Maik Machulla would be the new head coach of the Rhein-Neckar Löwen on July 1, 2025. The 47-year-old has signed a three-year contract with the two-time German champions and cup winners.
“With Maik Machulla, we’ve got gained a coach who’s as skilled as he’s hungry. Particularly, throughout his very profitable time in Flensburg, he proved that he is aware of put a crew able to play for titles – and win them. What was simply as necessary to us: Along with his fashion of play in Flensburg, he comes very near the Löwen handball as we think about it and is due to this fact an excellent match for the job profile,” says Löwen managing director Holger Bachert.
Maik Machulla is simply as enthusiastic about working with him from summer time 25: “The folks concerned, the squad, the membership’s surroundings, its sporting philosophy and the present squad with its qualities and potential: all of this satisfied me that the Rhein-Neckar Löwen are the fitting match for me. I’m actually wanting ahead to the beginning and can preserve my fingers crossed for the boys from afar till then.”
“Maik is a coach with a whole lot of expertise and lots of successes. We had been additionally satisfied by his thought of handball, which depends on velocity and a broad enjoying system. In my discussions with him, I sensed how excited he’s in regards to the Bundesliga and about working within the strongest league on this planet once more. Maik is a really genuine man who values self-discipline as a lot as ambiance,” says Uwe Gensheimer, aspiring sporting director of the Rhein-Neckar Löwen.
Maik Machulla was born on January 9, 1977 in Greifswald, then nonetheless the GDR. On the age of 14, he joined the youth crew of SC Magdeburg, the place he matured right into a handball skilled and performed his first Bundesliga video games. His path lastly led him to Flensburg through Hameln, Nordhorn, Ahlen-Hamm and Hamm-Westfalen. From 2012 to 2017, he labored as an assistant coach for the SG, nonetheless enjoying till 2015, and from 2017 to 2023 as head coach. Throughout this time, he led the SG to the championship title twice and to the Final4 tournaments within the DHB Cup and the European League.
After his dismissal in Flensburg in 2023, he took up the put up of head coach on the Danish high membership Aalborg Handbold in the summertime of 2024, the place issues stopped after only a few months.
