Ice hockey Bundesliga 1962/63

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Master:	EV Füssen
Relegated:	TuS Eintracht Dortmund
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The 1962/63 season was the fifth season of the Bundesliga , the highest German ice hockey league . German champion was EV Füssen , which won its tenth championship. Last year's winner EC Bad Tölz , who had been in first place for a long time in the preliminary round, ended the season in second place after just one win in the last six games. In the relegation there was a new edition of the previous year's duel between TuS Eintracht Dortmund and EV Landshut . This year the Niederbayern prevailed and were promoted to the Bundesliga for the first time. For Dortmund this meant relegation from the top German league after three years.

requirements

Attendees

• EC Bad Tölz (defending champion)
• TuS Eintracht Dortmund
• EV Füssen
• ESV Kaufbeuren
• Krefelder EV
• Prussia Krefeld
• Mannheim ERC
• SC Riessersee

mode

As in the previous year, the eight participating teams initially contested a single round, after which the best four clubs qualified for the championship round. There, the German champions were finally determined in a new single round, taking the preliminary round points with them. The other four teams contested, also taking the preliminary round points, a relegation round. The last place in the relegation round had to play for his place in the Bundesliga in a relegation game against the champions of the Oberliga .

Preliminary round

		Sp	S.	U	N	Gates	Points
1.	EC Bad Toelz	14th	12	2	00	123: 026	26: 02
2.	EV Füssen	14th	10	3	10	071: 3 07	23: 05
3.	Mannheim ERC	14th	07th	1	06th	054: 054	15:13
4th	SC Riessersee	14th	05	2	07th	058: 052	12:16
5.	Krefelder EV	14th	04th	2	08th	052: 070	10:18
6th	ESV Kaufbeuren	14th	04th	1	09	050: 081	09:19
7th	Prussia Krefeld	14th	04th	1	09	035: 074	09:19
8th.	TuS Eintracht Dortmund	14th	03	2	09	035: 084	08:20

Abbreviations: Sp = games, S = wins, U = draws, N = defeats.
Explanations: championship round , relegation round

Championship round

		Sp	S.	U	N	Gates	Points
1.	EV Füssen	20th	14th	4th	02	119: 067	32: 08
2.	EC Bad Toelz	20th	13	3	04th	144: 056	29:11
3.	Mannheim ERC	20th	09	2	09	073: 081	20:20
4th	SC Riessersee	20th	07th	5	08th	085: 080	19:21

Abbreviations: Sp = games, S = wins, U = draws, N = defeats.
Explanations: Master .

Relegation round

		Sp	S.	U	N	Gates	Points
1.	Krefelder EV	20th	09	3	08th	092: 089	21:19
2.	ESV Kaufbeuren	20th	08th	1	11	080: 109	17:23
3.	Prussia Krefeld	20th	06th	1	13	054: 099	13:27
4th	TuS Eintracht Dortmund	20th	03	3	14th	051: 115	09:31

Abbreviations: Sp = games, S = wins, U = draws, N = defeats.
Explanations: Master .

Leaderboards

Best goal scorers

player	team	Games	Gates
Georg Scholz	EV Füssen	20th	27
Peter Rohde	Mannheim ERC	20th	25th
Ernst Köpf	EV Füssen	20th	24

Best defenders

player	team	Games	Gates
Leonhard Waitl	EV Füssen	20th	15th
Paul Ambros	EV Füssen	20th	12
Harald Kadow	Prussia Krefeld	20th	10

Squad of the German champions

German champion EV Füssen

Goalkeepers: Harry Lindner , Günther Knauss Defenders: Paul Ambros , Rudolf Simon , Hansjörg Nagel , Peter Schwimmbeck , Leonhard Waitl Attackers: Siegfried Schubert , Ernst Trautwein , Gustav Hanig , Walter Krötz , Manfred Gmeiner , Georg Scholz , Rudolf Gröger , Helmut Zanghellini , Ernst Köpf Head coach: Markus Egen

Relegation

As in the previous year, the EV Landshut had qualified as champions of the Oberliga for the relegation. In this season Landshut was able to prevail against Dortmund.

March 15, 1963

EV Landshut

4: 2

TuS Eintracht Dortmund

Landshut

March 22, 1963

TuS Eintracht Dortmund

4: 5

EV Landshut

Dortmund spectators: 9000

Web links

• Hockey Bundesliga 1962/63 at hockeyarchives.info (French)
• All results and tables of the ice hockey Bundesliga 1962/63 at hockey-db.de