División de Honor Femenina de Balonmano

División de Honor Femenina
Current season, competition or edition:
2014–15 season
Countries Spain
Confederation EHF
Founded 1953
Number of teams 14
Relegation to División de Plata
Level on pyramid Level 1
Domestic cup(s) Copa de la Reina
International cup(s) Champions League
Cup Winners' Cup
Women's EHF Cup
Current champions BM Bera Bera (2014–15)
Most championships Parc Sagunto (27 titles)
TV partners Teledeporte
Website http://www.rfebm.net

División de Honor Femenina de Balonmano is the premier women's professional handball league in Spain.

History

The championship was founded in 1953, though it was cancelled in 1955 before it was resumed in 1961. Balonmano Sagunto, formerly known as Medina/Íber/Mar Valencia is the championship's most successful club with 27 titles, having dominated the competition throughout the 1980s and most of the 1990s, while SD Itxako has become its major team in recent years, ending the hegemony of Valencian clubs for the past three decades.[1]

The Spanish leading teams have been fairly successful in international competitions since the 1990s. Mar Valencia won the 1997 Champions League and the 2000 Cup Winners' Cup, while CB Amadeo Tortajada and SD Itxako have won the EHF Cup. In 2011 Itxako and CB Mar Alicante reached the final of the Champions League and the Cup Winners' Cup respectively.[2]

It changed its official name before 2011–12 season to División de Honor Femenina de Balonmano.[3] It was called Liga ABF between 2003 to 2011.

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 as its counterparts of Liga ASOBAL, each División de Honor season ends after every team plays 26 matches.

Like many other leagues in continental Europe, the División de Honor 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 orderthat 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:

  1. The team that has most points in the ranking.
  2. If two or more teams are level on points, the winner is the team that has the best results
  3. If there is no winner after applying the second rule, then the team with the best overall goal difference wins.

2015–16 season teams

Bera Bera
Alcobendas
Atl. Guardés
Porriño
Elche Mustang
Aula Cultural
Zuazo
Canyamelar Valencia
Cleba
Zarautz
Oviedo
Granollers
Málaga
2015–16 División de Honor teams
Rocasa G.C. ACE
Canary Islands
Team City Stadium Capacity
Bera Bera San Sebastián Bidebieta 1,000
Rocasa G.C. ACE Telde Antonio Moreno 800
Mecalia Atl. Guardés A Guarda A Sangriña 1,500
Helvetia Alcobendas Alcobendas Los Sueños 1,000
Elche Mustang Elche Poliesportiu de Carrús 800
Aula Valladolid Valladolid Huerta del Rey 3,500
Porriño O Porriño Polideportivo Municipal 1,600
Prosetecnisa Zuazo Barakaldo Lasesarre 2,576
Canyamelar Valencia Valencia El Cabanyal 1,200
Clínicas Rincón Málaga Málaga Carranque 1,500
Carobels ULE-Cleba León Palacio de los Deportes 6,500
KH-7 Granollers Granollers Palau d'Esports 5,685
Jofemesa Oviedo Oviedo Florida Arena 900
Aiala Zarautz Zarautz Polideportivo Municipal 3,000

2014–15 final standings

Pos Team Pld W D L GF GA GD Pts Qualification or relegation
1 Bera Bera 26 23 2 1 749 544 +205 48 Champions and Qualified to EHF Cup
2 Rocasa G.C. ACE 26 22 1 3 821 612 +209 45 Qualified to EHF Challenge Cup
3 Mecalia Atl. Guardés 26 20 2 4 742 604 +138 42 Qualified to EHF Cup Winners' Cup
4 Helvetia Alcobendas 26 18 1 7 737 656 +81 37
5 Elche Mustang 26 17 0 9 690 647 +43 34
6 Aula Cultural 26 15 1 10 792 751 +41 31
7 Porriño 26 10 2 14 706 715 9 22
8 Prosetecnisa Zuazo 26 10 1 15 735 785 50 21
9 Canyamelar Valencia 26 9 3 14 671 699 28 21
10 Clínicas Rincón Málaga Costa del Sol 26 10 0 16 666 766 100 20
11 Carobels Cleba 26 6 3 17 654 725 71 15
12 KH-7 Granollers 26 7 1 18 626 753 127 15
13 Vivelafruta.com Castelldefels 26 3 1 22 620 775 155 7 Relegation to Primera División
14 Adesal Córdoba 26 3 0 23 569 746 177 6
Updated to match(es) played on 17 May 2015. Source: División de Plata
Rules for classification: 1) points; 2) head-to-head points; 3) head-to-head goal difference; 4) goal difference; 5) number of goals scored

List of champions


Performance by club

Club Titles Seasons
Sagunto
27
1967–68, 1968–69, 1973–74, 1978–79, 1979–80, 1980–81, 1981–82, 1982–83, 1983–84, 1984–85, 1985–86, 1986–87,
1987–88, 1988–89, 1989–90, 1990–91, 1991–92, 1992–93, 1993–94, 1994–95, 1995–96, 1996–97, 1997–98, 1999–00,
2000–01, 2001–02, 2004–05
Picadero
5
1963–64, 1964–65, 1965–66, 1966–67, 1969–70
Atlético Madrid
5
1970–71, 1971–72, 1975–76, 1976–77, 1977–78
Elda
4
1998–99, 2002–03, 2003–04, 2007–08
Itxako
4
2008–09, 2009–10, 2010–11, 2011–12
Bera Bera
3
2012–13, 2013–14, 2014–15
S.F. de Madrid
3
1952–53, 1953–54, 1954–55
S.F./Medina Barcelona
2
1960–61, 1962–63
Medina Guipúzcoa
2
1972–73, 1974–75
Amadeo Tortajada
2
2005–06, 2006–07
Hípica A Coruña
1
1961–62

See also

References

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