Competition: | Handball-Bundesliga |
Season: | 2019–20 |
Winners: | THW Kiel |
Continentalcup1: | Champions League |
Continentalcup1 Qualifiers: | THW Kiel SG Flensburg-Handewitt |
Continentalcup2: | EHF Cup |
Continentalcup2 Qualifiers: | SC Magdeburg TSV Hannover-Burgdorf Rhein-Neckar Löwen |
League Topscorer: | Bjarki Már Elísson (216 goals) |
Matches: | 240 |
Total Goals: | 13032 |
Attendancecalc: | 1170750 |
Prevseason: | 2018–19 |
Nextseason: | 2020–21 |
The 2019–20 Handball-Bundesliga was the 55th season of the Handball-Bundesliga, Germany's premier handball league and the 43rd season consisting of only one league. It ran from 22 August 2019 until it was cancelled in April 2020.[1]
Due to the COVID-19 pandemic the league postponed the league until late April.[2] [3] On 3 April, it was suspended until 16 May.[4]
On 21 April 2020, the season was eventually cancelled. THW Kiel was declared the champion.[5]
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 | |
HBW Balingen-Weilstetten | Balingen | Sparkassen-Arena Porsche-Arena | 2,300 6,181 | |
TV Bittenfeld | Stuttgart | Scharrena Stuttgart Porsche-Arena | 2,251 6,211 | |
HC Erlangen | Nuremberg | Arena Nürnberger Versicherung | 8,308 | |
SG Flensburg-Handewitt | Flensburg | Flens-Arena | 6,300 | |
TSG Friesenheim | Ludwigshafen | Friedrich-Ebert-Halle | 2,350 | |
Frisch Auf Göppingen | Göppingen | EWS Arena | 5,600 | |
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 | |
HSG Nordhorn-Lingen | Nordhorn | Euregium EmslandArena | 4,100 4,995 | |
Rhein-Neckar Löwen | Mannheim | SAP Arena | 13,200 | |
HSG Wetzlar | Wetzlar | Rittal Arena Wetzlar | 4,421 |
The season was cancelled on 21 April 2020. The final season placings were determined by points per game. There were no relegations to the 2nd division.[5]
Rank | Name | Goals | Shots | ||
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1 | Bjarki Már Elísson | 217 | 287 | 75 | |
2 | Hans Lindberg | 202 | 254 | 80 | |
3 | Michael Damgaard | 166 | 316 | 53 | |
4 | Niclas Ekberg | 164 | 201 | 82 | |
Robert Weber | 235 | 70 | |||
6 | Marcel Schiller | 157 | 223 | 70 | |
7 | Timo Kastening | 144 | 200 | 72 | |
Patrick Zieker | 194 | 74 | |||
9 | Uwe Gensheimer | 134 | 177 | 76 | |
10 | Jeffrey Boomhouwer | 131 | 179 | 73 |
Rank | Name | Saves | Shots | ||
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1 | Dejan Milosavljev | 36 | 124 | 349 | |
2 | Niklas Landin Jacobsen | 35 | 220 | 421 | |
2 | Finn Zecher | 35 | 8 | 23 | |
4 | Tibor Ivanišević | 34 | 70 | 232 | |
5 | Can Adanir | 33 | 1 | 6 | |
6 | Finn Hummel | 33 | 1 | 3 | |
7 | Peter Johannesson | 33 | 199 | 600 | |
8 | Benjamin Burić | 33 | 166 | 504 | |
9 | Gorazd Škof | 32 | 121 | 380 | |
10 | Mario Ruminsky | 31 | 24 | 77 |