Table tennis Bundesliga
In German table tennis , the table tennis Bundesliga (TTBL) for men and the 1st Bundesliga (1st BL) for women is the highest division. The 2. Bundesliga (2. BL) is the second highest division for men and women.
In the TTBL, the master is determined in the knockout system from among the four best teams of the regular season. Ten teams play in both the TTBL and the 1st Bundesliga (2014/15 season). There is also a 2nd Bundesliga for men and women, each with ten teams. Until the end of the 2013/14 season, the 2nd Bundesliga was split into two seasons.
Below the 2nd Bundesliga there is the double-track 3rd Bundesliga for men and women, each with a relay for northern Germany and a relay for southern Germany.
Clubs of the men's table tennis Bundesliga in the 2019/20 season
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Current playing time
Men's
In the 2019/20 season , the following twelve clubs will play in the table tennis Bundesliga:
- TSV Bad Königshofen
- TTC Schwalbe Bergneustadt
- Werder Bremen
- Borussia Düsseldorf
- TTC RhönSprudel Fulda-Maberzell
- TTC drawbridge Grenzau
- ASV Grünwettersbach
- TTC indeland Jülich
- Post SV Mühlhausen 1951
- TTC Neu-Ulm
- TTF Liebherr Ochsenhausen (master)
- 1. FC Saarbrücken
Ladies
The following nine clubs will play in the 1st Bundesliga in the 2019/20 season:
- TTK Anröchte
- TuS Bad Driburg
- Ttc berlin eastside (master)
- TTG Bingen / Münster-Sarmsheim
- SV Boeblingen
- TV Busenbach
- SV DJK Kolbermoor
- TSV Langstadt 1909
- TSV Schwabhausen
New structure since 2014
On December 1, 2012, the DTTB Bundestag drafted a new structure for the upper divisions, which is uniform for both women and men and came into effect from the 2014/15 season:
- The 2nd Bundesliga became a single track.
- A 3rd Bundesliga was introduced as the third highest division. There is a north and a south group with ten teams each. The two group winners are entitled to promotion to the 2nd Bundesliga.
- Among them, the regional league became the fourth highest, the upper league the fifth highest division.
In the 2nd and 3rd Bundesliga, a team consists of four players, in the regional league, men's teams of six and women's teams of four.
history
Men's
The topic of “Bundesliga” was on the agenda for the first time in May 1962 when the DTTB sports committee and the sports attendant met in Frankfurt am Main. The Bundesliga was initially rejected for cost reasons. In the following years the pros and cons were discussed intensively in professional circles. Controversial topics were in particular the expected additional costs (further trips), the audience response and the question of whether a team should consist of four or six players.
Foundation and game mode
Until 1966, four major leagues (groups south, south-west, north, west) were the highest German division. In July 1965, the Federal General Assembly in Borkum decided to create the Bundesliga; in August 1965 the DTTB Sports Committee in Hanover determined the system according to which the Bundesliga places should be allocated in the first season.
The 1st Bundesliga for men was introduced in the 1966/67 season and consisted of eight teams with six players each. The champions of the four major leagues were qualified. The remaining four places were played in a relegation tournament in which the upper league teams took part in places two to four. (More detailed presentation in the table tennis season 1965/66 ). Thus, the Bundesliga started on September 10 and 11, 1966 with the following teams:
- VfL Osnabrück - Champions of the Oberliga Nord
- SV Moltkeplatz Essen - champions of the Oberliga West
- SSV Reutlingen 05 - Champion of the Oberliga Süd
- 1. FC Saarbrücken - champions of the Oberliga Südwest
- DJK TuSA 08 Düsseldorf - second in the Oberliga West
- TSV Milbertshofen - second in the Oberliga Süd
- Post SV Augsburg - third in the Oberliga Süd
- TTC Mörfelden - second in the Oberliga Südwest
The German Table Tennis Association (DTTB) made a travel allowance for these teams. The game director was Jupp Schlaf .
The four major leagues were then second class.
The game mode changed frequently. In the next season 1967/68 the number of teams was increased by two to ten. From 1984/85 relegated teams and champions were determined in a playoff round (see play-off system TT 1984 ). From 1986/87 only the championship was played in a knockout play-off round (see play-off system TT 1986 ). Since there were scheduling problems because of the 1989 World Cup, the play-off round was played according to the simple knockout system (without return leg) in 1988/89.
In 1989/90 only the first four teams played in a play-off round: 1 against 4 and 2 against 3 fought in a return match, the winners played the final (without a rematch). In 1990/91 the team strength in the 1st BL was reduced to four players (teams of six continued to play below the 1st BL) with the idea of shortening the duration of a team fight and thus becoming more attractive for television broadcasts. A year later, the final was played in best-of-three mode ; That is, there was a return match and, if necessary, a decisive match.
In 1994/95 the 1st Bundesliga was increased to twelve teams, then reduced to ten teams again. 1997/98 played the five best teams in a play-off round from the champions, against relegation the remaining five teams fought in a play-down round. In 1998/99 six teams competed in the play-off round. This season could only be contested with nine teams, as both the 1. FC Bayreuth and the SV Plüderhausen of the 2. BL South renounced the promotion. In the 2000/2001 season, the playoff system was suspended and reintroduced a year later. The top two in the table reached the semi-finals directly. In the quarterfinals, the third (against the sixth) and the fourth (against the fifth) had to qualify. Since 2002/03, the playoff round has only consisted of four teams.
Since the 2007/08 season , the 1st table tennis Bundesliga has been called the men's German Table Tennis League (DTTL).
For the 2008/09 season , the two Bundesliga clubs TTC Frickenhausen and Müller Würzburger Hofbräu were merged to form TTC Müller Frickenhausen / Würzburg. A new game system, the DTTB system , has also been introduced, where there is only one table with three players per team.
With the 2011/12 season the league was renamed TTBL and the team fights were carried out according to the Champions League system . For the 2018/19 season , it was decided to reintroduce the double with the DTTB system (last in use in 2010/11 ).
Becoming independent
In November 2010, the DTTL split off from the German Table Tennis Association (DTTB) and - following the example of other sports - became independent as TTBL Sport GmbH .
internationalization
Concentrating on one league called on sponsors and corporate groups. One of the pioneers was the TTC Calw , who took up the position of TTC Jägermeister Calw in the 1977/78 season. This was followed, for example, by SSV Heinzelmann Reutlingen , TTC Simex Jülich , TTF LIEBHERR Ochsenhausen u. a. These sponsors made it possible to sign international top players such as Dragutin Šurbek , Desmond Douglas , Andrzej Grubba , Mikael Appelgren , Wladimir Samsonow , Jan-Ove Waldner and many more.
The use of many foreigners was controversial at all times. Critics complained that too few young German players get a chance to play at the top. Therefore, from the 1982/83 season, the DTTB introduced the rule that each club may only use a maximum of one foreigner. This regulation was later repealed. From 1993/94 a maximum of two foreigners may participate in a team of six, but at least one of them must be an EC foreigner.
Second Bundesliga
In 1981 a four-part 2. Bundesliga (BL) was introduced, and in 1988/89 a two-part 2. BL was introduced as a substructure. Here a team consists of six players. The regional league was downgraded to the third highest class by the 2nd BL.
The "founding teams" of the two-part 2nd BL 1988/89:
Ladies
Foundation and game mode
At the federal general assembly in July 1965, it was decided to introduce the women's Bundesliga for the 1967/68 season. In fact, a two-part Bundesliga with three-man teams didn't start until 1972/73, with the following clubs:
| Group south / southwest | Group north / west |
|---|---|
| Post SG Stuttgart from Oberliga Süd | VfL Osnabrück |
| DJK Schwäbisch Gmünd from Oberliga Süd | TTC Ramsharde |
| SG Siemens Erlangen from Oberliga Süd | Kiel TTK green-white |
| MTV Stuttgart from Oberliga Süd | Post SV Düsseldorf |
| Giessener SV from Oberliga Südwest | TTVg White-Red-White Kleve |
| TTC Olympia Koblenz from Oberliga Südwest | DSC Kaiserberg |
| PSV Kaiserslautern from Oberliga Südwest | TTG Remscheid |
| CfT Sinzig from Oberliga Südwest | TSC Berlin |
From 1975/76 this was carried out in one piece and with teams of four. In 1988/89 the DTTB stipulated that the teams were to be ranked according to their skill level. A playoff round was played from the 1992/93 season: the first four teams determined the German team champions in a return match.
In the 1994/95 season, the game system was changed from the Werner Scheffler system to the pair cross system and thus adapted to the system of the men's teams.
From the 2008/09 season, the DTTB system for teams of three was introduced in the 1st Bundesliga , the 2nd BL continued to play with teams of four. Since 2010/11 the women in the 1st BL have been forming teams of four again. The three-way system was criticized that a single player can decide a team fight alone.
Second Bundesliga women
In 1981 a four-part 2nd Bundesliga was introduced. In 1988/89 the two-part 2. Bundesliga started with the following teams:
Others
In the 1990/91 season, a 1st and 2nd men's division was set up with a north and south group for wheelchair users . A four-part regional league was created below this Bundesliga. It is played with teams of two.
Problems
The very large gap in terms of playing strength between the 1st and 2nd Bundesliga turned out to be a significant problem. Promoted to the 1st Bundesliga had to strengthen significantly in order to survive in the upper house. This often meant that active members of the promotion team were retired or even the entire team was replaced. Associations eligible for promotion often forego the promotion because of the additional financial expense. As a result, there was a multiple risk that not enough teams agreed to compete in the House of Lords. In this way, teams on relegation places “at the green table” were able to avoid relegation several times. A serious example is the 2011/12 season. Here the DTTB Bundestag approved the women's team of the Leutzscher Füchse Leipzig club to move up to fourth in the second division. This means that instead of the planned ten teams in the 1st BL, at least nine active clubs were achieved.
There have been various approaches to reduce the performance gap between the two divisions. Over the years, experimented with the number of players in a team - teams of six, four or three - and in 2013 it was decided to introduce a single-track second Bundesliga (see section New structure from 2014 )
useful information
- The youngest player in the Bundesliga so far is Lea Grohmann from Allendorf (Lumda) (near Gießen). On September 29, 2012, the then 12-year-old was used in the home game of NSC Watzenborn-Steinberg against LTTV Leutzscher Füchse 1990 and won the doubles with Angelina Gürz.
- 5,492 visitors saw the team match Borussia Düsseldorf against TTC RhönSprudel Fulda-Maberzell in Hamburg on February 27, 2015 . That was the highest number of viewers to date.
- In April 2015 mother and daughter - Wenling Tan Monfardini with daughter Gaia - competed in the 1st Bundesliga in the team fight between SV Kolbermoor and NSC Watzenborn-Steinberg in a double, which they won 3-0. It was the first time in the 1st Bundesliga that mother and daughter played doubles. For men, a father-son double in the 1st BL has not yet occurred.
See also
literature
- DTS magazine , 1986/8 pages 4-20 + pages 29-39
- Detailed statistics from BL up to 1988 - DTS magazine , 1988/8 pages 6–20
- Detailed statistics of BL up to 1990 including GDR teams - DTS magazine , 1990/8 pages 4–29 + 1990/9 pages 12–27
- Winfried Stöckmann: Balance: Springboard into happiness , review of the 2nd BL, table tennis magazine , 2008/7 pages 28–29
- Florian Leidheiser: The future has begun , tischtennis magazine , 2010/12 page 26
- Rahul Nelson: League Reform - Those in the West don't want u. a. with the teams in the individual seasons for the 2014/15 season. Tischtennis magazine , 2014/6 pages 26–27
- Susanne Heuing: Bundesliga - analysis of the structure 1st to 3rd BL, table tennis magazine , 2017/9 pages 22-26
Individual evidence
- ↑ Detailed review of this men's team championship: table tennis magazine , 2011/5, page 53
- ^ Report on the women's championship 1948/49, DTS magazine , 1949/11, pages 3–5
- ^ Report on the men's championship magazine DTS , 1948/7
- ^ Report on the women’s championship 1947/48 DTS magazine , 1948/11
- ^ Walter Grein: Table tennis, Verlag Deutscher Tischtennis-Sport, Hanover, 1953, page 40
- ↑ Bundestag resolves single-track 2nd leagues and introduction of League 3 , message from December 1, 2012 ( Memento of the original from March 16, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (accessed December 1, 2012)
- ↑ Simone Hinz: DTTB-Bundestag - The second attempt was successful , magazine tischtennis , 2012/12 page 26
- ↑ Magazine DTS , 1962/11 Edition West Page 2
- ↑ Distribution key described in DTS magazine , 1966/21 issue Süd-West, page 5
- ↑ DTS magazine , 1984/7 page 17 + page 18
- ↑ DTS magazine , 1988/8 page 27
- ↑ DTS magazine , 1989/8 page 25
- ↑ DTS magazine , 1989/7 page 15
- ↑ DTS magazine , 1991/8 page 9
- ↑ DTS magazine , 1998/8 page 20
- ↑ DTS magazine , 2002/1 page 26
- ↑ DTS magazine , 2002/8 page 24
- ↑ Presentation of the DTTB game system - magazine tischtennis , 2011/9 pp. 9-10
- ↑ ttbl.de: TTBL decides to use doubles and several balls. December 19, 2016. Retrieved December 19, 2016 .
- ^ Resolution of the 30th ordinary DTTB Federal General Meeting in Münster , DTS magazine , 1993/6 page 38
- ^ Decision of the DTTB advisory board at the conference in Bremen in December 1986, DTS magazine , 1987/1, pages 17-18
- ↑ DTS magazine , 1965/13 West issue, page 2
- ↑ DTS magazine , 1992/8 page 37
- ↑ DTS magazine , 1995/8 page 27
- ↑ Arguments and counter arguments for teams of three and four - tischtennis magazine , 2010/8 page 19
- ↑ DTS magazine , 1990/7 page 27
- ↑ Simone Hinz: Nur die kleine Reform , Tischtennis magazine , 2012/7 pages 38–39
- ↑ tischtennis magazine , 2012/11 regional Südwest, pages 12–13.
- ↑ TTBL top game: "A spectacle that will be talked about for a long time" ( Memento of the original from March 2, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Article from February 28, 2015 on tischtennis.de (accessed on February 28, 2015)
- ↑ tischtennis magazine , 2015/5 page 7
Web links
- Official homepage of the TT-Bundesliga (accessed December 30, 2015)
- detailed description of the history of the men's Bundesliga (accessed December 30, 2015)