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All you need to know about the Danish men's and women's domestic handball league season

GOG's Hjalte Lykke tries to break through the Aalborg defense during a match last season
GOG's Hjalte Lykke tries to break through the Aalborg defense during a match last seasonCredit: Lau Nielsen / Gonzales Photo / Profimedia

While the Danish men's domestic handball league kicked off on Tuesday, the first match in the women's league will take place today. Flashscore will get you "properly equipped" for this season with all the necessary details to improve your experience.

Reigning champions:

Men: Aalborg Handball

Women: Team Esbjerg

Leading goalscorers (last season)

Men: Nicolai Jorgensen (SonderjyskE), 236 goals

Women: Tabea Schmid, FC Copenhagen Handball, 287 goals

Most titles:

Men: KIF Kolding (incl. KIF Kolding Copenhagen) – 14 championships (latest in 2015)

Women: Viborg HK 14 championships (latest in 2014).

Spectator Record:

The all-time attendance record for a single match in the Danish men's handball league is 36,651 spectators. The record was set on 21 May, 2011, when AG Copenhagen faced Bjerringbro-Silkeborg (BSV) at Parken Stadium in Copenhagen during the second match of the Danish championship final. At the time, it also stood as the world record for attendance at a handball match.

Tournament structure (for men and women): 

Regular season:

14 teams face each other home and away in a total of 26 matches during the regular season.

The top 8 advance to the playoffs/finals.

Teams ranked 9 through 14 advance to the new qualification/relegation round.

New Structure for Qualifiers and Relegation:

The teams (ranked 9–14) carry all their points from the regular season over to the qualification round.

All teams in the game play against each other once.

The team finishing last after the qualification round is directly relegated to the 1st Division.

The team finishing second-to-last (the team with the second-fewest points) must play a playoff against a team from the 1st Division for the final spot in the Men's League.

Biggest transfers (player joining the Danish domestic league)

Men:

Magnus Landin: THW KielAalborg Handball

Jacob Holm: Paris Saint-GermainSkjern Handball

Manuel Zehnder: SC MagdeburgGOG

Women:

Johanna Bundsen: Metz Handball – Odense Handball

Anna Vyakhireva: Brest Bretagne Handball – Odense Handball

Trine Ostergaard: CSM Bucharest – Viborg HK