European ice hockey championship
The European ice hockey championship was a competition to determine the best European national ice hockey team . It was first played in 1910 by the world association IIHF and discontinued in 1991.
history
The first European ice hockey championships were held in Switzerland in 1910 by the world association LIHG (now IIHF), which had been founded two years earlier. It was the first official international tournament for national teams ever. As a result, the tournament was held annually. However, the tournament was subsequently canceled in 1912 because bronze winners Austria were officially accepted into the LIHG only six weeks after the European Championships.
In 1913, Munich was the venue for the fourth European ice hockey championship in Unsöld's ice rink . The tournament was played from January 25 to 27, 1913 with the participation of four teams: Belgium, which won the tournament, Bohemia, Austria, and Germany.
From 1915 to 1920 no EM was held due to the First World War .
For the first time in 1928, the European Championship was not held as a separate tournament, but the European Championship title was awarded to the best European country in the ice hockey world championship (the 1928 World Cup, in turn, was played as part of the Olympic Games ). After that, only two separate European Championship tournaments were played (1929 and 1932), otherwise the ranking of the European countries at the World Cup counted as European Championship ranking. There was one last European Championship final in 1939 , when Switzerland and Czechoslovakia finished the World Cup finals as the best Europeans with equal points. The European title was therefore played four weeks after the end of the World Cup, Switzerland won 2-0.
From 1966 to 1975 a separate European Championship table was created from the World Cup results of the European teams. The GDR owes this arrangement to winning its only European Championship medal in 1966 , but this was only finally clarified by the IIHF in 1999. From 1983 to 1991 a separate EM table was also created, but only the results of the European teams in the preliminary round were included. After a reform of the mode of the World Cup, the European Championship was set in 1991 after 65 tournaments.
The Euro Hockey Tour , which has been held since 1996, is sometimes referred to as the unofficial European ice hockey championship. However, only Russia , Sweden , the Czech Republic and Finland take part in this tour , for example the 2002 World Champion, Slovakia , is missing . In the recent past there have been several discussions about the reintroduction of an official European ice hockey championship, which should replace the Euro Hockey Tour and test tournaments such as the Deutschland Cup . These considerations resulted in the introduction of the Euro Hockey Challenge , which has been held since 2011 as a competition for the twelve strongest European nations.
Medal table
after 65 tournaments
| rank | country |
|
|
|
total |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 |
 Soviet Union
|
27 | 6th | 1 | 34 |
| 2 |
 Czechoslovakia
|
12 | 21st | 16 | 49 |
| 3 |
 Sweden
|
10 | 17th | 18th | 45 |
| 4th |
 Switzerland
|
4th | 6th | 8th | 18th |
| 5 |
 Great Britain
|
4th | 2 | 1 | 7th |
| 6th |
.svg){kind=small} / / / Germany 1.svg){kind=small} .svg){kind=small} 
|
2 | 4th | 7th | 13 |
| 7th |
 / Austria
|
2 | 3 | 4th | 9 |
| 8th |
 Bohemia
|
2 | 1 | - | 3 |
| 9 |
 Belgium
|
1 | 1 | 3 | 5 |
| 10 |
 France
|
1 | 1 | - | 2 |
| 11 |
 Poland
|
- | 2 | - | 2 |
| 12 |
 Finland
|
- | 1 | 4th | 4th |
| 13 |
 Norway
|
- | - | 2 | 2 |
| 14th |
 GDR
|
- | - | 1 | 1 |
Tournaments at a glance
World championships or Olympic Games at which European championship titles were awarded are highlighted in gray.
| year | competition | place | European champion | 2nd place | 3rd place |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1910 | EM | Montreux ( Switzerland ) |
 Great Britain
|
German Empire
|
Belgium
|
| 1911 | EM | Berlin ( Germany ) |
Bohemia
|
German Empire
|
Belgium
|
| 1912 2 | EM | Prague ( Austria-Hungary ) |
Bohemia
|
German Empire
|
Austria
|
| 1913 | EM | Munich (Germany) |
Belgium
|
Bohemia
|
German Empire
|
| 1914 | EM | Berlin (Germany) |
Bohemia
|
German Empire
|
Belgium
|
| 1921 | EM | Stockholm ( Sweden ) |
Sweden
|
Czechoslovakia
|
Only two participants |
| 1922 | EM | St. Moritz ( Switzerland ) |
Czechoslovakia
|
Sweden
|
Switzerland
|
| 1923 | EM | Antwerp (Belgium) |
Sweden
|
 France
|
Czechoslovakia
|
| 1924 | EM | Milan (Italy) |
France
|
Sweden
|
Switzerland
|
| 1925 | EM | Starý Smokovec / Štrbské Pleso ( Czechoslovakia ) |
Czechoslovakia
|
Austria
|
Switzerland
|
| 1926 | EM | Davos (Switzerland) |
Switzerland
|
Czechoslovakia
|
Austria
|
| 1927 | EM | Vienna (Austria) |
Austria
|
Belgium
|
German Empire
|
| 1928 | OS | St. Moritz (Switzerland) |
Sweden
|
Switzerland
|
Great Britain
|
| 1929 | EM | Budapest ( Hungary ) |
Czechoslovakia
|
Poland
|
Austria
|
| 1930 | WM | Chamonix ( France ), Berlin (Germany), Vienna (Austria) |
German Empire
|
Switzerland
|
Austria
|
| 1931 | WM | Krynica (Poland) |
Austria
|
Poland
|
Czechoslovakia
|
| 1932 | EM | Berlin, Germany) |
Sweden
|
Austria
|
Switzerland
|
| 1933 | WM | Prague (Czechoslovakia) |
Czechoslovakia
|
Austria
|
 German Empire Switzerland
|
| 1934 | WM | Milan (Italy) |
German Empire
|
Switzerland
|
Czechoslovakia
|
| 1935 | WM | Davos (Switzerland) |
Switzerland
|
Great Britain
|
Czechoslovakia
|
| 1936 | OS | Garmisch-Partenkirchen (Germany) |
Great Britain
|
Czechoslovakia
|
German Empire
|
| 1937 | WM | London (Great Britain) |
Great Britain
|
Switzerland
|
German Empire
|
| 1938 | WM | Prague (Czechoslovakia) |
Great Britain
|
Czechoslovakia
|
German Empire
|
| 1939 | WM | Basel / Zurich (Switzerland) |
Switzerland
|
Czechoslovakia
|
German Empire
|
| 1947 | WM | Prague (Czechoslovakia) |
Czechoslovakia
|
Sweden
|
Austria
|
| 1948 | OS | London (Great Britain) |
Czechoslovakia
|
Switzerland
|
Sweden
|
| 1949 | WM | Stockholm (Sweden) |
Czechoslovakia
|
Sweden
|
Switzerland
|
| 1950 | WM | London (Great Britain) |
Switzerland
|
Great Britain
|
Sweden
|
| 1951 | WM | Paris (France) |
Sweden
|
Switzerland
|
Norway
|
| 1952 | OS | Oslo ( Norway ) |
Sweden
|
Czechoslovakia
|
Switzerland
|
| 1953 | WM | Zurich / Basel (Switzerland) |
Sweden
|
 BR Germany
|
Switzerland
|
| 1954 | WM | Stockholm (Sweden) |
.svg){kind=small} USSR
|
Sweden
|
Czechoslovakia
|
| 1955 | WM | BR Germany |
.svg){kind=small} USSR
|
Czechoslovakia
|
Sweden
|
| 1956 | OS | Cortina d'Ampezzo ( Italy ) |
USSR
|
Sweden
|
Czechoslovakia
|
| 1957 | WM | Moscow ( Soviet Union ) |
Sweden
|
USSR
|
Czechoslovakia
|
| 1958 | WM | Oslo (Norway) |
USSR
|
Sweden
|
Czechoslovakia
|
| 1959 | WM | Czechoslovakia |
USSR
|
Czechoslovakia
|
Sweden
|
| 1960 | OS | Squaw Valley ( USA ) |
USSR
|
Czechoslovakia
|
Sweden
|
| 1961 | WM | Geneva / Lausanne (Switzerland) |
Czechoslovakia
|
USSR
|
Sweden
|
| 1962 | WM | Colorado Springs / Denver (USA) |
Sweden
|
Finland
|
Norway
|
| 1963 | WM | Stockholm (Sweden) |
USSR
|
Sweden
|
Czechoslovakia
|
| 1964 | OS | Innsbruck (Austria) |
USSR
|
Sweden
|
Czechoslovakia
|
| 1965 | WM | Tampere ( Finland ) |
USSR
|
Czechoslovakia
|
Sweden
|
| 1966 3 | WM | Ljubljana / Zagreb / Jesenice ( SFR Yugoslavia ) |
USSR
|
Czechoslovakia
|
GDR
|
| 1967 | WM | Vienna, Austria) |
USSR
|
Sweden
|
Czechoslovakia
|
| 1968 | OS | Grenoble (France) |
USSR
|
Czechoslovakia
|
Sweden
|
| 1969 | WM | Stockholm (Sweden) |
USSR
|
Sweden
|
Czechoslovakia
|
| 1970 | WM | Stockholm (Sweden) |
USSR
|
Sweden
|
Czechoslovakia
|
| 1971 | WM | Geneva / Bern (Switzerland) |
Czechoslovakia
|
USSR
|
Sweden
|
| 1972 | WM | Prague (Czechoslovakia) |
Czechoslovakia
|
USSR
|
Sweden
|
| 1973 | WM | Moscow (Soviet Union) |
USSR
|
Sweden
|
Czechoslovakia
|
| 1974 | WM | Helsinki (Finland) |
USSR
|
Czechoslovakia
|
Sweden
|
| 1975 | WM | Munich / Düsseldorf (Federal Republic of Germany) |
USSR
|
Czechoslovakia
|
Sweden
|
| 1976 | WM | Katowice (Poland) |
Czechoslovakia
|
USSR
|
Sweden
|
| 1977 | WM | Vienna, Austria) |
Czechoslovakia
|
Sweden
|
USSR
|
| 1978 | WM | Prague (Czechoslovakia) |
USSR
|
Czechoslovakia
|
Sweden
|
| 1979 | WM | Moscow (Soviet Union) |
USSR
|
Czechoslovakia
|
Sweden
|
| 1981 | WM | Gothenburg (Sweden) |
USSR
|
Sweden
|
Czechoslovakia
|
| 1982 | WM | Helsinki / Tampere (Finland) |
USSR
|
Czechoslovakia
|
Sweden
|
| 1983 | WM | BR Germany |
USSR
|
Czechoslovakia
|
Sweden
|
| 1985 | WM | Prague (Czechoslovakia) |
USSR
|
Czechoslovakia
|
Finland
|
| 1986 | WM | Moscow (Soviet Union) |
USSR
|
Sweden
|
Finland
|
| 1987 | WM | Vienna, Austria) |
USSR
|
Czechoslovakia
|
Finland
|
| 1989 | WM | Stockholm / Södertälje (Sweden) |
USSR
|
Czechoslovakia
|
Sweden
|
| 1990 | WM | Bern / Friborg (Switzerland) |
Sweden
|
USSR
|
Czechoslovakia
|
| 1991 | WM | Helsinki / Tampere / Turku (Finland) |
USSR
|
Sweden
|
Finland
|
See also
- Ice hockey at the Olympics
- Ice Hockey World Championship
- Euro Hockey Tour
- Euro Hockey Challenge
- Euro Ice Hockey Challenge
Individual evidence
- ↑ Stadtchronik 1960 , muenchen.de. Retrieved November 15, 2019.
- ↑ Merkur Online (news from November 13, 2007)