First League (ice hockey) 2017/18

First League
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Master:	MAC Budapest

The 2017/18 season is the tenth season of the international league of the Hungarian Ice Hockey Federation. After its name sponsor Erste Bank , the league will be called Erste Liga from 2017 to 2020 ; from 2008 to 2017 the league was known as the MOL league . In addition to Hungarian representatives, clubs from Romania and, for the first time, an Austrian team, the Vienna Capitals farm team, will take part in the league . The defending champion is the DVTK Jegesmedvék .

Attendees

Vienna Dunaújváros Brașov Miercurea Ciuc Székesfehérvár Miskolc Budapest (3 clubs)

Map of all locations of the First League in the 2017/18 season

Registration deadline for the league was June 15th. New to the league is a team from Vienna Capitals from Vienna, which is emerging from the previous junior team in the EBYSL . The HK Belgrade team from Serbia, which was only accepted into the league in 2016 , no longer reported. The Romanian club CSM Dunărea Galați from Romania, also included in 2016, was no longer admitted after a vote by the other clubs. The Hungarian club Debreceni HK had to withdraw its participation despite an extension until the end of June for financial reasons.

nation	team	place	Home arena	capacity
	DVTK Jegesmedvék	Miskolc	Miskolci Jégcsarnok	1,304
	Dab.Docler	Dunaújváros	Dunaújvárosi Jégcsarnok	3,500
	ASC Corona 2010 Brașov	Brașov	Patinoarul Olimpic Brașov	1,800
	Újpesti TE	Budapest	Megyeri úti jégpálya	2,000
	Ferencváros ESMTK	Budapest	Pesterzsébeti Jégcsarnok	1,200
	HSC Csíkszereda	Miercurea Ciuc	Lajos Vákár Stadium	1,800
	MAC Budapest	Budapest	Tüskecsarnok	2,540
	Fehérvári Titánok	Székesfehérvár	Székesfehérvár ice rink	3,500
	Vienna Capitals II	Vienna	Albert Schultz ice rink , hall 3	1,000

Main round

table

As of February 8, 2018

rank	team	Sp	S.	SNV	NNV	N	T	GT	TVH	Points
1.	DVTK Jegesmedvék	32	24	3	3	2	124	56	+68	81
2.	MAC Budapest	32	19th	2	3	8th	133	81	+52	64
3.	Dunaújvárosi Acélbikák	32	20th	0	1	11	116	89	+27	61
4th	UTE	32	15th	4th	0	13	106	93	+13	53
5.	SC Csíkszereda	32	15th	2	3	12	115	101	+14	52
6th	Ferencvárosi Torna Club	32	11	2	3	16	102	126	−24	40
7th	ASC Corona 2010 Brașov	32	9	3	4th	16	82	96	−14	37
8th.	Fehérvári Titánok	32	9	4th	2	17th	98	124	−26	37
9.	Vienna Capitals II	32	1	1	2	28	51	161	−110	7th

Championship round

Championship round

The teams received 4-2-1-0 bonus points after the regular season.

table

rank	team	Sp	S.	SNV	NNV	N	T	GT	TVH	Points
1.	MAC Budapest	6th	5	0	0	1	30th	18th	+12	17th
2.	DVTK Jegesmedvék	6th	4th	0	0	2	28	15th	+13	16
3.	Dunaújvárosi Acélbikák	6th	3	0	0	3	25th	22nd	+ 03	10
4th	UTE	6th	0	0	0	6th	12	40	−29	0

Playoff participation

Qualifying round

The teams received 4-2-1-0-0 bonus points after the regular season.

table

rank	team	Sp	S.	SNV	NNV	N	T	GT	TVH	Points
1.	ASC Corona 2010 Brașov	8th	7th	1	0	0	37	11	+26	24
2.	SC Csíkszereda	8th	4th	0	0	4th	30th	28	+ 02	16
3.	Ferencvárosi Torna Club	8th	3	0	1	4th	24	31	- 07th	12
4th	Fehérvári Titánok	8th	3	0	0	5	27	31	- 04th	9
5.	Vienna Capitals II	8th	2	0	0	6th	17th	34	−17	6th

Playoff participation

Top scorer

As of February 8, 2018

player	team	Sp	T	V	Pt	+/-
Janos Vas	DVTK Jegesmedvék	32	20th	21st	41	+16
Anže Ropret	UTE	31	15th	23	38	+9
Kelin Ainsworth	Fehérvári Titánok	26th	13	25th	38	+4
Tomas Klempa	MAC Budapest	31	14th	23	37	+21
Keegan Dansereau	MAC Budapest	31	21st	15th	36	+33
Peter Sakaris	DVTK Jegesmedvék	29	12	24	36	+16
Attila Pavuk	DVTK Jegesmedvék	32	13	21st	34	+23
Jared Brown	MAC Budapest	31	10	23	33	+17
Derek Schoenmakers	Fehérvári Titánok	28	18th	14th	32	+3
Peter Fabuš	SC Csíkszereda	30th	18th	14th	32	+26

Web links

• Official website of the First League
• Schedule (Hungarian)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ http://www.jegkorongszovetseg.hu/press-release-2
2. ↑ http://www.jegkorongszovetseg.hu/vienna-capitals-one-step-closer-to-joining-the-mol-league
3. ↑ http://www.laola1.at/de/red/wintersport/eishockey/ebel/news/vienna-capitals-stieg-in-die-mol-liga-ein/
4. ↑ https://www.viata-libera.ro/sport/90020-hochei-verdict-dur-primit-prin-e-mail-liga-mol-a-exclus-dunarea-galati
5. ↑ ^{a b} http://www.jegkorongszovetseg.hu/debrecen-will-not-have-a-senior-team-only-nine-teams-to-participate