TTC Neu-Ulm
The TTC Neu-Ulm is a table tennis club founded in 2019 . Although he had not played a single game before and there was also no men's team, the founder Florian Ebner applied to the TTBL supervisory board for a license to participate in the table tennis Bundesliga TTBL for the 2019/20 season. This was granted at the end of May 2019 and the club received a wildcard.
history
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Under the name TTC Ebner Ulm , the newly founded club applied for a license to play in the Bundesliga in March 2019. The license application was discussed controversially. The most important pro-argument was that no second division team had agreed to be promoted and thus the desired target strength of 12 teams in the TTBL could not be achieved otherwise. Already in the previous year the TTC Jülich was admitted to promotion as table eight in the 2nd league in order to increase the number of teams to at least 11.
Eventually the association changed its name to TTC Neu-Ulm. At the beginning of June, the eight-player and therefore unusually large squad was presented, although the Chinese Hao Shuai and Cui Qinglei were ultimately not used. Chen Zhibin became the coach . The venue is the Ratiopharm-Arena and also the smaller Edwin-Scharff-Haus in Neu-Ulm. After reaching eighth place with 9 wins from 21 games, Tsuboi, Salifou and Brodd left the club, followed by Vladimir Sidorenko and the 2016 European Champion Emmanuel Lebesson .
Comparable cases
This Ebner case is roughly comparable to the takeover of TG Hanau from TTV Gönnern in 2009. However, TG Hanau was not an “artificial” club, it was already active in table tennis before. There were similar cases in other sports as well: In 2008, the basket department of FC Bayern Munich acquired the license from Düsseldorf Magics and was thus able to “move” from the 4th division directly to the top division. In 2017 the German-Austrian volleyball team Hypo Tirol Alpenvolleys Haching was allowed to compete in the German Bundesliga because TSV Unterhaching waived .
Florian Ebner
Florian Ebner is (as of April 2019) the sole managing partner at the head of the family holding Verlagsgruppe Ebner Ulm GmbH & Co. KG . He was formerly president of the SSV Ulm in 1846 .
Web links
- Homepage
- New table tennis team from Ulm is now playing in the Bundesliga , article from March 13, 2019 in the Schwäbische Zeitung (accessed on April 6, 2019)
literature
- Dietmar Kramer: Now it's striking twelve , table tennis, 2019/4 pages 34–35
- Rahul Nelson: reaching for the straw , critical commentary, table tennis, 2019/4 page 44
- Dietmar Kramer: When Dimitrij Ovtarov suddenly calls , table tennis, 2019/7 pages 16-17
- Dietmar Kramer: Arrived safely , table tennis, 2019/12 pages 32–33
- Florian Leidheiser: Well positioned , table tennis, 2020/4 pages 30–31
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b TTC Ebner Ulm license obtained: Newcomer starts in the table tennis Bundesliga. swp.de, May 22, 2019, accessed on May 23, 2019 .
- ↑ Pro vs. Cons: Wildcard for the TTBL - curse or blessing? mytischtennis.de, March 25, 2019, accessed on May 23, 2019 .
- ↑ Season 2019/20: Twelve clubs apply for a license. ttbl.de, March 13, 2019, accessed on May 23, 2019 .
- ↑ Composition of the national leagues in the 2018/2019 season. mytischtennis.de, May 11, 2018, accessed on May 23, 2019 .
- ↑ Season 2019/20: All twelve applicants receive a license. tischtennis.de, May 22, 2019, accessed on May 23, 2019 .
- ^ TTC Neu-Ulm: Attack with World Cup hero and two Chinese? ttbl.de, June 5, 2019, accessed on May 23, 2019 .
- ↑ Table tennis Bundesliga balance sheets. mytischtennis.de, accessed on July 31, 2020 .
- ↑ New in the TTBL: Emmanuel Lebesson. ttbl.de, July 16, 2020, accessed on July 31, 2020 .
- ↑ Florian Ebner moves to the top , report from November 30, 2018 (accessed April 6, 2019)