HIFK Handboll

HIFK Handboll is a Finnish professional handball club from Helsinki. HIFK Handboll is the handball section of HIFK. The club is playing in the Finnish Handball League (SM-liiga), and play their home matches in Helsingin Urheilutalo.

Helsinki

Location of HIFK Handboll

HIFK Handboll
Full name	Idrottsföreningen kamraterna i Helsingfors
Short name	HIFK
Founded	1943; 82 years ago (1943)
Arena	Helsingin Urheilutalo, Helsinki
Capacity	860
Head coach	Rostislav Grinishin
League	SM-liiga
Club colours
Website Official site

History

HIFK was founded in 1897. The handball department was founded in the club in 1943. The Finnish handball championship has existed since 1944, HIFK was already a founding member of the championship series in the first season. In 1945, the team became champion in its second league season, and won the second gold in 1951. So far, the club is a total of 7 champions and 5 cup winners.

Crest, colours, supporters

Kits

HOME
2011–12	2016–17	2018–20	2022–23

AWAY
2018–20

Sports Hall information

Home hall: Helsingin Urheilutalo

• Name: – Helsingin Urheilutalo
• City: – Helsinki
• Capacity: – 860
• Address: – Helsinginkatu 25, 00510 Helsinki, Finland

Team

Current squad

Squad for the 2023–24 season^[1]

HIFK Handboll
Goalkeepers 12 Martin Börjes 26 Viljo Ukkonen 29 Niklas Zilliacus Left Wingers 38 Linus Svensson 64 Jakob Meinander Right Wingers 03 Altti Kolkki 22 Vladimir Knopinskii 60 Vili Leppänen Line Players 06 Viktor Grönmark 14 Nicolas Reenpää 18 Samuel Elmvik Left Backs 23 André Udd 34 Oskari Suopajärvi Central Backs 10 Kristian Jansson 91 Joel Hagström Right Backs 13 Rui Rolo

Technical staff

• Head coach: Rostislav Grinishin
• Coach: Tommy Souraniemi
• Physiotherapist: Ronny Zetterborg

Transfers

Transfers for the 2023–24 season

Joining Linus Svensson (LW) from IFK Ystad HK Martin Börjes (GK) from Täby HBK Niklas Zilliacus (GK) from GrIFK Kristian Jansson (CB) from ÅIFK

Leaving Evgeny Semenov (RB) (retires) Aliaksandr Tsitou (LP) (retires) Oscar Udd (LB) (retires)

Titles

• SM-liiga
  • Winner (7) : 1945, 1951, 1965, 1966, 1972, 1973, 1974
• Finnish Cup
  • Winner (14) : 1975, 1981, 1984, 1988, 2014

EHF ranking

As of 6/12/2023^[2]

Rank	Team	Points
155	HSC Suhr Aarau	29
156	MMTS Kwidzyn	29
157	Pallamano Conversano	28
158	HIFK Handboll	27
159	VÍF	26
160	MRK Trogir	26
161	RK Leotar	26

Former club members

Notable former players

• Kristofer Karlsson (2018–2021)
• Evgeny Semenov (2021–2023)
• Aliaksandr Tsitou (2021–2023)