Metz Handball
Full nameMetz Handball
Short nameMetz HB
Founded1967
ArenaLes Arènes
Capacity4,500 / 5,000
PresidentThierry Weizman
Head coachEmmanuel Mayonnade
LeagueLigue Butagaz Énergie
2022–23Champions
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Metz Handball is a French handball club from Metz, France. Founded in 1965 under the name ASPTT Metz, the club has an exceptional track record with some 40 titles won, which is the all-time record for a French women's team sport. Chaired by Thierry Weizman since 2005, the club is becoming increasingly professional and now aims to play a leading role in Europe.

The men's team also played in 1st League between 1971 and 1983, and nowadays plays in Nationale 1 (3rd division) since 2020.

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History

If Metz Handball has become, over the last decades, the most prestigious women's handball club in France, it is also one of the oldest institutions playing in the French elite.

The club was created in 1965 under the name of ASPTT Metz, but it will be necessary to wait a few more years to see the creation of a feminine team in 1968, which make the current fame of the club.

Vice-champions of France and semi-finalists of the Cup of Cups in 1977, the men's team gave ASPTT Metz its first prestige. But in the shadow, the women's team progressed year after year until being promoted in 1986 in the best league in France, without ever leaving it since. The coach of the team at that time was French Olivier Krumbholz, who later became the successful national manager for France. Since the promotion, Metz HB has had overwhelming success with 24 National Championships from 1989 to 2022, which is the all-time record in the French Women's First League Championship.

Metz Handball is progressively establishing itself as a strong place in European handball. A first epic saw the Dragonnes reach the semi-final of the Cup Winners Cup in 1999. They then became famous in the EHF Cup where, after several quarter finals, they played a first European final in 2013 but did not manage to win the title. The following seasons, the club gains momentum and shines in the Champions League. Unlucky quarter-finalists in 2017 and 2018, Metz participated for the first time in the Final 4 of Europe's most prestigious competition in 2019, where they finished fourth.

After a season without any trophy in 2021, Metz Handball realizes the most beautiful season of its history. The club won a 24th French Championship title, a 10th French Cup, and became famous in the Ligue Butagaz Énergie with a flawless record: 26 victories in 26 games. For the second time in its history, the Dragonnes participated in the Final 4 of the EHF Champions League and won their first European medal by finishing third.

Name

  • 1967–2002: ASPTT Metz
  • 2002–2005: Handball Metz Métropole
  • 2005–2009: Handball Metz Moselle Lorraine
  • 2009–: Metz Handball

Results

Metz wins Coupe de France 2017, against Issy Paris Hand.
  • French Women's First League Championship:
    • Winners (25): 1989, 1990, 1993, 1994, 1995, 1996, 1997, 1999, 2000, 2002, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2011, 2013, 2014, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2022, 2023
    • Runner-up (7): 1991, 1992, 1998, 2001, 2003, 2012, 2015, 2021
  • French Women's Cup Championship:
    • Winners (11): 1990, 1994, 1998, 1999, 2010, 2013, 2014, 2017, 2019, 2022, 2023
    • Runner-up (7): 1987, 1992, 1993, 2001, 2005, 2009, 2018
  • French Women's League Cup Championship:
    • Winners (7): 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2014
    • Runner-up (1): 2004
  • European Women's EHF Cup:
    • Silver: 2013
  • European Women's EHF Cup Winners' Cup:
    • Semi-finalist: 1999, 2004, 2010, 2011
  • European EHF Women's Champions League:
    • Bronze: 2022
    • Fourth place: 2019
    • Quarterfinalists: 2017, 2018, 2021, 2023

European record

Record[1]
Season Competition Round Club Home Away Aggregate
2023–24 EHF Champions League Group stage
Group B		 Denmark Team Esbjerg 29–27 2nd
Hungary FTC-Rail Cargo Hungaria 25–38
Norway Vipers Kristiansand 31–29 35–37
Romania CS Rapid București 33–22
Slovenia RK Krim Mercator 40–31 22–28
Poland Zagłębie Lubin 42–26
Denmark Ikast Håndbold 36–39

Team

Current squad

Squad for the season 2023–24[2]
Squad information
No. Nat. Player Position Date of Birth In Contract until Previous club
1 France Camille Depuiset Goalkeeper 19 October 1998 2022 2024 France Bourg-de-Péage Drôme Handball
4 Germany Alina Grijseels Center Back 12 April 1996 2023 2025 Germany Borussia Dortmund
6 France Chloé Valentini Left Wing 19 April 1995 2021 2027 France ESBF Besançon
8 Denmark Anne Mette Hansen Left Back 25 August 1994 2023 2025 Hungary Győri ETO KC
10 Denmark Kristina Jørgensen Center Back 17 January 1998 2022 2024 Denmark Viborg HK
11 Croatia Mia Brkic Line Player 11 May 2003 2023 2024 France Saint-Amand Handball
19 Denmark Louise Burgaard Right Back 17 October 1992 2019 2024 Denmark Ikast Håndbold
23 France Zaliata Mlamali Left Wing 23 February 2003 2023 2024
24 France Emma Jacques Right Back 29 November 2001 2021 2025
27 France Sarah Bouktit Line Player 27 August 2002 2021 2026 France Fleury Loiret HB
28 France Lucie Granier Right Wing 11 June 1999 2023 2025 France ESBF Besançon
31 France Djazz Chambertin Left Back 24 May 1997 2023 2025 France OGC Nice Handball
42 France Emma Tuccella Right Wing 8 January 2004 2023 2024
70 France Julie Le Blévec Right Wing 27 June 2000 2022 2024 France Fleury Loiret HB
99 France Hatadou Sako Goalkeeper 21 October 1995 2020 2024 France OGC Nice Handball

Transfers

Transfers for the 2024-25 season

Technical staff

Staff for the 2023–24 season
  • France Head coach: Emmanuel Mayonnade
  • Russia Assistant coach: Yekaterina Andryushina
  • France Physicak coach: Nicolas Jarzat
  • France Goalkeeping coach: Stéphane Leidwanger
  • France Physiotherapist: Alexandre Pawlowski
  • France Physiotherapist: Pierre Gilet
  • France Doctor: Thierry Weizman

Academy

Training Center

As of the 2023–24 season[3]

Men's team

As of the 2023–24 season[4]

Statistics

Notable former players

Head coach history

France Claude Guillois 1980–1985
France Olivier Krumbholz 1985–1995
France Joël Monasso 1995–1996
France Patrick Passemard 2003
France Bertrand François 1996–2003; 2004–2006; 2009–2010
Serbia Dragan Majstrorovic 2010
France Sébastien Gardillou 2010–2012
Serbia Sandor Rac 2006–2009; 2012–2015
France Jérémy Roussel[8] 2014–2015
France Emmanuel Mayonnade 2015–

Stadium

Metz Arena in 2010
  • Name: Les Arènes
  • City: Metz
  • Capacity: 5,000
  • Address: 5 avenue Louis-le-Débonnaire 57000
  • Played in the arena since: 2001-

Kit manufacturers

References

  1. ↑ "European record - Metz Handball". EHF. Retrieved 29 June 2020.
  2. ↑ "L'équipe". metz-handball.com. Retrieved 25 September 2023.
  3. ↑ "NATIONALE 1F". Retrieved 26 September 2023.
  4. ↑ "NATIONALE 1M". Retrieved 27 September 2023.
  5. ↑ "Metz Handball". European Handball Federation.
  6. ↑ "All-Star team gets fresh look in 2019". eurohandball.com. 10 May 2019.
  7. ↑ "New All-Star Team features three fresh names and returning Neagu". eurohandball.com. 5 June 2020.
  8. ↑ "New coach in Metz as Roussel has responded to call of Chartres". handball-world. Retrieved 2021-05-02.
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