TSV Bad Saulgau: New challenges in the association league 2025/2026!
Team Esslingen is competing in the new Association League Season 3 of the 2025/2026 season, while TS Bad Saulgau is starting its preparation for the season.

TSV Bad Saulgau: New challenges in the association league 2025/2026!
TSV Bad Saulgau will compete in the Association League Season 3 of the Baden-Württemberg Handball Association (BWHV) in the coming 2025/2026 season. Loud Schwäbische.de The new season now includes 14 teams, two more than in the previous season 2. A total of 26 season games are planned, which may reduce the long breaks between games. The league is also being shaped by a large number of new teams.
In the previous season, six teams from Association League 2 remained, including TV Reichenbach and SV Unter/Oberhausen. In contrast, the two league newcomers Untersingen and Hegensberg-Liebersbronn have lost their place in this league and are now playing in the eastern season of the Oberliga Baden-Württemberg. HSG Schönbuch had to go into the lower leagues, while Schömberg and Mössingen operate in other seasons.
Innovations and challenges in the association league
Association League Season 3 is now enriched with seven new teams. Five of these teams are promoted from the national leagues. The championship team TV Gerhausen as well as Rot-Weiß Laupheim and Herbrechtingen-Bolheim come from State League 4. TSV Bartenbach and TSV Betzingen were promoted from State League 3. In addition, the Oberliga relegated TSV Deizisau and Hofen/Hüttlingen are part of the new league.
The coach of TSV Bad Saulgau, Henrik Utoft, emphasizes the importance of breaks for the players. The team started training on Monday, which is being continued intensively despite the holiday period. The focus of training is in the Kronriedhalle, although there are concerns about the hall closing during the summer holidays. Markus Weisser, a person responsible for the club, expresses the hope that the other departments of the TSV will be more accommodating regarding the training times.
Associational innovations and organizational framework conditions
For the 2025/2026 season, this is the first season with a unified association in Baden-Württemberg. The BWHV league system now includes a regional league, two upper leagues, four association leagues and eight state leagues. The Handball BW announces that the final classification and the assignment of the key numbers have been published at association level.
Planning for the coming season is already in full swing, with reports of changes to the key figures to be submitted by June 30, 2025. The games are scheduled for July 1, 2025 for men and women, and July 4, 2025 for youth. In addition, the system will remain open for free scheduling until July 20, 2025.
TSV Bad Saulgau will face the following teams in the new season:
| Teams in the Association League, Season 3 |
|---|
| TSV Bartenbach |
| TSV Betzingen |
| TSV Deizisau |
| TSV Denkendorf |
| Team Esslingen |
| TV Gerhausen |
| SG Herbrechtingen-Bolheim |
| SG Hofen/Hüttlingen |
| RW Laupheim |
| SG Ober-/Unterhausen |
| VfL Pfullingen II |
| TV Reichenbach |
| TSV Bad Saulgau |
| HSG Winzingen-Wißgoldingen-Donzdorf |
The coming season promises to be exciting, both for the teams and the spectators. TSV Bad Saulgau has the chance to assert itself in the new association league and tackle the challenges as part of the newly structured association.