Ice Hockey Regional League 2008/09

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Master:	EHC Braunlage (North), ECC Preussen Juniors (East), EHC Dortmund (West), RSC Darmstadt (Hesse), Mannheimer ERC (Business Administration), ERV Schweinfurt (BEL)
Newcomers:	West: EHC Dortmund
Relegated:	Bavaria: Wanderers Germering ESV Königsbrunn , EHC 80 Nuremberg
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The Regionalliga was the fourth highest league level in German ice hockey in the 2008/09 season . The regional leagues North, East, North Rhine-Westphalia and Hesse, as well as the Baden-Württembergliga and the Bayernliga were played . A team from each of the six regional leagues was promoted to the 2009/10 Oberliga . The regional leagues of North Rhine-Westphalia and Hesse as well as the Baden-Württembergliga played their promoted players in a joint promotion round to the upper league .

Regionalliga North

For the 2008/2009 season, the original North-East Regionalliga was split into the two non-interlinked North and East regional leagues. The athletic relegated EHC Salzgitter Steelers and the voluntary relegated REV Bremerhaven and EC Wedemark Farmers (all Association League North) have been eliminated . New in the Regionalliga Nord are the newly founded teams of the EC Hannover Pferdeturm and the Langenhagen Jets. The master can be promoted to the upper league 2009/10, the last one relegates to the Verbandsliga Nord.

Preliminary round

In the preliminary round, a double round is played. The top four teams take part in the championship round and the other teams take part in the relegation round.

Pl.	team	Sp	Gates	Dif.	Pt.
1.	EHC Timmendorfer Strand 06	15th	71:38	+33	39
2.	ESC Harzer Wölfe Braunlage	13	94:32	+62	36
3.	SC Langenhagen Jets (N)	16	70:77	−7	27
4th	EC Hannover Horse Tower Towers (N)	16	67:64	+3	23
5.	Adendorfer EC	16	51:83	−32	16
6th	Hamburger SV	15th	51:62	−11	13
7th	EHC Wolfsburg amateurs	15th	46:94	−48	5
As of December 29, 2008

Championship round

The championship round is played as a single round. The master can be promoted to the league 2009/10

Pl.	team	Sp	Gates	Dif.	Pt.
1.	ESC Harzer Wölfe Braunlage	6th	32: 7	+25	16
2.	EHC Timmendorfer Strand 06	6th	29:18	+11	11
3.	SC Langenhagen Jets (N)	6th	17:27	−10	6th
4th	EC Hannover Horse Tower Towers (N)	6th	8:34	−26	3
As of March 22, 2009

The Wolves Braunlage are thus champions of the Regionalliga Nord 2009. For financial reasons and because the Oberliga-Gruppe Nord did not come into being, the Harzers waived their promotion.

Relegation round

The relegation round is played as a single round, with the last one being relegated to the Association League North.

Pl.	team	Sp	Gates	Dif.	Pt.
1.	Adendorfer EC	4th	19: 9	+10	9
2.	EHC Wolfsburg amateurs	4th	17:23	−6	6th
3.	Hamburger SV	4th	13:17	−4	3
As of March 22, 2009

Due to the increase in the league, Hamburger SV remained in the regional league, the amateurs of EHC Wolfsburg withdrew.

Regional League East

For the 2008/2009 season, the original North-East Regionalliga was split into the two non-interlinked North and East regional leagues. The Berliner SC, who want to register for the Sachsenliga, was eliminated in 2007. ERV 07 Chemnitz "Wild Boys" is new in the Regionalliga Ost as a newcomer from the Sachsenliga. The master can be promoted to the league 2009/10

Preliminary round

In the preliminary round, a double round is played. The best four teams take part in the playoffs.

Pl.	team	Sp	Gates	Dif.	Pt.
1.	ECC Preussen Juniors Berlin	24	147: 89	+53	51
2.	Black Dragons Erfurt (A)	24	118: 96	+22	49
3.	EHV Schönheide	24	140: 111	+29	45
4th	ELV Tornado Niesky	24	114: 104	+10	40
5.	EHC Jonsdorfer Falken	24	101: 92	9	34
6th	ERV Chemnitz 07 "Wild Boys" (N)	24	97: 132	−35	26th
7th	FASS Berlin	24	82: 175	−93	7th

Playoffs

Semi-finals (Best of Three)

• ECC Preussen Juniors Berlin - ELV Niesky ¹ 2: 1 (5: 0, 4: 5 n.p., 5: 1)
• EHC Thuringia Erfurt - EHV Schönheide 2: 1 (8: 1, 2: 6, 8: 7)

¹ home game of ELV Niesky in Weisswasser

Final (Best of Three) ECC Preussen Juniors Berlin - EHC Thuringia Erfurt 2: 1 (8: 1, 3: 4 n.p., 8: 2)

The Preussen Berlin are thus champions of the Regionalliga Ost 2009. The Berliners decided not to move up to the top division due to the unresolved situation in the hall after the Germany hall was demolished .

Regionalliga North Rhine-Westphalia

Twelve teams take part in the Regionalliga NRW in 2008/09. The Herner EV rose to the upper league, the GSC Moers rose to the association league, the ESC Trier had already withdrawn its team during the preseason. Mosquitos Essen, Ratinger Ice Aliens and Herner EV 1b are new to the league. The clubs play a single round as a preliminary round. The first six teams then take part in the league promotion round, the remaining clubs play the regional league cup and stay in the regional league with the best teams in the association league.

Pl.	team	Sp	Gates	Dif.	Pt.
1.	EHC Dortmund	22nd	171: 39	+132	64
2.	DEG ice hockey	22nd	166: 62	+104	53
3.	Mosquito food (N)	22nd	132: 68	+64	48
4th	Dinslaken cobras	22nd	113: 76	+37	46
5.	Ratinger Ice Aliens (N)	22nd	136: 69	+67	45
6th	Neusser EV	22nd	163: 87	+76	37
7th	Königsborner JEC	22nd	99:99	0	31
8th.	Lippe Hockey Hamm	22nd	108: 102	+6	29
9.	Iserlohner EC	22nd	85:88	−3	22nd
10.	EHC Troisdorf	22nd	71: 128	−57	12
11.	EC Bergisch Land	22nd	52: 198	−146	9
12.	Herner EV 1b (N)	22nd	33: 313	−280	0
As of December 29, 2008

NRW Cup round

NRW Cup winner was Lippe-Hockey Hamm. The cup round was played as a simple round with 56 games. Participants were the six relegated from the main round of the NRW Regionalliga and the two promoted Bergisch Gladbach and EHC Neuwied.

Pl.	team	Sp	Gates	Dif.	Pt.
1.	Lippe Hockey Hamm	14th	105: 36	+69	37
2.	Königsborner JEC	14th	89:24	+65	32
3.	Iserlohner EC	14th	75:44	+31	29
4th	EHC Troisdorf	14th	68:50	+18	23
5.	EHC Neuwied	14th	86:54	+32	21st
6th	Bergisch Gladbach	14th	73:81	−8	20th
7th	EC Bergisch Land	14th	33: 117	−84	3
8th.	Herner EV 1b	14th	37: 160	−123	3

Regionalliga Hessen

The Regionalliga Hessen plays with six teams. After a single round, the best two teams are entitled to participate in the joint promotion round to the upper league, the remaining teams play a relegation round with the best teams in the regional league. New in the league is the promoted Eintracht Frankfurt for the relegated TSG Darmstadt.

Pl.	team	Sp	Gates	Dif.	Pt.
1.	RSC Darmstadt	6th		+27	16
2.	Young Lions Frankfurt	5		+15	11
3.	Rote Teufel Bad Nauheim 1b	7th		+12	8th
4th	EV Wiesbaden	4th		−15	6th
5.	VERC Lauterbach	3		+6	3
6th	Eintracht Frankfurt	5		−45	0
As of November 30, 2008

The Regionalliga Hessen was merged with the Regionalliga NRW in 2009. However, only the Young Lions Frankfurt took part in the new Regionalliga West , the also qualified RSC Darmstadt started as well as the other, non-qualified clubs in the new Hessenliga .

Baden-Württemberg League

The eleven participants of the Baden-Württembergliga are divided into two groups in the preliminary round, in each of which a single round is played. The first two of each group then play in a further single round, the two participants in the joint promotion round to the upper league. The remaining nine teams play the Baden-Württemberg champions. In the main round four participants in the championship round with the remaining two teams in the qualifying round. With the Zweibrücken Hornets, a team from Rhineland-Palatinate also takes part in the league.

Championship round

Pl.	team	Sp	Gates	Pt.
1.	Mannheim ERC	14th	114: 37	39
2.	EHC polar bears Heilbronn	14th	96:57	32
3.	EHC Freiburg amateurs	14th	78:50	28
4th	Schwenninger ERC Fire Wings	14th	73:61	23
5.	EV Ravensburg amateurs	14th	45:71	18th
6th	EHC Zweibrücken	14th	49:98	15th
7th	ESC Bad Liebenzell	14th	55:72	13
-	EC polar bears Eppelheim	14th	36: 107	1

The EC Eppelheim was subsequently removed from the evaluation.

Qualifying round for promotion round

Pl.	team	Sp	Gates	Dif.	Pt.
1.	ESV Hügelsheim	6th	48:11	+37	18th
2.	Stuttgart Rebels	6th	19:27	−8	9
3.	Mannheim ERC	6th	19:33	−14	6th
4th	EHC polar bears Heilbronn	6th	19:34	−15	3

Group A

Pl.	team	Sp	Gates	Dif.	Pt.
1.	ESV Hügelsheim	8th	86:16	+60	24
2.	Mannheim ERC	8th	40:28	+12	17th
3.	Schwenninger ERC Fire Wings	8th	40:44	−4	12
4th	ESC Bad Liebenzell	8th	27:54	−27	6th
5.	EV Ravensburg amateurs	8th	22:73	−51	1
-	ESV Zollernalb

The ESV Zollernalb withdrew from the game on October 10th and was taken out of the rating.

Group B

Pl.	team	Sp	Gates	Dif.	Pt.
1.	EHC polar bears Heilbronn	8th	55:27	+28	20th
2.	Stuttgart Rebels 1	8th	56:23	+33	19th
3.	EHC Freiburg amateurs	8th	51:39	+12	10
4th	EHC Zweibrücken	8th	42:66	−24	8th
5.	EC polar bears Eppelheim	8th	25:74	−49	3

¹ The SC Bietigheim-Bissingen 1b plays as a syndicate with the Stuttgart EC under the name Stuttgart Rebels in Stuttgart .

Promotion round to the Oberliga (North Rhine-Westphalia, Baden-Württemberg, Hesse)

The best six teams of the RL NRW, as well as the best two clubs of the RL Hessen and the Baden-Württembergliga take part in the joint promotion round to the Oberliga. After the preliminary round, the best 4 teams qualified for the playoffs.

Pl.	team	Sp	S.	V	Gates	Dif.	Pt.
1.	ESV Hügelsheim	18th	14th	4th	128: 61	67	43
2.	EHC Dortmund	18th	14th	4th	133: 39	94	42
3.	Neusser EV	18th	14th	4th	111: 45	66	40
4th	DEG ice hockey	18th	12	6th	114: 54	60	36
5.	ESC eating mosquitoes	18th	12	6th	95:75	20th	34
6th	Dinslaken cobras	18th	9	9	91:70	21st	28
7th	Ratinger Ice Aliens	18th	8th	10	88:68	20th	26th
8th.	Stuttgart Rebels	18th	5	13	52:87	−35	14th
9.	Young Lions Frankfurt	18th	1	17th	38: 207	−169	5
10.	RSC Darmstadt	18th	1	17th	46: 190	−144	2
As of March 18, 2009

Play-offs

Semi-finals (Best of Two)

• ESV Hügelsheim - DEG ice hockey 1: 1 (2: 5, 8: 7 a.d.)
• EHC Dortmund - Neusser EV 2: 0 (3: 1, 6: 1)

final

• EHC Dortmund - DEG Ice Hockey 2: 0 (4: 1, 5: 1)

Ascent

The best-placed club from each of the three regional associations involved was able to move up to the league . The EHC Dortmund took advantage of the promotion, while the Young Lions Frankfurt and ESV Hügelsheim waived (Hügelsheim also had to file for bankruptcy in summer 2009).

Bayern League

Höchstadt Erding Memmingen Schweinfurt Koenigsbrunn Villages Peissenberg Sonthofen Pfaffenhofen Pfronten Buchloe Same Germering Waldkraiburg Dingolfing Nuremberg

Participant of the Bayernliga 2008/09

The sixteen participants of the Bavarian Ice Hockey League (BEL) play the eight participants in the upper and lower intermediate round in a single round, divided into 2 groups of 4 teams. In the second round, the playoff semi-finalists and the playoffdown semi-finalists are played. For the relegated EV Fürstenfeldbruck and the EC Ulm / Neu-Ulm, which had withdrawn during the previous season, the ESV Buchloe and the EV Dingolfing rose. Analogous to the regulations in the DEL and the ESBG, the winner of a game receives three points in the BEL; in the event of a tie, a winner is determined in the penalty shoot-out, who then receives two points, the loser receives one point.

Pl.	team	Sp	S.	U	N	Gates	Dif.	Pt.
1.	TSV Peissenberg	30th	21st	0	9	142: 100	+42	63
2.	ERV Schweinfurt	30th	21st	0	9	169: 127	+42	59
3.	Highest age EC	30th	18th	0	12	145: 107	+38	56
4th	TSV Erding 1	30th	18th	0	12	137: 104	+33	53
5.	ESC Dorfen 1	30th	17th	0	13	117: 106	+11	53
6th	ESV Buchloe (N) 1	30th	17th	0	13	98:86	+12	53
7th	VER Same	30th	17th	0	13	153: 120	+33	52
8th.	ECDC Memmingen	30th	17th	0	13	129: 97	+32	51
9.	ERC Sonthofen 1999	30th	16	0	14th	117: 113	+4	49
10.	EHC Waldkraiburg	30th	16	0	14th	134: 116	+18	48
11.	ESV Königsbrunn	30th	16	0	14th	108: 104	+4	45
12.	Wanderers Germering	30th	12	0	18th	129: 150	−21	37
13.	EC Pfaffenhofen	30th	10	0	20th	113: 144	−31	29
14th	EV Pfronten	30th	10	0	20th	79: 124	−45	28
15th	EHC 80 Nuremberg	30th	9	0	21st	89: 156	−67	25th
16.	EV Dingolfing (N)	30th	5	0	11	85: 188	−103	19th
As of February 2, 2009

¹ Direct comparison in accordance with 3.4.1 EH-Dufuebest in connection with Art. 26 No. 2 DEB-SpO:

• Erding 8 points (4: 6 against Buchloe, 3: 0 in Buchloe, 6: 4 against Dorfen, 3: 2 afterwards in Dorfen)
• Dorfen 7 points (2: 1 in Buchloe, 3: 1 against Buchloe)
• Buchloe 3 points

Upper intermediate round

Group A

Pl.	team	Sp	S.	U	N	Gates	Dif.	Pt.
1.	TSV Peissenberg	6th	0	0	0	40:18	+22	13
2.	ESC Dorfen	6th	0	0	0	21:24	−3	12
3.	ECDC Memmingen	6th	0	0	0	17:27	−10	6th
4th	TSV Erding	6th	0	0	0	22:31	−9	5
As of March 2, 2009

Group B

Pl.	team	Sp	S.	U	N	Gates	Dif.	Pt.
1.	ERV Schweinfurt	6th	0	0	0	34:23	+11	12
2.	Highest age EC	6th	0	0	0	29:19	+10	11
3.	VER Same	6th	0	0	0	18:32	−14	7th
4th	ESV Buchloe	6th	0	0	0	20:27	−7	6th
As of March 2, 2009

Play-offs

Semi-finals (best-of-three mode)

• TSV Peißenberg - Höchstadter EC 2-1 (5: 2, 2: 4, 6: 5 n.p.)
• ERV Schweinfurt - ESC Dorfen 2-0 (6: 3, 3: 2)

Finale (Best-of-Three mode)

• TSV Peißenberg - ERV Schweinfurt 0: 2 (4: 6, 2: 6)

The ERV Schweinfurt is thus champions of the Bavarian League 2009. Schweinfurt renounced promotion to the Oberliga; Peißenberg also renounced who were eligible for promotion as successors.

Lower intermediate round

Group A

Pl.	team	Sp	S.	U	N	Gates	Dif.	Pt.
1.	EC Pfaffenhofen	6th	0	0	0	27:27	+0	13
2.	EV Dingolfing	6th	0	0	0	24:18	+6	11
3.	Wanderers Germering 1	6th	0	0	0	18:23	−5	6th
4th	ERC Sonthofen 1999 1st	6th	0	0	0	20:21	−1	6th
As of March 2, 2009

¹ Direct comparison:

• Germering 3 point 8: 5 goals
• Sonthofen 3 point 5: 8 goals

Group B

Pl.	team	Sp	S.	U	N	Gates	Dif.	Pt.
1.	EHC Waldkraiburg	6th	0	0	0	37:16	+21	17th
2.	EV Pfronten	6th	0	0	0	21:23	−2	9
3.	ESV Königsbrunn	6th	0	0	0	16:15	+1	7th
4th	EHC 80 Nuremberg	6th	0	0	0	14:34	−20	3
As of March 2, 2009

Play-downs

Semi-finals (Best of Three mode)

• ESV Königsbrunn - ERC Sonthofen 1999 0: 2 (6: 7 afterwards, 5: 7)
• Wanderers Germering - EHC 80 Nürnberg 0: 2 (1: 7, 4: 5)

Finale (Best of Two mode)

• EHC 80 Nuremberg - ERC Sonthofen 1999 0: 2 (1: 7, 1: 5)

The teams of Wanderers Germering and ESV Königsbrunn are relegated to the Bavarian State League. The two teams will be replaced by the newly promoted EHC Bayreuth and EV Regensburg . With the relegation of TEV Miesbach from the Oberliga, the EHC 80 Nuremberg team is also relegated to the Landesliga.