Austrian handball championship 2014/15

Austrian handball championship 2014/15
master	Alpla HC Hard
Champions League	Alpla HC Hard
European Cup	Bregenz handball
Cup winners	Handball club Fivers Margareten
Relegated	SU Falkensteiner Katschberg - St.Pölten
Teams	10
Games	159  (of which 159 played)
Gates	9148  (ø 57.53 per game)
spectator	97425  (ø 613 per game)
Top scorer	Damir Djukic , Sasa Barisic-Jaman  (117 goals)
yellow cards	896  (ø 5.64 per game)
Time penalties	1273  (ø 8.01 per game)
Red cards	53  (ø 0.33 per game)
← Austrian handball championship 2013/14 Austrian Handball Championship 2015/16 →
Handball Bundesliga Austria 2014/15 ↓

The 54th season of the Austrian handball championship began in August 2014. The reigning champion of the 2013/14 season is Alpla HC Hard .

Handball League Austria

Ten teams are represented in the top division, the HLA. The championship is divided into several phases. In the main round, all teams play a simple round trip against each opponent. After that, the league is divided into two groups.

The first five teams play in a further round-trip for placement in the HLA quarter-finals. The last five teams play for the first three places, which also qualify for the quarter-finals. The qualification will also be played in a round trip. The two worst-placed teams play a best-of-three series against relegation.

Bregenz handball HC Hard Fivers West Vienna Union Leoben HSG Bärnbach / Köflach Union St. Pölten Handball Tyrol HC Linz AG UHK Krems

Associations of the HLA 2014/15

League leader

Bottom of the table

Saša-Lela Barišić-Jaman top scorer in the 2014/15 regular season

Damir Djukic top scorer of the regular season 2014/15

Basic pass HLA

	society	R.	S.	U	N	Gates	Diff.	Points
1.	Alpla HC Hard (M)	18th	14th	1	3	567: 475	+92	29: 7
2.	Handball club Fivers Margareten	18th	12	4th	2	575: 505	+70	28: 8
3.	SG Handball West Vienna	18th	14th	0	4th	581: 498	+83	28: 8
4th	Bregenz handball	18th	12	1	5	571: 533	+38	25:11
5.	Moser Medical UHK Krems	18th	9	1	8th	529: 518	+11	19:17
6th	Union JURI Leoben	18th	6th	2	10	544: 577	−33	14:22
7th	Sparkasse Schwaz Handball Tirol	18th	5	3	10	453: 474	−21	13:23
8th.	HC Linz AG	18th	5	1	12	471: 540	−69	11:25
9.	HSG Raiffeisen Bärnbach / Köflach	18th	3	1	14th	518: 580	−62	7:29
10.	SU Falkensteiner Katschberg - St.Pölten	18th	2	2	14th	473: 582	−109	6:30

Legend
	Upper playoff
	Lower playoff
(M)	Last season champions

• The handball club Fivers Margareten took second place due to the victory in the direct duel.

	1	2	3	4th	5	6th	7th	8th	9	10	11	12	13	14th	15th	16	17th	18th
	2	4th	6th	6th	8th	10	10	12	14th	16	18th	19th	21st	21st	23	25th	27	29
	1	2	4th	6th	7th	9	11	11	13	15th	17th	19th	20th	22nd	24	24	26th	28
	2	2	4th	6th	8th	10	12	14th	16	18th	18th	20th	22nd	24	24	26th	26th	28
	2	3	5	7th	9	9	11	13	13	13	13	15th	17th	19th	21st	21st	23	25th
	2	4th	4th	6th	6th	8th	8th	9	9	11	13	13	13	15th	15th	17th	19th	19th
	1	1	3	3	3	3	5	5	5	5	7th	8th	8th	8th	10	12	12	14th
	0	2	2	2	3	4th	4th	6th	8th	8th	8th	8th	9	9	11	11	13	13
	0	0	0	2	2	2	2	3	5	7th	9	9	11	11	11	11	11	11
	0	0	0	0	0	0	2	2	2	2	2	4th	4th	6th	6th	7th	7th	7th
	0	2	2	2	4th	5	5	5	5	5	5	5	5	5	5	6th	6th	6th
Green = win • Yellow = draw • Red = defeat

List of goalscorers basic round

placement	player	society	Division	Gates	7 meters	Field gates
1	Sasa Barisic-Jaman	Union Leoben	HLA	117	37/47	80
1	Damir Djukic	SU Falkensteiner Katschberg - St.Pölten	HLA	117	18/28	99
3	Sebastian Frimmel	SG Handball West Vienna	HLA	107	36/50	71
4th	Vytautas Žiūra	Handball club Fivers Margareten	HLA	105	52/60	53
5	Lucas Mayer	Bregenz handball	HLA	103	1/1	102
6th	Mislav Nenadic	HSG Raiffeisen Bärnbach / Köflach	HLA	101	0/0	101
7th	Benas Petreikis	Union Leoben	HLA	97	5/7	92
8th	Nikola Bilyk	Handball club Fivers Margareten	HLA	96	9/12	87
9	Risto Arnaudovski	HSG Raiffeisen Bärnbach / Köflach	HLA	95	18/23	77
10	Norbert Visy	Moser Medical UHK Krems	HLA	91	28/35	63
10	Mitar Markez	Alpla HC Hard	HLA	91	21/31	70

Playoffs

The first five teams of the regular season play in a further round-trip for the placement in the HLA quarter-finals, with each team having to play a home game against the youth national team from the 1994 year. The last five teams play for the first three places which also qualify for the quarterfinals. The qualification will also be played out in a round trip plus a home game against Team 94. The two worst-placed teams play a best of three series against relegation. Each team starts the playoff phase with the halved points of the regular season, uneven numbers are rounded up.

Upper playoff

	society	R.	S.	U	N	Gates	Diff.	Points
1.	Alpla HC Hard (M)	9	7th	0	2	263: 227	36	29: 4
2.	Bregenz handball	9	6th	1	2	260: 240	20th	26: 5
3.	SG Handball West Vienna	9	4th	1	4th	254: 246	8th	23: 9
4th	Handball club Fivers Margareten	9	3	0	6th	237: 251	−14	20:12
5.	UHK Krems	9	4th	0	5	235: 263	−28	18:10
6th	Team 94	5	0	0	5	126: 148	−22	0:10

Lower playoff

	society	R.	S.	U	N	Gates	Diff.	Points
1.	HC Linz AG	9	7th	0	2	268: 243	25th	20: 4
2.	Handball Tyrol	9	6th	1	2	253: 232	21st	20: 5
3.	Union Leoben	9	3	1	5	251: 264	−13	14:11
4th	HSG Raiffeisen Bärnbach / Köflach	9	4th	0	5	255: 269	−14	12:10
5.	SU Falkensteiner Katschberg - St.Pölten	9	4th	0	5	247: 240	7th	11:10
6th	Team 94	5	0	0	5	137: 163	−26	0:10

Legend
	Quarter finals
	Relegation games

Final series

Final series tree

Quarter finals

Semifinals

final

OPL1

Alpla HC Hard

2

UPL3

Union Leoben

0

OPL1

Alpla HC Hard

2

OPL4

Fivers Margareten

0

OPL4

Fivers Margareten

2

OPL5

UHK Krems

0

OPL1

Alpla HC Hard

2

OPL2

Bregenz handball

0

OPL2

Bregenz handball

2

UPL2

Handball Tyrol

1

OPL2

Bregenz handball

2

OPL3

SG Handball West Vienna

1

OPL3

SG Handball West Vienna

2

UPL1

HC Linz AG

0

HLA quarter finals

For the quarter-finals, all participants of the top and the top three of the bottom playoff are qualified. The first against the eighth, the second against the seventh, the third against the sixth and the fourth against the fifth placed from a table of upper and lower playoffs. Everything is played in best of three series, the winners of the quarter-finals advance to the semi-finals.

Alpla HC Hard (OPL1) - Union Leoben (UPL3) 17th April Alpla HC Hard 7 Weber , Zeiner 48  : 21 ( 20  : 14) Union Leoben 8 Markez 20th of April Union Leoben 6 Jandl , Markez 25: 30 ( 15:16 ) Alpla HC Hard 5 Krsmančić , Zeiner Final score in the series: 2-0

Bregenz Handball (OPL2) - Handball Tirol (UPL2) 17th April Bregenz handball 6 Mayer 28  : 27 ( 15  : 12) Handball Tyrol 8 prakapenia 20th of April Handball Tyrol 9 Juric 29  : 28 (13: 13) Bregenz handball 6 Varvne April 25 Bregenz handball 8 Mayer 27  : 24 ( 12  : 11) Handball Tyrol 6 Juric Final score in the series: 2: 1

Handball club Fivers Margareten (OPL4) - UHK Krems (OPL5) 17th April Handball club Fivers Margareten 11 Bilyk 35  : 29 (18:18) UHK Krems 7 Neuhold 20th of April UHK Krems 7 babarskas 23: 28 (12: 12) Handball club Fivers Margareten 9 Bilyk Final score in the series: 2-0

SG Handball West Vienna (OPL3) - HC Linz AG (UPL1) 17th April SG Handball West Vienna 6 Frimmel 29  : 28 ( 13  : 9) HC Linz AG 5 papsch 20th of April HC Linz AG 8 court seats 30: 33 (16: 17 ) SG Handball West Vienna 10 Posch Final score in the series: 2-0

HLA semifinals

The winners of the quarter-finals are qualified for the semi-finals. The winners of the semi-finals move into the final of the Handball League Austria.

Alpla HC Hard (OPL1) - Handball Club Fivers Margareten (OPL4) 8th of May Alpla HC Hard 7 Zeiner 28  : 25 ( 16  : 11) Handball club Fivers Margareten 6 Bilyk May 11th Handball club Fivers Margareten 9 Žiūra 26: 27 ( 15  : 13) Alpla HC Hard 7 Krsmančić Final score in the series: 2-0

Bregenz Handball (OPL2) - SG Handball West Vienna (OPL3) May 9 Bregenz handball 8 Esegovic 35  : 34 (12: 15 ) SG Handball West Vienna 10 Hermann 12th of May SG Handball West Vienna 7 Hermann, Frimmel 28  : 23 (14: 14) Bregenz handball 7 Mayer 17th of May Bregenz handball 9 Varvne 29  : 24 ( 15  : 9) SG Handball West Vienna 6 Hermann, Miljak Final score in the series: 2: 1

HLA Final (Best of three)

Final: Alpla HC Hard (OPL1) - Bregenz Handball (OPL2)
23. May	Alpla HC Hard 6 zeiners	30 : 26 ( 14  : 13)	Bregenz handball 7 Varvne
May 26	Bregenz handball 4 breakfasts , Gavranović	20: 24 (8: 11 )	Alpla HC Hard 5 Kozina , Zeiner

HLA final score

	society
1.	Alpla HC Hard (M)
2.	Bregenz handball
3.	SG Handball West Vienna
4th	Handball club Fivers Margareten
5.	UHK Krems
6th	HC Linz AG

Legend
	EHF Champions League
	EHF-CUP
	EHF Challenge Cup
(M)	Last season champions

List of goalscorers final score

placement	player	society	Division	Gates	7 meters	Field gates
1	Damir Djukic	Union St. Pölten	HLA	233	54	179
2	Lucas Mayer	Bregenz handball	HLA	179	1	178
3	Alexander Hermann	SG Handball West Vienna	HLA	168	6th	162
4th	Vytautas Žiūra	Handball club Fivers Margareten	HLA	167	79	88
5	Nikola Bilyk	Handball club Fivers Margareten	HLA	163	28	135
6th	Mislav Nenadic	HSG Raiffeisen Bärnbach / Köflach	HLA	160	0	160
7th	Mitar Markez	Alpla HC Hard / Union Leoben	HLA	158	49	109
8th	Sebastian Frimmel	SG Handball West Vienna	HLA	151	49	102
9	Benas Petreikis	Union Leoben	HLA	144	6th	138
9	Filip Gavranović	Bregenz handball	HLA	144	0	144

HLA relegation games (Best of three)

The last and penultimate of the lower playoffs play off relegation to the Handball Bundesliga Austria in three finals .

HSG Raiffeisen Bärnbach / Köflach (UPL9) - SU Falkensteiner Katschberg - St.Pölten (UPL10) April 18 HSG Raiffeisen Bärnbach / Köflach 6 Kolar, Gesslbauer 35  : 34 (13, 26, 31: 16 , 26, 31) SU Falkensteiner Katschberg - St.Pölten 11 Djukic April 25 SU Falkensteiner Katschberg - St.Pölten 11 Djukic 36  : 25 ( 16  : 8) HSG Raiffeisen Bärnbach / Köflach 6 Offenbachers May 9 HSG Raiffeisen Bärnbach / Köflach 6 Gesslbauer 26  : 23 (10: 11 ) SU Falkensteiner Katschberg - St.Pölten 10 Djukic Final score in the series: 2: 1

All-Star Team

After the end of the season, subsequent players were recognized for their achievements and were elected to the All-Star Team .

Left winger Thomas Weber ( Alpla HC Hard )				Circle player Krešimir Kozina ( Alpla HC Hard )				Right winger Matthias Führer ( SG Handball West Vienna )
		Back room left Nikola Bilyk ( handball club Fivers Margareten )				Right back room Lucas Mayer ( Bregenz Handball )
				Back center Vytautas Žiūra ( Handball club Fivers Margareten )
				Goalkeeper Golub Doknić ( Alpla HC Hard )
		Handball Player of the Year Vytautas Žiūra (Handball Club Fivers Margareten)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Bonus point regulation. sis-handball.at, accessed on January 19, 2015 . 
2. ↑ Ziura named handball of the year. hla.at, June 9, 2015, archived from the original on July 22, 2015 ; Retrieved July 22, 2015 .