Indoor hockey Bundesliga 1996/97 (women)

Legend:

(M)	German champions
(W)	Change of group
(N)	Promoted from the regional league
	Qualification for the finals
	Relegated to the regional league

For the 1996/97 season the two clubs from East Germany moved from the northern group to the southern group and the three clubs from North Rhine-Westphalia from the southern group to the northern group. The new group division, according to which the regions north and west play in the north group and east and south in the south group, was decided at the Bundestag in 1995. In the promotion rounds of the previous season , two promoted teams were played for the south in order to fill the south group with eight teams. In the north this season was played with nine teams. In order to get back to eight teams in the northern group, a promotion round North was held for the last time, on which only the winner rose. From now on, all four champions of the regional leagues were to be promoted directly, and there were two relegated teams from each group.

Main round

space	Club	Games	Gates	Points
Group north
1.	RTHC Bayer Leverkusen (W)	16	132: 64	27: 5
2.	Klipper THC	16	103: 75	23: 9
3.	Club on the Alster	16	84:85	18:14
4th	Club Raffelberg (W)	16	79:72	17:15
5.	Großflottbeker THGC	16	84:83	15:17
6th	Eintracht Braunschweig	16	93: 101	13:19
7th	Uhlenhorster HC	16	71:82	12:20
8th.	Gladbacher HTC (W)	16	80: 115	12:20
9.	Crefelder HTC (N)	16	60: 109	7:25

space	Club	Games	Gates	Points
Group south
1.	Berlin HC (M, W)	14th	152: 50	25: 3
2.	Eintracht Frankfurt	14th	118: 67	24: 4
3.	Rüsselsheim RK	14th	130: 36	23: 5
4th	SC Frankfurt 1880	14th	77:88	15:13
5.	Dürkheimer HC	14th	63:87	9:19
6th	ATV Leipzig (W)	14th	59:97	9:19
7th	HTC Stuttgarter Kickers (N)	14th	49: 112	7:21
8th.	1. Hanauer THC (N)	14th	24: 135	0:28

Finals

The final round of the German championship took place on February 15 and 16, 1997 in Essen.

Semi-finals February 15, 1997			Final February 16, 1997

1.S	Berlin HC	5
2.N	Klipper THC	6th	Endgame
after extension			2.N	Klipper THC	3
			2.S	Eintracht Frankfurt	4th
1.N	RTHC Leverkusen	7th
2.S	Eintracht Frankfurt	12
			3rd place match
			1.S	Berlin HC	13
			1.N	RTHC Leverkusen	6th

Ascent

In the south, the champions of the Regionalliga Ost TuS Lichterfelde and Regionalliga Süd TSV Mannheim went straight to the Bundesliga. In the north, a promotion round was held for the last time, for which two teams from Regionalliga Nord (N) and Regionalliga West (W) were allowed to start. Blau-Weiss Köln won:

Promotion round north in Cologne

Promotion semi-finals March 8, 1997			Promotion Final March 9, 1997

1.N	Club zur Vahr	1
2.W	Rot-Weiss Cologne	9
			2.W	Rot-Weiss Cologne	4th
			1.W	Blau-Weiss Cologne	7th
1.W	Blau-Weiss Cologne	6th
2.N	Harvestehuder THC	1

swell

↑ Deutsche Hockey Zeitung, Volume 49, No. 37, November 7, 1996, p. 4
^ Deutsche Hockey Zeitung, Volume 50, No. 7, February 20, 1997
↑ Deutsche Hockey Zeitung, Volume 50, No. 10, March 20, 1997

[1] Deutsche Hockey Zeitung, Volume 49, No. 37, November 7, 1996, p. 4

[2] Deutsche Hockey Zeitung, Volume 50, No. 7, February 20, 1997

[3] Deutsche Hockey Zeitung, Volume 50, No. 10, March 20, 1997