Indoor hockey Bundesliga (women)
The indoor hockey Bundesliga is the top national division of women in German indoor hockey . The game operation of the league introduced for the 1982/83 season is organized by the German Hockey Association .
Since the 2000/01 season there has been a four-track Bundesliga with the North, East, South and West groups of six teams each. This is followed by the four regional leagues (south, west, east, north). In the main round , a double round (10 games per team) is played in each group. The last placed team in each group is relegated to the regional league, the champions of the regional leagues are promoted. The two best in each group qualify for the quarter-finals of the German championship. The group winners have home rights, the pairings are changed annually. The winners of the quarter-finals contest the final round , which is also played in a knockout system . The winner of the final round is German champions and is entitled to start in the EuroHockey Indoor Club Champions Cup .
history
Up until the introduction of the Bundesliga in 1982/83 , a final round with eight teams that had qualified in previous state or regional championships was held to determine the German champions.
Two groups
The Bundesliga started with two groups of eight teams each. The first two in each group qualified for the final round of the best four clubs in Germany, which determined the German champions and the third-placed in semi-finals (cross-over) and finals. In the new Bundesliga started in autumn 1982:
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Group South (Berlin, Rhineland-Palatinate / Saar, Hesse, Baden-Württemberg and Bavaria) |
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The bottom of the table of the two groups were relegated to the regional league. The two climbers were determined using the north and south rounds of promotion. In the promotion round north, the top two from Regionalliga Nord and the first two from Regionalliga West started the promoted to the Bundesliga northern relay. The promotion round south formed the three best teams of the Regionalliga Süd and the champions of the Regionalliga Berlin.
After just two seasons, the group division was changed. In order to reduce travel costs, the Berlin clubs were added to the northern group for the 1984/85 season , while the clubs from North Rhine-Westphalia played in the southern group from then on. In terms of sport, the fate of the clubs that dominated before the introduction of the Bundesliga was different during the 1980s. While the then seven-time record champions ESV Rot-Weiß Stuttgart were relegated from the House of Lords at the end of the 1985/86 season and soon thereafter dissolved their hockey department, the Cologne-based HTC Blau-Weiss and the RTHC Leverkusen were able to win one or two championship titles. The SC Brandenburg , in which today only popular hockey is offered, was able to secure three championship titles in the Bundesliga until 1989 and also won the first edition of the EuroHockey Club Champions Cup .
After reunification , the GDR clubs were integrated into the DHB's gaming operations. The Regionalliga Berlin was expanded to Regionalliga Ost in 1990/91 and in 1992, with ATV Leipzig , a club from the new federal states achieved promotion to the women's Bundesliga for the first time .
In the 1990s, the Rüsselsheim RK and the Berlin HC dominated the league. From 1990 to 1998, the two clubs were only able to negotiate the title among themselves, interrupted by Eintracht Frankfurt in 1997 .
For the 1996/97 season , the group division was changed again. The clubs from East Germany, i.e. from Berlin, Brandenburg, Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania, Saxony, Saxony-Anhalt and Thuringia, switched to the southern group, the clubs from North Rhine-Westphalia to the northern group. In addition, the number of relegated teams was increased from one to two teams per group and the promotion round to the Bundesliga was abolished. The champions of the regional leagues were promoted directly to the upper house from now on.
Four groups
Five years later the mode was changed again. This time, however, radical, as the DHB wanted to reduce the number of game days to protect the national players. Since the 2000/01 season there have been four groups of six teams, with the two top-ranked clubs in each group reaching the quarter-finals. In this, the four group winners have home rights. The final round of the four best teams continued as usual.
In 2005, a joint final for women and men was held for the first time in the Rhein-Ruhr-Halle Duisburg . The games for third place were therefore canceled. In the following years the same procedure was followed for joint finals, in August 2011 the game for third place was finally canceled for all finals.
At the beginning of the new millennium, RK from Rüsselsheim succeeded in winning four championships in a row and replacing ESV Rot-Weiß Stuttgart as record champions, who even won five titles in a row between 1967 and 1971. After the 2008/09 season, both Eintracht from Frankfurt and Braunschweig had to relegate for the first time since the introduction of the Bundesliga. RTHC Leverkusen followed in the 2009/10 season , and after Klipper THC was also relegated in 2014, none of the founding members is now consistently first class.
statistics
Champion since the introduction of the Bundesliga
- 9 Title: Rüsselsheimer RK (1990, 1991, 1993, 1994, 1998, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005)
- 6 tracks: Berliner HC (1992, 1995, 1996, 2000, 2011, 2013)
- 4 tracks: The Club on the Alster (2006, 2008, 2009, 2018)
- 3 tracks: SC Brandenburg (1986, 1988, 1989)
- 2 tracks: RTHC Bayer Leverkusen (1984, 1987)
- 2 tracks: Klipper THC (1999, 2001)
- 2 tracks: Uhlenhorster HC (2014, 2017)
- 2 tracks: Düsseldorfer HC (2015, 2019)
- 1 Title: Cologne HTC Blau-Weiss (1985)
- 1 track: 1. Hanauer THC (1983)
- 1 track: Harvestehuder THC (2007)
- 1 title: Eintracht Frankfurt (1997)
- 1 title: TSV Mannheim (2010)
- 1 title: Rot-Weiss Köln (2012)
- 1 track: Mannheimer HC (2016)
Most relay wins
Two groups
- 9 × Rüsselsheim RK
- 8 × SC Brandenburg
- 7 × Berlin HC
- 5 × RTHC Bayer Leverkusen
- 2 × Cologne HTC blue and white
- 2 × Klipper THC
- 1 × Eintracht Frankfurt
- 1 × Eintracht Braunschweig
- 1 × Rot-Weiss Cologne
Four groups
- 15 × Berlin HC
- 8 × Rot-Weiss Cologne
- 9 × Club on the Alster
- 7 × Rüsselsheim RK
- 5 × TSV Mannheim
- 4 × Düsseldorf HC
- 2 × Eintracht Braunschweig
- 2 × RTHC Bayer Leverkusen
- 2 × Harvestehuder THC
- 2 × Mannheimer HC
- 1 × Eintracht Frankfurt , Cologne HTC Blau-Weiss , Klipper THC , Münchner SC , TuS Lichterfelde , Uhlenhorst Mülheim , Uhlenhorster HC , Großflottbeker THGC
Goal statistics
- Most goals per game in one season (preliminary round): Berliner HC 14.0 (2007)
- fewest goals per game in one season (preliminary round): Crefelder HTC 1,2 (2009, 2018), Eintracht Braunschweig (2018)
- Most goals conceded per game in one season (preliminary round): Berliner SC 16.5 (2003)
- Fewest goals conceded per game in a season (preliminary round): The Club an der Alster 1.7 (2018)
See also
- Eternal table of the women's indoor hockey league
- Indoor hockey Bundesliga (men)
- 2nd indoor hockey Bundesliga (men)
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Game rules of the German Hockey Federation. (PDF; 406 kB) Retrieved July 30, 2012 .
- ↑ www.hockeyplatz.de → Bundesliga. Retrieved December 30, 2012 .
- ↑ Official DHB announcement Sport No. 82 from July 20, 2011. Retrieved August 1, 2011 .
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