EHC Waldkraiburg

EHC Waldkraiburg
Greatest successes
Promotion to the 2nd Bundesliga 1985 German regional league champion 1989 Bavarian champion (4th league) 2008, 2016 BEV play-off champion (OL / RL) 2017 Bayernkrug cup winner 2000, 2011
Club information
history	VfL Waldkraiburg (founded 1968) EHC Waldkraiburg (spin-off 1991)
Location	Waldkraiburg
Nickname	The Lions
Parent club	VfL Waldkraiburg
Club colors	blue yellow
league	Ice Hockey Bayern League
Venue	Raiffeisen Arena Waldkraiburg
capacity	2,400 seats
Head coach	Alexey & Sergej Piskunov
captain	Michael Trox
Season  2019/20	5th place / Pre-PO

The Waldkraiburg ice hockey club is an ice hockey club from Waldkraiburg in the Mühldorf am Inn district and currently takes part in the ice hockey Bavarian league , with the first team of the EHC, as well as the VfL Waldkraiburg, already playing higher class.

history

Founding of VfL Waldkraiburg

In the winter of 1968/69 the ice hockey department was founded at VfL Waldkraiburg. The founding members and organizers were Heini Hitzenberger from Miesbach , who was also the team's trainer and chairman. The main people interested in the sport at that time were mainly ethnic German repatriates from Czechoslovakia , to which some locals also came. These "ice hockey pioneers" laid the foundation for today's ice hockey in the town of Waldkraiburg.

Since it was founded in 1968, the club has tried to put together a team capable of playing. This only succeeded two seasons later, when VfL was officially admitted to the Bavarian Ice Sports Association for the 1971/72 season . For the 1976/77 season , the club appeared for the first time in higher-class ice hockey in the Regionalliga Süd and played in the major league from 1983/84 . In the following season , the team was promoted to the 2nd Bundesliga , from which the Waldkraiburger withdrew after the sporting league in the summer of 1986 in the Bavarian regional league. After two seasons, the team was promoted back to the Regionalliga Süd and was able to rise again to the Oberliga Süd in the 1989/90 season . In 1991, the ice hockey department split off from the main club and is now active as EHC Waldkraiburg.

Placements from 1971 to 1991

^{↑ ↓} ascent / descent , source: rodi-db.de , source: passionhockey.com

Spin-off to EHC Waldkraiburg 1991

After the 1991/92 season , the team was relegated to the regional league. In 1994, after the introduction of the German Ice Hockey League, the EHC was classified in the 2nd League South when the leagues were redistributed. After the introduction of the 2nd Bundesliga in 1998, the team was downgraded to the 2nd League South. After the 1998/99 season , the club withdrew the team to the Bavarian State League, from which, in the summer of 2000, as champions of the league, they were promoted to the Bavarian League - the highest amateur division of the Bavarian Ice Sports Association. At the same time, the lions won the Bayernkrug , the Bavarian ice hockey cup .

Since the 2004/05 season, the EHC Waldkraiburg has been playing with a second amateur team in addition to the first team. In 2006 the first team won the runner-up title behind the master Höchstadter EC , who renounced promotion, and thus at the same time the athletic qualification for promotion to the league. However, the EHC Waldkraiburg did not take advantage of this opportunity for advancement due to the disproportionate financial burden of a Germany-wide single-track league. In the 2007/08 season, the EHC Waldkraiburg won the Bavarian championship. Also for financial reasons, the club renounced in December 2007 the possibility of promotion to the league, which was achieved as a champion. In terms of sport, the team missed the promotion round in the 2008/09 season and ended the season prematurely with 10th place after the preliminary round. After 2010 the team from the Bavarian League to the newly designed Bavarian South / West regional league. was relegated, managed to win the group in this league - but the team lost in the playoff semifinals against EHC 80 Nuremberg and thus missed the immediate promotion to the Bayernliga. By winning the game for third place in the state league championship against the team from EA Schongau, there is still a chance to be the first to move up to the Bayern league. Due to ESV Waldkirchen's waiver of promotion , EHC Waldkraiburg is the second promoted player and will play BEL in the 2011/12 season. In 2016 the EHC Waldkraiburg won the 3rd Bavarian Championship and was also able to qualify for the Oberliga 2016/17. In 2016/17 the EHC won the BEV PLayoff championship, which was played for the first time between the Oberliga Süd and the Bayernliga .

Placements from 1992 until today

^{↑ ↓} ascent / descent , source: rodi-db.de , source: passionhockey.com source: eishockey-online.com

successes

Promotion to the 2nd Bundesliga in 1985 Promotion to the 2nd ice hockey league in 1994 Promotion to the league in 1983 , 1990 , 2016 BEV Play-Off Champion (OL / RL) 2017 German regional league champion 1989 Vice-champion Regionalliga-Süd 1983 , 1990 Vice-champion Regionalliga-Süd / B 1994 Bavarian champions (4th league) 2008, 2016 Bavarian runner-up (4th division) 2006 Promotion to the Regionalliga (BYL) 2002 , 2011

Promotion to the Regionalliga in 1976 , 1981 , 1988 Bavarian champion 1988 East Bavarian runner-up in 2002 Promotion to the Bayern League in 1974, 1986 , 2000 Bavarian state league champion 2000 Champion Bavarian State League / C 1987 Champion Bavarian State League S / W 2011 Bayernkrug Cup Winner 2000, 2011 "EHC-1b" Master BBzL-Ost 2010, 2014, 2019 "EHC-1b" BEV cup final 2018, 2020

Venue

The EHC Waldkraiburg plays its home games in the municipal artificial ice stadium. It has a capacity of 3,500 spectators, of which there are 3,000 seats. The stadium was built in 1971 as an open artificial ice rink and covered in 1975. The operator is Stadtwerke Waldkraiburg GmbH .

Web links

• Official website

Individual evidence

1. ↑ leagues belonging VFL Waldkraiburg RODI-DB
2. ^ Archive Ice Hockey Germany 1971 to 1991 Passion Hockey
3. ↑ leagues belonging EHC Waldkraiburg RODI-DB
4. ↑ Archive Ice Hockey Germany from 1992 Passion hockey
5. ↑ Spectator statistics for ice hockey online
6. ^ Archive Ice Hockey Bayern 2002 Passionhockey

Coordinates: 48 ° 13 ′ 18.1 ″  N , 12 ° 23 ′ 55.5 ″  E