Bundesliga (shooting)

Bundesliga
Sport 10 m air rifle and 10 m air pistol
Founded 1997
Founder German Shooting Federation
No. of teams 16 in each discipline
Country  Germany
Most recent
champion(s)
Air rifle: SG Coburg
Air pistol: SV Kelheim-Gmünd
Most titles Air rifle: SV Affalterbach (3), BSV Buer-Bülse (3)
Air pistol: PSV Olympia Berlin (5)
Official website dsb.de

As in many other sports, the premier German club competition in 10 metre air rifle and 10 metre air pistol is known as the Bundesliga. The league, open to both men and women, was created in 1997 and is administered by the German Shooting Federation. In each discipline, sixteen teams of five shooters each compete during a season spanning from October to February for the German team championship. Apart from the top German shooters, the league also attracts many shooters from other European countries, as well as a few from India and the United States, and involves a number of Olympic medalists and other shooters of international success.

League format

Match format

The Bundesliga matches mainly follow the International Shooting Sport Federation's rules for air rifle and air pistol, with the following important changes:

The shooters are paired up based on previous results so that the top shooters from both teams stand next to each other, and so on down.[6] The shooter achieving the best 40-shot result in each pair wins a point for his or her team. Ties are resolved by firing single shots as needed.[7] Thus, a match can be won by either 5–0, 4–1 or 3–2.

The match format of the Bundesliga has been so successful that the European Shooting Confederation mirrored it when creating the ESC Youth League for national teams of young shooters.

Regular season

Each Bundesliga consists of two divisions of eight teams each:[8]

A single round-robin of seven match days is conducted in each division during October–December or October–January. As shooting is a sport where the club league forms only a part of the competition season, the matches are concentrated to four weekends, organized in such a way that the clubs that placed 1–6 during the previous season have two home-range matches while the remaining two teams only have one each. In the table, teams are ranked on the number of won matches; tie-breaking criteria are 1) number of individual points won, 2) results between the concerned teams, 3) number of won points on first position (etc.).[9]

Finals

The top four teams of each division reach the finals (Bundesligafinale), held during a single weekend in February at the same location for both air rifle and air pistol. Quarterfinals and semifinals are held on Saturday, and bronze and gold medal matches on Sunday.[10]

Promotion and relegation

Below the Bundesliga are five regional leagues: Regionalliga Nord, Regionalliga West and Regionalliga Ost below the northern division; Regionalliga Südwest and Regionalliga Süd below the southern division.[11] The eighth-placed team of each Bundesliga division is automatically relegated to the appropriate regional league.[12] The seventh-placed team competes together with the two top teams of each regional league for two spots in next year's Bundesliga.[13]

Below the regional leagues, there are leagues managed by each Landesverband (in northern Germany, these generally follow the state borders, while the large states in the south are divided into several Landesverbände).[14]

Winners

The following clubs have become German champions since the inception of the Bundesliga.

Season Air rifle Air pistol
1997–1998SV Affalterbach (1/3) PSV Olympia Berlin (1/5)
1998–1999SV Affalterbach (2/3) PSV Olympia Berlin (2/5)
1999–2000Kgl. Priv. FSG "Der Bund" München (1/2) PSV Olympia Berlin (3/5)
2000–2001Kgl. Priv. FSG "Der Bund" München (2/2) PSV Olympia Berlin (4/5)
2001–2002BSV Buer-Bülse (1/3) VSS Haltern (1/2)
2002–2003
2003–2004
2004–2005
2005–2006
2006–2007
2007–2008
2008–2009

Current clubs

The following clubs are qualified for the 2009–2010 season. Ranks from the previous season are in parentheses, the defending champions in bold and promoted teams in italics.

Air rifle

Elsen
Nordstemmen
Hilgert
Düsseldorf
Münster
Buer
Hamm
Dorndorf
Coburg
Affalterbach
Munich
Brigachtal
Petersaurach
Prittlbach
Fürth
Northern division Southern division
SSV St. Hubertus Elsen (1) SG Coburg (1)
KKS Nordstemmen (2) SV Affalterbach (2)
TuS Hilgert (3) HSG München (3)
Post Telekom Düsseldorf (4) Kgl. Priv. FSG "Der Bund" München (4)
ABC Münster (5) SSVG Brigachtal (5)
BSV Buer-Bülse (6) SV Petersaurach (6)
SG Hamm SV Germania Prittlbach (7)
SV Dorndorf/Rhön SSG Dynamit Fürth

Air pistol

Broistedt
Berlin
Brunswick
Bremen
Kriftel
Fahrdorf
Neustadt
Dresden
Kelheim
Ulrichshögl
Waldenburg
Ludwigsburg
Ötlingen
Weil
Altheim
Fürth
Northern division Southern division
SB Broistedt (1) SV Kelheim-Gmünd (1)
PSV Olympia Berlin (2) SG Ulrichshögl (2)
Braunschweiger SG (3) SGi Waldenburg (3)
SSGi Bremen-Bassum (4) SGi Ludwigsburg (4)
SV 1935 Kriftel (5) SpSch TSV Ötlingen (5)
SpSch Fahrdorf (6) ESV Weil am Rhein (6)
PSG Neustadt/Sachsen SV Altheim Waldhausen
PSSG zu Dresden (7) SSG Dynamit Fürth (7)

Foreign shooters

Of the five shooters entered in a match, at least four must be German citizens.[15] Despite this rule, many prominent foreigners participate in the league. The list of foreign shooters registered for the 2008–09 season[16] includes the following Olympic finalists (although all did not compete in every match):

NameCountryDisciplineDivisionClubBest Olympic result
Jamie Beyerle United StatesRifleSouthSV Germania Prittlbach4th, women's air rifle 2008
Abhinav Bindra IndiaRifleNorthSSV St. Hubertus Elsen1st, men's air rifle 2008
Sylwia Bogacka PolandRifleNorthKKS Nordstemmen8th, women's air rifle 2008
Laurence Brize FranceRifleNorthBSV Buer-Bülse7th, women's air rifle 2004
Marco De Nicolo ItalyRifleNorthSSV St. Hubertus Elsen5th, men's prone 2004
Roberto Di Donna ItalyPistolSouthSV Kelheim-Gmünd1st, men's air pistol 1996
Kateřina Emmons Czech RepublicRifleSouthSG Coburg1st, women's air rifle 2008
Vigilio Fait ItalyPistolSouthSG Ulrichshögl5th, men's 50 m pistol 1996
Thomas Farnik AustriaRifleSouthHSG München5th, men's three positions 2008
Lioubov Galkina RussiaRifleSouthSV Affalterbach1st, women's three positions 2004
Vladimir Gontcharov RussiaPistolSouthSGi Waldenburg4th, men's 50 m pistol 2000
Mariya Grozdeva BulgariaPistolSouthSGi Waldenburg1st, women's 25 m pistol 2000
1st, women's 25 m pistol 2004
Vladimir Isakov RussiaPistolSouthSGi Waldenburg3rd, men's air pistol 2004
3rd, men's 50 m pistol 2008
Mario Knögler AustriaRifleSouthKgl. Priv. FSG "Der Bund" München6th, men's three positions 2008
Olena Kostevych UkrainePistolNorthSSGi Bremen-Bassum1st, women's air pistol 2004
Mikhail Nestruyev RussiaPistolNorthSSGi Bremen-Bassum1st, men's 50 m pistol 2004
Jason Parker United StatesRifleSouthSGi Waldkraiburg5th, men's air rifle 2000
Christian Planer AustriaRifleSouthSV Petersaurach3rd, men's three positions 2004
Péter Sidi HungaryRifleSouthSSVG Brigachtal6th, men's air rifle 2008

Both holders of the final world records in 10 metre air rifle, Gagan Narang and Sonja Pfeilschifter, also compete. Even the regional leagues attract some foreign champions: for example, Olympic champion Matthew Emmons stayed with Post SV Plattling (Regionalliga Süd air rifle) when they were relegated from the Bundesliga in 2008.

Notes

  1. DSB-Ligaordnung 2009-2010, 1.1.6
  2. DSB-Ligaordnung 2009-2010, 1.1.6
  3. DSB-Ligaordnung 2009-2010, 1.1.6
  4. DSB-Ligaordnung 2009-2010, 1.3.1
  5. DSB-Ligaordnung 2009-2010, 1.1.6
  6. DSB-Ligaordnung 2009-2010, 1.0.3
  7. DSB-Ligaordnung 2009-2010, 1.1.2–1.1.3
  8. DSB-Ligaordnung 2009-2010, 0.1.6 and "Landesverbände"
  9. DSB-Ligaordnung 2009-2010, 1.1.4
  10. DSB-Ligaordnung 2009-2010, 1.6.1–1.6.3
  11. DSB-Ligaordnung 2009-2010, 0.1.7
  12. DSB-Ligaordnung 2009-2010, 1.4.5
  13. DSB-Ligaordnung 2009-2010, 1.4.3
  14. "Landesverbände"
  15. DSB-Ligaordnung 2009-2010, 0.3.1.2
  16. Liste der ausländischen Sportler, p. 2–3

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