Super Handball League expands – 14 teams and quarterfinals

Super Handball League, the competition between the best teams in Belgium and Netherlands adapts a new structure for 2025/26. A total of 14 teams plays the regular season and the top eight face quarter final action before the Final four weekend.

Handbalinside provides concise facts about the new format. The inclusion of two more teams in the top flight means four more rounds (26 instead of 22) in the league stage.

Further more, the quarter final round is inserted to extend the play-off drama. Super Handball League got going last season, as a successor to the previous existing Bene-League. Achilles Bocholt was crowned champion after defeating HC Vise in the final.

The 2025/26 season runs between September and 9/10 May 2026.

Source: SHL INTRODUCEERT KWARTFINALES