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Short name
  
FAG

President
  
Thomas Lander

Founded
  
1896

Capacity
  
5,600

Head coach
  
Velimir Petković

Arena
  
Location
  

Full name
  
Turn- und Polizeisportgemeinschaft Frisch Auf Göppingen e.V.

Former name
  
SG FRISCH AUF! Göppingen/Scharnhausen

Profiles

Turn- und Polizeisportgemeinschaft Frisch Auf Göppingen e.V. is a sports club from Göppingen, Germany. The club's men's handball team plays under the name FRISCH AUF! Göppingen (organised from FRISCH AUF! Göppingen Management & Marketing GmbH since 1993) in Handball-Bundesliga. The clubs women's handball team Frisch Auf Frauen also plays in 1st German league.

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The club came to fame when Bernhard Kempa and his brothers moved from Silesia to Göppingen in 1948 and started playing for the club. First as a player and later as coach, he led the club to most of its titles. Since 1972 - one year after Kempa left the club - Göppingen has not won the Championship again and spent the 1990s in the 2nd division. However in 2001, they were promoted to the Handball Bundesliga again.

Accomplishments

  • National Championship of Germany: 9
  • 1954, 1955, 1958, 1959, 1960, 1961, 1965, 1970, 1972

  • EHF Champions League:
  • 1960, 1962
  • EHF Champions League Finalists:
  • 1959
  • EHF Cup Finalists:
  • 2006
  • EHF Cup:
  • 2011, 2016
  • Notable players

  • Martin Galia
  • Enid Tahirović
  • Michael Kraus
  • Oliver Roggisch
  • Momir Rnić
  • Aleksandar Knežević
  • Michael Schweikardt
  • Rareș Jurcă
  • Nikola Manojlović
  • Andrius Stelmokas
  • Žarko Marković
  • Michal Shejbal
  • Bojan Beljanski
  • Bruno Bezerra de Menezes Souza
  • Damjan Blečić
  • Lars Kaufmann
  • Božidar Markićević
  • Volker Michel
  • Vukašin Rajković
  • Simon Baumgarten
  • Dalibor Anušić
  • Women's handball team

    The women's team of Frisch Auf Göppingen, also called Frisch Auf Frauen, play same as men's team, in the first league. The team played 2006-07 in Handball-Bundesliga Frauen the first time and currently again since 2008.
    Coach of the team is Aleksandar Knežević, who formerly played for the men's team.
    The arena ground of women's team is also same as of the men's team, EWS Arena.
    In 2009-10 the team played international in Women's EHF Cup.

    References

    Frisch Auf Göppingen Wikipedia


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