ASV Köln is a German sports club based in Cologne, North Rhine-Westphalia. The club was founded in 1879 and is one of the oldest and most successful sports clubs in Germany. ASV Köln has a number of different sports teams, including a handball team that competes in the Handball-Bundesliga, the top professional handball league in Germany. The club's handball team has been successful in the past, winning the German Handball Championship in 1976, 1977, and 1978, and the EHF Cup in 1994. ASV Köln's handball team plays its home matches at the Lanxess Arena in Cologne.