National League A (handball) 1998/99

National League A
master	TV Suhr
Cup winners	Cadets Schaffhausen
Teams	8th
Games	148  (of which 148 played)
spectator	127653  (ø 863 per game)
Top scorer	Attila Kotorman
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National League B 1998/99 ↓

The 1998/99 season was the 50th regular time of the Swiss National League A in handball .

mode

The 12 teams play 14 games each.

The championship is then divided into a final and promotion / relegation round.

The best 8 teams from the qualifying round play in the final round.

In the promotion / relegation round, the teams play in ranks 9th – 12th. with the best 4 of the NLB in a double round (14 games each) for promotion / relegation.

After the final round, the teams in ranks 1 to 4 play a playoff (1st vs 4th, 2nd vs 3rd). The winner of the playoffs becomes Swiss champions.

Qualifying round

rank	society	Games	Points
1.	Pathfinder Winterthur	12	22nd
2.	Cadets Schaffhausen	12	19th
3.	St. Otmar St. Gallen	12	19th
4th	TV Suhr	12	18th
5.	Wacker Thun	12	18th
6th	Grasshoppers	12	14th
7th	ZMC Amicitia	12	10
8th.	BSV Stans	12	7th
9.	TV Zofingen	12	6th
10.	TV Endingen	12	6th
11.	BSV Borba Lucerne	12	4th
12.	BSV Bern	12	1
As of December 10, 1997

At the end of the main round:
	Championship round
	Relegation round

NLA final round

rank	society	Games	Gates	Points
1.	St. Otmar St. Gallen	14th	373: 311	25th
2.	TV Suhr	14th	365: 303	25th
3.	Cadets Schaffhausen	14th	361: 316	19th
4th	Pathfinder Winterthur	14th	362: 328	19th
5.	Wacker Thun	14th		11
6th	Grasshoppers	14th		9
7th	TV Endingen	14th		7th
8th.	ZMC Amicitia	14th		3
Status March 29, 1999

At the end of the final round:
	Playoff
	Season ended

NLB / NLA Promotion / Relegation Round

rank	society	Games	Points
1.	TV Zofingen (NLA)	14th
2.	Yellow Winterthur	14th
3.	BSV Stans (NLA)	14th
4th	Lakers Stafa	14th
5.	Path Neuhausen	14th
6th	BSV Bern (NLA)	14th
7th	KTV Muotathal	14th
8th.	BSV Borba Lucerne (NLA)	14th
As of April 26, 1999

At the end of the promotion round:
	NLA
	NLB

Semifinals

Modus is best of three

			series	1	2	3
TV Suhr	-	Cadets Schaffhausen	2: 1	22:25	27:22	28:20
TSV St. Otmar St. Gallen	-	Pathfinder Winterthur	2: 1	26:25	26:30	29:25

final

Modus is best of three

			series	1	2	3
TV Suhr	-	TSV St. Otmar St. Gallen	2: 1	20:21	29:23	19:18

List of goalscorers

If the number of hits is the same, the players are sorted alphabetically.

Pl.	player	Gates	cut	team
1.	Attila Kotorman	246	7.9	Cadets Schaffhausen
2.	Marc Baumgartner	198	6.6	Pathfinder Winterthur
3.	Goran Perkovac	196	5.8	TV Suhr

1st championship title for TV Suhr

Swiss champion TV Suhr

Team: Goalkeeper: Field: Head coach:

Individual evidence

1. ^ Freiburger Nachrichten, December 10, 1998 - e-newspaperarchives.ch. Retrieved May 14, 2019 . 
2. ^ Freiburger Nachrichten March 29, 1999 - e-newspaperarchives.ch. Retrieved May 14, 2019 . 
3. ^ Freiburger Nachrichten April 26, 1999 - e-newspaperarchives.ch. Retrieved May 14, 2019 .