Handball-Bundesliga

The Handball - Bundesliga Men (full name after the main sponsor DKB Handball - Bundesliga) since 1966, the highest league in the German handball. In the Bundesliga, the German handball champions as well as the participants of the European Cup competitions in the league system, in which each club competes in home and away matches against each other club that played out.

The most successful club in the Bundesliga is the THW Kiel, followed by VfL Gummersbach.

President of the League Association of Handball - Bundesliga is Reiner Witte. (2012 )

From 1967 to 1973 there was also one from the German Handball Federation (DHB ) aligned field handball league, which was played during the summer months.

• 5.1 German champions since 1950
• 5.2 Overview season since the introduction of the Bundesliga

Mode and alignment

Ascent and descent mode

Since 2011/12

Since the 2011/12 season the last three clubs in the final table to rise directly from the 2nd Bundesliga and the first three clubs in the Bundesliga 2 rise directly to the 1st Bundesliga.

Until 2010/11

The top two finishers of the second handball league went on in the first Handball - Bundesliga season change. The runners-up were playing in the play-off games against each other - the winner again played against the third-bottom of the 1st Bundesliga. The two last placed the 1st Bundesliga rose directly from the 2nd Bundesliga.

Substructure

1981, the 2nd Bundesliga was introduced, which has since played in two seasons ( North and South), in the years 1991-1993 in three seasons: North, Central, South. Among them were followed as the third leagues each one of the five Regional Regional associations, these were in turn underpinned by a total of 16 top leagues. Thus, the structure had in the top four leagues in total 24 leagues ( 1-2-5-16 ) (for comparison: the match form 18 leagues the top five leagues ( 1-1-1-3-12 ) ).

For the 2010/11 season a comprehensive league reform was carried out, through which the base has been streamlined to a structure with a single-track second division with 20 teams (from the season 2011/ 12), only four third Leagues and twelve fourth-rate upper leagues.

History

The league was introduced in 1966 as the top division. In the first eleven years of the Premier League was played in two seasons (North and South ) and the German champions in first playoffs of the season winner ( until 1969 ), then in the play-off, where the top two teams participated in every season, is determined.

The only club that played all the previous 47 seasons in the Bundesliga, the VfL ​​Gummersbach.

1977, single-track Handball Bundesliga was introduced. Only three teams have completed all the previous 36 seasons: THW Kiel, the TV Großwallstadt and VfL Gummersbach. These three clubs also share since twenty-six of the awarded title. The most successful club in this period was the THW Kiel, who won fifteen of his eighteen championships in the single track Bundesliga, the last in 2013. Großwallstadt won six times the title ( including the first four seasons in a row and most recently 1990), Gummersbach won five of its total twelve titles in this period, the last in 1991. this title also marks the end of an era, because from 1978 to season 1990/91 succeeded with Gummersbach, Großwallstadt and TuSEM eating only three teams to win the championship in the single-track Bundesliga. Since then, however, succeeded in any of these three to be runner- up to that dominant clubs more, or master.

After a "transitional phase ", in 1992 and 1993, the SG Wallau / Massenheim won the title, began with the 1993/94 season, the dominance of the quartet from THW Kiel and SG Flensburg- Handewitt, TBV Lemgo and SC Magdeburg. In the twelve consecutive seasons from 1994 /95 to 2005/ 06 were always at the end of the season at least three of the four teams in the top four places, four times even all four. The championship title after 1993 spread to 2010 also exclusively on these four clubs, with Kiel won the title three times, Lemgo twice (1997 and 2003), Magdeburg (2001) and Flensburg (2004) once each. Only in 2011 was another German club champion with HSV Hamburg.

Total so far 88 different clubs and gaming communities played in the Bundesliga, with 70 in the single-track time. From the clubs who play in the Bundesliga for over 10 years, the HSV Hamburg (since 2002), the HSG Wetzlar (since 1998), the SC Magdeburg ( since 1991), the TBV Lemgo (since 1983 ) and the VfL ​​Gummersbach ( since 1966) have never been relegated from the Bundesliga. The SC Magdeburg played since 1956 until the end of 1991 in the GDR Oberliga, so now for 52 years continuously in each of his top division.

In the season 1991/92 Handball - Bundesliga for the reunion in two seasons. From 1990 to 1992 further play-off games were played for the championship.

News

Name of sponsoring

On 21 August 2007, with the automaker Toyota for the first time a title sponsor for the 1st Bundesliga presented. From the 2007/2008 season, the Handball Bundesliga was now officially "Toyota Handball Bundesliga ". From the 2012/2013 season, the German Credit Bank acts as title sponsor of the league is, from this season, " DKB Handball - Bundesliga ".

Statistics

German champions since 1950

The championship of the Berlin SV 1892 at the tournament in 1948 and the RSV Mülheim at the finals in 1949 were obtained before the foundation of the German Handball Federation in 1949. This zone championships are not recognized by the DHB, and are now considered unofficial championships.

Season overview since the introduction of the Bundesliga

HBW Balingen- Weilstetten | Bergischer HC | foxes Berlin | ThSV Eisenach | TV Emsdetten | SG Flensburg- Handewitt | FRESH UP! Göppingen | VfL Gummersbach | HSV Hamburg | TSV Hannover -Burgdorf | THW Kiel | TBV Lemgo | TuS N- Luebbecke | SC Magdeburg | MT Melsungen | GWD Minden | Rhein- Neckar Löwen | HSG Wetzlar

1966/67 | 1967/68 | 1968/69 | 1969/70 | 1970/71 | 1971/72 | 1972/73 | 1973/74 | 1974/75 | 1975/76 | 1976/77 | 1977/78 | 1978 / 79 | 1979/80 | 1980/81 | 1981/82 | 1982/83 | 1983/84 | 1984/85 | 1985/86 | 1986/87 | 1987/88 | 1988/89 | 1989/90 | 1990/91 | 1991/92 | 1992/93 | 1993/94 | 1994/95 | 1995/96 | 1996/97 | 1997/98 | 1998/99 | 1999/2000 | 2000 /01 | 2001 /02 | 2002 /03 | 2003 / 04 | 2004 /05 | 2005 /06 | 2006 /07 | 2007 /08 | 2008 /09 | 2009/10 | 2010 /11 | 2011/12 | 2012/13 | 2013/14

1967 | 1968 | 1969 | 1970 | 1971 | 1972 | 1973

1st Bundesliga | Bundesliga 2 | 3 League

Ems-Halle (TV Emsdetten) | EWS Arena ( FRESH ON Göppingen! ) | Flensburg Arena (SG Flensburg- Handewitt ) | GETEC Arena ( SC Magdeburg ) | Kampa-Halle ( GWD Minden ) | Merkur Arena ( TuS Nettelstedt - Luebbecke ) | Schwalbe Arena ( VfL Gummersbach ) | Lipperlandhalle ( TBV Lemgo ) | Max -Schmeling- Halle ( foxes Berlin ) | O2 World Hamburg (HSV Hamburg ) | Rittal Arena Wetzlar (HSG Wetzlar ) | Roth brook Hall (MT Melsungen ) | SAP Arena (Rhein- Neckar Löwen ) | Sparkassen- Arena ( HBW Balingen- Weilstetten ) | Sparkassen-Arena (THW Kiel) | Swiss Life Hall ( TSV Hannover -Burgdorf ) | Uni -Halle Wuppertal / Klingenhalle Solingen ( Bergischer HC 06) | Werner - Assmann Hall ( ThSV Eisenach )