Bundesliga (handball)

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Bundesliga (handball)
Sport Team handball
Founded 1965
Inaugural season 1965
No. of teams 18
Country(ies) Flag of Germany Germany
Most recent
champion(s)		 THW Kiel (13)
Official website ToyotaHandballBundesliga.de

The Handball-Bundesliga (HBL) is the top German professional handball league. Because of sponsership reasons the league is renamed to Toyota Handball-Bundesliga since 2007-08. The winners of the Handball-Bundesliga are recognised as the German handball champions.

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[edit] History

The league is founded in 1965 and initially operated with two regional sections, North and South. Since 1977 the Bundesliga has operated with a single section first division, currently composed of eighteen clubs. In 1981 a second division was introduced, which currently consists of northern and southern sections each with eighteen clubs.

[edit] Season

The season got 34 game days (or weeks) and is played as a round robin without playoffs or a final. The 2007-08 season started on August 25, 2007 and ended on May 17, 2008, with THW Kiel being crowned champions once again.

[edit] Teams

The eighteen team of the 2007-08 season. The currently champion is THW Kiel, now they are the team with the most championship titles.

Team City Arena Championships
Frisch Auf! Göppingen Göppingen, Baden-Württemberg Hohenstaufenhalle 9
Füchse Berlin Berlin, Berlin Max-Schmeling-Halle 0
HBW Balingen-Weilstetten Balingen, Baden-Württemberg SparkassenArena 0
HSG Nordhorn Nordhorn, Lower Saxony Euregium 0
HSG Wetzlar Wetzlar, Hesse Rittal-Arena 0
HSV Hamburg Hamburg, Hamburg Color Line Arena 0
MT Melsungen Melsungen, Hesse Meirotal-Halle 0
SC Magdeburg Magdeburg, Saxony-Anhalt Bördelandhalle 1
SG Flensburg-Handewitt Flensburg, Schleswig-Holstein Campus-Halle 1
Rhein-Neckar Löwen Mannheim, Baden-Württemberg SAP-Arena 0
TBV Lemgo Lemgo, North Rhine-Westphalia Garry-Weber-Stadion Halle & Lipperlandhalle 2
THW Kiel Kiel, Schleswig-Holstein Ostseehalle 13
TSV GWD Minden Minden, North Rhine-Westphalia Kampa Halle 2
TuS Nettelstedt-Lübbecke Lübbecke, North Rhine-Westphalia Kreissporthalle 0
TUSEM Essen Essen, North Rhine-Westphalia Sportpark Am Hallo 3
TV Großwallstadt Großwallstadt, Bavaria fan Frankenstolz Arena & Sparkassen Arena 7
VfL Gummersbach Gummersbach, North Rhine-Westphalia Kölnarena 12
Wilhelmshavener HV Wilhelmshaven, Lower Saxony Nordfrost-Arena 0

[edit] Champions

The complete list of the german handball champions since 1948.

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