HSG Bensheim/Auerbach

HSG Bensheim/Auerbach is a German women's handball team from Bensheim, that competes in the 2025–26 Frauen Handball-Bundesliga and the 2025–26 EHF Women's European League.

In the 2023-24 season, the team finished second in the Frauen Handball-Bundesliga for the first time in the club's history, automatically qualifying for the 2024–25 Women's EHF European League. The team reached the quarterfinals of the tournament, after two defeats to French Jeanne d'Arc Dijon Handball.

Honours

• Handball-Bundesliga:
• Silver Medalist: (1) 2025
• DHB-Pokal:
• Silver Medalist: (1) 2023
• Bronze Medalist: (1) 2025
• 2. Bundesliga:
• Winner: (1) 2019

Team

Current squad

Squad for the 2025-26 season.

Goalkeepers

• 16 Vanessa Fehr
• 36 Helen van Beurden
• 77 Marlene Wagner

Wings

RW

• 3 Amelie Berger
• 71 Jule Polsz

LW

• 15 Ndidi Agwunedu
• 34 Mia Ziercke
• 66 Luisa Gürtelschmied

Pivot

• 5 Isabell Hurst
• 23 Nele Wenzel
• 24 Meike Schmelzer

Back players

LB

• 8 Lena Degenhardt
• 10 Matilda Ehlert
• 27 Nyala Baijens
• 29 Lucie-Marie Kretzschmar

CB

• 2 Mareike Thomaier
• 17 Lisa Friedberger
• 25 Kim Irion
• 32 Neele Mara Orth

RB

• 6 Nina Engel

Transfers

Transfers for the 2026–27 season

Joining

• Melanie Halter (GK) (from Mosonmagyaróvári KC SE)

Leaving

• Nina Engel (RB) (to CS Gloria Bistrița (handball))
• Mareike Thomaier (CB) (to Borussia Dortmund Handball)
• Vanessa Fehr (GK) (to SCM Craiova (women's handball))

References

External links

• Official site