The Slagelse Dream Team is a hand ball

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...

 team from the town of Slagelse

Slagelse

Slagelse, a town in east Denmark, is in Slagelse municipality on the island of Zealand. It is about 100 km southwest of Copenhagen. The population is 31,979 ....

, Denmark

Denmark

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. It is sometimes referred to as "Slagelse DT", and is the professional first team for the hand ball club Slagelse Forenede Håndboldklubber (Slagelse FH). The club was catapulted into the limelight in 2000 when Anja Andersen

Anja Andersen

Anja Andersen is a former female handball player and currently coach.-Career:Anja Andersen is known for both her skills as an offensive player, her strong temper and courage to make dramatic scenes and daring tricks during a match. She was an important part of the renaissance in Danish handball...

 took the head coach job and in a very short time led the women's team to the first Danish victory in the Women's 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...

 final in 2004.

History

Slagelse Forenede Håndboldklubber was created by a merger of the two clubs Slagelse HK and Marievang IF who each had their own success, especially on youth level. Slagelse HK's women's team was promoted twice to the premier division around 1990, though the team was relegated the following season on both occasions.

In 1997 the two clubs merged under the name Slagelse FH and in early 2000 the club signed a deal with Anja Andersen

Anja Andersen

Anja Andersen is a former female handball player and currently coach.-Career:Anja Andersen is known for both her skills as an offensive player, her strong temper and courage to make dramatic scenes and daring tricks during a match. She was an important part of the renaissance in Danish handball...

to help the club achieve promotion to the premier division.