Deutscher Tischtennis-Bund (DTTB)
The table tennis federation in Germany · German Table Tennis Federation
The Deutscher Tischtennis-Bund (DTTB), founded 8 November 1925 in Berlin, is Germany's national governing body for table tennis, a member of the ITTF and the European Table Tennis Union, and describes itself as the country's twelfth-largest Olympic sport federation with about 555,000 active members in roughly 9,100 clubs. It is an umbrella body of 18 regional state associations (Landesverbände) across 8 regions, which in turn cover district and local structures down to individual clubs. The DTTB runs national team championships and rankings, German Championships across age and category groups, league and cup competitions, and selects the national teams for European and World Championships; competition eligibility (Spielberechtigung) is administered through the click-TT online system by the clubs themselves rather than issued centrally to individual players.
Getting a licence
A licence is needed to play official table tennis competitions in Germany.
Players must have a club-issued competition eligibility (Spielberechtigung/Passantrag), applied for and processed by an authorised club administrator through the DTTB's click-TT online system; since July 2024 a 'double Spielberechtigung' lets a player also hold eligibility for a foreign club during the season. There is no direct individual-licence purchase from the DTTB itself.
Competitions and rankings
From the federation’s own website and its international federation, checked in September 2026.
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