Women's basketball leagues
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| sport | basketball |
| League foundation | 2001 |
| Teams | 36 teams |
| Country countries |
 Germany
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| Title holder | Herner Turn Club (1st DBBL) |
| Record champions | TSV 1880 Wasserburg |
| Website | DBBL.de |
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↓ 1st DBBL
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The Damen-Basketball-Bundesligen GmbH ( DBBL ) is a company founded in June 2001 which administers the first and the two second national leagues of women's basketball in Germany. The shareholders of the GmbH are AG 1. DBBL, AG 2. DBBL and DBB . The DBBL is based in Frankfurt am Main . Claus-Arwed Lauprecht has been the managing director since January 2020 . His predecessors were Achim Barbknecht , Birgit Kunel and Jürgen Kofner . The DBBL is responsible for the marketing, public relations and the organization of the games in the area of the highest leagues as well as the cup competition of the German women's basketball. In 2020, the decision to relocate the DBBL office from Bergisch Gladbach to Frankfurt was made.
Competitions
The DBBL consists of three play groups with a target strength of twelve teams each:
A Bundesliga team can participate with one team in each of the DBBL game groups. The game is played according to the official FIBA rules .
The 1st DBBL determines the German women's basketball champion and two relegated teams to the 2nd DBBL.
The two seasons of the 2nd DBBL, for their part, determine their women's basketball champions, who thereby acquire a right to promotion to the 1st DBBL for the following season, as well as relegated to the regional leagues.
In addition, a cup competition is held with all Bundesliga clubs and the respective champions of the regional associations, which determines the cup winner in TOP4 from the last four teams remaining in the competition.
Teams
The target strength of the 1st DBBL is twelve teams.
Aliens regulation
For the 2008/2009 season, the rule was introduced that every team must have at least one German player on the field at any time during a first division game. From the 2010/2011 season this number was increased to two German players.
In the 2nd league the rule was that at least 3 German players per team had to be on the field. In 2014, the club FC Nöttingen, whose women's basketball team operates under the name “Grüner Stern Keltern”, changed the rules of the league during the current season. In the so-called 'Lex Steidl', the association pushed through a settlement with DBBL GmbH by means of a threat of legal action. This comparison states “that every Bundesliga team is obliged to have three players who are nationals of an EU member state or an EU-associated state on the field of play at all times from the start of the game to the end of the game. EU-associated states are states that have concluded an agreement with the EU that grants equal treatment to nationals of EU member states with regard to working conditions, pay or dismissal. Only those players are counted who have been legally resident in Germany since at least January 1, 2013 and who, if they are professional basketball players, have been paid for wages subject to social insurance contributions at the latest since September 1, 2014 and at least until the end of the 2014/15 season of more than 450 EUR / month are legally contractually bound to their association. ”Since October 29, 2014, this comparative formulation has replaced the old formulation in § 10 DBLO.
Before the comparison, the rule said that in the 2nd DBBL there must always be at least 3 German players per team on the field. In the 1st DBBL the rule is that at least 2 German players per team must always be on the field. Maria Steidl, the wife of the club's chairman Dirk Steidl, benefited from the new regulation, as all points of the new regulation applied to her. The other clubs criticized the FVC Nöttingen's approach, but still agreed to the new rule in order not to endanger the entire season because of a legal dispute with an uncertain outcome.
In March 2015, the DBBL decided that a maximum of 3 non-European players may be used in each game in the 1st Bundesliga and that German players should be treated equally with European players. It was also agreed that all clubs would voluntarily use 1 German player on the court at any time.
Season opening
Season Opening refers to the official central event at the beginning of a league's game season. In the German sports landscape, the DBBL opened the season of the 1st women's basketball league in this form until 2014. The Austrian Women Basketball League (AWBL) has also been holding a similar event for several years.
In order to present the first women's basketball league in its entirety to a broader public, a central season opening event was discussed at one location within the DBBL and, if the league assembly approved, it was awarded to one of the participating teams after the application. Up to and including 2002, the event took place with out-of-competition games, so it was not included in the rating. Each team played two test matches, one on Saturday and one on Sunday, with a total of up to twelve games being played in parallel in different sports halls.
For the first time in 2003, at the season opening, the entire first game day of the Bundesliga season was handled in one place and in one arcade. In the individual pairings, the team that was better placed in the previous season was rated as the away team. Thus, a place in the top six of the final table was rewarded with an additional home game in the following season. In 2015, the women's basketball league decided at the request of Nördlingen not to continue this event in the future. After a four-year suspension of the event, AG 1. DBBL decided to hold another season opening at the beginning of the 2018/19 season.
The supporting program of the event included a.
- Gala honoring the best players and coaches of the preseason
- Three point competition
- Girls Camp (training camp for youth players)
- Trainer training
Venues
- 2000 Saarlouis (October 7/8)
- 2001 Saarlouis (September 29th / 30th)
- 2002 Marburg (September 21/22)
- 2003 Marburg (September 27-28)
- 2004 Leipzig (October 16/17)
- 2005 Göttingen (October 1st and 2nd)
- 2006 not held
- 2007 Marburg (October 20/21)
- 2008 Marburg (September 27/28)
- 2009 Freiburg im Breisgau (September 26-27)
- 2010 Freiburg (25/26 September)
- 2011 Chemnitz (September 24/25)
- 2012 Marburg (September 29th / 30th)
- 2013 Oberhausen (September 28/29)
- 2014 Chemnitz (September 27/28)
- 2018 Keltern (September 28 and 29, 2018)
- 2019 Hanover on September 21st in the Swiss Life Hall and the sports hall Birkenstrasse
- Saarlouis has applied for the season opening in the next season.
Champions Day
For the 2015/2016 season, the DBBL introduced the Champions Day as a replacement for the Season Opening. At this event, on the one hand, the champion of the 2nd division is determined in the game of the champions of the 2nd Bundesliga North against the champions of the 2nd division South and, on the other hand, the winner of the Champions Cup in the game of the current German champions against the current German Cup winner.
Name sponsor
In 2016, DBBL GmbH announced that a new name sponsor was found in Planet Photo and that the league will operate under the name “Planet Photo DBBL”. This name was given up due to the bankruptcy of the parent company, so that the league has been called DBBL again since the 2018/19 season .
See also
- 1st women's basketball league
- 2nd women's basketball league
- List of German women's basketball teams
- German champion (women's basketball)
- German Cup Winner (women's basketball)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Claus-Arwed Lauprecht is the new managing director of DBBL GmbH. In: Women's Basketball Bundesliga. January 31, 2020, accessed on February 2, 2020 (German).
- ↑ Süddeutsche Zeitung of Thursday, May 15, 2008, report on page 42.
- ↑ a b Udo Koller: Grüner Stern Keltern overturns regulations for foreigners. Pforzheimer Zeitung, archived from the original on February 7, 2015 ; accessed on January 27, 2015 .
- ↑ AWBL website ( Memento of the original from October 9, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ New in 2003, TSV Wasserburg website ( memento of the original from September 27, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ^ Website derwesten.de accessed on January 7, 2014
- ↑ Season opening 1st DBBL. In: dbbl.de. July 11, 2018, accessed September 21, 2018 .
- ↑ Press review 2002, old website of BC Marburg
- ↑ Season Opening Information on the organizer's homepage ( Memento of the original from October 28, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ Season Opening website ( Memento of the original from September 22, 2008 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ Announcement of the SO organizer 2014
- ↑ Peter Voeth: Season 2015/2016. (No longer available online.) Website informationen-marburg.de, June 30, 2015, archived from the original on July 1, 2015 ; accessed on June 30, 2015 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ Planet Photo DBBL: Naming Right Women's Basketball Bundesliga (DBBL) - Planet Photo replaces Planet Cards. Planet Photo DBBL, June 1, 2016, accessed November 23, 2016 .
