Liga Asobal is the premier professional handball league in Spain. It was founded in 1958 with the name of División de Honor, changing its name to the current name in 1990.
The Liga ASOBAL, which is played under EHF rules, currently consists of 16 teams, including famous ones like
FC Barcelona
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Ademar León
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Mikhail Yakimovich
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Oleg Kisselev
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Alberto Entrerríos
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, and many others.
History
* The "División de Honor" Handball championship was created in 1958 and was managed by the Spanish Handball Federation (FEBM) until 1990. ASOBAL (Handball Clubs Association) was formed in 1984. In 1990, ASOBAL took control of the División de Honor and renamed it Liga ASOBAL.
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FC Barcelona
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have won every championship since 2011, in part due to the disbandment of previous top clubs
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History
It was founde ...
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Portland San Antonio
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*The 13-time champions Granollers have not won the title since the 1973–74 season.
Championship rules
Each team of every division has to play with all the other teams of its division twice, once at home and the other at the opponent's stadium. This means that in ''Liga ASOBAL'' the league ends after every team plays 30 matches.
Like many other leagues in continental Europe, the ''Liga ASOBAL'' takes a winter break once each team has played half its schedule. One unusual feature of the league is that the two halves of the season are played in the same order—that is, the order of each team's first-half fixtures is repeated in the second half of the season, with the only difference being the stadiums used.
Each victory adds 2 points to the team in the league ranking. Each drawn adds 1 point.head-to-head.
At the end of the league, the winner is:
#The team that has most points in the ranking.
#If two or more teams are level on points, the winner is the team that has the best results
#If there is no winner after applying the second rule, then the team with the best overall goal difference wins.
2022-23 season teams
Champions by year
Primera División champions
División de Honor champions
Liga ASOBAL champions
Performance by club
All-time Liga ASOBAL table
*''Updated at completion of 2017–18 season.''
League or status at 2018–19 season:
Statistics
EHF coefficients
The following data indicates
Spanish
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coefficient rankings between European handball leagues.
;Country ranking:
EHF League Ranking for 2018/19 season:
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*2. (''2'') Liga ASOBAL (115)
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;Club ranking:
EHF Club Ranking as of 3 March 2019:
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Copa del Rey de Balonmano
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