But Yoon set even more records: In the 1998/99 season he was the first Bundesliga player to score more than 200 field goals in a season, beating the all-time season record in 2000/01, when he scored 324 goals in 38 games - making him the only HBL professional to date with more than 300 goals in a season. Among all top scorers, Yoon is also the only one to have scored more than 200 field goals in a season - and he did so four times.

But Yoon will soon lose a related record, which he also set in the 2000/01 season: no one had ever scored 248 field goals in a season before. Since Sunday, however, a teammate of Hans Lindberg has caught up: With his seven goals in Füchse’s 29:26 win against Yoon's former club VfL Gummersbach, Mathias Gidsel also has netted 248 field goals. The current world handball player and top scorer of the 2024 European Championship and the 2023 World Cup still has three games to go to pass Yoon - with an average of 8.00 goals per game, this should be possible.

If we hypothetically assume this number of eight goals per match, Gidsel will end the season with 272 goals - and would thus be ranked fifth among the most successful top scorers in HBL history (see below). As others - for example Hans Lindberg - are responsible for the penalties at Füchse, Gidsel has a "0" in this category, just like his teammate Lasse Andersson, who is still one goal short of breaking the "magic mark" of 200 field goals this season in the three games against TSV Hannover-Burgdorf (18 May), Bergischer HC (30 May) and ThSV Eisenach (2 June). If Gidsel would become HBL season 2023/24 top scorer, he would be the first in history to do so without scoring a single penalty goal - that has never happened before.

But whether the Dane will become top scorer is still an open question: Eisenach's Swiss Manuel Zehnder is only three goals behind Gidsel with 245 goals (85 of which were penalties). It is therefore quite possible that the two will face off for the top scorer's crown in the last game of the season.

The best top scorers in HBL history:

2000/01: Kyung-shin Yoon (VfL Gummersbach) 324 Season goals, including 248 Field goals
2002/03: Lars Christiansen (SG Flensburg-Handewitt) 289 Season goals, including 168 Field goals
2008/09: Savas Karipidis (MT Melsungen) 282 Season goals, including 166 Field goals
2020/21: Ómar Ingi Magnússon (SC Magdeburg) 274 Season goals, including 140 Field goals
2014/15: Robert Weber (SC Magdeburg) 271 Season goals, including 172 Field goals
2005/06: Guðjón Valur Sigurðsson (VfL Gummersbach) 264 Season goals, including 195 Field goals
2001/02: Kyung-shin Yoon (VfL Gummersbach) 263 Season goals, including 204 Field goals
2003/04: Kyung-shin Yoon (VfL Gummersbach) 261 Season goals, including 176 Field goals
2004/05: Lars Christiansen (SG Flensburg-Handewitt) 258 Season goals, including 158 Field goals
2009/10: Hans Lindberg (HSV Hamburg) 257 Season goals, including 122 Field goals
1999/2000: Kyung-shin Yoon (VfL Gummersbach) 256 Season goals, including 230 Field goals
2018/19: Matthias Musche (SC Magdeburg) 256 Season goals, including 159 Field goals
2010/11: Anders Eggert (SG Flensburg-Handewitt) 248 Season goals, including 116 Field goals
2013/14: Marko Vujin (THW Kiel) 248 Season goals, including 182 Field goals
2011/12: Uwe Gensheimer (Rhein-Neckar Löwen) 247 Season goals, including 163 Field goals
2021/22: Hans Lindberg (Füchse Berlin) 242 Season goals, including 118 Field goals
1986/87: Jerzy Klempel (Frisch Auf Göppingen) 239 Season goals, including 162 Field goals
2007/08: Konrad Wilczynski (Füchse Berlin) 237 Season goals, including 109 Field goals
2006/07: Kyung-shin Yoon (HSV Hamburg) 236 Season goals, including 148 Field goals
2012/13: Hans Lindberg (HSV Hamburg) 235 Season goals, including 136 Field goals
2022/23: Casper Ulrich Mortensen (HSV Hamburg) 234 Season goals, including 162 Field goals
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1998/99: Kyung-shin Yoon (VfL Gummersbach) 228 Season goals, including 201 Field goals

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