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The Champions League that handball players and fans and even bettors typically associate with the sport handball is actually the EHF Champions League. It is indeed Europe’s finest club handball league, and which has been present for decades as well, just like the other popular handball leagues.

The league was founded earlier than the Liga Asobal, it was founded between 1956-1957. And since its foundation, has been administered by the European Handball Federation (EHF).

The European Handball Federation (EHF) has been managing European handball leagues since the early 1990’s, and one of which of course is the EHF Champions League. It is an organization of 49 member federations and one associated member (Kosovo).

Because of being present for decades, the EHF Champions League managed to develop handball teams, including FC Barcelona Handbol, VfL Gummersbach, BM Ciudad Real, SKA Minsk and SC Magdeburg. Indeed, these teams have reached their fullest potential because of the league just being around.

Countries like Spain, Germany, Croatia, Romania and Czech Republic have also made their mark in the sport through the EHF Champions League. Good things it was created and succeeded against the odds to be able to help handball teams as well as countries to have a name in one of the most loved sports.

The EHF is truly a one distinct handball league. It is also the kind of league that handball players and fans and even bettors should not miss. It has brilliant participating teams, countries, that have always been up for any kind of handball challenge.

If you are a handball player or a fan, or may be a bettor wagering on handball, dare not to consider the EHF Champions League as a handball league option. It is a handball league you will surely not regret opting for no matter what your reason of being into handball is.

The Handball-Bundesliga or HBL, and sometimes also just simply called as Bundesliga, is a top professional German handball league. However, since 2007, it has been sponsored by Toyota and so is also addressed as Toyota Handball-Bundesliga.

Winners of the league are regarded as the German handball champions. And as winners, they can enjoy certain privileges like being qualified for bigger handball leagues or events. For an instance, like the first and second placed teams being qualified for the EHF Champions League and like the third placed team being given the chance to play in the Champions League. Of course, not to forget the fourth and fifth placed teams being qualified for the EHF Cup.

The EHF Champions League is Europe’s finest club handball competition. And the EHF Cup is an official men’s handball clubs competition still of Europe.

But it is not only the top teams of a given season that are typically given a reward like qualification to other handball leagues or events. In fact, the two last placed teams get qualified to the second division the following season, and either in the northern or the southern section. While the sixteenth placed team gets qualified for a home and home expulsion against the winner of the expulsion between the two northern and southern sections’ second placed teams of the second division.

The Handball-Bundesliga is indeed an interesting handball league. It is the kind of league that handball players and fans and even bettors should keep an eye on. Each of its previous seasons was full of action and so will the upcoming ones.

At this point, a season is ongoing and it is likely to end in May. A season actually starts in August or September and ends in May, several months after.

Thus, handball players and fans and even bettors should not miss the action in the ongoing season of Handball-Bundesliga.