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🤾Hypo Niederosterreich

Austria · SUDSTADT BSFZ Arena (1,200 seats)

Major honours

8European Cup/Champions League
47Austrian league
35Austrian Cup
1EHF Champions Trophy

The longest dynasty in European women's handball history, and the club with the smallest arena on this list. Co-founded in 1972 by Gunnar Prokop, who personally coached it until 2009, the club played out of the 1,200-seat gymnasium in Maria Enzersdorf yet still won the European Cup and Champions League combined eight times between 1989 and 2000. It has taken the Austrian league 47 times and the Austrian Cup 35 times, including a run of 39 straight league titles from 1977 onward. Its two defining players were Jasna Kolar-Merdan, who arrived from Yugoslavia and was named 1990 IHF Player of the Year, and Lithuania's Ausra Fridrikas, who won the same award in 1999. Prokop himself became emblematic of the club's final peak when, in 2009, he ran onto the court seven seconds before the end of a Champions League match against Metz to physically stop an opposing player, drawing a three-year ban and a 30,000-euro fine.

Record comparison

Top European club title
8
Domestic league titles
47
Domestic cup titles
35
Home arena capacity
1,200

Bars are scaled to the strongest team in this list.

Club legends

Jasna Kolar-MerdanAusra FridrikasGunnar Prokop

Rivalry

It never really had a domestic rival. Winning the league for nearly forty years running meant its real competition was always European, held by Hungary and Denmark in the 1990s and by Slovenia's Krim Ljubljana and France's Metz in the 2000s.

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