Titles, victories, spectators: The numbers for the TTBL season 2022/23
A spectacular season in the German Table Tennis League (TTBL) has come to an end with the Liebherr TTBL final and Borussia Düsseldorf's championship. We look back and present remarkable figures from the round.
3 - In a brilliant Liebherr TTBL final, Borussia Düsseldorf secured the German championship for the third time in a row about a week and a half ago. With 3:1 the record champion prevailed at the home match in Düsseldorf against the 1. FC Saarbrücken TT and thus bagged the 33rd title in the Table Tennis Bundesliga (TTBL). For superstar Timo Boll, it was the 13th championship with Borussia.
5 - Although the title did not come in the end, in terms of continuity, no one can hold a candle to 1. FC Saarbrücken TT. For the FCS it was the fifth participation in the Liebherr TTBL final in a row. In the previous two years, the Saarbrücken team had also lost to the record champion in each case (2:3, 1:3); in 2020, the first German championship in the club's history was achieved against TTF Liebherr Ochsenhausen (3:1); in 2019, there had been a 0:3 against Ochsenhausen.
8 - No club used more players than 1. FC Saarbrücken TT. Eight different players were used in singles by the old and new runner-up, more than by any other club: Patrick Franziska, Darko Jorgic, Cedric Nuytinck, Takuya Jin, Tomas Polansky, Manav Vikash Thakkar, Abdullah Yigenler and Olav Kosolosky. TTF Liebherr Ochsenhausen, TTC Neu-Ulm and TTC Zugbrücke Grenzau each fielded seven players in the singles. TTC Schwalbe Bergneustadt had the fewest players, namely four.
9 - ASV Grünwettersbach landed nine home wins, making it one of the strongest teams in the league at home. Only Borussia Düsseldorf, 1. FC Saarbrücken TT and Post SV Mühlhausen celebrated the same number of successes, each making it into the play-offs. ASV's major shortcoming was its weakness away from home: the Grünwettersbacher only managed two wins away from home, making them the worst away team alongside 1. FSV Mainz 05. In the overall standings, the team from Baden finished fifth with a balanced points tally of 22:22.
9 - If SV Werder Bremen or TSV Bad Königshofen were involved, the matches were particularly competitive. Both teams went to doubles nine times each and thus more often than any other club. However, they had completely different results: Bremen won only two doubles, Bad Königshofen seven. And, of course, the matches between the two teams went the full distance, with the away team winning in each case. ASV Grünwettersbach (4:4) and Post SV Mühlhausen (5:3) each went to doubles eight times, and TTC Zugbrücke Grenzau (4:3) seven times.
11 - No team landed more 3:0 wins than Borussia Düsseldorf. The TTBL record champion won its matches nine times in quick succession in the main round, and six times in a row at the start of the season. In the play-offs, there were two 3:0 wins against Post SV Mühlhausen and thus a total of eleven straight victories in this TTBL season. The Düsseldorfers also conceded 0:3 defeats, but only two: in Mühlhausen and Grünwettersbach. The TTF Liebherr Ochsenhausen won seven times with 3:0, the 1. FC Saarbrücken TT five times.
28 - No player celebrated more singles victories than Mattias Falck. The Swedish doubles world champion won 28 of his 36 singles matches and was thus an important factor in the success of SV Werder Bremen. In the previous year, Falck had a 23:14 record, in 2020/21 a 25:9 record. Anton Källberg of Borussia Düsseldorf (22:4) had 22 singles victories, Benedikt Duda of TTC Schwalbe Bergneustadt (21:11) 21, and Yuto Muramatsu of 1. FSV Mainz 05 (20:5) 20.
729 - On average, Borussia Düsseldorf welcomed 729 fans to its home matches, making it not only the sporting champion, but also in terms of spectator attendance. In total, the record champion had 8750 fans at its home games during the season. TSV Bad Königshofen is in second place in the spectator table with an average of 563 spectators, ahead of TTC RhönSprudel Fulda-Maberzell (486) and Post SV Mühlhausen (338).