Ice Hockey European Cup
The European Cup was the highest competition in European ice hockey from 1965 to 1996 . As a rule, the defending champions and the national champions of the European member associations of the International Ice Hockey Federation IIHF were eligible to participate .
The record champions were HK CSKA Moscow , which won the title 20 times, from 1977/78 to 1989/90 13 times in a row. Alexei Kassatonow , Vyacheslav Fetissow and Wladislaw Tretjak are the individual record winners of the European Cup with 13 successes each, all in the service of HK CSKA Moscow. Kassatonow was the only player in history to win his 13 titles in a row. Vladimir Krutov and Sergei Makarov had won twelve European Cups with the central army sports club before they were active in the National Hockey League .
In the 1995/96 season, the European Hockey League was played parallel to the European Cup , which finally replaced the European Cup 1996/97. Subsequent competitions were the IIHF European Champions Cup from 2005 to 2008 and the Champions Hockey League in the 2008/09 season and from 2014 onwards. In 1996 the IIHF Continental Cup was introduced for the national champions of the weaker IIHF associations .
mode
Between 1965 and 1983 the European Cup was played in a knockout system with home and away legs. From 1984 there were preliminary and final rounds in tournament form.
history
The idea for this competition came from the then co-president of the German Ice Hockey Federation Günther Sabetzki . After he called for the European Cup to be introduced for the first time on December 29, 1964, the decision to hold the competition was made at the IIHF Congress in Tampere ( Finland ) in 1965 .
On October 23, 1965 the competition started with 14 national champions. The Czechoslovak team TJ ZKL Brno won the first three events . However, a representative of the strong Soviet Union was missing in the first three seasons. In 1966/67, CSKA Moscow was supposed to take part, but withdrew at short notice. It was not until 1968 that the Soviet master took part in the competition. In the following 22 years, Soviet teams won the competition 21 times.
Title holder and placements
In the events from 1965/66 to 1976/77 no 3rd place was awarded.
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Participants by country
In brackets: number of participations
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literature
- Stephan Müller: International Ice Hockey Encyclopaedia: 1904 - 2005 . Books on Demand, Norderstedt, Germany 2005, ISBN 978-3-8334-4189-9 , pp. 398-435 .
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