European Women's Hockey League
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| Full name | European Women's Hockey League |
| Current season | 2019/20 |
| sport | ice Hockey |
| abbreviation | EWHL |
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 Magyar Jégkorong Szövetség
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| League foundation | 2004 |
| Teams | 10 |
| Country countries |
 4 teams 2 teams 1 team 1 team 1 team 1 team
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| Record champions | 6 × EHV Sabers Vienna |
| Website | ewhl.com |
| ↑ EWHL Supercup ↓ DEBL
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The European Women's Hockey League ( EWHL for short ; until 2019 Elite Women's Hockey League ) is a multinational women's ice hockey league that was founded in 2004 by the International Ice Hockey Federation IIHF based on the model of the Interliga and whose participating countries are primarily in Central Europe .
Since 2011, the EWHL Super Cup has been another competition in which clubs from the EWHL, the German women's ice hockey Bundesliga and, until 2016, the Swiss champions take part.
history
The league was founded in 2004 by the International Ice Hockey Federation IIHF based on the model of the Interliga , a multinational league in men's ice hockey . The first season started with eight participants from Austria , Italy , Hungary and Slovenia . Austria alone, which integrated the EWHL games into the national championship competition from the start , provided half of the participants. With the EHV Sabers Wien , an Austrian club also secured its first championship title.
In the following three years, other teams from other Central European countries joined them. With the accession of Slovakia to the 2005/06 season , Croatia to the 2006/07 season and the Czech Republic to play year 2007/08 the number of participating countries increased within three years to seven. Associated with this was an increase in the number of participants, which reached its peak with twelve teams in the 2006/07 season. The championship titles between 2006 and 2009 were shared by HC Slovan Bratislava from Slovakia and HC Slavia Prague from the Czech Republic.
From the 2008/09 season , the number of participants fell sharply, although Germany was represented in the competition with two teams for the first time. In the following season a German team won the title for the first time with the ESC Planegg / Würmtal . With only six participants, who were spread over five countries, the league reached a low in this regard. For the 2010/11 game year , the number of participants increased again to eight. The Dutch women's national team was among the new teams . The championship was won by EHV Sabers Vienna, seven years after winning the title for the first time.
The Austrian ice hockey association had organized and carried out the league until 2019 , but the Hungarian association took over these functions for the 2019/20 season. In order to clarify the position of the competition in European women's ice hockey, the league was also renamed the European Women's Hockey League .
mode
As a rule, the competition is carried out in the league system , whereby the teams determine the champions in a preliminary and second round. A team receives three points for a win and two points for a win after extra time . The losing team received no points after regular time, but one point if they lost after extra time.
Only in the 2005/06 season did the teams first play a qualification in two divisions and then win the championship in a playoff round. In the 2010/11 season , a similar mode was being followed. After a qualifying round, the four best teams determined the champions in a two-day final tournament.
master
Individual evidence
- ↑ EWHL premiere in Sterzing. In: evbz-hockeyacademy.it. EVB Hockey Academy, September 8, 2019, accessed January 26, 2020 .
Web links
- Official website
- former website (around 2017)
- ewhl.com - Official Website - 2013 ( Memento from August 21, 2013 in the Internet Archive )