Field handball Bundesliga
The men's field handball Bundesliga was the top division in German field handball from 1967 to 1973 . In the Bundesliga, the league system in which each club competes against every other club in the first and second legs, the participants in the finals of the German championship were determined in the north and south seasons. In 1972 a "German Cup Champion" was determined instead of a German champion.
history
Field handball was initially decisive in the season calendar of the German Handball Federation . Until the 1957/58 season, the state championships were held in autumn and the regional championships and the final round of the German championship in the following spring. The indoor handball season was carried out completely in the winter break of the field handball season, which lasted around three months. From 1959, however, the DHB divided the year into a field season and an indoor season of about the same length. According to the guidelines, the field season lasted from April to September and the indoor season from October to March. No point games of the other variant of the sport were allowed to be played during the respective season. From then on, field handball was played in a year-round rhythm. By switching to two separate annual periods for each of the two types of play, indoor handball was upgraded, the background of which, in addition to the general increase in importance of indoor play, was primarily the 1961 indoor handball world championship that took place in the Federal Republic of Germany, to which the players can better relate to the upgrading of the indoor game should be able to prepare.
From 1921 to 1944, German champions were determined in various associations; After the Second World War , it continued in the German Working Committee for Handball (DAH) from 1947 and finally in the German Handball Federation (DHB) from 1950 . Until 1965, the champions of the regional associations determined the national title holder in a final round. In the transition season of 1966 regional eliminations for the Bundesliga were played, the winners of which also determined the German champions.
For the 1967 season, the Bundesliga was introduced, which was played for a total of seven seasons. At the same time as the Bundesliga, four regional leagues (plus the Landesliga Berlin) were introduced as the second highest division. The regional leagues of the individual regional associations, which had been the highest divisions of the individual regional associations, were thus third-rate up until then - except in the Southern German Association, where there was already a joint division of the four regional associations called the Oberliga. From 1967 to 1969 the two squadrons consisted of ten teams each. The respective group winners reached the championship finals. In the 1970 to 1973 seasons, eight teams formed the two seasons. The first and second reached the semi-finals, the two winners the championship final.
For the 1972 season, the Bundesliga was suspended due to preparations for the indoor handball tournament of the Olympic Games in Munich; potential Olympic participants were not allowed to take part in the field handball season. The championship was played in the usual mode, but declared a cup round for this season . At the DHB Bundestag in 1972, it was decided to abolish the Bundesliga in field handball at the end of the 1973 season. In 1974 and 1975 the championship was held as part of a final round of champions of the regional leagues. The titles went to TSV Birkenau (1974) and TSG Haßloch (1975). No German field handball champions have been determined since 1975.
societies
In the seven seasons, a total of 35 clubs took part in the field handball Bundesliga. SV Harleshausen was renamed SVH Kassel for the 1969 season , but is to be regarded as a club. After the 1971 season, ESV Jahn Rheinhausen merged with TuS Rheinhausen to form OSC Rheinhausen . SV Schwarz-Weiß Westende Hamborn took part in the 1973 season as SG partner of Bundesliga club Spfr. Hamborn 07 and is therefore not accounted for individually.
Participants in all seven seasons were: SG Leutershausen , TV Großwallstadt , TuS Wellinghofen , TSV Birkenau , TV Oppum , TV Hochdorf , TS Steinheim .
Contested six seasons: TSV Grün-Weiß Dankersen and TV Angermund .
In five seasons started: SV Harleshausen or SVH Kassel and Hamborn 07 , one of them as part of HSG Westende / Hamborn 07.
Four times were there: ESV Jahn or OSC 04 Rheinhausen and Eintracht Braunschweig .
Three times were represented : Hamburger SV , VfL Gummersbach , TSV 1860 Ansbach , TSV Oftersheim , Büdelsdorfer TSV , SG Dietzenbach , TuS Schutterwald .
Come to two seasons: Eintracht Hildesheim , VfL Eintracht Hagen , VfL Bad Schwartau , Frisch Auf Göppingen , TSV Rot 05 , BSV Solingen 98 , Hohner SV , Reinickendorfer Füchse , TSV Allach 09 .
Contested one season: Berliner SV 1892 , TuS Ferndorf , SG Bremen-Ost , SC Siemensstadt , VfL Wolfsburg , TS Esslingen 1890 .
German handball champions in the short Bundesliga phase of field handball were: TSV Grün-Weiß Dankersen ( 1967 , 1970 , 1971 ), TV Oppum ( 1968 ), SG Leutershausen ( 1969 ) and TV Großwallstadt ( 1973 ). The field handball cup round in 1972 was won by TS Steinheim .
The season winners in the north were TSV Grün-Weiß Dankersen (1967 and 1969), TV Oppum (1968), TuS 05 Wellinghofen (1970 and 1971) and VfL Eintracht Hagen ("Cup round" 1972 and 1973) and in the south of TV Großwallstadt (1968 ), SG Leutershausen (1969, 1970), TV Hochdorf (1971 and "Cup round" 1972) and SVH Kassel (1973, after the playoff against TV Großwallstadt).
