When the final whistle of the 2022/23 season of the German Bundesliga was blown, the “Recken” (“warriors”) from Hannover had won their big fight. By finishing the last three league matches victorious, including a spectacular win at former EHF Champions League winners SG Flensburg-Handewitt, head coach Christian Prokop and his team TSV Hannover-Burgdorf had finished sixth and snatched the last ticket for the EHF European League Men from HSV Hamburg and MT Melsungen.