ICE Hockey League 2020/21

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The 2020/21 season of the ICE Hockey League , the Austrian ice hockey league with international participation, is scheduled to begin on September 25, 2020. The league's new title sponsor is bet-at-home.com . Since the pre-season was canceled in the quarter-finals due to the coronavirus pandemic , there is no defending champion.

In advance

In October 2019, Erste Bank announced that it would no longer extend the sponsorship contract with the league at the end of the 2019/20 season. Starting in the 2003/04 season, the bank had been the league's main sponsor and namesake for seventeen years. At the same time, the previous free TV partner Servus TV announced its exit after ten years. In April 2020, the league signed a three-year contract with bet-at-home as the new title sponsor. Puls 24 is the new free TV partner . The station shows one game a week. As in previous years, further games will be shown on the pay-TV channel Sky Austria . The new name ICE Hockey League and the new logo were presented to the public on July 4th, 2020.

Participating teams

After eleven clubs had recently participated in the league, the Slovakian club Bratislava Capitals applied to participate in the league. The team, founded in 2015, was most recently active in the second-highest Slovak division and had won the main round of the league. At the end of April, the eleven previous clubs agreed to Bratislava’s participation. In contrast, the only Czech club, HC Orli Znojmo , withdrew from the league "at least for one season" for economic reasons as a result of the coronavirus pandemic.

EC Graz 99ers EC KAC EC VSV EC Red Bull Salzburg Vienna Capitals Black Wings Linz Fehérvár AV19 Dornbirn Bulldogs HC Innsbruck HCB South Tyrol Bratislava Capitals

Map of the club locations for the 2020/21 season

club	place	Main round 2019/20	Home arena	capacity
HC Bolzano	Bolzano	5.	Ice wave	7,200
Dornbirn Bulldogs	Dornbirn	11.	Dornbirn exhibition stadium	4,270
EC Graz 99ers	Graz	4th	Merkur ice stadium	4.126
HC Innsbruck	innsbruck	10.	Tyrolean hydropower arena	3,058
EC KAC	Klagenfurt	3.	Klagenfurt City Hall	5,088
Black Wings Linz	Linz	7th	No worries at the EisArena	4,863
EC Red Bull Salzburg	Salzburg	1.	Ice arena Salzburg	3,400
Fehérvár AV19	Székesfehérvár	9.	Ifjabb Ocskay Gábor Jégcsarnok	3,500
EC VSV	Villach	6th	Villach town hall	4,500
Vienna Capitals	Vienna	2.	Erste Bank Arena	7,022
Bratislava Capitals	Bratislava	1. (Slovak 1st division)	Slovnaft Aréna	10,055

Trainer

	team	Trainer
	Dornbirn Bulldogs	Kai Suikkanen
	EC Red Bull Salzburg	Matt McIlvane
	Black Wings Linz	Pierre Beaulieu
	Fehérvár AV19	Antti Karhula
	EC Graz 99ers	Doug Mason
	HC Bolzano	Greg Ireland
	HC Innsbruck	Mitch O'Keefe
	EC KAC	Petri Matikainen
	Bratislava Capitals	Rostislav Čada
	Vienna Capitals	Dave Cameron
	EC VSV	Dan Ceman

Web links

• ICE Hockey League website

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b} Ice Hockey League has found a new sponsor with bet-at-home. In: derstandard.de. April 21, 2020, accessed May 7, 2020 . 
2. ↑ Ice Hockey League loses Erste Bank as a sponsor after 17 years , report on the Standard website of October 20, 2019
3. ↑ After this season the Erste Bank ice hockey league is history , report on hockey-news.info from October 20, 2019
4. ↑ https://www.infosat.de/digital-tv/puls-24-sichert-bertragungsrechte-fr-eishockey-liga-ab-saison-202021-live-im
5. ↑ Ice Hockey Forum sets further important course , report on the EBEL homepage from March 12, 2020
6. ↑ https://www.skysportaustria.at/bratislava-capitals-in-ebel-aufnahm/
7. ↑ ZNOJMO DOES NOT PARTICIPATE IN SEASON 20/21. Retrieved May 25, 2020 .