Titles, sets, points: The German Table Tennis League starts the season 2023/24

Titles, sets, points: The German Table Tennis League starts the season 2023/24

On August 25, 2023, the Table Tennis Bundesliga (TTBL) will kick off the season with the opening match SV Werder Bremen against 1. FSV Mainz 05. Fans can look forward to exciting matches, predictable match days and fixed starting times in the 2023/24 season. Media partner Dyn will broadcast all matches live and promote young talent with the Move your Sport bonus.

Who will be German champion? Who will be cup winner? Who will fight for play-off participation and who against relegation? The Table Tennis Bundesliga (TTBL) will kick off an exciting and spectacular 2023/24 season on August 25, 2023, with eleven teams battling for points over 22 match days. The title race will be opened by the pairing of SV Werder Bremen against 1. FSV Mainz 05 on Friday, August 25, 2023 at 7 pm. The reigning German champion Borussia Düsseldorf will take part in the sporting action on Sunday, August 27, 2023 and will have a top match ahead of them, as Borussia and its top star Timo Boll will receive last year's third-place team TTF Liebherr Ochsenhausen at home with their top-class newcomer Hugo Calderano.

Regular match days and fixed starting times

All table tennis fans can look forward to an exciting and highly interesting season, which also has one or the other innovation in the bag. For the 2023/24 season, the German Table Tennis League (TTBL) will be using the so-called regular match days of Friday, Saturday, Sunday and Monday for each match day and, in agreement with its media partner Dyn, has defined fixed start times for the matches. On the match days Friday, Saturday and Monday, the matches will each start at 7 p.m. and on Sunday table tennis fans can look forward to a pairing at 1 p.m. and one at 4 p.m. Thus, fans will have the opportunity to watch all matches live and thus not miss a single point.

Media partner Dyn with extensive coverage

With the start of the 2023/24 season, the Table Tennis Bundesliga (TTBL) also has a new media home, as all Bundesliga and Cup matches will be broadcast live and exclusively on Dyn. In the process, the Monday match is to be shown live free of charge and free-to-air on the Dyn YouTube channel. In addition to the live broadcast of all matches, Dyn offers concentrated table tennis presence with its extensive coverage around the TTBL matches in the form of numerous highlight formats as well as the background format "Plattenupdate" with expert Dennis Heinemann, both on match days and on non-match days.

Dyn Sport is now available via web browsers, mobile devices, tablets, streaming sticks and numerous smart TVs. Currently, numerous technical reception options already exist and more will be added. The Dyn annual subscription costs 12.50 euros per month and the monthly cancelable subscription is 14.50 euros.

Move your Sport bonus - 10 percent of every Dyn subscription for promoting young talent

Every Dyn subscription promotes young sports talent. The so-called Move your Sport premium stipulates that 10 percent of the net revenue generated by the sale of subscriptions must be used to support young talent. According to Dyn Media, "Each Dyn partner league has committed to investing the proceeds from the Move your Sport premium provided by Dyn in the implementation of individual youth development concepts."

In table tennis, cooperation with schools is to be strengthened at regional level, particularly at the national league locations, in order to bring children and young people into contact with the sport at an early stage, to get them interested in table tennis and to promote talent in a targeted and sustainable manner. With the Move your Sport bonus, all Dyn subscribers who have indicated table tennis as their preferred sport in their account are thus making an active contribution to the promotion of young table tennis players in Germany.