German field handball championship 1966

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Final round of the
German field handball championship in 1966
master TV oppum 1894
Teams 8th
Games 13
Gates 331  (ø 25.46 per game)
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The 1966 German field handball championship was played in a final tournament between September 4 and October 2, 1966. The tournament was the 17th championship round in men's field handball organized by the DHB . The final took place on October 2, 1966 in front of 22,000 spectators in the August Thyssen Stadium in Bruckhausen , the home ground of Hamborn 07 .

The new German champion was the TV Oppum 1894 , which celebrated the first title win in the club's history. Oppum defeated Hamburger SV 19:12 in the final .

This was the last field handball final in its old form; As for indoor handball, the DHB decided at the beginning of September 1965 to introduce a two-track Bundesliga with north and south relay for field handball for the 1967 season .

mode

Eight teams competed against each other in an elimination tournament ( knockout system ) with home and away games. The game system corresponded to that of the previous season, but in a shortened form: after a preliminary round (quarter-finals) and an intermediate round (semifinals), the winners of the semifinals played the final, no further placement games were played.

The following eight teams had qualified for participation via the respective regional championships; the defending champion BSV Solingen 1898 did not succeed:

Hamburger SV (North German Champion)
Eintracht Hildesheim (North German runner-up)
VfL Gummersbach (West German Champion, German Champion (Halle) 1966 )
TV Oppum 1894 (West German runner-up)
TV Hochdorf (Southwest German Champion)
TSV Birkenau (South German Champion)
SG Leutershausen (South German runner-up)
Berliner SV 1892 (Berlin Master)

The playing time was 2 × 30 minutes; if there was a tie after the rounds, the goal difference decided.

Tournament course

The later tournament winner TV Oppum already showed his good form in the quarter and semi-finals at the season highlight and clearly won all four games against his opponents. Nevertheless, HSV could be seen as slightly favored in the final, as Hamburg had surprisingly defeated the indoor champions of the season, VfL Gummersbach, in their own place with 15:11 in the semifinals.

In the final, however, there could only be doubts about the victory of the Oppumers in the first half, after both sides played cautiously at the break, HSV was just 6: 5 in the lead. In the second half, the young West Germans then overran the increasingly resigned Hamburgers and prevailed.

Preliminary round

September 4 (first leg) / September 11 (second leg)

Berliner SV 1892 - TV Oppum 1894 : 7:11 / 14:15
TV Hochdorf - Hamburger SV : 14:13 (September 3) / 8:15
Eintracht Hildesheim - TSV Birkenau: 16:15 / 14:13 (September 10th)
SG Leutershausen - VfL Gummersbach : 12:11 / 9:17

Intermediate round

September 18 (first leg) / October 25 (second leg)

Eintracht Hildesheim - TV Oppum 1894 : 13:15 / 12:15
Hamburger SV - VfL Gummersbach: 8: 7 / 15:11

Endgame

October 2nd

TV Oppum 1894 - Hamburger SV: 19:12 (half time 5: 6)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Bundesliga in handball , Hamburger Abendblatt , September 7, 1965, p. 12 ( direct link (PDF), accessed March 1, 2014)
  2. ↑ Hamburger Abendblatt, September 26, 1966, p. 12 (see web links)
  3. ↑ Hamburger Abendblatt, October 3, 1966, p. 13 (see web links)