Ice hockey in France
 Ice hockey in France
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| Association: | Fédération Française de Hockey sur Glace (FFHG) |
| Founded: | 1907/29. April 2006 |
| IIHF member since: | October 20, 1908 (founding member) |
| Men's | |
| 1st EM participation: | 1923 |
| 1st World Cup participation: | 1930 |
| 1st OL participation: | 1928 |
| Medals won: | EM: 1 × gold, 1 × silver |
| 1st championship : | 1904 |
| 1st national champion : | Club de Patineurs de Paris |
| Record champions : | HC Chamonix (30 ×) |
| 1st international match: |
Belgium - France March 4, 1905 in Brussels, 0: 3 |
| Women | |
| 1st EM participation: | 1991 |
| 1st World Cup participation: | 1999 |
| 1st OL participation: | - |
| Medals won: | - |
| 1st championship : | 1987 |
| 1st national champion : | CSG Grenoble |
| Record champions : | HC Cergy-Pontoise (14 ×) |
Ice hockey is a marginal sport in France , which clearlyranksbehind football , rugby and handball in terms of importance. Approx. 17,000 people, including 2,800 women, practice this sport.
history
The French ice hockey federation was one of the founding associations of the IIHF and played an important role in the early days of European ice hockey. The "Equipe de France" lost this role after the Second World War and did not even take part in the world championships from 1954 to 1960 . Until 1991, the national team shuttled between the C and B world championship groups. In the 1990s, the team was able to consolidate internationally, played consistently in the A group, from which it was relegated in 2000 . The reassignment to the A group, now renamed "Top Division", was achieved at the World Cup of Division I Group A (formerly World Cup Group B) in 2007 in China. At the 2008 World Cup in Canada , the team was able to secure the membership of the best national ice hockey teams.
In the 1990s, the importance of women's ice hockey also increased in France : the "Equipe feminines" has been taking part in international tournaments since 1990. However, since the training opportunities for women are also very limited here and the women are purely an amateur sport, national and international attention to the French female selection is very limited. Nevertheless, increases in ice hockey players in France in recent years can be found mainly in women's ice hockey: While the number of French ice hockey players remained roughly the same between 1999 and 2006, the number of women players increased from around 1,000 to over 2,800.
Ice hockey is still a marginal sport in France, but it has gained more attention in recent years and some clubs, mainly in smaller cities with little sporting competition, are now enjoying solid audience and media popularity, including Grenoble , Rouen , Amiens , Gap , Epinal , Angers , Briancon and Tours . Ice hockey has also grown in popularity in some major cities such as Lyon and Bordeaux in recent years. The final of the French Cup has been taking place in the AccorHotels Arena in Paris for a number of years and has up to 13,300 spectators annually, which regularly sets a new attendance record for French club ice hockey games.
Tournaments and championships
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Championships
- general French master
- for details see league system
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International tournaments
- Men's Olympic ice hockey tournaments in France
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Men's ice hockey world championships in France
- 1930 ( Chamonix , parts of the World Cup took place due to thaw in Berlin and Vienna )
- 1951 (Paris)
- 1968 ( Grenoble , as part of the Olympic Games)
- C-Cup 1974 ( Grenoble , Lyon and Gap )
- 1985 C-WM ( Megève , Chamonix and Saint-Gervais-les-Bains )
- B World Cup 1990 ( Lyon and Megève )
- WM Division I, Group A 2001 ( Grenoble )
- WM Division I, Group A 2006 ( Amiens )
- 2017 (Paris, together with Cologne, Germany)
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Ice hockey world championships for women in France
- B-WM 1999 ( Colmar )
- WM Division I 2001 ( Briançon )
League system in France (men)
The "league pyramid" shows the structure of the French ice hockey league system schematically.
| Level 1 | Ligue Magnus | |||||||||||
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| a direct relegated, penultimate completed relegation game against the second in Division I. | ||||||||||||
| Level 2 | Division 1 | |||||||||||
| D1 Poule Sud | D1 Poule North | |||||||||||
| one direct promoter, one possible promoter, up to four relegated members in Division II | ||||||||||||
| Level 3 | Division II | |||||||||||
| D2 Poule Sud | D2 Poule North | |||||||||||
| Level 4 | Division III | |||||||||||
| D3 Groupe A, Ouest | D3 Groupe B, Île-de-France Center | D3 Groupe C, Île-de-France Nord | D3 Groupe D, Est | D3 Groupe E, Alpes | D3 Groupe F, Sud | |||||||
- The Ligue Magnus is the top division in French ice hockey. 14 professional teams play for the French championship. Relegation : The two bottom of the table play in a relegation for direct relegation. The loser of the "play-downs" is relegated, the winner must then be relegated to the second in Division I.
- Below Division III there is an amateur betting company in various regions.
National teams
For coaches, players and placements of the French national teams, see French national ice hockey team
Footnotes
- ↑ Until April 2006 the "Comité Hockey sur Glace" was a section of the "Fédération Française des Sports de Glace", which was founded in 1907.
- ↑ Listing of the FFHG about the international games of France (PDF) hockeyfrance.com
- ↑ Status 2006, IIHF information ( Memento from September 27, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) (PDF; 22 kB)
- ^ Past Tournaments ( English ) IIHF. Archived from the original on March 4, 2018. Retrieved March 24, 2019.
- ↑ comparison of the IIHF statistics 2005/06 ( Memento of 27 September 2007 at the Internet Archive ) (PDF, 22 kB) and the statistics from 1999 ( Memento of 20 October 2007 at the Internet Archive )