Frisch Auf Göppingen

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TPSG Frisch Auf Göppingen
Full name	Turn- und Polizeisportgemeinschaft Frisch Auf Göppingen e.V.
Short name	FAG
Founded	1896; 125 years ago (1896)
Arena	EWS Arena
Capacity	5,600
President	Thomas Lander
Head coach	Hartmut Mayerhoffer
League	Handball-Bundesliga
2020–21	7th
Club colours
Home Away
Website Official site

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. Manager of FRISCH AUF! Göppingen Management & Marketing GmbH is Gerd Hofele. The club's women's handball team Frisch Auf Frauen also plays in 1st German league.

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.^[1] 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.

Men's handball team[]

Men's team of Frisch Auf Göppingen after Bundesliga match against TV Großwallstadt in F.a.n. Frankenstolz Arena on 22 December 2010

Accomplishments[]

• National Championship of Germany:
  • 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:
  • 2010, 2011, 2016, 2017

European record[]

Season	Competition	Round	Club	1st leg	2nd leg	Aggregate
2016–17	EHF Cup	R3	Pfadi Winterthur	33–30	37–32	70–62
		Group stage	Fraikin Granollers	29–28	35–27	1st place
			FC Porto	30–28	31–27
			HC Midtjylland	31–23	25–22

Team[]

Current squad[]

Squad for the 2020–21 season

Transfers[]

Transfers for the 2020–21 season

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
• Dragoş Oprea
• Lars Kaufmann
• Božidar Markićević
• Volker Michel
• Vukašin Rajković
• Simon Baumgarten
• Dalibor Anušić

Women's handball team[]

Frisch Auf Frauen
Full name	Thop.iwent-Frisch Auf Göppingen-Sport-Dienstleistungs GmbH
Short name	FAG, FA Frauen
Arena	EWS Arena
Capacity	5,600
Head coach	Aleksandar Knežević
League	Handball-Bundesliga Frauen
2017/18	7th
Club colours
Home Away
Website Official site

Team Bus with logo of women's 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.

Team[]

Current squad[]

Squad for the 2018–19 season

Transfers[]

Transfers for the 2019–20 season

References[]

External links[]

• Official website
• men's handball team
• women's handball team^{[permanent dead link]}