Ice hockey league 2001/02

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Master:	EV Landshut
Newcomers:	EV Landshut , ESV Kaufbeuren
Relegated:	EHC Bad Aibling , TSV Erding (both waiver), Deggendorfer EC (game operations stopped), Ratinger Ice Aliens
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In contrast to the previous season, the ice hockey major league was played as a single-track league. After the remaining participants of the Oberliga Nord decided not to carry out this group due to a lack of participants, the teams interested in continuing the game operations in the Oberliga were accepted into the Oberliga Süd.

Attendees

Dresden Neuwied Ratingen Same Peiting Geretsried Bayreuth Hassfurt Landshut Kaufbeuren Bad Aibling Deggendorf Erding Feet

Clubs of the Oberliga 2001/02

As part of the merger of the two regional league groups North and South into a single-track league, there were several teams that retreated into the lower leagues under this sign. The Herford EC withdrew to the Regionalliga NRW , the KEV Hannover , the EC Timmendorfer Strand and the Adendorfer EC to the Regionalliga Nord-Ost and the ESC Erfurt to the Sachsenliga. Before the season, the EHC Neue Eisbären Berlin and the FTV Hamburg Crocodiles were dissolved due to financial problems.

The teams EV Regensburg , EHC Wolfsburg , EV Duisburg and ETC Crimmitschau were promoted to the 2nd Bundesliga . As a result, only the play-off participants Dresdner Eislöwen and Ratinger Ice Aliens of the league remained from the north , while from the south ERC Selb , EC Peiting , Deggendorfer EC , EV Landshut , EHC Bad Aibling and ESV Kaufbeuren through play-off participation held the class directly and also the teams ERC Haßfurt Sharks , ESV Bayreuth , Geretsried River Rats and EV Füssen in the relegation against the regional league teams .

mode

The mode was determined that after the completion of the main round played as a double round, the participants in places 1 to 8 in the playoffs and the other teams in the relegation round.

The play-offs were also the promotion play-offs for the 2nd Bundesliga 2002/03 , for which the team of the champions EV Landshut and the runner-up ESV Kaufbeuren qualified. After the relegation round, which was played in two groups, the team of increased Ratingen Ice Aliens in the Regionalliga North Rhine-Westphalia from. From the other group, the Bayreuth Tigers would have been relegated to the Regionalliga Süd, but they remained in the Oberliga 2002/03 due to the dissolution of this league after the 2001/02 season .

In the last promotion round of the Regionalliga Süd, the participant of the Ice Sports Association Baden-Württemberg EC Atlantis Ulm / Neu-Ulm won ahead of the participants of the Bavarian Ice Sports Association , ESV Königsbrunn and EA Schongau and the ESC Saaleteufel Halle as a representative of the Saxon Ice Sports Association and climbed into the Oberliga 2002/03 on.

Main round

The teams of places 1-8 took part in the play-offs. The teams in places 9-14 take part in the relegation round.

	club	Sp	S.	S n. V.	N n. V.	N	Gates	Points
1.	EV Landshut	52	36	5	3	8th	255: 130	121
2.	ESV Kaufbeuren	52	32	4th	3	13	233: 149	107
3.	EHC Bad Aibling	52	29	5	4th	11	199: 153	107
4th	Deggendorfer EC	52	26th	5	5	16	177: 141	93
5.	Dresden Ice Lions	52	26th	4th	4th	18th	193: 169	90
6th	ERC Selb	52	22nd	4th	7th	19th	210: 202	81
7th	SC Mittelrhein-Neuwied	52	20th	6th	5	21st	177: 173	77
8th.	Erding jets	52	21st	2	3	26th	142: 148	70
9.	Ratinger Ice Aliens	52	15th	8th	5	24	191: 214	66
10.	EV Füssen	52	17th	5	5	25th	168: 199	66
11.	ESV Bayreuth Tigers	52	17th	4th	3	28	166: 211	62
12.	EC Peiting	52	16	4th	5	27	176: 192	61
13.	ERC Haßfurt Sharks	52	15th	3	10	24	140: 202	61
14th	Geretsried River Rats	52	8th	2	2	40	133: 277	30th

Playoffs

The quarter- and semi-final series were each played in the best-of-five mode. The winners of both semifinal series are the athletic climbers in the 2nd Bundesliga and then played (mode: best-of-three) the league champions.

	Quarter finals					Semifinals					final
	1.	EV Landshut	3
	8th.	Erding jets	0
						1.	EV Landshut	3
						5.	Dresden Ice Lions	0
	4th	Deggendorfer EC	1
	5.	Dresden Ice Lions	3
											1.	EV Landshut	2
											2.	ESV Kaufbeuren	0
	2.	ESV Kaufbeuren	3
	7th	SC Mittelrhein-Neuwied	2
						2.	ESV Kaufbeuren	3
						3.	EHC Bad Aibling	2
	3.	EHC Bad Aibling	3
	6th	ERC Selb	2

Quarter finals

	total		Game 1	Game 2	Game 3	Game 4	Game 5
EV Landshut	3-0	Erding jets	6: 1	5-0	5: 3	-	-
ESV Kaufbeuren	3: 2	SC Mittelrhein-Neuwied	2: 5	5: 1	1: 4	4: 1	4: 3
EHC Bad Aibling	3: 2	ERC Selb	7: 2	4: 6	4: 3 a.d.	3: 5	5: 2
Deggendorfer EC	1: 3	Dresden Ice Lions	2: 3 a.d.	2: 5	4: 1	1: 2 a.d.	-

Semifinals

	total		Game 1	Game 2	Game 3	Game 4	Game 5
EV Landshut	3-0	Dresden Ice Lions	5: 3	5: 1	3: 1	-	-
ESV Kaufbeuren	3: 2	EHC Bad Aibling	3: 2	3: 6	4: 2	3: 4	4: 2

The EV Landshut and the ESV Kaufbeuren are thus athletic climbers in the 2nd Bundesliga .

final

In the final, the champions of the league were played in the best-of-three mode.

	total		Game 1	Game 2	Game 3
EV Landshut	2-0	ESV Kaufbeuren	9: 3	8: 7	-

The EV Landshut - since February 2002 with an application for bankruptcy - is thus top division champion 2001/02.

Relegation round

Group 1

The teams in places 1 and 2 have qualified for the 2002/03 Oberliga season. The team in third place is relegated from the league.

Pl.	team	Sp	Gates	Diff.	Pt.
1.	ERC Haßfurt Sharks	4th	17:15	2	9
2.	EC Peiting	4th	24:15	9	6th
3.	Ratinger Ice Aliens	4th	14:25	−11	3

Ratingen - under insolvency administration since March 2002 - has been relegated to the state association of North Rhine-Westphalia - here the Regionalliga NRW .

Group 2

The teams in places 1 and 2 have qualified for the 2002/03 Oberliga season. The team in third place is relegated from the league.

Pl.	team	Sp	Gates	Diff.	Pt.
1.	EV Füssen	4th	23: 9	14th	12
2.	Geretsried Riverrats	4th	15:18	−3	6th
3.	ESV Bayreuth Tigers	4th	6:17	−11	0

Bayreuth - Tigers GmbH filed for insolvency in November 2001 and ESV in March 2002 - would have been relegated to the Regionalliga Süd in 2002/03. By dissolving this league, the team remains in the Oberliga 2002/03.

Web links

• All results and tables of the ice hockey league 2001/02 at hockey-db.de
• 2001/02 season at hockeyarchives.info (French)