ATSE Graz ice hockey section

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ATSE Graz
Greatest successes
Club information
history Established in 1947, re-established in 2008
Location Graz , Styria , Austria
Nickname ATSE Graz
Club colors Red, white, blue
league Styrian elite league
Venue Ice rink Liebenau
Head coach Jonas Schuller
captain Matthias Florian

The ice hockey section of the ATSE Graz was founded in 1947. The ATSE is the only Styrian ice hockey team to date that has won the Austrian championship title (1975 and 1978). In 1978 the section withdrew from the Bundesliga to the National League, the title of which was won by the ATSE in 1981. Both 1981 and 1985 they waived a possible promotion to the Bundesliga.

In 1988/89 ATSE Graz was second behind KSV in the National League and decided to move up to the Bundesliga. In the same season, the UEC Graz made it to the national league. In April 1990 the two clubs merged to form EC Graz . It was decided that the ATSE suffix would temporarily still be used in the 1990/91 season, but would be omitted in the future. The EC Graz achieved three runner-up titles under President Hannes Kartnig and was dissolved in 1998 for financial reasons.

In March 2008, the section was re-established by renaming EHC Blau-Weiss Graz, which played in the Styrian Hobby League (NHL Graz), stopped playing in the National League in 2012, and joined the remaining Landesliga team in 2014 in the Styrian Elite League one that was won in 2016 and 2019.

The ATSE from 1947 to 1990

Emergence

The section was founded in 1947 as ATUS Eggenberg. The first official game took place on January 26th 1947 against SV Straßgang and was won 15: 4. On February 8th, the record defeat against Vienna Tram followed with a 0:36. From the 1948/49 season onwards, they played in the national league and a free space was created as a venue at the Karl Morre School, which opened in 1949. ATUS Eggenberg won the opening game on January 16, 1949 against Mürzzuschlag 4-2. The supervisor of the first teams and the head of the ice hockey section was Hans Dobida . Before the 1959/60 season the leagues were restructured, the ATUS played from then on in the B-League / East, the following year in the B-League / Southeast and in the following two years in the B-League / South.

ATSE

The renaming from ATUS to ATSE took place in 1960, in November 1970 the company expanded to ATSE-Long Life due to the new name sponsor . In 1963 the ATSE secured second place in the B-Liga Süd to participate in the promotion tournament and fixed promotion to the Bundesliga against Pradl / Innsbruck, in which you had to play in the "lower half" until 1966 and therefore not played for the championship title. In 1963 the ice rink Graz-Liebenau was built, which became the home of the ATSE from the 1964/65 season. After a 2nd place in the 1963/64 season, this group was clearly won in the following two seasons, from 1967 the ATSE played in the top division of the Bundesliga. In 1965 , Miro Kubera, a professional coach, was brought from the former ČSSR. A milestone was the commitment of the more than 150-time ČSSR national player František "Franta" Tikal , who acted as player -coach from 1968 to 1971 this function the Russian Anatoly "Tole" Kozlov. In the 1970/71 and 1972/73 seasons , the ATSE reached the runner-up title, behind the EC KAC . In the 1974/75 season , the ATSE was finally able to win its first championship title and thus interrupted the series of the KAC, which had won the title eleven times in a row since 1964. The winning team also included the later Styrian Governor Franz Voves . After two more KAC titles, the ATSE won its second championship title in the 1977/78 season.

Champion team 1975

Goal: Franz Schilcher , Michael Rudman
Defense: Michael Herzog, Helmut Jäger (captain), Karl Lang, Walter Primus, Othmar Russ
Forwards: Kurt Hilgarth, Anatolj Kozlov, Manfred Nitsch, Herbert Platzer, Werner Schilcher, Gerald Schuller, Erich Timischl, Franz Voves , Viktor Kungurtsev, Peter Wetzer, Max Moser, Kurt Hirländer
Trainer: Anatolj Kozlov (player trainer)
Head of section: Hans Dobida

Champion team 1978

Goal: Franz Schilcher , Michael Rudman
Defense: Othmar Russ, Michael Herzog
Forwards: Jim Boyd, Kurt Hilgarth, Emil Holper, Bill Klatt, Max Moser, Manfred Nitsch, Herbert Platzer, Werner Schilcher, Gerald Schuller, Erich Timischl
?: Klaus Dobida, Josef Ettinger, Franz Rojak, Karl Plesnicar, Peter Plesnicar
Trainer: Helmut Jäger

International

With the two championship titles, Graz played in the European Cup in the following season . When they first participated in 1975/76 , they failed in the second round at SC Bern . In the 1978/79 season you could defeat Ferencváros Budapest (Hungary) in the first round, HC Bozen (Italy) in the second round and SC Riessersee (Germany) in the third round . Skellefteå AIK should have faced Skellefteå AIK in the semi-final game for a place in the round of the last 4 teams - but for financial reasons the ATSE decided to withdraw from the competition.

Known players

  • František "Franta" Tikal , 152-time ČSSR team player and three times the world's best defender (from 1968 to 1971 player-coach at ATSE).
  • Anatolj "Tole" Kozlov (USSR), player-coach from 1972
  • Hans Dobida , player, trainer and section head at ATSE, later president of the Austrian Ice Hockey Association , since 1998 member of the executive committee and member of the executive committee of the IIHF .
  • Franz Voves , player from 1967 to 1977, 75 times national player, later section head and chairman of the ATSE, 2005 to 2015 governor of Styria.
  • Dieter Kalt sen. , ATSE player from 1967 to 1969, multiple Austrian champion with the KAC, 81 times national player, later referee and trainer, since 1996 President of the Austrian Ice Hockey Association .

Training team for Styrian ice hockey players (EC ATSE)

Some time after the ATSE had ceased operations, Joe Laimer founded a new club under the name EC ATSE Graz, which plays in the Styrian Elita League (a Styrian regional league). The club has no relation to the ice hockey section of the ATSE Graz.

The ATSE from 2008

The re-establishment of the ATSE in 2008

In 2008, a group led by two-time champions Werner "Buffy" Schilcher and Klaus Turin established the ice hockey section of ATSE Graz. This was achieved by renaming the EHC Blau-Weiss Graz and activating the disused ice hockey section. On March 4, 2008, the team competed in the traditional ATSE jerseys in a playoff game in the Grazer Hobbyliga (NHL). From the 2008/09 season , the ATSE played with teams in the Oberliga, the Styrian Eliteliga and the Styrian Regional League. Promotion to the national league was given as the goal for the league team. Special emphasis should also be placed on youth work and the promotion of local players. The ATSE temporarily cooperated with the national league club Kapfenberger SV and the Bundesliga club EC VSV .

Champion of the league and promotion to the national league

Even before the start of the first season of "ATSE new", the club's management set promotion to the national league as the goal. The league consisted of only four clubs in the 2008/09 season , the ATSE finished the basic season in second place behind the Tarco Wölfen from Klagenfurt. Before the semifinals, the ATSE strengthened themselves shortly before the end of the transfer deadline with the Slovenes Jaka Avgustinic and Dejan Kontrec from HDD Olimpija Ljubljana in order not to endanger the season's goal. In the play-offs, the ATSE was able to take the Weiz Bulls out of the competition with two wins, in the final against the Tarco Wölfe only the first game was lost, the ATSE won the series 3-1. The ATSE had already announced on its homepage that it would accept promotion to the national league. However, due to the problems with the field of participants in the second division (see Nationalliga 2009/10 ) and the withdrawal of the other Styrian teams, the club withdrew its nomination for the National League and remained in the Oberliga. It was not until the 2010/11 season that the ATSE entered the national league and made it to the semi-finals straight away.

In the 2011/12 season, the ATSE even made it into the playoff finals, after which the fighting team was stopped.

Elite league

The second team playing in the regional league ( ATSE Graz II ) started there as ATSE Graz in the 2012/13 season and entered the newly revitalized elite league in the 2014/15 season.

In the 2015/16 season, the ATSE won the playoff against EV Zeltweg the championship title in the Styrian elite league.

In 2018/19, ATSE also won the final against EV Zeltweg and secured the title in the Styrian elite league for the second time.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ APA report from April 10, 85, "ATSE Graz canceled participation in the Bundesliga"
  2. ↑ APA notification APA233 1989-03-05 / 20: 39 0018/0112/0902, "UEC Graz in the ice hockey national league"
  3. ↑ APA notification APA333 1990-04-26 / 15: 46 0024/0176/1408, "ATSE and UEC merged: Graz ice hockey future is called EC Graz"
  4. ↑ a b Kleine Zeitung , The ATSE unsubscribes , April 11, 2012
  5. ↑ a b c d Gert Renner: From the zero hour to the master , publisher: ATSE-Long life Graz
  6. ↑ a b Gerd Renner: 50 Years of Ice Hockey in Styria, 1956 - 2006 , ISBN 3950216111
  7. ↑ The ATSE Graz is back. In: hockeyfans.at. March 4, 2008, accessed March 22, 2017 .
  8. ↑ ATSE storms into the national league with championship title. In: hockey-news.at. Retrieved March 21, 2017 .
  9. ↑ gehv.at, ATSE in the National League Final , March 20, 2012
  10. ↑ HCH with big plans for 2012/13 ,stehv.at, accessed on November 19, 2016
  11. ↑ Like a phoenix from the ashes - the elite league is back! ,stehv.at, accessed on November 19, 2016
  12. ↑ ATSE Graz dethrones Zeltweg ,stehv.at, accessed on September 4, 2016