Ice Hockey Eredivisie (Netherlands)
The ice hockey Eredivisie was the top division in Dutch ice hockey from 1945 to 2015 . The Eerste divisie was held below the Eredivisie .
history
After the Second World War, the league was founded with only three participating teams at the time, the HHIJC Den Haag became champions in the first season in 1945/46 . Game operations were completely suspended between 1949 and 1964, and then a new beginning followed. Over the next few years, the league was repeatedly topped up by additional teams, the high point with ten participating teams was first reached in the 1971/72 season. Since ice hockey is not one of the most popular sports in the Netherlands, such as football , the number of teams has fluctuated greatly due to economic problems to this day. The last high point with ten teams was reached in the 1993/94 season, the absolute low of the last few years was reached in 2003/04 when only four clubs took part in the league. The league's record champions are the Tilburg Trappers with fifteen championship titles.
In the 2010/11 and 2011/12 seasons, the North Sea Cup was played together with the teams of the ice hockey Eredivisie (Belgium) . In 2012 this was abolished after only two years, but Belgian teams could then also take part in the Dutch Eredivisie. After the end of the 2014/15 season , the Ehrendivision, like its Belgian counterpart , was dissolved and merged into a common division, the BeNe League . Ten Dutch and six Belgian teams took part in this in the first season .
mode
Hometowns of the teams in the 2014/15 season |
At the beginning, the teams played against each other in a regular season, the best four clubs after the end of the season games met in play-offs first in a semi-final, then in the final in a best-of-five series in order to achieve the championship title .
Parallel to the season, the Challenge Cup was also held as a cup competition in which the teams from the Eredivisie and the next lower league, the Eerste divisie , take part.
Participant and champion of the Eredivisie from 1945 to 2015
In the total of 55 seasons of the Eredivisie, 26 clubs with 27 teams participated (in 1947/48 two teams from Hijs Hokij Den Haag were involved). Only the Tilburg Trappers were consistently part of the honor division. With 15 championship titles, they were also the most successful club. There were also Hijs Hokij Den Haag (10 ×), the Nijmegen Devils (9 ×), the Heerenveen Flyers (7 ×), the Amstel Tijgers Amsterdam (6 ×), the Rotterdam Panda’s (3 ×), the Utrecht Rheem Racers ( 2 ×) and Eaters Geleen , S.IJ. Den Bosch and GIJS Groningen (1 × each) for championship honors. In addition to clubs from the Netherlands, Belgian teams were also represented in the honor division on various occasions.
| logo | club | Number of seasons | First season | Last season | Number of championships | Master years |
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| Tilburg Trappers | 55 | 1945/46 | 2014/15 | 15th | 1947, 1971, 1972, 1973, 1974, 1975, 1976, 1994, 1995, 1996, 2001, 2007, 2008, 2014, 2015 | |
| Heerenveen Flyers | 40 | 1971/72 | 2014/15 | 7th | 1977, 1978, 1979, 1980, 1981, 1982, 1983 | |
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Hijs Hokij The Hague | 38 | 1945/46 | 2013/14 | 10 | 1946, 1948, 1965, 1966, 1967, 1968, 1969, 2009, 2011, 2013 |
| Eaters Geleen | 38 | 1969/70 | 2014/15 | 1 | 2012 | |
| Nijmegen Devils | 38 | 1971/72 | 2010/11 | 9 | 1984, 1988, 1993, 1997, 1998, 1999, 2000, 2006, 2010 | |
| Amstel Tijgers Amsterdam | 34 | 1945/46 | 2009/10 | 6th | 1950, 1985, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005 | |
| S.IJ. the Bosch | 18th | 1966/67 | 2000/01 | 1 | 1970 | |
| Eindhoven Kemphanen | 15th | 1981/82 | 2014/15 | 0 | ||
| Utrecht Rheem Racers | 14th | 1971/72 | 2008/09 | 2 | 1991, 1992 | |
| GIJS Groningen | 13 | 1975/76 | 2009/10 | 1 | 1986 | |
| Rotterdam Panda's | 9 | 1986/87 | 1994/95 | 3 | 1987, 1989, 1990 | |
| HC Rotterdam | 5 | 1964/65 | 1970/71 | 0 | ||
| Dordrecht Lions | 5 | 1993/94 | 2013/14 | 0 | ||
| HYC Herentals | 3 | 2011/12 | 2014/15 | 0 | ||
| Phantoms Deurne | 3 | 1996/97 | 1998/99 | 0 | ||
| IJHC Assen | 3 | 1980/81 | 1993/94 | 0 | ||
| Amsterdam G's | 2 | 2011/12 | 2012/13 | 0 | ||
| HC Hijs | 2 | 1972/73 | 1973/74 | 0 | ||
| IJ.HC Deventer | 2 | 1964/65 | 1965/66 | 0 | ||
| DLJ Leeuwarden | 1 | 1981/82 | 1981/82 | 0 | ||
| Olympia Heist op den Berg | 1 | 1979/80 | 1979/80 | 0 | ||
| HC Leiden | 1 | 1978/79 | 1978/79 | 0 | ||
| Olympia Nederhorst | 1 | 1978/79 | 1978/79 | 0 | ||
| Brussels Royal IHSC | 1 | 1971/72 | 1971/72 | 0 | ||
| Olympia Antwerp | 1 | 1971/72 | 1971/72 | 0 | ||
| Cercle des Patineurs Liègois | 1 | 1971/72 | 1971/72 | 0 | ||
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Hijs Hokij The Hague II | 1 | 1947/48 | 1947/48 | 0 |
Status: end of season 2014/15
All clubs are listed with their current name, in the case of dissolved clubs with their last name.