭🇺 Telekom Veszprém)
 * 🇮🇸 Teitur Einarsson (RB) (from 🇩🇪 SG Flensburg-Handewitt)


 * [[File:Arrow-down.gif]] Leaving
 * 🇷🇸 Tibor Ivanišević (GK) (to 🇩🇪 Frisch Auf Göppingen)
 * 🇩🇪 Daniel Rebmann (GK) (to 🇩🇪 SG BBM Bietigheim)
 * 🇩🇪 Keno Danzenbächer (GK) ''(to 🇩🇪 GWD Minden)
 * 🇩🇪 Dominik Mappes (CB) (to 🇩🇪 HSG Wetzlar)
 * 🇩🇪 Moritz Köster (LB) ''(to 🇩🇪 TSV Bayer Dormagen)
 * 🇮🇸 Arnór Snær Óskarsson (RB) (back from loan to 🇩🇪 Rhein-Neckar Löwen)
 * 🇩🇪 Finn Schroven (RB) ''(to 🇩🇪 TSV Bayer Dormagen)
 * Tom Jansen (RB) ''(to 🇩🇪 ASV Hamm-Westfalen)

Notable players
• 🇩🇪 Heiner Brand

• 🇩🇪 Stefan Kretzschmar

• 🇩🇪 Erhard Wunderlich

• 🇩🇪 Andreas Dörhöfer

• 🇩🇪 Mark Dragunski

• 🇩🇪 Frank von Behren

• 🇩🇪 Patrick Wiencek

• 🇩🇪 Christian Ramota

• 🇩🇪 Adrian Pfahl

• 🇩🇪 Klaus-Dieter Petersen

• 🇩🇪 Jochen Brand

• 🇩🇪 Klaus Brand

• 🇩🇪 Frank Dammann

• 🇩🇪 Joachim Deckarm

• 🇩🇪 Jochen Feldhoff

• 🇩🇪 Frank Dammann

• 🇩🇪 Claus Fey

• 🇩🇪 Rudi Rauer

• 🇩🇪 Henning Wiechers

• 🇩🇪 Klaus Westebbe

• 🇩🇪 Andreas Thiel

• 🇩🇪 Dirk Rauin

• 🇩🇪 Gerd Rosendahl

• 🇩🇪 Franz-Josef Salewski

• 🇩🇪 Klaus Schlagheck

• 🇩🇪 Hansi Schmidt

• 🇩🇪 Christian Fitzek

• 🇩🇪 Stefan Hecker

• 🇩🇪 Holger Löhr

• 🇩🇪 Thomas Krokowski

• 🇩🇪 Helmut Kosmehl

• 🇩🇪 Rüdiger Neitzel

• 🇩🇪 Gunnar Jaeger

• 🇩🇪 Rolf Jaeger

• 🇩🇪 Klaus Kater

• 🇫🇷 Daniel Narcisse

• 🇫🇷 Igor Anić

• 🇫🇷 Kentin Mahé

• 🇫🇷 François-Xavier Houlet

• 🇷🇸 Vladan Krasavac

• 🇷🇸 Aleksandar Stanojević

• 🇷🇸 Momir Ilić

• 🇭🇷 Vjenceslav Somić

• 🇭🇷 Drago Vuković

• 🇮🇸 Kristján Arason

• 🇮🇸 Guðjón Valur Sigurðsson

• 🇰🇷 Kyung-Shin Yoon

• 🇲🇪 Goran Stojanović

• 🇲🇰 Borko Ristovski

• 🇸🇮 Aljoša Rezar

• 🇳🇴 Rune Erland

• 🇭🇺 Nándor Fazekas

• 🇦🇹 🇭🇺 Viktor Szilágyi

Coaching history

 * 🇷🇴 Petre Ivănescu
 * 🇭🇷 Velimir Kljaić
 * 🇧🇦 Sead Hasanefendić
 * 🇩🇪 Horst Dreischang (1959–1971)