Bundesliga (table tennis)
In the German table tennis at the women's table tennis Bundesliga ( TTBL ) is the highest division in the men's and the 1st League ( 1 BL). The 2nd Bundesliga ( 2 BL ) is the second highest division in the men and the ladies.
Both the German Table Tennis League and in the first Bundesliga play nine teams (season 2012 /13). Among them are for men and women a bipartite 2 Bundesliga with ten teams. This league is divided into a northern and southern group a.
Below the 2nd Bundesliga, there are men's and women four regional leagues, divided into groups South West, West, South and North.
- 2.2.1 Establishment and Game Mode
- 2.2.2 Actual playing time
- 2.2.3 Second Bundesliga Women
New structure from 2014
On 1 December 2012, the DTTB Bundestag designed a new structure of the top leagues, which will come into force in both the women's and the men's is uniform and from the 2014/15 season:
- The 2nd Bundesliga is single track.
- As the third- highest division a third Bundesliga is introduced. There is a north and a southern group with ten teams, each team fight is carried out with four players. The two group winners are eligible for promotion to the 2nd Bundesliga.
- Among them is the Regional 's fourth highest, the league 's fifth top division.
History
Gentlemen
The first time was in May 1962, the topic of " Bundesliga " on the agenda when located in Frankfurt am Main, the DTTB Sports Committee and the marshals met. For cost reasons, the Bundesliga was initially rejected. In the following years was discussed the pros and cons intensively in the art. Controversial topics were especially the expected costs ( more trips), the audience response and the question of whether a team should consist of four or six players.
Creation and game mode
By 1966 four top leagues ( groups South, South West, North, West ) were the highest German league. In July of 1965 was resolved at the Annual General Meeting on Federal Borkum creating the Bundesliga, in August 1965 put the DTTB Sports Committee in Hanover fixed the system by which the Bundesliga places should be awarded in the first season.
The 1st Bundesliga for men was introduced in the season 1966/67, and consisted of eight teams of six players. Qualifies were the masters of the four top leagues. The remaining four seats were played in a relegation tournament in which the premier league teams ranked two to four participated. ( Detailed version of Table Tennis in 1965/66 season ). Thus, the League started on 10 and 11 September 1966 the following teams:
- VfL Osnabrück - Master of the Oberliga Nord
- SV Moltkeplatz Food - Master of the Oberliga West
- SSV Reutlingen 05 - Master of the Oberliga Süd
- 1.FC Saarbrücken - Master of the Oberliga West
- DJK TUSA 08 Dusseldorf - Second in the Oberliga West
- TSV Milbertshofen - Second of the Oberliga Süd
- Post SV Augsburg - third in the Oberliga Süd
- TTC Mörfelden - second in the league West
The German Table Tennis Association DTTB made a travel allowance for these teams. Game manager Jupp was sleeping.
The four top leagues were then second-rate.
Frequently changed the game mode. In the next 1967/68 season the number of teams was increased by two to ten. From 1984/85 Relegated and masters were determined in a playoff round (see play-off system TT, 1984). From 1986/87 the championship was only played in a knockout playoff round ( see play-off system TT in 1986 ). Since 1989 there was scheduling problems because of the World Cup, 1988/89 play-off round after the simple knockout system has been discharged ( without game).
1989/90, only played the first four teams in a play-off round: 1 vs. 4 and 2 vs. 3 fought in a return match, the winners contested the final (no rematch ). 1990/91 the team strength in the first BL was reduced to four players (below the first BL continued to play six teams ) with the idea to shorten the duration of a team fight and thus more attractive to television broadcasts. A year later, the final was held in best-of -three mode, ie there was a return game and if necessary take a decisive battle.
1994/95 1st Bundesliga was increased to twelve teams, then again reduced to ten teams. 1997/98 played the five best teams in a play-off round of the Masters from, against relegation fought the remaining five teams in a play- down round. 1998/99 were six teams in the play-off round. This season could be met only with nine teams, since both the first Bayreuth FC and the SV Pluederhausen the 2nd BL South gave up the climb. In the 2000/2001 season, the playoff system was exposed, introduced a year later. The two table First reached directly the semifinals. In the quarterfinals, the third party had to qualify ( against the Sixth ), and the fourth ( against the fifth ). Since 2002 /03 the playoff round consists of only four teams.
Since the 2007/ 08 season, the first table tennis national league of gentlemen German Table Tennis League was called ( DTTL ).
For 2008/ 09 the two Bundesliga clubs TTC Frickenhausen and Müller Würzburg Hofbräuhaus were merged to TTC Müller Frickenhausen / Würzburg. It was also a new game system that DTTB system introduced here is only on a table, with three players per team played.
With the 2011/12 season the league was renamed TTBL and discharged the team fights after the Champions League system.
Spin-off
In November 2010, the DTTL split off from the German Table Tennis Association DTTB and does - as in other sports - as TTBL Sport GmbH independently.
Internationalization
Focusing on a league called sponsors and corporate groups on the scene. Among the pioneers belonged to the TTC Calw, who raced in the season 1977/78 as " TTC Jägermeister Calw ". This was followed by, for example, SSV Reutlingen Heinzelmann, TTC Simex Jülich, TTF LIEBHERR Ochsenhausen among others This sponsorship allowed the commitment of top international players, such Dragutin Šurbek, Desmond Douglas, Andrzej Grubba, Mikael Appelgren, Vladimir Samsonov, Jan- Ove Waldner and many more.
The use of many foreigners was controversial at any time. Critics complained that too few young German players get a chance to be at the top. Therefore, the DTTB resulted from the 1982/83 season, a regulation that each club may only use a maximum of a foreigner. This scheme was later reversed. From 1993/94 a maximum of two foreigners be allowed to participate in a six- team, of which a minimum of an EC foreign national must be.
Actual playing time
In the season 2013/2014 the following ten clubs play in table tennis Bundesliga ( TTBL ):
- Werder Bremen ( M)
- Borussia Dusseldorf (P)
- TTC RhönSprudel Fulda Maberzell
- TTC Grenzau
- TTC Hagen ( N)
- Post SV Mühlhausen 1951 ( N)
- TTF Liebherr Ochsenhausen
- SV Pluederhausen
- 1 FC Saarbrücken
- TTC Frickenhausen
Second Bundesliga
1981, a four-part 2 Bundesliga (BL ), 1988/89 was a split second BL introduced as a substructure. Here a team consists of six players. The Regional was demoted by the 2nd BL to the third-highest.
The " start-up teams," the two-part second BL 1988/89:
Ladies
Creation and game mode
At the federal General Meeting in July 1965, the launch of the Women's Bundesliga for the 1967/68 season was decided. In fact, launched a two-tier Premier League with three teams in 1972 /73, with the following associations:
From 1975/76 this was carried out in one piece and with teams of four. 1988/89 wrote the DTTB that the teams are set up according to skill level. From the 1992/93 season a playoff round was played out: The first four teams determined in a return match the German team champion.
In the 1994/95 season, the game system was changed from Werner Scheffler system to the pair cross system and thus adapted to the system of men's teams.
From the 2008/ 09 season, the DTTB system for three teams was introduced in the 1st Bundesliga, the second BL continued to play with four teams. Since 2010/11 the ladies form in the first BL again four teams. At the triple system has been criticized that a single player can decide a team fight alone.
Actual playing time
In the season 2013/2014 the following eight clubs playing in the 1st Bundesliga:
- Ttc berlin eastside
- TUSEM Food
- SV Böblingen
- TTG Bingen / Münster- Sarmsheim
- LTTV Leutzscher foxes 1990
- NSC Watzenborn -Steinberg
- SV DJK Kolbenmoor
- TV Busenbach
Second Bundesliga Women
1981, a four-part 2nd Bundesliga was introduced. 1988/89 launched the split 2nd Bundesliga with the following teams:
Other
In the 1990/91 season, a 1st and 2nd men's national league has been set up, each with a north and south group for wheelchair users. Below this league a four-part Regional was created. The game is played with two teams.
Problems
As an important problem turned out to be the very large distance with respect to the match strength between the 1st and 2nd Bundesliga. Up to the 1st Bundesliga had to increase significantly in order to survive in the upper house can. This often meant that the active promotion team were retired or even the entire team was replaced. Often waived climb legitimate clubs because of the additional financial burden on the rise. As a result, there was several times the risk that not enough teams declared ready to compete in the upper house. This allowed teams to relegation places " at the green table " several times avoid relegation. A serious example is the season 2012/13. Here the DTTB Bundestag approved the women's team of the club Leutzscher foxes Leipzig to rise as a table fourth in the second division. This ensured at least nine active clubs instead of the planned ten teams in the first BL.
There have been different approaches to reduce the performance difference between the two leagues. So we experimented over the years with the number of players on a team - six, four or three teams - and decided in 2013 to introduce a single-track second division (see section New structure from 2014 )
Find out more
- The youngest player in the Bundesliga is Lea Grohmann from Allendorf ( Lumda ) (for casting ). On September 29, 2012, the then 12 -year-old was used in the home game of the NSC Watzenborn -Steinberg against the LTTV Leutzscher foxes in 1990 and won the doubles with Angelina Gürz.