Competition: | Handball-Bundesliga |
Season: | 2018–19 |
Winners: | SG Flensburg-Handewitt |
Relegated: | SG BBM Bietigheim VfL Gummersbach |
Continentalcup1: | Champions League |
Continentalcup1 Qualifiers: | SG Flensburg-Handewitt THW Kiel |
Continentalcup2: | EHF Cup |
Continentalcup2 Qualifiers: | SC Magdeburg Rhein-Neckar Löwen MT Melsungen |
League Topscorer: | Matthias Musche (256 goals) |
Matches: | 306 |
Total Goals: | 16227 |
Attendancecalc: | 1470818 |
Prevseason: | 2017–18 |
Nextseason: | 2019–20 |
The 2018–19 Handball-Bundesliga was the 54th season of the Handball-Bundesliga, Germany's premier handball league and the 42nd season consisting of only one league. It ran from 23 August 2018 to 9 June 2019.[1]
SG Flensburg-Handewitt won their third overall and second consecutive title.[2]
The SAP Arena in Mannheim, home of the Rhein-Neckar Löwen, is the largest venue in the league as it seats 13,200 fans in its HBL configuration. While the smallest is the Scharrena, the smaller of the two home venues of TVB Stuttgart, only being able to accommodate 2,251 fans.
Team | Location | Arena | Capacity | |
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Bergischer HC | Wuppertal Solingen Düsseldorf | Uni-Halle Klingenhalle ISS Dome | 3.200 2.800 12.500 | |
Füchse Berlin | Berlin | Max-Schmeling-Halle | 9.000 | |
SG BBM Bietigheim | Bietigheim-Bissingen Ludwigsburg | EgeTrans Arena Arena Ludwigsburg | 4.517 3.715 | |
HC Erlangen | Nuremberg | Arena Nürnberger Versicherung | 8.308 | |
SG Flensburg-Handewitt | Flensburg | Flens-Arena | 6.300 | |
Die Eulen Ludwigshafen | Ludwigshafen | Friedrich-Ebert-Halle | 2.350 | |
Frisch Auf Göppingen | Göppingen | EWS Arena | 5.600 | |
VfL Gummersbach | Gummersbach | Schwalbe-Arena | 4.132 | |
TSV Hannover-Burgdorf | Hanover | TUI Arena Swiss Life Hall | 9.850 4.460 | |
THW Kiel | Kiel | Sparkassen-Arena | 10.285 | |
SC DHfK Leipzig | Leipzig | Arena Leipzig | 6.327 | |
TBV Lemgo | Lemgo | Lipperlandhalle | 4.790 | |
SC Magdeburg | Magdeburg | GETEC Arena | 6.600 | |
MT Melsungen | Melsungen | Rothenbach-Halle | 4.300 | |
GWD Minden | Minden | Kampa-Halle | 4.059 | |
Rhein-Neckar Löwen | Mannheim | SAP Arena | 13.200 | |
TVB 1898 Stuttgart | Stuttgart | Scharrena Stuttgart Porsche-Arena | 2.251 6.211 | |
HSG Wetzlar | Wetzlar | Rittal Arena Wetzlar | 4.421 |
Month | Player of the Month[4] | Goal of the Month[5] | ||||
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Player | Position | Club | Player | Club | ||
September | Matthias Musche | LW | SC Magdeburg | Thomas Roth | TSV Södel | |
October | Michael Kraus | CB | TBV 1898 Stuttgart | Bastian Schwengers | FC Schalke 04 | |
November | Domenico Ebner | GK | SG BBM Bietigheim | Christopher Czens | Lehrter SV | |
December | Silvio Heinevetter | GK | Füchse Berlin | Lasse Scharge | Oranienburger HC | |
February | Matthias Musche | LW | SC Magdeburg | |||
März | Michael Damgaard | LB/CB | SC Magdeburg | |||
April | Niklas Landin | GK | THW Kiel | |||
Mai | Andreas Wolff | GK | THW Kiel |