The top division of team wrestling in Germany

Germany

Germany , officially the Federal Republic of Germany , is a federal parliamentary republic in Europe. The country consists of 16 states while the capital and largest city is Berlin. Germany covers an area of 357,021 km2 and has a largely temperate seasonal climate...

, is the Bundesliga (German: Bundesliga-Ringen). Every year since 1964, championships have been held by Bundesliga-Ringen.

Each time a team competes, then a number of the matches will be contested by rules of Greco-Roman wrestling

Greco-Roman wrestling

Greco-Roman wrestling is a style of wrestling that is practised worldwide. It was contested at the first modern Olympic Games in 1896 and has been included in every edition of the summer Olympics held since 1908. Two wrestlers are scored for their performance in three two-minute periods, which can...

, and the rest of the matches will be fought by the rules of Freestyle wrestling

Freestyle wrestling

Freestyle wrestling is a style of amateur wrestling that is practised throughout the world. Along with Greco-Roman, it is one of the two styles of wrestling contested in the Olympic games. It is, along with track and field, one of the oldest organized sports in history...

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The Vorrunde consists of 20 teams (2010-11) competing for a slot in the play-offs, which consists of quarter-finals and semi-finals.

The finals are held around the month of February. The finals consist of one set of matches (in different weight classes) during an evening, and another set of matches on another evening.

Previous seasons

Champion, 2009/2010-season: KSV Aalen 05 (20:18 and 22:16 against SV Germania Weingarten)

The teams in 2010/2011:

• (Staffel West)

KSV Aalen 05

TKSV Bonn-Duisdorf

RKG Freiburg 2000

KSV AE Köllerbach

ASV Mainz 1888

RWG Mömbris/Königshofen

TSV Musberg

ASV Nendingen

KSK Konkordia Neuss

SV Germania Weingarten

• (Staffel Ost)

SV Luftfahrt Berlin

SV Wacker Burghausen

SV Wacker Burghausen

SV Wacker Burghausen is a German association football club based in Burghausen, Bavaria and is part of one of the nation's largest sports clubs with some 6,000 members participating in two dozen different sports.-History:...

RSV Frankfurt/Eisenhüttenstadt

SV Siegfried Hallbergmoos

ASV Hof

SV St. Johannis

AC Lichtenfels

1. Luckenwalder SC

AV Germania Markneukirchen

RV Thalheim