German Volleyball Bundesliga (women)

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Women's volleyball Bundesliga
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Current season German Volleyball Bundesliga 2020/21
sport volleyball
abbreviation VBL
Association Volleyball Bundesliga
League foundation 1976
Teams 11 (2020/21)
Title holder Allianz MTV Stuttgart (2019)
Record champions SSC Palmberg Schwerin
Website volleyball-bundesliga.de

The women's volleyball Bundesliga is the top division in German volleyball . The German champions have been determined in this competition since the 1976/77 season .

Current mode

The women's Bundesliga is made up of eleven teams in the 2020/2021 season. There is no athletic relegation to the second division . The teams in the first eight places are qualified for the playoffs. The quarter-finals are played in best-of-three mode . Semi-finals and finals will be played in best-of-five mode .

history

The 2019/20 season was canceled on March 12, 2020 due to the COVID-19 pandemic before the last day of the main round. A championship title was not awarded, nor were there any relegated teams. It was the first time in the history of the Bundesliga that a season was ended prematurely.

media

Since the 2013/14 season there have been regular live broadcasts of the Bundesliga games on the internet again. The clubs will contribute 100,000 EUR to the production costs. It is planned to broadcast around 40 games. One top game will be broadcast each week during the main round. In the play-offs, one game should be shown live on every match day. SPORT1 has been broadcasting some games on free-to-air television since the 2017/18 season.

spectator

The record number of spectators in the women's volleyball Bundesliga came from the play-off game between Allianz MTV Stuttgart and Dresdner SC on April 30, 2016. In the Porsche-Arena in Stuttgart, 5,392 spectators followed the game, which Allianz MTV Stuttgart won 3-2. The final match between CJD Feuerbach and Bayern Lohhof in the Sindelfingen Glaspalast in 1987 with 5,000 spectators came in second on the audience's list of the best. In 2005, USC Münster played against the Rote Raben Vilsbiburg in front of 4,500 spectators, third place on the list of the best.

Germany's most popular women's league

Measured by the number of spectators at home games, the volleyball Bundesliga occupies a special position among team sports in Germany. In no other sport is the women's league stronger than the men's league. Of all professional leagues in Germany, women achieve the highest average attendance, even ahead of women in football, handball or basketball.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ No further games: Volleyball Bundesliga ends season. Volleyball Bundesliga, March 12, 2020, accessed on March 12, 2020 .
  2. ↑ MORE VOLLEYBALL THAN EVER BEFORE VOLLEYBALL BUNDESLIGA FOR WOMEN AND MEN LIVE ON SPORT1 UP TO THE SEASON 2020-21. VBL, June 7, 2018, accessed June 20, 2019 .
  3. ↑ Record attendance of the millennium! Allianz MTV Stuttgart, April 29, 2016, accessed on April 29, 2016 .
  4. ^ Finale furioso. Allianz MTV Stuttgart, May 1, 2016, accessed on May 1, 2016 .
  5. ↑ Where Klootschießen beats football. Spiegel online, December 25, 2019, accessed December 27, 2019 .
  6. ↑ The League. Allianz MTV Stuttgart, December 27, 2019, accessed on December 27, 2019 .