The Handball-Bundesliga (HBL) is the top German professional handball league. From 2007 onwards, the league was sponsored by Toyota and has officially been called the Toyota Handball-Bundesliga. This lasted until 2012 when the Deutsche Kreditbank AG (DKB) became the new sponsor. The official name has consequently been changed to LIQUY MOLY Handball-Bundesliga. The winners of the respective season are the official German handball champions.
HBL is headquartered in Dortmund.
The HBL GmbH Headquarters
Handball is a team sport in which two teams of seven players each pass a ball using their hands with the aim of throwing it into the goal of the opposing team. A standard match consists of two periods of 30 minutes, and the team that scores more goals wins.
A handball game in progress at SAP Arena in Mannheim, Germany.
A picture copied from an amphora shows youths playing a version of handball, c. 500 BC.
An outdoor handball court
Team timeout