Ulrik Kirkely (born 5 January 1972) is a Danish handball coach and former handball player.

As a player he played for Danish club GOG Håndbold, where he won the 1997/98 EHF Cup Winners' Cup.

He coached the Japanese national team between 2017 and 2021. The major tournaments where the team participated in that phase include the 2017 World Women's Handball Championship,[1][2] the 2019 World Women's Handball Championship and the 2020 Summer Olympics.[3]

Coaching Career

He has previously coached Tved, Gudme HK, Team Sydhavsøerne and KIF Vejen in Denmark.[4]

Afterwards he has been the head coach of both Bahrains and Saudi Arabia's men's teams. He managed to reach the World Championship with both teams.[5]

He then became the assistant coach on the Denmark women's national team under Jan Pytlick.[5] He was in this position from 2012 to 2015.

In February 2015 he became the temporary head coach at Randers HK, after the club had fired their previous manager, Mads Brandt.[6] A little more than a month later he announced, that he would not continue in the position after the end of the season.[7]

From 2015 to 2017 he was once again the assistant coach to Pytlick, this time at the Danish club Odense Håndbold.[8] He left this position to take over as the coach of the Japanese women's national team.[8]

From 2020 to 2023 he was the head coach of Odense Håndbold, where he had previously been the assistant.[9] In this period he won the Danish league twice and the Danish Cup once.[9]

In December 2022 he signed a contract with Hungarian top club Győri Audi ETO KC, starting from the 2023-24 season.[10] He was fired from this position after a single season after he lost the final of the Hungarian cup. His assistant at Gyor, Danish Kristian Danielsen, was also fired at the same time.[11]

Achievements

As manager
Odense

References

  1. ^ "Kirkely hired to replace Kuriyama". japantimes.co.jp. 9 April 2017.
  2. ^ 2017 World Women's Handball Championship roster
  3. ^ "女子日本代表 第2回強化合宿（2021/6/29～7/22) メンバー発表". handball.or.jp (in Japanese). Retrieved 28 June 2021.
  4. ^ "Tidligere Sydhavs-træner assistent i golfstat". www.folketidende.dk (in Danish). 12 November 2009.
  5. ^ a b DHF (12 April 2012). "Ulrik Kirkely ny assistent for Jan Pytlick" (in Danish). Archived from the original on 7 December 2013. Retrieved 8 December 2012.
  6. ^ Wikkelsø Davidsen, Michel (16 February 2015). "Randers HK fyrer træneren og ansætter Kirkely" (in Danish). Berlingske Tidende. Retrieved 14 February 2025.
  7. ^ Højstrup Nielsen, Kasper (25 March 2015). "Randers skal igen på trænerjagt: Kirkely stopper". TV2 Danmark. Retrieved 14 February 2025.
  8. ^ a b "Pytlick-assistent forlader Odense og fokuserer på Japan" (in Danish). JydskeVestkysten. 7 April 2017. Retrieved 7 November 2021.
  9. ^ a b c d "Ulrik Kirkely skifter til europæisk storklub" (in Danish). Odense Håndbold. 19 December 2022. Retrieved 14 February 2025.
  10. ^ "Succestræner forlader Odense" (in Danish). TV2 Danmark. 19 December 2022. Retrieved 19 December 2022.
  11. ^ Nielsen, Morten Løvig (13 March 2024). "Ungarsk storklub fyrer håndboldtræneren Ulrik Kirkely". DR (in Danish). Retrieved 13 March 2024.
Allikas: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ulrik_Kirkely
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