Ice hockey Bundesliga

The title of this article is ambiguous. Further meanings are listed under Ice Hockey Bundesliga (disambiguation) .

The Hockey league was from 1958 to 1994 a total of 36 seasons long the highest Hockey -Spielklasse in the Federal Republic of Germany. For the 1994/95 season it was replaced by the German Ice Hockey League , which has since been renamed “1. Bundesliga "carries.

Ice hockey Bundesliga

Current season	DEL
sport	ice Hockey
abbreviation	BL
Association	German Ice Hockey Federation (DEB)
League foundation	1958
League dissolution	1994
Teams	12
Country countries	Germany
Title holder	EC Hedos Munich 1994
Record champions	EV Fuessen (9)
↓ 2. Bundesliga ↓

history

The early years (1958 to 1961)

In 1958 , the single-track Bundesliga replaced the Oberliga as the highest division in Germany. The first champion was the EV Füssen , which was the dominant team in the last league years and won eight further championships by 1973. While the Bavarian teams initially continued to dominate the battle for the top of the table, clubs from other parts of West Germany, for example the Düsseldorfer EG , the Cologne EC or the Mannheim ERC , gained in importance over time .

Expansion and mode changes (1961 to 1979)

After the league started with eight clubs and played out in the simple form of a single round, the mode and number of participants changed in the following years. In the 1961/62 season , a championship round followed for the first time in the preliminary round, which was won by EC Bad Tölz , while the relegated to the league was determined in a relegation round. In 1965 the league was increased from eight to ten teams. In order to reduce the resulting high travel costs to the away games, the Bundesliga was divided into two seasons for the 1966/67 season . The five Bavarian clubs were assigned to the South group, the teams from West and Southwest Germany and Berlin played in the West group . In 1968 the number of participants was increased again, so that for the first time since its foundation twelve teams took part in the Bundesliga. As early as the following year , the German Ice Hockey Federation , which had taken over the organization of the league from DEV after it was founded in 1963 , decided to return to the single-track Bundesliga, ultimately even to determine the champion in a simple double round.

Play-off games in Germany (1979 to 1990)

For the 1979/80 season , the league introduced a new, significantly more complicated mode with an intermediate round between the main and final round. The new mode of competition fulfilled its primary objective; Championship and relegation issues remained exciting until the end of the season. However, there were considerable doubts about the sporting fairness of this type of competition. This was especially true for SC Riessersee , which after the end of the preliminary round had clearly led by six points, which had melted to just one point after the intermediate round, and which was finally overtaken by the Mannheim ERC in the final round and fell back to third place. As a result, the mode was changed again. The following season was finally the first in which the champions were played in play-off mode based on the North American model. The championship was in the first year of the SC Riessersee, which had felt disadvantaged by the mode in the preseason.

During the preliminary round in 1980/81 it became known that several foreign players with forged German passports had been used in order to circumvent the restriction for foreign players. Two Bundesliga teams were affected by the so-called passport forger scandal , on the one hand the previous year's climbers Duisburger SC , on the other hand the two-time German champions Cologne EC . For both teams, all games involving players with forged passports were rated as lost with 0: 5 goals. For Duisburger SC this meant relegation, the Cologne team slipped out of the playoff ranks due to the deduction of points and only escaped relegation in the relegation round. After consolidation, the Cologne EC rose from 1984 with four championship titles to become the dominant German team of the late 1980s, after various teams had previously won the title.

Reunification and dissolution (1990 to 1994)

After German reunification , the last two remaining GDR clubs SC Dynamo Berlin and SG Dynamo Weißwasser were included in the ice hockey Bundesliga, which was expanded to twelve teams. The most successful team at the beginning of the 1990s was the Düsseldorfer EG , which won three of four championship titles in the all-German Bundesliga. The last Bundesliga champions were EC Hedos Munich . Including the final, Bayern won every series with a sweep , so without a single play-off defeat.

Since the decision about relegation has not been made on the ice since the introduction of the playdowns , but the financial situation of some clubs was decisive and four teams, although athletically qualified, had to relegate due to their financial situation, the Bundesliga clubs demanded the introduction of a new highest Professional league based on the North American model. This should guarantee better advertising potential and relieve the DEB in favor of young talent and amateur work. After the end of the season and relevant negotiations with the Association, decided DEB and clubs, with the DEL a call to self-governing professional league with 18 clubs into being, which replaced the Bundesliga as a top flight.

EV Landshut is a record participant in the Bundesliga at 31 years of age, ahead of Düsseldorfer EG at 30 Bundesliga years.

Bundesliga champions

year	German champions	Runner-up
1959	EV Füssen	EC Bad Toelz
1960	SC Riessersee	EV Füssen
1961	EV Füssen	EC Bad Toelz
1962	EC Bad Toelz	EV Füssen
1963	EV Füssen	EC Bad Toelz
1964	EV Füssen	EC Bad Toelz
1965	EV Füssen	EC Bad Toelz
1966	EC Bad Toelz	EV Füssen
1967	Düsseldorfer EG	EC Bad Toelz
1968	EV Füssen	EC Bad Toelz
1969	EV Füssen	Düsseldorfer EG
1970	EV Landshut	EC Bad Toelz
1971	EV Füssen	Düsseldorfer EG
1972	Düsseldorfer EG	EV Füssen
1973	EV Füssen	Düsseldorfer EG
1974	Berlin ice skating club	EV Landshut
1975	Düsseldorfer EG	Berlin ice skating club
1976	Berlin ice skating club	EV Landshut
1977	Cologne EC	Krefelder EV
1978	SC Riessersee	Berlin ice skating club
1979	Cologne EC	SC Riessersee
1980	Mannheim ERC	Düsseldorfer EG
1981	SC Riessersee	Düsseldorfer EG
1982	SB Rosenheim	Mannheim ERC
1983	EV Landshut	Mannheim ERC
1984	Cologne EC	EV Landshut
1985	SB Rosenheim	Mannheim ERC
1986	Cologne EC	Düsseldorfer EG
1987	Cologne EC	Mannheim ERC
1988	Cologne EC	SB Rosenheim
1989	SB Rosenheim	Düsseldorfer EG
1990	Düsseldorfer EG	SB Rosenheim
1991	Düsseldorfer EG	Cologne EC
1992	Düsseldorfer EG	SB Rosenheim
1993	Düsseldorfer EG	Cologne EC
1994	EC Hedos Munich	Düsseldorfer EG

team	state	title
EV Füssen	Bavaria	9
Düsseldorfer EG	North Rhine-Westphalia	7th
Cologne EC	North Rhine-Westphalia	6th
SC Riessersee	Bavaria	3
SB Rosenheim	Bavaria	3
EC Bad Toelz	Bavaria	2
Berlin ice skating club	Berlin	2
EV Landshut	Bavaria	2
Mannheim ERC	Baden-Württemberg	1
EC Hedos Munich	Bavaria	1

• See also: German champions (ice hockey)

mode

season Preliminary round Finals Attendees 1958/59 Single round no 8th 1959/60 1960/61 Double round 1961/62 Championship round relegation round 8th 1962/63 1963/64 1964/65 1965/66 10 1966/67 Double round 2 groups Championship round relegation round 1967/68 1968/69 12 1969/70 Single round Championship round relegation round 1970/71 Double round no 10 1971/72 1972/73 11 1973/74 10 1974/75 1975/76 1976/77 Double round Championship round relegation round 1977/78

season Preliminary round Finals Attendees 1978/79 Double round Championship round relegation round 12 1979/80 Single round intermediate round (3 groups) 1980/81 Double round Play-offs relegation round 1981/82 Play-offs relegation round 1981/82 10 1981/82 Placement round play-offs relegation round 1982/83 Play-offs relegation round 1983/84 1984/85 1985/86 1986/87 1987/88 1988/89 1989/90 1990/91 Play-offs play-downs 12 1991/92 1992/93 1993/94

See also

• Eternal table of the ice hockey Bundesliga

Web links

• Official homepage of the German Ice Hockey Federation