Status: 15.01.2024, 07:22 a.m.
By: Patrick Mayer
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The German national handball team wants to go as far as possible at the home European Championship in 2024. Andreas Wolff, Juri Knorr, Johannes Golla – who has what salary?
Munich - What's in it for Germany's handball players at the home European Championship 2024 (10 to 28 January)? At the European Championship venues between Berlin, Hamburg, Düsseldorf, Cologne, Mannheim and Munich, the successor to defending champion Sweden (European champion 2022) is being sought.
DHB team: Germany will host the European Handball Championship 2024
It all started with a furious opening match of the DHB team against Switzerland (27:14) in front of a world record crowd in Düsseldorf. For the German handball stars, the tournament in their own country is the opportunity par excellence to play their way out of the shadow of "King Football" into the spotlight.
There is, for example, the gigantic goalkeeper Andreas Wolff, a man between the posts like a bear. Or the only 23-year-old playmaker Juri Knorr, trained at the top international club FC Barcelona and currently perhaps the only handball world star in the German national team. Or captain Johannes Golla from Flensburg, who not only leads the way in the circle with a lot of commitment and will and takes on a lot of responsibility for his colleagues on the plate.
Home European Championship 2024: The German national handball team led by captain Johannes Golla (far right). © IMAGO / Sven Simon
Salaries of German handball professionals: Juri Knorr is not number one in the DHB team
With the exception of goalkeeper Wolff (Industria Kielce), all German players earn their living at home in the Bundesliga. In addition to Wolff, Stuttgart's Kai Häfner and Jannik Kohlbacher (Rhein-Neckar Löwen) are three European champions from 2016 in the European Championship squad. With Justus Fischer and Renars Uscins (both TSV Hannover-Burgdorf) as well as Nils Lichtlein (Füchse Berlin), there are also three reigning U21 world champions.
So it is the famous mixture of old and young that national coach Alfred Gislason, who has found a new love after the death of his wife from cancer, offers. The star is Knorr, who was born in Flensburg. But is that why the backcourt shooter earns the most? No! Four players are to receive a higher salary. This is according to a report by the RedaktionsNetzwerk Deutschland (RND). The top earner in the DHB team is therefore the man with the captain's armband. But how much do professional handball players actually earn? The overview.
Salaries in the DHB team: Who earns how much? Golla is reportedly ahead of Häfner and Wolff
| Player: | Club: | alleged gross salary per month: |
| Martin Hanne | TSV Hannover-Burgdorf | 10,000 Euro |
| Justus Fischer | TSV Hannover-Burgdorf | 12,000 Euro |
| Renars Uscins | TSV Hannover-Burgdorf | 12,000 Euro |
| Nils Lichtlein | Füchse Berlin | 12,000 Euro |
| David Späth | Rhine-Neckar Leuven | 15,000 Euro |
| Rune Dahmke | THW Kiel | 18,000 Euro |
| Lukas Mertens | SC Magdeburg | 18,000 Euro |
| Christoph Steinert | HC Erlangen | 20,000 Euro |
| Sebastian Heymann | Fresh on Göppingen | 25,000 Euro |
| Julian Köster | VfL Gummersbach | 25,000 Euro |
| Philipp Weber | SC Magdeburg | 25,000 Euro |
| Jannik Kohlbacher | Rhine-Neckar Leuven | 27,000 Euro |
| Juri Knorr | Rhine-Neckar Leuven | 28,000 Euro |
| Timo Kastening | MT Melsungen | 30,000 Euro |
| Andreas Wolff | Industria Kielce | 35,000 Euro |
| Kai Häfner | TVB Stuttgart | 35,000 Euro |
| Johannes Golla | SG Flensburg-Handewitt | 40,000 Euro |
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