2. Handball Bundesliga
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| Current season | 2020/21 |
| sport | Handball |
| abbreviation | 2. HBL |
| Association | German Handball Federation |
| League foundation | 1981 |
| Teams | 18th |
| Country countries |
 Germany
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| Title holder | HSC 2000 Coburg |
| Record champions | TuS N-Lübbecke (5) |
| Website | [1] |
| ↑ Handball Bundesliga (I) ↓ 3rd division (III)
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The 2nd handball Bundesliga is the second highest division in German handball . Since the 2011/2012 season it consisted of a relay with 20 teams. From 2019/20, 18 teams will be represented in the 2nd HBL.
Ascent and descent mode
Currently, at the end of a season, the championship team and the team in second place are promoted to the top division ( handball Bundesliga ); the teams in the last five places are relegated to the 3rd division .
history
In 1981 the second handball division was introduced below the first division . It was divided into a north and south relay according to regional association boundaries, in which 14 teams each played. The northern relay included the clubs of the North and West German Association, the southern relay the clubs of the regional associations Southwest and South. Clubs from West Berlin were distributed to the squadrons as required. The two relay champions rose to the 1st Bundesliga. In the years 1991 to 1993 there were three seasons after German reunification after the complete takeover of the clubs of the second highest division of the GDR (GDR league): North, Middle and South. Since then, the clubs have been divided into the two second leagues according to geographical considerations. 1993-2011 again existed two seasons north and south.
Promotion and relegation mode (1994 to 2010)
The first placed in each season of the 2nd Bundesliga rose directly to the 1st Bundesliga at the season change . The last two placed in the 1st Bundesliga were relegated directly to the 2nd Bundesliga.
The runners-up in both seasons of the 2nd Bundesliga determined the participants in the Bundesliga delegation in play-off games. There the play-off winner played against the third from bottom (16th) of the 1st division for a place in the 1st Bundesliga.
Five teams were relegated from the 2nd Bundesliga at the end of the season. These were the two last-placed teams of both seasons as well as another, which was determined in relegation games of the two third-bottom, whose loser was the fifth relegated. The relegated were assigned to the regional leagues of the regional association to which they belong. In extreme cases, it could happen that all five relegated teams were relegated to the same regional league. If more than one club was relegated to a certain regional league, the relegation from this regional league increased accordingly by up to four further relegated members ("sliding relegation"). Even in such a case, a balance of strengths through “relay changers” did not take place in the regional league, since each regional association operated its own regional league.
The champions of the five regional leagues (north, north-east, west, south-west, south) rose directly to the 2nd Bundesliga.
Division of the clubs into squadrons (1994 to 2011)
The rule strength of the 2nd Bundesliga was 36 clubs until 2011. These played in two seasons of 18 teams each. The division of the clubs into the north or south relay has not been based on association membership since 1991, but according to geographic aspects. Clubs that are based in the middle third of Germany (viewed from north to south), such as SG Solingen , HSG Düsseldorf or 1. SV Concordia Delitzsch , could be assigned to either one or the other season. All named ('changer candidates') already played in both the north and south seasons. The classification was made again before each season.
Single track second Bundesliga
In February 2009, the majority of the club managers and managing directors of the 1st and 2nd handball Bundesliga decided to introduce a single-track 2nd Bundesliga from the 2011/2012 season. 20 clubs are to play in the new league. The German Handball Association created the basis for the new division structure in July 2008. Reiner Witte , President of the Handball Bundesliga e. V., explained about the reorganization: “I am very happy that we have taken this groundbreaking step. With their approval, the second division clubs in particular make a historic contribution to the continued positive development of handball in Germany. (…) The standardization will secure us a much greater attention nationally, and the professionalization also has potential for all clubs in the single-track 2nd division. ”The relegated teams from the 1st division and clubs up to and including the first division were introduced to the single-track 2nd Bundesliga 9th place in the 2nd Bundesliga North and South qualified. The remaining two of the total of 20 starting places were given to the two best-placed clubs in the relegation group, which consisted of four third-division teams and the tenth-placed teams from the two second national leagues.
In the 2015/16 season, 21 instead of 20 teams started, as 19 teams started in the 1st Bundesliga in the preseason due to licensing disputes and this was corrected by 4 relegated teams.
Since it was founded, 163 different teams and game associations have played in the second-highest division of handball. 45 of them started - with interruption - in this league for over 10 years. The longest of these was HC Erlangen (22 years), EHV Aue (23 years) and TV Emsdetten (29 years).
The first three of the final table go straight to the 1st handball league. The last four in the final table are relegated directly to the 3rd division. Relegated from the 1st Bundesliga are the last three, and promoted are the respective champions of the 3rd League North, East, West and South. If a club should file for bankruptcy, it is immediately determined as a relegated club. From the 2017/18 season, the number of promoted players in the Bundesliga was reduced to two.
statistics
Master since 1981
spectator
| season | Games | spectator | O |
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| 2011/12 | 379 | 521.203 | 1,375 |
| 2012/13 | 380 | 494.161 | 1,300 |
| 2013/14 | 343 | 498,878 | 1,363 |
| 2014/15 | 380 | 578.140 | 1,521 |
| 2015/16 | 420 | 632.209 | 1,505 |
| 2016/17 | 380 | 532,631 | 1,378 |
| 2017/18 | 380 | 602.275 | 1,584 |
In the first season of the single-track second Bundesliga, 521,203 viewers watched the 379 games. The average attendance was 1,375 spectators. TUSEM Essen had the most spectators with 40,153 spectators in 19 league games. The bottom of the list was the relegated TV Korschenbroich with 10,018 viewers, which corresponded to an average of 527 viewers. The Arena Leipzig was the arena with the highest capacity sports hall Ratingen-West with the smallest space with 7,000 seats for 300 spectators. In the second season, 494,161 spectators saw the matches, which corresponded to an average of 1,300 visitors. The crowd puller was TV Bittenfeld with 36,625 viewers. In the 2013/14 season , 498,878 spectators attended 343 games, with SC DHfK Leipzig having the most spectators in 18 league games with 36,620 spectators. The bottom of the audience this season was the newcomer and also the relegated TSV Altenholz with a total of 9,270 spectators, which was an average of 488 spectators. In the 2014/15 season, 578,140 viewers watched the 380 games, which means an average of 1,521 viewers per game. The highest number of spectators went to the newcomer HSC Coburg with an average of 2,558 visitors and the fewest spectators were from Sv Henstedt-Ulzburg with an average of 509 visitors. The Arena Leipzig was the arena with the highest capacity with 7,000 seats, the sports hall SZ Maurepasstraße with space for around 800 spectators the one with the smallest.
Clubs of the 2019/20 season
Venues of the 2nd handball Bundesliga |
The following teams qualified for the 2nd Bundesliga 2019/20:
- Relegated from the Bundesliga 2018/19
- The teams in places 3 to 16 of the 2nd handball Bundesliga 2018/19
- Promoted from the 3rd division 2018/19 (East relay)
- Promoted from the 3rd division 2018/19 (Season West)
- Promoted from the 3rd division 2018/19 (Season South)
See also
Individual evidence
- ↑ www.toyota-handball-bundesliga.de
- ↑ My handball ticket: 2nd handball Bundesliga - audience statistics accessed on October 24, 2018
ASV Hamm-Westphalia | Dessau-Roßlauer HV | DJK Rimpar Wölfe | EHV Aue | HC Elbflorenz | HSG Konstanz | Handball Sport Verein Hamburg | SG BBM Bietigheim | ThSV Eisenach | TSV Bayer Dormagen | TuS Ferndorf | TuS Fürstenfeldbruck | TuS N-Lübbecke | TV Emsdetten | TV Großwallstadt | TV Hüttenberg | VfL Gummersbach | VfL Lübeck-Schwartau | Wilhelmshaven HV
