The 2016–17 Handball-Bundesliga was the 52nd season of the
Handball-Bundesliga
The Handball-Bundesliga (HBL) is the top German professional handball league. From 2007 to 2012, the league was sponsored by Toyota and was officially called the ''Toyota Handball-Bundesliga''. In 2012 the Deutsche Kreditbank AG (DKB) became t ...
,
Germany
Germany, officially the Federal Republic of Germany, is a country in Central Europe. It lies between the Baltic Sea and the North Sea to the north and the Alps to the south. Its sixteen States of Germany, constituent states have a total popu ...
's premier
handball
Handball (also known as team handball, European handball, Olympic handball or indoor handball) is a team sport in which two teams of seven players each (six outcourt players and a goalkeeper) pass a ball using their hands with the aim of thr ...
league and the 40th season consisting of only one league. It ran from 2 September 2016 to 10 June 2017.
Rhein-Neckar Löwen
Rhein-Neckar Löwen is a professional handball club founded in 2002, based in Mannheim, Germany. The club competes in the German Handball-Bundesliga and continentally in EHF European League. Rhein-Neckar Löwen play their home games in SAP A ...
won their second consecutive title.
Teams
A total of 18 teams will be participating in this year's edition of the Bundesliga. Of these, 15 sides qualified directly from the
2015–16 season and the top three sides were directly promoted from the 2. Bundesliga:
HC Erlangen, the champions;
GWD Minden, the runners-up; and the third-place finisher,
HSC 2000 Coburg.
Standings
Results
Attendances
Teams with an average home attendance of at least 10,000:
Source:
2016–17 Saison Statistik
References
External links
Official website
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Handball-Bundesliga
2016–17 domestic handball leagues
2016 in German sport
2017 in German sport