What is THW Kiel?

THW Kiel is the most successful German handball team of the last 15 years and was twelve times German champion in the last fifteen years. Winning once the Champions League, six times the German cup, five times the German Super-Cup and three times the EHF cup added to the impressive record of Germany's leading handball team in the leading handball league of the world, the "Bundesliga". But THW Kiel has also a long handball tradition - becoming German champion for the first time already in 1957. More than 10000 enthusiastic supporters and famous players like Thierry Omeyer, Filip Jicha, Kim Andersson, Marcus Ahlm, Momir Ilic, Daniel Narcisse and Christian Zeitz make the Sparkassen-Arena - the Kiel event hall - a nearly unconquerable place for the visiting teams. THW Kiel was home to many of the world most respected handball players like Stefan Lövgren, Nikola Karabatic (world handballer 2007), Magnus Wislander (world handballer 1990), Staffan Olsson, Henning Fritz (world handballer 2004), Nikolaj Jacobsen, Demetrio Lozano, Frode Hagen, Andrei Xepkin (segen times CL winner), Roman Pungartnik, Nenad Perunicic, Lars Krogh Jeppesen Marek Panas or former German national team captain Klaus-Dieter Petersen. http://www.thw-provinzial.de/thw/ethw.htm