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International Media Rights: HBL GmbH Expands Strategic Focus to India for the 2025/26 Season
The Handball-Bundesliga GmbH and OTT platform SSEN today announced a strategic partnership that will see top matches from the DAIKIN Handball-Bundesliga broadcast live in India with English commentary starting in the 2025/26 season. In addition to live coverage, the deal includes match summaries and highlight packages. SSEN has also secured comprehensive social media rights. The agreement between Handball-Bundesliga GmbH and SSEN will run for four years, through the end of the 2028/29 season.
START7 in the final stretch of the season: These players are scoring big now
Only six matchdays remain – and the teams in the DAIKIN Handball-Bundesliga are battling for the best possible position heading into the season finale. It’s also crunch time in the START7 Handball Fantasy Manager. Anyone looking to make a final push in their league now needs real point-scorers. Find out here which players currently have the potential to deliver!
13 is not an unlucky number: THW Kiel win the cup in Cologne for the first time thanks to Andreas Wolff
 An incredible goalkeeper duel in the final of the Lidl Final4 electrifies the 19,750 fans in the LANXESS arena: In the end, the record cup winners celebrate their 13th title after a 28:23 victory over MT Melsungen, who lose a final for the second time in a row. In focus: the Wolff madness.
START7: The promise of points in the second half of the season
The 2025 World Handball Championship is over, the Danish national team, featuring a host of players from the DAIKIN HBL, has been crowned world champions for the fourth time in a row. But now the focus is on the future: the ‘strongest league in the world’ resumes play this weekend! This also means that the points race in the Handball Fantasy Manager game START7 continues. These are the best options on the transfer market for the start of the second half of the season!
Magdeburg celebrate their third cup victory after 1996 and 2016
“SCM rules here”: For the third time after 1996 and 2016, SC Magdeburg are German Cup winners. After losing three finals in 2019, 2022 and 2023, Bennet Wiegert's team won the final in Cologne at the REWE Final4 on Sunday 30:19 (13:11) against MT Melsungen, who still have to wait for their first cup win. It was the second clearest result of a German Cup final after THW Kiel's 30:15 against TV Niederwürzbach in 1998.