Niclas Pieczkowski (born 28 December 1989) is a German

handball Handball (also known as team handball, European handball, Olympic handball or indoor handball) is a team sport in which two teams of seven players each (six outcourt players and a goalkeeper) pass a ball using their hands with the aim of thr ...

player for VfL Eintracht Hagen and the German national team. He was a part of the German team, that won gold medals at the

2016 European Men's Handball Championship The 2016 EHF European Men's Handball Championship was the twelfth edition and was held for the first time in Poland from 15–31 January 2016. Croatia and Norway were the other applicants in the bidding process. Poland was awarded the champions ...

Career

Niclas Pieczkowski started playing handball at the age of 5 at Letmather TV. In 2005 he moved to HTV Sundwig/Westig, and in 2006 he moved VfL Eintracht Hagen. Two years after he broke through on the senior team. From 2008 to 2010 he was regular player for their Regionalliga team. In 2010 he signed for the 2. Bundesliga team

TUSEM Essen TUSEM Essen is a handball club from Essen, Germany. Currently, they compete in the 2. Handball-Bundesliga. Accomplishments *Handball-Bundesliga: 3 **: 1986, 1987, 1989 *DHB-Pokal: 3 **: 1988, 1991, 1992 *EHF Champions League: 1 **: 1988 * EHF ...

. With them he was promoted to the

Handball-Bundesliga The Handball-Bundesliga (HBL) is the top German professional handball league. From 2007 to 2012, the league was sponsored by Toyota and was officially called the ''Toyota Handball-Bundesliga''. In 2012 the Deutsche Kreditbank AG (DKB) became t ...

in 2012. In 2013 he joined league rivals TuS N-Lübbecke. He played for them for three years, before joining

SC DHfK Leipzig SC DHfK Leipzig e. V. ''(Sportclub Deutsche Hochschule für Körperkultur Leipzig e. V.)'' is a sports club in Leipzig, Germany. It was established in 1954 as a competitive sports club, initially under the name ''SC Wissenschaft DHfK Leipzig'', ...

in 2016. He signed a two-year contract with the club. He later extended the contract until 2020, and in 2020 he extended for one further year. In 2021 he joined

GWD Minden Grün-Weiß Dankersen-Minden, commonly known as GWD Minden, is a handball club from Minden, Germany, and is competing in the 2. Handball-Bundesliga. History The club was founded on May 31, 1924 in Dankersen, a town of circa 5000 inhabitants. ...

. In the summer of 2023 he returned to VfL Eintracht Hagen.

Season Statistics

Souce: Player profile at the Handball-Bundesliga webpage

National team

He debuted for the German national team in 2015 against Switzerland. He was initially part of the 20-squad for the 2016 European Championship, but did not make the 16 man tournament squad. He later came into the team to replace Maximilian Janke.

Achievements

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2016 2016 was designated as: * International Year of Pulses by the sixty-eighth session of the United Nations General Assembly. * International Year of Global Understanding (IYGU) by the International Council for Science (ICSU), the Internationa ...

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Pieczkowski, Niclas 1989 births Living people German male handball players Handball-Bundesliga players SC DHfK Leipzig players TuS Nettelstedt-Lübbecke players Sportspeople from Hagen 21st-century German sportsmen