Ice hockey in Hanover
Hanover was one of the first German cities to play ice hockey . In 1910 the ice rink was opened, which wascalled Spittnapf due to its small size. After the end of the Second World War , ice hockey was rebuilt in Hanover mainly by displaced persons from Silesia and the Sudetenland . The Eissportgesellschaft Hannover (ESG) was foundedin May 1948, from which today's Hannover Indians emerged . The Hannover Scorpions , who became German champions in 2010, celebrated the greatest success of a club from Hannover. The Scorpions have their origin in Wedemark , a place in the Hanover region .
organization
The organization of ice hockey at the state level is subject to the Lower Saxony Ice Sports Association (NEV) , which is affiliated to the DEB . The NEV is also the umbrella organization for the sports of figure skating , ice stock sport and speed skating . In addition to organized ice hockey, there are also numerous hobby teams in the Hanover region that compete against each other in various hobby leagues.
history
Beginnings
The first ice hockey games in Hanover were played by the DHC Hanover , which today only operates hockey , tennis and lacrosse . The first games against teams from Leipzig and Berlin are assured for 1911. A very small ice rink was available in Hanover with the so-called spittoon .
Hanover Indians
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The Hanover Indians based in Kleefeld are the oldest and most traditional ice hockey club in the Lower Saxony state capital Hanover. The first forerunner of today's Indians was the ice hockey club in Hanover, which was founded in May 1948 by immigrants from Silesia and the Sudetenland (ESG) . The first game took place even before the foundation in January 1948 against the TC Grunewald-Berlin. Initially, a concrete surface behind the zoo was used as a training area, a usable ice surface was not yet available at the time.
In 1956, ESG merged with the Hanoverian Roll Sport Club (HRSC) to form the Roll- und Eissportgesellschaft Hanover (RESG) . However, some of roller sports turned because of too high hockey-heavy run new association, and in turn founded the mainly concentrating on Skates (u. A. Inline Skater Hockey ) ice and roller sports club Hannover (ERC) . In the summer of 1957, the RESG was given an area at the horse tower for the construction of an artificial ice rink, whereupon the ice rink at the horse tower was opened on November 7, 1959 and point games have been played since 1960.
On December 18, 1963, the club was renamed Eissport Club (EC) Hanover following a resolution at a general meeting . In 1984 this club went bankrupt, whereupon the Eissport Club (EC) was founded in Hanover . The EC in Hanover was a founding member of the German Ice Hockey League in 1994 and belonged to this league until 1996. After the EC went bankrupt in Hanover, there were initially two clubs that tried to succeed. One was the Kleefelder Eissportverein (KEV) , the other the Hannöversche Eissport-Club zu Kleefeld (HECK) . The KEV was given preference over the HECK, as most of the members had already converted to the KEV.
Since 2004, the professional team's gaming operations have been carried out by a gaming company called "EC Hannover Indians Eishockey-Spielbetriebs GmbH". The youth and women's teams are organized in the 2006 renamed EC Hannover Indians eV . The amateur teams were outsourced to the EC Pferdeturmtowers association in 2009 . In 2009 the Hanover Indians managed to qualify for the 2nd ice hockey Bundesliga after a 3-0 final series against the Rote Teufel Bad Nauheim . In 2013 they went back to the ice hockey league after bankruptcy .
ESC Wedemark / Hannover Scorpions
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The origin of the Hannover Scorpions lies in the municipality of Wedemark in its district of Mellendorf . In 1973 an artificial ice rink was built here next to the outdoor pool , which initially did not correspond to the dimensions of an ice hockey surface. Nevertheless, the Ice Sports Club (ESC) Wedemark was founded in 1975 and, in addition to ice hockey, also offered ice stock sport , figure skating and ice dancing . A year later, the area was then adapted to international standards for an ice hockey rink, so that point games could be played on it for the first time. In the 1977/78 season , a men's team first took part in the game operations of the then fourth-highest league, the Regionalliga Nord , and won the championship in its first season. However, this success was not repeatable in the following years and one could only occupy middle and lower places. In the 1990/91 season, through the entry of the financier and later owner Jochen Haselbacher into the club's management, the club's first ascent to the league was achieved.
Already in the first league season you could secure your class retirement with fifth place and in the following season you just missed promotion to the 2nd Bundesliga . In 1994 the Canadian duo and later club idols Joe West and Len Soccio finally succeeded in advancing to the double-track 1st division as the foundation of the newly founded DEL . The club was then renamed ESC Wedemark Wildcats and surprisingly reached the promotion round as a climber with fourth place, but where they failed at Heilbronn EC . The championship then succeeded only a year later in the 1995/96 season , where you could finish both the preliminary and the championship round with first place.
Because the financially troubled EC Hannover waived its DEL license, the ESC Wedemark Wildcats were able to take their place in the DEL, which is otherwise a closed league, as champions of the first division. The team was outsourced from the club to a limited company and was renamed Wedemark Scorpions in their first DEL season . A year later, the team changed its name to Hannover Scorpions due to its proximity to the state capital. It succeeded the Hanover Scorpions, u. a. also through the many obligations of former NHL players to establish themselves in the top German division.
In 2006 the parent club ESC Wedemark was renamed ESC Hannover. In 2008 the former owner of the DEL Club Hannover Scorpions Jochen Haselbacher and the managing director of the DEL Club Marco Stichnoth founded the ESC Wedemark Scorpions. This acted as the parent club of the Hannover Scorpions after disputes between the DEL Club and the previous parent club ESC Hannover (formerly ESC Wedemark) had come. In 2010 the cooperation between the Hanover Scorpions and the ESC Wedemark Scorpions also ended, the new parent club became the SC Langenhagen.
The Scorpions' greatest success was winning the German Championship in the 2009/2010 season .
In 2013 the Scorpions sold their DEL license to Schwenningen . A new club under the same name has since played in the top ice hockey league .
ESC Wedemark Scorpions (2008)
From 2012, the ESC Wedemark Scorpions, which was founded as a parent club in 2008, provided its own men's team (from 2016 also a second men's team), which started in the Association League North. In 2014 they rose to the Oberliga Nord, where they met the new Hannover Scorpions, who competed in the Oberliga Nord with Langenhagen after the sale of the DEL license in 2013 . Finally, in 2017, the men's teams of the Hannover Scorpions and the ESC Wedemark Scorpions merged. Since then, the Hannover Scorpions, operated by Hannover Scorpions Eishockey GmbH , have been playing in Wedemark; the ESC Wedemark Scorpions acts as the parent club.
Other clubs
Hannoverscher Eissport-Club zu Kleefeld (HECK)
Until the 2006/07 season, in addition to the teams of the Hanover Indians and the Hanover Scorpions , a senior team took part in the game operations - most recently in the Lower Saxony League - under the umbrella of the Hanoverian Eissport-Club zu Kleefeld (HECK) . The club renamed itself to Eissport - Club - Hannover eV ( ECH ) in January 2008 - but no longer takes part in games today.
EC Celler Oilers
In the absence of a stadium of its own, the EC Celler Oilers ice hockey team takes part in the stadiums of the Hanover region - mostly in the Ice-House Mellendorf, temporarily in the "Lenny Soccio Ice & Event Center" in Langenhagen . In the 2019/20 season, the Oilers play in the Landesliga Nord (sixth highest class).
EC Hannover horse tower towers
In the summer of 2009, in addition to the EC Hanover, the EC Hanover Horse Tower Towers was founded for the game operation of the men's teams, which took part in 2009/10 with two teams and in the season 2010/11 as part of the SG Hannover Braves together with the EC Hanover continued at the Oberliga Nord . After the end of the 2010/11 season, the club stopped participating in the game.
United North Stars
For the 2012/2013 season, EC Wedemark and SC Langenhagen formed a joint amateur team with which they played in the Regionalliga Nord. The EC Hannover Indians eV has also been involved in the syndicate since 2014. At the United North Stars, players from the Oberliga team Hannover Scorpions as well as the direct competitor EC Hannover Indians are deployed under double licenses. After the elimination of the EC Hannover Indians, the team - formed by EC Wedemark and SC Langenhagen - will compete as Hannover Scorpions 1b from 2016/17.
EC Wedemark
In the summer of 2005, the first team of ESC Wedemark was outsourced under the name Farmers , which was transferred to the independent club Ice Hockey Club Wedemark in June 2006 due to financial problems . After taking part in the Regionalliga North-East in 2005/06 , the team was withdrawn to the Association League North for the 2006/07 season. From the association league he was promoted to the Regionalliga North / East 2007/08 . In the summer of 2008, the team was withdrawn again in the Association League 2008/09. In the summer of 2009, the ice hockey club became the Eis Sport Club Wedemark , whose first team is nicknamed Scorpions . Its first team took over the right to play in the Regionalliga Nord . In 2010 the team was included in the Oberliga Nord , from which they had to relegate in the 2011/12 season . From 2012/2013 to 2015/16 the team played in a syndicate with SC Langenhagen under the name United North Stars in the Regionalliga Nord. From 2016/17 the team will play as Hannover Scorpions 1b.
SC Langenhagen
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The ice hockey department was founded for the 2008/09 season [2] and operates under the name Langenhagen Jets. The team played the 2008/09 and 2009/10 seasons in the Regionalliga Nord and qualified for the Oberliga Nord after the restructuring of the third division. However, the Jets withdrew from play before the start of the 2010/11 season and did not play a single game in the major league. The 1b team in the Regionalliga Nord thus became the club's first team. In 2012 a syndicate was agreed with EC Wedemark and played from 2012/13 to 2015/16 under the name United North Stars and from 2016/17 as Hannover Scorpions 1b in the Regionalliga Nord. A 1b team plays in the Association League North. The women's team Lady Jets emerged from the change of the women's team of the ESC Hannover Scorpions, which played in the 1st women's league North in the 2008/09 season, to Langenhagen. [3] To this day, the club plays in the second highest women's ice hockey class, each with a team in the 1st women's division North [4] and the 2nd division North. [5]
The ice hockey teams play in the Lenny Soccio Ice & Event Center Arena in Langenhagen. The founder of the ice rink is Len Soccio, whose jersey hangs under the roof of the Hannover Scorpions. According to initial plans in August 2006, the sports facility was completed in autumn 2008. Despite an insolvency in the spring of 2009, the operating company went bankrupt, but was able to remain open with a new company under his participation.
EC Horse Tower Hunters
From the 2016/17 season, the EC Pferdeturm Hunters, a new club with teams, will be taking part in the game: The 1st team originally intended for the Regionalliga Nord was withdrawn from the game on October 1, 2016, so that the club with one team in the - sixth class - Landesliga Nord will take part in the game operations and another team in the hobby-organized ice hockey Hanover Hobby League (EHHL).
Women ice hockey
For the first time in the 1992/93 season, a women's ice hockey team took part in the game under the umbrella of the EC in Hanover , which took part in the women's ice hockey Bundesliga from the 1997/98 season . After the end of the game operation at the EC , the team continued the game operation in the women's ice hockey Bundesliga under the umbrella of KEV Hannover until the 2000/01 season. After the season, the team moved to the Hannoversche Ice Sports Club to Kleefeld (REAR) and took the name Seahawks at the woman hockey Bundesliga 2001/02 part. During the 2002/03 season , the team was withdrawn from play in December 2002. The tradition of women's ice hockey teams was continued under the umbrella of today's EC Hannover Indians when a team played its first friendly match against SV Brackwede 1b for the first time in February 2003 . and from the 2003/04 season took part in the game again. In the 2008/09 season, in addition to the team of the EC Hannover Indians, a team under the umbrella of the ESC Hannover Scorpions took part in the game operation, which from the season 2009/10 played under the umbrella of the SC Langenhagen . For the 2018/2019 season, the women's team of the Hannover LadyJets switched to the EC Hannover Indians and played in the first women's ice hockey Bundesliga until the 2018/2019 season. The Hanover Lady Indians are currently playing in the 2nd division north .
Current teams
Men's
Status: 2019/20 season
| class | league | Teams |
|---|---|---|
| I. |
 DEL
|
no |
| II |
 DEL2
|
no |
| III |
Oberliga Nord
|
Hanover Indians Hanover Scorpions |
| IV |
 Regionalliga North
|
no |
| V |
Association League North |
EC Horse Tower Hunters ERC Wunstorf Lions |
| VI |
National League North |
EC Celler Oilers ERC Wunstorf Lions 1b EC Horse Tower Hunters 1b EC Horse Tower Hunters 1c |
Women
Status: 2019/20 season
| class | league | societies |
|---|---|---|
| I. |
 Bundesliga
|
no |
| II | 2nd League North | Hanover Indians |
Ice rinks
TUI Arena
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The TUI Arena ( Preussag Arena until 2004 ) is a multifunctional arena and was opened in April 2000, after a construction period of 21 months, as part of the Expo 2000 at the Hanover Exhibition Center . At ice hockey games it has a capacity of 10,767 spectators and between 2001 and 2013 it was the home ground of the Hannover Scorpions .
Ice stadium at the horse tower
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The ice rink at the horse tower was built in 1959 and offers space for 4608 spectators, mainly standing room. The ice hockey league team Hannover Indians plays its home games in the stadium.
hus de groot ice arena
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The hus de groot ice arena in Mellendorf is located approx. 20 km north of Hanover city center in Wedemark . The ice rink, built in 1974 as an open-air ice rink, is the former home ground of the Hannover Scorpions . Today the league team, the ESC Wedemark Scorpions, plays its home games in the 3800-seat ice rink.
Lenny Soccio Ice & Event Center
The Lenny Soccio Ice & Event Center, which can hold 1,400 spectators, was completed according to initial plans in August 2006 in autumn 2008 in the Hanover suburb of Langenhagen . The managing director is the former German national ice hockey player Len Soccio . Here in addition to bearing the Hannover Airport Langenhagen Jets and the multiple German Sledge Hockey champions the Ice Lions Langenhagen . Since the Oberliga Nord 2013/2014 season, the Hannover Scorpions have also played their home games here.
Individual evidence
- ^ A b Frank Bröker : Ice Hockey in Germany. Nothing for weak nerves. Publishing house Andreas Reiffer. ISBN 978-3-934896-93-2
- ↑ https://www.hockeyarchives.info/Allemagne1911.htm
- ↑ https://www.hockeyarchives.info/Allemagne1912.htm
- ↑ Website of the EC Celler Oilers (accessed online on May 1, 2010)
- ↑ Archived copy ( Memento of the original dated February 8, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ Hannover Scorpions, "United North Stars becomes Hannover Scorpions 1b" ( Memento of the original from July 23, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ Page no longer available , search in web archives: Issue EC Wedemark Farmers , issue 03 season 2008/09
- ↑ Page no longer available , search in web archives: Stadium booklet EC Wedemark Scorpions Issue 1 season 2009/10
- ^ LEV Lower Saxony April 17, 2012: "Report from the NEV Association Day 2012 (accessed online on April 19, 2012)
- ↑ http://eishockeyhannoverhobbyliga.de/ , EHHL Team Hunters
- ↑ Women's ice hockey: EC in Hanover (accessed online May 1, 2010)
- ↑ Women's ice hockey: Hannover Seahawks (accessed online May 1, 2010)
- ↑ Women's ice hockey: February 12, 2003 "KEV Hannover back on the ice" ( Memento of the original from October 6, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (accessed online on May 1, 2010)
- ↑ Women's ice hockey: EC Hannover Indians (accessed online May 1, 2010)
- ↑ Women's ice hockey: SC Langenhagen Lady Jets (accessed online on May 1, 2010)
- ↑ Women's Bundesliga: Lady Scorpions switch to the Indians - ice hockey division in Langenhagen closed. Retrieved January 24, 2020 .
- ^ German Ice Hockey Federation eV: Women's Bundesliga: Hanover Indians relegate, ECDC Memmingen presents in the final. Retrieved January 24, 2020 .
- ↑ Hockey Association NRW eV Accessed on January 24, 2020 .
