HB Ludwigsburg

HB Ludwigsburg is a German professional handball club from Ludwigsburg, Baden-Württemberg. Its women's team is playing in the Handball-Bundesliga Frauen, and internationally in the EHF Champions League. The men's team plays in the Handball-Bundesliga.

It has previously used the name SG BBM Bietigheim. For the 2024/25 season, the women's team moved its official location from Bietigheim-Bissingen to Ludwigsburg and changed the official club name to 'HB Ludwigsburg'.

History

In 2010 SG BBM Bietigheim was promoted to the Bundesliga for the first time. In the 2016-17 season, they won the German Championship for the first time, and in the same season reached the final of the EHF Cup. In 2021 they won the DHB-Pokal for the first time, and in 2022 they won their first international title, when they won the 2022 European League.

In 2024, they changed their home location to Ludwigsburg, and changed their name to 'HB Ludwigsburg'. In their first season under a new name, they won the German Championship once again.

Team

Kits

Honours

Domestic competitions

• Handball-Bundesliga Frauen:
• Champions (6): 2017, 2019, 2022, 2023, 2024, 2025
• Runners-Up (2): 2018, 2021
• Champions: 2013
• German Cup:
• Winners (4): 2021, 2022, 2023, 2025
• :
• Winners (6): 2017, 2019, 2021, 2022, 2023, 2024

European competitions

• Women's EHF Champions League:
• Runners-Up: 2024

• Women's EHF European League:
• Winners: 2022
• Runners-Up: 2017

Team

Current squad

Squad for the 2025–26 season

Goalkeepers

Wingers

LW:

RW:

Line players

• 20 Sofia Hvenfelt (pregnant)

Back players

LB:

CB:

• 14 Karolina Kudłacz-Gloc

RB:

Transfers

Transfers for the 2025–26 season

Joining

• Tomáš Hlavatý (Head Coach) (free agent)

Leaving

• Jakob Vestergaard (Head Coach) (to Odense HÃ¥ndbold)
• Johanna Bundsen (GK) (to Metz Handball)
• Nicole Roth (GK) (to HSG Blomberg-Lippe)
• Antje Döll (LW) (to Neckarsulmer SU)
• Veronika Malá (LW) (to Storhamar HE)
• Julia Niewiadomska (LB) (to BSV Sachsen Zwickau)
• Guro Nestaker (LB) (to Borussia Dortmund Handball)
• Xenia Smits (LB) (to Metz Handball)
• Mareike Thomaier (CB) (to HSG Bensheim/Auerbach)
• Jenny Carlson (CB) (to Molde Elite)
• Anne With Johansen (RB) (to RK Krim)
• Viola Leuchter (RB) (to Odense HÃ¥ndbold)
• Jenny Behrend (RW) (to VfL Oldenburg)
• Kaba Gassama (P) (to CS Gloria Bistrița)
• Valentina Klemenčič (P) (to ŽRK Crvena zvezda)
• Dorottya Faluvégi (RW) (to CSM București)

Top scorers in the EHF Champions League

(All-Time) – Last updated after the 2024/2025 season

Notable former players

• Antje Döll (2015–2025)
• Xenia Smits (2020–2025)
• Kim Naidzinavicius (2016–2023)
• Anna Loerper (2018–2021)
• Luisa Schulze (2016–2022)
• Dinah Eckerle (2018–2020)
• Julia Behnke (2011–2014)
• Jenny Behrend (2021–2025)
• Nina Müller (2015–2018)
• Susann Müller (2015–2018)
• Julia Maidhof (2020–2023)
• Amelie Berger (2019–2021)
• Ann-Cathrin Giegerich (2011–2017)
• Viola Leuchter (2024–2025)
• Jenny Karolius (2009–2011)
• Nicole Roth (2024–2025)
• Tess Wester (2015–2018)
• Maura Visser (2015–2020)
• Angela Malestein (2014–2020)
• Laura van der Heijden (2018–2020)
• Danick Snelder (2020–2024)
• Martine Smeets (2015–2018)
• Kelly Dulfer (2021–2024)
• Inger Smits (2021–2024)
• Isabelle Jongenelen (2014–2015)
• Charris Rozemalen (2017–2019)
• Trine Østergaard (2020–2023)
• Fie Woller (2016–2020)
• Stine Jørgensen (2020–2022)
• Mille Hundahl (2015–2018)
• Mia Biltoft (2016–2018)
• Annika Meyer (2022–2023)
• Cecilie Woller (2017–2018)
• Johanna Bundsen (2024–2025)
• Sofia Hvenfelt (2023–2025)
• Jenny Carlson (2024–2025)
• Daniela Gustin (2018–2019)
• Isabelle Andersson (2023–2024)
• Emily Stang Sando (2020–2021)
• Hanna Yttereng (2014–2017)
• Maren Nyland Aardahl (2019–2020)
• Guro Nestaker (2024–2025)
• Melinda Szikora (2021–2024)
• Dorottya Faluvégi (2023–2025)
• Annamária Ilyés (2013–2016)
• Barbara Bagócsi (2011–2014)
• Karolina Kudłacz-Gloc (2017–2025)
• Anna Wysokińska (2013–2015)
• Klaudia Pielesz (2014–2015)
• Gabriela Moreschi (2021–2024)
• Fernanda da Silva (2016–2017)
• Fabiana Diniz (2015–2016)
• Beate Scheffknecht (2009–2011)
• Ines Ivančok (2017–2019)
• Kaba Gassama (2022–2025)
• Veronika Malá (2021–2025)
• Žana Čović (2013–2015)
• Paule Baudouin (2015–2016)
• Valentyna Salamakha (2016–2021)

European record

Stadium

• Name: MHPArena
• City: Ludwigsburg
• Capacity: 3,800
• Address: Schwieberdinger Str. 30 71636
• Played in the arena since: 2009-

Kit manufacturers

• Hummel

Coaching history

• Severin Engelmann (2010–2011)
• Dago Leukefeld (2013–2014)
• Martin Albertsen (2014–2020)
• Markus Gaugisch (2020–2023)
• Jakob Vestergaard (2023–2025)
• Tomáš Hlavatý (2025–present)

Men's handball team

Crest, colours, supporters

Kits

Team

Current squad

Squad for the 2025–26 season

Goalkeepers

• Martin Tomovski

Left Wingers

Right Wingers

Line players

Left Backs

Central Backs

Right Backs

Transfers

Transfers for the 2025–26 season

Joining

• (GK) from MKS Kalisz
• Martin Tomovski (GK) from 1. VfL Potsdam
• (RB) from Bergischer HC

Leaving

• (RW) to CB Ademar León
• Julius Kühn (LB) to AEK Athens
• (GK) to TVB Stuttgart
• (GK) to TuS N-Lübbecke
• (RB) to TUSEM Essen

References

External links