2019–20 Damehåndboldligaen

The 2019–20 Damehåndboldligaen (known as HTH Ligaen for sponsorship reasons) was the 84th season of Damehåndboldligaen, Denmark's premier handball league. Team Esbjerg were the defending champions and HH Elite were promoted from the 1. division.

Damehåndboldligaen

Season	2019–20
Champion	Team Esbjerg
Relegated	EH Aalborg
Champions League	Team Esbjerg
EHF European League	Odense Håndbold Viborg HK Herning-Ikast Håndbold
Matches played	147
Goals scored	7,508 (51.07 per match)
Top goalscorer	Mia Rej (170 goals)
Biggest home win	15 goals: OHC 37–22 TTH (25 Oct)
Biggest away win	15 goals: HHE 22–37 OHC (16 Oct) VHK 24–39 ESB (16 Oct)
Highest scoring	67 goals: ESB 37–30 KBH (2 Oct)
← 2018–19 2020–21 → All statistics correct as of 23 February 2020.

The season was disrupted due to the covid-19 pandemic. On March 11th 2020, the Danish Handball Federation decided to cancel all matches at all levels the following 14 days.^[1] On April 7th it was decided that the season would be declared over without playing the championship play-off or the remaining matches in the regular season and declare the leading team the champion.^[2]

Team Esbjerg won the title, as they were leading the table at the time. EH Aalborg were relegated, as they were last in table at the time of cancellation.^[2]

Team information

København

NFH

TTH

Odense

Esbjerg

Horsens

Aarhus

Silkeborg

Skanderborg

Aalborg

Ikast

Randers

Viborg

Ajax

Locations of the 2019–20 Damehåndboldligaen

Team.	Town	Arena	Capacity
Aarhus United	Aarhus	Ceres Arena Stadionhal	1.200
Ajax København	København	Bavnehøj-Hallen	1.000
EH Aalborg	Aalborg	Nørresundby Idrætscenter	800
Herning-Ikast Håndbold	Ikast	IBF Arena	2.850
HH Elite	Horsens	Forum Horsens	4.000
København Håndbold	København	Frederiksberghallen	1.468
Nykøbing Falster Håndboldklub	Nykøbing Falster Næstved	LÅNLET Arena Næstved Arena	1.300 2,500
Odense Håndbold	Odense	Odense Idrætshal	2.256
Randers HK	Randers	Arena Randers	3.000
Silkeborg-Voel KFUM	Silkeborg	Jysk Arena	3.000
Skanderborg Håndbold	Skanderborg	Skanderborg Fælled	1.700
Team Esbjerg	Esbjerg	Blue Water Dokken	2.549
Team Tvis Holstebro	Holstebro	Gråkjær Arena	3.250
Viborg HK	Viborg	Vibocold Arena Viborg	3.000

Head coaches

Team	Head coach
København Håndbold	Claus Mogensen
Silkeborg-Voel KFUM	Jakob Andreasen
Odense Håndbold	Karen Brødsgaard
Team Esbjerg	Jesper Jensen
EH Aalborg	Morten Holmen
TTH Holstebro	Pether Krautmeyer
Nykøbing Falster HK	Jakob Larsen
Ajax København	Dennis Bo Jensen
Viborg HK	Jakob Vestergaard
Aarhus United	Heine Eriksen
Herning-Ikast Håndbold	Mathias Madsen
Randers HK	Niels Agesen
Skanderborg Håndbold	Jeppe Vestergaard
HH Elite	Lars Frederiksen

Regular season

Standings

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification or relegation
1	Team Esbjerg	23	19	2	2	666	533	+133	40	Champion + advance to Champions League
2	Odense Håndbold	23	18	0	5	672	545	+127	36	Qualification for EHF Cup
3	Viborg HK	23	17	1	5	633	531	+102	35
4	København Håndbold	24	17	1	6	695	627	+68	35
5	Silkeborg-Voel KFUM	24	14	2	8	652	619	+33	30
6	Herning-Ikast Håndbold	23	14	2	7	621	546	+75	30	Qualification for EHF Cup (via. the Danish Cup)
7	Aarhus United	23	12	2	9	564	555	+9	26
8	Randers HK	23	10	3	10	587	589	−2	23
9	Nykøbing Falster Håndbold	23	10	2	11	581	585	−4	22
10	Ajax København	23	6	1	16	517	604	−87	13
11	TTH Holstebro	23	5	2	16	528	637	−109	12
12	HH Elite	23	4	0	19	521	647	−126	8
13	Skanderborg Håndbold	23	3	1	19	504	599	−95	7
14	EH Aalborg	23	3	1	19	549	673	−124	7	Relegated

Source:
Rules for classification: 1.) Points in head-to-head matches amongst tied teams; 2.) Goal difference in head-to-head matches amongst tied teams; 3.) Goals scored in head-to-head matches among tied teams; 4.) Points in all matches; 5.) Goal difference in all matches.^[3]

Results

In the table below the home teams are listed on the left and the away teams along the top.^[4] Last updated on 10 March 2020.

Home \ Away	AAR	AJA	EHA	HIH	HHE	KBH	NFH	OHC	RHK	SIL	SKA	ESB	TTH	VHK
Aarhus United		28–15	29–25	26–23	24–23	22–30	x	17–26	16–17	27–29	22–17	23–23	28–23	25–23
Ajax København	23–25		21–24	21–21	x	26–28	18–29	21–33	27–30	28–25	28–23	18–26	26–24	x
EH Aalborg	23–28	28–23		29–35	22–17	24–32	28–31	x	x	27–33	25–29	20–29	22–27	17–36
Herning-Ikast Håndbold	23–19	30–16	33–27		26–21	22–28	26–19	26–30	x	29–28	26–16	x	35–20	24–26
HH Elite	26–34	18–24	30–24	23–32		19–28	21–31	22–37	26–27	27–33	25–21	26–24	x	25–29
København Håndbold	22–24	29–20	35–23	23–30	38–25		31–30	31–29	28–26	29–22	x	30–30	27–24	24–32
Nykøbing Falster Håndbold	25–24	22–18	x	24–22	32–20	28–26		22–30	29–29	25–26	26–26	19–31	x	21–26
Odense Håndbold	x	27–28	35–26	24–26	23–17	x	29–23		27–23	30–28	31–26	25–28	37–22	21–25
Randers HK	29–29	x	34–23	25–25	x	22–30	32–27	25–34		23–24	27–25	23–30	28–22	20–23
Silkeborg-Voel	29–25	26–24	29–28	35–26	20–22	26–28	28–23	20–30	29–25		22–17	26–30	26–26	x
Skanderborg Håndbold	23–27	25–19	x	16–27	22–21	27–28	20–25	19–30	21–23	28–31		x	20–22	13–26
Team Esbjerg	29–22	33–23	28–18	26–24	27–21	37–30	27–21	25–27	25–19	x	30–26		37–27	29–22
TTH Holstebro	x	27–26	24–24	24–30	30–25	26–30	24–28	22–26	17–23	15–30	26–23	19–23		18–35
Viborg HK	29–20	23–24	28–16	x	30–25	33–30	23–21	23–31	30–21	27–27	32–21	24–39	28–19

Source: ^{[citation needed]}
Legend: Blue = home team win; Yellow = draw; Red = away team win.

Top goalscorers

As of last matches played before the season got cancelled due to COVID-19^[5]

Regular season Rank Player Club Goals 1 Mia Rej København Håndbold 170 2 Melissa Petrén HH Elite 140 3 Kristina Jørgensen Viborg HK 123 4 Dione Housheer Nykøbing Falster HK 122 5 Linn Blohm København Håndbold 117 6 Sofia Deen Skanderborg Håndbold 113 7 Mai Kragballe Nielsen Randers HK 110 8 Celine Lundbye Kristiansen Aarhus United 108 9 Jane Schumacher Silkeborg-Voel KFUM 108 10 Helene Kindberg Silkeborg-Voel KFUM 103

Monthly awards

Month	Player of the Month
	Player	Club
September	Mia Rej	København Håndbold
October	Jeanett Kristiansen	Herning-Ikast Håndbold
January	Mia Rej	København Håndbold
February	Anna Kristensen	Viborg HK

All-star Team

The team of the year was announced on April 30th, after it had been decided to cut the league short.^[6]

Position	Name	Club
Goalkeeper	Anna Kristensen	Viborg HK
Right wing	Marit Røsberg Jacobsen	Team Esbjerg
Right back	Helene Kindberg	Silkeborg-Voel KFUM
Centre back	Mia Rej	København Håndbold
Left back	Kristina Jørgensen	Viborg HK
Left wing	June Bøttger	Aarhus United
Pivot	Linn Blohm	København Håndbold
MVP	Mia Rej[7]	København Håndbold