Hypo Niederösterreich is an Austria

Austria

Austria , officially the Republic of Austria , is a landlocked country of roughly 8.4 million people in Central Europe. It is bordered by the Czech Republic and Germany to the north, Slovakia and Hungary to the east, Slovenia and Italy to the south, and Switzerland and Liechtenstein to the...

n women's handball

Team handball

Handball is a team sport in which two teams of seven players each pass a ball to throw it into the goal of the other team...

 club. They are one of the most successful teams on the EHF Champions League

Women's EHF Champions League

The EHF Women's Champions League is an official competition for women's handball clubs of Europe, organized annually by the European Handball Federation . It is the most competitive and prestigious tournament for clubs since the champions of the best national leagues participate on it.- Eligibility...

, having won the title eight times. They are also former winners of the EHF Champions Trophy in 2000.

Honours

• Women Handball Austria:
  • Winners (35): 1977, 1978, 1979, 1980, 1981, 1982, 1983, 1984, 1985, 1986, 1987, 1988, 1989, 1990, 1991, 1992, 1993, 1994, 1995, 1996, 1997, 1998, 1999, 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011

• ÖHB Cup:
  • Winners (22): 1990, 1991, 1992, 1993, 1994, 1995, 1996, 1997, 1998, 1999, 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011

• EHF Champions League
  Women's EHF Champions League
  The EHF Women's Champions League is an official competition for women's handball clubs of Europe, organized annually by the European Handball Federation . It is the most competitive and prestigious tournament for clubs since the champions of the best national leagues participate on it.- Eligibility...
  
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  • Winners (8): 1989, 1990, 1992, 1993, 1994, 1995, 1998, 2000
  • Runners-Up (5): 1987, 1988, 1991, 1996, 2008

• EHF Champions Trophy:
  • Winners (1): 2000
  • Runners-Up (2): 2004, 2008

• EHF Cup Winners' Cup:
  • Runners-Up (1): 2004

Current squad

Squad for the 2011–12 season

Goalkeeper

• 12   Bárbara Arenhart
  Bárbara Arenhart
  Bárbara Arenhart is a Brazilian team handball goalkeeper who plays for the Austrian club Hypo Niederösterreich and the Brazilian national team.-References:...
  
  
• 16   Petra Blazek
  Petra Blazek
  Petra Blazek is an Austrian handballer playing for Hypo Niederösterreich and the Austrian national team.-Career:...
  
  

Wingers3   Alexandra do Nascimento

Alexandra Do Nascimento

Alexandra Priscila do Nascimento is a Brazilian handball player. She plays for the Austrian club Hypo Niederösterreich and for the Brazilian national team...

• 17   Sabrina Stumvoll
• 18   Fernanda da Silva
• 92   Karla Ivancok

Line players5   Daniela Piedade

Daniela Piedade

Daniela Piedade de Olivieira is a Brazilian handball player. She plays for the Austrian club Hypo Niederösterreich and for the Brazilian national team. She participated at the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens, and at the 2008 Summer Olympics in China.-References:...

• 22   Stefanie Kaiser

Back players4   Samira Rocha8   Martina Goricanec9   Ana Paula Rodrigues

Ana Paula Rodrigues

Ana Paula Rodrigues is a Brazilian handballer who plays for the Austrian club Hypo Niederösterreich and the Brazilian national team as a playmaker.-References:...

• 14   Nina Stumvoll
• 15   Silvia Pinheiro
  Silvia Pinheiro
  Silvia Helena Araujo Pinheiro is a Brazilian handballer who plays for the Austrian club Hypo Niederösterreich and the Brazilian national team as a left back.-References:...
  
  
• 19   Viktória Rédei Soós
  Viktória Rédei Soós
  Viktória Rédei Soós is a Hungarian handballer playing for Hypo Niederösterreich and the Hungarian national team.She made her international debut on 23 April 2011 against the Netherlands.-Achievements:...
  
  
• 20   Francine Cararo
• 86   Bernadett Temes
  Bernadett Temes
  Bernadett Temes is a Hungarian handballer playing for Hypo Niederösterreich and the Hungarian national team as a playmaker.She made her international debut on 28 February 2007 against Norway.-Achievements:...
  
  

Technical staff

Head Coach: András Németh Assistant Coach: Ferenc Kovács Physiotherapist: Christian Geistler

Selected former players

Gorica Aćimović

Gorica Aćimović

Gorica Aćimović is an Austrian handballer who currently plays for RK Krim Ljubljana. Born in Bosnia and Herzegovina, she was granted Austrian citizenship in November 2007.-Achievements:*Women Handball Austria:...

 Ausra Fridrikas

Ausra Fridrikas

Ausra Fridrikas is an Austrian handball player and World champion from 1990. She first played for Soviet Union, later for Lithuania and finally for Austria. She was voted World Handball Player of the Year 1999 by the International Handball Federation...

 Tatjana Logvin   Simona Spiridon

Simona Spiridon

Simona Spiridon is an Austrian handballer who plays for Russian Superleague club Zvezda Zvenigorod. She is also member of the Austrian national team.-Career:...

   Edith Matei   Nataliya Rusnachenko

Nataliya Rusnachenko

Nataliya Rusnachenko is a Ukrainian former handball player who competed for the Soviet Union in the 1988 Summer Olympics and for Austria in the 1992 Summer Olympics and in the 2000 Summer Olympics.She was born in Kiev....

 Sabine Englert

Sabine Englert

Sabine Englert is a German team handball goalkeeper from Aschaffenburg, Bavaria. She has previously played for the Austrian club Hypo Niederösterreich, and on the German national team. But now she plays for FC Midtjylland Håndbold. -International career:Englert made her debut on the German team in...

 Beatrix Balogh Erika Kirsner

Erika Kirsner

Erika Kirsner is a former Hungarian international handball player who currently serves as the president of Váci NKSE.-Achievements:*Nemzeti Bajnokság I:**Winner: 2000, 2002, 2007...

 Dóra Lőwy

Dóra Lowy

Dóra Lőwy is a former Hungarian team handball player and Olympic medalist. She received a silver medal at the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney with the Hungarian national team.-Achievements:*Nemzeti Bajnokság I:...

 Marianna Nagy

Marianna Nagy (handballer)

Marianna Nagy is a former Hungarian handball player and Olympic medalist.-Career:Nagy started her career in her hometown club Csornai SE. In 1976 she moved to Budapest to study on the University of Physical Education and to play for their team. Nagy graduated in 1980 and signed to Vasas SC yet in...

 Tímea Tóth Oh Seong-Ok

Oh Seong-Ok

Oh Seong-Ok is a South Korean handball player who is the first Korean woman to compete at five Olympics ....

 Paula Ungureanu

Paula Ungureanu

Paula Claudia Ungureanu is a Romanian team handball goalkeeper. From 2009 Ungureanu is playing for the Romanian club CS Oltchim Râmnicu Vâlcea and became also the main goalkeeper of the Romania women's national handball team....