Erste Bank Young Stars League
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Full name | Erste Bank Young Stars League |
Current season | 2017/18 |
sport | ice Hockey |
abbreviation | EBYSL |
Association | Austrian Ice Hockey Association |
League foundation | 2012 |
Teams | 17th |
Country countries |
Austria 7 teams Hungary 7 teams Slovenia 2 teams Czech Republic 1 team
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Title holder | SAPA Fehérvár AV19 |
Record champions | SAPA Fehérvár AV19 (3) |
Website | www.erstebankliga.at/ebysl |
↑ EBEL ↓ EBJL
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The Erste Bank Young Stars League ( EBYSL for short ) is the highest junior league in Austrian ice hockey and has existed since the 2012/13 season. It is a joint project of the teams involved in the Austrian ice hockey league (Erste Bank Eishockey Liga). Like the EBEL, it is an international championship with clubs from Austria , Slovenia , Hungary and the Czech Republic . It replaces the national U-20 championship of the Austrian ice hockey association that had been held until then .
history
The Erste Bank Young Stars League is a direct result of the increased efforts by the EBEL clubs to promote young talent. The teams of the league had already sent farm teams in the lower performance levels into the race in the years before, but the results were mostly mixed. At the beginning of 2012, considerations were made for the first time to create a separate league, which was quickly put into practice; the EBYSL started operations for the next season. In the following year, a separate U18 league was established - the Erst Bank Juniors League (EBJL).
Field of participants
Participation is compulsory for all EBEL clubs. Only the Dornbirner EC and HC Bozen received an exception permit for the EBEL not to have to provide a team in the first season with regard to the build-up of the squad. The EC Red Bull Salzburg founded a syndicate with the second division club EK Zell am See , since the organization and its youth teams are also active in many international competitions (including in the Czech Republic).
The Lower Austria Stars were represented by two teams in the first season; in the future it will only be one. The team is the combat team of the St. Pölten-based Okanagan Hockey Academy Europe , which also has academy status. It is an offshoot of the Okanagan Hockey School from Penticton ( British Columbia , Canada ), which was founded in 1963 and was founded in 2008 .
At the beginning of the foreign teams there was also a team represented with the HD mladi Jesenice , which had no counterpart in the EBEL. The HK Jesenice ceased its gaming operations in the summer of 2012 for financial reasons. The EBYSL team was an independent club that was originally founded purely as a youth club and was intended to help rebuild the traditional Slovenian ice hockey location; however, the team only played one season.
Instead, two more Hungarian teams were added for the 2013/14 season.
Current teams
team | nation | Location | Remarks | last active season |
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EC Red Bull Salzburg | Austria | Salzburg , Salzburg , Austria | 2016/17 | |
EC VSV | Austria | Villach , Carinthia , Austria | 2016/17 | |
Vienna Capitals | Austria | Vienna , Austria | 2016/17 | |
EHC Linz | Austria | Linz , Upper Austria , Austria | 2016/17 | |
HC Innsbruck | Austria | Innsbruck , Tyrol , Austria | 2016/17 | |
LLZ South / Graz 99ers | Austria | Graz , Styria , Austria | Community of the EC Graz 99ers and the Landesleistungszentrum Süd | 2016/17 |
Okanagan HC Europe | Austria | St. Pölten , Lower Austria , Austria | Ice hockey academy | 2016/17 |
SAPA Fehérvár AV19 | Hungary | Székesfehérvár , Hungary | 2016/17 | |
Vasas Budapest | Hungary | Budapest , Hungary | 2016/17 | |
MAC Budapest | Hungary | Budapest , Hungary | 2016/17 | |
KMH Budapest | Hungary | Budapest , Hungary | 2016/17 | |
UTE Budapest | Hungary | Budapest , Hungary | back from the 2017/18 season | 2013/14 |
Győri ETO HC | Hungary | Győr , Hungary | New from the 2017/18 season | - |
SPG Debrecen-Miskolce Select | Hungary | Debrecen & Miskolc , Hungary | Community of the 2 MOL clubs | 2016/17 |
HK Slavija Ljubljana | Slovenia | Ljubljana , Slovenia | 2016/17 | |
HD mladi Jesenice | Slovenia | Jesenice , Slovenia | back from the 2017/18 season | 2012/13 |
Orli Znojmo | Czech Republic | Znojmo , Czech Republic | 2016/17 |
Former teams
team | nation | Location | Remarks | last active season |
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EC KAC | Austria | Klagenfurt , Carinthia , Austria | 2015/16 | |
KHL Medveščak Zagreb | Croatia | Zagreb , Croatia | 2016/17 | |
HK Olimpija | Slovenia | Ljubljana , Slovenia | 2016/17 | |
HK Triglav Kranj | Slovenia | Kranj , Slovenia | 2016/17 |
Playing times
2012/13 season
The game was played with fourteen teams in two groups. After a simple round-trip round within the group and another, which was played across the league, the teams placed last were eliminated, while the remaining teams played another round-trip round. The two best-placed clubs from both groups qualified for the playoffs, which were held as the best-of-three series in the semifinals and finals.
After the basic round, the two groups were led by SAPA Fehérvár AV19 and HDD Olimpija Ljubljana. Since no Austrian teams followed in second place either, in addition to the league playoffs, a series for the Austrian U20 championship title was played out, which the LLZ Süd / Graz 99ers was able to win against the EC KAC. In the league playoffs, the Hungarian team SAPA Fehérvár AV19 prevailed against the Czech team Orli Znojmo and won the first championship title.
League table
season | master | Austrian champion |
2012/13 | Fehérvár AV19 | LLZ South / Graz 99ers |
2013/14 | HK Olimpija, Ljubljana | EC KAC |
2014/15 | SAPA Fehérvár AV19 | EHC Linz |
2015/16 | EC Red Bull Salzburg | EC Red Bull Salzburg |
2016/17 | Vienna Capitals | Vienna Capitals |
2017/18 | Fehervar AV19 | EC VSV |
2018/19 | Fehervar AV19 | EC VSV |
Individual evidence
- ^ The tug of war for the Junior-EBEL , report on www.hockeyfans.at from April 6, 2012
- ↑ The Youngsters also play internationally , report on www.hockeyfans.at from August 28, 2012
- ↑ Young stars contested the first season - a balance sheet , report on http://www.erstebankliga.at/de/ebysl/ from April 19, 2013