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Football league season
Handball Liga Austria
Season2016–17
ChampionsAlpla HC Hard
(6th title)
Top goalscorerAustria Tobias Schopf
(127 goals)
← 2015–16 2017–18 → All statistics correct as of 14 May 2017.

The 2016–17 Handball Liga Austria is the 56th season of the Handball Liga Austria, Austrian's top-tier handball league. A total of ten teams contest this season's league, which began on 2 September 2016 and is scheduled to conclude in June 2017.

HC Fivers Margareten are the defending champions, having beaten Bregenz Handball 2–0 in the previous season's playoff finals.

Format

The competition format for the 2016–17 season consists of two phases, both played in a home-and-away double round-robin system. The first five teams qualifies for a first play-off round, while the last five plays a play-down round. At the end of this second round, the five teams of the play-off round and the top three teams of the play-down round plays elimination rounds. The last two plays a relegation round.

Teams

Location of 2016–17 Handball Liga Austria teams in AustriaAlpla HC HardAlpla HC HardBregenzBregenzHandball TirolHandball TirolHC Fivers SG West WienHC Fivers
SG West WienHC BruckHC BruckHC Linz AGHC Linz AGUHK KremsUHK KremsSC FerlachSC FerlachUnion LeobenUnion Leobenclass=notpageimage| 2016–17 Handball Liga Austria teams

The following 10 clubs compete in the Handball Liga Austria during the 2016–17 season. HSG Bärnbach/Köflach was relegated from the previous season and SC Ferlach was promoted from 2015-16 Handball Bundesliga Austria.

Team City Arena
Alpla HC Hard Hard Sporthalle am See
Bregenz Handball Bregenz Handball-Arena Rieden Vorkloster
Sparkasse Schwaz Handball Tirol Schwaz Osthalle Schwaz
HC Fivers Wat Margareten Wien Sporthalle Margareten
HC Bruck Bruck an der Mur Hannes-Bammer-Sporthalle
HC Linz AG Linz Sport-Neue Mittelschule Linz Kleinmünchen
Moser Medical UHK Krems Krems an der Donau Sport • Halle • Krems
SC kelag Ferlach Ferlach Ballspielhalle Ferlach
SG Insignis Handball West Wien Wien BSFZ Südstadt
Union Juri Leoben Leoben Sporthalle Leoben-Donawitz

First phase

Standings

Pos Team Pld W D L GF GA GD Pts Qualification
1 Alpla HC Hard 18 13 1 4 549 465 +84 27 Top
Play-offs
2 HC Fivers Wat Margareten 18 12 0 6 530 479 +51 24
3 Bregenz Handball 18 11 0 7 513 472 +41 22
4 Moser Medical UHK Krems 18 10 2 6 523 494 +29 22
5 SG Insignis Handball West Wien 18 9 3 6 511 488 +23 21
6 Sparkasse Schwaz Handball Tirol 18 9 3 6 498 471 +27 21 Bottom
Play-offs
7 SC kelag Ferlach 18 8 1 9 510 557 −47 17
8 HC Linz AG 18 7 0 11 498 553 −55 14
9 Union Juri Leoben 18 3 1 14 477 530 −53 7
10 HC Bruck 18 2 1 15 422 522 −100 5
Source: Handball Liga Austria

Results

Home \ Away ALP BRE BRU FER FIV KRE LEO LIN TIR WES
Alpla HC Hard 29–25 27–19 38–20 37–30 31–31 29–23 40–27 27–26 30–26
Bregenz Handball 23–22 27–22 25–24 25–26 32–28 38–22 32–23 34–27 25–23
HC Bruck 28–34 26–33 31–32 29–28 25–32 21–31 24–34 21–33 25–25
SC kelag Ferlach 30–37 33–29 26–22 27–30 30–28 28–27 39–36 29–35 29–32
HC Fivers Wat Margareten 30–22 27–25 27–18 42–21 28–26 33–27 35–23 25–23 27–22
Moser Medical UHK Krems 25–26 31–30 30–20 32–33 30–24 29–28 32–29 29–26 35–30
Union Juri Leoben 22–37 27–31 25–32 28–33 28–29 23–24 31–36 29–29 29–23
HC Linz AG 22–33 17–23 21–19 32–27 36–35 27–30 33–30 30–29 24–30
Sparkasse Schwaz Handball Tirol 27–21 31–28 26–20 26–26 25–24 26–25 21–20 32–23 28–28
SG Insignis Handball West Wien 31–29 34–28 31–20 27–23 35–30 26–26 24–27 32–25 32–28
Source:
Legend: Blue = home team win; Yellow = draw; Red = away team win.

Second phase

The points obtained during the regular season were halved (and rounded up) before the start of the playoff.

Top play-offs

Pos Team Pld W D L GF GA GD Pts Qualification ALP FIV BRE KRE WES
1 Alpla HC Hard 8 7 1 0 254 218 +36 29 Play-offs 32–31 32–19 37–29 29–26
2 HC Fivers Wat Margareten 8 5 1 2 255 236 +19 23 34–34 30–26 29–26 37–26
3 Bregenz Handball 8 4 0 4 222 220 +2 19 24–27 37–31 28–26 35–23
4 Moser Medical UHK Krems 8 1 1 6 214 238 −24 14 27–34 27–29 24–27 26–25
5 SG Insignis Handball West Wien 8 1 1 6 212 245 −33 14 28–29 28–34 27–26 29–29
Source: Handball Liga Austria

Bottom play-offs

Pos Team Pld W D L GF GA GD Pts Relegation TIR LIN FER LEO BRU
1 Sparkasse Schwaz Handball Tirol 8 7 1 0 225 187 +38 26 Play-offs 26–26 29–24 26–25 29–19
2 HC Linz AG 8 3 2 3 214 218 −4 15 21–28 31–31 27–28 21–20
3 SC kelag Ferlach 8 2 1 5 221 236 −15 14 28–32 31–33 28–32 26–30
4 Union Juri Leoben 8 4 1 3 214 202 +12 13 Play-down 23–26 30–22 29–30 22–22
5 HC Bruck 8 1 1 6 177 208 −31 6 21–29 24–33 20–23 21–25
Source: Handball Liga Austria

Play-offs

Quarterfinals Semifinals Finals
               
1 Alpla HC Hard 30 36
8 SC kelag Ferlach 20 15
1 Alpla HC Hard 30 29 30
5 SG Insignis Handball West Wien 20 30 25
4 Moser Medical UHK Krems 35 31 22
5 SG Insignis Handball West Wien 27 32 26
1 Alpla HC Hard 27 32
2 HC Fivers Wat Margareten 26 30
2 HC Fivers Wat Margareten 30 28
7 HC Linz AG 29 25
2 HC Fivers Wat Margareten 35 25
6 Sparkasse Schwaz Handball Tirol 32 24
3 Bregenz Handball 24 23
6 Sparkasse Schwaz Handball Tirol 27 28

Relegation

19 May
19:00 		Union Juri Leoben 28–21 HC Bruck Sporthalle Leoben/Donawitz, Leoben
22 May
20:00 		HC Bruck 25–23 Union Juri Leoben Sporthalle Bruck/Mur, Bruck an der Mur
29 May
19:00 		Union Juri Leoben 30–31 HC Bruck Sporthalle Leoben/Donawitz, Leoben

HC Bruck won 2-1, Union Juri Leoben is relegated.

References

  1. "HLA Spielmodus 2016/17" (in German). Handball Liga Austria. Retrieved 7 September 2016.

External links

2016–17 in European handball (EHF)
EHF competitions
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League competitions
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