EHV Sabers Vienna

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EHV Sabers Vienna
Greatest successes
  • 16 times Austrian champion
  • 6-time EWHL winner
  • 3-time EWHL Supercup winner
Club information
history Established in 1999
Location Vienna , Austria
Club colors black yellow
league EWHL / DEBL / ÖSM
Venue Albert Schultz Hall
capacity 7,500 seats
executive Director Christian Benedek
Head coach Risto Kurkinen
captain Charlotte Wittich
Season 2018/19 National champion, Supercup Campion, EWHL runner-up

The EHV Sabers is an Austrian women's ice hockey club from Vienna . The club was founded in 1999 and has been playing in the Austrian women's ice hockey championship since the 1999/2000 season . The club colors are black and yellow, the home games are played in the Albert-Schultz-Halle in Vienna . With sixteen championship titles so far ( 2002 to 2005 , 2007 , 2008 , 2010 , 2011 , 2012 , 2013 , 2014 , 2015 , 2016 , 2017 , 2018 , 2019 ) the Sabers are the most successful team in Austrian women's ice hockey.

In addition, the club won six times, in 2004 , 2010/11 , 2011/12 , 2014/15 , 2015/16 and 2017/18 , the Ladies Elite League Elite Women's Hockey League , where teams from Slovenia , Italy and Hungary, Slovakia, Kazakhstan and Denmark play along. In the 2014/15, 2015/16 and 2018/19 seasons, the club won the EWHL Supercup. In the 2007/08 season, the Sabers took part in the European Cup for the first time , but have not yet reached the final. The best successes were reaching the semi-finals four times (most recently 2014/15). This competition was closed in 2015 by the IIHF for financial reasons.

In the 2008/09 season, the Sabers competed together with the Vienna Flyers as a syndicate Sabers / Flyers United in the EWHL and the state championship.

In the youth work, the club cooperates with the HC Okanagan Tigers.

Placements

season league placement
1999/00 ÖSM 3rd / semifinals
2000/01 ÖSM Runner-up
2001/02 ÖSM master
2002/03 ÖSM 1. / Master
2003/04 ÖSM master
2004/05 EWHL winner
ÖSM master
2005/06 EWHL 10.
ÖSM 3rd place
2006/07 EWHL 5.
ÖSM master
season league placement
2007/08 EWHL 3.
ÖSM State champion
2008/09 EWHL 7. 1
ÖSM 2. 1
2009/10 EWHL 3.
ÖSM State champion
2010/11 EWHL winner
ÖSM State champion
2011/12 EWHL winner
ÖSM State champion
2012/13 EWHL 2.
ÖSM State champion
2013/14 EWHL 3.
ÖSM State champion
2014/15 EWHL winner
ÖSM State champion

1 Note: as SG Sabers / Flyers United

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