Bundesliga (shooting)

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, twenty four 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:

All shooters fire only 40 competition shots.
The sighting shots are not included in the match time. Instead there is a 15-minute sighting shot period before the match.
The match time is lowered to 50 minutes.

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. 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. 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 twelve teams each:

Northern division covering Berlin, Brandenburg, Hamburg, Hesse, Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, Lower Saxony, North Rhine-Westphalia, Saxony, Saxony-Anhalt, Schleswig-Holstein, Thuringia and the northern part of Rhineland-Palatinate
Southern division covering Baden-Württemberg, Bavaria, Saarland and the southern part of Rhineland-Palatinate

A single round-robin of eleven 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 six weekends, organized in such a way that the clubs that placed 1–10 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.

Finals

The top four teams of each division reach the finals, 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.

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. The twelfth-placed team of each Bundesliga division is automatically relegated to the appropriate regional league. The eleventh-placed team competes together with the two top teams of each regional league for two spots in next year's Bundesliga.
Below the regional leagues, there are leagues managed by each Landesverband.

Winners

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

Season	Air rifle	Air pistol
1997–1998	SV Affalterbach	PSV Olympia Berlin
1998–1999	SV Affalterbach	PSV Olympia Berlin
1999–2000	Kgl. Priv. FSG "Der Bund" München	PSV Olympia Berlin
2000–2001	Kgl. Priv. FSG "Der Bund" München	PSV Olympia Berlin
2001–2002	BSV Buer-Bülse	VSS Haltern
2002–2003	Jozef Gönci Torsten Krebs Alexandra Schneider Tino Mohaupt Nadine Masuth	Uwe Potteck Martin Tenk Gernot Eder Daniel Barner Holger Buchmann
2003–2004	Lioubov Galkina Angela Kugele Sandra Koch Beate Gauss Frank Köstel	Franck Dumoulin Michael Peirick Albert Grieskamp Klaus Lindemann Sven Hartmann
2004–2005	Alexandra Schneider Dorothee Bauer Jozef Gönci Nadine Masuth Torsten Krebs	Vladimir Gontcharov Leo Braun Patrik Lengerer Wolfgang Renner Franz Möndel
2005–2006	Marco De Nicolo Damian Kontny Eva Schmitz Dirk Leiwen Andre Knop	Leo Braun Vladimir Gontcharov Patrik Lengerer Wolfgang Renner Franz Möndel
2006–2007	Barbara Lechner Matthew Emmons Simone Legl Franz Schreiner Karin Steinbauer	Abdullah Ustaoglu Swen Jülle Markus Abt Thomas Albiez Christian Schebasta
2007–2008	Kateřina Emmons Jürgen Wallowsky Michaela Wagner Claudia Huber Sabrina Bär	Vladimir Gontcharov Leo Braun Patrick Lengerer Wolfgang Renner Michael Peirick
2008–2009	Sabrina Bär Michaela Wagner Jürgen Wallowsky Adéla Sýkorová Claudia Huber	Roberto Di Donna Munkhbayar Dorjsuren Sebastian Rosner Thomas Karsch Christoph Schultheiß
2009–2010	HSG München	SGI Waldenburg
2010–2011	Kgl. Priv. FSG "Der Bund" München	SGI Waldenburg
2011–2012	SSV St. Hubertus Elsen	SGI Waldenburg
2012–2013	HSG München	SV Kriftel
2013–2014	HSG München	SGI Waldenburg
2014–2015	SG Coburg	SV Kelheim-Gmünd
2015–2016	SSV St. Hubertus Elsen	SV Waldkirch
2016–2017	SSV St. Hubertus Elsen	SV Kelheim-Gmünd
2017-2018	SB Freiheit	SV Kriftel

Current clubs

The following clubs are qualified for the 2018–2019 season. Ranks from the previous season are in parentheses, the defending champions in bold and promoted teams in italics.

Air rifle

Northern division	Southern division
Braunschweiger SG 1545	Eichenlaub Saltendorf
BSV Buer-Bülse	FSG Kempten
SB Freiheit	Kgl. Priv. FSG "Der Bund" München
SG 1920 Mengshausen	Kgl. Priv. FSG Titting
SSG Kevelaer	KKS Königsbach
SSV St. Hubertus Elsen	SG Coburg
SV Gölzau	SV Buch
SV Olympia 72 Börm/Dörpstedt	SV Germania Prittlbach
SV Kamen	SV Niederlauterbach
SV Wieckenberg	SV Petersaurach
TuS Hilgert	SV Pfeil Vöhringen
Wissener SV	SSG Dynamit Fürth

Air pistol

Northern division	Southern division
Braunschweiger SG	ESV Weil am Rhein
Freischütz Wathlingen	HSG München
GTV Bremerhaven-Seestadtteufel	KKS Hambrücken
PSV Olympia Berlin	SGi Ludwigsburg
Sp.Sch. Fahrdorf	Sgi Waldenburg
Spsch Raesfeld	SSG Dynamit Fürth
SSG Teutoburger Wald	SV Altheim Waldhausen
SSV Bad Westernkotten	SV Kelheim-Gmünd
SV 1935 Kriftel	SV Murrhardt-Karnsberg
SV Bassum von 1848	SV Peiting
SV Falke Dasbach	SV Waldkirch
SV Schirumer Leegmoor	TSV Ötlingen - SpSchAbtl.

Foreign shooters

Of the five shooters entered in a match, at least four must be German citizens. Despite this rule, many prominent foreigners participate in the league. The list of foreign shooters registered for the 2018–19 season includes the following shooters :

Name	Country	Discipline	Division	Club	Best Olympic result
Camilla Andersen		Rifle	North	Braunschweiger SG 1545
Katarina Bisercic		Rifle	North	SV Olympia 72 Börm/Dörpstedt
Jorge Diaz		Rifle	North	SB Freiheit	27th, men's air rifle 2016
Tomasz Bartnik		Rifle	North	SV Gölzau
Maxime Brunin		Rifle	North	SV Kamen
Alexander Driagin		Rifle	North	SG 1920 Mengshausen
Christoph Dürr		Rifle	South	FSG Kempten
Živa Dvoršak		Rifle	South	SV Petersaurach	11th, women's air rifle 2012
Matthew Emmons		Rifle	South	Der Bund München	1st, men's prone 2004
Judith Gomez		Rifle	South	KKS Königsbach
Petar Gorša		Rifle	North	SSG Kevelaer	7th, men's air rifle 2016
Mikkel Hansen		Rifle	North	SV Olympia 72 Börm/Dörpstedt
Peter Hellenbrand		Rifle	North	ST Hubertus Elsen	5th, men's air rifle 2012
Olivia Hofmann		Rifle	South	SV Niederlauterbach	5th, women's three positions 2016
Michael Höllwarth		Rifle	South	SV Petersaurach
Illia Charheika		Rifle	North	SV Gölzau	6th, men's air rifle 2016
Rikke Ibsen		Rifle	North	Braunschweiger SG 1545
Sergey Kamenskiy		Rifle	South	SV Pfeil Vöhringen	2nd, men's three positions 2016
Henrik Larsen		Rifle	North	SV Wieckenberg
Petra Lustenberger		Rifle	South	SV Buch
Jan Lochbihler		Rifle	North	SG 1920 Mengshausen	14th, men's prone 2016
Stephan Martz		Rifle	North	TuS Hilgert
Thomas Mathis		Rifle	South	FSG Kempten	17h, men's prone 2016
Nikola Mazurová		Rifle	South	SG Coburg	18th, women's air rifle 2016
Alin Moldoveanu		Rifle	North	SB Freiheit	1st, men's air rifle 2012
Mandy Mulder		Rifle	North	SG 1920 Mengshausen
Elania Nardelli		Rifle	South	SSG Dynamit-Fürth	35th, women's three positions 2012
Agnieszka Nagay		Rifle	North	SV Kamen	8th, women's three positions 2012
Stine Nielsen		Rifle	North	SV Wieckenberg	9th, women's air rifle 2012
Alena Niskoshapskaia		Rifle	North	SV Kamen
Ayonika Paul		Rifle	South	SV Petersaurach	47th, women's air rifle 2016
István Péni		Rifle	North	BSV Buer-Bülse	12th, men's three positions 2016
Daniela Demjen Pešková		Rifle	South	Kgl. Priv. FSG Titting	9th, women's air rifle 2008
Borna Petanjek		Rifle	North	SB Freiheit
Line Petermann		Rifle	North	SV Olympia 72 Börm/Dörpstedt
Pierre-Edmond Piasecki		Rifle	South	Der Bund München	6th, men's air rifle 2012
Bernhard Pickl		Rifle	South	SG Coburg
Marlene Pribitzer		Rifle	South	Kgl. Priv. FSG Titting
Sergey Richter		Rifle	North	SSG Kevelaer	9th, men's air rifle 2012
Anton Rizov		Rifle	South	KKS Königsbach	22nd, men's air rifle 2012
Gernot Rumpler		Rifle	North	BSV Buer-Bülse	32nd, men's air rifle 2016
Milenko Sebić		Rifle	South	SV Pfeil Vöhringen	11th, men's three positions 2016
Pea Smeets		Rifle	North	Wissener SV
Peter Somogyl		Rifle	South	Eichenlaub Saltendorf
Milutin Stefanovic		Rifle	North	TuS Hilgert	12th, men's air rifle 2016
Jenny Stene		Rifle	North	BSV Buer-Bülse
Martin Strempfl		Rifle	South	SV Germania Prittlbach
Nicolas Thiel		Rifle	North	SV Wieckenberg
Oleh Tsarkov		Rifle	South	SV Pfeil Vöhringen	8th, men's air rifle 2016
Adam Veres		Rifle	North	Wissener SV
Sanja Vukasinovic		Rifle	North	Wissener SV
Gabriela Vognarová		Rifle	South	Kgl. Priv. FSG Titting
Simon Weithaler		Rifle	South	SV Niederlauterbach
Georg Zott		Rifle	South	SSG Dynamit-Fürth
Petra Zublasing		Rifle	North	TuS Hilgert	4th, women's three positions 2016

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