Hvidovre IK

Hvidovre IK
Greatest successes
	Champion of the 1st division 2000, 2007, 2017; Danish women's champion 2012, 2013, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019;
Club information
history	Hvidovre Ishockey (1966–2007) ; Totempo HvIK (2007–2009) ; Hvidovre ; League Hockey (2009–2011) Copenhagen Hockey (2011–2013) ; Hvidovre Ishockey (since 2013) ; Hvidovre Fighters (since 2017)
Location	Hvidovre , Denmark
Nickname	Fighters
Parent club	Hvidovre IK
Club colors	Red, white, blue
league	Metal leagues
Venue	Hvidovre ice stadium
capacity	2,300 seats
Head coach	Morten Hagen
captain	Evan Stoflet
2017/18	11th place (main round)

The Hvidovre Ishockey Klub is a Danish ice hockey club from Hvidovre , which was founded in 1966 as the ice hockey department of Hvidovre IK and has been playing in the Metal Ligaen again since 2017 .

history

The Hockey department of Hvidovre IK was founded in 1966 and took between 1993 and 1999 and between 2001 and 2003 at the Eliteserien part. In the course of the 2002/03 season, the game of the professional team was discontinued due to financial problems. In the following four years Hvidovre Ishockey took part in the second class 1st division .

In 2007 a new main sponsor was found with totempo.com and the professional department was renamed Totempo HvIK . This was included in 2007 in the AL-Bank Ligaen , the highest Danish professional league, in which they met Herning Blue Fox in the 2007/08 season after a seventh place in the regular season in the playoff quarter-finals . The eventual champions were defeated by Totempo, despite a 3-1 lead in the best-of-seven series, with just 3: 4 wins. In the course of the 2008/09 season, the team had to withdraw from the ongoing game operations due to the bankruptcy of the main sponsor totempo.com and the resulting financial problems, so that all results of the team from the intermediate round were canceled.

In the summer of 2009, a new professional team was founded from the regular club, which from the 2009/10 season played as Hvidovre league hockey in the highest Danish league. In the following two seasons, the team reached the playoff quarter-finals. In the summer of 2011, the professional team was renamed again - Copenhagen Hockey - to make marketing easier.

In 2013, the operating company of Copenhagen Hockey went bankrupt and the professional team was withdrawn from gaming. The club then played under its old name Hvidovre Ishockey in the second division 1st division , before returning to the top division in 2017. The professional team has been nicknamed Fighters ever since .

Women ice hockey

In the late 2000s, the women's team at Hvidovre IK established itself among the best teams in Denmark and was always one of the top three teams in the country from 2007/08 to 2018/19. Since 2009, only the Hvidovre IK and the Herlev IK met in the finals of the women's championship; The women of Hvidovre IK have won the championship seven times (2012, 2013, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018 and 2019).

In addition, the women's team at Hvidovre IK also took part in the second best Swedish women's league, DamEttan, from 2015. For the 2017/18 season she was also accepted into the European Women's Hockey League . In the 2019/20 season, the EWHL team was supplemented by players from the other Danish clubs, so that it competes as Hvidovre Selects in the EWHL.