Ice hockey in the Czech Republic

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Ice hockey in the Czech Republic
Association: Český svaz ledního hokeje (ČSLH)
Founding: 1993 (successor to ČSFR)
IIHF member since: 1909 / 1993
Men's
1st  EM participation: 1911 as Bohemia
1st  World Cup participation: 1920 as ČSR, 1993 as ČR
1st  OL participation: 1928 as ČSR, 1994 as ČR
Medal wins (only as CR):
WM: 5 × gold, 1 × silver, 3 × bronze
1st  championship : 1993/94
1st  national champion : HC Sparta Prague
Record champions : VHK Vsetín (6 ×)
Jaromír Jágr at the 2010 Olympic Games

Ice hockey isone of the most popular sportsin the Czech Republic and even more popular than soccer. Over 109,000 players out of a total population of around 10.6 million people practice this sport. Due to this, there is a comparatively high density of ice rinks in the country and very good youth work. This in turn resulted in great successes for the Czech national ice hockey team .

history

On January 1, 1993, the Czechoslovak Federation dissolved and the two sovereign states of the Czech Republic and Slovakia emerged. The IIHF decided that the Czech national ice hockey team would become the sporting legal successor to the Czechoslovak national ice hockey team . The main reason for this was that the national team had a smaller number of Slovak players until 1992: a quota was used to ensure that there were always more Czechs than Slovaks in the national team.

The newly established Czech national ice hockey team was able to participate in the A group at the ice hockey world championship in 1993 , which began on April 18, 1993 , while Slovakia had to relegate to the so-called C group. There was a special feature at the U20 World Cup taking place at the turn of the year 1992/93 , in which the Czechoslovak junior national team took part. She played the tournament as a team of the Czech and Slovak Republic to the end and took third place.

Tournaments and championships

League system (men)

The "league pyramid" is a schematic representation of the structure of the Czech ice hockey league system.

Level 1 Extra league
Relegation matches between the 1st league and the extra league
Level 2 1st League
one possible promoter, two possible relegators
Level 3 2nd league západ 2nd league střed 2nd league východ
a possible climber, a possible relegated a possible climber, a possible relegated a possible climber, a possible relegated
  • The Extraliga is the top division in the Czech ice hockey system. 14 professional teams play for the Czech championship. In 52 matches, all teams play against each other four times, each team has 26 home and 26 away games over the entire season. Play-off : The teams in places 1 - 6 qualify directly for the play-off, which is played in the best-of-seven mode. The teams in places 7-10 play the other two participants in the play-off quarter-finals in best-of-five mode. The remaining teams determine the participant in the relegation to the 1st league in the play-outs. 1
  • The next lower division is the 1st division . In the second division in the Czech Republic, 14 (since 2007: 16) teams play against each other in four rounds, so each team has 52 games after the first phase. Play-Off: The teams in places 1 - 8 qualify for the play-off, which is played in the best-of-five mode. The champion of the second division takes part in the promotion relegation against the loser of the extra league pla-outs. 2 Relegation: The thirteenth and fourteenth in the table must go into the relegation. In this, the two best placed in the 2nd division group west and middle and the winner of the 2nd division group east play in a round-trip round for participation in the first division in the following season. The first two teams play in the first division, all other teams in the second division.
  • Below the 1st division is the 2nd division . It is divided into three groups (west, middle, east) of 12 teams each, so it comprises a total of 36 teams. In the first phase, the teams play a double round in one round, each team has 22 games. In the second phase, the teams in the even places play a double round against teams in the odd places. Teams that end up in ranks 9th - 12th after this phase play in a round-trip round against relegation. Play-Off: The teams in places 1 - 8 qualify for the play-off, which is played in the best-of-five mode. Relegation: The bottom of the table in each group play in a relegation to remain in the 2nd division.
  • Competitions of the individual district associations are held below the 2nd league, but not all district associations have their own competition, for example clubs from the district associations of South Moravia and Zlin play in one league. The associations are in detail: Prague, Central Bohemia, South Bohemia, Pilsen, Ústí nad Labem, Hradec Králové, South Moravia, Moravian-Silesia, Karlovy Vary, Liberec, Pardubice, Vysočina, Olomouc, Zlin

National teams

For coaches, players and placements of the Czech national teams, see Czech national ice hockey team

Rule features

For the 2005/06 season, the top division of men in the Czech Republic, the Extraliga, decided to deviate from the international ice hockey rules. The two-line pass , which was abolished internationally in 1998, is being reintroduced. In addition, the touch is so called, despite the higher risk of injury, Icing reintroduced. This was abolished in the then Czechoslovak Extraliga in 1990 after the death of Luděk Čajka .

Since the 2007/08 season, only one template provider has been included in the player statistics , which is intended to emphasize the importance of the decisive pass.

Remarks

1 Until 2007 there was no relegation, teams can buy in or be excluded for financial reasons.
2 Until 2007, the champions of the 1st division could buy into the extra division.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ About Czech Hockey. International Ice Hockey Federation, accessed January 5, 2017 (as of January 2017).
  2. ↑ Urs Berger: How brotherly love became rivalry. In: hockeyfans.ch. Retrieved January 6, 2017 .
  3. ^ Marc Rohde: History: Ice hockey in Slovakia. In: LIVE-Wintersport.com. November 12, 2007, accessed January 6, 2017 .
  4. ↑ eurohockey.net, Czech Extraliga to see new-old rules

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