División de Honor Femenina de Balonmano

Liga Guerreras Iberdrola
Current season, competition or edition:
2018–19 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 Super Amara Bera Bera (2017–18)
Most championships Parc Sagunto (27 titles)
TV partners Teledeporte
Website http://www.rfebm.net

División de Honor Femenina de Balonmano or Liga Guerreras Iberdrola after sponsorship of Iberdrola, 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 and 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 order—that 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.

2018–19 season teams

Bera Bera
Atl. Guardés
Gijón
Valladolid
Málaga
Zuazo
Granollers
Porriño
Elche Mustang
Canyamelar Valencia
Castellón
Alcobendas
Morvedre
2018–19 División de Honor teams
Rocasa G.C. ACE
Canary Islands
Team City Stadium Capacity
Super Amara Bera Bera San Sebastián Bidebieta 1,000
Mecalia Atl. Guardés A Guarda A Sangriña 1,500
Rocasa G.C. ACE Telde Antonio Moreno 800
Liberbank Gijón Gijón La Arena 800
Aula Alimentos de Valladolid Valladolid Huerta del Rey 3,500
Rincón Fertilidad Málaga Málaga Carranque 1,500
Hotel Gran Bilbao-Prosetecnisa Zuazo Barakaldo Lasesarre 2,576
KH-7 Granollers Granollers Palau d'Esports 5,685
Godoy Maceira Porriño O Porriño Pavillón Municipal 2,000
Elche Mustang Elche Poliesportiu de Carrús 800
Canyamelar Valencia Valencia El Cabanyal 1,200
BM Castellón Castellón de la Plana Fernando Úbeda Mir 500
Helvetia Alcobendas Alcobendas Los Sueños 1,000
Morvedre Sagunto René Marigil 2,000


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
Bera Bera
5
 2012–13, 2013–14, 2014–15, 2015–16, 2017–18
Elda
4
 1998–99, 2002–03, 2003–04, 2007–08
Itxako
4
 2008–09, 2009–10, 2010–11, 2011–12
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
Mecalia Atl. Guardés
1
 2016–17
Hípica A Coruña
1
 1961–62

See also

References

  1. ↑ List of champions in RFEBM's website
  2. ↑ List of finals of EHF competitions in the-sports.org
  3. ↑ RFEBM's general meeting, 08/06/2011
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