Bundesliga: The Bundesliga 2015 is coming!

The clubs have long since started planning for the third Bundesliga season and can hardly wait until they are allowed to start again in 2015 after the continuing highs of the still young Bundesliga. The Deutsche Segel-Bundesliga GmbH has now published the dates for the regatta weekends of the 1st and 2nd Bundesliga next year. What is new is that the two leagues will hold their races in parallel in the same area in future. This will allow the 2nd Bundesliga to sail into the limelight with its big sister.

"The league is no longer a playground," says league manager Jocky Hellmich, "it is taken very seriously and its size and magnificence has triggered a new cross-generational movement in Germany's sailing clubs." 36 Bundesliga clubs and around 150 sailors will once again be in the hunt for the championship trophy in the third season since the league was founded. The hunted are the "Bavarians of sailing", the two-time German club champions from the Norddeutscher Regatta Verein in Hamburg.

The league committee, chaired by Eckart Diesch from the Württemberg Yacht Club, finalised and approved the dates after consultation with the active participants. The wishes for more regattas and a more balanced distribution of league weekends throughout the season were taken into account. In some cases, several clubs will join forces to organise the events so that the large fields on the water and on land can be ideally managed. The organisers of the Deutsche Segel-Bundesliga GmbH have now taken over the preparation and planning.

The provisional dates for the 2015 Bundesliga season:

1st and 2nd Bundesliga (parallel):

1 - 3 May: Tutzing, Lake Starnberg

4-6 July: Warnemünde, Baltic Sea (as part of the Warnemünde Week)

18-20 July: Travemünde, Baltic Sea (as part of the Travemünde Week)

21-23 August: Berlin, Wannsee

25-27 September: Überlingen, Lake Constance

Only 1st Bundesliga:

5-7 June: Kiel, inner fjord

29-31 October: Hamburg, Outer Alster (final)

Qualification for the 2nd Bundesliga:

9-11 October: Glücksburg, Flensburg Fjord

Relegation 1st Bundesliga:

1 November: Hamburg, Außenalster (directly after the final)

To remember, browse and enjoy:

In the current issue of YACHT 25/26 you can read all about the 2014 Bundesliga final, the season's promoted and relegated teams and an outlook for 2015. This makes waiting for the restart on 1 May more fun!