TSV Bayer 04 Leverkusen | |||
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Full name | HC TSV Bayer 04 Leverkusen | ||
Nickname(s) | Werkselfen | ||
Short name | Bayer Leverkusen | ||
Founded | 1904 | ||
Arena | Ostermann-Arena, Leverkusen | ||
Capacity | 3,500 | ||
President | Klaus Beck | ||
Head coach | Michael Biegler | ||
League | Bundesliga | ||
2022–23 | 9th | ||
Club colours | |||
Website Official site |
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,[1] 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.[2]