Ice Hockey Oberliga 2002/03

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Master:	Blue Devils Willows
Newcomers:	Blue Devils Willows
Relegated:	EHC Memmingen , ERSC Amberg , EC Atlantis Ulm / Neu-Ulm (all insolvency), Augsburger EV , River Rats Geretsried (withdrawal BYL)
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In contrast to the previous season, the ice hockey major league was played in 2 preliminary round groups with 10 teams each and topped up with the teams from the disbanded Regionalliga Süd .

Before the season

Before the season

• EHC Bad Aibling , Erding Jets and the parent club TSV Peißenberg waived for the Peißenberg Hornets to participate and
• the Deggendorfer EC stopped the game.

From the regional leagues in the north , the winner of the promotion round to the Oberliga KEV Hannover had the approval of the State Ice Sports Association of Lower Saxony, but the team won the right to participate in the Oberliga 2002/03 before the DEB court: Because of the pre-season 2001 / 02 withdrew from the Oberliga Nord, the team would not have been allowed to rise again until the 2003/04 season according to the DEB rules. By outsourcing gaming operations to ESBG , it was entitled to make an exception.

mode

The mode was determined that, after the preliminary round, the participants in places 1 to 5 of the preliminary rounds in the championship round and the other teams in a relegation round.

After completion of the championship round, the play-offs follow for the teams placed 1 to 8, while the season has ended for the teams in 9 and 10, but at the same time the qualification for the Oberliga 2003/04 has been reached.

The play-offs determine, in addition to the league champions, the promoted to the 2nd Bundesliga 2003/04 and are consistently played in the best-of-three mode.

The last placed in the relegation round is relegated to the respective league of the national association, while all other participants remain in the upper league.

Attendees

Ravensburg Pei- ting Feet Klostersee Miesbach Kemp- th Gerets- ried augsburg Memmingen Ulm / Neu-Ulm Dresden Hanover Schweinfurt Bayreuth Same Höchstadt Hassfurt Neuwied On the mountain Pastures

Clubs of the ice hockey league of the 2002/03 season with the groups north-east ( ) and south-west ( )

Oberliga Süd-West

From the previous season , EV Landshut and ESV Kaufbeuren had been promoted to the 2nd Bundesliga . The EHC Bad Aibling and the Erding Jets no longer took part in the upper league and voluntarily withdrew to the state league. The Deggendorfer EC went bankrupt and the Ratinger Ice Aliens were relegated to sport. The river councils Geretsried of EV Füssen and EC Peiting remained in the league . The teams of the clubs EHC Klostersee , TEV Miesbach , EV Ravensburg , Augsburger EV , EHC Memmingen , EC Atlantis Ulm / Neu-Ulm and the Eisbären Kempten were added from the regional league .

Oberliga Süd-Ost

In this league, the previous year's top division clubs Dresdner Eislöwen , ERC Selb , ESV Bayreuth , SC Mittelrhein-Neuwied and ERC Haßfurt Sharks as well as the regional league clubs ERV Schweinfurt , Blue Devils Weiden , ERSC Amberg , KEV Hannover and Höchstadter EC were divided.

Preliminary round

Preliminary round south-west

The teams of places 1–5 in the main round took part in the Oberliga championship round. The teams in places 6-10 took part in the relegation round.

Pl.	team
1.	EC Peiting
2.	EHC Klostersee (N)
3.	EV Füssen
4th	River Rats Geretsried
5.	TEV Miesbach (N)
6th	EV Ravensburg (N)
7th	Augsburg EV (N)
8th.	Polar bears Kempten (N)
9.	EHC Memmingen (N)
10.	EC Atlantis Ulm / Neu-Ulm (N)

Preliminary round south-east

The teams of places 1–5 in the main round took part in the Oberliga championship round. The teams in places 6-10 took part in the relegation round.

Pl.	team
1.	ERV Schweinfurt (N)
2.	Blue Devils Willows (N)
3.	Dresden Ice Lions
4th	SC Mittelrhein-Neuwied
5.	ERC Haßfurt Sharks
6th	ERSC Amberg (N)
7th	ESV Bayreuth
8th.	KEV Hannover (N)
9.	Highest age EC (N)
10.	ERC Selb

Championship round

The participants in 1st place with 8th have qualified for the play-offs. The season is over for the participants in 9th and 10th place.

Pl.	team	Sp	Gates	Diff.	Pt.
1.	ERV Schweinfurt	18th	73:65	8th	35
2.	EV Füssen	18th	73:59	14th	34
3.	1. EV Weiden	18th	73:64	9	34
4th	Dresden Ice Lions	18th	77:54	23	30th
5.	SC Mittelrhein-Neuwied	18th	52:59	−7	28
6th	EHC Klostersee	18th	75:59	16	27
7th	ERC Haßfurt "Sharks"	18th	65:67	−2	26th
8th.	EC Peiting	18th	57:62	−5	22nd
9.	River Rats Geretsried	18th	57:78	−21	19th
10.	TEV Miesbach	18th	49:84	−35	15th

For the River Rats Geretsried and the TEV Miesbach the season is over.

Play-offs

	Quarter finals					Semifinals					final
	1.	ERV Schweinfurt	1
	8th.	EC Peiting	2
						3.	1. EV Weiden	2
						8th.	EC Peiting	1
	2.	EV Füssen	1
	7th	ERC Hassfurt	2
											3.	1. EV Weiden	2
											4th	Dresden Ice Lions	0
	3.	1. EV Weiden	2
	6th	EHC Klostersee	1
						4th	Dresden Ice Lions	2
						7th	ERC Hassfurt	0
	4th	Dresden Ice Lions	2
	5.	SC Mittelrhein-Neuwied	1

Quarter finals

	total		Game 1	Game 2	Game 3
ERV Schweinfurt	1: 2	EC Peiting	2: 5	7: 2	2: 3
EV Füssen	1: 2	ERC Haßfurt "Sharks"	3: 2	5: 6	3: 6
1. EV Weiden	2: 1	EHC Klostersee	4: 6	4: 2	4: 2
Dresden Ice Lions	2: 1	SC Mittelrhein-Neuwied	5: 4	1: 2	7: 1

Semifinals

	total		Game 1	Game 2	Game 3
1. EV Weiden	2: 1	EC Peiting	5: 4 n.p.	2: 5	6: 1
Dresden Ice Lions	2-0	ERC Haßfurt "Sharks"	8: 2	4: 2	-

final

	total		Game 1	Game 2	Game 3
1. EV Weiden	2-0	Dresden Ice Lions	6: 2	4: 3 a.d.	-

The 1. EV Weiden is thus Oberliga champion and athletic climber in the 2. Bundesliga .

Relegation round

Pl.	team	Sp	Gates	Diff.	Pt.
1.	ESV Bayreuth	18th	94:50	44	42
2.	EC "Atlantis" Ulm / Neu-Ulm	18th	83:54	29	36
3.	KEV Hanover	18th	78:56	31	32
4th	ERSC Amberg	18th	70:65	5	30th
5.	EHC Memmingen	18th	51:71	−20	26th
6th	EV Ravensburg	18th	72:79	−7	24
7th	Highest age EC	18th	66:82	−16	23
8th.	Polar bears Kempten	18th	70:77	−7	22nd
9.	ERC Selb	18th	80:81	−1	21st
10.	Augsburg EV	18th	52: 101	−49	12

As the last of the relegation round, the Augsburg EV team climbed into the leagues of the Bavarian Ice Sports Association - the Bavarian Ice Hockey League - while the other teams qualified for the 2003/04 Oberliga .

Promotion from the regional associations

The regulation as to which team from the regional associations was allowed to move up to the Oberliga 2003/04 was made independently by them:

From the Bavarian Ice Sports Association only the champions of the Bayern League of EHC Munich 98 received approval, as did the cooperation partner of the winners of the qualifying round within the Baden-Württemberg League Stuttgart EC Stuttgart Wizards from the Baden-Württemberg Ice Sports Association .

From the regional leagues in the north , the winner of the promotion round to the Oberliga ESC Mosquitos Essen from LEV North Rhine-Westphalia and the team from EC Berlin Capitals from the Berlin Ice Sports Association received approval.

Web links

• All results and tables of the ice hockey league 2002/03 at hockey-db.de