Germany Cup
The Deutschland Cup is an ice hockey tournament that takes place every November in Germany and is attended by national teams from different countries. The competition has been organized by the German Ice Hockey Federation since 1987 .
Since 2018, the Deutschland Cup has been held with four teams in the Royal Palace in Krefeld , the city in which the German Ice Hockey Federation was founded in 1963. The agreement is initially valid for three years.
history
The early years (1987–1997)
In 1987 the German Ice Hockey Federation launched the Deutschland Cup as an official national tournament. Stuttgart served as the venue for the first few years; with the exception of 1991 , where the competition was played in the Frankfurt ice rink , at least one game took place in the capital of Baden-Württemberg until 1996 . 1993 also acted Ulm , Bietigheim and Pforzheim or 1994 Pforzheim and Ulm as additional venues for the tournament. Over the years, the mode of the competition has also changed several times. Initially three teams, or four teams from the second year onwards, played the tournament winner in an everyone against everyone round, but in its heyday in the mid-1990s, the Deutschland Cup consisted of a preliminary round with two groups and a subsequent final round in which the overall placements were made were played out. In 1997 , the last Deutschland Cup for the time being was played in Munich and Füssen .
In addition to the host Germany , the most important national teams in the world, such as those of Czechoslovakia and later the Czech Republic and Slovakia , various selections from the USSR and Russia as well as Sweden , Finland and Canada started at the Germany Cup in the early years . In the course of the establishment of the new elite league DEL , a "DEL All-Star Team " also took part in the Germany Cup in 1994 .
The resuscitation (since 2000)
In the run-up to the upcoming men's ice hockey world championship in 2001 in Germany, the Deutschland Cup was finally revived after a two-year break in 2000 to serve as a test run for the upcoming major tournament. The TUI Arena in Hanover , built for Expo 2000 , established itself as the venue for the next few years , and newly built multifunctional arenas such as the Color Line Arena in Hamburg in 2004 or the SAP Arena in Mannheim in 2005 were given the opportunity to host international tournaments for the first time. In order to emphasize the close cooperation with the permanent participant Switzerland , the opening games of the 2004 event as well as the competition renamed TUI Nations Cup 2005 took place on Swiss soil, namely in the Bodensee-Arena in Kreuzlingen and in the Hallenstadion in Zurich . In 2006 , the organizers returned to the old name Deutschland Cup . In 2008 the tournament was held again in Mannheim and Frankfurt. From 2009 to 2011 the venue was the Olympiahalle in Munich . In 2012 and 2013, the Deutschland Cup was held due to renovation work in the Olympic ice sports center and returned to the Olympic hall after its completion in 2014. From 2015 to 2017 the Deutschland Cup took place for three years in the Curt-Frenzel-Stadion in Augsburg . The Deutschland Cup has been held in Krefeld on the Lower Rhine for three years since 2018 .
The regular participants at the beginning of the 21st century included the hosts Germany and Switzerland, especially Slovakia , Canada and the national team of the United States , the latter two, however, mainly with players from the European leagues and not the North American National Hockey League .
Participants and placements
The following list shows all previous participants of the Deutschland Cup and their respective placement:
| 1987 | 1988 | 1990 | 1991 | 1992 | 1993 | 1994 | 1995 | 1996 | 1997 | 2000 | 2001 | 2002 | 2003 | 2004 | 2005 | 2006 | 2007 | 2008 | 2009 | 2010 | 2011 | 2012 | 2013 | 2014 | 2015 | 2016 | 2017 | 2018 | 2019 | |
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Medal table
after 30 tournaments, as of 2019
| rank | country | gold | silver | bronze | total | Participation |
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Germany
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7th | 6th | 8th | 21st | 30th |
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Russia 1 (of which USSR )
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6 (2) | - | 1 | 7 (2) | 7 (2) |
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Canada
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4th | 4th | 4th | 12 | 18th |
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Slovakia
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4th | 3 | 6th | 13 | 20th |
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Switzerland
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3 | 9 | 6th | 18th | 23 |
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United States
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3 | 4th | - | 7th | 10 |
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Czech Republic 1 (of which Czechoslovakia )
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2 (1) | 1 | 2 (2) | 5 (3) | 7 (5) |
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Finland
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1 | - | 2 | 3 | 4th |
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Sweden
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- | 2 | - | 2 | 4th |
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Italy
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- | 1 | - | 1 | 1 |
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Poland
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Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ kicker.de: Deutschland Cup moves to Krefeld. Article from February 1, 2018
- ↑ hockeyweb.de, Now it's called "TUI Nations Cup"
- ↑ Germany Cup to Munich for three years. In: Ice Hockey.info. February 20, 2009, accessed November 13, 2012 .
- ↑ deutschlandcup-online.de: Deutschland Cup 2012 in Munich
- ^ Jörg cells: Germany Cup: Award for Krefeld. Retrieved February 1, 2018 .
- ↑ All Germany Cup games. hockeyweb.de, November 13, 2012, archived from the original on January 26, 2008 ; Retrieved December 17, 2012 .