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Hockey Club Meran (1968–2008) HC Meran Junior (2002–2013) Hockey Club Meran (since 2013) |
Location | Merano , Italy |
Club colors | black-and-white |
league | Italian Hockey League |
Venue | Meranarena |
capacity | 3,500 seats |
Head coach | Massimo Ansoldi |
The Hockey Club Meran (Italian: Hockey Club Merano) is an Italian ice hockey club from Merano , which has been playing in the Italian Hockey League , the second highest Italian ice hockey league , since 2017 . The home stadium, the Meranarena, has a capacity of around 3500. Most of the team's players come from the municipality of Merano, the home municipality of the club.
history
It was founded in 1968. In the 1970s, the club celebrated its first successes with two championship titles in the A2 series . The club achieved the first Italian championship title in the club's history in the 1985/86 season. Another championship followed in 1999, before the club relegated to Serie A2 in 2004. In 2008 HC Meran stopped playing and went into bankruptcy, after a year before the game could only be maintained through a partnership with HC Bozen .
In September 2002, the HC Meran Junior was founded in addition to the HC Meran, which initially only looked after the Merano ice hockey youngsters and celebrated great successes thanks to serious work. In the 2008/09 season, the first team took part in Serie C (U26) and won their championship.
At the beginning of 2009, the club's board decided to exercise the right to promotion to the A2 series. Bruno Aegerter as head coach and Esa Siren , who worked at SV Kaltern six years ago , as his assistant, were signed up as coach for the 2009/10 season . Aegerter was already a coach in Merano in the 2006/07 season and won the A2 series championship with the team.
HC Meran has been playing in Serie B since 2014 and the former captain Massimo Ansoldi has been hired as a coach. In the 2015/16 season, the team managed to win the Serie B title.
In 2020 HC Meran won the Coppa Italia for the first time in the club's history under the coach Massimo Ansoldi .
Trainer
time | Trainer |
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1985/86 | Bryan Lefley |
1986/87 | Jiří Kochta |
1990-1992 | Enio Sacilotto |
1997/98 | Bob Manno |
1998-2001 | Miroslav Fryčer |
2001/02 | Brian de Bruyn , Blair MacDonald |
2002/03 | Paul Theriault |
2003/04 | Bernhard Lutz , Enio Sacilotto |
2004-2006 | Stefan Mair |
2006/07 | Bruno Aegerter |
2009/10 | Bruno Aegerter |
2011-2013 | Doug McKay |
2013/14 | Miroslav Fryčer |
since 2014 | Massimo Ansoldi |
Sporting successes
Men's
- Series A1 champions in 1986 and 1999
- Series B / A2 champions in 1971, 1978, 1991, 2007, 2016
- Series C champions 2009
Juniors
- 2005/2006 season
- U8: Regional championship participated, no valuation
- U10: Participation in regional championships, no evaluation
- U12: 8th place Italian Championship
- U14: 2nd place Italian Championship
- U16: 7th place Italian Championship
- U19: 4th place Italian Championship
- 2004/2005 season
- U8: Regional championship participated, no valuation
- U10: 2nd place regional championship
- U12: 5th place Italian Championship
- U14: 9th place Italian Championship
- U16: 3rd place Italian Championship
- U19: 2nd place Italian Championship
- 2003/2004 season
- U8: Regional championship participated, no valuation
- U10: Participation in regional championships, no evaluation
- U12: regional and Italian champions
- U14: 7th place Italian Championship
- U16: Italian champions
- U19: Italian champions
- 2002/2003 season
- U8: Regional championship participated, no valuation
- U10: Participation in regional championships, no evaluation
- U12: regional and Italian champions
- U14: 8th place Italian Championship
- U16: 3rd place Italian Championship
- U19: 2nd place Italian Championship
Significant former players
- Luca Ansoldi
- Massimo Ansoldi
- Christian Borgatello
- Markus Brunner
- Dmitri Gogolev
- Ingemar Gruber
- Kevin Gruber
- Åke Lilljebjörn
- Morris Lukowich
- Bob Manno
- Brian McColgan
- Mark Morrison
- Frank Nigro
- Oleg Petrov
- Norbert Prünster
- Jari Torkki
- Zarley Zalapski
- Harald Zingerle
Web links
- official website
- HC Meran at sonice.it