For the HBL game day on February 9th and 10th and the round of eight in the cup on February 5th and 6th, games can therefore be canceled if six field players or two goalkeepers from a team are infected with the corona virus. After that, the previous rule should apply again, according to which a game can only be canceled if more than 50 percent of the players are not available.
“We have to live with the fact that we will also have infected players when we restart. That will be the new normal. We have to come to terms with the virus.”
— HBL Managing Director Frank Bohmann
Since numerous players who were or are still in action at the European Championship are only gradually returning to their clubs, there is an increased risk of infection and failure. The DHB team alone had 16 corona infections to complain about during the European Championships in Hungary and Slovakia. Among them Patrick Wiencek from THW Kiel.
Kiel on February 6th in the cup at the Rhein-Neckar Löwen
On February 6, the Schleswig-Holsteiners are the only northern club to be back in action in the DHB Cup quarter-finals when the Rhein-Neckar Löwen are about to make it into the Final Four. For the SG Flensburg-Handewitt, also with a number of European Championship participants in the squad, the first Bundesliga game is on February 10th – at the HSG Wetzlar. TSV Hannover-Burgdorf and HSV Hamburg meet on the same day.
“We plan from week to week in terms of the schedule, the economic aspects, the hygiene concepts, the spectators. It is currently not possible otherwise,” said Bohmann.
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