Bulldogs de Liège
Lounger Bulldogs Ice Hockey Club | |
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Greatest successes | |
Belgian champion 2014 |
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Club information | |
history | Bulldogs de Liège (since 1997) |
Location | Liege , Belgium |
Club colors | navy blue, white, red |
league | BeNe League |
Venue | Patinoire de Coronmeuse |
executive Director | Olivier De Vriendt |
Season 2017/18 | 3rd place main round, playoff semi-finals |
The Bulldogs de Liège are a Belgian ice hockey club from Liège . The club, founded in 1997, has been participating in the BeNe League since 2015 and was both Belgian national champion and cup winner in 2014 for the first time .
history
The Bulldogs de Liège were founded in 1997 and have been playing in the Eredivisie , the top Belgian division, since 2007 . Previously, an ice hockey club from the city had already been successful with the Cercle des Patineurs Liègois and was Belgian champion ten times . In 2014, the team won the Belgian championship title for the first time . Although she could only finish the main round in second behind the White Caps Turnhout . In the playoff final, which the team from Liège had achieved with 2-1 wins against the Antwerp Phantoms , they managed a clear 3-0 march through. The Bulldogs were the first Belgian champion from Wallonia in forty years since the Cercle des Patineurs Liègois won its last title in 1974. In the same year, the Liège were able to secure the Belgian Cup for the first time with a 4-3 final victory over the White Caps Turnhout . The team has been playing in the newly founded Belgian-Dutch BeNe League since 2015 . In 2018 the second victory in the Belgian cup competition was achieved.
Web links
- Official website (French)
- Bulldogs de Liège at hockeyarenas.net