HC Thurgau

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HC Thurgau
HC Thurgau
Greatest successes
  • 1st place NLB 1996/97
  • 2nd place NLB 2003/04
  • NLB semi-finals 1995, 1996, 1997, 1998, 2019
  • Amateur Swiss champion 1992, 2006
Club information
history HC Thurgau (1989–2014)
Hockey Thurgau (2014–2017)
HC Thurgau (since 2017)
Location Weinfelden , Switzerland
Club colors green, white, yellow
league Swiss League
Venue Güttingersreuti
capacity 3'100 seats (including 400 seats)
executive Director vacant
Head coach Stefan Mair
captain Patrick Parati
Season 2019/20 5th place, playoff quarter-finals

The HC Thurgau is a Swiss ice hockey club from Weinfelden in Canton Thurgau , which is currently in the second-class Swiss League plays.

founding

HC Thurgau emerged from the clubs EHC Frauenfeld and EHC Weinfelden (handed over the NL license, since then SC Weinfelden ). The best players of these two ice hockey clubs located in the canton of Thurgau should play in a single club, HC Thurgau. The background was to be able to offer ice hockey fans a good regional ice hockey team that plays in the national league. The association was founded in 1989. In December 1993, EHC Kreuzlingen (since 2000 EHC Kreuzlingen-Konstanz ) joined the HC Thurgau concept.

history

The club started in its first season in 1989/90 in the 1st league, the third highest ice hockey league in Switzerland. Two years later the HCT achieved their first amateur title with an 8: 7 against SC Langnau in the Ilfishalle and thus promotion to the NLB. There he stayed mostly in the front half of the table and always took part in the playoffs from 1994 to 1998. In 1996/97 the HCT even took first place in the qualification, in 2003/04 it was second. The worst year for the club was the 2004/05 season, when the club was relegated to the amateur league, but managed to get promoted again the next season. Against SC Weinfelden, EC Wil and EHC Dübendorf they won the title of 1st league champion again and rose again to the second highest division.

Since February 14, 2008, HC Thurgau has belonged to a group of investors around the ZSC board of directors and entrepreneur Peter Spuhler . On June 26, 2014, HC Thurgau was renamed Hockey Thurgau, and a new club logo was designed for this occasion. This change was reversed on June 24, 2017. The club is now called HC Thurgau again.

The 2015/16 season ended the team in eighth qualifying place and was eliminated in the seventh game of the playoff quarter-finals against SC Rapperswil-Jona Lakers . In the 2016/17 season, the HCT was eliminated again in the quarter-finals (0: 4 against SC Langenthal). In the 2017/18 season , the eastern Swiss finished sixth in qualifying and were eliminated in the quarter-finals after six games against EHC Olten .

In March 2019, HC Thurgau managed to qualify for the semi -finals for the first time in 21 years with a 2-1 win in the seventh game in the playoff quarter-finals against second-placed HC Ajoie .

Stadion

Interior view of the Güttingersreuti ice rink

Between 1989 and 2000 HC Thurgau played its home games in the Güttingersreuti in Weinfelden . In 1997 the Bodensee-Arena in Kreuzlingen was reopened after extensive expansion work, to which HC Thurgau moved in 2000. The Bodensee-Arena has a capacity of 4000 spectators. On November 1, 2009, HC Thurgau returned to the renovated Güttingersreuti ice rink in Weinfelden. The Güttingersreuti has a capacity of 3100 spectators.

Well-known former players

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Name change. Retrieved June 29, 2014 .
  2. ↑ Name change. Retrieved June 26, 2017 .