1.Bundesliga Women Germany 2024/2025

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I figured I should make a comprehensive thread for anyone that might be interested since I follow the league closely and the women don't get much attention unfortunately.

Unlike the men's league the women only have seven teams competing. Eight are technically mandatory, but the league has been struggling to fill the quota for a long time due to a lack of interest/funding. Berlin is the unmatched top club having won the German Championship ten times, the German Cup ten times and the Champions League five times. Here are the teams in order of their current ranking in the ongoing season (links lead to their info pages on mytischtennis.de, the main site for table tennis in Germany). TTR is the rating system that is used in Germany (Elo like); WTT, ITTF events and the Olympic Games contribute to the rating.


Clubs:

TTC 1946 Weinheim

1.1 Liu, Weishan (registered for the second half of the season, but hasn't played yet and is very unlikely to play) TTR 2467
1.2 Chien, Tung-Chuan TTR 2356
1.3 Cheng, Hsien-Tzu TTR 2266
1.4 Wan, Yuan TTR 2322
1.5 Sung, Rachel (is listed for the sake of it and has only played twice when the club was still competing in the 2. Bundesliga) TTR 2279
1.6 Harac, Ece TTR 2183
1.7 Jeger, Mateja TTR 2190



TSV 1909 Langstadt

1.1 Paranang, Orawan TTR 2362
1.2 Mantz, Chantal TTR 2238
1.3 Schreiner, Franziska TTR 2247
1.4 Lupulesku, Izabela TTR 2244
2.1 Klee, Sophia TTR 2212



TSV Dachau 65

1.1 Byun, Seoyoung TTR 2403
1.2 Winter, Sabine TTR 2361
1.3 Itagaki, Koharu TTR 2305
1.4 Ho, Tin-Tin TTR 2196
2.1 Pranjikovic, Naomi TTR 2123
2.3 Ernst, Emine TTR 2096



ESV Weil

1.1 Hursey, Anna TTR 2305
1.2 Sozoniuk, Ievgeniia TTR 2256
1.3 Ortega, Daniela TTR 2148
1.4 Lachenmayer, Lea TTR 2118
1.5 Riliskyte, Kornelija TTR 2102



SV DJK Kolbermoor

1.1 Kaufmann, Annett TTR 2379
1.2 Arapovic, Hana TTR 2302
1.3 Meshref, Dina TTR 2303
1.4 Ghosh, Swastika TTR 2276
1.5 Gotsch, Qianhong TTR 2234
1.6 Lang, Kristin TTR 2233
1.7 Toth, Krisztina TTR 2082
1.8 Tiefenbrunner, Laura 2059



ttc berlin eastside

1.1 He, Zhuojia (Champions League only) TTR 2526
1.2 Kaneyoshi, Yuka TTR 2495
1.3 Sun, Mingyang (German Cup only) TTR 2423
1.4 Mittelham, Nina TTR 2375
1.5 Shan, Xiaona TTR 2351
1.6 Huang, Yu-Chiao TTR 2266
1.7 Ding, Yaping TTR 2287
1.8 Surjan, Sabina TTR 2237
1.9 Griesel, Mia TTR 2259
1.10 Neumann, Josephina TTR 2167
1.14 Mühlbach, Katrin TTR 2063



TTG Bingen/Münster-Sarmsheim

1.1 Chitale, Diya Parag TTR 2225
1.2 Rakovac, Lea TTR 2246
1.3 Tomanovska, Katerina TTR 2166
1.4 Shi, Qi TTR 2218
1.5 Kuzmina, Elena TTR 2169
1.6 Mynarova, Karolina TTR 2048


Match system:

The women play on two tables at the same time. Every match starts with two doubles followed by up to eight singles, best of five. Whoever gets six points first wins or the match can end in a draw at 5-5. There is a restriction for foreign players outside of the EU that allows only one such a player to play concurrently so a team like Weinheim can only use one of their two Taiwan players for each match. Most clubs also don't have fancy venues and use school gyms often or some other kind of venue.

The playing order is based on the "Bundessystem" for four-player-teams. Doubles pairs can be freely chosen and put freely on 1 or 2. For singles it's according to the position players have been registered in and that is done by TTR rating. A match goes down as follows:

DA1 - DB1
DA2 - DB2
A1 - B2
A2 - B1
A3 - B4
A4 - B3
A1 - B1
A2 - B2
A3 - B3
A4 - B4


How to watch:

The women's Bundesliga is not affiliated with Dyn so German viewers don't need a subscription. It's up to each team whether they want to stream. At the moment Dachau and Bingen don't do it unfortunately. The remaining clubs all stream on YouTube, but only Kolbermoor and Berlin offer viewers both tables. The YouTube links are:

Weinheim
Langstadt
Weil
Kolbermoor
Berlin


Play-offs:

The first six teams at the end of the season advance to the play-offs and compete for the German Championship.


Other useful links:

Current ranking
Schedule
Liveticker (covers 1. Bundesliga to 3. Bundesliga for women and 2./3. Bundesliga for men. Both 3. Bundesligen are divided into North and South)


The next match is tomorrow between Weil and Langstadt at 2PM German time. You can watch it here. If you have any questions feel free to ask.

 

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Today's match has started. The line-up is:


Weil:

Sozoniuk
Ortega
Lachenmayer
Riliskyte


Langstadt:

Mantz
Schreiner
Lupulesku
Klee

 

[Tony's Table Tennis]

great thread
women's tt needs to be more supported, since bulk of the funding mostly goes to men's club.

 

[Brs]

Thanks for posting this! I follow Pro A women but before now no clue about 1 bundesliga.

I will root for the Dachau club, since they have my new favorite player.
1.3 Itagaki, Koharu TTR 2305

 

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Added further information to the match system in my first post and put a link to the liveticker there so you can follow matches that are not being streamed and other league matches you might find interesting.

Thanks for posting this! I follow Pro A women but before now no clue about 1 bundesliga.

I will root for the Dachau club, since they have my new favorite player.
1.3 Itagaki, Koharu TTR 2305

My pleasure.

 

[AchyGeorge]

Everything is going wrong… I messed up the start time / my time zone difference. Then when I did join the stream the combination of small screen, side angle, white background is unfortunate. Good to see it’s available to watch though!

 

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Everything is going wrong… I messed up the start time / my time zone difference. Then when I did join the stream the combination of small screen, side angle, white background is unfortunate. Good to see it’s available to watch though!

I asked about the side angle, but they can't put the camera somewhere else due to lack of space. The venue is packed. It's a bit too dark on stream too. Makes it hard to follow the ball.

 

[AchyGeorge]

The venue is packed.

Great to hear🏓

 

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Weil wins against Langstadt 6-3.

 

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Three matches are taking place this weekend. Tomorrow at 2PM German time Dachau vs Langstadt. No stream unfortunately. On Sunday same time two matches simultaneously, Bingen vs Weil and Kolbermoor vs Langstadt. You can watch the latter here.

 

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The order for today's match is:

Dachau vs Langstadt 6:4

Winter/Pranjkovic vs Schreiner/Morsch 2-3
Itagaki/Ho vs Mantz/lupulesku 3-0
Winter vs Lupulesku 3-2
Itagaki vs Mantz 2-3
Ho vs Morsch 3-0
Pranjkovic vs Klee 2-3
Winter vs Mantz 3-0
Itagaki vs Lupulesku 3-2
Ho vs Klee 1-3
Pranjkovic vs Morsch 3-0

The liveticker is up.

EDIT: Schreiner was only playing doubles, corrected the mistake and added the final scores.

 

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Results of this weekend:

Dachau vs Langstadt: 6:4
Bingen vs Weil: 6:4
Kolbermoor vs Langstadt: 6:4

Two matches next Friday and Sunday.

 

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Match between Kolbermoor and Weil is now live. (sorry for the late post)

The line-up is:

Kolbermoor vs Weil 6-2

Kaufmann/Arapovic vs Lachenmayer/Riliskyte 3-0
Ghosh/Tiefenbrunner vs Hursey/Sozoniuk 1-3
Kaufmann vs Sozoniuk 3-1
Arapovic vs Hursey 3-2
Ghosh vs Riliskyte 1-3
Gotsch vs Lachenmayer 3-0
Kaufmann vs Hursey 3-0
Arapovic vs Sozoniuk 3-0
Ghosh vs Lachenmayer
Gotsch vs Riliskyte

EDIT: Something must have happened with Lachenmayer because she didn't play at all. Added the final scores.

 

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The next match is tomorrow at 2PM German time. Weinheim is up against Kolbermoor, live here. Against my expectation Liu Weishan will play for Weinheim after all because Chien and Cheng are not available, so Annett will get a re-match after her China Smash loss not too long ago. I will be there in person and won't be able to post the usual line-up.

 

[Brs]

I will be there in person

Nice! Hope you see some great matches.

 

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Weinheim ended up losing 3-6 to Kolbermoor. The big takeaway is that Liu Weishan could not deliver, she lost everything today.

She lost her doubles match with Harac in the decider after being down 0-2 and had to play her first singles against Arapovic right afterwards. She lost the first game, was up 2-1 and lost again in the decider. Her (reverse) tomahawk serves were very strong and got her a lot of direct points, but sometimes they were punished for being too long, she couldn't persevere in the rallies and got caught off-guard many times on the opening attack from her opponent failing to return them by small margins. The same basically happened against Annett too, but she was basically superhuman today. Nothing could get past her. Liu was down 1-2 and led the fourth game 5-1 when Annett had a slight slump and was puzzled by Liu's pushes, but that was the comeback moment for Annett and she got back into superhuman mode. Weinheim also suffered from a missing Wan who had pain in her neck resulting in Harac having to move up into the upper pair where she had to face Annett and lost 0-3 despite putting up a good fight, but Annett just countered everything. Since Wan was missing Daria Trigolos (Lind's wife) had to play as back-up. She played a few times last season, but so far only had one match for the second team in the 3. Bundesliga. She is a very solid player that can win in the lower pair. She ended up winning her doubles match with Jeger, but couldn't handle the quality from the Indian player Ghosh in her only singles match today. She was just better. Jeger had to face the chopper Gotsch who is 56 years old btw. She had been teammates with Annett in Böblingen for many years before the club had to dissolve the first team last year and both joined Kolbermoor for the current season. Jeger is usually very good against choppers and won the first game comfortably, but ended up losing the second game in deuce and the next game too. She is not a hard hitter and can safely loop the chops back-to-back, but today she overshot them too many times or outright misjudged them and dumped them right into the net. I can not stress how good Gotsch is still at her age, moving from both corners and chopping with both sides. She wanted to punish some weak returns from Jeger in the decider, but missed them all and Jeger got her confidence back against the chops pulling through for Weinheim. Harac who never had to play the upper pair until today managed a big comeback against Arapovic after being down 0-2. Lots of high intensity rallies between the two, but Arapovic got too frustrated at the end and Harac had the upper hand. By that point Jeger already played her second singles and had no chance against Ghosh, so Kolbermoor's win was set in stone. Harac will unfortunately leave after this season and return to Turkey to finish university.


Weinheim is still in first place at the moment and the coming weekend will have three matches, two on Saturday that will be streamed and the remaining one on Sunday with no stream unfortunately.

 

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Kolbermoor is now posting highlights from their home matches on their YouTube channel.

Kolbermoor vs Weil
Kolbermoor vs Langstadt

 

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Two matches tomorrow.

Langstadt vs Weinheim at 3PM German time, live here.
Weil vs Berlin at 4PM German time, live here.

 

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Langstadt vs Weinheim 2-6 (no stream for some reason, sorry)

Mantz/Schreiner vs Liu/Wan 0-3
Lupulesku/Klee vs Harac/Jeger 0-3
Mantz vs Wan 1-3
Schreiner vs Liu 0-3
Lupulesku vs Jeger 3-1
Klee vs Harac 3-0
Mantz vs Liu 0-3
Schreiner vs Wan 1-3
Lupulesku vs Harac 0-2
Klee vs Jeger


Weil vs Berlin 1-6 (no stream here either, I'm very disappointed)

Hursey/Sozoniuk vs Kaneyoshi/Griesel 1-3
Ortega/Riliskyte vs Surjan/Neumann 1-3
Hursey vs Surjan 3-2
Ortega vs Kaneyoshi 0-3
Lachenmayer vs Neumann 0-3
Riliskyte vs Griesel 1-3
Hursey vs Kaneyoshi 2-3
Ortega vs Surjan 1-3
Lachenmayer vs Griesel
Riliskyte vs Neumann

 

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Today's matches have both concluded. I added the final results. Even though both home clubs usually stream they did not today which is very disappointing. The next match is tomorrow at 2PM German time and won't be streamed either. Dachau is up against Berlin.