Bayer 04 Leverkusen (handball)

Bayer 04 Leverkusen (handball)
Full name	HC TSV Bayer 04 Leverkusen
Short name	Bayer Leverkusen
Arena	Smidt-Arena, Leverkusen
Capacity	3,500
President	Klaus Beck (GER)
Head coach	Heike Ahlgrimm[1] (Ger)
League	Bundesliga
2010–11	6th
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Website Official site

HC TSV Bayer 04 Leverkusen is a Germany women's handball club from Leverkusen representing Bayer 04 Leverkusen in the Handball-Bundesliga Frauen.^[2]

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,^[3] 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.^[4]

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

References

1. http://www.leverkusen.com/presse/db/presse.php?view=00023029 Ahlgrimm mit 100-Tage-Bilanz
2. Current results and tables in Scoresway.com
3. List of finals in the-sports.org
4. Record in EHF's website