2012–13 LNH Division 1 explained

2012–13 Ligue Nationale de Handball Division 1 season is the 61st since its establishment. Montpellier were the defending champions, having won their title the previous season.

Teams

Club	Arena	Capacity
		2 000
		3 391
	Palais des Sports de la Valette	1 400
Chambéry	Le Phare	4 500
	Palais des Sports Robert Oubron	2 500
		2 500
		nalign=center	1 500
	Arena Montpellier	8 500
	Palais des Sports de Beaulieu	5 500
	Stade Pierre de Coubertin	4 016
		2 000
		2 200
		3 751
		1 200

Regular season

Standings

	Team	MP	W	D	L	F	A	Dff	Pts
1	Paris Saint-Germain	26	24	1	1	870	699	171	49
2		26	18	3	5	744	672	72	39
3		26	17	4	5	857	759	98	38
4		26	15	4	7	752	723	29	34
5		26	15	4	7	732	665	67	34
6		26	12	3	11	746	745	1	27
7		26	11	4	11	686	710	-24	26
8		26	9	3	14	740	774	-34	21
9		26	8	5	13	767	784	-17	21
10		26	9	3	14	657	700	-43	21
11		26	8	4	14	759	787	-28	20
12		26	8	2	16	714	717	-3	18
13		26	7	2	17	711	763	-52	16
14		26	0	0	26	608	845	-237	0

• source:handnews.fr

	Champions League
	EHF Cup
	Relegated

Results

In the table below the home teams are listed on the left and the away teams along the top.

Club	AIX	BIL	CES	CSH	CRE	DUN	IVRY	MON	NAN	PSG	SRV	SEL	TOU	TRE
Aix-en-Provence		37–29	36–23	30–36	27–27	23–31	32–24	27–27	28–28	27–31	27–29			38–34
Billère	21–30		26–27	28–34	24–26	24–32	24–29	24–50	20–29	18–26		24–38	28–32	24–32
Cesson-Rennes	26–27	35–22		23–31	25–18	27–28	20–20	28–37	27–25	27–32		28–24		28–25
Chambéry	32–30	27–22	29–30			31–27	24–23		30–30	24–28	28–26	35–35	34–24	28–28
Créteil		34–26	25–31	29–29		29–30	20–23	33–35	24–28	28–35	30–31	25–28	36–28	26–24
Dunkerque	27–26	37–22	28–24		27–22		38–22	28–29	28–25	30–36	31–28	24–23	26–26
Ivry	30–28		25–26	30–21	27–24	22–22		28–32		22–34	29–29	26–25	33–31	25–26
Montpellier	36–32	38–28	35–30	33–22	32–33	26–26	33–29			25–25	29–26	35–29	41–31	40–30
Nantes	34–17	29–17		29–32	29–32	26–28	27–22	29–33		26–24	24–24	33–23	31–26	23–22
Paris	39–33		34–23	36–29	30–28	30–25	27–22	38–24	31–29		33–28	42–27	43–29
Saint-Raphaël	30–32	31–25	28–30	30–28	32–26		27–24	28–26	24–31	29–35		38–26	32–31
Sélestat	36–30	32–23	23–23	25–30		25–27		30–30	24–29	29–45	29–32		28–35	28–26
Toulouse	34–34	28–27	29–26	25–29	34–31	32–37	31–22	34–29	23–26		26–22	31–32		27–27
Tremblay-en-France	33–28	29–20	26–18	20–23	22–25	28–25	20–22		24–25	26–27	36–23	28–29	28–25

Statistics

Top scorers

Rank	Name	Club	Goals
1	Valero Rivera	HBC Nantes	158
2	Matthieu Drouhin	Tremblay-en-France	157
3	Hugo Descat	US Créteil	139
4	Raphaël Caucheteux	Saint Raphaël	125
5	Jorge Maqueda	HBC Nantes	120
6	Jérôme Fernandez	Fenix Toulouse Handball	119
7	Nikola Karabatić	Aix-en-Provence	118
8	Edin Bašić	Chambéry Savoie Handball	115
9	Paweł Podsiadło	Sélestat Alsace Handball	112
	Quentin Minel	US Créteil

Top goalkeepers

Rank	Name	Club	Saves/Shoots	Percentage
1	Vincent Gérard	US Dunkerque	282 / 757	37.25%
2	Mickaël Robin	Montpellier Agglomération Handball	269 / 770	34.94%
3	Slaviša Đukanović	Saint Raphaël	257 / 688	37.35%
4	Robin Cappelle	Aix-en-Provence	253 / 797	31.74%
5	Cyril Dumoulin	Chambéry Savoie Handball	240 / 646	37.15%
6	José Manuel Sierra	PSG Handball	233 / 625	37.28%
7	Yann Genty	Cesson Rennes MHB	208 / 573	36.30%
8	László Fülöp	Sélestat Alsace Handball	196 / 586	33.45%
9	François-Xavier Chapon	US Ivry	179 / 554	32.31%
10	Arnaud Siffert	HBC Nantes	170 / 512	33.20%

External links

• LNH site