German field handball championship 1959

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Final round of the
German field handball championship in 1959
master TuS Lintfort
Teams 16
Games 15th
Gates 372  (ø 24.8 per game)
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The German field handball championship in 1959 was played in a final tournament between October 4 and November 8, 1959. The tournament was the tenth championship round in men's field handball organized by the DHB . The final took place on November 8, 1959 in front of 30,000 spectators in Duisburg's Wedaustadion .

The new German champion was TuS Lintfort , who won the final against SV Bayer 04 Leverkusen just 10: 9. After the championship in 1940, Lintfort won the second field handball title in the club's history.

mode

For the first time the tournament took place in autumn of that year; the late date was retained from 1959 until the last final of this type in 1966.

16 teams occurred in an eliminator in tournament Ko system with preliminary round (second round), intermediate round (quarter-finals) and final against each other, the winner of the semi-final denied the final; Placement games were not held.

The following 15 teams had qualified directly for the preliminary round of the tournament via the respective regional championships:

North German Championship:

  1. VfL Wolfsburg
  2. Police SV Kiel
ATSV habenhausen
Flensburg TB

West German Championship:

  1. SV Bayer 04 Leverkusen
  2. Sportfreunde Hamborn 07 (defending champion)
  3. TuS Lintfort
  4. VfL Gummersbach

Southwest German Championship:

  1. SV Harleshausen
  2. Kickers Offenbach

South German Championship:

  1. TC Frisch Auf Göppingen ( German Champion (Halle) 1959 )
  2. TSV 1860 Ansbach
SG Leutershausen
TSV Zuffenhausen

Berlin state / regional championship:

  1. Police SV Berlin

In addition, as in 1957 and 1958, Berliner SV 1892 , runner-up of the Berlin handball association, who won the third of the Southwest German championship, SG Dietzenbach , in a qualifying game in September 1959 with 10:13, came as the 16th team .

The playing time was 2 × 30 minutes.

Tournament course

Defending champion Hamborn 07 surprisingly had to give up in the first lap. The Hamborner "Löwen" looked like the sure winners against TSV Zuffenhausen in the meantime 9: 4 on their own place, but finally had to admit defeat to the fighting strength of the Swabian champions in an "unpleasant meeting". In the last few minutes the game developed into a “handball scandal” with a chain of free throws and evictions, as the Hamburger Abendblatt headlined; After the game, angry spectators stormed the field and hit the Zuffenhausen players and the referee. Otherwise, the tournament favorites prevailed in the preliminary round with clear victories. In the second round the next surprises followed: the highly rated TC Frisch Auf Göppingen, the indoor champion of this season, lost to the Offenbacher Kickers with 12:10, and the North German champion VfL Wolfsburg, who had knocked out SG Leutershausen in the preliminary round - after all the runner-up from the previous two years - lost to the young team from Lintfort.

The later tournament winner TuS Lintfort had only qualified as third place in the West German Championship, but then showed great consistency in the final tournament with wins against the Berlin champions, the North German champions and the South West German champions. Leverkusen were nevertheless favored in the final, as Bayer 04 had kept TuS Lintfort at a distance in the West German regional championship; And even in the course of the tournament, the strong attacking Leverkusen team left no doubt about their ambitions with clear victories. Lintfort won the final because the game of Leverkusen was too much geared towards attacking the normally outstanding striker Robert Will , who this time was well shielded, as "tactically stupid" the then national coach Werner Vick criticized the play area of ​​the favorite. This also won the Lintforters 'recipe for betting on their own offspring - nine of the new champions' eleven players came from their own youth - against the Bayer-Werksverein, where no member of the final team in Leverkusen had started playing handball.

Preliminary round

4th of October

Police SV Berlin - TuS Lintfort : 11:13 (half time 5: 4)
SV Bayer 04 Leverkusen - ATSV habenhausen: 25:14 (13: 4)
VfL Wolfsburg - SG Leutershausen: 22:11 (9: 7)
SV Harleshausen - VfL Gummersbach: 13:12
TC Frisch Auf Göppingen - Berliner SV 1892: 15: 6 (11: 6)
Police SV Kiel - Kickers Offenbach : 9:11
Sportfreunde Hamborn 07 - TSV Zuffenhausen : 12:13
TSV 1860 Ansbach - Flensburg TB: 11: 7

Intermediate round

October 11th

TuS Lintfort - VfL Wolfsburg: 14:11 (5: 6)
TSV 1860 Ansbach - SV Bayer 04 Leverkusen : 11:15 (8: 8)
TSV Zuffenhausen - SV Harleshausen : 9:13 (6: 5)
Kickers Offenbach - TC Frisch Auf Göppingen: 12:10

Semifinals

October

SV Harleshausen - TuS Lintfort : 12:13
SV Bayer 04 Leverkusen - Kickers Offenbach: 21: 7 (7: 4)

Endgame

November 8th

TuS Lintfort - SV Bayer 04 Leverkusen: 10: 9 (5: 4)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Webers (Red.): German field handball champions from 1931 (men)
  2. ↑ The background may be that the 1959 men's field handball world championship was scheduled for the usual date in previous years .
  3. ↑ Hamburger Abendblatt, October 5, 1959, p. 6 (see web links)
  4. ↑ quoted from Hamburger Abendblatt, November 9, 1959, p. 6 (see web links)
  5. ↑ Hamburger Abendblatt, November 9, 1959, p. 6 (see web links)