Deutsche Wasserball-Liga

The German Water Polo League - short DWL - is the highest German league for team sports water polo.

The DWL is a self-organized area of ​​the Bundesliga clubs.

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The game mode

Since the 2008/2009 season will be played in a 16- League.

In the first phase is played in two groups of 8 (Group A and Group B). It is played in the group Free-for -All with round-trip round. Thus, each team has 14 games. After the first phase, there is a table in each group with placements. The first four teams in Group A are directly qualified for the quarter-finals and can not stay in this season. The last four teams in Group B play again until the play- downs against relegation.

After the group stage play in the pre- play-offs first, the last four teams in Group A against the first four teams in Group B (A5 to B4, A6 to B3, A7 and A8 to B2 from B1). Thus, it is possible to ascend and descend within the two groups. The winners will occupy the places of the teams from Group A and qualified for the quarter-finals, the loser occupy the places of the teams from Group B and play against relegation.

In the last phase is then the master, played the losers ( 2) and the final placings in a play-off mode. This is done according to the following system: the first place winner of the group stage plays against the eight -place of his group, the second against the Seventh, the third party against the Sixth etc.

In group A, the winner of the first play-off phase play again from a play- off series and thereby determine the champion. For the losers, the season is over. In Group B, the loser of the so-called play -down games continue to determine the relegated. For the winners of the season is finished. The two last-place teams that lose in the last play -down games, automatically relegated to the second league of their respective national association.

Climber

The two climbers are played in the DWL- rise tournament. In this case enter into this Free-for -All - Tournament the masters of the 2 leagues, or if a second team has become of the DWL champion, the next climb legitimate team, against each other. So there are four teams. These masters or climb legitimate teams come from the 2nd League North, East, South and West.

Groups

Since the 2008/2009 season, there are no more groups of four.

2013/2014 season Men

Main article: German Water Polo League 2013/2014

Members

  • ASC Duisburg
  • Duisburg SV 98
  • OSC Potsdam
  • SC Neustadt
  • SC water friends Fulda
  • SC Wedding Berlin
  • SG Neukölln Berlin
  • SGW Rhenaniastraße Cologne / BW Poseidon Cologne
  • SSV Esslingen
  • SV Bayer 08 Uerdingen
  • SV Cannstatt
  • SV Krefeld 72
  • SIA Plauen
  • SV Weiden 1921
  • SV Würzburg 05
  • Waspo 98 Hannover
  • Water Spandau Berlin 04

2013/2014 season women

Members

  • Blue-White Bochum
  • Eimsbütteler TV Hamburg
  • Free float Duisburg
  • Hanoverian swimming club from 1892
  • SC Chemnitz 1892
  • SG Neukölln Berlin
  • SV Bayer 08 Uerdingen
  • SV Nikar Heidelberg
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