Handball League Austria

spusu LIGA

Current season	spusu league 2019/20
sport	Handball
abbreviation	HLA
Association	Austrian Handball Federation
Teams	10
Country countries	Austria
Title holder	UHK Krems (4)
Record champions	Bregenz Handball (9)
TV partner	Laola1.tv
Website	www.spusuliga.at
Qualification too	Champions League EHF Europe Cup
↓ spusu CHALLENGE (II)

The highest handball league in Austria has been called spusu LIGA after its main sponsor since 2017 . For women it is called Women Handball Austria . It is organized by the Austrian Handball Federation.

Ten teams are represented in the spusu LIGA. The championship is divided into several phases. In the main round, all teams play a simple round trip against each opponent. After that, the league is divided into two groups.

The first five teams play in a further round-trip for placement in the HLA semi-finals, while the last five teams play for the remaining three places. Last and penultimate of the "lower play-offs" play a best-of-three series against relegation to the spusu Challenge .

history

The early years

Austrian indoor handball championships were held for the first time in 1961, initially only for men. Field handball championships have existed since 1923. From 1961 to 1969 the Austrian champions were determined in a tournament form. The toughest competitors of the Viennese teams, from where handball spread in Austria, were the ATSV Linz, UHC Salzburg, Union Edelweiss Linz and the Salzburg AK.

70s, 80s and 90s

Union Edelweiß Linz was the first handball league champion in Austria. Until the 1976/77 season, Bärnbach and Krems, with two and three titles, were the most common. This was followed by an uninterrupted run from Linz for four years. From then on, ATSE Waagner Biro Graz dominated the league until the 1990s, the Styrians were able to secure the title six times in nine years. As early as the 1988/89 season, however, UHK Volksbank Wien announced the new leader, and the Viennese were able to secure every championship until 1992/93 with one interruption. By the year 2000, the title could then be brought three times to Linz and twice each to Bruck and Bärnbach .

2000 to 2010

From this point on, Vorarlberg began to dominate, and for the next ten years a team from the Ländle won the championship cup every time. With nine stars, Bregenz is also the record champion, HC Hard was only able to interrupt the Bregenz series in the 2002/03 season .

2010 until today

In 2010/11 , the Fivers Margareten handball club was able to bring its first championship title to another state in a decade. In the very next year, however, the Alpla HC Hard started a four-year series under head coach Markus Burger . This was ended again in 2015/16 by the Fivers from Vienna. In 2016/17 the Harders again secured the title. Since the 2017/18 season , the league has again had a main sponsor in the form of the mobile operator spusu . This season the Fivers from Vienna secured the title again. After the partnership was expanded, the name of the league was changed to "spusu LIGA" from the 2018/19 season . During this season the UHK Krems became champions and ended an eight-year run in which the Alpla HC Hard (5 titles) and the handball club Fivers Margareten (3 titles) shared the titles.

Current

→ Main article : Austrian handball championship 2019/20

Bregenz handball HC Hard Fivers West Vienna HSG Graz SC Ferlach HSG B / K Handball Tyrol HC Linz AG UHK Krems

Associations of the HLA 2019/20

statistics

Austrian champions since 1970

Bregenz handball	09	2000/01 , 2001/02 , 2003/04 , 2004/05 , 2005/06 , 2006/07 , 2007/08 , 2008/09 , 2009/10
HC Linz AG	07th	1977/78 , 1978/79 , 1979/80 , 1980/81 , 1993/94 , 1994/95 , 1996/97
ATSE Graz	06th	1982/83 , 1983/84 , 1984/85 , 1986/87 , 1987/88 , 1989/90
HC Hard	06th	2002/03 , 2011/12 , 2012/13 , 2013/14 , 2014/15 , 2016/17
HSG Raiffeisen Bärnbach / Köflach	05	1973/74 , 1975/76 , 1981/82 , 1998/99 , 1999/00
SG Handball West Vienna	05	1966 , 1988/89 , 1990/91 , 1991/92 , 1992/93
UHK Krems	04th	1972/73 , 1974/75 , 1976/77 , 2018/19
Handball club Fivers Margareten	03	2010/11 , 2015/16 , 2017/18
HC Bruck	02	1996/97 , 1997/98
Union Edelweiss Linz	01	1969/70
UHC Salzburg	01	1971/72
Salzburg AK 1914	01	1970/71
UHC Stockerau	01	1985/86

Austrian champions in handball

season	master	Master trainer	Cup winner	Top scorer *
1960	ATUS Bruck	not known	not carried out
1961	ATSV Linz	not known	not carried out
1962	WAT Atzgersdorf	unknown	not carried out
1963	Rapid	not known	not carried out
1964	Rapid	not known	not carried out
1965	Rapid	not known	not carried out
1966	Union West Vienna	not known	not carried out
1967	Rapid	not known	not carried out
1968	UHC Salzburg	not known	not carried out
1969	UHC Salzburg	not known	not carried out
1969/70	Union Edelweiss Linz	not known	not carried out
1970/71	Salzburg AK 1914	not known	not carried out
1971/72	UHC Salzburg - Höller-Eisen	not known	not carried out
1972/73	Union Krems	not known	not carried out
1973/74	Oberglas Bärnbach	not known	not carried out
1974/75	Union Krems	not known	not carried out
1975/76	Oberglas Bärnbach	not known	not carried out
1976/77	UHK Krems	not known	not carried out
1977/78	ASKÖ Linz SBL	not known	not carried out
1978/79	ASKÖ Linz SBL	not known	not carried out
1979/80	ASKÖ SBL Internorm Linz	not known	not carried out
1980/81	ASKÖ Internorm Linz	not known	not carried out
1981/82	Raika Koeflach	not known	not carried out
1982/83	ATSE Waagner Biro Graz	Sándor Vass (1)	not carried out
1983/84	ATSE Waagner Biro Graz	Sándor Vass (2)	not carried out
1984/85	ATSE Waagner Biro Graz	Sándor Vass (3)	not carried out
1985/86	Union Raika Stockerau	not known	not carried out
1986/87	ATSE Waagner Biro Graz	Sándor Vass (4)	not carried out
1987/88	ATSE Waagner Biro Graz	Sándor Vass (5)	UHC Stockerau
1988/89	UHK Volksbank Vienna	Vinko Kandija (1)	UHC Stockerau
1989/90	ATSE Waagner Biro Graz	Sándor Vass (6)	UHC Stockerau
1990/91	UHK Volksbank Vienna	Vinko Kandija (2)	UHK Volksbank Vienna
1991/92	UHK Volksbank Vienna	Roland Marouschek (1)	UHK Volksbank Vienna
1992/93	UHK Volksbank Vienna	Vinko Kandija (3)	HC Bruck
1993/94	ASKÖ Linde Linz	not known	ASKÖ Linde Linz
1994/95	ASKÖ Linde Linz	not known	ASKÖ Linde Linz
1995/96	ASKÖ Linde Linz	not known	ASKÖ Linde Linz
1996/97	HC Sparkasse Bruck	not known	HSG mibag Linz
1997/98	HC Sparkasse / Stadtwerke Bruck	not known	UHC Goldmann Druck Tulln
Foundation of the Handball League Austria
1998/99	HSG Remus Bärnb. / Köfl.	not known	PTA Vienna
1999/00	HSG Remus / Bärnbach / Köflach	not known	jet2web Bregenz
2000/01	jet2web Bregenz	Bruno Gudelj (1)	HSG Remus / Bärnbach / Köflach
2001/02	jet2web Bregenz	Bruno Gudelj (2)	jet2web Bregenz
2002/03	Alpla HC Hard	Frank Bergemann (1)	A1 Bregenz
2003/04	A1 Bregenz	Dagur Sigurðsson (1)	UHC Goldmann Druck Tulln
2004/05	A1 Bregenz	Dagur Sigurðsson (2)	Alpla HC Hard
2005/06	A1 Bregenz	Dagur Sigurðsson (3)	A1 Bregenz
2006/07	A1 Bregenz	Dagur Sigurðsson (4)	UHC Goldmann Druck Tulln
2007/08	A1 Bregenz	Zdravko Medic (1)	Alpla HC Hard
2008/09	A1 Bregenz	Martin Liptak (1)	Aon Fivers Margareten	Richard Wöss (148)
2009/10	A1 Bregenz	Martin Liptak (2)	UHK Krems	Tobias Schopf (147)
2010/11	Handball club Fivers Margareten	Peter Eckl (1)	ULZ Schwaz	Tobias Schopf (138)
2011/12	Alpla HC Hard	Markus Burger (1)	Handball club Fivers Margareten	Raul Santos (150)
2012/13	Alpla HC Hard	Markus Burger (2)	Handball club Fivers Margareten	Raul Santos (139)
2013/14	Alpla HC Hard	Markus Burger (3)	Alpla HC Hard	Tobias Schopf (130)
2014/15	Alpla HC Hard	Markus Burger (4)	Handball club Fivers Margareten	Damir Djukic , Saša-Lela Barišić-Jaman (117)
2015/16	Handball club Fivers Margareten	Peter Eckl (2)	Handball club Fivers Margareten	Tobias Schopf , Anton Prakapenja (122)
2016/17	Alpla HC Hard	Petr Hrachovec (1)	Handball club Fivers Margareten	Tobias Schopf (127)
2017/18	Handball club Fivers Margareten	Peter Eckl (3)	Alpla HC Hard	Srđan Predragović (180)
2018/19	UHK Krems	Ibish Thaqi (1)	UHK Krems	Nemanja Belos (108)
2019/20	No master due to the COVID-19 pandemic in Austria			Jakob Jochmann (119)

	Samsung as the name sponsor
	spusu as name sponsor

• Top scorer after the regular season

Web links

• spusu LIGA

Individual evidence

1. ↑ HLA becomes spusu-HLA. hla.at, accessed on August 21, 2017 . 
2. ↑ Future-oriented setting of the course in the highest game classes. spusuliga.at, accessed on August 1, 2018 . 
3. ↑ 20 years of HANDBALL LIGA AUSTRIA. spusuliga.at, accessed on May 16, 2019 . 
4. ↑ ÖHB competitions of the 2019/20 season canceled. oehb.at, April 1, 2020, accessed April 1, 2020 . 
5. ↑ TENSION BEFORE THE START OF THE HANDBALL LEAGUE. sportlive.at, accessed on May 20, 2019 . 
6. ↑ HLA starts ambitiously and with a new name sponsor. sn.at, accessed on May 20, 2019 .