The Herreligaen (men's league), formerly known as Herrehåndboldligaen (men's handball league), is the men's top
Danish professional
handball
Handball (also known as team handball, European handball, Olympic handball or indoor handball) is a team sport in which two teams of seven players each (six outcourt players and a goalkeeper) pass a ball using their hands with the aim of thr ...
league. The winners of the Herreligaen are recognised as the Danish men's handball champions. The current champions are
Aalborg Håndbold.
Season
The Herreligaen season consists of 14 teams, each playing 26
regular season
In an organized sports league, a typical season is the portion of one year in which regulated games of the sport are in session: for example, in Major League Baseball the season lasts approximately from the last week of March to the last week of S ...
games. The eight best teams of the regular season advance to further games, where they are divided into two groups of four teams each. No. 1 and 2 from the regular season start with 2 points. No. 3 and 4 start with 1 point, while no. 5-8 start with no points. After these six games the two top teams in each group will play semifinals. No. 1 from one group is up against no. 2 from the other. The winners will meet in finals, while the losers will play against each other for the bronze medal. Semifinals, finals, and bronze games are all played in best of 3.
The lowest placed team of the regular season is directly relegated to the second-best division, and replaced by the winner of this. The teams finishing as 9, 10, 11, 12 and 13 are put in a group where they will play against each other. In the second-best division, the teams that end up 2nd and 3rd will play against each other in best of 3. The winner of those games will get to meet the lowest placed team from the 9-13 group from the top league, yet again in best of 3. The winner will get to play in the top league next season, while the loser plays in the second-best division.
Teams
''The teams for the 2024–25 season are:''
Champions
The complete list of the Danish men's handball champions since 1936.
Total titles won
The following clubs have won the Danish championship.
EHF coefficients
The following data indicates
Danish coefficient rankings between European handball leagues.
;Country ranking:
EHF League Ranking for 2021/22 season:
*5. (''3'')
Super Liga (93.00)
*6. (''6'')
Polish Superliga (77.00)
*7. (''6'') Danish Handball League (74.50)
*8. (''9'')
1ª Divisão (69.00)
*9. (''8'')
Croatian Premier Handball League (46.33)
;Club ranking:
EHF Club Ranking as of 14 July 2022:
* 7.
Aalborg
Aalborg or Ålborg ( , , ) is Denmark's List of cities and towns in Denmark, fourth largest urban settlement (behind Copenhagen, Aarhus, and Odense) with a population of 119,862 (1 July 2022) in the town proper and an Urban area, urban populati ...
(424)
* 15.
GOG (315)
* 37.
Bjerringbro-Silkeborg (135)
* 51.
TTH Holstebro (100)
* 54.
Skjern (94)
See also
*
Danish Women's Handball League
References
External links
Current league statistics(archived)
(archived)
(archived)
{{EHF leagues
Handball competitions in Denmark
Denmark
Denmark is a Nordic countries, Nordic country in Northern Europe. It is the metropole and most populous constituent of the Kingdom of Denmark,, . also known as the Danish Realm, a constitutionally unitary state that includes the Autonomous a ...
Professional sports leagues in Denmark