Euro Hockey Challenge
The Euro Hockey Challenge is a competition for the twelve best European ice hockey national teams . It has been held annually before the start of the World Cup in April since 2011 and, along with the Euro Hockey Tour, is an unofficial European ice hockey championship .
Participants and placements
Eligible to participate are the twelve best European teams in the IIHF world rankings that will also take part in the subsequent ice hockey world championship.
| 2011 | 2012 | 2013 | 2014 | 2015 | 2016 | 2017 | 2018 | |
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 Denmark
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9. | 9. | 9. | 12. | 6th | 10. | 12. | 10. |
 Germany
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6th | 4th | 10. | 8th. | 7th | 11. | 6th | 9. |
 Finland
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 France
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- | 11. | 11. | 11. | 5. | 12. | 8th. | 8th. |
 Latvia
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11. | 7th | 12. | 7th | 11. | 7th | 9. | 12. |
 Norway
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10. | 13. | |
9. | 10. | 9. | 11. | 7th |
 Austria
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12. | 8th. | - | - | - | - | - | - |
 Russia
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8th. | 6th | 8th. | 5. | 8th. | 5. | 7th | 6th |
 Sweden
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6th | 5. |
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 Switzerland
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4th | |
5. | 4th | 4th | 4th | |
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 Slovakia
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7th | 12. | 7th | 6th | 9. | 8th. | 4th | 4th |
 Czech Republic
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4th | |
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 Belarus
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5. | 10. | 6th | 10. | 12. | |
10. | 11. |
mode
General
During the tournament, each team will play eight (until 2014: six) games. Between two teams, two games are usually played within two or three days in one country. All games are recorded in a table.
The game is played in a three-point system, i.e. each team receives three points for a win, two points for an overtime win and one point for a defeat after extra time.
2011-2014
The associations were divided into three pools based on the IIHF world rankings . The first four teams formed pool A, the next six teams pool B and the last two teams pool C. All twelve teams in turn were divided into two groups A and B. In the first phase in April 2011, two A-pool teams and one C-pool team of group A played against three B-pool teams of group A. Two pool-A-teams and one pool-C-team of group B played against the three other pool B teams in group B. In the second season 2011/12, the three pool B teams each changed groups.
The tournaments at a glance
| season | winner | 2nd place | 3rd place |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2011 |
Finland
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Sweden
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Czech Republic
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| 2012 |
Czech Republic
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Switzerland
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Finland
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| 2013 |
Sweden
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Finland
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Norway
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| 2014 |
Sweden
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Finland
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Czech Republic
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| 2015 |
Czech Republic
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Sweden
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Finland
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| 2016 |
Finland
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Belarus
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Czech Republic
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| 2017 |
Switzerland
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Finland
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Czech Republic
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| 2018 |
Czech Republic
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Finland
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Sweden
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| Tournament mode with three divisions | |||
| season | Northern division | Division center | Continental Division |
| 2019 |
Sweden
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Czech Republic
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Russia
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Medal table
after 8 tournaments
| rank | country |
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total |
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| 1 |
Czech Republic
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3 | 4th | 7th | |
| 2 |
Finland
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2 | 4th | 2 | 8th |
| 3 |
Sweden
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2 | 2 | 1 | 5 |
| 4th |
Switzerland
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1 | 1 | 2 | |
| 5 |
Belarus
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1 | 1 | ||
| 6th |
Norway
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1 | 1 |
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b hockey-news.info, The "Euro Hockey Challenge" starts on March 30th. Austria starts against Germany
- ↑ deb-online.de, Euro Hockey Challenge ( Memento of the original from March 16, 2013 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.
