Handball regional league
The handball regional league has been the third highest division in German men's handball since the introduction of the 2nd Bundesliga in the 1981/82 season . After the 2009/2010 season, the regional league was replaced by a four-track third division .
Most recently she was divided into five seasons. Each regional association of the German Handball Federation organized its own regional league, which was also the top division of the associations. Two of the regional associations , the North- East German Handball Association and the South-West German Handball Association , were dissolved in 2011, the North German in 2012 and the South German in 2015. Only the West German Handball Association (WHV) has been organizing regional championships since the 2009/2010 season, but only for the youth and none for adults. The winners of the relays rose to the respective 2nd Bundesliga. The relegated were incorporated into the major leagues of the respective state associations .
history
Three years after the introduction of the handball Bundesliga , the regional leagues were introduced as the substructure of the (then two-track) Bundesliga at the beginning of the 1969/70 season. First of all, the regional associations North, West, Southwest and South received a regional league. From the 1972/73 season, the West Berlin clubs that had played in the Regionalliga Nord up to then formed an additional regional league of their own. This five-tier structure was retained until the year 2000, with the individual regional leagues consistently (west) or temporarily (southwest and south) again being divided into two seasons. The promoted to the Bundesliga were determined in these years according to different modes, with mostly three champions rose directly and had to hold the other two promotion games. The direct and indirect right of promotion changed annually.
With the introduction of the 2nd Bundesliga in the summer of 1981, the Regionalliga became the third highest division. Initially, this did not change the division of the leagues. After the reunification , the Regionalliga Berlin was abolished after the 1991/92 season and the Regionalliga Nordost was introduced instead . From 2000 to 2005 the Regionalliga Mitte also existed. In these years, the six relays were organized jointly by the five regional associations as a league and it was possible that individual clubs changed the relay. After the North and West German Handball Association (which, incidentally, were the only associations not to have any of the clubs playing there) terminated the relevant contract, the Middle Regional League was dissolved at the end of the season and the clubs playing there were distributed among the remaining regional leagues according to their association membership. From now on, each regional association maintained its own regional league and a relay change was no longer possible. The substructure of the regional leagues was a total of 16 upper leagues, which were operated by the 22 regional associations.
For the 2010/2011 season, the men's regional league was replaced by a four-track 3rd league, which is divided up independently of regional or national association boundaries. For this purpose, the teams from all regional leagues in the 2009/2010 season were relegated to places 11-16.
The champions of the regional leagues from 1989/90
Web links
- http://www.nhv-online.de/ NHV
- http://www.nohv.de/ NOHV
- http://www.shv-handball.org/ SHV
- http://www.suedwesthandball.de/ SWHV
- http://www.westdeutscher-handball-verband.de/ WHV
- http://www.sis-handball.de/ Game plans / tables across Germany
- http://www.bundesligainfo.de/Archiv/RL/index.php Regionalliga-Archiv
- http://www.scharffenberg.com/harchiv/index.php?id=18 Handball archive