Paintball Magazine Paintball.Media Magazine August 2019 | Page 114

The DPL is one of the biggest paintball
leagues in the world with roughly 450 teams
per season, eight different leagues, eleven
locations and up to fifteen DPL training
locations. Founded in 2003 as a successor of
the open leagues, the DPL has grown year
by year. In 2005 the GPPL und the DPL joined
forces and started the first “Bundesliga,”
which is the highest level German league. A
year later they also established the second
“Bundesliga” and the “Regionalliga”
leagues. In 2008 the German Offspring
league and the amateur league started a
cooperation with the DPL and formed the
biggest national paintball league in Europe.
beginner’s leage in the three-man format.
This newly constructed system allowed
teams to participate at the lower levels
and rise from one league to the next as
they progressed on the playing fields. The
current lowest level league is the Bezirksliga,
which is a local beginner’s league. The DPL
is offering a special promotion program to
support small beginner teams, including
rental player teams.
Next and up one level is the Landesliga, the
first league where teams are playing with five
players.
Every Team up to the third Bundesliga has
maximum squad size of 12 players. The first
With its new identity the DPL began creating and second Bundesliga have a squad size of
lower leve leages and also introduced a 10. In total the DPL offers eight different
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