German field handball championship 1961

Final round of the German field handball championship in 1961
master	TuS Lintfort
Teams	16
Games	15th
Gates	400  (ø 26.67 per game)
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The German field handball championship in 1961 was played in a final tournament between October 1 and October 22, 1961. The tournament was the twelfth championship round in men's field handball organized by the DHB . The final took place on October 22, 1961 in front of 31,400 spectators, as in the previous year the Oberhausen Stadium Niederrhein was the venue.

And the opponents in the final were the same as in the previous year: Once again, the runner-up from the previous year, TuS Lintfort , and the defending champion TSV 1860 Ansbach had qualified for the final. This year TuS had the better end for itself and became the new German champion after a 16:15 win . For Lintfort this was the third field handball championship in the club's history.

mode

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:

VfL Wolfsburg

Büdelsdorfer TSV

Hohner SV Eintracht

Police SV Hildesheim

West German Championship:

TuS Lintfort

VfL Eintracht Hagen

SV Bayer 04 Leverkusen

TSV Grün-Weiß Dankersen

Southwest German Championship:

1. SG Dietzenbach

South German Championship:

TSV 1861 Zirndorf

TSV 1860 Ansbach (defending champion)

TC Frisch Auf Göppingen ( German Champion (Halle) 1961 )

TSV Birkenau

TV Großwallstadt

Berlin state / regional championship:

1. Police SV Berlin

In addition, the 16th team came second in the South West German regional championship, Kickers Offenbach , who had prevailed against Berlin runner-up Charlottenburger HC in a qualifying game on September 23, 1961 with 21:14.

The playing time was 2 × 30 minutes, in the event of a tie after regular playing time, an extension of 2 × 10 minutes was carried out.

Tournament course

In the games of the first round, the favored teams prevailed; All four West German clubs made it to the quarter-finals, as well as two South German teams and the North German and Berlin champions. The later final opponents from Ansbach and Lintfort won their away games convincingly.

In the quarter-finals, Ansbach eliminated TSV Grün-Weiß Dankersen, a club that had reached a handball final for the first time this year; While the successes of the Ansbach family reached their zenith in the three years between 1960 and 1962 and were limited to field handball, the future should belong to Dankersen. Lintfort won in Wolfsburg very narrowly with one goal difference due to the good defensive work, in the semi-final game against Göppingen's "Kempa-Buben", winners of the indoor championship of this season, the Lintforters even needed extra time to play into the final. Ansbach, on the other hand, won his semi-final against Leverkusen sovereign, and could therefore be considered slightly favored for the final in Oberhausen. In a thrilling final of two equally strong teams - the lead changed several times - Lintfort finally narrowly prevailed.

Preliminary round

October 1

TSV Birkenau - TuS Lintfort : 7:17

Kickers Offenbach - TSV 1860 Ansbach : 11:15

Hohner SV Eintracht - Police SV Berlin : 4: 5

VfL Eintracht Hagen - TV Großwallstadt: 13:12

SG Dietzenbach - VfL Wolfsburg : 10:16

SV Bayer 04 Leverkusen - TSV 1861 Zirndorf: 17: 9

Büdelsdorfer TSV - TSV Grün-Weiß Dankersen : 16:17

TC Frisch Auf Göppingen - Police SV Hildesheim: 27:11

Intermediate round

8th October

VfL Wolfsburg - TuS Lintfort : 12:13

TSV Grün-Weiß Dankersen - TSV 1860 Ansbach : 11:14 am

Police SV Berlin - SV Bayer 04 Leverkusen : 6:17

TC Frisch Auf Göppingen - VfL Eintracht Hagen: 12:11 (October 7th)

Semifinals

15th October

TuS Lintfort - TC Frisch Auf Göppingen: 20:17 (after extra time; 8: 5, 13:13)

TSV 1860 Ansbach - SV Bayer 04 Leverkusen: 17:12 (10: 5)

Endgame

October 22nd

TuS Lintfort - TSV 1860 Ansbach: 16:15 (7: 6)

Web links

• Sven Webers (Red. Handballdaten.de ): Final round of the German field handball championship 1961 (accessed February 18, 2014)
• Hamburger Abendblatt , reports and reports on the tournament (accessed February 18, 2014):
  1. VfL women documents 2: 7 , HA No. 229/1961, October 2, 1961, p. 10, online archive as of October 2 , direct link (PDF)
  2. Norden retired , HA No. 235/1961, October 9, 1961, p. 12, online archive for October 9 , direct link (PDF)
  3. For the first time Nuremberg's women , HA No. 241/1961, October 16, 1961, p. 10, online archive for October 16 , direct link (PDF)
  4. Handball final before 31400 , HA No. 247/1961, October 23, 1961, p. 12, online archive for October 23 , direct link (PDF)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ cf. on this further Eggers, Handball, Göttingen 2004, p. 139 ff
2. ↑ Hamburger Abendblatt, October 9, 1961, p. 12 (see web links)
3. ↑ Hamburger Abendblatt, October 22, 1961, p. 12 (see web links)