European Ice Hockey Cup 1980/81

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Winner:	CSKA Moscow

The European Ice Hockey Cup in the 1980/81 season was the 16th edition of the competition of the same name by the International Ice Hockey Federation IIHF . The competition began in October 1980; the final was played in August 1981. A total of 18 teams took part. The CSKA Moscow defended the title for the third time in a row.

Mode and participants

The national champions of the game year 1979/80 of the European members of the IIHF were qualified for the competition. The competition was played in the knockout system in a two-legged manner. The final was played in a group of four in the mode everyone against everyone.

HC Val Gardena EC Klagenfurt AC Feenstra Flyers Heerenveen ASG Tours Spartak Levski Sofia Vojens IK Haderslev

Zagłębie Sosnowiec Steaua Bucharest CH Txuri Urdin San Sebastián Ferencváros Budapest SC Dynamo Berlin HK Olimpija Ljubljana

Mannheimer ERC (set for the 2nd round) EHC Arosa (set for the 2nd round) HIFK Helsinki (set for the 3rd round) Brynäs IF Gävle (seeded for the 3rd round) TJ Poldi SONP Kladno (set for the 3rd round) CSKA Moscow (defending champion; seeded for the 3rd round)

competition

1 round

The first round games were played on October 9 and 23, 1980. Twelve teams played the six qualifiers for the second round.

		total	1st game	2nd game
Feenstra Flyers Heerenveen	Spartak Levski Sofia	23: 3 1	12: 1	11: 2
Vojens IK Haderslev	Zagłębie Sosnowiec	5:21	3:10	2:11
SC Dynamo Berlin	Steaua Bucharest	23: 6	13: 4	10: 2
EC Klagenfurt AC	HC Val Gardena	3: 7	2: 3	1: 4
CH Txuri Urdin San Sebastián	ASG Tours	4:12	2: 2	2:10
HK Olimpija Ljubljana	Ferencváros Budapest	Budapest waived

¹ Both games took place in Heerenveen.

2nd round

The second round games were played on November 5 and 19, 1980. The six winners of the first round as well as the two seeded participants - Mannheimer ERC and EHC Arosa - played the four qualifiers for the third round.

		total	1st game	2nd game
Feenstra Flyers Heerenveen	EHC Arosa	10: 9	5: 6	5: 3
Zagłębie Sosnowiec	SC Dynamo Berlin	7: 9	6: 3	1: 6
HC Val Gardena	HK Olimpija Ljubljana	4: 9	1: 1	3: 8
ASG Tours	Mannheim ERC	7:15	5: 6	2: 9

3rd round

The third round games were played on December 4, 1980 and January 3, 1981. The four winners of the second round as well as the four seeded participants - HIFK Helsinki, Brynäs IF Gävle, TJ Poldi SONP Kladno and the defending champion CSKA Moscow - played the four qualifiers for the final tournament.

		total	1st game	2nd game
SC Dynamo Berlin	HIFK Helsinki	5: 9	2: 3	3: 6
HK Olimpija Ljubljana	TJ Poldi SONP Kladno	4:17	2: 5	2:12
Mannheim ERC	Brynäs IF Gävle	7:11 2	3: 6	4: 5
Feenstra Flyers Heerenveen	CSKA Moscow	1:20	0:11	1: 9

² Both games took place in Mannheim.

Final tournament

The final tournament was held from August 4th to 9th, 1981 in Ortisei, Italy . The games took place in the St. Ulrich ice rink with a capacity of 4,000 spectators .

4th August 1981

TJ Poldi SONP Kladno Milan Nový (2) Arnošt horizontal brick Zdeněk Müller

4: 5 (3: 2, 1: 2, 0: 1)

HIFK Helsinki Esa Peltonen Antero Lehtonen Anssi Melametsä Matti Murto Mika Helkearo

Ice stadium Ortisei, Ortisei in Val Gardena

4th August 1981

CSKA Moscow Sergei Makarov (2) Nikolai Drosdezki Vyacheslav Fetissov Andrei Khomutov Alexander Gerassimow Igor Larionow Alexei Wolchenkow Alexander Lobanow Mikhail Panin

10: 1 (5: 0, 3: 0, 2: 1)

Brynäs IF Gävle Stefan Lif

Ice stadium Ortisei, Ortisei in Val Gardena

7th August 1981

HIFK Helsinki

0: 6 (0: 2, 0: 1, 0: 3)

CSKA Moscow Vyacheslav Fetisov (2) Irek Gimajew Sergei Starikow Sergei Makarov Nikolai Drosdezki

Ice stadium Ortisei, Ortisei in Val Gardena

7th August 1981

TJ Poldi SONP Kladno Milan Nový (2) Lubomír farmer Jan Novotný

4: 2 (0: 1, 4: 1, 0: 0)

Brynäs IF Gävle Stefan Karlsson Björn Åkerblom

Ice stadium Ortisei, Ortisei in Val Gardena

August 9, 1981

HIFK Helsinki Esa Peltonen Raimo Hirvonen Anssi Melametsä

3: 3 (0: 0, 2: 1, 1: 2)

Brynäs IF Gävle Lars-Göran Gerdin Stefan Canderyd Conny Silfverberg

Ice stadium Ortisei, Ortisei in Val Gardena

August 9, 1981

CSKA Moscow Andrei Khomutov (3) Igor Larionov (2) Valeri Kharlamov (2) Nikolai Drosdezki Alexander Lobanow Mikhail Panin Alexei Kassatonow Sergei Makarov

12: 2 (5: 0, 6: 1, 1: 1)

TJ Poldi SONP Kladno Jiří Kopecký Jiří Dudáček

Ice stadium Ortisei, Ortisei in Val Gardena

Pl.		Sp	S.	U	N	Gates	Points
1.	CSKA Moscow	3	3	0	0	28: 03	6-0
2.	HIFK Helsinki	3	1	1	1	08:13	3: 3
3.	TJ Poldi SONP Kladno	3	1	0	2	10:19	2: 4
4th	Brynäs IF Gävle	3	0	1	2	06:17	1: 5

Best scorer

Abbreviations: G = goals, A = assists , Pts = points; Fat: tournament best

player	team	G	A.	Pts
Valery Kharlamov	Moscow	2	9	11
Nikolai Drosdezki	Moscow	3	6th	9
Milan Nový	Kladno	6th	1	7th
Sergei Makarov	Moscow	5	1	6th
Vyacheslav Fetisov	Moscow	4th	1	5

Winning team

European Cup winner CSKA Moscow

Goalkeepers: Wladislaw Tretjak , Alexander Tyschnych Defenders: Sergei Babinow , Vyacheslav Fetissov , Irek Gimajew , Alexei Kassatonow , Sergei Starikow , Alexei Woltschenkow Attackers: Valeri Khomutov , Andrei Khomutov , Nikolai Drosdezki , Alexander Gerasimow , Vladimir Krutov , Gennady Kurdin , Konstantin Kurotschkin , Igor Larionov , Alexander Lobanov , Sergei Makarov , Mikhail Panin , Vladimir Petrov , Viktor Schluktov , Vladimir Zinitsyn , Alexander Syzyn Head coach: Viktor Tikhonov

literature

• Stephan Müller: International Ice Hockey Encyclopaedia: 1904 - 2005 . Books on Demand, Norderstedt, Germany 2005, ISBN 978-3-8334-4189-9 , pp. 413 .

Web links

• 1980/81 season of the European Cup at hockeyarchives.info (French)
• European Cup 1980/81 on SFRF's Hockey Archive