Alfred Gislason and his “Zebras” put the home fans under pressure through 60 minutes of their first home match in Sparkassen Arena. TSV Hannover Burgdorf have been four goals ahead 23:19 only 15 minutes before the final buzzer, but German champions managed somehow to raise their performance and celebrate at the end only few days before the away derby match in Flensburg! It was 33:29 (13:14) at the end for the home team.
Rhein Neckar Lowen easily beat Eisenach 39:25 in front of 5.146 fans in SAP ARENA.
THW Kiel – Landin (1.-0., 48.-60., 5 saves), Katsigiannis (20.-48., 7 saves; Duvnjak (7), Ferreira (n.e.), Toft Hansen (1), Mamelund (n.e.), Sprenger (n.e.), Weinhold (1), Dissinger (4), Wiencek (2), Ekberg (8/1), Canellas (2/2), Dahmke (3), Vujin (5/1); Trainer: Gislason
TSV Hannover-Burgdorf – Ziemer (1.-60., 13/2 saves), Semisch (n.e.); Patrail (6), Hykkerud, Lehnhoff (5/1), Häfner (4), Szücs (1), Gudmundsson, Karason (1), Schmidt (1), Olsen (10), Pollex, Christophersen, Kastening (1); Trainer: Bürkle
TABELA:
| 1. | Rhein-Neckar | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 71:51 | 4 | |
| 2. | Flensburg-H. | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 61:44 | 4 | |
| 3. | MT Melsungen | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 55:41 | 4 | |
| 4. | Kiel | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 63:55 | 4 | |
| 5. | SC Magdeburg | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 57:53 | 4 | |
| 6. | Goppingen | 2 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 54:47 | 2 | |
| 7. | Hamburg | 2 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 64:59 | 2 | |
| 8. | Fuchse Berlín | 2 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 53:50 | 2 | |
| 9. | Gummersbach | 2 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 57:57 | 2 | |
| 10. | Hannover-Burgdorf | 2 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 55:56 | 2 | |
| 11. | HSG Wetzlar | 2 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 55:60 | 2 | |
| 12. | Leipzig | 2 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 52:59 | 2 | |
| 13. | Eisenach | 3 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 77:100 | 2 | |
| 14. | TVB Stuttgart | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 27:28 | 0 | |
| 15. | N-Lübbecke | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 58:60 | 0 | |
| 16. | Bergischer | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 47:57 | 0 | |
| 17. | HBW Balingen-Weilstetten | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 49:63 | 0 | |
| 18. | Lemgo | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 54:69 | 0 |
