Women's ice hockey Bundesliga

This article deals with the Austrian women's ice hockey Bundesliga, for the German competition see Women's Ice Hockey Bundesliga .

Women's ice hockey Bundesliga

Full name	Women's ice hockey Bundesliga
Current season	2017/18
sport	ice Hockey
abbreviation	DEBL
Association	Austrian Ice Hockey Association
League foundation	1998/99
Teams	8th
Country countries	Austria 5 teams Hungary 2 teams Croatia 1 team
Website	erstebankliga.at
↑ EWHL ↓ DEBL 2

The women's ice hockey Bundesliga (DEBL for short) is the top division in women's ice hockey in Austria and has been held since the 1998/99 season (at that time with 4 teams). Since the elite Women's Hockey League, founded in 2004, was interlinked in the 2009/10 season, it has de facto represented the second level of performance below the internationally held EHWL . However, the national championship is not played out in the EWHL, but decided in a separate tournament in which the best placed Austrian teams of the EWHL and - changing from season to season - some representatives of DEBL take part.

Unlike in Germany until 2006, DEBL has been played on a single track since it was founded. Every year between four and eight teams took part in the league, whereby in the 2008/09 season, similar to the Erste Bank Ice Hockey League, a foreign team appeared in the field for the first time in the men's field with HK Triglav .

New mode since 2009/10

Until the 2008/2009 season, the DEBL was its own self-contained championship, but due to the lack of importance of the title played, it was not of great importance. This changed with the 2009/10 season . With nine teams, more teams take part in the league than ever before. After the end of the basic round in DEBL and EWHL (six teams, two of them from Austria), the two EWHL participants and the four best-placed Austrian DEBL teams play the seeding for the playoffs in a placement round in two groups. The Austrian champion is then determined in these. This is intended on the one hand to upgrade DEBL and on the other hand to create a stronger bond between the two women's leagues.

Medal table

year
1998/99	Gipsy Girls Villach	Vienna Flyers	DEHC Red Angels Innsbruck
1999/2000	Gipsy Girls Villach	EHV Sabers Vienna	not played out
2000/01	Vienna Flyers	EHV Sabers Vienna	not played out
2001/02	EHV Sabers Vienna	Vienna Flyers	not played out
2002/03	EHV Sabers Vienna	EC The Ravens Salzburg	DEC Dragons Klagenfurt
2003/04	EHV Sabers Vienna	EC The Ravens Salzburg	DEC Dragons Klagenfurt
2004/05	EHV Sabers Vienna	EC The Ravens Salzburg	DEC Dragons Klagenfurt
2005/06	DEHC Red Angels Innsbruck	Gipsy Girls Villach	1. DEC Devils Graz
2006/07	Gipsy Girls Villach	DEHC Red Angels Innsbruck	1. DEC Devils Graz
2007/08	DEC Dragons Klagenfurt	SPG Kitzbühel / Salzburg	Gipsy Girls Villach
2008/09	EC The Ravens Salzburg	SG Sabers / Flyers United	DEC Dragons Klagenfurt
2009/10	SPG Kitzbühel / Salzburg	HK Celje	HK Triglav Kranj
2010/11	Neuberg Highlanders	HK Triglav Kranj	EHV Sabers Vienna II
2011/12	Neuberg Highlanders	EHV Sabers Vienna II	HDK Maribor
2012/13	Neuberg Highlanders	HDK Maribor	KHL Grič Zagreb
2013/14	KHL Grič Zagreb	Gipsy Girls Villach	HK Triglav Kranj
2014/15	EHV Sabers Vienna II	KHL Grič Zagreb	HDK Maribor
2015/16	nv	nv	nv
2016/17	Season in preparation	Season in preparation	Season in preparation

See also

• Austrian champion (ice hockey)
• Elite Women's Hockey League

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ( Page no longer available , search in web archives: Yearbook of the ÖEHV, 2009/10 ) (PDF file, 3.6 MB), p. 146

Web links

• Women's ice hockey section on the homepage of the Austrian Ice Hockey Association (including statistics)
• DEBL section on www.eishockey.org