Erste Bank Young Stars League

EBYSL

Full name	Erste Bank Young Stars League
Current season	2017/18
sport	ice Hockey
abbreviation	EBYSL
Association	Austrian Ice Hockey Association
League foundation	2012
Teams	17th
Country countries	Austria 7 teams Hungary 7 teams Slovenia 2 teams Czech Republic 1 team
Title holder	SAPA Fehérvár AV19
Record champions	SAPA Fehérvár AV19 (3)
Website	www.erstebankliga.at/ebysl
↑ EBEL ↓ EBJL

Debrecen-Miskolce Select EC VSV LLZ / Graz 99ers EC Red Bull Salzburg Vienna Capitals EHC Linz HK Slavija Ljubljana HD mladi Jesenice MAC Budapest KMH Budapest ÚTE Budap. Fehérvár AV19 Orli Znojmo HC Innsbruck Okanagan HC Europe Vasas Budapest Győri ETO HC

Map of all club locations for the 2017/18 season with group A ( ), group B ( )

The Erste Bank Young Stars League ( EBYSL for short ) is the highest junior league in Austrian ice hockey and has existed since the 2012/13 season. It is a joint project of the teams involved in the Austrian ice hockey league (Erste Bank Eishockey Liga). Like the EBEL, it is an international championship with clubs from Austria , Slovenia , Hungary and the Czech Republic . It replaces the national U-20 championship of the Austrian ice hockey association that had been held until then .

history

The Erste Bank Young Stars League is a direct result of the increased efforts by the EBEL clubs to promote young talent. The teams of the league had already sent farm teams in the lower performance levels into the race in the years before, but the results were mostly mixed. At the beginning of 2012, considerations were made for the first time to create a separate league, which was quickly put into practice; the EBYSL started operations for the next season. In the following year, a separate U18 league was established - the Erst Bank Juniors League (EBJL).

Field of participants

Participation is compulsory for all EBEL clubs. Only the Dornbirner EC and HC Bozen received an exception permit for the EBEL not to have to provide a team in the first season with regard to the build-up of the squad. The EC Red Bull Salzburg founded a syndicate with the second division club EK Zell am See , since the organization and its youth teams are also active in many international competitions (including in the Czech Republic).

The Lower Austria Stars were represented by two teams in the first season; in the future it will only be one. The team is the combat team of the St. Pölten-based Okanagan Hockey Academy Europe , which also has academy status. It is an offshoot of the Okanagan Hockey School from Penticton ( British Columbia , Canada ), which was founded in 1963 and was founded in 2008 .

At the beginning of the foreign teams there was also a team represented with the HD mladi Jesenice , which had no counterpart in the EBEL. The HK Jesenice ceased its gaming operations in the summer of 2012 for financial reasons. The EBYSL team was an independent club that was originally founded purely as a youth club and was intended to help rebuild the traditional Slovenian ice hockey location; however, the team only played one season.

Instead, two more Hungarian teams were added for the 2013/14 season.

Current teams

team	nation	Location	Remarks	last active season
EC Red Bull Salzburg	Austria	Salzburg , Salzburg , Austria		2016/17
EC VSV	Austria	Villach , Carinthia , Austria		2016/17
Vienna Capitals	Austria	Vienna , Austria		2016/17
EHC Linz	Austria	Linz , Upper Austria , Austria		2016/17
HC Innsbruck	Austria	Innsbruck , Tyrol , Austria		2016/17
LLZ South / Graz 99ers	Austria	Graz , Styria , Austria	Community of the EC Graz 99ers and the Landesleistungszentrum Süd	2016/17
Okanagan HC Europe	Austria	St. Pölten , Lower Austria , Austria	Ice hockey academy	2016/17
SAPA Fehérvár AV19	Hungary	Székesfehérvár , Hungary		2016/17
Vasas Budapest	Hungary	Budapest , Hungary		2016/17
MAC Budapest	Hungary	Budapest , Hungary		2016/17
KMH Budapest	Hungary	Budapest , Hungary		2016/17
UTE Budapest	Hungary	Budapest , Hungary	back from the 2017/18 season	2013/14
Győri ETO HC	Hungary	Győr , Hungary	New from the 2017/18 season	-
SPG Debrecen-Miskolce Select	Hungary	Debrecen & Miskolc , Hungary	Community of the 2 MOL clubs	2016/17
HK Slavija Ljubljana	Slovenia	Ljubljana , Slovenia		2016/17
HD mladi Jesenice	Slovenia	Jesenice , Slovenia	back from the 2017/18 season	2012/13
Orli Znojmo	Czech Republic	Znojmo , Czech Republic		2016/17

Former teams

team	nation	Location	Remarks	last active season
EC KAC	Austria	Klagenfurt , Carinthia , Austria		2015/16
KHL Medveščak Zagreb	Croatia	Zagreb , Croatia		2016/17
HK Olimpija	Slovenia	Ljubljana , Slovenia		2016/17
HK Triglav Kranj	Slovenia	Kranj , Slovenia		2016/17

Playing times

2012/13 season

→ Main article : EBYSL 2012/13

The game was played with fourteen teams in two groups. After a simple round-trip round within the group and another, which was played across the league, the teams placed last were eliminated, while the remaining teams played another round-trip round. The two best-placed clubs from both groups qualified for the playoffs, which were held as the best-of-three series in the semifinals and finals.

After the basic round, the two groups were led by SAPA Fehérvár AV19 and HDD Olimpija Ljubljana. Since no Austrian teams followed in second place either, in addition to the league playoffs, a series for the Austrian U20 championship title was played out, which the LLZ Süd / Graz 99ers was able to win against the EC KAC. In the league playoffs, the Hungarian team SAPA Fehérvár AV19 prevailed against the Czech team Orli Znojmo and won the first championship title.

League table

SAPA Fehérvár AV19 2012/13

season	master	Austrian champion
2012/13	Fehérvár AV19	LLZ South / Graz 99ers
2013/14	HK Olimpija, Ljubljana	EC KAC
2014/15	SAPA Fehérvár AV19	EHC Linz
2015/16	EC Red Bull Salzburg	EC Red Bull Salzburg
2016/17	Vienna Capitals	Vienna Capitals
2017/18	Fehervar AV19	EC VSV
2018/19	Fehervar AV19	EC VSV

Individual evidence

1. ^ The tug of war for the Junior-EBEL , report on www.hockeyfans.at from April 6, 2012
2. ↑ The Youngsters also play internationally , report on www.hockeyfans.at from August 28, 2012
3. ↑ Young stars contested the first season - a balance sheet , report on http://www.erstebankliga.at/de/ebysl/ from April 19, 2013

Web links

• EBYSL homepage with statistics