Liga ASOBAL
The League ASOBAL is the top division of the Spanish handball. In it is played according to the rules of the EHF; to their currently participating in 16 teams. In a league system of the Spanish champions, the losers and the participants will be played in the European cup competitions.
Record champions FC Barcelona is.
History
The highest Spanish league in this form was founded in 1959, at that time still under the name of División de Honor ( in German: "Honor Division "). Previously existed as the highest division, the Primera División Nacional, was played in the Cup but rather according to rules. In 1990, the División de Honor was renamed League ASOBAL. ASOBAL stands for Asociación de Clubes de Balonmano de España ( in German: " Association of Spanish handball club ").
Regulate
Each team plays twice against every other team once at home, once away. Consequently, the League ASOBAL has 30 game days. After 15 game days of play, takes a winter break instead ( in the place usually are world or European championships).
A win is a team gets 2, 1 for a draw, 0 points for a defeat. Master is after all the game day:
- The team that has the most points
- Case of a tie between two teams, the team that has won the direct comparison
- Case of a tie between more than two teams or a draw in a direct comparison the team that has the better goal difference.
International significance and subjective comparison with the German League
Together with the German 1st Handball Bundesliga was the league ASOBAL years as the strongest Handball league in the world. In this case, there was a significant difference in performance between European Cup participants and the remaining teams: While the European Cup participants belonged to the world's best and the German top teams were at least equal, the lower Spanish teams were usually farther from the tip than the corresponding German teams. Due to the economic crisis, many Spanish clubs big financial problems, what second absolute world- class team, culminating in the withdrawal from the ASOBAL Atlético Madrid, next to FC Barcelona. So Barcelona dominated currently without significant competition the league without a loss point and with an average goal difference of about 15 per game (as of February 2014). The attendances is to play in Spain by far not as high as in Germany, a reason for some top players, not in the league ASOBAL ( for example, Lars Krogh Jeppesen in his move from FC Barcelona for THW Kiel). The German handball league is also true as physically demanding and unfair for other top players (such as Ivano Balic or Nenad Peruničić ) a reason to play, especially in Spain and stay. Balic has, however 2013/14 the challenge of Bundesliga and hired at the HSG Wetzlar. It also set in the League ASOBAL more on the individual abilities of each player and less on tactics and collective, which is especially Southeast European players who have been trained according to the traditional Yugoslav school, located cometh; Scandinavian players, in their training just more emphasis was placed on team unity, come up with this way of playing cope rather less. In the EHF Champions League both leagues are currently about equally strong, in the past nine years, won five Spanish teams German teams and title four times. The second highest European competition, however, the EHF Cup, has been in the past 10 years, more of the German team won (as of the end of the 2012/13 season ).
Master
All Masters
- Title 20 - FC Barcelona - 1969, 1973, 1980, 1982, 1986, 1988, 1989, 1990, 1991, 1992, 1996, 1997, 1998, 1999, 2000, 2003, 2006, 2011, 2012, 2013
- Title 13 - BM Granollers - 1956, 1957, 1958.1959, 1960, 1961, 1966, 1967, 1968, 1970, 1971, 1972, 1974
- Title 11 - BM Atletico de Madrid - 1952, 1954, 1962, 1963, 1964, 1965, 1979, 1981, 1983, 1984, 1985
- 5 tracks - BM Ciudad Real - 2004, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010
- Title 4 - Balonmano Alicante Costa Blanca - 1975, 1976, 1977, 1978
- Title 2 - CB Cantabria Santander - 1993, 1994
- 2 titles - SDC San Antonio - 2002, 2005
- Title 2 - Bidasoa Irun - 1987, 1995
- 1 items - Ademar León - 2001
- Title 1 - Real Madrid - 1953
- 1 items - CD Sabadell - 1955